Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
President Bush spoke to troops at Fort Irwin, California today about the Iraq war and the lesson we learned on September 11, 2001:
In other words, this is a war in which, if we were to leave before the job is done, the enemy would follow us here. That's the lesson ...
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
A very recent CBS News poll says that 59% of Americans support the move by the House of Representative this week to insert a withdrawal timetable into the supplemental bill providing funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course President Bush is quite upset with this particular piece ...
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
I first have to say that I found out about this through this blog post by AJ at AMERICABlog. It's a scathing post, but I think it makes a couple of points that merit attention.
Senator John McCain went on NBC's Today show this morning, and he said the following:
"[The war] ...
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
The House of Representatives voted today to link continued funding for the war in Iraq to a commitment to withdraw American troops from that country no later than August 2008. This action really only has symbolic meaning, as President Bush will veto the legislation, and neither house of Congress has ...
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
The House Judiciary subcommittee voted today to allow Democratic leaders to issue subpoenas to four administration officials, including Karl Rove and Harriet Miers, to solicit under oath testimony about the fired U.S. attorneys scandal. The president is not a fan of this option and will only allow the officials to ...
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Sunday, March 11th, 2007
I have pondered this question several times recently, as I have learned more about how the Department of Justice has increasingly at best turned a blind eye toward civil liberties violations and at worst participated in said violations. From the torture and indefinite detention of an American citizen to a ...
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