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In his new book, the widely respected Ron Suskind charges that in run up to the war in Iraq, the Bush Administration ordered the CIA to forge a document that would support the claim that there was a connection between the al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s Government. If this is true, and there is every reason to believe that it is, then the smoking gun that justifies the impeachment of George W Bush and Dick Cheney may have just turned up.  

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It might be hard to believe but there were some of us out there in the progressive community who still admired Ralph Nader, even after his questionable presidential runs. Today, after his racist comments about Sen. Obama, there is one less progressive in that already dwindling category.

Mr. Nader has done more good for the consumers and citizens in this country than almost anyone you will find on our currency, but the words he has now uttered sound like they could have come from the mouth of Don Imus. For some time, questions have been raised over the role Nader’s ego has played in his choice to campaign in swing states; where his marginal successes have been blamed for throwing the race to the republicans. What is not in question is the effect of those republican victories; they have pushed back the progress in consumer safety, workers rights, and environmental protections, that Mr. Nader had spent the greater part of his life fighting for.

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The full title of the story was “Obama: bin Laden still free because of GOP”. In fairness to Drudge the author of the piece, the associated press’s Nedra Pickler used this title as well. Obama’s comments on the subject are important and shine light on a seldom spoken truth; the republican conceived war on terror has failed to bring America’s greatest enemy to justice. This is the debate that democrats have been to afraid to have for the last seven years, but it is the right one for the nation. In that spirit one has to commend Drudge for covering it, on the other hand, it is probably never a good idea to have the words “Obama: bin Laden” right underneath a huge picture of the Senator.

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It’s the biggest American political story of in a generation, and HBO has done a very good job of capturing the string of maddening events that lead to the winner of the 2000 presidential election being declared before all the votes were counted.

A VOTE FOR GORE IS A VOTE FOR BUCHANAN

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Michael Moore is working on a follow up to Fahrenheit 9/11, a movie that dared to say what not even the democrats would; that George W. Bush is a phony and an opportunist.

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In a sign that the general election show down really has begun, John McCain’s biggest backer, George W. Bush is out slinging some mud at Barack Obama. The dust up is over Obama’s willingness to meet with leaders from friendly and unfriendly nations. The President and several McCain surrogates are arguing that this position is comparable to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler before WWII.

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Though George W was inspiring and reassuring when he was standing on that steaming rubble and shouting through the bull horn, what he said (the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon ) wasn’t true. More than six years have passed since 9/11 and our national treasures of blood and gold have been spent on war, but Osama bin Laden remains at large. According to a new congressional report, the Bush administration continues to lack a strategy for bringing the terrorist leader to justice.

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A presidential boycott should occur “if the Chinese do not take steps to help stop the genocide in Darfur and to respect the dignity, security, and human rights of the Tibetan people

To her credit, Hillary Clinton has taken the lead among the presidential candidates in calling on Present Bush skip the opening ceremony in Beijing.

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          The department of defense confirms that four solders killed by a roadside bomb this morning in southern Baghdad move the United States death toll in Iraq to 4000. This is a moment to consider how much these young Americans and their families have sacrificed and to ponder what their lives were traded for. In this story the American wounded often get over looked by the media, and almost no one is even attempting to keep up with how many Iraqis have died in the five year conflict.

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MSNBC on 4000

             It has now been five years since the United States military invaded Iraq to stop Saddam Hussein from using weapons of mass destruction, which he didn’t have, to help terrorist who he wasn’t connected to. That’s not liberal spin, but the conclusion of the bi-partisan Iraq Study Group co-chaired by the former Sec. of State republican James Baker. Now, according to the Department of Defense 3992 Americans have died in the war. Despite Bush adviser Paul Wolfowitz’s prewar assurance that with Iraq, “We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction”, Estimates say that the cost of the war is between $700 billion to $2 trillion. Reporting on the issue of Iraqi civilian dead has been shamefully poor but 1000000 is an often pointed to figure. And of course, Osama bin Laden is still at large in Pakistan..

             Five years on, with 97% of the US deaths coming since the president declaired declared “Mission Accomplished”, and with all the original justifications for the war proven false, and the Bush administrations unraveling credibility having left the American people with a true crises of leadership, we as a nation are no closer to an idea of what victory in Iraq would look like. The policy  makers on the war still have no time tables and misses their own benchmarks casually. As Eric Kleefeld of talking points memo points out George Bush’s popularity has fallen 40 points over the five years of the Iraq war. Now as the race to replace Bush heats up, the republican nominee still doesn’t quite have the facts straight. While visiting the Middle East John McCain repeatedly states that Shia Iran is training Sunni Al-Qaida. Not one to be over shadowed, McCain’s Iraq traveling buddy Dick Cheney, when asked by ABC about polls that show two thirds of Americans think the war is not worth it said “so?” that before leavening to go fishing on the yacht of the Sultan of Oman.

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          Some in the media and opposition operatives have been working hard to bring into focus Barack Obama’s connection to Jeremiah Wright, his retired pastor from the United Church of Christ in Chicago, whose controversial comments the senator has denounced. But in a time when Obama’s connection to Wright, is coming to be a big story we should remember the role that neoconservative ideologues and evangelical fanatics played in the approach of the Bush administration. If the media and rival campaigns think that the political integrity of a candidate’s spiritual adviser is worth investigating, then they should look closer at the people from whom John McCain is taking council.

