News -- September 25, 2005

Can You Imagine?:Hussein Was Right & Bush Was Wrong - "Over and over, George Bush told us that Saddam Hussein was lying, that he was dragging his feet, that Iraq had dangerous weapons, that Hussein was a threat to the whole world, Now here we are, over two years later. What have we learned? The hunt for Weapons of Mass Destruction has turned up exactly nothing, and so the hunt has been called off. Everything Hussein said about the weapons has turned out to be true. Everything George Bush said about Iraq's weapons has turned out to be false. ... In other words, the Butcher of Baghdad was correct; the President of the United States of America was wrong. The Butcher of Baghdad will be put on trial for "war crimes." The President of the United States of America was reelected to "lead" the country for four more years. It's a sorry state of affairs in America when you can trust the words of Saddam Hussein more than those of your own President." -- This is a short article and worth the read.
http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/HusseinWasRight.htm

Officer's Road Led Him Outside Army - "Then, in a lengthy chronology obtained Saturday by The Times, recounting what he saw in Iraq and his numerous efforts to get the Army's attention, he wrote that "Harvey is wrong." He wrote that Army guidance was "too vague for officers to enforce American values." He concluded that violations of the Geneva Convention were "systematic, and the Army is misleading America.""
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-abuse25sep25,0,7402409.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Democrats Still Fear Dissent on Iraq - "Forget about standing up alongside Michael Moore. Merely speaking up against the war in Iraq continues to terrify Democrats. One exception is Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who voted against Roberts and is also a strong, consistent Democratic voice against Iraq. But Kennedy is not running for president. Democratic senators who are in the presidential contender mix, such as Clinton, Kerry, and Joseph Biden of Delaware, have yet to label their votes to authorize war a mistake, even though the underlying rationale -- weapons of mass destruction -- was long ago revealed as false. Given the reluctance to admit mistakes in Washington, they probably never will. These Democrats, meanwhile, continue to tailor their opposition to the way the war is being waged, not to its underlying purpose or morality."
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0925-29.htm

Huge rally against Iraq war - "Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, noting that organizers had hoped to draw 100,000 people, said, "I think they probably hit that.""
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/24/antiwar.ap/index.html

Hurricanes aside, Bush our biggest disaster - "Ten days later, President Bush announced that America can't fiscally withstand another such disaster. He spoke of cutting more social programs to pay for Katrina's destruction. He didn't talk of revoking the tax cuts he's given his "base," of killing the Senate's pending repeal of estate tax laws, of taxing the windfall profits of oil companies or of ending the war in Iraq. Yet it's hurricane season, we're at war, and we're borrowing every penny we spend."
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/view/letters/1989586.shtml

National Security Agencygets fix on Internet users - "Internet users hoping to protect their privacy by using anti-virus software, Web anonymizers, false identities and disabled cookies on their computer's Web browser have something new to worry about – a patent filed by the National Security Agency (NSA) for technology that will identify the physical location of any Web surfer."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46501

Bible Textbook for Public Schools Planned - "An interfaith group released a new textbook Thursday aimed at teaching public high school students about the Bible while avoiding legal and religious disputes."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1149900

Credit card companies can keep data ID theft secret - "Credit card companies don't have to notify customers their personal information has been stolen, a California Judge ruled today."
http://infowars.net/Pages/Sept05/240905creditcards.htm

Bush plea for cash to rebuild Iraq raises $600 - "The public's reluctance to contribute much more than the cost of two iPods to the administration's attempt to offer citizens 'a further stake in building a free and prosperous Iraq' has been seized on by critics as evidence of growing ambivalence over that country."
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1577750,00.html

No Arctic oil drilling? How about selling parks? - "House Resources chairman Richard Pombo is circulating a draft of a bill that would sell 15 national parks and require the National Park Service to raise millions of dollars by selling the naming rights to visitors' centers and trails. Pombo's spokesman said the proposal, written by Pombo's House Resources Committee staff, is intended only to influence lawmakers to support an item in the budget bill that would permit oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge."
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/24/MNG2HETE8D1.DTL

Women bypass sex in favour of 'instant pregnancies' - "Wealthy career women in their 30s and early 40s, some of whom have given up regular sex altogether, are turning to "medicalised conception" - despite being fertile and long before they have exhausted the possibility of a natural conception."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/25/nivf25.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/09/25/ixportaltop.html

Ga. Schools to Close Two Days to Save Gas - "Most of Georgia's public schools will be closed Monday and Tuesday, taking two "early snow days," in an effort to conserve fuel in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1155312

Half of Europe's Citizens Know 2 Languages - "In the United States, by contrast, 9 percent of Americans speak both their native language and another language fluently, according to a U.S. Senate resolution designating 2005 the "Year of Foreign Language Study.""
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/24/D8CQJUE02.html

Quote of the Day
"People want the world to make sense."
~ Lt. Stanton, Fallen