Progressive Alliance - A Proposal

Progressive Alliance - A Proposal

Here is a reprise from February of 2005, an article written by Ernest Partridge for CrisisPapers.org recommending a new progressive alliance whuch will "slay the dragon at the gate: the regressive, oligarchic, theocratic regime that now “owns” our media and our government."

That alliance begins with an explicit statement of common and binding principles:

1. Allegiance to our founding documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.

2. The assurance of open, fair and verifiable elections.

3. Freedom of expression, with open access of diverse views to an independent media, free of government control and corporate conglomeration.

4. An affirmation of obedience to the rule of law, including international treaties. Bringing to justice those in public office who have violated the law.

5. A restoration, “with all deliberate speed,” of a balanced budget, and with it the securing of the integrity of our national currency, the dollar, in international trade.

Whistleblower Rowley To Run for Congress

Whistleblower Rowley To Run for Congress

Colleen Rowley has made a formal announcement that she will run for Congress in Minnesota's 2nd district in 2006. Rowley, as you may recall. was one of Time Magazine's 'Persons of the Year' in 2002, having blown the whistle on her former employer, the FBI, after the 9/11 attack.

Rowley, along with the likes of Daniel Ellsberg, John Dean, Sibel Edmonds, Karen Kwiatkowski and other “whistleblowers” have bravely demanded, in public, that patriots within and outside of the US government who are in possession of crucial information, should come forward and expose the corruption and wrongdoing of the Bush Administration.

Gung-ho Governor Pataki's Son Opts for Sunshine Patriot Deferment

"At the Republican National Convention last year, Gov. Pataki praised President George W. Bush for having the courage to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein. And just as Bush did in his speech Tuesday night, the governor strove mightily to link Hussein to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks."

Gung-ho Governor Pataki's Son Opts for Sunshine Patriot Deferment

At Newsday, Sheryl McCarthy would like to know why NY State governor George Pataki, who was so gung-ho about the Iraq War, is not counseling his son, a U.S. Marine, to go and support his country in a time of need? Why, instead, is Teddy Pataki opting for a student deferment?



Beware Sunshine Patriots.




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George Galloway Blisters U.S. on Iraq

George Galloway Blisters U.S. on Iraq

I came across this statement from British Parliamentarian George Galloway and found it well worthy of mention, even though I'm probably coming in late. It is a message that I believe all American Progressives should read and consider:

"..Americans are reaching out a hand in these e-mails, looking for us to understand how miserable it must be, to be a progressive person, living in a country like the U.S. today, which is governed by such a motley crew!

And, I’m going to make it one of my missions, to spread the word of the existence of this mass of people, These 10’s of millions of people that are out there in the U. S., who feel the same way as we do.

And, we have to link up! I think you have to find unity amongst yourselves. There’s no doubt that there is no single movement in the U.S. in the way that there is in Britain, for example, around the STOP THE WAR COALITION which managed to bring under it’s umbrella, more or less, every anti-war, anti-globalization strand of opinion!

And, thus we had the 2,000,000 people march on the 15th of February, two years ago!

You’ve had huge demonstrations. But, you often find 2 organizations organizing demonstrations, sometimes more than that! Now, it must be possible, for a great people, an accomplished people, a "can-do people" like the people of the United States of America, to put aside differences and to come together as ONE movement, even where people reserve the right to ‘paddle their own canoes’, to have their own agendas, to go off from time-to-time, to push their own campaigns.

That’s all fine. But, there must be ONE umbrella! There must be ONE rubric under which it’s possible, to mobilize the millions of people who, I’m now convinced, exist in the U.S. and, who are real allies to the rest of the world. After all, we are trying to change a situation, in which your country and mine, have become the two most hated countries in the world!"

Do you recall Galloway's speech in 2003?

Look at the tears in Galloway's eyes in this video at the Oil For Food Senate Intelligence Committee Investigation in May, 2005. All he predicted and warned us about has come to pass.

