Tag: politics
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Politics
Tim Russert talking with Prince Bandar bin Sultan regarding the flight on sept 13th (the evacuation of approximately 140 Saudis just two days after 9/11). Bush says "I promote wetlands protection", th…
Diebold antidepressants
Finally: A voting panel urges California officials to stop using a voting machine made by Diebold Election Systems , and recommends that the state consider filing civil and criminal charges against th…
Bob Woodward
The Condensed Bob Woodward . U.S.-Saudi relations an election focus . McCain calls for fresh troops for Iraq .
Spoils of War
Bribes and black marketeering are rampant, Halliburton subsidiaries charging double for gas, Iraqi officials and Arabic translators unrestrained from pocketing millions of dollars, or even members of …
Good job, boys
Arab ally snubs Bush amid 'unprecedented hatred' for US. The Arab world sees us as giving a free pass to Israel, now the world looks at Iraq and sees a similar situation. The Pentagon deleted from a p…
Iron Mountain
Anna and I hiked up Iron Mnt yesterday. My legs are sore today. It was well worth the trip though. Was good exercise and the view was quite spectacular. The mtn was burned over in the fall, so it had …
War plans
Looks like Bush has another book to disbute - President Bush secretly ordered a war plan drawn up against Iraq less than two months after U.S. forces attacked Afghanistan and was so worried the decisi…
Trust, Don't Verify
Director George Tenet and others at the CIA were briefed in August 2001 about the arrest of Zacarias Moussaoui in a paper titled "Islamic Extremist Learns to Fly." But Tenet barely had any contact wit…
Hired Guns
More info on private military contractors in Iraq and the issues they bring up.
Heavy curtains
Woke up to the new ball park down town setting off fireworks. Uhg. I hope that isn't a regular thing. The lights on the thing have already ruined my poor view... I can only guess that the people in th…