Common Dreams
by Joyce Marcel

11/16/05

The right-wingers may deserve what they get, but the fearful truth is that we are facing three more years with an incompetent and increasingly frantic Bush at the helm. He's already bankrupted the treasury and gotten us into an ugly war, making so many enemies for America that our children's children's children will still be threatened by them. Now he's in China, trying to start up another Cold War...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1116-33.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The American Prospect
by Greg Sargent

11/16/05

Does anybody remember Gerald Lechliter? In the home stretch of the 2004 presidential campaign, Lechliter, a retired army colonel from Delaware with a bit of spare time on his hands, wrote a 32-page analysis of George W. Bush's military records that showed that Bush had shirked his duty. Lechliter sent it to The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof, who wrote a column, 'Missing in Action,' that called Lechliter's missive 'the most meticulous examination I've seen of Mr. Bush's records.' Lechliter helped revive the story, and his analysis was subsequently cited in publications all over the country. Well, it turns out that Lechliter has done it again. And this time, he has trained his sights on the outing of Valerie Plame. Lechliter -- who claims 25 years experience in the intelligence field -- has penned a detailed analysis of the Plame affair, and Patrick Fitzgerald's duty as special counsel, that he has sent to Fitzgerald. He also sent a copy to the Prospect. Lechliter -- operating on his own time again -- did a close reading of the regulations governing both the proper treatment of classified information and the authority delegated to Fitzgerald. And what he came up with is worth a look -- after all, the credibility he earned when he broke ground on the story of Bush's records last year has earned him the right to another hearing...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=10625


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Human Events
by Terence P. Jeffrey

11/16/05

It was a powerful argument for war made by a politician with long years of experience in the White House. '[I]ntelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program,' said this national leader. '[I]f left unchecked,' the politician argued, 'Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capability to wage biological and chemical warfare and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well, affects American security. This much is undisputed,” declared this Democrat as she voted to authorize the war in Iraq. The question now is: Why did Sen. Hillary Clinton get it so wrong?

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10326


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Salon
by Sidney Blumenthal

11/17/05

Bush's adoption of the Ludendorff strategy of blaming weak politicians for military failure and exalting 'will' sets him at odds with liberal democracy. His understanding of history also clashes with the conservative tradition that acknowledges human fallibility and respects the past. Bush's presidency is an effort to defy history, not only in America, writing on the world as a blank slate...[subscription or ad view required]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/11/17/bush_history/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bush's Betrayal of History

Sidney Blumenthal writes that the turn in public opinion against Bush has been slowly considered and is therefore also firm. Now a majority believes his administration manipulated pre-war intelligence to lead the country into the Iraq war, and nearly two-thirds disapprove of how he has handled the war. His political capital appears spent with more than three years left in his term.

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

Five US Marines were killed in fighting with al-Qaida-led insurgents near the Syrian border, and an Army soldier died of wounds suffered in Baghdad. At least 2,077 US service members have now been killed since the beginning of the Iraq war in March of 2003. And in Washington, war protester Cindy Sheehan and several others pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of demonstrating without a permit outside the White House.

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



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Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) strongly criticized yesterday the White House's new line of attack against critics of its Iraq policy, saying that "the Bush administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and should not be demonized for disagreeing with them."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111605F.shtml

Just when the United States thought the transatlantic row over possible Central Intelligence Agency terrorist detention camps in Europe had blown over, the European Parliament followed the Council of Europe's decision to launch an investigation into the allegations by holding a rowdy debate on the issue Monday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111605D.shtml

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid delivered a statement today on the floor of the United States Senate raising early concerns about the Alito nomination.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111605B.shtml

(salon.com) In der ehemaligen Sklaven-Metropole New Orleans wird auch im 21. Jahrhundert diese dunkle Tradition weiter gepflegt: für das Aufräumen nach dem Hurrican wurden mexikanische Arbeiter importiert, die ohne Bezahlung die Schmutzarbeiten durchzuführen hatten. Das Geld - eine halbe Milliarde US-Dollar, die die Bushregierung hierfür angewiesen hatte - blieb beim Halliburton-Konzern Halliburton hatte seinem Ex-Chef Cheney noch lange nach seinem Amtsantritt als Vizepräsident Vergütungen überwiesen und diesen Auftrag wie andere milliardenschwere Regierungsaufträge wie gewohnt ohne Ausschreibung erhalten.

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