Galloway to senator [Norm Coleman]: 'Show me the money'

"I wasn't here to melt the hearts of the two members the committee that turned up for the hearing. I was speaking beyond these walls to the watching television audience at home. And I came not as the accused, but as the accuser.

So I don't suppose I did much beyond embarrassing the Sen. Coleman with the absurd thinness of what he had to put on the table. But I hope that I reached a broader public, with my broader case, against the war, against the sanctions, and against the mother of all smoke screens, which is what this Senate committee on investigations is engaged in."

*Tip of the hat to Americasedition.org

G8 Summit: Bush vs. Blair

G8 Summit: Bush vs. Blair

"I really don't view our relationship as one of quid pro quo," George W. Bush told Britain's ITV1 television in an interview about the G8 Summit, the agenda of "climate change," and the obvious talk about the U.S. "owing" Tony Blair, seeing that Britain so willingly joined the Iraq War effort.

"If this looks like Kyoto, the answer is 'no'. The Kyoto treaty would have wrecked our economy," said Bush.

Tony Blair's diplomatic reputation is on the line, and will be measured by how much Blair can get Bush to support bold initiatives on Africa and climate change. On the issue of climate change, diplomats say the Kyoto Protocol (intended to curb greenhouse gas emissions) will not even rate a mention in the summit’s final communiqué because Bush rejects the treaty as 'fundamentally flawed'.

John Hulsman, who examines trans-Atlantic relations for the Heritage Foundation, has a good quote about the overall expectations for this summit, regarding Bush and Blair:

"Bush will give in some on the money and Blair will give in some on the accountability."

...and the public will not rest easy, regardless of any Bush/Blair compromise.

Public protests against free trade, globalization and the Iraq war have already geared up and will soon be in full swing.


Source: William Douglas/Knight Ridder

Front-Page NYT Plame Story Misses Key Fact

Front-Page NYT Plame Story
Misses Key Fact

I enjoyed reading Scott Shane's NYT front-page news article about Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame. My only problem with the article is that it leads people to believe that Robert Novak was in a vaccuum when he (and any newspaper that carried his syndicated column) carelessly "outed" Plame in print. Bob Novak was fed information by someone in government - someone from the Executive, no less. Why did Scott Shane never mention this not-so-insignificant fact somewhere in the article? It is solely material to the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, which Mr. Shane found worthy of a mention in his article. I saw a good line at the Common Ills, which said:

"..the issue of crime goes to the government, not (sorry to disappoint) to Robert Novak. The Intelligence Identities Protection Act does not cover Novak (unless he's something more than a bad journalist)."

Unless mainstream journalism is factual and all-inclusive, the public will not get a clear understanding of what this case is about.

Bush is Still Misleading the Public About Iraq

Bush is Still Misleading the Public About Iraq

ParaPundit believes that President Bush's deceitful 4th of July speech for 2005 was an insult to the revolutionaries who founded the United States of America.

In that speech, Bush said:

"At this hour, our men and women in uniform are defending America against the threats of the 21st century. The war we are fighting came to our shores on September the 11th, 2001."

Defending America in Iraq? I wonder who the President thinks he's still fooling?

This past week, the PBS News Hour has been interviewing three soldiers and one Marine about their experiences in Iraq. On the News Hour last night, I heard Former Army Staff Sgt. Gregg Bumgardner say that he is disturbed whenever it is said that the soldiers are "defending America" because, before the war, Iraq was surely not the haven for terrorists that it has become today. In other words, Iraq was not the same threat as that posed by the 9/11 terrorists - and we created this new haven for terror by bringing the war to Iraq's homeland. Remember - this is coming from a soldier returning from Iraq, not from some armchair warrior. When the transcript becomes available, I will post a link to the comment so you may read the words verbatim.

At BOP - A Simple Plan for Democrats

At BOP - A Simple Plan for Democrats
Stirling Newberry has a simple and straightforward plan for Democrats to take back the House in 2006.

Elizabeth Edwards to Write Autobiography

Elizabeth's Writing Her Life
One of my favorite women in public life, Elizabeth Edwards [WaPo], is in the process of writing an autobiography, and I can't wait to read it.

