Guest guest Posted July 23, 2006 Report Share Posted July 23, 2006 A Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:48:02 -0400 OpEdNews.Com 07/20/2006 The middle east crisis is dividing progressives. My article, below, discusses it. OpEdNews is publishing articles covering both sides-- a lot of them-- some opposing, some supporting Israel. I encourage you to add your comments, submit links to suggested articles covering different perspectives. It is not easy, but we're trying to find new ways of looking at the problems there. It means allowing a wide range of discussions. I guarantee you will find articles you disagree with. Don't stop there. Look at the rest of the articles we're running to see that we're covering both sides. Progressives must keep the conversation going. I think MY article deals with the issue in a way I have seen others touch upon. OpEdNews Fundraising You're getting perspectives HERE that you don't get anywhere else. I know People write to me, thanking us every day. It takes money to keep it going. You know you value what we do. We're seeing 300,000+ unique visitors a month and maybe 100 contributors. Please, get the dust off your credit card. Respond to that inner voice telling you to give generously to support one of the last bulwarks fighting in the front lines to protect democracy, truth in media and the America you want to see come back. Do it now. Click here to make a donation or get instructions for sending your check. Thanks, Rob Kall To read these articles click here and go to webpage version http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060721_1.html Newest Articles By Rob Kall Middle East Politics Divides Progressives The Israel / Palestine / middle east conflict is a divider for progressives and liberals who agree on many other issues. It is a dangerous issue and Anti-Israel progressives could be going down a path that could cost the Democratic party the fall elections, handing them to Republicans and right wing Christian theofascists. By Steven Freeman, Author Of " Was The 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? " Press Release: Forum On " A Matter Of Trust: Integrity And The US Electoral System " Saturday, July 22, 2006, Harlem Book Fair, 12:45-2pm. Forum will include Steven Freeman, Paul Robeson, Jr., John McWhorter and Greg Palast (Armed Madhouse). By Burton H. Wolfe The Mistakes At The Root Of The Near East Horrors This is an article describing the root causes of the Near East conflagration. By Aaron Glantz Normal Life Impossible In Bush's Iraq Living in Iraq is becoming absolutely impossible. The numbers tell part of the story. The United Nations announced Tuesday that, on average, 100 Iraqi civilians died every day in May and June. According to the report, about 2,700 civilians were killed in May and 3,100 were killed in June. Amid the violence, the " Iraqi government " has been next to worthless. By Anthony Wade George Bush, Hypocrisy And The Culture Of Death In the mind of George W. Bush, research which could ease human suffering crosses a " moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect. " Apparently that boundary does not exist for soldiers or civilians in war. You cannot be for life and have as much blood on your hands as Mr. Bush. By Missy Comley Beattie No To Stem Cell Research, Yes To War: Bush Religion By David Swanson Friday Night Impeachment Teach-In Join us tonight! By Joshua Frank Did Hizbullah Do The Right Thing? Maybe. Maybe not. By Thepen A Tale Of Two Resolutions On Lebanon What does an obscure Austro-Hungarian archduke have to do with the lives of your children? Everything, unless we all immediately speak out for a cease-fire in Lebanon By Rachel Gladstone-Gelman I Felt Like Natalie Wood No white beard and red suit...but a heck of a paper chase. By Jeff Cohen Can Al Gore Be Trusted? Many solid progressives want Gore to be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. A recent AlterNet readers' poll (in which Noam Chomsky won the MVP for " Most Valuable Progressive " ) showed Gore way in front of the pack -- with Russ Feingold second... By Robert Parry A New War Frenzy Americans are being whipped into a new war frenzy with simplistic visions of evil villains, much like occurred four years ago before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. By Len Hart How American Conservatives Became Dangerous Radicals The modern American conservative movement has departed radically from an original vision of Barry Goldwater. The roots of this radicalization are found in ruthlessness and power for its own sake. By Bob Burnett Bush's " Pottery Barn " Legacy George Bush's inept handling of Iraq and Israel has established his legacy: The " pottery Barn " disorder. By Mark C. Miller, Author Of " Fooled Again " Republicans, Paper Trails And HR 550 (Holt): No Easy Answers Now, we must ask ourselves: Would that movement (to thwart millions of 'opposition' voters) be frustrated, its agenda thwarted, by the use of paper trails? Evidently not--since members of that very movement