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December 20, 2006
Obsessed GOP hawks--and some Democrats--want to end the Iraq war by escalating it, and Bush proposes expanding the military: America is hooked on the habit of military might.
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December 13, 2006
Donald Rumsfeld pops over to Iraq to tell his final lies.
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December 6, 2006
The systematic abuse of an American citizen charged with vague crimes related to terror has destroyed his sanity and made us into what we despise.
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November 29, 2006
Bush launched the Iraq disaster, and it keeps coming back and hitting us in the head. And now he is counting on Iran to help bail us out.
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November 22, 2006
President Bush has said many dumb things in defense of his Iraq policy. Citing the Vietnam War as a model is his most ludicrous.
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November 15, 2006
As Democrats choose between a stalwart critic of the Iraq War and a proponent of Bush policies for Majority Leader, Fox News gets in the act, casting centrist Pennnsylvania Rep. John Murtha as a partisan extremist. Huh?
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November 8, 2006
Bush insisted that Saddam Hussein's trial be held in Iraq so that an international tribunal would never expose America's history of support for the tyrant.
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November 1, 2006
We are now led by a false warrior who acts the simpleton, while playing to his version of what Middle America wants. To stop the madness, on November 7 voters must soundly repudiate what Bush has wrought.
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October 25, 2006
Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling would have remained small time crooks were it not for the energy industry deregulation measures they effectively purchased from Bush I and II.
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October 18, 2006
The carnage the US has visited upon Iraq in the name of fighting terror has taken more than 600,000 lives. We are not building democracy, we are creating mayhem.
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October 11, 2006
Instead of pursuing real diplomacy with North Korea, the Bush Administration chose a my-way-or-the-highway approach. Rather than face up to the mess they made, it's easier to blame Bill Clinton.
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October 4, 2006
Far more important than the Foley affair is the Bush Administration and the GOP have molested Lady Liberty while pretending to guard our national security.
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September 26, 2006
If George W. Bush took the latest National Intelligence Estimate seriously, he would end the ineffectual "war on terror" model and treat terrorism as a pathology to be clinically and relentlessly excised.
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September 20, 2006
Will anyone in the somnambulant White House press corps dare ask the President why he would "render" a Canadian to Syria to be tortured and imprisoned without charges?
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September 13, 2006
President Bush was correct when he said that not since the cold war has the nation been so tested. But the test lies not in the terror threat but in his Administration's incompetence.
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September 11, 2006
It's no wonder so many Americans are examining alternative explanations that range from the plausible to the absurd.
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September 6, 2006
In Bush-liberated Afghanistan, billions in drug profits are financing the Taliban, proving the President is better at starting wars than winning them.
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August 30, 2006
You'd think Bill Clinton doesn't know the difference between getting mothers and their children off the welfare rolls and getting them out of poverty.
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August 23, 2006
Democrats must transcend all their intraparty squabbles over the war in Iraq and focus on the obligation of politicians to be honest with the public.
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August 16, 2006
Investigators have known for a decade about terrorist plots to bring down passenger jets with liquid explosives. So why, all of a sudden, did Bush ban most liquids on flights?
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August 9, 2006
Hysteria over the barbarians at the gate has destroyed republics from
Rome to Germany. A new book explains why Bush's post-September 11
America may meet a similar fate.
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August 2, 2006
The Jewish state's diehard supporters in the White House, Congress
and the media seem unable to understand Israel can't bomb its way to
security.
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July 26, 2006
By saying that the Israel-Lebanon crisis simply represents the "birth pangs of a new Middle East," Condoleezza Rice underscored the Bush Administration's blindness to the disastrous effects its foreign policy has wrought.
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July 19, 2006
Bush's boorish comments at the G-8 summit revealed more than his
ignorance of the Mideast: His policies have made the US a helpless
bystander as the entire region burns.
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July 12, 2006
If Tricky Dick could tame the grizzled Mao, then certainly Bush
could butter up Kim Jong Il with some of that frat boy charm. Who
knows, Dearest Leader might even join Bush's shaky "coalition of the willing."
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July 5, 2006
Democrats should take a page from the GOP playbook and back candidates willing to stand up for their values, rather than wasting their money, time and votes on those who won't.
