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How often have you been buying groceries and forgotten what level of panic you were supposed to be in? Well this tote bag will help. Its important to keep frightened, while buying oranges.

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Oh by the way Ashcroft wants the propaganda ministry (sorry I meant to say "the press and television") to say nice things about the PATRIOT act.

Things like:
"The Patriot Act makes sure my car always starts."
"What's great about The Patriot Act is that wether it works or not doesn't effect what I hear about it."
"The Patriot Act has made me stop getting soft porn novels from the library, thus saving my immortal soul."

Ashcroft Calls on News Media to Help Explain Antiterrorism Laws

QUEENSTOWN, Md., June 19 — Attorney General John Ashcroft called on the press and television today to dispel fears about the sweeping antiterrorism law known as the U.S.A. Patriot Act, which was enacted after the attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Not right there I'm suspending belief. I mean, come on, Ashcroft would never go to a place called "Queenstown"

Addressing two dozen editors, publishers, television executives and others, Mr. Ashcroft said, "We need the help of the news industry, the fourth estate, to inform citizens about the constitutional tools and methods being used in the war against terror. We need the media's help, for instance, in portraying accurately the U.S.A. Patriot Act."

He told a conference on "Journalism and Homeland Security," convened by the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan policy research group, that complaints and misunderstandings about the act were so widespread that "I heard a fellow said his car wouldn't start the other day, and he blamed the Patriot Act."

Hey I heard a fellow complain that the tax cuts were causing his car to stall in the constant rain, but I explained that was due to the Patriot Act having been written before 9/11.

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heh heh heh Ashcroft's old campaign manager is an old big wig at Westar too.

Democrats ask Justice Department to look into Westar donations to GOP

At issue is a plan that an internal Westar investigation uncovered calling for company executives to donate more than $55,000 to several House Republicans, including Rep. Sam Graves of Missouri.

The donations were part of an unsuccessful effort to win congressional backing for a federal law change that would have exempted Westar from some state and federal regulatory oversight.

Actually they did get congressional backing but as soon as it was revealed the Westar was being investigated for other bad things Westar's fair weather friends pulled the Westar friendly language.

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New Zealand's TV3 news program briefly shows the truth!

TV graphic labels Bush 'professional fascist'
Broadcaster apologizes for its 'completely unintentional mistake'

A graphic on an evening news broadcast identifying President Bush as a "professional fascist" has touched off confusion, apologies and an investigation.

The estimated 360,000 viewers of New Zealand's TV3 news program last night were "surprised and confused" by the graphic, which was supposed to promote an upcoming weather report, the New Zealand Herald said.

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Walter Cronkite is Angry:

"Possibly, I'm mad," says Cronkite, who's launching a weekly newspaper opinion column the week of Aug. 3. "I'm mad in a psychological way, but also in a political sense.

"I think there are many things going on in our world today that are of great importance to the future of our democracy and world peace, and I was looking for an outlet."
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Cronkite has blasted President Bush's preemptive strike against Iraq. He labels it a dangerous policy "because any little, tiny nation that has a border conflict can use it as an excuse to begin a war."

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Since no one wants to say "lie" the new trend is to stretch the definition of stretch.

Ex-CIA director says administration stretched facts on Iraq

WASHINGTON — Former CIA director Stansfield Turner accused the Bush administration Tuesday of "overstretching the facts" about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in making its case for invading that country.

Turner's broadside adds the retired admiral's name to a list of former intelligence professionals concerned that the CIA and its intelligence reports were manipulated to justify the war. Since Baghdad fell April 9, U.S. forces have been unable to find chemical and biological weapons the White House said were in Iraq.

Turner, who headed the CIA under President Carter, paused for a long moment when asked by reporters whether current CIA Director George Tenet should resign. "That's a tough one," Turner said. The problem did not appear to lie with the CIA, he said, but Tenet should consider resigning if he lost the confidence of President Bush or the American people. A CIA spokesman declined to comment.

Turner suggested Tenet should tread cautiously because CIA directors "can be made the fall guy" by administrations when policy judgments based on intelligence go wrong.

Emphasis mine, because I just find it funny that a CIA director would look like Lee Majors.