Greensboro (aka Blogsboro) in the New York Times

Greensboro (aka Blogsboro)
in the New York Times

It's great to see Lex Alexander's transition efforts to convert the News-Record website into a virtual town square, along with Roch Smith's Greensboro101 recognized and discussed together in the New York Times.

As Billy Jones has said, with upcoming events such as ConvergeSouth on the near horizon, Greensboro (aka "Blogsboro") will no doubt remain the center of the Blogosphere for a long time to come.

Tar Heel Tavern #19

Tar Heel Tavern #19

At ..Slowly She turned.. you will find Tar Heel Tavern #19. Laurie's done a great job, and we can't thank her enough for volunteering to host on a Holiday weekend. Happy Birthday to 4th of July baby Erin Monahan!

Training the Future U.S. Resistance

Training the Future U.S. Resistance

Jonathan Schell points to the probability that, to the extent that the forces we are training in Iraq are opposed to a U.S. occupation, the ones we train today will be our resistance tomorrow. When will we learn?
Link - Truthout
Link- TomDispatch Commentary

Dems Shouldn't Have Compromised on Filibuster

Dems Shouldn't Have Compromised on Filibuster
..The compromise was a bad deal for Dems - They look like dogs on GOP leashes

Last May, I wrote about the Senate compromise on the Filibuster. I'd given the opinion that it was a "no-win" for the Democrats, and had they showed strong conviction, they could have stuck to their guns and avoided a politically fruitless compromise. The flame that was once a part of the Democrats' book of rhetoric seems to have been extinguished by political fear.

Raw Story reports that the compromise, in the long run, appears to be one that will prevent the Democrats from employing the filibuster against a staunchly conservative Supreme Court nominee if that particular nominee's philosophical views cannot amount to "extraordinary circumstances." The filibuster can be justified only on questions of personal ethics or character.

The way that this compromise was written, should the Democrats "renege" on the terms of the compromise, the Republicans can attempt to outlaw the filibuster altogether.

We're screwed. Who do I mean by "we"? Everyone except the radically conservative - which is probably one-fifth of the nation's voting population. (In 2004, a plurality of 22% singled out moral values -code for supporting a radically conservative agenda - as the issue of top importance.) Even the moderates lose out. Almost 80% of the voting population of the U.S. seem to have no champions who possess any real power in government today - a terribly frightening thought.

Some compromise. Nice work, you seven Democrats who entered into this snakepit of a decision.
Joe Lieberman
Robert Byrd
Ben Nelson
Mary Landrieu
Daniel Inouye
Mark Pryor
Ken Salazar

Washington Post article

Happy 4th of July

Painting by R.A. Hart Nagurney
(My mother)

Happy 4th of July

I realize he's no longer with the Yankees, but Orlando Hernandez (aka El Duque) has a weird pitching stance that caught my mother's eye, as an artist. She did her best to recapture that unique move - and since it evokes the spirit of the red, white and blue - along with baseball, America, Mom...everything but the apple pie...I decided to use it for my Fourth of July post.

"Patriotism is too often the hatred of other countries…. disguised as love of our own.”

- From a speech given by Senior Associate Dean Robert McClure/Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs/Syracuse University on February 4, 2002

If you have a moment, I'd like to remind you about
Intelligent Patriotism and what it means.

Karl Rove Outed Valerie Plame

A Heart-Warming 4th of July Story: Karl Rove Involved in Outing Valerie Plame

Karl Rove Outed Valerie Plame
...and All We Get Is His Denial and a Lousy T-shirt



"On the day that hell freezes over...."

- The Iraq war is a disaster. The Bush administration has tried to hide the fact for a long time. They would do anything to make themselves look as if they have conducted themselves properly. Paradoxically, they are being exposed as bitter hypocrites who will discriminately do "wrong" in order to appear "right".

