This was fun!

Go here and take this quiz!
Where do you stand on the issues?
How close does your stand come to your favorite Presidential candidate?
These were my results:

Iddybud's Results:

1. Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat (99%)
2. Kucinich, Cong. Dennis, OH - Democrat (93%)
3. Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (80%)
4. Sharpton, Reverend Al - Democrat (79%)
5. Gephardt, Cong. Dick, MO - Democrat (72%)
6. Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat (71%)
7. Lieberman Senator Joe CT - Democrat (69%)
8. Libertarian Candidate (67%)
9. Moseley-Braun, Former Senator Carol IL - Democrat (67%)
10. Graham, Senator Bob, FL - Democrat (58%)
11. Bush, George W. - US President (31%)
12. Phillips, Howard - Constitution (12%)
13. LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. - Democrat (0%)

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Something's Got To "Give"--- and Bush Certainly Isn't Going to Offer to Step Down


Letter to the Editor / Boston Globe
Give Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz the boot

Today's News Headlines from Democracy Circles.org
*"Democracy* isn't done alone in front of the television."*


CNN - Current List of Casualties in the Iraq War

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/

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Reuters - Iraq civilian body count passes 6,000

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=335889

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t r u t h o u t - How to Rig an American Election

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml#article2

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What Really Happened : The History the Government Hopes You Don't Learn

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

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TOMPAINE.com - The Insiders Are Coming Out by William Rivers Pitt

http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/8284

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National Review - Scandal!: Bush’s enemies aren't telling the truth about what he said by Clifford D. May

http://www.nationalreview.com/may/may071103.asp
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AlterNet - A Diplomat's Undiplomatic Truth by Robert Scheer

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16345

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Christian Science Monitor - Media feels the press by Sara B. Miller

http://search.csmonitor.com/search_content/0710/dailyUpdate.html

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Boston Globe - Bush and Rice say CIA cleared Bush's State of the Union speech

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/192/world/Bush_and_Rice_say_CIA_cleared_:.shtml

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Newsday - Franks: We’re Here for Years

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usfran113368129jul11,0,4847467.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines
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Guerrilla News Network - Eli Lily Rules by Jim Lobe

http://www.guerrillanews.com/sci-tech/doc2357.html

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Sydney Morning Herald - Beijing cadres scramble to assess HK crisis

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/11/1057783356399.html

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PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THIS ONE--OUR DEMOCRACY IS BEING GREATLY UNDERMINED!

Chicago Tribune - WTO Rules That U.S. Steel Duties Illegal

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-wto-us-steel,1,7129716.story?coll=chi-business-hed

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Al From and Bruce Reed are, like, sooooooooo yesterday! Sorry to have to say it, but it's true! John Kerry, too. They tell us to get over Selection 2000....and Howard Dean is the way we're getting over, already! Wake up, DLC!

From the Washington Post article "Among Democrats, The Energy Seems To Be on the Left"

"....the left's energy is also a reflection of discontent with the party's Clinton-era leadership. Off the record, many on the left agree with one Democratic organizer who mused recently: "In some ways, Bill Clinton was the worst thing that could have happened to the Democratic Party" because he largely silenced the party's left and enervated efforts to build the party's base.

That sentiment is manifesting itself in a barrage of criticism aimed at the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, which was closely associated with Clinton's 1992 election. For years, DLC founder Al From and his associates have preached that "Old Democrat" liberalism equals landslide defeats. "The New Democrat formula is the only one to win in three decades," From said recently. Earlier this year, he and DLC President Bruce Reed -- who served as Clinton's chief domestic policy adviser for eight years -- fired off a broadside accusing Dean of being an "elitist" from the "McGovern-Mondale wing" of the party and warning that he would lead the party to disaster if he wins the nomination.

Instead of sinking, Dean surged...."

John Kerry and Howard Dean have allegedly been using this line: (article here)
"...Kerry recalled Bill Clinton's words that voters in 2004 "would rather vote for someone who is strong and wrong versus weak and right", a line that Dean has used regularly since February..."

Personally, I think that line should be dumped--pronto. If we want someone strong and damn wrong, we already have the nincompoop...he was given the Oval Office by a majority of one--one Justice's opinion tipped the undemocratic scale-- in 2000.
What's wrong with strong and right, anyhow? Are our leaders so insecure about fallibility that they can't even go with the word "right" from the get-go? We don't want another wrong-headed Bushlite.



**From the blogs, read this recent entry from Toby's Political Diary - 'Let it Begin Here'
SEE: Howard Dean and the Democrats

I was appalled when I heard now-retired Gen Tommy Franks defend and boldly repeat Bush's "Bring 'em on" Texas-schoolboy taunt. I respect him far less now because of it. He really lowered himself.