            For seven years now the foreign policy of the United States seems to have been loosely based on one organizing principle, ‘don’t’ mess with Texas’. Now that the Bush years are drawing to a close, many around the country are hopeful that our next president will have a more sophisticated world view than does the current occupant of the oval office. Most people assume that the next Commander-in-chief will bring to the office, an understanding of the world that is more nuanced, one painted with more shades of gray and less black and white; not so fast.

            If John McCain is elected the country might be in for more of the same. Though he is known as a reformer and a maverick, and though conservatives are quick to point out all the ways he has failed to tow the party line (on immigration, torture, campaign finance, tax cuts or the rich), indications are that McCain may not be free from the type of absolutist dogmatic ideology that ruined the Bush administration.

            Recently Rod Parsley, one of the evangelical preachers who McCain counts as an spiritual adviser, said that America should aim to destroy Islam. Now that really is a daunting goal, perhaps not as daunting as when George W. Bush’s pledge to wipe evil of the face of the earth; he couldn’t even get it out of his White House.  But Islam is the one of the world’s largest religion with over a billion adherents. Maybe that is what McCain has in mind for the troops he says he might keep in Iraq for the next hundred years. However most educated adults understand that a war with Islam is the last things anyone should want.This is the stuff that makes s everyone from Ron Paul to Ralph Nader go nuts. This is just an idea, but what if we keep the American Government out of the business of regulating what people believe about what happens after you die.

            As David Corn of Mother Jones points out, Parsley calls Islam an “antichrist religion” and charges that Mohammad “received [his] revelations from demons”. Perhaps somehow there is still some debate about the inherent ethnocentrism, foolishness and disrespect contained in those words, but this must is for sure, it clearly makes you politicaly dangerous for a Presidential Candidate to stand with.

           Parsley is not the only fundamentalist fanatic that McCain has courted in his attempt to win over the  Republican party’s evangelical fringe. We shouldn’t forget about McCain spiritual adviser John Hagee, who called the Catholic Church “the great whore”. If Sen. McCain wants to have any chance of appealing to moderate voters in the general election, he must distance himself from these phonies who use their ‘spirituality’ as a front for their hateful, intolerant, bigotry. What do you know? Here’s one of those things that really is black or white; either you reject the political support of hateful Fanatics or you don’t.

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Time magazine’s Mark Halperin has the story here

           Some folkes are good at math and can see that Sen. Obama has won more popular votes, more states, more pledged delegates, and more total delegates than Sen. Clinton. If that stat line holds, there is no way that anyone other than Barack Obama will be the democratic nominee. However one factor that the above argument overlooks is the well known, well financed, kamikaze candidacy of Hillary Clinton. Even though no one in the press will say so, she no longer has any chance of wining the nomination. In fact, given the backlash against her apparent disregard for the future of the Democratic Party, at this point it is unimaginable that she will ever be number one or two on her party’s presidential ticket. But that doesn’t mean she is out of bullets. If she does what she promises to do; stays in the race until the convention and continues to undermine Obama’s electability, and calls in every political favor her brand name can render, she can still derail the Obama candidacy. If that happens, Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift suggests that we might be heading for a general election match up between Republican John McCain, the Green Party’s Ralph Nader, and the Democratic nominee Al Gore. Wait, what year is it? And what ever happened to that George W. Bush guy?

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          We have come to a point in our national saga where our tap dancing president is more likely to make us laugh than to think and our sarcastic comedians speak the truth that no politician or pundit dare utter. The link below will take you to the politico’s post written by Seinfeld co-creator and Curb Your Enthusiasm star, Larry David.  

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            Maybe some of you out there in the “group of folks” who read anewdaypost have “misunderestimated” just how hard it can be to put “food on your family”. Maybe you doubt that the “human being and fish can coexist peacefully”. Maybe you are worried that “terriers and bariffs” are too high. One thing is for sure, “war is a dangerous place” especial when the evil-doers have a constant stream of new “recruiterment”.  And while it will surely “take time to restore chaos” George W. Bush is here to help you “wings take dream”.  Though our time with George is running out, we still can cherish the months we have left together. From English mangling press conference to tap dancing endorsements, we really do have so much to be thankful for. Go ahead enjoy it while it last.

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“That’s right. Osama bin Laden hasn’t been captured, much less killed, and Gen. Musharraf’s reign over Pakistan is on the brink of chaos, but we still rely on him to find bin Laden in that nation, and still, until now nobody here has found time to mention it. And now, you’re supposed to be embarrassed for having suggested that if Musharraf won’t act, you will? Nonsense.  Prior to your discussion of the subject, Sen. Obama, I reviewed the transcripts of the first seven presidential debates (almost 15 hours!) and could find only one substantive question about Pakistan put to any of the candidates, and that came from someone in the audience. That’s why I blame the other candidates for not talking in detail about what they would do to find bin Laden if elected, and shame on the media for giving those candidates a free pass.  

I certainly don’t profess to have the answers about what we should be doing in Pakistan to finally find and kill bin Laden, and I don’t know whether you do, Sen. Obama. But I welcome your attempt at leading the discussion.”

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