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.
Crooks and Liars It’s official: President Bush is the most unpopular President for the longest stretch of time in American history. Keith Olbermann reports on the latest poll findings confirming this sad, sad fact, and conservative Republican & former Reagan Deputy AG Bruce Fein talks about why Bush must be impeached. (VIDEO HERE)
Agence France-Presse PROTESTERS have demanded that US President George W Bush get out of Peru where he is attending an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, blaming him for the world economic crisis. “Bush out,” about 1000 demonstrators chanted in the center of the capital Lima, watched by scores of police in riot gear who made…
By Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post The Bush administration’s new federal disaster-response plan drew harsh criticism yesterday from state and local officials only a day after it was unveiled, prompting fresh calls by House Democrats to make the Federal Emergency Management Agency a stand-alone Cabinet-level agency. In one of only three House hearings held yesterday,…
By Raed Jarrar and Joshua Holland, AlterNet. More than half of the members of Iraq’s parliament rejected for the first time on Tuesday the continuing occupation of their country. The U.S. media ignored the story. On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the members of Iraq’s parliament rejected the continuing…
By ANDREW O. SELSKY, Associated Press Writer SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Many detainees locked up at Guantanamo were innocent men swept up by U.S. forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration official said Thursday. “There are still innocent people there,” Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a Republican who was chief of staff…
By Scott Shane, New York Times The prosecutor investigating the Central Intelligence Agency’s destruction of interrogation videotapes is reviewing whether government officials violated any of 17 court orders requiring the preservation of evidence or broke the law by concealing the tapes’ existence or approving their destruction, according to court papers filed late Friday night. The…