From Democrats.com:

Tommy Franks Says 10-25 Attacks a Day on U.S. Troops in Iraq -- But He and Bush Want More

From Reuters: "U.S. troops in Iraq face 10 to 25 attacks a day, partly because they are hunting for Baathists, 'jihadists' and fighters crossing the border from Syria, Gen. Tommy Franks, who ran the war against Baghdad, said on Thursday. Franks, who stepped down recently as head of U.S. Central Command and will soon retire, told the House Armed Services Committee that 'on a given day, there will be somewhere between 10 and 25 violent incidents' in Iraq where 148,000 U.S. troops are located." But this isn't enough for Tommy-gun -- he seconded Bush's 'Bring 'Em On' the other day. And the specter of guerilla war is raised. "Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri, the senior Democrat on the panel, said if the current pattern were left unchecked, the United States may find itself 'in the throes of guerrilla warfare for years.'"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39523-2003Jul10.html

From Howard Dean Weblog:

Dean Says Those Who Misled Nation Should Resign

Click here to add your name to a petition demanding that those responsible for misleading the American people resign. Let others know about the petition by telling them about this link: http://www.deanforamerica.com/truth

Manchester, NH -- Governor Howard Dean issued the following statement today:

"Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's statement yesterday -- that he only found out that the Niger
documents were forgeries --within recent days was stunning.
What is now clear is that there are those in this administration that misled the President,
misled the nation, and misled the world in making the case for the war in Iraq.
They know who they are. And they should resign today.
There will be investigations, and the truth will come out - the American people must know the truth -
and those in this administration must be held accountable for their failure to give us the truth before we went to war.
But we do not need to wait for the investigations to rid these people from our government -
they can resign on their own today.
I am now convinced more than ever that it was a mistake to have given this administration a
blank check to engage in this war -
as too many in Congress did when they supported the Iraqi war resolution."

Investors Pull Out of Markets

and....
"The weekly report on claims for jobless benefits showed the lines of the newly-unemployed grew by about 5,000 people last week to 439,000 and the total number of people drawing benefits hit 3.8 million -- the highest in 20 years."

Great job on the economy, Dubs.

Bush Knew Iraq Info Was False!
WASHINGTON, July 10, 2003

"Senior administration officials tell CBS News the President’s mistaken claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa was included in his State
of the Union address -- despite objections from the CIA.

Before the speech was delivered, the portions dealing with Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction were checked with the CIA for accuracy, reports CBS
News National Security Correspondent David Martin.

CIA officials warned members of the President’s National Security Council staff the intelligence was not good enough to make the flat statement Iraq
tried to buy uranium from Africa.

The White House officials responded that a paper issued by the British government contained the unequivocal assertion: “Iraq has ... sought
significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” As long as the statement was attributed to British Intelligence, the White House officials argued,
it would be factually accurate. The CIA officials dropped their objections and that’s how it was delivered.

“The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa,” Mr. Bush said.

The statement was technically correct, since it accurately reflected the British paper. But the bottom line is the White House knowingly included
in a presidential address information its own CIA had explicitly warned might not be true."

More of this breaking story at:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/25/iraq/main560449.shtml

Hell, no, George didn't go.





George Wins the Lottery
Hustler, September 2003


George Bush said--2 days before ordering our troops into Iraq--
"There's no certainty in war but the certainty of sacrifice."

That is true, unless your name is Bush and your Poppy has lots of bribe money and enough influence to get some other poor schlepp to take your place in Sacrifice alley. Greg Palast has uncovered another Bush family lie. Do these people EVER tell the truth about anything?

Watch the skies tonight!



see link

Dear God....

"Up to 800 possibly dead"



10/07/2003 19:30 - (SA)

Chandpur, Bangladesh - Hopes were fading on Thursday of finding hundreds of people missing after a ferry sank in a Bangladesh river, as lashing rains and strong currents brought rescue operations to a near standstill....."

The number feared lost is over half of the number lost on the Titanic.
It didn't even make the headlines of the American network news. What is wrong with American journalism? Have they lost their souls? Have we lost ours?

How We Know the Ground is Beginning to Open Under Bush's Feet...and Soon He Will Sink into



the Land of Liar's Consequences

GW Bush:
"There's going to be, you know, a lot of attempts to try to rewrite
history, and I can understand that. But I'm absolutely confident in
the decision I made."
Excerpt from this article


Bush now realizes how history will portray him. He's already defending a history which will someday prove him to be the President who tried to revise history first, the accuse others of doing it later.

Why is John Kerry Telling Us To "Get Over" Selection 2000 (see Buzzflash reader's commentary) When The Stolen Election Is Still In the News? (see July 9th Daily Business Review)

U.S. authorities need to move quickly to either set up a national security system run by Iraqis or bring in international peacekeeping troops from other nations, possibly including Muslim countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh
U.S. Military Scholars Warn of Wider Iraqi Insurgency

``If U.S. forces are still there a year from now, individuals who suggest the United States is there for bad motives will feel more comfortable stirring up problems,'' said W. Andrew Terrill, research professor at the Carlisle, Pa.-based War College's Strategic Studies Institute.

