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January 2007



TIME TO STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT

Tuesday, 30 January 2007 3:30 P GMT-07
The Bush/GOP administration has taken our country a long way down the road to institutionalizing torture. We can't afford to let that process continue. It's time to stand up for what is right.

"LET THE WORLD KNOW..."

Monday, 29 January 2007 4:31 P GMT-07
The horrific stories of some of the men and women detained and tortured at the hands of the U.S. military are slowly emerging. Here is one.

DEMOCRACY A LA BUSH

Friday, 26 January 2007 4:32 P GMT-07
Bush is fond of bragging about the flourishing new democracy that he credits himself and his policies with having created in "liberated" Iraq. Here's a report on just how flourishing and how "democratic" the government of Iraq really is.

SURGE WON'T HALT SLIDE

Tuesday, 23 January 2007 10:25 A GMT-07
Bush's nomination of Lt. Gen. David Petraeus to the command of U.S. forces in Iraq is a positive move. Still, it's unlikely that it can halt the downward slide of the U.S. occupation.

BUSH'S LEGACY OF FAILURE

Saturday, 20 January 2007 10:40 A GMT-07
The Bush administration has deservedly received heavy criticism for it's failures and errors in the botched war in Iraq. Receiving less attention, but equally deserving of criticism, is its failed war in Afganistan.

HATFIELDS vs McCOYS - IRAQ VERSION

Sunday, 14 January 2007 3:55 P GMT-07
One cause of the debacle in Iraq was the Bush administration's profound ignorance about the peoples and cultures that we attacked and the likely results of our blunders.

THEATER OF THE ABSURD

Saturday, 13 January 2007 3:14 P GMT-07
Mr. Bush's presidency has been been characterized by lies, mistakes, incompetency and arrogance. It has finally become a notable example of "theater of the absurd." What the man is doing is inexplicable.

BUSH STILL IN FANTASYLAND

Friday, 12 January 2007 5:01 P GMT-07
It's about time to realize that George W. Bush is bogged down not only in Iraq but also in Fantasyland. His latest fantasy gambit is to proclaim that putting 20,000-plus more troops into Iraq will bring "victory" of some kind.

THE GOVERNMENT WE DESERVE?

Wednesday, 3 January 2007 9:27 A GMT-07
Surveys show that large numbers of U.S. citizens have very little knowledge of our country's history, government, constitution, etc. That may indicate that we get the kind of government that we deserve.

NO MAGIC ELIXIR

Tuesday, 2 January 2007 2:24 P GMT-07
For the Bush administration and many, if not most, Republicans, privatization has been seen as some kind of magic elixir.  It is not. Both at home and abroad that fact is demonstrated.