Stansfield Turner is probably the closest we've ever gotten to an "honest decent" CIA Director (and given the job, that's understandable). Here's his list of Ten Steps to Fight Terrorism Without Endangering Democracy, something you really wish people in the Bush administration would read.

1. Assassinations are neither an appropriate nor an effective counter-terrorist tactic.
2. Punitive military attacks are a remedy we should use, but sparingly.
3. Covert actions should be undertaken, but judiciously, because the probability of success is low.
4. Rescue operations have a role but will continue to be highly risky for the United States.
5. Improved intelligence, especially human, is always desirable but difficult to achieve.
6. Restraint of the media could be helpful, but modest self-restraint is the most we can expect.
7. Economic sanctions should be used against state sponsors of terrorism, even if they take a long time to be effective.
8. Defensive security is unlikely to receive sufficient attention or money. (well that certainly has been true under Dubya)
9. Deals are an option we cannot rule out.
10. Legal recourse is the option most compatible with American values.

Yes it is pretty dry reading, but with his defense of number 9 you get interesting factoids like:
George Washington paid ransom to the Barbary pirates for the release of more than 100 American merchant sailors who had been prisoners for more than 10 years. He and his successor, John Adams, both paid tribute to ensure against additional seizures of our ships and sailors. These deals worked successfully for quite a few years.

Thanks to This Modern World for some of this stuff.

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Kerry suddenly seems to be thinking that stating the obvious will make him President:

Kerry says Bush misled Americans on war

LEBANON, N.H. (AP) Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Wednesday that President Bush broke his promise to build an international coalition against Iraq's Saddam Hussein and then waged a war based on questionable intelligence.

''He misled every one of us,'' Kerry said. ''That's one reason why I'm running to be president of the United States
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''I will not let him off the hook throughout this campaign with respect to America's credibility and credibility to me because if he lied he lied to me personally,'' he said

Well it looks like this campaign might be interesting. Slowly... spines seem to be growing, and the Truth may be spoken?

Meanwhile Kerry is asking for your help:

Three words sum up why we need to take action today: The Supreme Court. I need you to join me in keeping the Supreme Court out of the hands of right wing ideologues. I am prepared to filibuster, if necessary, any Supreme Court nominee who would turn back the clock on a woman's right to choose, on civil rights and individual liberties, and on the laws protecting workers and the environment.

If you agree with me that there should be no equivocation, no double-speak, no avoidance of the issue, then go to http://petition.johnkerry.com and sign my online petition today. I will deliver this petition to Senate Democratic Leader, Tom Daschle, and the Ranking Democratic Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Pat Leahy, as well as their counterparts on the Republican side of the aisle - Majority Leader Bill Frist and Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch. We will assure that they hear our voices loud and clear that we will oppose a nominee who would turn back the clock on a woman's right to choose, on civil rights and individual liberties, and on the laws protecting workers and the environment.

So go click already. We'll be here when you get back.

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My Country 'Tis of Thee (Amerika)

My country 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of libertines,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers lied!
Land where the slaves have died!
From every genocide,
Let freedom sting!

Infamous country, grim,
Land of ignoble men,
Hapless necks I've wrung.
I broke thy backs and wills,
White hoods attacked in hills,
My heart with hatred fills,
Strange fruit well hung.

Smell burning in the breeze,
Men hang from all the trees,
Sweet freedom's song.
Let mortal tongues be pulled;
Let all that breathe be fooled;
Let law be o'er ruled,
Misery prolonged.

Our father's God, not thine,
Author of every swine,
To thee we sing.
Long may our hand besmite,
With Freedom's Holy Fight;
Protect us from Thy blight,
George Bush, our King!

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Here's my rambling I just emailed to Clark (see a couple of links about him below):

2004 is not an election about a few specific policies; it is not about progressive or conservative agendas. It is, quite frankly, about saving America.

We are having foreign policy being set by defense contractors, we are having securities regulation set by investment and account firms, we are having environmental laws written by logging and mining concerns, and we are having FCC regulations written by media giants. This is not America. America is where a vote is a voice, and it now has become a land where corporations are given specific amounts of money to give to specific candidates to get their “seat on the table.” As DeLay has recently said, “I am the federal government.” I thought the people were.

We need transparency and integrity in all dealings. Yes, intelligence, military, and intelligence investigations should of course remain secret, but not the logic behind the budget. We have an administration that supports its troops by cutting back on Veteran Hospitals and demanding that doctors not advise veterans of their benefits (as a cost saving maneuver). Where is the integrity there?