- Valerie Plame was attacked because her husband, Joseph Wilson, blew the lid off the fact that the White House lied about the infamous Niger uranium. If you don't think Dick Cheney's top was ready to pop over what Joe Wilson was saying, you haven't been paying attention.

- I still think "fake journalist" Jeff Gannon (aka James Guckert) came along at too much of a coincidental time - and had his by-line on far too many damaging Joseph Wilson stories NOT to suspect that something shady was going on between the White House and Gannon.

- We learn that Karl Rove was directly involved in leaking Valerie Plame's identity to the American press.

- In October 2003, Karl Rove had told MSNBC's Chris Matthews that Plame, a CIA agent, was "fair game". So, who's ultimately responsible for the leak? If Karl Rove outed Valerie Plame to Robert Novak (the first schlump to report the identity), someone obviously told Rove that Plame was a covert CIA agent. That certain "someone" is likely more guilty than Rove himself. Prosecutions under the law are rare because they require a showing that the leak was intentionally disclosed and that the person leaking the information knew the government was trying to conceal it. You know darn well that Rove will claim it was unintentional. We know that's a lie, because we know Karl Rove's character all too well. Knowing that, however, does not a prosecution make. I don't think it would be a stretch to believe Dick Cheney may have told Rove. If so, then the Bush administration may have to burn the fatheaded Rove to save Cheney if push comes to shove. The only chance of saving one of them, if they can, is to let one hang. What about Bush himself? He hired an attorney to protect himself long ago, and there's been plenty of talk about the real reason George tenet and James Pavitt resigned. No matter how it works out, the White House leak of a CIA agent's identity showed that core standards and principles do not have a place within the Bush administration and that our national security can be easily compromised for cheap political retribution. George W. Bush and the closest people to him in his administration have been exposed as the filthiest scum in the history of American government.

- We can now be sure that everything is fair game in politics, even if national security is severely compromised and covert agents' lives are put at risk.

- We live in a time when the notions of justice and fairness are turned on their head. The lust and greed for power have elevated the Bush administration, and the class of citizens they divisively represent, to a level where there are absolutely no consequences to be paid for them to break even the highest law. Many bloggers on the left have lost faith that Karl Rove will pay any price for his treasonous actions.




- Dave Niewert is an important voice in the wilderness - a modern-day prophet who has warned Americans, time and time again, that fascism is working its way into our American government.

- Bora Zivcovic, a progressive blogger who I have had the opportunity to meet in person, has an important story and lesson for all of us. He and his family have been through a shameful time in human history - the Holocaust - a time when many of them didn't make it through to the other side with their lives. If you cannot trust the perspective of a person who has lost 42 members of his family to state-sanctioned murder, than I suggest that you may not be capable of trusting anyone. At the beginning of the crisis in the Balkans in 1991, Bora points to the fact that the Israeli press had recognized what the Westerners did not - the fascistic nature of Franjo Tudjman's new government in Croatia, and the reason is because the Jews have decided to never again become an invisible people whose persecution could escape the consciousness of humankind. Warning signs of fascism can come in the forms of underlying ideology "which can be coated in whatever symbols people are already used to - and proud of - including the American flag."
Bora says,

"Neither Nazism nor Stalinism sprung up suddenly out of nowhere. Both built up gradually, over the years, slowly acclimating the populations to the ever-increasing levels of totalitarianism, and utilizing the fears and emotional insecurity of the few to rein in the many....

....If you look at The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism you will recognize that all 14 are at some stage of implementation by the current US government....

....I don't personally know Cheney and Rove (Bush is just a puppet, so he can be disregarded), but everything they have said and done so far suggests that, if they were living in 1930s and they were in position of power, they would have slaughtered millions. Nothing in ther behavior suggests the tiniest modicum of decency."

Bora sends all of us a warning, and our failure to heed the warning is going to cost every one of us our freedom.

