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March 21, 2006

14:23
According to the Bush administration, Iraq and Afghanistan are just two theatres in the "Global...
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14:23
OK, not that it should be any suprise, but the Bush administration denies that Iraq...
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14:23
NEWS ITEM: Northrop Grummans Newest Aircraft Carrier Takes a Bow (get it?) Newport News, VA:...
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14:23
Sir: You said, in part of your response to Senator Feingold's very courageous, principled, and...
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14:23
I have been reading TRUTHOUT for sometime.   Last month I started contributing with dollars,...
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14:23
Officers ... gave a name to those who sought help: "psychos," returned soldier Erik Bunger...
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14:23
If you observe the radar screen of daily news events, many of the stories registering...
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14:23
from moveon.org They will mail your LETTERS directly to your FRIENDS,  if you wish. I...
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14:23
Yesterday marked the 3-year anniversary of Bush's invasion of Iraq. The war has claimed many...
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14:23
The consulting work that MZM Inc. received from a Pentagon agency in 2003 was $40,000,...
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14:06
There is not one idle person here at Cegelis headquarters.  Every phone is occupied, every office is bustling, and the door keeps swinging open to let in, and let out, the volunteers working the streets.  At this moment, turnout is reported to be quite low across the state.  There have been a few scattered reports [...]
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13:54
Try not to shoot anybody in the face.
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13:09

http://www.theglobeandmail.com

U.S. military criminal investigators are trying to determine whether marines deliberately targeted civilians and covered it up after they shot dead 23 Iraqis shortly after one of their own was killed by a roadside bomb near Haditha in western Iraq.

If proven true, the incident -- first reported in the current edition of Time magazine -- would rank as the worst case of deliberate killing of Iraqi civilians since the war began. It would also be reminiscent of the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, in which the slaughter of Vietnamese civilians at the hands of U.S. soldiers was covered up.

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13:08

By Council for a Livable World

President George W. Bush – March 21, 2006: “We're making progress because we've got a strategy for victory.”

President’s press conference, LINK

President Lyndon Johnson - November 17, 1967: "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking... We are making progress."

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12:57

In October of last year, Dick Cheney's chief of staff was indicted on five counts of perjury, obstruction, and lying to the FBI about how he discovered covert CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity, and leaked it to the media. His trial is upcoming, and looks as though it will expose more than the Bush administration would like.

Papers filed on Friday raise the possibility that the trial will focus on the debate about whether or not the White House manipulated intelligence to justify the war in Iraq. Lawyers have also signaled that, at Libby's criminal trial, they will "delve deeply" into infighting that occurred among the White House, CIA and State Department over intelligence failures that occurred before the war. They have also suggested that the State Department, rather than Libby himself, may be to blame for leading Plame's identity.

Libby's defense lawyers are playing along quite well, pointing out that Plame's CIA status was merely a "peripheral issue" to Libby, as he was much too wrapped up in "the finger-pointing that went on within the executive branch about who was to blame" for the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"If the jury learns this background information [about finger-pointing] and also understands Mr. Libby's additional focus on urgent national security matters," the defense lawyers said, "[they] will more easily appreciate how Mr. Libby may have forgotten or misremembered snippets of conversation [about Plame's CIA status.]"

Libby's lawyers also concluded that "the facts show" that someone from the State Department, rather than Libby, leaked Plame's identity to conservative columnist Robert Novak.

And should the State Department undergo investigation, who knows what else could be uncovered...

—Meredith Adams

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12:49
Does this make any sense?

Now, sometimes I didn't -- I like the size of the pie, sometimes I didn't particularly like the slices within the pie. And so one way to deal with the slices in the pie is to give the President the line-item veto. And I was heartened the other day when members of both parties came down in the Cabinet Room to talk about passage of a line-item veto. I was particularly pleased that my opponent in the 2004 campaign, Senator Kerry, graciously came down and lent his support to a line-item veto, and also made very constructive suggestions about how to get one out of the United States Congress.

Let's see here. They told me what to say. David.





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12:33
All good local people should rally to support Anne Dicker for Pennsylvania State House. She's running in the 175th district - Queen Village, Bella Vista, Society Hill, Old City, Northern Liberties, Fishtown, Kensington, Port Richmond. I know Anne a little bit personally, and have been aware of her activities since she comped me into a Dean fundraiser back when I was still anonymous and nobody knew who the hell Howard Dean was. Anne cofounded the local Philly for Dean organiazation which has morphed into Philly for Change (still DFA affiliated), which is still a very active organization.

She was helping Patrick Murphy with his campaign but when an open seat appeared she entered the race.

You can meet her at the campaign kick-off party tomorrow:


Wednesday, March 22
7:00 pm
New Wave Cafe
3rd & Catharine Streets
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12:22
Red Dawn is indeed a wonderfully awful camp movie. But it's also the basic template for how right wingers imagine themselves as they're furiously typing away for victory in their basements.
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12:05
Um, I thought the first 20 years of Luke Skywalker's life were really really boring?
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