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May 2004

MILITARY FAMILIES SPEAK OUT

Saturday, 29 May 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

More and more families of troops fighting Bush's war in Iraq are speaking out and venting their anger towards a president that has lied too many times. Calling Bush's war "an atrocity" and questioning "Why is no one being held accoun

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AN OCCUPATION ROOTED IN FANTASY

Saturday, 29 May 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

Just about every aspect of the occupation of Iraq has been based on fantasies. The neocon fantasy of a new American world empire is at the root of the whole Iraq quagmire. Bush and the neocons have consistently ignored the sound advice of the mil

GORE MINCES NO WORDS

Thursday, 27 May 2004 6:27 P GMT-07

By way of explananation, I've been out of circulation for a couple of days while switching over from my old dial-up connection to a DSL connection. I'm back now for a while at least. However, I will be without a computer hookup between June 3 and

BUSH SHOULD LISTEN NOT TALK TO WAR COLLEGE

Monday, 24 May 2004 6:55 P GMT-07

Interesting that Bush should be talking to the U.S. Army War College tonight, rather than listening to them. The War college has, over the past months, made an number of suggestion to the president about his Iraq policies, but Bush with his usual a

IRAQ: FROM BAD TO WORSE

Sunday, 23 May 2004 2:57 P GMT-07

The entire misadventure in Iraq by the Bush administration has been characterized from the beginning by lies, deceptions, arrogance, ignorance, blunders, and an unwillingness to admit any miscalculations or mistakes. The policies and actions were

PRIVATIZATION AND THE PENTAGON

Saturday, 22 May 2004 12:39 P GMT-07

Another interesting commentary from a fine progressive website, TomPaine.com, http://www.tompaine.com . In this treatise, William D. Hartung, a senior research fellow at the World Policy Institute at New School University, examines the policy of priv

METHOD IN HIS MADNESS?

Saturday, 22 May 2004 10:37 A GMT-07

It may seem that "the portly fraud" Ahmad Chalabi has been acting against his own best interests in recent weeks. Long the darling of the U.S. neocons, the power-hungry, former exile, has seemingly been going out of his way to criticize t

NO BUCK STOPS WITH BUSH

Friday, 21 May 2004 4:59 P GMT-07

During his presidency I was not one of Harry Truman's biggest fans. He turned out to be a better president than I expected, what with not letting Gen. "Dugout Doug" MacArthur bully him around. His best quality was in recognizing that ul

THE SCAMMERS SCAMMED

Friday, 21 May 2004 4:15 P GMT-07

It's been clear for some time that the Bush administrated perpetrated an enormous scam on the American people in the lead-up to the unnecessary war of aggression against Iraq. A key part of the scam was Ahmad Chalabi the source of much of the misin

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HOW TO LOWER GAS PRICES: CAN BUSH

Friday, 21 May 2004 9:53 A GMT-07

The Women's Vote Center, affiliated with the Democratic National Committee, http://www.democrats.org/wvc , publishes online an informative weekly letter called "Week In Review. It's free and can be subscribed to at the link given above. He

FIVE WRONGS MAKE A RIGHT (WINGER)

Thursday, 20 May 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

This is a second segment of news items from today's (May 20, 2004) The Progress Report. It reports on five items that clearly reveal the extreme right-wing biases of Vice President Cheney. -- Bryce.THE PROGRESS REPORThttp://www.progressrepor

MEDICARE: PATTERN OF DECEIT

Thursday, 20 May 2004 4:06 P GMT-07

The Bush Medicare bill was a fraud not just in it's untruthful claims, but in the use of liiegal, taxpayer-funded propaganda. The GOP sponsors also used bribery, fakery and threats to get this fraudulent piece of legislation passed. More evid

CHALABI AND THE CHUMPS

Thursday, 20 May 2004 2:52 P GMT-07

The love-affair between the Bush neocons and their favorite Iraqi, Ahmad Chalabi seems to have cooled. Unfortunately, far too much damage caused by the infatuation has already been done. (NOTE: In one of my very early blogs here I warned abou

PROGRESS REPORT - MISC. ITEMS

Thursday, 20 May 2004 11:23 A GMT-07

Usually when I post items from The Center for American Progress, http://www.americanprogress.org , or from their online publication The Progress Report, http://www.progressreport.org , I am posting just a part of the total Report -- one "segme

PLAN FOR SUCCESS IN IRAQ

Wednesday, 19 May 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

On May 12, 2004, The Center for American Progress, http://www.americanprogress.com , unveiled a plan for taking responsibility and implementing reforms in Iraq in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib scandal which has seriously damaged U.S. credibility

ENERGY POLICY IS OUT OF GAS

Wednesday, 19 May 2004 4:49 P GMT-07

News-Opinion has paid more attention to the war agsinst and occupation of Iraq than any other issue. The reason is simple; I regard it as the most serious of the immediate issues we face. In addition, Bush was all geared up to run a campaign fo

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PROBLEMS IN IRAQ CONTINUE

Wednesday, 19 May 2004 3:15 P GMT-07

I'm going to post a series of exerpts from The Progress Report that I've received over the last few days. As I think I've noted here before, this has become perhaps the single best source of news that can be trusted that is available to the gener

THE STINK LEADS TO THE TOP

Monday, 17 May 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

The White House and Pentagon have tried hard to put the blame for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners on the heads of a handful of "rogue" low-level U.S. service personnel. That effort, so typical of the Bush machine, is failing. As the commen

WHAT WENT WRONG ?

Saturday, 15 May 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

The temptation is to answer the question posed by Paul Krugman with "everything." Just about everything that could go wrong in the occupation of Iraq HAS gone wrong. Krugman himself talks about a Bush policy of "malign neglect"

POWELL 'LENT HIS NAME TO LIES'

Friday, 14 May 2004 4:35 P GMT-07

Of all the major players in the Bush administration, Colin Powell was thought by many to have the most credibility, the most respect among people of all political persuasions. It's a sad fact that his actions over the past year and a half have cost

WRONG KIND OF OUTRAGE

Wednesday, 12 May 2004 5:04 P GMT-07

I never thought much of Sen. Inhofe of Oklahoma. Now I think even less of him -- and apparently so does Senator McCain. Inhofe's comments are as ridiculous as those of rash Rush Limbaugh. Meanwhile, the situation in Iraq is as confused and unse

RUMSFELD'S RECKONING

Wednesday, 12 May 2004 2:40 P GMT-07

It's difficult to imagine anything more that could go wrong in Iraq. The abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib is about the worst thing that could happen in terms of how the rest of the world sees America. Most of the fallout is being aimed at Secreta