- You may say, "How can Jude Nagurney Camwell believe she can turn a story about Karl Rove's outing of a CIA agent (and getting away with it) into a story about fascism - and expect anyone to take her seriously? Isn't she carrying this a bit too far?" The signs are here - and they are real.
Think of the law which was recently passed to outlaw the burning of the American flag.
Think about the rampant sexism that is causing great anxiety about Women's Issues with the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor.
Think about Karl Rove's recent public comments about "liberals."
Think about the Religious Far Right and how their Dominionist beliefs are being allowed to be pressed into American government.
Think about how Labor is being broken and Corporate power is being fed by the powers that be.
Think about the many ways the Executive has employed lies - to start a war or to mislead the public about that war's "success".
Think about fraudulent elections.
The White House sends carefully-crafted messages to divide Americans, and the dividing lines are based upon labels such as "liberals." Ironically, while the Bush administration and the special class they represent package their labels to make the public believe "liberal" means authoritarian and "anti-American," and while they stake a claim to ownership of the American flag, they become more authoritarian by the day, by their lies and their lustful usurpation of power. Fascism isn't obvious as it creeps in - it doesn't scream out to you - the heavy hand of nationalism doesn't leave you a billboard which you can put your finger on and say "Ah-Ha!" There are only clues. So, "How can Jude expect you to believe?" I don't have any great expectation, but I hope you will think about this carefully. It's the least that our Founding Fathers would have wanted you to do, and the best Fourth of July greeting I could possibly send to my fellow Americans.

If Karl Rove outed Valerie Plame and we're all asleep and nobody cares, this is a sure sign that fascism is alive in the United States today.

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Sidenote:
Josh Marshall asks:

So just a question: Would Fitzgerald have pushed to get Cooper and Miller in the slammer if some other party in the White House weren't in a lot of trouble? And one last question: Cooper and Miller are very different kinds of journalists, swim in very different waters. Are they really in this jam for the same reasons?

From Third Estate Sunday Review:

"Karl, you're finally historically famous. Bully's Brain just became a footnote to history. Guilty or innocent, you'll always be mentioned as someone who ran a presidential campaign and was called before a grand jury to testify on outing a CIA agent. Kind of hard to wrap the flag around that, isn't it?"

Eliot Spitzer in Syracuse

Eliot Spitzer in Syracuse


Jude and Eliot Spitzer
photo by Mike Giarrusso

Sandra Day O'Connor Leaves - Battles Enter In

Sandra Day O'Connor Leaves - Battles Enter In

A storm is brewing over Washington, D.C.

John Dean warned us about what we see beginning today. George W. Bush has pulled no punches. He has been politically overt about hoping that Roe v. Wade is overturned.

Last September, John Dean had made the argument that the retirement of Supreme Court justices and the expected battles over the confirmation of their replacements should have been more more openly debated during the last campaign. Giving John Kerry the benefit of the doubt, he said that perhaps Kerry saw a danger in "playing politics with the judiciary."

Commenting that Democrats have lost their "bullying" talent, Dean commented that the Republicans, had they lost the 2000 election to a Supreme Court decision, would have "made the 2000 election the central focus of the 2004 election." Instead, Dean refleceted, the Democratic Party, "once a party of flame-throated cantankerous conservatives, no longer is very adept at the squeaky-wheel politics of incivility."

We know that Bush wants to see Roe v. Wade overturned. The only way to do so is for a new decision which would reinterpret settled law. Roe v. Wade is settled law. During the Presidential campaign, the issue of the Supreme Court resonated only with a small number of voters. It may not have scored John Kerry many political points. Yet, if Roe v. Wade is overturned, the public repercussions will be deafening.

My concern comes directly from John Dean's words. The flame in the Democrats' throats seem to have been extinguished by political fears. Their wheels have not been squeaking for quite some time. Will they be effective when the TV ads from the far Right begin? (And the issue advocacy ads have already begun).

Squeak, Democrats! Squeak!

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LINK- In Washington, the looming showdown between legions of political activists already looks and feels more like a full-scale election than a Senate confirmation. That's no accident; both sides have been gearing up for a confrontation since President George W. Bush's re-election victory in November, if not earlier.

