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War of ErrorHow Osama bin Laden Beat George W. BushBy Peter Bergen, New America FoundationThe New Republic | October 22, 2007 To understand the terror network’s resurgence -- and its continued ability to harm us -- we need to reexamine all the ways in which the administration has failed to crush it.Omar bin Laden, the fourth son of the Al Qaeda leader, cuts a striking figure. In one photo, he

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Foreign Fighters in Iraq Are Tied to Allies of U.S. Saudi Arabia and Libya, both considered allies by the United States in its fight against terrorism, were the source of about 60 percent of the foreign fighters who came to Iraq in the past year to serve as suicide bombers or to facilitate other attacks, according to senior American military officials.The data come largely from a trove of

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Rice: Iraq War 'Worth the Sacrifice' - washingtonpost.comSecretary of State Condoleezza Rice this morning asked Americans "to be patient" as the war in Iraq entered its fifth year, acknowledging early missteps in the conflict but saying "it is worth the sacrifice" to have toppled former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.With a new security plan underway and more American troops deployed to help dampen

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The Problem, in A Fundamental Nutshell: 'Is Your Baby Gay?'By Lynne DukeWashington Post Staff WriterSunday, March 18, 2007; Page D01Pity the poor fetus. There's a lot coming its way. And now there's talk on a conservative evangelical blog of a hypothetical hormone patch that an expectant mother might wear to eradicate her fetus's natural gayness.The patch, the biological determinism: It's all

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The SubstanceAs the military scrambles to pour more soldiers into Iraq, a unit of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga., is deploying troops with serious injuries and other medical problems, including GIs who doctors have said are medically unfit for battle. Some are too injured to wear their body armor, according to medical records.On Feb. 15, Master Sgt. Jenkins and 74 other

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File this under buried leads:That was December 2001. Only two months later, Bush decided to pull out most of the special operations troops and their CIA counterparts in the paramilitary division that were leading the hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan to prepare for war in Iraq, said Flynt L. Leverett, then an expert on the Middle East at the National Security Council."I was appalled when I

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The SubtanceABC's docudrama "The Path to 9/11" is a false version of history. It popularizes right-wing myths by exaggerating Clinton's failures and Bush's successes, depicting events that never happened.http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/09/08/path_to_9_11/print.htmlThe Sept. 11 that never wasBy Joe ConasonSep. 08, 2006 | It would be uplifting to believe, as the producers of ABC's "The

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The SubtanceLet me start by saying that "The Path to 9/11" is one of the best, most intelligent, most pro-American miniseries I've ever seen on TV, and conservatives should support it and promote it as vigorously as possible.This is the first Hollywood production I’ve seen that honestly depicts how the Clinton administration repeatedly bungled the capture of Osama Bin Laden. One astonishing

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The SubtanceThe US last week imposed sanctions on two Russian firms for allegedly passing on equipment to Iran that could be used to develop weapons of mass destruction. Five other firms in North Korea, India and Cuba were also penalised.A state department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the sanctions were imposed after the US obtained "credible information" that the companies

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The SubtanceWith violence boiling in the Middle East and his party's control of Congress up for grabs in elections this fall, Bush is forgoing his typical monthlong break from the White House. Instead, he planned to spend 10 days in Crawford, Texas, before returning to work in Washington _ his shortest summer vacation since taking office.Are we supposed to be impressed that he's only taking two

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The SubtanceTwo top Pentagon commanders said Thursday that spiraling violence in Baghdad could propel Iraq into outright civil war, using a politically loaded term that the Bush administration has long avoided. Aug. 3, 2006, 6:10PMPentagon generals warn of Iraq civil warBy ANNE PLUMMER FLAHERTY Associated Press Writer© 2006 The Associated PressWASHINGTON — Two top Pentagon commanders said

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The SubtanceIn a statement which appears to have taken the Bush administration by surprise, Iraq's President has told a news conference today that US led forces will be out of his country by the end of the year.President Jalal Talabani's announcement comes less than a week after US President George W. Bush met Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri Maliki, and agreed to strengthen the US military presence

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The SubtancePresident George W. Bush said on Thursday he was not surprised by a video from al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahri exhorting Muslims to "fight and become martyrs" in response to the conflict in Lebanon.Pick your parallel:"Bring 'em on.""So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you.""What we're seeing here, in a sense,