We have a President who has confused Leadership with Dictatorship.

Please serve your country one more time.

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Other Draft Clark sites:

http://www.draftclark.com/

and

http://www.draftclark2004.com/

So what do people think?

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Fighting terrorism is closer to fighting organized crime than it is to fighting nations. In fact fighting nations would seem to have a beneficial effect to terrorism recruiting (if the FBI ravaged Little Italy, killing innocents, bombing resteraunts, don't you have the feeling that the Mafia would have quite an easy time finding angry young youths to help them fight back? Not that that is a perfect anology, but what do you want from a site call "this century sucks").

But Fighting Nations is great television. Its big stuff blowing up. Actually fighting terrorism would be years of small steps, thousand of unheard of investigations. Dozens of victories and defeats that no one would ever hear about. That is bad television.

Bush is great at the blowing up stuff (Rove knows his TV), and that is why he looks good on securing America. Its all a lie of course, but perception is important. Krugman (below) has a great piece on the President's dereliction of duty, and I think this is (and not the economy) the story that will lead to Bush's defeat in 2004. When America is told the truth. Bluntly. Bush will not recover.

On telelvision I saw an "expert" explain the Bush was unbeatable as he was an immensely popular President. What blatant hype. For a guy who just won a war, Bush is looking pretty bad:

Bush Job Performance Rating Slips to 58%

President George W. Bush’s job performance rating has slipped to 58% from his most recent high of 61% in April, according to the newest Zogby America poll conducted June 6 – 10. Zogby International surveyed 1,012 likely voters, with a margin of error of +/- 3.2%. Just over four in ten (41%) viewed his job performance negatively.
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Pollster John Zogby: “A 58% job performance is still respectable, but the numbers suggest that the President may slip more. A 44% vote against a generic Democrat is not good for an incumbent after winning a war, but the burden is still on the Democrats to get a candidate, stop the internal party bleeding, and focus on a message. If the issue is the war on terrorism, Bush is tough to beat. If the issue is the economy or health care, Democrats stand to gain. Bush’s performance on taxes is interesting because voters are telling us that they are not feeling a tax cut – as property taxes rise.”

Bush's only strength is America's feeling that he keeps us safe. When it is proven he does not. He is gone. The whole wicked little bunch is out of there.

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Dereliction of Duty

Last Thursday a House subcommittee met to finalize next year's homeland security appropriation. The ranking Democrat announced that he would introduce an amendment adding roughly $1 billion for areas like port security and border security that, according to just about every expert, have been severely neglected since Sept. 11. He proposed to pay for the additions by slightly scaling back tax cuts for people making more than $1 million per year.

The subcommittee's chairman promptly closed the meeting to the public, citing national security — though no classified material was under discussion. And the bill that emerged from the closed meeting did not contain the extra funding.

It was a perfect symbol of the reality of the Bush administration's "war on terror." Behind the rhetoric — and behind the veil of secrecy, invoked in the name of national security but actually used to prevent public scrutiny — lies a pattern of neglect, of refusal to take crucial actions to protect us from terrorists. Actual counterterrorism, it seems, doesn't fit the administration's agenda.
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Furthermore, even on the military front the administration has been weirdly reluctant to come to grips with terrorism. It refused to provide Afghanistan's new government with an adequate security umbrella, with the predictable result that warlords are running rampant and the Taliban are making a comeback. The squandered victory in Afghanistan was one reason people like myself had a bad feeling about the invasion of Iraq — and sure enough, the administration was bizarrely lackadaisical about providing postwar security. Even nuclear waste dumps were left unguarded for weeks.

So what's the explanation? The answer, one suspects, is that key figures — above all, Donald Rumsfeld — just didn't feel like dealing with the real problem. Real counterterrorism mainly involves police work and precautionary measures; it doesn't look impressive on TV, and it doesn't provide many occasions for victory celebrations.

A conventional war, on the other hand, is a lot more fun: you get stirring pictures of tanks rolling across the desert, and you get to do a victory landing on an aircraft carrier. And more and more it seems that that was what the war was all about. After all, the supposed reasons for fighting that war have turned out to be false — there were no links to Al Qaeda, there wasn't a big arsenal of W.M.D.'s.

