Al-Qaida flourishing in Iraq? They can thank George Bush.

According to this article, Al-Qaida can thank George Bush for its growing power in Iraq.  Though Saddam had no taste for Al-Qaida terrorists, because the belonged to the wrong branch of Islam, Al-Qaida has apparently flourished under George Bush's military occupation.  So much for winning the war on terrroism.

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Is the problem with news media bad or incompetent owners and employees?

I highly recommend the work of Free Press.   The answer to the question in the title of this post (from the Free Press FAQ page) is that our massive dysfunction of our media is not caused by malicious or incompetent individuals: There may well be media owners who are especially…

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It’s time to impeach George W. Bush and Dick Cheney

Commuting the sentence of Scooter Libby was just the latest of many pressing reasons, it's not the most serious reason. Here's a discussion of additional, more serious, reasons for impeaching Bush and Cheney immediately.  Visit the website of Bill Moyer's Journal and click on "Watch Video."   Why impeachment?  It's a…

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If this is “winning,” then what is “losing”?

The Bush Administration reported this week that despite six years of waging war against al-Qaeda, losing more than 3,600 American lives, spending nearly half a trillion dollars, and decimating the nation of Iraq (the so-called "front line in the war on terrorism"), it has neverless failed to seriously cripple the…

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