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Iraqi Civlian Casualties are Running High Than Bush is Admitting to. The War was Dragging On, So They Decided to Start Shooting Up Baghdad Right and Left to Quiet Growing Discontent at Home. 4/9
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Marc Racicot Crossed the Line and Ought to Apologize to John Kerry
Will Turks Invade Northern Iraq Over Oil Fields? Stay Tuned. 4/9
In Basra, Growing Resentment, Little Aid 4/9
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More on Norm Coleman, Who Is Proving to be Such a Low Life That He's Guaranteed a Bright Future in the Republican Party 4/9
Boy Bomb Victim Struggles Against Despair. One Can Only Hope that This Image Haunts George W. Bush For the Rest of His Life 4/9
Polls by Us 4/9
Looting Follows Liberation. Ain't War Grand? 4/9
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Blair and Bush Say That They Will Offer the U.N. a Few Crumbs 4/9
GOP leader seeks big increase in size of contracts Pentagon can award without competitive bids 4/9
Bearing Wounds, Shiites Return to Torture Chamber 4/9
Oakland Police Officer Firing Shotgun with Rubber Bullets at Protestors 4/9
The Real Story Behind the So-Called Attack on Saddam Hussein. Was It Just Another U.S. Show of Force to Intimidate Iraqis? 4/9
Norm Coleman Brags that He's a Better Man Than Paul Wellstone. Coleman is Just a Dirt Bag Picked Out of the Dust Bin of History by Karl Rove. We are Reposting this February Editorial.
CIA Report Slams Pentagon's Favorite Iraqi
Twelve activists, mostly elderly, arrested during peaceful event in California 4/9
US bomb kills 11 Afghan civilians. The Bush Cartel Makes Some More Native Friends. 4/9
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things. The Book that Inspired "Bowling for Columbine."
Senate Rolls a Pork Barrel Into War Bill 4/9
Evidence Growing that the Pentagon Knew It was Attacking Journalists. After All, It was the Pentagon that ADVISED Journalists to Stay at the Palestine Hotel. 4/9
International Fury Over U.S. Caused Deaths of Journalists 4/9
Pataki's Ratings Plunge in New York 4/9
Bush Choice for Postwar Iraq Questioned 4/9
Dana Milbank: Recycling the Past as Playbook 4/9
Politically Incorrect Bill Maher is Author of "When You Ride ALONE, You Ride With Bin Laden." The Newest BuzzFlash.Com Premium. In Book or CD Format.
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World Bank Not Invited to Help Iraq 4/9
The Permanent War is About to Become a Reality: Syria, Iran, Libya. When Will This Stop?
Senate Democrats Temporarily Stop Owen Nomination. Let's Hope It Leads to a Second Filibuster. 4/9
BuzzFlash Prediction: Bush Will Turn to More War, In Part, Because It Keeps People From Rightfully Blaming Him for the Horrible American Economy 4/9
"A federal jury convicted three Roman Catholic nuns Monday of obstructing national defense and damaging government property after they cut through fences and sprayed their own blood on a Minuteman III missile silo" 4/9
Will "United for Peace" Resolution Reach General Assembly Floor? 4/9
Will the Democrats Filibuster Patriot II When It Is Introduced? Our Democracy Depends Upon It. 4/9
11 Journalists Die in 21 Days of War 4/9
LA studies possible legal fallout from use of police computer to get data on celebrities 4/9
Another Mall Arrest for Wearing an Antiwar T-Shirt, This Time in Arkansas 4/9
All Those Bush Republicans Must Support Giving an Immigrant Citizenship AFTER He Dies in Bush's Little War 4/9
The World According to Marie Antoinette, Oh, We Mean Barbara Bush and Her "Beautiful Mind"
Oakland Peace Protestor Shows Back Wounds from Rubber Bullets 4/9
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Kerry: Democracy Means He Can Criticize 4/9
Clinton was Cheered When He Visited Belfast, But Bush is Greeted by Protests. So, He Avoids the City Altogether. Only Karl Rove Press-Ops for Bush, Who is Afraid to Be in Any Situation That Isn't Programmed. 4/9
Dissent is a Birthright, Robert Byrd 4/9
Brits Say Bush Probably Didn't Get Bombed in Restaurant, But Bush Killed a Whole Lot of Civilians, Which Must Have Made His Day 4/9
Civilian Area Gets Blown Up in U.S. Effort to Kill Saddam. Article Says Saddam Thought They Wouldn't Bomb Him in a Civilian Area, But Bush, Of Course, Proved HIm Wrong. Way to Go, George! You're A Tough Chickenhawk in your $5,000 Suits and $1,000 Shoes!
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A Marine's Story 4/9
Graphic Photo of Wound Caused by Rubber Bullets Shot Against Protestors in Oakland 4/8
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Gulf War Syndrome, the Sequel 4/9
Media Buying Politicians 4/9
Hospitals in Iraq Overwhelmed by Living and Dead Civilians
U.S. Condemned After Journalists are Killed by Tank 4/9
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A Little Bit of Bush Cartel Hypocrisy About Pakistan? 4/9
The Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. By the Man Who Released the Pentagon Papers. A Warning About a Government that Keeps Secrets.
