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Ray McGovern | Who Will Blow the Whistle Before We Attack

Iran?

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:11:51 -0800

 

Ray McGovern asks who will blow the whistle before we attack Iran;

Michael Hirsh on the Pentagon budget; senior Democrats release

report showing Bush spent over $1.6 billion on advertising and

public relations contracts; House Republicans blast Bush on Katrina

response; Iraqi Shiites nominate Jafari for top position; and

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Ray McGovern | Who Will Blow the Whistle Before We Attack Iran?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021306A.shtml

With no perceptible demurral from inside the government, George W.

Bush launched a war of aggression, defined by the Nuremberg Tribunal

as " the supreme international crime. " If this doesn't qualify for

whistle blowing, what does? Let us hope that administration

officials, or analysts — or both — will find the courage to speak

out loudly, and early enough to prevent the " disconnected-from-

reality " cabal in the Bush administration from getting us into an

unnecessary war with Iran, writes Ray McGovern.

 

Bush Spent Over $1.6 Billion on Advertising and Public Relations

Contracts

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021306B.shtml

Today Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democratic Leader Nancy

Pelosi, Representative George Miller, Representative Elijah E.

Cummings, and other senior Democrats released a new Government

Accountability Office report finding that the Bush Administration

spent more than $1.6 billion in public relations and media contracts

in a two and a half year span.

 

GOP Panel Blasts Bush on Katrina Response

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021306C.shtml

House Republicans plan to issue a blistering report on Wednesday

that says the Bush administration delayed the evacuation of

thousands of New Orleans residents by failing to act quickly on

early reports that the levees had broken during Hurricane Katrina.

 

Michael Hirsh | Where's the Oversight?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021306D.shtml

The untold tale of the latest Pentagon budget is the wastage and

overpricing that continue to lard it up to the tune of perhaps $100

billion — with Congress scarcely paying attention remarks Michael

Hirsh.

 

The New York Times | The Trust Gap

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021306E.shtml

We can't think of a president who has gone to the American people

more often than George W. Bush has to ask them to forget about

things like democracy, judicial process and the balance of powers —

and just trust him. We also can't think of a president who has

deserved that trust less, writes The New York Times.

 

Into the Valley of Death: UK Troops Head into Afghan War Zone

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021306F.shtml

With the Army in a new abuse scandal and no exit strategy from Iraq

in sight, UK troops head into another war zone: Afghanistan.

 

Iraqi Shiites Nominate Jafari for Top Position

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021306G.shtml

Ibrahim Jafari, the soft-spoken Shiite Muslim doctor and Iraq's

current interim leader, won his coalition's nomination for the post

of prime minister by a single vote Sunday, putting him on course to

head the country's first full-term government since the fall of

Saddam Hussein.

 

This America Where People Burn Churches

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021306H.shtml

Ten Baptist churches were burned down in a single week in the rural

area around Tuscaloosa. French reporter Philippe Gelie tries to find

out

why.

 

 

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