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Protesters heckle Gonzales at Harvard reunion

by Geezer Power …8:28 PM PDT

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Student protesters, including one wearing a black hood and an orange jumpsuit, heckled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at Harvard on Saturday, forcing him to leave the law school’s 25th reunion through an emergency door, a witness said.
Raw Story April 28, 2007
Breaking News Alerts Gonzales was at the university [...]

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Forged Iraq Document Leads To Cheney!!

by- Suzie-Q @ 4:45 PM MDT

Raw Story
“the [forged] memo leads right back to the doorstep of the Vice President of the United States.”
A former CIA analyst claims that falsified documents which were meant to show that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein regime had been trying to procure yellowcake uranium from Niger can be traced back to [...]

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Posted by Basheert @ 3:57 PM MDT
A long article as usual, but Murray Waas does it again.
The Title “Secret Order by Gonzales Delegated Extraordinary Power to Aides”.
This Administration is done – toast. Stick a fork in it.

HERE

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Rice: Bush Would Oppose Iraq Benchmarks

by- Suzie-Q @ 1:43 PM MDT

HuffPo/AP
WASHINGTON — President Bush will not sign any war spending bill that penalizes Iraq’s government for failing to make progress, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday, a fresh warning to Congress about challenging him.
Bush is expected to veto a bill this week that would order U.S. troops to [...]

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Blind Faith~Can’t Find My Way Home

by Geezer Power …12:09:55 PM PDT

Blind Faith An excellent article by Christy Hardin Smith of firedoglake

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by- Geezer Power @ 9:56 AM PDT

The Stovepipe
by Seymour M. Hersh
October 27, 2003
Since midsummer, the Senate Intelligence Committee has been attempting to solve the biggest mystery of the Iraq war: the disparity between the Bush Administration’s prewar assessment of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and what has actually been discovered.
“The analysts at the C.I.A. were [...]

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Who We Have To Choose From

by- Actor212 @ 12:42 PM EDT
WASHINGTON – If the presidential candidates were living the life of their idle dreams, Rudolph Giuliani would be chattering in the announcer’s booth at Yankee Stadium while Bill Richardson plays centerfield.Barack Obama and Joe Biden would be designing houses and Sam Brownback tilling the fields back in Kansas.
Good grief.

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D.C. Madam Plans To Call Washington Clients To Testify

by- Suzie-Q @ 8:45 AM MDT

Photo- The Weekly Donut
ABC
The woman charged in a federal indictment with running a high-class Washington, D.C. call girl service says she plans to call her prominent clients to testify at her trial.
Jeane Palfrey, dubbed the D.C. Madam, says among those she will call to testify are Randall Tobias, who [...]

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Dennis Kucinich says “Impeach Dick Cheney”

by- Geezer Power @ 8:30 AM PDT

Kucinich launches oust-Cheney effort
By Tom Curry
National affairs writer
MSNBC
Updated: 4:14 p.m. PT April 24, 2007
WASHINGTON As Vice President Dick Cheney walked Tuesday into the Republican senators’ weekly policy luncheon, as he does nearly every Tuesday at noon, he looked as imperturbable and cryptic as ever.
No sign [...]

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Wolfowitz Wants $400k Before He Resigns From World Bank

by- Suzie-Q @ 8:14 AM MDT

Raw Story
Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is allegedly working to secure a $400,000 bonus due to him on June 1 before he resigns his position, according to the blog The Washington Note.
“Allegedly on June 1st, Wolfowitz becomes eligible for some large financial bonus — for performance and time [...]

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Democrats Consider Bush’s Impeachment Over Iraq

by- Suzie-Q @ 7:28 AM MDT

Raw Story/AFP
The impeachment threat is being dangled as the White House and congressional Democrats face a new showdown over Iraq policy in coming weeks.
A top US congressional Democrat has raised the possibility of George W. Bush’s impeachment in a bid to force the president to accept a compromise that [...]

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U.S. April Death Toll in Iraq Passes 100

by- Suzie-Q @ 6:44 AM MDT

HuffPo
BAGHDAD — Five U.S. troops were killed in separate attacks in the capital this weekend, including three in a single roadside bombing, the military said Monday, pushing the death toll past 100 in the deadliest month so far this year.
Both attacks occurred in eastern Baghdad, a predominantly Shiite area [...]

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George Galloways view of the situation in Iraq

by Geezer Power …8:01 PM PDT

George Galloway’s speech to Parliament, January 2007
A powerful speech highlighting the appalling situation in Iraq, and the pathetic handling of it by the British government: Ill-equipped troops, brutal treatment of civilians, and support for death squads: Welcome to democracy, Bush & Blair style!

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Tenet Strikes Back With New Book

by- Suzie-Q @ 6:53 PM MDT

Time/CNN
From George Tenet’s new book At the Center of the Storm
I first flew into Iraq just about the time Jerry Bremer took over as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, or CPA, during the third week of May 2003. I took a helicopter ride with Jerry right over [...]

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Iran To Attend Conference On Stabilizing Iraq

by- Suzie-Q @ 3:39 PM MDT

Reuters
Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:47PM EDT
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iran will attend a conference of key powers including the United States this week that will focus on stabilizing Iraq, a meeting Baghdad said might be a turning point for regional cooperation in easing the violence.
Iraq’s Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said [...]

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