Unofficial "Iraqi Freedom" Trading Cards 4/9
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Baghdad Battles 4/9
Speaking of Indulging in Costly Personal Vanity, How Much Does a George W. Bush Suit Cost. And What About Those $1000 Pairs of Shoes? Reposted.
When Saddam is ousted, the UN inspectors should be sent back in to Iraq 4/9
Yesterday’s Emergency Has Been Cancelled Due to Political Inconvenience - P.M. Carpenter
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Norm Coleman Makes Trash Smell Good 4/9
Poor hardest to find on campus; Report: Low-income students more scarce than minorities 4/9
Holy Cripes! GOP Wants $200 Million No-Bid Contracts for Pentagon 4/9
Imperial Power Or Global Partner? The Right Way To Rebuild Iraq 4/9
Think you know what patriotism is? 4/9
Egyptian Intellectual Speaks Of the Arab World's Despair: Under the present situation, I cannot think of defending the United States" 4/9
For Some, Syria Looms as Next Goal 4/9
Hotel hit 'deliberate': French TV 4/9
The Propaganda Campaign Against Syria Begins: "Syria now top US target for 'regime change'" 4/9
Church Event Set for Base Stirs Concern 4/9
Amid Allied jubilation, a child lies in agony, clothes soaked in blood 4/9
Al-Jazeera claims military 'cover up' 4/9
Mobil falls under eye of Kazakh probe 4/9
Red Cross: Iraq Wounded TOO HIGH to Count 4/9
Another Betrayal of America: Bush Seeks Voluntary Chemical Plant Security Steps; Criticized as Vulnerable to Terrorism, Industry Fighting Democratic Proposal for Mandatory Measures 4/9
The Buck Never Stops With Bush. He Never Accepts Responsibility for His Actions. Never.
Bamboozled by Ads: Politics, Propaganda And Advertising 4/9
Did GOP group skirt ban on corporate donations? Texas PAC denies it swapped money with national organization 4/9
WHO Concerned About Baghdad Hospitals 4/9
'Saving Private Lynch' and other tales 4/9
Instead of security, we have blacklist 4/9
Cash Donations Boost Dean & Edwards 4/9
House Democrats Want Halliburton Probe 4/9
That "Cakewalk" Turn Out to be "Hell on Earth" -- More Lies and Deception from the White House 4/9
Int'l Committee of the Red Cross -- Iraq News Releases 4/9
Evaluating Gun Policy: Effects on Crime and Violence
Nicholas D. Kristof: The Ring of Truth? 4/9
Pics of Wooden Bullets Oakland Police Fired Directly at People, Even Though the Cylinder for the Wooden Bullets Has Written on It "Do Not Fire Directly At Persons" 4/9
The poetry of D. H. Rumsfeld: Dubious verse by the secretary of defense 4/9
AWOL Bush and His Chickenhawk Colleagues in Cowardly Behavior
The IRAQ BODY COUNT Database
U.N. finds Congo mass grave 4/9
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A whiff of fascism 4/9
No firm evidence of banned weapons; Washington shifts attention to need to 'liberate' Iraq 4/9
Kerry finds fodder in GOP criticism; Takes offense after 'regime change' call 4/9
Democrats call for probe into Iraq postwar contracts 4/9
Bush's Alderaan: "a full year before the invasion – Bush outlined his real thinking to three U.S. senators, 'Fuck Saddam,' Bush said. 'We’re taking him out.'" 4/9
US accused of plans to loot Iraqi antiques 4/9
The Mystery of Saddam's Banned Arms 4/9
Latest Developments in Iraq's Oil Fields, World Oil Markets 4/9
Near-record number of US diplomats leave posts over war, terror, SARS fears 4/9
The Bush Legacy: New 'Bin Laden tape' urges attacks against countries who support war in Iraq 4/9
List of Journalists Killed in Iraq 4/9
No Peace Without Surrender: "The key to winning this war, like any war, is finding someone willing to surrender." 4/9
Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, will introduce a bill today to establish a Cabinet-level Department of Peace 4/9
Anti-terror agencies win anti-privacy awards 4/9
More than a year ago, Kenneth Adelman, who works with Richard Perle, wrote a Wash. Post article titled "Cakewalk in Iraq" 4/9
Peter Arnett: Despair of a Village at Devastation 4/9
BP maps out Iraq strategy: World's No. 3 oil company is getting ready to work on the world's second largest reserves of crude. 4/9
Graham raises $1 million for presidential bid; Edwards, Kerry lead Democratic fund-raising effort 4/9
University resists lawmakers' call to fire antiwar instructor 4/9
Fox Network and the Pentagon: Two [Black] Hearts that Beat as One 4/9
Patriotism pays: Patriotism a little over the top on TV and radio these days? That's the plan. 4/9
Coalition Troop Casualties, POWs, MIAs 4/9
Lawmakers surprised by doctor's comments: It won't be National Geographic, hanging to her knees. It'll be nice, firm breasts" 4/9
Oh Yeah, And About the Disastrous Economy Created by the Bush Cartel.... 4/8
Suspicions Swirl as U.S. Unveils Iraq Team 4/8
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FROM THE BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL ARCHIVES: Of All the Republican Chickenhawks, Tom DeLay Takes the Cake
U.S. Forces Set Up Baghdad Base 4/8
"Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg
FROM THE BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS ARCHIVES: Come Clean About that Boil on the Butt, Rush! BuzzFlash Issues a Hemmorhoidal Challenge to the Oink-Oink Man!