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The SubtanceHalf of Americans now say Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the United States invaded the country in 2003 -- up from 36 percent last year, a Harris poll finds. Pollsters deemed the increase both "substantial" and "surprising" in light of persistent press reports to the contrary in recent years.50 percent of U.S. says Iraq had WMDsBy Jennifer HarperTHE WASHINGTON TIMESPublished

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The SubtanceThe Bush administration acknowledged yesterday that it had long known about Pakistan's plans to build a large plutonium-production reactor, but it said the White House was working to dissuade Pakistan from using the plant to expand its nuclear arsenal."We discourage military use of the facility," White House spokesman Tony Snow said of a powerful heavy-water reactor under construction

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The SubtanceBombs killed two worshippers at mosques in Iraq during Friday prayers and the authorities extended a daytime curfew on Baghdad after one of the bloodiest weeks this year.On the eve of a high-profile meeting intended to demonstrate reconciliation among sectarian and ethnic factions ahead of a White House visit by the prime minister, senior leaders admitted to despair about the chances

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The SubtanceThere's never been a global war on terror. It's a sham, a ruse. When the media and our political class accepted the war frame, the hawks got a blank check. Everything that followed -- invasions, illegal surveillance and prisoners held in limbo, are all expected during times of war. Once we went to "war," resisting those policies became an uphill fight. War talk justifies powerful

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The SubtancePresident Bush himself blocked an internal Justice Department inquiry into the administration's decision to eavesdrop on domestic phone calls without a warrant from a judge, as required by a 1978 law. President Bush started the domestic surveillance program in the belief that his wartime powers and a resolution passed by Congress after Sept. 11 gave him the right to sidestep the law

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The SubtanceThe Bush administration’s program of financing social service initiatives run by religiously affiliated groups lacks adequate safeguards against religious discrimination and has yet to measure the performance of the groups, a new Congressional report says. [I]n looking at 10 federal programs, the researchers found that only four gave an explicit statement to religious organizations

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The SubtanceIT WAS a stark admission of helplessness from the leader of the world's only super power.With Israeli jets bombing Beirut airport and Hezbollah rockets landing in Haifa, Israel's third-largest city, the US President was asked what he could do to stop the fighting escalating.Standing beside the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, at a press conference in Rostock before he left for the G8

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The SubtanceMembers of Congress from both parties are concerned that runaway costs threaten to weaken the armed forces as higher price tags mean they can afford fewer weapons. Cost overruns have long been a Pentagon staple. But what has alarmed government oversight agencies and Pentagon observers, and spurred Congress to act, is the magnitude of the spending increases. Projects are as much as 50

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The SubtanceIt’s a lot worse over here [in Iraq] than is reported. The administration does a great job of managing the news. You can only manage the news to a certain degree. It is certainly hard to hide the fact that in the third year of this war, Iraqis are only getting electricity for about 5 to 10 percent of the day. Living conditions have gotten so much worse, violence is at an even higher

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The SubtanceThe federal government will pay a Texas law school $1 million to do research aimed at rolling back the amount of sensitive data available to the press and public through freedom-of-information requests. Beginning this month, St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio will analyze recent state laws that place previously available information, such as site plans of power plants,

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The SubtanceChildren of same-sex couples benefit when their parents are able to marry or form civil unions, according to a report commissioned by the American Academy of Pediatrics."The Effects of Marriage, Civil Union and Domestic Partnership Laws on the Health and Well-Being of Children," published Wednesday in the July issue of Pediatrics, concluded that civil marriage can strengthen families

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The SubtanceA federal judge ruled today that Republicans cannot replace former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on the ballot for the 22nd Congressional District race. U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks, a Republican appointee, ruled that DeLay must appear on the Nov. 7 ballot as the GOP nominee for the congressional seat that DeLay abandoned last month.Sparks ruling halts the process of replacing DeLay on the

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The SubtanceFollowing a recent string of alleged atrocities by U.S. troops against Iraqi civilians, leaders from across Iraq's political spectrum called Wednesday for a review of the U.S.-drafted law that prevents prosecution of coalition forces in Iraqi courts. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told reporters during a visit to Kuwait that "the immunity given to members of coalition forces

