DesMoinesRegister.com | Opinion: "Supporting the troops means using every resource available to speed the completion of their mission so they can come home."

DesMoinesRegister.com | Opinion: "If the benefit for seniors is really as good as politicians want America to believe, why isn't it good enough for lawmakers?
Congressman Fortney Stark of California observed, 'This bill says, 'We take care of our own, and to hell with the average American.' "

TOMPAINE.com - From The New York Times Best-seller: See No Evil: "On my BBC television show, Newsnight, an American journalist confessed that, since the 9/11 attacks, U.S. reporters are simply too afraid to ask the uncomfortable questions that could kill careers: 'It's an obscene comparison, but there was a time in South Africa when people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented. In some ways, the fear is that you will be neck-laced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck,' Dan Rather said. Without his makeup, Rather looked drawn, old and defeated in confessing that he too had given in. 'It's that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions and to continue to bore in on the tough questions so often.' "

BUSH LIED AND THOUSANDS DIED
Jihad Unspun - A Clear View On The US War On "Terrorism": "New information from remote locations of Iraq has pushed up the civilian death toll from the U.S.-led war by 500 in the last month to at least 6,000, an Anglo-American research group says. The Iraq Body Count's (IBC) latest figures, based on media reports and more than a dozen counting projects from independent investigators in and outside Iraq, put the minimum number of civilians dead at 6,055 and the maximum at 7,706"

the excuse du jour:
Yahoo! News - Rumsfeld: No New Iraq Weapons Evidence Before War: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Wednesday the United States did not go to war with Iraq (news - web sites) because of dramatic new evidence of banned weapons but because it saw existing information on Iraqi arms programs in a new light after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. "

well, DUH. what else should we have expected from liars, cheats and thieves.
2002 Federal Register Is Longest Ever (washingtonpost.com): "The Bush administration, philosophically wedded to the idea of smaller government, issued a record-high number of pages of new federal regulations last year, according to a study to be released today by the Cato Institute.
The libertarian think tank found that the Federal Register boasted 75,606 pages of federal regulations in 2002, up from a high of 74,528 pages in 2000, when President Bill Clinton was still in office. The surge is part of a decade-long rise in this crude index of federal regulatory activity, with the number of pages in the Federal Register increasing by 24 percent between 1993 and 2002."

dueling quotes comin up:
Yahoo! News - Dems Urge Probe of Iraqi Uranium Claim: "On June 8, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), too, had said on NBC's 'Meet the Press' that Bush was wrong when he said the British government had learned that Iraq had sought uranium from Africa to build weapons.
'No one in our circles knew that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be a forgery,' she said. 'Of course, it was information that was mistaken.' "

the voice of the grunt, david hackworth writes:

that's tellin 'em clark. :)
DesMoinesRegister.com | Opinion: "Bruce Fleming's June 27 letter, 'More Gun Owners Equals Less Gun Violence,' makes the statement that 'Guns are used 2.5 million times per year to defend life and home from criminals.'
The figure appears statistically impossible. If accurate, it would mean approximately one in 100 Americans - man, woman and child - would have used a firearm in the last year to defend their lives or property.
Yet a majority of Americans don't own a gun, much less use it annually to blast away at attackers. Translated to my town of 5,000, it would imply there were 50 such incidents of defensive shooting in the last year. I would have heard about such a wave of violence.
The only way the numbers work is if recreational hunting is included in the mix. Perhaps the source of the data has counted ducks, deer and other game in his definition of 'criminals.'
This sounds improbable, but it makes the statistic believable and is on a similar intellectual level to other arguments by the National Rifle Association and its supporters.
Clark Sheets,
Sheldon. "

t r u t h o u t - William Rivers Pitt | The Insiders Are Coming Out: "'As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know.'"

carolyn kay over at makethemaccountable points out all the good news lately. well, DUH. evil greed has that way of overbiting and choking on it.

republicons will say: yes sir, yes sir.
democrats will say: say WHAT?

To cut to the chase, we have just revealed a hole in the U.S. Electoral system through which you could drive a mack truck. The details follow below and are at the following two links… with pictures….

Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting Program

Story with, for the first time, a link to the full 40,000 files from the
Diebold ftp site

BRAAAH VO

New Page 1: "Fox gives misinformation.
Conservatives watch Fox.
Therefore, conservatives who follow the news closely are misinformed."

Go-Along First Lady Shows She Can Go It Alone: "But in a White House where senior staff members are commended for keeping their heads down and letting the president be the star"

Go-Along First Lady Shows She Can Go It Alone: "Laura Bush collected nearly $2 million last month at three fund-raisers for President Bush's re-election campaign, Bush-Cheney '04, and campaign officials expect her to appear at some 20 more."