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Bush should remove filters and face uncomfortable questions
Salt Lake Tribune, UT - 11-5-03
... the Pentagon is enforcing for the first time a policy
that dates back to the first Persian Gulf war, of banning photos of
flag-draped coffins that arrive in Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
The administration really does want to honor its servicemen and servicewomen
who have been killed in action, once the administration's censors have
filtered the tragedy of their deaths ... |
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Hiding the Bad News
Washington Post - Nov 4, 2003
...General
Hertling suggested to the reporters that their accounts should emphasize not
the deaths and injuries, but the heroic efforts of the Iraqi police officer
whose actions, he said, had prevented more deaths."... |
It's the War, Stupid
Mother Jones, CA - 11-5-03
... him with both a lousy economy and a tailspinning
Iraq. ... whether the economic growth
will replace jobs lost under Bush ... have been sure to point out that one
good ...
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Bush is spinning
like a top.
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Two Words on a Banner That No Author Wants to Claim
New York Times
11-3-03
Whoever came up with the idea of the "Mission Accomplished" banner that
has so plagued President Bush remained as elusive last week as the White
House leaker. But here, so far, is the story of "Bannergate" and the hunt
for the person or persons behind the two words....
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Why is George Bush
so hard-headed?
His skull protects the weakest part of his body.
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Jobs still missing from robust economic recovery
Jefferson City News Tribune, MO - 11-5-03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats are using the ghost of Herbert Hoover to
taunt President Bush, who so far has the worst jobs growth record of any
president since the Great Depression.
With the economic recovery in full swing, the hiring gains that typically
follow have not. The economy lost 2.6 million jobs since Bush took office --
1 percent in the private sector alone....
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What happens when you cross James Dean with George Bush?
You get a rebel without a clue.
How the White House deletes the truth
Boston Globe -By Derrick Z. Jackson, 11/5/2003
...Bush's desire for us to become ostriches over the deaths
and wounding of American soldiers in Iraq -- 379 dead and 2,155 hurt at last
count -- is but one more pathological act in sticking all of America into
the sand. Bush severely limited access to the presidential papers of his
father. Vice President Dick Cheney erected an iron curtain around his energy
task force. Hundreds of Muslim immigrants were detained without due process
and with no evidence they were involved in the terrorist attacks of Sept.
11, 2001. The administration wiped out parts of an Environmental Protection
Agency report that specifically tied human activities to global warming... |
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"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That
points clearly to a political career."
-George Bernard Shaw
"If they are
unwilling to correct the imbalance they themselves acknowledge and review the
program for historical accuracy, Showtime should inform its viewers through a
crawl every ten minutes that the program is a fictional portrayal of the Reagans
and the Reagan Presidency, and is not intended to be historically accurate."
-Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie
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Government extends its secrecy shield
ZDNet.com - 11-5-03
...About a week ago, the U.S. Army
surreptitiously pulled the plug on one of its more popular Web sites,
call.army.mil, after The Washington Post wrote about a report that had been
posted on it.
The Post's October 25 article said "the U.S. military intelligence gathering
operation in Iraq is being undercut by a series of problems in using
technology, training intelligence specialists and managing them in the
field," citing the report prepared by the Center for Army Lessons Learned at
Fort Leavenworth, Kan....
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What's the major thing that separates Bush sr. from Bush
jr.?
8 years of economic prosperity.
"Giving government money and power is like giving car keys and whiskey to a
teenage boy" - P.J. O'Rourke
Muscular
Progressivism
The Weekly Standard, DC - 11-5-03
MONDAY NIGHT at the International Spy Museum, John Podesta & Co.
marked the opening of the new Center for American Progress with the Washington
debut of Robert Greenwald's documentary "Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the
Iraq War," which accuses the Bush administration of wholesale deception in its
arguments for regime change. Podesta set the tone for the evening with opening
remarks describing the Bush administration's foreign policy as being built on an
"edifice of ideology" rather than a "foundation of facts." He then explained
that his new think-tank would represent "muscular progressivism."...
"Senator John
McCain recently compared the situation in Iraq to the Vietnam era — to which
President Bush replied, 'What does Iraq have in common with drinking beer in
Texas?'" —Craig Kilborn
www.politicalstrikes.com
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44% say
they’ll vote against Bush
New poll finds only 38% support president’s re-election
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALBANY, N.Y., Nov. 4 — More than four in 10 voters nationwide say they
definitely plan to vote against President Bush next year — more than plan to
vote for him, according to a poll released Tuesday....
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Picture released by
Japan Marine Science and Technology Center shows a deep sea creature found 6,500
meters (10,000 feet) under water in the Japan Deep of the Pacific Ocean. (JIJI
PRESS/HO)
Peace.
