
Source: antiwar.com
The real reason why we invaded Iraq. No, it is not about the oil.
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
What an excellent example of why no child should be left behind!! Dick obviously was left waaaaay behind in tact, cooperation and probably in intelligence...

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There has been a lot of talk about pulling US forces out of Iraq. There has been a lot of talk about the Surge. And, people have been asking the question: What does victory mean in the context of the invasion of Iraq?

Source: Guardian Unlimited
The evidence is building up that President Bush plans to add war on Iran to his triumphs in Iraq and Afghanistan - and there is every sign, to judge by his extraordinary warmongering speech in Plymouth on Friday, that Tony Blair would be keen to join him if he were still in a pos …

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Bush: Good evening. Tonight in Iraq, the Armed Forces of the United States are engaged in a struggle that will determine the direction of the global War on Terror — and our safety here at home.

The official knowledge about it is sparse. Conspiracy theories are widespread. Field reports or referendums are non-existent. Yet there are bits and pieces to know about this the most secretive and possibly among the most powerful of organizations in the world. We know it exists.
Source: The New York Times
DALLAS, Jan. 9 — Intimates of President Bush have singled out Southern Methodist University as the likely site of his presidential library, but faculty members, complaining of being bypassed, are raising sharp questions about the school's identification with his presidency.

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One Good Move collects video clips that will doubtless live in ignomany. This is their "best of President Bush" compilation. Good stuff.
Source: BBC News
The ambitions proclaimed when the neo-cons' mission statement "The Project for the New American Century" was declared in 1997 have turned into disappointment and recriminations as the crisis in Iraq has grown.

Source: Guardian Unlimited
A rare joke was circulating among Iraqis shortly before their prime minister met George Bush in Amman recently. What would the US president be demanding? Answer: a timetable for Iraqis to withdraw from Iraq.

Source: Guardian Unlimited
Aiauddin Sardar introduces three British writers who he describes as the new "Biltcon" meaning "neocon writers"....Martin Amis - well known islamaphobe, Salman Rushdie - islam is satantic and Ian McEwan who I confess I have not read any of his works and am unlikely to ever in th …

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A Deep, Deep Breath by William Rivers Pitt

Half an hour before the US mid-term election results begin to come in, I have to wonder if we should be careful what we wish for.
By "we", I mean me. And all who agree with me.

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This is what the privacy issues are all about. The Republicans are using this information to filter and connect to the voting populous. How long before they use it to target?

Today, while driving home, NPR aired a few small segments of various famous, and not-so-famous, speeches. These include, not least among them, a famous political speech by Ronald Reagan, the original Neo-Con, who spoke on behalf of Barry Goldwater in 1964.
Source: Google
fascinating documentary.
Source: The Age
A pro-Bush, neo-con Australian politician standing for office in the forthcoming Victorian state elections had made offensively racist remarks on the Web about Indians and Aborigines (Indigenous Australians).
Source: The New York Times
James A. Baker III , the Republican co-chairman of a bipartisan commission assessing Iraq strategy for President Bush, said today that he expected the group to depart from Mr. Bush's call to "stay the course."

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Just one more bit of privacy that may be lost to the Bush administration...

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The problem is that the term "neo-con" is a misnomer, an oxymoron with a double meaning. These guys and their philosophy are neither new nor very conservative.

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The Supreme Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps accused the Bush Administration and the Israeli security service Mossad of ordering the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington, DC.

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You can read more about the match here.

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Khaled Almaeena: The word "fascist" seems to have been used because the Bush administration and its sycophants (the neocons, evangelists, extreme right-wingers and the Zionist lobby) have this false and preposterous idea that Islam wants to take over the world.

Today is quite the unusual day. I awoke not to another false terrorist alert, or another so called foiled plot, but I awoke to something wholly American. The arrest of Jon Benet's killer. Finally some news that is not manufactured, and has some footing in reality.