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A senior government official familiar with the matter said that in directing Libby to leak the classified information to Miller and other reporters, Cheney said words to the effect of, "The president wants this out," or "The president wants this done."


- bill 7-04-2006 2:15 am [link] [add a comment]

A senior government official familiar with the matter said that in directing Libby to leak the classified information to Miller and other reporters, Cheney said words to the effect of, "The president wants this out," or "The president wants this done."


- bill 7-04-2006 2:15 am [link] [add a comment]

i agree with steve, this is an effective press release. helps to have a good resume to back it up though.

- dave 6-28-2006 11:54 pm [link] [1 comment]

here tristero picks up bob herberts question (to paraphrase): where is the resentment, and the anti war backlash from friends and family of the wounded and dead soldiers?

im afraid this is the usual reaction :

"Plouhar's father said Tuesday that his son only had 38 days left in Iraq. "I'm devastated, sad and proud," he told the Press. "This just makes me devoted even more to his belief that people need help in Iraq, and he felt that he was helping."

The Marine took four years off from active duty to serve as a recruiter in Flint, Mich. after donating one of his kidneys to his uncle, his father said. "We need to resolve the war," he said. "If we walk out now, my son died for nothing and that will make me mad." "
- bill 6-28-2006 9:47 pm [link] [3 comments]

billmon on swiftboating of kos.

- dave 6-27-2006 8:13 pm [link] [add a comment]

fragged


AP: Iraqi troops killed 2 U.S. soldiers
By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer
Tue Jun 20, 9:19 PM ET

SAN FRANCISCO - Two California soldiers shot to death in Iraq were murdered by Iraqi civil-defense officers patrolling with them, military investigators have found.

The deaths of Army Spc. Patrick R. McCaffrey Sr. and 1st Lt. Andre D. Tyson were originally attributed to an ambush during a patrol near Balad, Iraq, on June 22, 2004.

But the Army's Criminal Investigation Command found that one or more of the Iraqis attached to the American soldiers on patrol fired at them, a military official said Tuesday.


Fuck.

- mark 6-21-2006 10:19 am [link] [add a comment]

There are two excellent online pieces that anyone trying to make sense of our current political situation should read and study:

Robert Kennedy Jr.'s massively detailed (204 footnotes!) expose of 2004 voter fraud in Ohio published in Rolling Stone:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_st olen

U of Michigan Economist Dean Baker's free online e-book "The Conservative Nanny State," which explains the major economic issues of our day in layman's language and makes the argument that far from being "free-marketeers" today's so-called "conservatives" are really corporate welfare queens who demand and benefit from government intervention into markets. For those of us who never got past Econ 101, this is the best explanation I know of of how such things as The Fed, free trade agreements, and immigration policy work---and work to benefit top-heavy CEO-dominated corporations.

http://www.conservativenannystate.org/cns.html

go to link for the links via fatherflot
- bill 6-10-2006 10:39 pm [link] [add a comment]

Although Coulter also criticized 9-11 widows for "cutting commercials" for Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA) during his 2004 presidential campaign against Bush, Lauer failed to note that other 9-11 widows made campaign appearances for Bush. As Newsday reported September 25, 2004:



[A]t the Republican National Convention, Debra Burlingame, whose brother piloted the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Pentagon, was one of three women who spoke in highly personal terms of their loss. She told the Associated Press yesterday she, too, was willing to make campaign appearances for Bush to outline her differences with the pro-Kerry families. "They want people fired, and I think we've moved on from that," she said."

- bill 6-07-2006 6:30 pm [link] [16 comments]

net neutrality

- mark 6-06-2006 9:28 am [link] [4 comments]

He doesn't live here anymore

- mark 5-31-2006 10:33 pm [link] [1 comment]






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