I Miss America: Even Dick Nixon looks good to me now 4/8
"Smoking gun" WMD site in Iraq turns out to contain pesticide 4/8
Photo of Women Shot IN THE HEAD by Oakland Police at Antiwar Protestors 4/8
Norm Coleman, A Poor Excuse for a Human Being:"To be very blunt and God watch over Paul's soul, I am a 99 percent improvement over Paul Wellstone," Coleman said. "Just about on every issue." 4/8
Iraq, For All Practical Purposes, Will Become America's 51st State. Sixth in a Series of BuzzFlash Editorials.
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U.S. Launched Missile Strike on Building Housing Al-Jazeera TV. Reporter Killed. Is this An Example of Bush Trying to Build Good Will in the Arab World? 4/8
The Gulf War: How Did We Get Here? - The Angry Liberal
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Kerry's Not Backing Down. 4/8
Posted for a Second Time, It Is So Important: Smoking gun" WMD site in Iraq turns out to contain pesticide 4/8
FROM THE BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL ARCHIVES: Transcript from Chickenhawk Tom DeLay
Repost: Tell Senator Stevens What You Think of His Belief that NYC Police and Firefighters Should Work Overtime for Free While Stevens Gives Wealthy Republicans Even MORE Tax Breaks 4/8
Norm Coleman: Is He Beevis or Butthead? 4/8
Those GOP/Bush Values: Neil Bush’s quiet divorce 4/8
Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough" and a BuzzFlash.Com Honest-to-Goodness Piggy Bank! Can You Beat a Combination Like That?
Poverty, Military Service Seem to Go Hand-in-Hand 4/8
Opposition leader secretly flown to Iraq; Chalabi's rise is strongly opposed by the CIA and the US state department 4/8
Bush and Lapdog Blair See U.N. "Advisory" Role 4/8
A List of Bush Lies on Iraq
Aljazeera in English. The Site is Often Overloaded, But You Can Try. 4/8
Taliban Reportedly Making a Comeback in Afghanistan 4/8
Like Robert Byrd, George McGovern is More Than 80 Years Old. Unlike Bush and Cheney Who Were Cowards During Vietnam, McGovern Was a War Hero. Why Do Only Democrats Over 80 Vigorously Speak Out for Democracy? Thank You George McGovern.
Red Cross doctors who visited southern Iraq this past week saw "incredible" levels of civilian casualties including a truckload of dismembered women and children 4/8
Looting Erupts In Iraq 4/8
Baghdad doctors overwhelmed by arrival of 100 patients an hour 4/8
Halliburton is "Making a Killing" on the War - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
John Kerry, Don't Apologize For Telling The Truth: The Future Of Democracy Depends Upon Exposing The Chronic Lies And Deceptions Of The Bush Cartel
Bush's Shady U.N. Ambassador to Get $600,000 to Redo Kitchen!
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The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist)
Mark Morford: Who Cares About Dead Iraqis? Body counts, Rummy's plan, and the grisly stuff they don't want you to see 4/8
My views are those of millions: I am not a traitor and I will not be gagged over this war 4/8
Let the Republican National Committee Know What You Think About War Hero John Kerry Telling Vietnam-Evaders Bush and Cheney to Stuff It
Agency wages media battle; Team makes sure war message is unified, positive 4/8
The thick fog of war: Don't adjust your set -- it's just the haze from America's 'embedded' journalists 4/8
From the Archives: Bush's Buddy, Ken Lay, On Deregulation. We Kid You Not. 4/8
The U.S. Betrays Its Core Values; Having learned from its past, Germany rightly rejects Bush's war and his disdain of the U.N. by Gunter Grass, 1999 Nobel Prize winner for Literature 4/8
CNN won't let the facts in Iraq get in the way 4/8
War Wounds: Bombs Fall and the Lights Go Out 4/8
Poppy Bush's Carlyle Group is heavily involved in supplying arms to the Coalition forces fighting in the Iraqi war. Isn't There a Law Against This Type of Profiteering? 4/8
Congo massacre 'leaves 1,000 dead' 4/8
Iraqis Loot Basra As British Take Control 4/8
Bush scraps rule aimed at keeping pension plan swaps fair for all workers 4/8
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Laura Bush Asks You: Please Read to a Dead Iraqi Child! 4/8
Librarians Rounded Up in Laura Bush Sting Operation 4/8
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Ted Rall: In Sorrow, Not Anger 4/8
These Are Ironic Times 4/8
Republican Congresswoman Champions Group Labeled Terrorist by U.S. Intelligence and Diplomatic Communities
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