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The SubtanceAs the apparent victor in Mexico's presidential election switched back and forth Thursday morning, ballots were found in two garbage dumps, RAW STORY has learned. Although official tallies indicated a victory for Calderуn of 0.3%, the Mexican newspaper El Universal reported that 10 ballot boxes and a polling station report were found in a garbage dump in a poor neighbourhood in Mexico

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The SubtanceEager to salvage conservatism from the wreckage of conservative rule, right-wing pundits are furiously blaming right-wing politicians for failing to adhere to right-wing convictions.Conservative dissidents seem to have done an admirable job of persuading each other of the truth of their claims. Of course, many of these dissidents extolled the president's conservative leadership when

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The SubtanceAlthough it could be a couple months before Sunday's national election is decided, [conservative] Felipe Calderón is acting pretty presidential, talking about schmoozing with the divided Congress and tackling Mexico's immigration problem.Confusion arose Monday when López Obrador began referring to 2 million to 3 million "missing" ballots. In reality, those were set aside because of "'

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The SubtanceThe U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court. The suit alleges that the three carriers, the NSA and President George W. Bush violated the Telecommunications Act of 1934 and the U.S. Constitution, and seeks money

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The Subtance[T]he U.S. Strategic Command, supported by the Air Force, has been drawing up plans, at the President’s direction, for a major bombing campaign in Iran.Inside the Pentagon, senior commanders have increasingly challenged the President’s plans, according to active-duty and retired officers and officials. The generals and admirals have told the Administration that the bombing campaign

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The SubtanceAn Army document proves that Guantánamo interrogators were taught by instructors from a military school that trains U.S. soldiers how to resist torture.Torture teachersAn Army document proves that Guantánamo interrogators were taught by instructors from a military school that trains U.S. soldiers how to resist torture.By Mark BenjaminJun. 29, 2006 | Human rights advocates have long

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The SubtanceBush's Mideast policies have turned a brutal terrorist into an icon of resistance -- and made violent fundamentalism more popular.The Zarqawi effectBush's Mideast policies have turned a brutal terrorist into an icon of resistance -- and made violent fundamentalism more popular.By Juan ColeJun. 27, 2006 | Whatever the meaning of the killing of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

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The SubtancePakistan today flayed US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for her comments that Washington expected the military-backed government to hold next year's general elections in a free and fair manner, saying no advice was required on the country's democratic process. Rice has no right "to interfere with Pakistan's political system," [Spokesperson of the Pakistan Foreign Office Tasnim]

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The ReminderArticle III Sec 2The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their AuthorityThe SubtanceThe Supreme Court today delivered a stunning rebuke to the Bush administration over its plans to try Guantanamo detainees before military commissions, ruling that

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The SubtanceDemocrats ratcheted up their election-year push for an increase in the federal minimum wage Tuesday by promising to block a congressional pay hike unless some of the lowest-paid hourly workers get their first raise in nearly a decade.Reid refused to spell out exactly how he will block a $3,300 pay raise scheduled for January 1 for members of Congress, who currently earn $165,200

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The SubtanceThe Bush administration gave its backing on Tuesday to a United Nations conference on curtailing the international flow of illegal arms, but warned delegates against adopting measures that would restrict individual possession of weapons. The two-week conference, which began Monday, is intended to improve ways of curbing the $1 billion black market in the manufacture and distribution

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The SubtanceThe amendment approved by 76 percent of voters was much longer than the question that appeared on the ballot. The question read:Shall the Constitution be amended so as to provide that this state shall recognize as marriage only the union of man and woman?Here's what was added to the state constitution:Paragraph I. Recognition of marriage.(a) This state shall recognize as marriage only

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Okay, that's probably not specifically true. But it's clear that the Secretary of State's office is being used to harass gays and lesbians.Joan and Vicki Bagnell married two years ago and took a new last name that now appears on their licenses and Social Security cards. But in January, as the couple planned a trip to Turks and Caicos, they applied for passports and were denied.A spokeswoman for

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The Subtance News reports disclosing the Bush administration's use of a special bank surveillance program to track terrorist financing spurred outrage in the White House and on Capitol Hill, but some specialists pointed out yesterday that the government itself has publicly discussed its stepped-up efforts to monitor terrorist finances since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.But a search of public

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The SubtanceThe Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Arlen Specter, said yesterday that he is ``seriously considering" filing legislation to give Congress legal standing to sue President Bush over his use of signing statements to reserve the right to bypass laws.But a lawyer for the administration, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Michelle Boardman, testified that Bush has shown Congress respect