also back the Holt bill with enthusiasm. By Ryan O'Donnell Instant Runoff Voting: Two Major Advances In 24 Hours Instant runoff voting (IRV) moves forward in Oakland, CA and North Carolina. Meanwhile, November ballot measures will appear in cities and counties representing 1.6 million people. By David Swanson Conservatives And Conscience John Dean, former legal counsel to Richard Nixon, is 95% recovered from a long bout of conservatism, and he doubts that many others can make the same recovery, but I don't. By Joan Brunwasser " Local Hero " Corner: #6 It might seem an odd time for a book review. The world seems to be coming apart at the seams. I'm not wild about 'book reports' (writing or reading them) but I love to read and share what I've loved. So, if you're not a reader or can't be bothered with real live modern day heroes, don't read any further. By JGideon 'Daily Voting News' For July 20, 2006 a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas. By Roy Lipscomb, Illinois Ballot Integrity Project My Response To Trib Editorial " Hacking The Vote " But wait a minute. Doesn't that imply that the voter-verified paper record is more reliable than the machine? If so, why did we waste more than $50 million on systems that are less reliable than paper? And that's just the purchase price. In the next few years, we'll be locked into investing millions more for maintenance, upgrades, storage, and damage control. By Mickey Z. Blackouts And Urban Cavemen Where will you be when the lights go out? By Sam Vaknin Herzl's Butlers In " Altneuland " (translated to Hebrew as " Tel Aviv " ), the feverish tome composed by Theodore Herzl, Judaism's improbable visionary - Herzl refers to the Arabs as pliant and compliant butlers, replete with gloves and tarbushes. By Gov. Howard Dean, DNC President Bush And First-ever Veto The Congress and the rest of the country are paying attention right now, and we have to seize this moment to build the coalition of support for cure discovery. Please add your name to the list of supporters and we'll send your message to your representatives. By Sarah Mandel Human Rights Watch Targets Israel Oped on the hypocrisy of Human Rights Watch's double standards with respect to Israel. The NGO seems bent on pursuing its political agenda and is exploiting human rights terminology to demonize all Israeli actions. By Frank J. Ranelli America, A Hemorrhaging Democracy As America bleeds, Bush continues to pour salt in an already cavernous wound that foretells a dim diagnosis for democracy. By Irwin Wingo Trash Cans, Embyros And God George Bush and his merry band of Republicans want to torture and kill me. For some bizarre reason they will not let embryos destined for the refuse pile be retrieved and used by science in experiments that might end or alleviate the diabetes from which I and millions of others suffer. By John Perry Dubya's Grand Hypocrisy why did Bush veto this bill, instead of just signing it and then quietly issuing one of his bogus signing statements to effectively nullify it, using his " inherent constitutional authority " as Commander-in-Chief and head of the mythical " Unitary Executive Branch " (which he has done at least 750 times)? By Steve Consilvio Faith, Fraud And Men Of God.... Oh, And You! Patterns of behavior reveal patterns in thinking. By Richard Mathis Pat Buchanan Asks " Where Are The Christians? " Some 3000 conservative Christians are wearing their best sheepskins to Washington to tell Congress that Israel and America's agendas are one and the same. " Israel is not the problem. Israel is the solution. " Tom DeLay By Allen L Roland GEORGE W BUSH / IDIOT-IN-CHIEF To the 70% of Americans, including myself, who longed for the promise of federally funded stem cell research ~ this is just another example of ' frat boy ' George W saying " Who cares what you think , or for that matter, what you want ~ I'm the Decider . " By Joshua Frank President Bush Uncut How Israel gets away with murder. By Jane Stillwater Wanna Bring Peace To The Middle East? Get The Burning Man Crew On The Job! Let's dump Bush's failed Middle East policy and have the Burning Man crew be in charge instead. Every year in September, these guys turn the Nevada desert into paradise. They can turn the deserts of the Middle East into paradise too. What's their secret? They CREATE instead of DESTROY. Is this such a difficult concept to grasp that it is totally beyond the Bush bureaucracy's mentality to even imagine? Duh, yeah. By Alex S Gabor The Truth About The War On Terrorism You cannot end terrorism by creating a police state and invading foreign nations. By Anthony Wade Cowboy Diplomacy And The Rubber Stamp Gang Play The Security Card With nothing to run on this November, Karl Rove has decided to play the " security " card. How safe has the GOP made us over the past five years that they think this is a viable strategy? By Jayne Lyn Stahl " Blood Wedding In Beirut " This warfare between brothers has to stop. This cycle of vengeance, and misunderstanding, that pits Sh'ite