McCain’s War Record Targeted

By- Suzie-Q @ 7:00 PM MST

Some on left target McCain’s war record
Political
By BEN SMITH | 6/30/08 4:54 AM EST
The highest-voltage third rail of this presidential campaign may not be race, [...]

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Report fans Iran attack fears

Sudhan @22:45 CET

By MARTIN SIEFF | UPI.com, July 1, 2008

WASHINGTON, July 1 (UPI) — U.S. officials have denied claims that U.S. Special Forces are already operating across the Iraqi border in Iran, but Seymour Hersh’s claim that senior U.S. generals are opposing American airstrikes against Iran reflects very real divisions in the Pentagon and the [...]

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McCain Backer’s Firm Pleaded Guilty To Funding Terrorist Group In Colombia

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:05 PM MST

McCain Backer’s Firm Pleaded Guilty To Funding Terrorist Group In Colombia
Huffington Post- Nico Pitney
July 2, 2008 03:07 AM

The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the [...]

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Afternoon Jukebox… Shake You Down

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:00 PM MST

Gregory Abbott- Shake You Down

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Vanity Fair’s Christopher Hitchens Underwent Waterboarding: “Believe Me, It’s Torture”

By- Suzie-Q @ 10:30 AM MST

Vanity Fair’s Christopher Hitchens Undergoes Waterboarding
Huffington Post- Jason Linkins
July 2, 2008 11:30 AM

Just in case the news that American torturers have been revealed to have taken their cues from that model of moral clarity that was the Chinese Communist regime hasn’t fully convinced you that the practice is unquestionably, [...]

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McCain Became ‘Visibly Angry’ When Asked If Military Experience Prepared Him To Be President

By- Suzie-Q @ 9:30 AM MST

McCain gets ‘visibly angry’ when challenged on whether military experience prepares him to be president
Think Progress
By Faiz at 10:39 am
ABC News’ David Wright reports that when he asked John McCain to “explain how his Vietnam experience prepared him for the presidency,” McCain “became visibly angry”:
McCain became visibly angry when I [...]

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Happy Oil Dependence Day

anthony @ 17:03 BST

Robert Scheer | Truthdig | 2nd July, 2008
As we head into the Fourth of July weekend of patriotic bluster and beer swilling—but before we are too besotted with ourselves—might we also for once consider our imperfections? Why not take a moment to heed the cautions of our founding father, George Washington, whose [...]

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We, the Salt of the Earth, Take Precedence

anthony @ 16:41 BST

Paul Craig Roberts | Lew Rockwell.com | Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Which country is the rogue nation? Iraq? Iran? Or the United States? Syndicated columnist Charley Reese asks this question in a recently published article.
Reese notes that it is the US that routinely commits “acts of aggression around the globe.” The US government [...]

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Poland On EU Lisbon Treaty…Fugghettaboutit!

GEF @ 5:08 AM MST

Polish president: Ratifying EU treaty ‘pointless’
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Ratifying the European Union’s reform treaty after Irish voters rejected it last month would be “pointless,” Poland’s president was quoted as saying Tuesday.
President Lech Kaczynski said that “for the time being, the question of the treaty is pointless,” according to an interview [...]

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