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Not really news, but a Paster responds to criticism he took for a pro gay marriage stance he took in the the Springfield, MO, News-Leader. It's good to see liberal people of faith start to "come out" of their closets too.Whatever the modern critics' reasons for condemning homosexuality, it has nothing to do with scripture. Jesus was the great teacher of compassion. Religious folk need to embody

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The SubtanceThe number of displaced people in Iraq has swelled by 150,000 since the bombing of a Shiite shrine in February pushed the country to the brink of civil war, a United Nations agency said on Tuesday."It is estimated that 1.3 million individuals are displaced inside Iraq, nearly 5 percent of the country's total population," said a [U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq] statement.Iraq

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The SubtanceA 15-month inquiry by a top House Democrat has found that enforcement of the nation's food and drug laws declined sharply during the first five years of the Bush administration.The research found no evidence that such declines could be attributed to increased compliance with regulations. Investigators at the F.D.A. continued to uncover about the same number of problems at drug and

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The SubtanceIn response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the Department of Defense has released documents that show wider surveillance of student organizations than previously reported, the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network has reported.On April 11th PageOneQ reported that the Pentagon had admitted to conducting surveillance of groups protesting the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell

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The SubtanceIs the United States winning the war on terror? Not according to more than 100 of America’s top foreign-policy hands. They see a national security apparatus in disrepair and a government that is failing to protect the public from the next attack. A bipartisan majority (84 percent) of the index’s experts say the United States is not winning the war on terror. Eighty-six percent of the

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The Subtanceresident Bush on Monday sharply condemned the disclosure of a program to secretly monitor the financial transactions of suspected terrorists. "The disclosure of this program is disgraceful," he said."For people to leak that program and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States of America," Bush said, jabbing his finger for emphasis. He said the disclosure of

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The SubtanceWith the heat soaring and the overtaxed and dilapidated power grid squeezing out barely a few hours of electricity a day in parts of the capital, sweaty Iraqis will remember this as the fourth simmering summer of their discontent.According to the U.S. State Department, Iraq this month met its electricity production goals for the first time since last summer. But the power supply still

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The SubtanceThe Iraqi government declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew Friday after insurgents set up roadblocks in central Baghdad and opened fire on U.S. and Iraqi troops outside the heavily fortified Green Zone.Throughout the morning, Iraqi and U.S. military forces clashed with attackers armed with rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades and rifles in busy Haifa Street, which

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The SubtanceUnder a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records from a vast international database and examined banking transactions involving thousands of Americans and others in the United States, according to government and industry officials. The program is limited, government officials say,

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The SubtanceAfghan President Hamid Karzai urged the international community to reassess its approach to the war on terror Thursday, saying the deaths of hundreds of Afghans in fighting with U.S.-led forces was "not acceptable." A clearly frustrated Karzai said the approach being taken by coalition forces to hunt down militants does not focus on the roots of terrorism itself.Karzai Urges New

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The SubtanceSpeaking at a late afternoon press conference, Michigan Rep. Pete Hoekstra, Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, spoke with Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. They claimed that 500 chemical weapons shells allegedly containing degraded sarin or mustard gas have been recovered by coalition forces since 2003, and that other filled and unfilled munitions have been

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The SubtanceMiddle-class neighborhoods, long regarded as incubators for the American dream, are losing ground in cities across the country, shrinking at more than twice the rate of the middle class itself. In their place, poor and rich neighborhoods are both on the rise, as cities and suburbs have become increasingly segregated by income, according to a Brookings Institution study released

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The SubtanceHouse Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) made a $2 million profit last year on the sale of land 5 1/2 miles from a highway project that he helped to finance with targeted federal funds.A Republican House member from California, meanwhile, received nearly double what he paid for a four-acre parcel near an Air Force base after securing $8 million for a planned freeway interchange 16

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The SubtanceHouse leaders abruptly canceled a vote to renew the 1965 Voting Rights Act yesterday after rank-and-file Republicans revolted over provisions that require bilingual ballots in many places and continued federal oversight of voting practices in Southern states. The intensity of the complaints, raised in a closed meeting of GOP lawmakers, surprised Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and