against Christian, Muslim against Jew, can only end in death and destruction for all. It is a cycle of shame, a shame that we all share, a disgrace that permeates every last inch of us, the least and the greatest who, in the final analysis, will share the same fate. By Len Hart Bush Plays Politics With Human Life Though Bush has presided over the deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, he vetos the best hope of saving millions of Americans from an early death. This is unconscionable and evil but to be expected from the increasingly radical, extremist GOP. By Dan Ashby, CA VoterAction Joint Hearing - Voting Machines: Will The New Standards And Guidelines Help Prevent Future Problems? By Robert C. Koehler The Shadow Report The shadow report amounts to a national sobriety test. We're imperfect, just as every nation is; we need to own up to these imperfections. According to Jungian psychology, those who don't acknowledge their shadows project them onto others. By Miami Dade Election REform Coalition The " I Count " Campaign Pledge Allegra Dengler says: Miami Dade Election Reform Coalition has put together an excellent election protection effort, calling on individuals to pledge " I Count " and take action to protect elections in their own communities. Let's take the time to read the list of suggestions and put one or two on our own " to do " lists for this November! By JGideon 'Daily Voting News' For July 19, 2006 a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas. By JGideon 'Daily Voting News' For July 19, 2006 a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas. By Richard Neville THE LAND WHERE PINOCCHIO IS KING From the outside, Australia looks good; the Opera House, Nicole Kidman, jocks in hotpants. ....Listening to political debate today is like being locked in the Alzheimer ward with the treasurer and a shock jock. By Matthew Cardinale Machine VOTE FLIPPING Claimed In McKinney Primary (APN) ATLANTA - " You've got electronic voting machines. Many people called in and shared their concern. They pushed the button for Cynthia McKinney and Hank Johnson came up. It wasn't one time, it wasn't two times, it was many, many times, " Karen Fitzpatrick, who has been monitoring elections for US Rep. McKinney's re-election campaign, told Atlanta Progressive News in an exclusive interview. By William Fisher OF PITBULLS AND LAPDOGS The recent Supreme Court decision in the Hamdan case has opened a widening chasm among members of the president's own party. By Robert P. Abele The Coming War With Iran It is more than a rumor that the United States is preparing to attack Iran. This would be a gross violation of International Law and all ethical and legal codes concerning war. By Michael Leon U.S. Silent To Israeli Brutality U.S. Response: Deadly Status Quo By Martha Rosenberg Japan Beef Exports And Johanns Future Await Slaughterhouse Audits Reinstating beef exports to Japan is becoming a nightmare for Agriculture Secretary Mike Johnanns By Steve Osborn Understanding The Middle-East Crisis A country boy's analysis of the Mid-East Crisis By Jim Prues Flailing Dinosaurs This age is coming to an end, and we are witnessing its collapse. The pre-eminent question is when. By Diane M. Grassi New Orleans Remains Problematic For Army Corps Of Engineers So far over $20 billion has been allocated by the federal government to assist in New Orleans and Gulf Coast restorations. Yet, such appropriations do not solve the most desperate problem New Orleans faces which is the restoration and reformation of its levee system. By Jane Stillwater Isolate & Brainwash: It Works On Women And Americans BUT NOT ON JANELLE! Back from spending his teen years at behavior modification camps where they used " isolate and brainwash " techniques on him, Jordan then tries to " isolate and brainwash " his girlfriend -- and it works! And it works for the neo-cons too. But I'd love to see them try to pull that crap on Janelle! (I'm a Big Brother All Stars fan by the way). By Lynne Glasner The Middle East Tightrope: Parental Control Needed We need an adult referee to force the warring parties to go into their corners and take a time out. By Peggy McCann Morality For Morons Killing innocent people is never righteous. No matter who's doing the killing or what their excuse is. By Palast, Greg Ken Lay's Alive! Don't check the casket. I know he's back. When I saw those lights flickering out at La Guardia Airport yesterday and heard the eerie shrieks and moans in the dark, broiling subway tunnels, I just knew it: Ken Lay's alive! We can see his spirit in every flickering lightbulb from Kansas to Queens as we head into America's annual Blackout season. To read these articles click here and go to webpage version http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060721_1.html Best News Links from the Web The Hidden Underbelly Of Election Engineering: Why We Cannot Entrust Our Sacred Republic To Automated Elections Ed. note: For all of you enjoying your summers, don't read this article. It will definitely