``Even the (Shi'ites) are saying you need to think about leaving, and they're the ones we're getting along with at the moment,'' he added.

SUMMER FUN

SEARCHING FOR A TRUE AMERICAN HERO

RE: Global Internet network Terra Lycos as seen in the Washington Times:

"Politics is wiggling its way up the charts, however, as searches for Vermont Gov. Howard Dean,
a Democratic presidential contender, are up by 250 percent."

Do You Care Enough?



Indifference is evil's bodyguard. Without it, evil would have to do a much better job of hiding.

Wrestling for the Truth of 9/11

Editorial from today's NY Times: (Note the use of the word "allergic" in the first sentence. Well-done.)

"The Bush administration, long allergic to the idea of investigating the government's failure to prevent the Sept. 11 terror attacks, is now doing
its best to bury the national commission that was created to review Washington's conduct. That was made plain yesterday in a muted way by
Thomas Kean, the former New Jersey governor, and Lee Hamilton, the former congressman, who are directing the inquiry. When these seasoned,
mild-mannered men start complaining that the administration is trying to intimidate the commission, the country had better take notice.

In a status report on its work, the commission said various agencies — particularly the Pentagon and the Justice Department — were blocking requests for vital information and resources. Acting more like the Soviet Kremlin than the American government, the administration has insisted that monitors from various agencies attend debriefings of key officials by investigators. Mr. Kean is quite correct in objecting to this as a thinly veiled attempt at intimidation. Meanwhile, the clock is running for the commission to complete a full report to the nation by next May. Too polite to use the word "stonewalling," the bipartisan commission nevertheless warned the nation that thus far the administration had "underestimated the scale of the commission's work and the full breadth of support required."

The White House has repeatedly pledged cooperation while stressing the delicacy of protecting classified secrets. There are techniques and precedents for the commission to be extended access to critical information without compromising security. Two serious areas of dispute that should be quickly settled in the commission's favor are access to the minutes of National Security Council meetings and to the daily briefing memorandums prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for President Bush.

Mr. Kean assumed the chairmanship after questions were raised about potential conflicts of interest for the White House's initial choice, Henry Kissinger. "The coming weeks will determine whether we will be able to do our job," the commission warned in prodding the administration to protect the nation's future security as passionately as it clings to its past secrets.

THIS WON'T FLY! WE CANNOT ALLOW OUR PRESIDENT TO TAKE US TO WAR ON THE WINGS OF A LIE AND THEN SAY TO TRUST HIM--"HE HAD NO DOUBT IT WAS RIGHT."

FROM NY TIMES ARTICLE: "Saying he had "no doubt" that the United States was right to invade Iraq, President Bush today brushed aside the controversy over his use of faulty pre-war intelligence that said Saddam Hussein had tried to purchase uranium from Africa.

"I am confident that Saddam Hussein had a weapons-of-mass-destruction program," Mr. Bush said during a news conference in Pretoria, South Africa, his second stop on a five-nation tour through sub-Saharan Africa.

OH, NO. NO. WE'RE NOT SO CONFIDENT. NOT AFTER ALL THESE LIES.

BY THE WAY, HOW QUICKLY BUSH'S MACHO-WORDS TURNED AROUND FROM PRE-WAR STATEMENTS ABOUT SADDAM HUSSEIN'S IMMINENT THREAT TO AMERICA WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND HIS LAME TURNAROUND TO "I'M CONFIDENT SADDAM HAD A WMD PROGRAM".

FRANKLY, I'M TIRED OF BEING PLAYED WITH.
I'LL BET YOU ARE, TOO. WAR ISN'T A PLAYGROUND.

WE NEED TO WRITE TO OUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES TODAY-- TELL THEM HOW WE FEEL ABOUT THE LIES WE'VE BEEN FED.
Go here. See "TAKE ACTION-"Where Are The Weapons of Mass Destruction?"




Senator Rick Santorum sounded like an apologist extraorinaire when he said:

"Obviously, when you use foreign intelligence, you — we don't have necessarily as much confidence or as much reliability as you do your own," Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, said on Tuesday. "It has since turned out to be, at least according to the reports that have been just released, not true. The president stepped forward and said so. I think that's all you can expect."

IF IT HAD BEEN SO OBVIOUS, SENATOR SANTORUM, WHY DID THE PRESIDENT (FOR WHOM YOU ARE COVERING) STATE IT WITH SUCH CONFIDENCE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS?

BUSH'S LIES HAVE CAUSED THOUSANDS TO DIE....MANY OF THEM OUR OWN BELOVED TROOPS.

*And you thought Bill Clinton's lie about having relations with "that woman" was offensive?
I've never witnessed such hypocrisy!
How long will the American public stay asleep?
It's utter madness to stand for these lies.