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June 28, 2006
The Bush Administration's jihad against newspapers that reported on a secret program to monitor the personal-banking records of unsuspecting citizens is more important than the original story.
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June 21, 2006
Hillary Clinton's dissembling on Iraq has become a fatal embarassment for her presidential ambitions and for anyone who looks to her for leadership.
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June 14, 2006
What is the born-again East Texas word for chutzpah? Whatever it is, Tom DeLay displays enormous amounts, as he exits Congress and faces corruption charges.
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June 7, 2006
Five unrepentant media giants, complicit in the hidden agendas of government leakers, now pay the price for their unethical reporting on Wen Ho Lee.
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May 31, 2006
Despite the President's denials, connections between Enron's corporate criminals and the Bush family inner circle are are deeply embedded in the policies of two Administrations.
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May 24, 2006
Desperate to report progress in Iraq Bush boasts that the newest Iraqi
leader has taken his phone call twice. Wow. And it only cost $200
billion and thousands of dead and maimed Americans.
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May 17, 2006
Bush has taken a sensible stance on immigration, but his plummeting credibility will prevent people from embracing his proposals.
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May 10, 2006
Gen. Michael Hayden, nominated by President Bush to head the CIA, is
the man responsible for the most extensive attack ever on the privacy
of US citizens.
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May 3, 2006
As the May Day protests, they evoked memories of an earlier generation
of immigrants who lived with the fear of deportation.
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April 26, 2006
Former CIA official Tyler Drumheller joins the parade of insiders denouncing how the Iraq war has been sold and fought.
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April 19, 2006
Bush's nutty nuclear braggadocio on Iran is a sign of weakness, not
strength, proof that his five-year Administration is an abysmal
failure.
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April 11, 2006
The former Secretary of State says he and his department's top experts never believed that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat, but this made little difference to President Bush.
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April 5, 2006
Tom DeLay claims to see a vast anti-Christian conspiracy in the legal troubles that forced him out of the House--though his own sins would seem to be sufficient explanation.
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March 29, 2006
There is no immigration crisis in the US. But it is time America
acknowledged that we need the immigrant workers as much as they need
us--and treat them accordingly.
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March 22, 2006
One tough question from an elderly gentleman in Cleveland punctured the
President's pretensions about the reasons for launching the disastrous
Iraq war.
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March 15, 2006
As Bush continues to insist the US is bringing peace and freedom to
Iraq, his latest plan to quell the insurgency spends billions more to
stem the use of improvised explosive devices.
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March 8, 2006
With the Pentagon's inspector general suggesting criminal negligence in the
killing of former NFL star and Army Ranger Pat Tillman, it is time to demand
Congressional hearings into the way the Bush Administration cynically spun
the story to serve its political purposes at the expense of the truth.
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March 1, 2006
What a farce: The Dubai Ports deal shows Bush is willing to trust the Arab-owned Dubai Ports to manage our harbors, even as he scapegoats them as culprits in his war on terror.
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February 22, 2006
An Austrian court sends a crackpot historian to prison for denying the
Holocaust; why shouldn't Muslims protesting the Muhammad cartoons
question a double standard?
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February 15, 2006
Condoleezza Rice's myopic optimism mirrors that of the delusional Dick Cheney: Witness her refusal to be alarmed by rise of Moqtada al Sadr.
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February 8, 2006
George W. Bush's irrational governance has wrought yet another outrage:
The Administration's $2.77-trillion budget request.
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February 1, 2006
As the Enron trial unfolds, it's depressing that Phil and Wendy Gramm, the company's political enablers, are going unpunished and uncriticized.
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January 25, 2006
Obsessed voyeurs in the Bush Administration are poking their noses into
everyone's business, with the help of Internet giants like Microsoft,
AOL and Yahoo.
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January 18, 2006
It's appalingly clear Team Bush is unwilling to do the hard work it takes to make Afghanistan the functioning nation it was before cold war games tore it apart.
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January 11, 2006
What irony that Jack Abramoff and other once-young Republicans, who hectored their elders about defending the nation's taxpayers and security forces, should now be accused of deeply betraying both.
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January 4, 2006
The unfolding Jack Abramoff corruption scandal exposes the hypocrisy of
the GOP "revolution," which promised to restore morality to Washington
but instead sank deepinto a cesspool of corruption.
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