Category Archives: Cheney

$400 Million and the Coming War With Iran

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Ricky Shambles

The Telegraph: President George W Bush requested and received funding of $400 million (£200 million) for the plan after he made a secret appeal to Congressional leaders last year. The money is likely to be used for operations carried out … Continue reading →

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Obama Names Vice President Search Team With Cheney’s Smirk

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Kate Chase

Caroline Kennedy has been named to head up a three-person VP search team for Democratic presumptive nominee, Barack Obama. This differs from George Bush’s 2000 VP search team, headed by Dick Cheney, with only Cheney serving as membership, and – … Continue reading →

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The Right “Puzzled” By McClellan’s Criticism

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Kate Chase

You know, I wasn’t inclined to pay much attention to fomer White House spokesman Scott McClellan’s new book about his tenure beginning soon after our dance of death began in Iraq. As McClellan took the job, we heard a lot … Continue reading →

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Catch HBO’s “Recount” Sunday Night

Posted on May 24, 2008 by Kate Chase

Just in time to make us (appropriately) very worried about November’s presidential vote comes the star-studded HBO docu-comedy-drama “Recount” about the Bush v. Gore 2000 Florida contest. HBO airs it tomorrow (Sunday) at 9 PM EDT. Just the Laura Dern-as-Katherine-Harris … Continue reading →

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Republicans Decree Iraq Surge “Worked Beautifully”, No One Challenges

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Kate Chase

Have you noticed? Despite how obvious it was that the Pentagon and the Bush Administration, in their most recent assessment of Bush’s big escalation of war in early 2007, were lying about how “peachy” the situation in Iraq is, all … Continue reading →

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Romney As McCain’s VP Choice?

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Kate Chase

While I think it’s a full-blooded guarantee that WHOEVER John McCain picks to run with him on the Republican presidential ticket for November’s election will be a 325% right winging whackjob with an agenda as big as his (or her, … Continue reading →

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“Iraq War: Why Defunding Is Politically Viable”

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Kate Chase

One of our readers recommends this piece at Garling Gauge in reference to my post about the House of Representatives (almost exclusively Democrats voted nay) and its vote to reject the latest blank check George Bush demands to wage more … Continue reading →

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Thank The President For The Latest Gas Price Hike

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Kate Chase

No joke. With crude oil prices already well past the record $100/barrel that we used to treat as the great marker for “peak oil”, where was the price going to go but WAAAAY up when Bush does the following in … Continue reading →

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Someone Finally Grabbed The War Blank Checkbook From Bush

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Kate Chase

We haven’t heralded this move by House Democrats last week (joined by two whole Republicans) that kept Bush from getting another blank check from them (on our dime and the lives of our countrymen and women) to wage endless, pointless … Continue reading →

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“No Child Left Behind” Alive or Free in Iraq?

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Kate Chase

And this figure does not include the juveniles, some as young as 11 or 12, sent to Guantanamo Bay on specious, oft-never-filed charges: The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being “unlawful enemy combatants” in detention centers … Continue reading →

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And The Cheney/Halliburton/KBR Crew Just Keep Stealing

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Kate Chase

From Think Progress: Yesterday, two former employees of embattled contract company KBR told a congressional panel that some of their coworkers frequently stole money and artwork from Iraq. One said that €œsome of her American colleagues doing construction work in … Continue reading →

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How Hillary Won Pennsylvania, But Lost This Voter

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Kate Chase

After some six weeks of discussion as to how Pennsylvania Democrats would vote today, Hillary Clinton has won the primary there, which many believe gives her enough momentum (never to be confused, pretty please, with JoeMentum, as in Karl Rove’s … Continue reading →

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Bush America’s Exhausted Army & Marines: If A Felon’s Got A Pulse, They Can Enlist!

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Kate Chase

Let’s see: the situation with the troops has gotten so very bad that the Pentagon is EAGER to accept wife beaters, those making terroristic threats, and other violent felons? Oh good. That’ll help everyone. Interesting point: in many states felons, … Continue reading →

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The Torture Revelations: Why We MUST Act NOW

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Kate Chase

That representatives of us, the citizens of the United States of America were DIRECTED by senior members of the Bush Administration (Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc. and with Bush’s full blessing) in secret meetings we now KNOW were held and chaired by … Continue reading →

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The Next Bush Rape of Privacy? Overhead Sensors To Monitor Us

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Kate Chase

People who can’t catch a rather distinctive man of 6’4 and extraordinary means named Osama bin Laden KEEP ACTING like it’s Mom and Pop America that needs to be locked up. Ay carumba! Reported at Common Dreams and filed under … Continue reading →

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Does Anyone Like Bush Anymore?

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Kate Chase

(Cough. I hope this headline doesn’t get picked up the wrong way. Cough.) Bush has fallen to yet NEW lows of presidential approval. But I have the same question I’ve had for his entire monarchy: how the hell did even … Continue reading →

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Petraeus Back To Betray Us Again

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Kate Chase

Well, his words yesterday seemed like whole big repeats of late LAST summer (when the surge was supposed to be nearly over) and the Bush Administration lines on the Iraq war for more than four years. I could barely contain … Continue reading →

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The Iraq Bloodbath Has Already Begun

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Ralph Brauer

The battle between the forces of Moqtada al-Sadr and those of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki signals a new stage in the war: the feared bloodbath has begun. Over the years “bloodbath” has become synonymous with an Iraqi civil war … Continue reading →

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Why Are Iraqis To Blame For Effects Of Our Occupation?

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Kate Chase

I won’t necessarily win myself lots of new friends by saying this, but I’d love to see Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama toss away the Bush-McCain mantra of “Those damned ungrateful Iraqis need to fix things themselves; anything else is … Continue reading →

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The GOP’s Purge Tactics–How Republicans Crack the Whip on Dissenters

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Ralph Brauer

They say all politics is local, which if it is true means the Republican Party may be digging itself a deep hole by engaging in some ugly purge tactics.

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