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Democrats Finally Catch On: Bush is Shafting Veterans and the Military. Hey, That's Just One Small Part of His Massive Bait and Switch Hypocrisy. 6/17
Washington Tries to Get Lynch Story "Right." Funny, The Small-Town Iraqi Lawyer Who is the Pentagon's Main "Witness" is Now Working for a GOP Lobbying Firm (Headed by Bob "Romeo" Livingston) and Writing a Book for MURDOCH's Firm. Not in the Post Story.
Remember: This is a Bush Lie Less Than a Few Days Old. He Called the Mobile Labs Proof of WMDs. That's What is Called a Fresh Lie, Among a Mountian of Serial Lies. 6/17
Members of MoveOn.org May Endorse a Democratic Candidate Soon 6/17
Must Read: Bush's Ideological Facade Hide Political Goal 6/17
Go Sidney: "But what Washington really has against Blumenthal is this: He is utterly unapologetic about admiring Bill Clinton and equally unapologetic about being a liberal." 6/17
Pentagon Spokeswoman Victoria Clarke Resigns 6/17
The Bush Legacy: Our Casualties in Iraq 6/17
If You Question Bush About his WMD Lies, He'll Call You a 'Revisionist Historian.' Bush Lied about Iraq's Imminent Threat. There's No Arguing That. It's Not A Revision. He Lied. 6/17
Toxic Tom DeLay Anti-Christ Update: "House Republican Leader Tom DeLay is paying legal bills with the help of donations from fellow lawmakers and energy, tobacco and airline companies" 6/17
Candidate Dean Faults Bush Handling of the Economy 6/17
Tyranny and Terrorism 6/17
Max Cleland on Fire! Onward True Patriot! 6/17
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More Newspapers Drop Gun Classifieds 6/17
Mission Accomplished, Mr. Bush? Demonstrators stone Army vehicles as 10,000 protest in Basra 6/17
Henry Waxman Stands Up for America's National Security by Exposing Bush's Show War 6/17
Nonprofits Bound by Donation Rules 6/17
Richard Perle Shows Up Yapping Everywhere About Everything. In a Supposedly Tight-Lipped Administration, This Guy Can't Stop Telling the World Off. He's Like the Embarrasing Uncle You Can't Keep Locked Up in the Closet. 6/17
BuzzFlash Likes Carl Levin. He Demands the Truth from the CIA and the Bush Administration. How do You Spell Bush Cartel/GOP C-O-V-E-R-U-P 6/17
BBC Poll Shows Disapproval of Iraq War in 11 Countries 6/17
This is What Bush Meant by Mission Accomplished: Iraq Set to Resume Pumping Oil 6/16
"Iraq needs a transitional administration within three weeks if it is to avoid a descent into chaos, the most prominent Iraqi leader acceptable to all sides told The Independent last night" 6/17
The Smoking Gun That Could Lead To Bush's Impeachment - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
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Dividend Tax Cut Will Benefit Many in House, Financial Reports Show 6/17
Put Tom DeLay in a Nut House. The Democrats Just Need to Introduce America to Bush's Psychotic House Leader to Win in 2004. Just Hammer Away at the Hammer Head. 6/17
Republican Tax Cuts Aim to Bloat the Rich 6/17
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Hillary Hits the Letterman Show 6/17
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Terminator Man for Governor of California? Maybe He Will Run With That Savage Guy as His Lt. Governor. The Perfect GOP Ticket. 6/17
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Max Cleland's Sat. Nt. Speech was "the most scathing critique of the Bush administration's military and foreign policy we've heard from a Democrat this year" 6/17
A Fraud Study to Drill Offshore 6/17
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Bush Picks Campaign Chief and RNC Chairman 6/17
The Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. By the Man Who Released the Pentagon Papers. A Warning About a Government that Keeps Secrets.
The Bush Lies Marathon, Day 2 6/17
Repost: Broadband Video Link to Franken/Ivins/O'Reilly Panel Discussion (goes directly to video)
Airbus leaps ahead of Boeing in Plane orders at Paris Show. Will Corporate America Still Support Bush if His Administration Makes People Hate Our Products? 6/17
Lies, Damned Lies And Military Intelligence 6/17
Uganda: This is mercy ... they left his eyes and legs. 6/17
Records Detail a Senate of Affluence 6/17
Court Backs Limits to Drugging Defendants 6/17
Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough" and a BuzzFlash.Com Honest-to-Goodness Piggy Bank! Can You Beat a Combination Like That?