This time, the voters will be the members of the U.S. Senate. And the pressure from outside interest groups on those 100 lawmakers promises to be relentless.

"It's just going to be unbelievable," said former Sen. John C. Danforth, R-Mo., who acted as a chief defender of Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court nomination in 1991.

"The conservatives, especially the religious conservatives, are going to want a nominee who has been pretty much pre-cooked, somebody who they think they can count on, so they're going to be very hard to please," Danforth said. And the liberals, he said, "probably don't want almost anybody who President Bush would nominate."

Dana and Al Jibouri

Dana and Al Jibouri

Dana Pittard and Abdallah Al Jibouri are two people who, I am quite sure, never expected to be thrown together. And yet, they have come together in the strangest place at the strangest time.

Reading about their experience, I keep thinking about how much easier things might have been, had our President and his administration taken the proper steps to plan and cooperate with the international community, who held their hands out to us after September 11th. If any reader whose eyes should fall upon this blog thinks that I am happy to remind the public, day after day, of the great failure of the Bush administration to do this thing right, you couldn't be more wrong.

Most soldiers had no inkling of the history of the land to which they were assigned their mission, and we cannot fault them for what they have had to do. They had no idea what to expect. They were told what the American public was told - that they would be greeted, by Iraqi citizens, as liberators. Instead, they are approached by citizens saying "Thank you for getting rid of Saddam Hussein - now leave." And here they remain, well over two years after the fall of Saddam - unwanted.

I heard one Iraqi gentleman on a documentary I was watching called "About Baghdad", and he was metaphorically comparing Iraq to a theatre that has been boarded up for 20 years. The doors to the theatre swing open and there is new-found freedom within. Iraqis are joyous to think about the potential for the freedom within that theatre, only to discover that the occupier wishes to tear it down and turn it into a garish tourist trap. Who cannot understand their anger and frustration, after so many years of massacres and oppression?

We have gravely underestimated and misunderstood the hearts, minds, desires, and dreams of the Iraqi people. Men like Dana Pittard and Abdallah Al Jibouri, who call themselves "brothers", could be in Baquba today working small miracles. Instead, they both have to worry, every damned minute, about being assassinated. The Bush adminstration pretends they have nothing to do with that situation. They, and many members of Congress, are on total disconnect.

It's heartbreaking.

Iraq is Achilles Heel of the GOP

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

-Jean Baudrillard

Iraq is Achilles Heel of the GOP

I was reading a post at MJW Stickings' 'The Reaction' ,along with the discussion that follows in the Comments section. The topic, which is GOP desperation, was sparked by a Steve Soto piece at 'The Left Coaster', saying that, if VP Dick Cheney sees the need to "shoot at a fellow Republican [Chuck Hagel] over Iraq, it's because the Administration is headed into the dumper by its own making, and the GOP natives are getting restless.

John McCain has been called a "nutjob" by his own. McCain may attempt to marginalize activist/lobbyist Grover Norquist, but political insiders know about the influential Mr. Norquist and his Americans for Tax Reform. (For those who do not know him, Norquist is the man who wants to "cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.") Norquist condescendingly and disrespectfully referred to Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe as "the two girls from Maine". Norquist is attempting to introduce the label of
"ANTI-MAINSTREAM" into his attacks and arguments against moderate Republicans, whom he claims are "out of the GOP mainstream."

The co-opting of the word "mainstream" by radical conservatives will not fly in the face of reality.

Hearing these words of desperation from GOP activists, I sense that there is serious fear of the successful effect of many of the well-organized efforts of grassroots organizations such as DFA and Moveon.org. I can see that fear resonating throughout the right side of the blogosphere. Finally, someone on the other side has caught on to what the GOP has known for at least 20 years. People can harness great power when they organize and unite. The internet has made MoveOn.org an unstoppable powerhouse. Karl Rove has recently invoked their name, not in the hope of dividing the nation between GOP and Dem, but in the direct hope of dividing what he sees as the "traditional/centrist Democrats" from the progressive, free-thinking Democrats (Rove calls them "liberal", GOP code for Satan). Rove fails to realize that Democrats have caught onto the parlor trick known as "label-and-divide", and all it took was the Bush administration's tactical and strategic failures in Iraq to help Democrats (and many Independents) to pull back the curtain and reveal "The Wizard of Rove", aka 'Bush's Brain', for the fat-headed flim-flam man that he is.