put a damper on your good mood. This made me very mad. How about you? Oh Man, Oman Just like NAFTA, CAFTA and the other trade pacts, the Oman trade deal is the lovechild of politicians and Big Money. IRS Should Investigate Texas Church That Gave Donations To GOP A nondenominational church in Texas that has donated $1,500 to the local Republican Party should be investigated by the Internal Revenue Service, says Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Medical Care For Family Of Four To Cost $13,382 In 2006 The average annual medical costs for a family of four increased 9.6% from 2005 to 2006 Bush At The NAACP Convention: They Don't Call It The " White " House For Nothing Our President completed the White-washing of his record by railing against, " the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you have low expectations, " he said, " you're going to get lousy results. " Well, the NAACP never expected much from this President, and the results have proved his point. ANALYSIS: Hezbollah Is Still Showing No Signs Of Breaking It was a bad news day. In the morning, Israeli forces in Lebanon clashed with Hezbollah near Avivim. Scores of Katyusha rockets were fired and two children from Nazareth were killed. For eight days, the Israel Defense Forces has been pounding Lebanon and dropping thousands of tons of bombs on it, yet Hezbollah remains the same intransigent rival as before. It is showing no signs of breaking. No, This Is Not 'Our War' But all this carnage and destruction has only piqued the blood lust of the hairy-chested warriors at The Weekly Standard calls for US to play her rightful role in this war by " countering this act of aggression by Iran with a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. Why wait? " " Why wait? " Well, one reason is that the United States has not been attacked. A second is a small thing called the Constitution. Baghdad Police Hunt For Corpses, Find 38 Iraqi police scoured the streets of the capital from dawn till midday, looking for corpses and finding dozens. Residents of a northern city who celebrated the end of a hot day with a scoop of ice cream were ravaged by a car bomb. Neocon War Mongering Helps Hezbollah And Hamas Grow Popular In Iraq One of the hottest-selling items in Mustafa Hahel's shop here off Baghdad Street is a poster showing the leaders of Iran, Syria and Hezbollah side by side, smiling pleasantly and surrounded by roses and daffodils. Portraits of the founder of Hamas are on sale just down the road. 2558 'official' US Soldiers Dead On Iraq Soil Curfew Extended As Baghdad Bleeds A daytime curfew on Baghdad has been extended in an apparent effort to cut violence after one of the bloodiest weeks this year. Khmer Rouge Chief Dies Ta Mok, the military chief of the Khmer Rouge, has died in Cambodia. And so will Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and GW Bush. And the world will be a better place. Troops Row Grows In Somalia Somalia's Islamist movement has demanded the immediate withdrawal of Ethiopian troops that have moved into Baidoa, the seat of the weak government. Is The Hezbollah Threat To Attack On US Soil Real? Regardless of how they may be downplaying the threat from Hezbollah, just as they had pre-9/11 Al Qaeda, the Busheviks are clearly alarmed enough to have placed them on the radar screen. Let's just hope they're truly watching. Three Held Over Mumbai Blasts Indian police have arrested three men in connection with train bombings that killed more than 180 people in Mumbai. Democrats Close Fundraising Gap National Democratic Party committees closed a fundraising gap with their Republican counterparts in June, raising more money and improving their cash on hand, according to reports filed Thursday. The data is the latest sign that that neither party would hold a financial edge in this year's contest for control of Congress. Action Alert! Senate Set To Vote On Voting Rights Act There is bipartisan support to pass the bill in the Senate. However, your Senators need to hear from you today that no amendments to S. 2703 are necessary. The bill, H.R. 9 as passed, and S. 2703 without amendments, provides a strong deterrent to and necessary oversight of these persistent voting rights violations. Are The Voting System Standards Helping To Solve The Problems With Our Elections? While voting system standards do have the potential to help solve the problems with our elections, it's clear that to date they have not. Legislation to require independent verification such as a voter-verified paper audit record or ballot, routine random audits, disclosure of all software and banning of wireless and Internet communications has a much better chance of achieving that goal. Lebanon: The Only Exit Strategy But only one country has the capacity to do the job. That is Israel, now recognized by the world as forced into this fight by Hezbollah's aggression. The road to a solution is therefore clear: Israel liberates south Lebanon and gives it back to the Lebanese. James Carroll Concludes The Pentagon Is