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The SubtanceThe United States military is quietly carrying out the largest military offensive in Afghanistan since U.S. troops invaded the country in 2001. "The Taliban has made a comeback, and we have the next 90 days to crush them," said a senior U.S. military official.The offensive, "Operation Mountain Thrust," involves almost 11,000 U.S. troops and is focused on four southern Afghanistan

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The SubtanceWorld oil prices could triple if the West's stand-off over Iran's nuclear programme escalates into conflict, the Saudi Arabian government has warned. The Saudi ambassador to the US, Prince Turki Al-Faisal, said such an event could send prices spiralling from their current level of about $70 per barrel. Iran war 'could triple oil price'World oil prices could triple if the West's

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The SubtanceAfter all the reports of corporate crimes and contract abuses inIraq and Afghanistan -- including the recent revelation by Halliburton Watch that Halliburton and its KBR subsidiary knowingly exposed thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq to hazardous levels of unhealthy water from the Euphrates River, including human fecal matter -- the Senate was offered an opportunity on Tuesday to

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The SubtanceA Canadian researcher says a conservative U.S. religious group has "hijacked" her research on lesbian teen suicide to support its beliefs. Dr. Elizabeth Saewyc, an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, said Monday that Focus on the Family is incorrectly blaming an increased rate of suicide attempts on "pro-gay advocates" who tell lesbians they were born gay and

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The SubtanceThe topic was the largest defense procurement scandal in recent decades, and the two investigators for the Pentagon's inspector general in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's office on April 1, 2005, asked the secretary to raise his hand and swear to tell the truth. Rumsfeld agreed but complained. "I find it strange," he said to the investigators, on the grounds that as a

JimGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11005101.post-1150749512170497302006-06-19T16:38:00.000-04:002006-06-19T16:38:32.720-04:00

The SubtanceWALLACE: We want to talk about your new job, but let's start with the serious news out of Iraq. What can you tell us about those two missing American soldiers and how closely is the president following the search?SNOW: Everybody's following it carefully. We've just been in contact with Baghdad and there's no news. Two soldiers obviously missing. There are efforts under way to try to

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The SubtanceThe Pentagon prepared to fight the wrong war: a short war over weapons of mass destruction that would end with Iraqis celebrating their liberation. One month before the war, for example, the Army had on hand at least two chemical-bio protective suits for every soldier it would send into Iraq, the Government Accountability Office later documented. They sat unneeded. The WMD never

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The SubtanceHours before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Monday to the Green Zone in Baghdad for an upbeat assessment of the situation there, the U.S. Embassy in Iraq painted a starkly different portrait of increasing danger and hardship faced by its Iraqi employees. This cable, marked "sensitive" and obtained by The Washington Post, outlines in spare prose the daily-worsening

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The SubtanceThe Bush administration, which is vowing to crack down on U.S. companies that hire illegal workers, virtually abandoned such employer sanctions before it began pushing to overhaul U.S. immigration laws last year, government statistics show. Between 1999 and 2003, work-site enforcement operations were scaled back 95 percent by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which

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The SubtanceUnder United Nations rules, Latin American governments are entitled to pick a country from the region to fill the rotating seat that comes open next year. Venezuela has been campaigning for the post. But the Bush administration is urging Latin American countries to vote for a U.S. ally, Guatemala, instead, warning that the populist government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez cannot

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The SubtanceEffective Date: June 23, 2006 Information we CollectBilling/User Information. Includes information about your Services and account such as, Transaction Information, charges you have incurred (whether recurring or one-time), payments you have made, your Social Security number and/or credit card information, passwords and usernames. It also includes level of service (e.g., package

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The SubtancePeople in European and Muslim countries see US policy in Iraq as a bigger threat to world peace than Iran's nuclear programme, a survey has shown. The survey by the Pew Research Group also found support for US President George W Bush and his "war on terror" had dropped dramatically worldwide. Goodwill created by US aid for nations hit by the 2004 tsunami had also faded since last year

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House Republicans have issued a last minute proposal to the Small Business Reauthorization Act. The new policy would repeal an existing Federal policy that prevents large companies from using their franchises as fronts in order to obtain small business contracts. Under the new policy, franchises of large companies would be granted small business status.ASBL President Lloyd Chapman is concerned

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The SubtanceNew Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology ... to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail

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The SubtanceCongressional Republicans killed a provision in an Iraq war funding bill that would have put the United States on record against the permanent basing of U.S. military facilities in that country, a lawmaker and congressional aides said Friday. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bases10jun10,0,384335.storyFrom the Los Angeles TimesGOP Removes Key Iraq Provision From

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Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermindAbu Musab Zarqawi blamed for more than 700 killings in IraqBy Jim MiklaszewskiPentagon CorrespondentNBC NewsUpdated: 7:14 p.m. ET March 2, 2004With Tuesday’s attacks, Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, is now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq.But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush

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The War They Wanted, The Lies They NeededThe Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. As much of Washington knew, and the world soon learned, the charge was false. Worse, it appears to have been the cornerstone of a highly successful "black propaganda" campaign with links to the White HouseBy CRAIG UNGERREAD V.F.'s PLAMEGATE COVERAGE

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By midnight, the official tallies showed a decisive lead for George Bush -- and the next day, lacking enough legal evidence to contest the results, Kerry conceded. Republicans derided anyone who expressed doubts about Bush's victory as nut cases in ''tinfoil hats,'' while the national media, with few exceptions, did little to question the validity of the election. The Washington Post immediately

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The SubtanceA few months after reports indicated that Iraqi university professors and academics were fleeing the country because of violence and kidnappings, new media reports say that the middle class in Iraq also wants to leave. The New York Times reported last week that more and more middle class Iraqis seem to be " doing everything they can to leave the country."The reason for the exodus, the

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Nearly 900 soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan have been saddled with government debts as they have recovered from war, according to a report that describes collection notices going out to veterans with brain damage, paralysis, lost limbs and shrapnel wounds.The report from the Government Accountability Office, to be released at a hearing today, details how long-recognized problems with

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The SubtanceThe Servicemembers Legal Defense Network has released documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from the Department of Defense, which confirm the military's surveillance of organizations working to repeal the Military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy, PageOneQ has learned. Pentagon admits to surveillance of gay groups, releases documentsby PageOneQThe Servicemembers Legal

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Seriously snipped, but mostly in order. Following title link to full text. Yet the terrorists have made it clear that Iraq is the central front in their war against humanity. So we must recognize Iraq as the central front in the war on terror. Oh sure, now. The enemy in Iraq is a combination of rejectionists and Saddamists and terrorists. The rejectionists are ordinary Iraqis, mostly Sunni

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Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda, according to government

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Schmidt's comments on the House floor: A few minutes ago I received a call from Colonel Danny Bop, Ohio Representative from the 88th district in the House of Representatives. He asked me to send Congress a message: Stay the course. He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message, that cowards cut and run, Marines never do. The Cincinnati Enquirer: Danny Bubp, a freshman state

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Texas is using an unconstitutional state property tax to fund public schools, the Texas Supreme Court said Tuesday in a ruling that will force lawmakers to finally give homeowners their long-promised property tax relief. In a 7-1 ruling, the Supreme Court said the state's reliance on local property taxes for more than half of education funding has left school districts with no control over their

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A new Vatican document on homosexuality in the Catholic priesthood touched off a storm of criticism on Wednesday from those who say the Church is missing the point and using gays as scapegoats for its sex scandals. The document, which says the Church can admit those who have clearly overcome homosexual tendencies for at least three years, is due to be released officially next week. But it said

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Britain has warned media organizations they are breaking the law if they publish details of a leaked document said to show U.S. President George W. Bush wanted to bomb Arabic television station Al Jazeera. The government's top lawyer warned editors in a note after the Daily Mirror newspaper reported on Monday that a secret British government memo said British Prime Minister Tony Blair had talked

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Uzbekistan has told NATO allies they can no longer use its territory or airspace to support peacekeeping missions in neighboring Afghanistan, an official of the alliance said Wednesday. Uzbekistan's hard-line President Islam Karimov in July ordered the U.S. troops to leave the air base within six months, after Washington joined international condemnation of a bloody government crackdown in the

JimGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11005101.post-1132771262714217502005-11-23T09:37:00.000-05:002005-11-23T13:41:02.746-05:00

Once again, why these amendments banning same-sex marriage are not just symbolic but hurt the lives of real people.An Ohio legislator is asking a court to declare Miami University is violating the state Constitution by providing benefits to the same-sex partners of faculty and staff.GOP Lawmaker Sues University To Block Gay Partner Benefitsby 365Gay.com Newscenter StaffPosted: November 23, 2005

