Tag: bush
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Fifth Anniversary of ‘Bring ‘Em On’
from thinkprogress: Editor and Publisher notes that today is the five year anniversary of ‘bring ‘em on,’ the infamous statement President Bush made during the early stages of the Iraq war. Bush made the remark after being asked about increasing violence in Iraq… E&P adds that on the day of the “bring ‘em on” comment,…
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mugabe, sanctions & sham elections
mugabe once again sworn in as presidentfrom press tv: Robert Mugabe is once again sworn in as Zimbabwean president after being declared the landslide winner of the country’s much-disputed election. The electoral commission said Mugabe won 85.51 percent of the vote compared to 43.2 percent in elections in March won by Tsvangirai with 47.9 percent…
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bush arrives in uk amid huge security operation
from guardian: George Bush arrived in the UK today for his last presidential visit to the country before leaving the White House next January. Airforce One touched down at Heathrow just before 2pm. On the final leg of his European tour Bush will take tea with the Queen, dine with Gordon Brown and have breakfast…
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kucinich presents bush impeachment articles
the kucinich 9/11-related articles of impeachmentArticle XXXIII: REPEATEDLY IGNORED AND FAILED TO RESPOND TO HIGH LEVEL INTELLIGENCE WARNINGS OF PLANNED TERRORIST ATTACKS IN THE US, PRIOR TO 911 from raw replay: An Ohio Democratic lawmaker and former presidential candidate has presented articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush to Congress. Thirty-five articles were presented…
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Palestine Celebrates 60 Years of Exiled Abuse
from afp: Hundreds of Palestinian refugees headed to Lebanon’s southern border with Israel on Wednesday marking 60 years since the creation of the Jewish state and exile from what was once Palestine. “We want to return to our country. We desperately miss our country’s soil,” said Mahmud Mahmud, aged in his 70s, who was wearing…
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all-time lows: our money & our president
bush disapproval marks lowest in gallup history from usa today: President Bush has set a record he’d presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll. In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing;…
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the three amigos in ‘the trojan taco’
from bloomberg: President George W. Bush and the leaders of Canada and Mexico are using a summit meeting today in New Orleans to defend free trade and $930 billion in cross-border commerce against a political backlash. It won’t be easy. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon have each made lowering trade…
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former hitler youth performs ritual at 9/11 crime scene
from voa: Pope Benedict XVI began his last day in the United States at Ground Zero, the site of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on New York… Pope Benedict knelt in silent prayer on a pew placed in front of a large candle, which he then lit… The pope then met individually with two-dozen…
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9/11: remains, appeals, contradictions & vidal
ny medics identify four 9/11 victimsfrom press tv: The New York medical examiners have identified the remains of three men and one woman slain in 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. “I don’t think any of us know how to react to it,” said Douglas Mann, whose cousin Ronald Milstein was working as a…
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oliver stone rushes to finish off bush bio-pic
from politico: They first crossed paths four decades ago at Yale University. But Oliver Stone’s climactic encounter with George W. Bush may come in movie theaters as early as this fall. Stone is planning to begin production this month of his upcoming film biography of the president, tentatively titled ‘W’. An early draft of the…
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US shame still stings 40 years after my lai massacre
from monsters & critics: The soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 11th US Army Brigade, arrived in the morning. Their mission was clear. “The orders were to shoot anything that moved,” one US army officer told journalist Seymour Hersh, the investigative journalist who broke the story in 1969. As the brigade pulled out three hours later…
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kucinich wins congressional primary
from ap: Dennis Kucinich may not be a presidential contender, but he is still a winner among his Cleveland constituents. The Ohio liberal won 50 percent of the vote in a five-way Democratic congressional primary Tuesday, beating back critics who said he ignored business at home to travel the country in his quest to be…
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9/11 updates: foreknowledge, memorials & lies
fox5 foreknowledge of wtc7 collapse UPDATE2: Upon further review, it looks as if this was reported a few minutes after the actual collapse at 5:20 PM, so it might not have been a live shot. So it isn’t as damning as the BBC and CNN clips are, but it is still strong evidence indicating that…
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radiation pills, blackwater ills, gold & a ‘gannon moment’
white house drops anti-radiation pill planfrom upi: The Bush administration has dropped a program to distribute anti-radiation pills to citizens who live near nuclear reactors, officials said. John Marburger, U.S. President George Bush’s top science adviser, said Monday the over-the-counter potassium iodide pills “offer negligible additional protection” against radiation exposure and there were more effective…
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dying dollars & buying sprees
how bush destroyed the dollarfrom paul craig roberts: It is difficult to know where Bush has accomplished the most destruction, the Iraqi economy or the US economy. In the current issue of Manufacturing & Technology News, Washington economist Charles McMillion observes that seven years of Bush has seen the federal debt increase by two-thirds while…