News -- November 23, 2005

A gutless, draft-dodging coward named Dick Cheney - "Sorry Dickie boy, but it is you and your cronies at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue who have “no place anywhere in American politics.” It is hypocrites like you, you shameless, cowardly son-of-a-bitch, who should be led from the White House in chains and locked away in some hellhole to rot for eternity."
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7679.shtml

Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel; Bush Knew 9/21/01: No 9/11 - Iraq Connection - "The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked the White House for the CIA assessment, the PDB of September 21, 2001, and dozens of other PDBs as part of the committee's ongoing investigation into whether the Bush administration misrepresented intelligence information in the run-up to war with Iraq. The Bush administration has refused to turn over these documents." -- Actions speak much louder than words, George.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/4651122.html

What I Knew Before the Invasion - "The president's attacks are outrageous. Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize him to take the nation to war. Most of them, though, like their Republican colleagues, did so in the legitimate belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace -- that if Hussein was not disarmed, the smoking gun would become a mushroom cloud."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/18/AR2005111802397.html

American Christian Fundamentalist Leader Calls For Global War - "While the Western press is awash with stories, real and exaggerated, about 'Islamic fundamentalists', rarely is mention made about Christian fundamentalists, who, with their vast resources and close links with the current American administration, are a potentially more menacing threat than their Muslim counterparts."
http://www.countercurrents.org/us-sikand171105.htm

How U.S. Fell Under the Spell of 'Curveball' - "The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein's suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush administration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated his claims during the run-up to the war in Iraq. Five senior officials from Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, said in interviews with The Times that they warned U.S. intelligence authorities that the source, an Iraqi defector code-named Curveball, never claimed to produce germ weapons and never saw anyone else do so. "
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-curveball20nov20,0,1753730.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Powell aide: Torture 'guidance' from VP - "A former top State Department official said Sunday that Vice President Dick Cheney provided the "philosophical guidance" and "flexibility" that led to the torture of detainees in U.S. facilities."
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/20/torture/

A New 'Malicious Marketplace' for Internet Attacks - "Internet criminals are increasingly targeting popular applications like backup software and Web browsers instead of the operating systems that run them, according to a new report from government and industry security experts."
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/PCWorld/story?id=1337689

Dubya doll flies off shelves - "That's right. Dubya has a doll, or rather an "action figure" featuring some 17 Bushisms, from patriotic to painful."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2560489.stm

How to tame an inflated entertainment budget - "The average American spends more on entertainment than on gasoline, household furnishings and clothing and nearly the same amount as spent on dining out, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics."
http://news.com.com/How+to+tame+an+inflated+entertainment+budget/2100-1026_3-5962262.html?tag=nefd.top




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