Harley Sorenson: The War Built On A Lie 6/17
"Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg
Recall Ca. Gov. Davis Campaign Funded by Republican Who Wants to Be Governor. 6/17
Might and Right: "in the unipolar world that the Bush Administration seems bent on forging, our security will depend as much on our credibility as on our physical might." 6/17
'If there really were a Democratic Party...' 6/17
How An Earlier "Patriot Act" Law Brought Down A President 6/17
In the land of the free, a freedom worth fighting for 6/17
Repost: Ted Rall: They Impeach Murderers, Don't They? 6/17
If the president's tax cuts cause huge budget deficits and further weaken the economy, we may again see the high levels of concentrated poverty recorded in 1990. 6/17
Disgusting: How the Media Swallows the Pentagon's "Myth Making" Machine. Private Lynch is a Hero to Us, As are All our Soldiers. They are All Grist for the Mill in the Bush Cartel Propaganda Machine. 6/17
Neocons on the Line: A growing number of critics on Capitol Hill and around the world are questioning the Bush administration’s credibility—and its assumptions—as never before. 6/17
A third of the American Sheeple believe U.S. forces found WMD in Iraq, according to a recent poll. And 22 percent said Iraq actually used chemical or biological weapons. 6/17
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Enron's Hiring. Perhaps They Should Call Ken Lay -- Bush's Buddy Is Still Free 6/17
Sucking at the Tax Dollar Teat: Halliburton Iraq Oil Work May Last Longer 6/17
Cheating Head Start: "HOUSE REPUBLICANS are doing a great disservice to the 900,000 poor and minority children enrolled each year in Head Start, the early childhood development program." 6/17
The only thing protecting the White House? Its timid Democratic opposition. 6/17
Secrecy shrouds Halliburton hiring frenzy at Houston hotel 6/17
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World Opposed to Bush and Iraq War, BBC Poll Says 6/17
Court OKs Ban on Some Campaign Donations 6/17
Funds for S.F. AIDS program in peril; CDC threatens to pull money for (what CDC considers) 'obscene' campaign 6/17
House votes 253 to 170 to ELIMINATE class-action lawsuits. Someone Should File a Class-Action Lawsuit Against Congress for Begin Such Amazing Corporate Whores. 6/17
Iraq export pipeline hit as deadly US offensives draw new tactics 6/17
12 freed after 4 years in Texas jail; Drug convictions based on word of one, now discredited, officer 6/17
Twisted Tax Logic 6/17
U.S. Issues Nationwide Iraq GSM Tender 6/17
On Tuesday, Bush kicks off a fundraising spree, expecting to bring in at least $20 million; Dean Starts Airing Spots; DSCC Follows Hillary's Tour 6/17
Iraq ambushes injure 8 U.S. troops. More Blood Spilled for Bush's Lies. 6/17
Boston Globe Bows to Pressure from Anti-Abortion Zealots 6/17
The Way We Live Now: Deficits and Dysfunction 6/17
Rumsfeld's choice to lead Army rattles highest ranks 6/17
Patriot Act of 2001 casts wide net 6/17
Another "Coalition of the [Un]Willing"? Five governments -- Egypt, Mongolia, Nicaragua, the Seychelles and Tunisia -- have signed secret agreements exempting U.S. personnel from prosecution in the International Criminal Court. 6/17
Republican Senator Lugar Paid No Income Tax in '02 6/16
The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist)
The Future of Farming 6/16
Bush Cartel Repressed Bureaucrats Threaten AIDS Education Funding in San Francisco 6/16
Reposted: John Dean: Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?
Burying the Number of Civilian Deaths in Iraq 6/16
Bush to Travel Around Country to Collect Campaign Donation Tithes for Corporate Favors. What a Racket! 6/16
Former Immigration and Naturalization Commissioner James Ziglar on Saturday suggested that the FBI be made an independent agency and the Department of Justice be limited to prosecuting crime and protecting the rights and liberties of Americans. 6/16
Nets Estimated to Kill Hundreds of Whales and Dolpins Each Day 6/16
The Daily Brew: No Investigation Necessary. The Serial Lying is Plain as Day. 6/16
The Next War (See Photo and Caption) 6/15
Fundraising Push by Bush Will Put Rivals Far Behind 6/16
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Did You Know? U.S. Marines Diverted to Liberia. 6/16
A Must Read:: "Wealth and Democracy" by Kevin Phillips. A BuzzFlash Premium. The influence of money on government is now, more then ever, a hot political issue.
While Our Troops Die in Iraq, Bush Fishes 6/16
Who is Bush's Brain? Karl Rove is, according to a New Book Chronicling the Political Life of the Machiavelli Behind the Throne of King George, A BuzzFlash Interview About "Bush's Brain"
U.S. Troops May Have to Go After Hamas, Lugar Says 6/16
Democrats Sleep as GOP Runs Wild 6/16
Bush Re-election Team Quietly Takes an Office 6/16
Grand Hypocrisy Party (Ohio Branch) Awardee for the Day: The Republican boss of Summit County revels in crushing his enemies. Now his private life might crush him. 6/16
Is the Over-60 Vote Less Reliably Democratic? 6/16
Take Back the Media 6/16
Just Two Weeks Ago, Bush Claimed to the World that the Skeletal Trailers were WMDs, But They Weren't. When Will the Democrats Build the Drumbeat for Investigation and Impeachment? Send the Liar Back to Crawford or to Jail. Toss Ashcroft Into Solitary.
