Eric Alterman opens an article in The Nation with:
Here is the liberals’ problem in a nutshell: More than 30 percent of Americans happily answer to the appellation “conservative,” while 18 percent call themselves “liberal.” And yet when questioned by pollsters, a super-majority of more than 60 percent take positions liberal in everything but name. Indeed, […]
Janis Karpinski, former military police commander in charge of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq where US solders tortured prisoners, says the unlawful torture of Iraqi prisoners was ordered by Donald Rumsfeld and implemented by General Sanchez. She says she was scapegoated because she is a woman.
Watch the video on Democracy Now or […]
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Editor’s note: On Thursday morning, Harriet Miers, President Bush’s nominee to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court, bowed to what had appeared an inevitable defeat. Bush announced that he had accepted the withdrawal of Miers, his chief White House counsel.
Scott Ritter is a retired U.S. Marine and the former top UN weapons inspector in Iraq. He says they lied. Clinton, Bush, Israel, France, Germany, everybody knew there were no WMD’s in Iraq by 1995. But Saddam remaining in power was a political embarrassment. The video is worth a watch, it gives more info than […]
I had heard about this video but never seen it. George W. Bush flicking off the camera, taken just before the end of his term as Texas governor. I guess what I found more unexpected is how he snickers like a frat boy afterwards. Eww.
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Rawstory.com says both of the original leak sources that were identified during grand jury testimony are now cooperating with the Special Prosecutor. Both are members of Cheney’s staff.
“Late Monday, several sources familiar with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s probe said John Hannah, a key aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and one of the architects […]
The Wall Street Journal reports that in conference call with conservative king-maker Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family and several judges and long-time friends of Miers, both judges confirmed that Miers would definitely vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The day before the president’s announcement of Miers’ nomination, Dobson called Karl Rove for an […]
MSNBC.com says
“In addition, with 13 months until the 2006 congressional elections, 48 percent say they prefer a Democratic-controlled Congress, compared with 39 percent who want the Republicans to control Capitol Hill. In fact, that nine-point difference is the largest margin between the parties in the 11 years the NBC/Journal poll has been tracking this […]
Afterdowningstreet.org published the results of a poll showing that 50 percent of the American public now would like to see the House impeach Bush if it were found that he had lied about the reasons for going to war in Iraq.
Compare that to December 17, 1998, only days before Clinton’s impeachment by the House […]