the lives of thousands of American soldiers and maybe a hundred thousand mostly innocent Iraqi civilians. We have failed as a nation to come to terms with the massive costs that are less direct and obvious but just as real.
counterpunch.org Where’s Jerry? On Cheney Impeachment, Rep. Nadler’s a No Show By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF It’s time for New Yorkers to gird up for an intense struggle with Nadler over the coming weeks. If the Congressman can’t bring himself to exercise his duties as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties…
Green Mountain Daily — As Senator Leahy bravely tightens the noose around the neck of the Bush “administration,” Vermont Democrats have lent him invaluable political backing in signaling their support for the remedy that ultimately gives him his power in his subpoena showdown — impeachment. The Vermont legislature now stands poised to lend its voice…
US Erects Baghdad Wall to Keep Sects Apart By Edward Wong and David S. Cloud, The New York Times American military commanders in Baghdad are trying a radical new strategy to quell the widening sectarian violence by building a 12-foot-high, three-mile-long wall separating a historic Sunni enclave from Shiite neighborhoods…A doctor in Adhamiya, Abu Hassan,…
“RAWSTORY — A federal judge ordered the Bush administration to issue two scientific reports on global warming, siding with environmentalists who sued the White House for failing to produce the documents,” AP reports Wednesday. Excerpts: U.S. District Court Judge Saundra Armstrong ruled Tuesday that the Bush administration had violated a 1990 law when it failed…
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL …You can’t negotiate with the mob. The same applies to Bush and Cheney. They are going to continue to use fog and mirrors to claim that the Bushevik mob family insiders have not “technically” broken the law. That was Al Capone’s defense. “Catch me if you can,” he dared the FBI. It’s…
HNN Poll: 61% of Historians Rate Bush Presidency Worst By Robert S. McElvaine Bush said: “As far as history goes and all of these quotes about people trying to guess what the history of the Bush administration is going to be, you know, I take great comfort in knowing that they don’t know what they…