White House Spurns Leahy Effort to Avoid Bruising Battle over Supreme Court Justice Nominee 6/16
U.S. Convoy Ambushed North of Baghdad 6/16
HELD OVER by Popular Demand: Would You Hire this Man? The George W. Bush Resume That First Appeared on BuzzFlash.Com!
William Safire: Regulate the F.C.C. 6/16
The Future Face of American (In)Justice 6/16
Wisconsin Democrats Eager to Challenge Bush 6/16
Republicans Subvert Democracy in the House 6/16
William Raspberry: Liberty is Security 6/16
To Cleland, Defeat is as Painful as War Injuries 6/16
The Texas Clemency Memos 6/16
Listen to John Mellencamp's "To Washington" 6/16
Homeless Serving as Billboards 6/16
Report: 1990s Were Mostly Kind to Kids 6/16
New Round of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations. Bush Keeps His Distance. After All, He Had His Photo-op. 6/16
Charities at odds with Pentagon Over Restrictions on Iraq Work 6/16
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Recall on Davis in California Seems Very Likely. Financing for Effort Comes from a Controversial Right Wing Congressman. Natch. 6/16
Vietnam Redux: The Army of Liberation Turns Into the Army of Occupation 6/16
The Poor as a Handy Distraction in the Right Wing Game of Smoke and Mirrors 6/16
For GOP, a High-Priced Pitch 6/16
Goodbye, Erin Brockovich 6/16
Iran Arrests Anti-Government Protestors 6/16
The $64,000 Hillary Question: Fans Want to Know 6/16
Odd Theory on Origins of September 11th 6/16
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things. The Book that Inspired "Bowling for Columbine."
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Army seals off Fallujah. Didn't We Long Ago Cross the Point Into Being Dreaded Occupiers and Not Liberators? We Don't Think Any of Our Soldiers are Feeling the Love Yet, Do You? 6/16
Bob Herbert: A Grave Injustice in Texas is Still Only Partially Resolved 6/16
Jimmy Breslin: Truth is the Strongest Weapon in War 6/16
Violated: Public Trust 6/16
Chicago Tribune Editorial: Fresh Doubts About the Bishops 6/16
Gullibility: Why did most Americans accept Iraq weapons charges? 6/16
The Bush Legacy: U.S. Hunt for Baath Members Humiliates, Angers Villagers. Deaths of Teenager and Two Others Spark Talk of Revenge.
Come on, Karl, Don't be Such a Dweeb 6/16
Johnny Boy "KGB" Ashcroft Doesn't Like David Nelson, Any David Nelson 6/16
Bush NOT Waging War on Corporate Corruption 6/16
The New Radical, Extremist Right Wing Agenda 6/16
AWOL Bush and His Chickenhawk Colleagues in Cowardly Behavior
The Westar/GOP Memos: The Quid Pro Quo of Politics - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary (w/links to Westar letters)
Scam of the Month: Philip Morris Says, Regulate Us Please! Yeah, Right. 6/16
Autopsies on Television Leave Families Horrified 6/16
And the Hunt Goes On... 6/16
Looks Like Tenet Will be the Fall Guy. The Bush Family Always Has a Servant They Can Blame Things On. 6/16
Site That Tracks Looting of Iraq's Archeological Treasures 6/16
Empty Promises for Americorps 6/16
Pipeline to Justice? 6/16
Since When Did Asking Questions Become Whining in Our Country? 6/16
Democrats Court Business Owners 6/16
General Clark on Meet the Press: Well Worth Reading. 6/16
Orwell and Me, by Margaret Atwood 6/16
Teachers are Armed and Dangerous in Utah, But Not Covered by Insurance. The Latest News from the Gun Guys. 6/16
Odd, Very Odd. The U.S. government has secretly launched an intensive campaign to find a Boeing 727 passenger jet that mysteriously disappeared in Africa three weeks ago, sources told ABCNEWS. 6/16
Gosh, Bush Told Us the War Was Over, "Mission Accomplished," Socks Stuffed in His Groin and All. What a Liar, a Serial, Chronic, Pathological Liar. He Fishes While Our Soldiers and Iraqis Die. 6/16
Is Tom DeLay the Anti-Christ? Or Does He Just Play the Role?
BOMBSHELL INDICTMENT OF PHONY BUSH WAR ON TERRORISM:"They're making us less secure, not more secure," said Beers, who until now has remained largely silent about leaving his National Security Council job as special assistant to Bush on terrorism.
Blair Reshuffle Descends Into Farce 6/17
Roadmap - BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison
"The Twin Poverties of Nobility and Fortitude" - P.M. Carpenter Hey, We're Talking Tom DeLay Here! The Exterminator! The Toxic Brain Psychotic! The Man Who Won't Talk to His Mother (It's True)!
A Media Watch Special Report: Browsers -- Where No News is Good News
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This Week's Top Ten Conservative Idiots 6/16
These Are Ironic Times 6/17
The Uncoverer: Revealing the things they don't want you to know. 6/17
Those Revisionist Historians on Iraq 6/17
Miller Vs. Miller 6/15
The Dubya Chronicles 6/16
Scientific Proof that Bush is from Outer Space. 6/16
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