A longtime Bush apologist named Joel Mowbray, who inspired Pat Robertson to emulate a terrorist and say he wanted to nuke Foggy Bottom, says that Bush, in his speech, "neither tried to justify the rationale for the war nor was there any shift in his position." I agree with that statement. There was nothing new, at least nothing of any value to Americans looking for a new strategy. You can feel Mowbray's fear of Moveon.org in the next statement:

While the speech contained little news of any sort, it did achieve a very important goal—one that is crucial in the face of the moveon.org crowd’s white noise campaign: it laid out in clear fashion the entire framework of what we’ve done in Iraq, what we’re doing now, where we’re headed, and most significantly, why it’s important that we prevail.

Mowbray is so lost in the fantasy that I find him to be amusing, as I would find a robot, a broken record, or a cult-film about zombies to be amusing.

In the face of all Americans who are paying attention to reality, the only thing that was made "clear" in the Bush speech was that he is never going to change; he will never have the humility and grace that is possessed by the kind of leader who could steer a united nation or the world community toward meaningful peace; and - after the Downing Street memo revelation and confirmation of his lies and misleading - he will never again have the trust of the citizens of the United States.

Bush may have three years left to limp along on his Achilles heel, but he's over and done.

Hear the words of......

"Hear the words of Osama Bin Laden....."

- - George W. Bush

Hear the Words Of....

"I wasn't surprised to hear Bush mention bin Laden. Bin Laden is a very convenient name for him. He totally ignored the name for years. There had been times when bin Laden is brought up, he says ‘Oh, well, I'm not really concerned about him.’ But he always knew in the back of his mind that he could trot him out whenever he wanted in order to justify virtually anything he is doing. Although, you know, you would have to be insane to go to war against North Korea, if he did he would surely be trotting bin Laden out for that, as well."

- - Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance

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Hear the words - My Short Poem

Why would your leader throw the words of a murderer in your face?
Why would he lift the killer's words, in his speech, to that much grace?
Why is he now recalling the one he allowed to escape as the towers burned..
When less than two years ago, he told the world he was not that concerned?



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Hear the Words.....

Note: If you are wondering why on earth I'm repeating the words of so many American enemies, it's because I'd like you to think about their words - and ask yourself if any prior President of the United States would have asked you to take the enemy's deluded propaganda-words to heart.

- Hear the words of King George III, American Revolution

"A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me."

- Hear the words of Jefferson Davis, Civil War

"All we ask is to be let alone."

Hear the words of General Valeriano the "Butcher" Nicolau, Spanish American War

"My first action was to gather the peasant population and imprison them in concentration camps."

*well -he didn't actually say it - but he DID it!*

- Hear the words of Kaiser Wilhelm, WWI (.. on King Edward VII)

"He is Satan, you cannot imagine what a Satan he is!"...

"Germany's greatness makes it impossible for her to do without the ocean, but the ocean also proves that even in the distance, and on its farther side, without Germany and the German Emperor, no great decision dare henceforth be taken!"

- Hear the words of Nikita Khrushchev, Cold War

"What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying."... "We will bury you."

- Hear the words of Joseph Stalin, WWII

"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves....

"...The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do.".

- Hear the words of Adolph Hitler, WWII

"The great masses of people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one."

"What luck for rulers that men do not think."

- Hear the words of Kim Il-Sung, Korean conflict

"Should any enemy attempt to infringe upon our country's freedom and our people's happy life, our People's Armymen will fight to the last drop of their blood to defeat the enemy and defend the country and the people to the bitter end."

- Hear the words of Pol Pot, Viet Nam War

"I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country."

- Hear the words of George Bush!

"I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't.