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A view from Milwaukee:

Neoconservative clout seen in U.S. Iraq policy

Question: Why are we in Iraq?

Answer: The neoconservatives made us do it.

The buzz in Washington and beyond has been that President Bush's attack on Iraq came straight from the playbook of the neoconservatives, a group of mostly Republican strategists, many of whom have gotten funding from Milwaukee's Bradley Foundation. The neoconservatives differ from traditional conservatives in favoring a more activist role for government and a more aggressive foreign policy.

Thanks to either Buzzflash or ThisModernWorld or Cursor for this link (all good sites and I've definitely forgotten to credit them on occasion in the past, so I'll cover my bases this time).

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Okay, does anyone know about him?

DraftWesleyClark.com

We are a grassroots, volunteer group trying to convince former General Wesley Clark to run for for president. Wesley Clark is a Rhodes Scholar, former NATO Supreme Commander, Vietnam combat veteran, Oxford graduate, chairman of a high-tech, visionary company, and -- a candidate who can beat President Bush in 2004.

In is a given that the Democrats can beat Bush domestically, even if the economy improves, he's still made an amazing mess of things. No one in the middle class or lower feel the impact of the tax cuts because their property and state tax have shot way up. Americans do understand the cutting down trees is not a viable environmental policy. Bush has only one issue: Fear. Democrats come off as weak, and people don't want weak when the are frightened. General Wesley Clark, that sounds like strength doesn't it.

And it doesn't look like he blow dries his hair. That's gotta help.

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Well it looks like the British press still has, how shall we say it, some interest in reporting:

Short: I was briefed on Blair's secret war pact

Senior figures in the intelligence community and across Whitehall briefed the former international development secretary Clare Short that Tony Blair had made a secret agreement last summer with George Bush to invade Iraq in February or March, she claimed yesterday.

In damning evidence to the foreign affairs select committee, Ms Short refused to identify the three figures, but she cited their authority for making her claim that Mr Blair had actively deceived the cabinet and the country in persuading them of the need to go to war.

Ms Short told the first day of the committee's inquiry into the events leading up to the Iraq conflict that Mr Blair had "used a series of half-truths, exaggerations, reassurances that were not the case to get us into conflict by the spring".

You know if Blair does come down, at the very least it might wake America up to the concept that lying about the reason to go to war is a serious issue. And if people start paying attention this whole hidious house of cards might fall down.

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Not fully sure about Dean, but at least he does understand that this election is about, quite frankly, saving America:

Dean's appeal to MoveOn members

Our country is at stake. The Bush Doctrine of preemptive war is wrong for America. The Bush tax cuts are not about cutting taxes; they are about starving and destroying Social Security, Medicare, and our public schools. They call polluting our air "The Clear Skies Act," destroying old growth "The Healthy Forest Act," and taking away our civil liberties "The Patriot Act."

If you are as tired and angry as I am about the manipulation and lies, then please join my campaign by signing the Pledge to Take Back America. Let's show that millions of us are not ashamed to stand up for our values:

http://www.deanforamerica.com/moveon

Oh, I watched Hardball on MSNBC last night and the guest host described Dean as nasty. Wow, such insightful commentary. That statement just leads me to believe that some of the powers that be might think Dean is a threat. Afterall Bush was described as "a nice guy" in the 2000 election.

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Click the image for lots more (thanks Michael).

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Hey hey. Let's have some fun.

Top Ten Conservative Idiots

8. Halliburton: Well spank me with a haddock and call me Maureen. Who could possibly have predicted this? It turns out that "Halliburton's contract to restart Iraq's oil production has doubled in cost over the past month, and the no-bid work may last longer than expected," according to the Associated Press. Oh, and while the Army originally said that a new contract would be awarded through competitive bidding by August (since Halliburton got the gig without having to compete) they've suddenly changed their minds. You know, I'm stunned. I would never in a million years have guessed that Dick Cheney's former company would somehow manage to get a non-competitive, open-ended, no-ceiling contract to rebuild the country that their ex-CEO just destroyed. I mean, how could an administration of such honor, ethics and integrity possibly allow this to happen? Uh... oh, right. I just figured it out.

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Okay the story about the threat of WMD's was a lie, but it got us to get rid of Saddam right? He was a Bad Man, so it was a Good Lie.

