Democrats called Tuesday's resolution a symbolic vote of "no confidence" in Mr. Bush.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111705N.shtml

Robert Scheer writes that the false al Qaeda-Hussein link was the linchpin to Bush's argument that he could not delay the invasion until after the United Nations weapons inspectors completed their investigation in a matter of months. Perhaps he feared not that those weapons would fall into the wrong hands, but that they would not be found at all.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111705L.shtml

A hunger strike has left at least one Gitmo detainee in danger of dying. Pentagon officials are struggling to control both the protest and the possible global outcry over any death.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111705K.shtml

Senate Democrats have dug up additional explosive evidence over the past week that they say will help prove the Bush administration deliberately manipulated pre-war Iraq intelligence that was used to convince Congress and the public to support a pre-emptive strike against the Middle East country in March of 2003.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111705I.shtml

by Richard Bradley, TomPaine.com

Why Republican hypocrisy on moral issues matters.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051117/dirty_libby.php

by David Friedman, TomPaine.com

We need more than biofuels to break our addiction.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051117/driving_america_off_oil.php

by Paul Waldman, TomPaine.com

How many of the Dems eyeing the 2008 nomination will follow John Edwards' example on Iraq?

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051117/what_we_know_now.php

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=96127;show_parent=1

http://planetmove.blogspot.com/

Thursday, November 17, 2005 Bush's breakdown

Michael Carmichael

In recent months, Planetary has received a lengthy and continuous stream of alarming reports concerning the mental health of President George Walker Bush, the 43rd President of the United States of America.

According to reports now swirling through the political community in Washington, President George Bush is suffering through a painful nervous breakdown that was triggered by an acute and recurring outbreak of alcoholism that struck him at the time of Hurricane Katrina.

Informed sources close to the Bush White House attest that the stricken president has become alienated from members of his own nuclear family. Reportedly, the President's relationship with his father has always been difficult, but now communications between Bush, Jr. and Bush, Sr. have come to a standstill. In published accounts, White House sources have confirmed that the afflicted President is no longer capable of speaking to the former President. Stilted and superficial communications between the father and his ailing son are now only possible on formal occasions.

The story published in America this week reports that in order to contain the truth about the President's illness, only a slender and increasingly fragile lifeline to his family has been maintained through his wife, Laura Lane Welch Bush, and his mother, Barbara Walker Bush. Apparently, the President is no longer capable of communicating on a daily basis with his headstrong and carefree daughters, Jenna and Barbara, both of whom have had their own problems with alcohol. The only other people granted access to the sick president are Condoleezza Rice and her deputy, Karen Hughes.

According to these reports, Rice may be functioning as the president at this time of crisis by making decisions on national security and foreign policy as well as the domestic agenda.

Rumors of the president's shattered psyche have been circulating in Washington's psychiatric community for months. More recently, the beltway's tightly knit political intelligentsia have been made aware of the darkening shadow now engulfing the unwell President. From Washington's legal community, Planetary has learned that there is now increasingly serious concern about the President's competence to hold his office.

Whether the White House's covert campaign to shore up the public image of the unpopular President during this dark period will contain the scandal or not remains to be seen.

Against strenuous efforts by the White House to keep the president's breakdown above top secret, the information has finally hit print in the Globe, a popular tabloid that has placed the story on the cover of the current edition dated 21st November. The Globe headline is: "Bush's Secret Breakdown (After Booze Binge): What the White House is hiding from America." According to reports published on the Democratic Underground, this edition of Globe is selling like hotcakes.

Sources:

The President's Secret Breakdown
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5343880#5343921

Washington Crisis - Failed and Dangerous Regime Clings to Power Report: Bush rarely speaks to father, ‘family is split’

TUE - 15 Nov - Bush Frying: Washington is all abuzz, just under the surface, with one story after another about an abandoned, isolated, betrayed, bunkering President. Add to this stories of drinking, raging, shouting... On sale at the check-out counter at Washington foodstores is The Globe with this unusual Bush's Secret Breakdown cover-story to the left. Other insider-websights have been carrying similar features from 'anonymous' sources for some time now. On Sunday the magazine associated with Washington's conservative Washington Times newspaper went with a lead story from which the following is quoted, the picture below used on the front page of the paper a few days before:

"President Bush feels betrayed by several of his most senior aides and advisors and has severely restricted access to the Oval Office, INSIGHT magazine claims in a new report. The president’s reclusiveness in the face of relentless public scrutiny of the U.S.-led war in Iraq and White House leaks regarding CIA operative Valerie Plame has become so extreme that Mr. Bush has also reduced contact with his father, former President George H.W. Bush, administration sources said on the condition of anonymity. “The atmosphere in the Oval Office has become unbearable,” a source said. “Even the family is split.” Sources close to the White House say that Mr. Bush has become isolated and feels betrayed by key officials in the wake of plunging domestic support, the continued insurgency in Iraq and the CIA-leak investigation that has resulted in the indictment and resignation of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff. The sources said Mr. Bush maintains daily contact with only four people: first lady Laura Bush, his mother, Barbara Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes. The sources also say that Mr. Bush has stopped talking with his father, except on family occasions."

http://blogwashington.com/!1.html


posted by Michael Carmichael @ 9:53 AM


Informant: NHNE

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/opinion/15tue1.html


Informant: NHNE

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

11/16/05

What kind of country is this? Not only does America use grotesque chemical weapons in its 'War of Liberation' -- in this case white phosphorus bombs that are as nasty as anything Saddam Hussein could have dreamt up, with the ability to eat their way into a body and liquefy flesh -- but our shameless leaders, when caught in the act, try to lie their way out of their own atrocious behavior. ... Countless civilians -- including women and children -- were cruelly burned to death (whether incidentally or in a deliberate attempt to terrorize scarcely matters) in the most agonizing of ways. Enemy fighters were killed through the use of weapons that have been outlawed by the civilized world -- a world that America can not claim to be a part of. American troops even have a term for the barbaric technique -- 'Shake and Bake'--clear evidence that this was no one-off affair...

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff11162005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Shake and Bake

The New York Times editorial today states that Americans are safer in a world in which certain forms of conduct are regarded as too inhumane even for war. That is why torture should be banned in American prisons. And it is why the United States should stop using white phosphorus.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112905M.shtml