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Two years ago, at Abu Ghraib prison, outside Baghdad, an Iraqi prisoner in (CIA agent Mark) Swanner’s custody, Manadel al-Jamadi, died during an interrogation. His head had been covered with a plastic bag, and he was shackled in a crucifixion-like pose that inhibited his ability to breathe; according to forensic pathologists who have examined the case, he asphyxiated. In a subsequent internal

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Reaching out to the Sunni Arab community, Iraqi leaders called for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces and said Iraq's opposition had a "legitimate right" of resistance. The communique -- finalized by Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni leaders Monday -- condemned terrorism but was a clear acknowledgment of the Sunni position that insurgents should not be labeled as terrorists if their

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Why legal equality matters.Tom and Dennis Patrick are raising four children in a quaint blue farmhouse on a rural road in Ypsilanti Township. Their oldest son, Josh, 9, suffers from seizures, but doctors don't know why. The domestic partner health benefits provided to Tom through Dennis' employer, Eastern Michigan University, allow Tom to work part time and be available to take Josh to his

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Dick's Do's and Don'ts in Political DebatingDo'sI do not believe it is wrong to criticize the war on terror or any aspect thereof. Disagreement, argument, and debate are the essence of democracy, and none of us should want it any other way. Nor is there any problem with debating whether the United States and our allies should have liberated Iraq in the first place. Nobody is saying we should not

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Former Senator Bob Graham's frank assesment of pre-war intelligence. Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize him to take the nation to war. Most of them, though, like their Republican colleagues, did so in the legitimate belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace -- that if Hussein was not disarmed, the

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The big news is often in the silence. That was certainly true in the case of Saudi Arabia's quiet entry into the World Trade Organization. Last week trade ambassadors in Geneva blessed the move, which will be made official at the upcoming summit in Hong Kong. Hardly a peep was heard from Congress, for example. And the result is unambiguously disappointing. While Saudi Arabia has made

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General Motors said it would cut up to 30,000 jobs and close a dozen automobile and parts factories and distribution centers in the next three years in an effort to stem the company's billion-dollar losses. All together, the restructuring would reduce the company's costs by $7 billion a year by the end of 2006, $1 billion more than its previous target. The company's production capacity will be

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The Aids Epidemic Update 2005 revealed that an estimated 40.3 million people now have HIV - up from 37.5 million in 2003 and the highest-ever level. The report, by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), estimated that globally there will be an extra five million new infections in 2005. It also estimated that 2005 would see more than three

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PRESIDENT George W. Bush headed back to the US via Mongolia yesterday with little to celebrate after a week-long Asia trip that highlighted tensions with China. His four-hour layover in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator – the first visit to the country by a sitting US president – followed talks in Beijing that failed to resolve differences between Washington and the world's most populous nation

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If you've not discovered MidEast Web GateWay, it is an English language Israeli news site with blog. Objective but clearly sympathetic to the peace movement, it also goes deeper than most US papers into events in Israel and the Middle East. Ariel Sharon today virtually destroyed the Likud party that he helped to create in 1977. He announced his resignation from the party and called for new

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An annotated and edited transcript. Follow the link to the full transcript. Please note that by cutting out sections of repetitive text and crosstalk, the following places in sequence statements actually separated by other statements. I've tried to stay true to the intent and substance and not quote out of context.CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZERInterview With Donald Rumsfeld; Interview With

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Jean Schmidt"He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message, that cowards cut and run, Marines never do."Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.Samuel Johnson, attributed

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I hope that the great and powerful Kos will forgive this pilfering of his post. But there is just no other way to say it. Those &E&#@*& liars! More on the Murtha vote by kos Fri Nov 18, 2005 at 04:32:20 PM EST Spot the differences between the two versions of the "Murtha resolution". Murtha's resolution: Whereas Congress and the American People have not been shown clear, measurable

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The United States government was roundly condemned by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights Friday for refusing to allow it full access to its detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "The writ of international human rights does not stop at the gates of Guantanamo Bay," said the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to health, Paul Hunt, announcing a full investigation into the human rights

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Carl Levin, the senior Democrat who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is interested in permanently debunking the administration's assertion that it "mistakenly" included the 16-word reference in President Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address claiming that Iraq tried to purchase yellowcake uranium - the key component to building an atomic bomb - from Niger. Levin's aides said

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