But being a Bad Man doesn't really mean anything to Bush's Washington. There was nothing moral about Bush's motivation for this war. If there was, why would he take photos with this Bad Man: Islam Karimov

Independent human rights groups estimate that there are more than 600 politically motivated arrests a year in Uzbekistan, and 6,500 political prisoners, some tortured to death. According to a forensic report commissioned by the British embassy, in August two prisoners were even boiled to death.

The US condemned this repression for many years. But since September 11 rewrote America's strategic interests in central Asia, the government of President Islam Karimov has become Washington's new best friend in the region.

Check out the pictures: photos: Senior US Officials Cozy up to Dictator Who Boils People Alive

Just in case you were wondering who we were going to war with under President Jeb Bush in the year 2015.

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Feel Good news about our war on terror?

Eight weeks after leaving the Bush White House, he [Beers] volunteered as national security adviser for Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), a Democratic candidate for president, in a campaign to oust his former boss. All of which points to a question: What does this intelligence insider know?

"The administration wasn't matching its deeds to its words in the war on terrorism. They're making us less secure, not more secure," said Beers, who until now has remained largely silent about leaving his National Security Council job as special assistant to the president for combating terrorism. "As an insider, I saw the things that weren't being done. And the longer I sat and watched, the more concerned I became, until I got up and walked out."
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The focus on Iraq has robbed domestic security of manpower, brainpower and money, he said. The Iraq war created fissures in the United States' counterterrorism alliances, he said, and could breed a new generation of al Qaeda recruits. Many of his government colleagues, he said, thought Iraq was an "ill-conceived and poorly executed strategy."

But the focus on Iraq did help Bush's ratings, so what's the big deal. That's important you know!

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Ahhh yes. Freedom. Freedom to force women to wear a veil. That is what we fought for right? Since it obviously wasn't the WMD's.

Since the end of the conflict in Iraq, radical factions in Iraq's Sunni and Shia Muslim communities have been asserting themselves in the ensuing period of instability.

One Iraqi UN staff member recently received a handwritten letter at home saying she would be killed unless she started covering her hair.

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In the Fall of 2002, Neocon "journalists" promoted the idea that Wellstone's funeral was used by the democrats as a political function. Much hay was made of how the democrats foul even something as sacred as a memorial service with their "divisiveness." It seemed stupid and petty at the time, but in the end it probably gave the Republicans the Senate. All out of nothing. The speeches shown on TV were re-edited to make it seem the speeches were political, when often they were not, they were memories though of a politician. Politics are going to come up.

Well this is something (much thanks to This Modern World for this): Goal Is To Lay Cornerstone at Ground Zero During GOP Convention

I'm linking to a scan of the paper article because the on-line version is missing that quote (though it was there earlier). And to be clear, they are talking about the cornerstone for the "Freedom Tower," the replacement of the World Trade Center. Well I'm certainly glad 3,000+ people died for a photo op for Bush's 2004 campaign.

I think, though, that that was too much for even their poor souls:

In another development yesterday, Pataki insisted he doesn't plan to lay the cornerstone for a 1,776-foot spire at Ground Zero during next year's Republican convention.

The comments came after a published report suggesting that rebuilding officials were pushing to break ground for the so-called Freedom Tower during the convention, which will be held in the city in August 2004.

Oh, it was the 'rebuilding officials' idea. Right, right. Of course.

Quotes from: WTC garage plan 'horrible,' gov says

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Do just read this and get angry. Get Active!

Distortion of Evidence

"Congress must establish an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate and hold the President and his officials accountable if they manipulated or fabricated intelligence to justify taking the country to war."

Please sign the Petition.

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A new one from the anonymous contributor:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030612/ap_on_re_eu/nato_transformation_9

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=9&u=/ap/20030612/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_intelligence_3

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20030612/ap_on_re_us/un_international_court_11

From Nuremberg:
Under the clutch of the most intricate web of espionage and intrigue that any modern state has endured, and persecution and torture of a kind that has not been visited upon the world in many centuries, the elements of the German population which were both decent and courageous were annihilated. Those which were decent but weak were intimidated. Open resistance, which had never been more than feeble and irresolute, disappeared. But resistance, I am happy to say, always remained.

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