[ As DemocracyNow! (1 Oct. 2004) reports:
Bush Campaign Helped Write Allawi Speech
The Washington Post is reporting that the U.S. government and a representative of President Bush's reelection campaign were "heavily involved" in drafting Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's speech before the U.S. Congress last week. Unnamed administration officials told the Post that Dan Senor sent [...]
9 Sept. 2004 | East Hampton Star
by E.L. Doctorow
I fault this president for not knowing what death is. He does not suffer the death of our 21-year-olds who wanted to be what they could be. On the eve of D-Day in 1944 General Eisenhower prayed to God for the lives of the young soldiers he [...]
by Quentin Pratt
Bill O’Reilly repeatedly insulted the Daily Show’s audience during an interview with John Stewart, referring to them as “stoned slackers” several times during the interview. This prompted some research which found the following:
Viewers of Jon Stewart’s show are more likely to have completed four years of college than people who watch “The O’Reilly [...]
29 September 2004 | The Independent
Pregnant chads, vanishing voters… the election fiasco of 2000 made the Sunshine State a laughing stock. More importantly, it put George Bush in the White House. You’d think they’d want to get it right this time. But no, as Andrew Gumbel discovers, the democratic process is more flawed than ever [...]
[ Thanks to Bob Lee for spotting this piece. --BL ]
Keywords: depleted uranium
September 29, 2004 | New York Daily News
In early September 2003, Army National Guard Spec. Gerard Darren Matthew was sent home from Iraq, stricken by a sudden illness.
One side of Matthew’s face would swell up each morning. He had constant migraine headaches, blurred vision, [...]
26 Sept 2004 | Toronto Star
by SANDRO CONTENTA
LANDSTUHL, Germany?At the U.S. military hospital on a wooded hilltop here, the cost of the Iraq war is measured in amputated limbs, burst eyeballs, shrapnel-torn bodies and shattered lives.
They’re the seriously wounded U.S. soldiers who arrive daily at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, a growing human toll that [...]
[ So it is not only Dick Cheney who "traded with the enemy"! From the piece:
the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, [Prescott Bush] worked for and profited [...]
27 Sept. 2004 | Misleader.org
President Bush and his allies have insisted that violence in Iraq is limited to a few isolated pockets of resistance. President Bush said last Wednesday that there are a “handful of people who are willing to kill in order to stop the process.”1 The next day, Interim Iraqi Prime Minister [...]
28 Sept. 2004 | DemocracyNow!
The Guardian of London is reporting that links have been discovered between senior U.S. military officials and a failed coup plot in the oil-rich African nation of Equatorial Guinea. The Pentagon’s deputy assistant secretary of Defense for African affairs reportedly met twice with a British man who has been accused of [...]
28 Sept. 2004 | DemocracyNow!
The New York Times is reporting that the CIA’s National Intelligence Council warned President Bush in two classified reports in January 2003 that an invasion of Iraq would increase support for political Islam and would result in a deeply divided Iraqi society prone to violent internal conflict. The existence of these [...]