Headlines - August 29
Leak Shows Blair Told of Iraq War Terror Link - "The Foreign Office's top official warned Downing Street that the Iraq war was fuelling Muslim extremism in Britain a year before the 7 July bombings."
US Forces Kill Reuters Journalist - "..an official statement indicated that the Americans were responding to an attack on an Iraqi police convoy when the journalists were shot. The death brings to 66 the number of journalists and their aides killed in Iraq since the start of the invasion in 2003."
Halliburton Whistle-Blower "Removed" by Army
I'd made a strong statement last February after I believed President Bush had exploited two women during his State of the Union speech. One of the women was the purple-fingered women's rights activist Safia Taleb al-Souhail who had been seated next to Laura Bush at the SOTU. The activist has now recanted her view about the "success" she celebrated with a two-fingered victory sign. I hope that anyone who complained about the strength of my conviction back in February will take a look at the current news article.
Bush Suffers Ratings Tumble as Sunnis Reject Iraq Charter
Crawford, Texas: A Divided Nation Bares Its Pain and Fury
Venezuela May Seek Robertson's Extradition
Strategizing a Christian Coup d'Etat
Iraq Worse than Vietnam in Number of Journalists Killed
Iraqi Constitution Sent to Parliament Despite Sunni Objections
How Photos Became Icon of Civil Rights Movement
Shiites Cut Off Talks on Charter
Specialist Young has questions for President Bush [BRAD BLOG]
Bolton Brings US into Conflict with UK
Opinion:
Tom Engelhardt: Catapulting the Propaganda
Dahr Jamail: Two "Green Zones"
Frank Rich: The Vietnamization of Bush's Vacation
Sean Penn: Day One in Iran: Culture in Deep Conflict
The Boston Globe: Rove's Role
John W. Dean: Did Pat RobertsonCommit a Crime?
The New York Times: The Lobbying-Industrial Complex
Maureen Dowd: Bike-Deep in the Big Muddy
Rosa Brooks: Not Your Daddy's Creationists
Larry C. Johnson: Why We Must Leave Iraq
The New York Times: States to the Rescue
Paul Krugman: Summer of Our Discontent
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Sheehan's Question Deserves Answer
Juan Cole: The Iraqi Constitution: DOA?
Phillip Robertson: The Death of al Mutanabbi Street
Robert Scheer - Judith Miller: Embedded over Her Head
Norman Solomon: Will News Media Help Bush Exploit the 9/11 Anniversary Again?
Bob Herbert: Truth-Telling on Race? Not in Bush's Fantasyland