Our Out-of-Control 'House Of War' Two Views Of Government Censorship This is Jim Hightower saying... Ironically, while lawmakers here in our " Land of the Free " are howling for media repression, lawmakers in repressive China are rebelling against the latest censorship there, calling for greater media freedom - and more democracy. Insurance For Electronic Votes Read this NYT editorial and tell me if we have made zero progress since this was written in 2004. Old but highlights issues not yet dealt with satisfactorily for the assurance of free, fair, secure and verifiable elections. Recognize And Fix All The Leaks In Our Balloting And Counting Systems! Marian Beddill of WA State and her take on our elections. Well worth your time. Untied Nations Report On Iraq - A Country In Chaos United Nation's Assistance Mission for Iraq Why Israel Is Being Attacked A brief but timely historical review by Charles Krauthammer, former speech writer for Walter Mondale. Deadly Disconnect: Iraq Reality Vs Bush Admin Fantasy Before we get to the jaw-dropping money quote that leaves no doubt that Bush, GOP, and Neocons continue to view Iraq through zealots' eyes, let's start with a bracing shot of reality: the United Nations report on Iraq released yesterday. It paints a devastating -- and wrenchingly specific -- portrait of a country in bloody chaos. 1st the numbers: 14,338 civilians killed in the first half of 2006. Iraqi Death Toll Rises Above 100 Per Day, U.N. Says An average of more than 100 civilians per day were killed in Iraq last month, the United Nations reported Tuesday, registering what appears to be the highest official monthly tally of violent deaths since the fall of Baghdad. Hezbollah And Pericles Please reflect on this, dear Western lovers of democracy: Is majority vote truly the sole gist of it all? ... many of those civilians voted Hamas, and some voted Hezbollah, into their own governments. Democratically elected, these groups care little for the lives of their own citizens, even less for the Israeli Arabs they have bombed and killed in recent days, and null for Israeli civilians. Yet their voters keep applauding. U.S. Shifts Focus On Mideast Policy - Neocons Thrilled So far, however, democracy in Lebanon hasn't resulted in the elimination of Hezbollah; instead, the militant group has been strengthened by elections. And withholding U.S. shuttle diplomacy while allowing Israel to proceed with military force could end up increasing support not only for Hezbollah but also for al-Qaida and other Islamist militant groups. Earth Faces 'catastrophic Loss Of Species' Life on earth is facing a major crisis with thousands of species threatened with imminent extinction - a global emergency demanding urgent action. This is the view of 19 of the world's most eminent biodiversity specialists, who have called on governments to establish a political framework to save the planet. [World to busy trying to kill off fellow humans to bother saving other life... Bush's Poverty Talk Is Now All But Silent Aiding Poor Was Brief Priority After Katrina [bush has repeatedly stated that he doesn't understand poor people...Strip him of his wealth to payback the US Treasury he squandered, and maybe he'll get a little feel for it...] The Real Cut-And-Runners A winning message would counter the GOP's habit of ducking their policy messes Open Source Voting: Accurate, Accountable, Ready By 2008 Learn more about the Open Voting Consortium solution so that you can help us take our election system back. Beirut To Tehran Hezbollah has reinvigorated paranoid neocon fantasies about the Middle East. Will Iran become the new Iraq after all? Illinois Gov. Funds Stem Cell Research Illinois' governor announced Thursday he was diverting $5 million from the state budget for stem cell research, despite repeated objections from state legislators. Lebanese Who Fled As Youngsters Forced To Flee Again With Own Children In Cyprus there was a feeling of deja vu. The Mediterranean island has hosted hundreds of refugees from the Middle East conflict over the past 30 years. Yesterday people who had fled Lebanon with their families in the 1980s as children were now fleeing again with their own children. Ethiopian Troops Roll Into Somalia The move could give the U.S.-backed Somali government its only chance of curbing the Islamic militia's increasing power. But Ethiopia's incursion could also be just the provocation the militia needs to build public support for a guerrilla war. [World population at its highest...so many to kill, so many willing to kill.] Annan Calls For Ceasefire The UN and the US government are on a collision course over the war in Lebanon, after the UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan, demanded an immediate cessation of hostilities. Watching American TV From Beruit Federal Court: Blogs Not Liable For Their Commenter's Libel Israel Under Fire A look at some of the myths and facts following Hezbollah's attack on Israel. Republican Hypocrisy Revealed Republicans say they are the " party of values " . But, what kind of values are they talking about? GOP Lawmakers Edge Away From Optimism On Iraq Faced with almost daily reports of sectarian carnage in Iraq, congressional Republicans are shifting their message on the war from speaking optimistically of progress to acknowledging the difficulty of the mission and pointing up mistakes in planning and execution. [Could this just be a political move to get reelected?] How Aggressive Should Israel Be? Until there is an effective Lebanese army and a Palestinian government that believes in co-existence, Israel is entitled to act, within the dialectical limits, on its own behalf. Why Israel Is 100? Justified In Its Attack On Lebanon A Middle East controlled by Islamic fascists in Iran with nuclear capabilities, arming and training terror organizations, cutting off our oil supplies and committed to Israel's and America's destruction, is a very chilling thought. Perhaps the " overreactionists " throughout the free world ought to consider the longer-term consequences here before its levels more criticism of Israel. Taking The Paper Trail To Washington Paper records, however, are not a panacea that solves all problems with voting machines, experts warn. Human error can also skew results, for example, and under current standards, voting machines can be approved for use even if 9 percent of them are expected to fail on Election Day. The Brennan Center experts even found ways for elections to be thrown by altering the software that printed out paper records. Kucinich Calls On Bush To Push For Cease Fire Remember Who Killed 241 US Servicemen In Lebanon? As international criticism of Israel's actions in Lebanon is sure to mount in the coming days, it is worth recalling that Hizbullah is not just an enemy of the Jewish people, but of the entire Western world, too... Does The Washington Post Back Hizbullah And Hamas? Believe it or not, Cohen's article begins by embracing the central tenet of Hizbullah and Hamas ideology: namely, that the State of Israel has no right to exist. Here is how Cohen himself put it: " The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable... How Does It Feel To Be In Israel Right Now? Naomi Ragen is a best-selling novelist and columnist who has lived in Israel since 1971. Topanga Group Focuses On Voting Machine Fraud " The only way we will have a democracy is if we have a paper ballot and hand count at the precinct, " Troy said. The Topanga Peace alliance is hosts screenings the first Friday of every month. The screening on August 4, 2006 will be on the subject of voting machine fraud. Troy said he has screened six different films in preparation for the August screening. Vote Suit: Put It On Paper! " Voters must rely on the software used to assure their votes are recorded properly, " the lawsuit says. " Once an elector enters his or her vote, there is no way to independently determine if the vote cast has been recorded correctly. The voter is forced to hope the software that records the votes is created and maintained, without mistake or fraud, to protect the integrity of the ballot. " Protecting The 2006 Vote The sort of difference you can make in winning fair elections is best illustrated by the Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition's " I Count " pledge campaign, listing over 20 ways individuals can get involved, from registering voters to becoming a watchdog of local officials. As their pledge states-progressives please take note- " Power is about making sure that every voice and every vote counts. " US District Court Sends CA Lawsuit Vs. Diebold Back To State Court Said Lowell Finley, co-counsel for the California voter plaintiffs, co-director of Voter Action, and election law expert: " The only thing they gained was months of delay, leaving voters and county elections officials uncertain about what voting equipment they will be using in the November elections. " Ken Lay's Alive! Ken Lay's gone, but the ghost of Ken Lay - the marauding ghoul called deregulation - stays to haunt us. Bush Blocked Ethics Inquiry, Official Says Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that President Bush had personally decided to block the Justice Department ethics unit from examining the role played by government lawyers in approving the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program. Bush To Stem Cell Community: Drop Dead President's veto of embryonic research funding reflects incoherent policy GOP Rep: Iraq 'worse Than I Expected' Republican Congressman Gutknecht (R-MN), a strong supporter of the Iraq adventure, visits Baghdad and now want a troop draw down. " The condition there is worse than I expected, " he said. " ... I have to be perfectly candid: Baghdad is a serious problem. " " That's a far cry from what we were told originally, " he said. " ... All of the information we receive sometimes from the Pentagon and the State Department isn't always true. " Support OpEdNews Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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