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9/11 Panel Complains Some Bush Cartel Agencies Are Slowing Inquiry 7/9

"The CIA warned the US Government that claims about Iraq's nuclear ambitions were not true months before President Bush used them to make his case for war"

NYT Editorial: "The Bush administration, long allergic to the idea of investigating the government's failure to prevent the Sept. 11 terror attacks, is now doing its best to bury the national commission that was created to review Washington's conduct."7/9

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U.S. Toll in Iraq Nears Gulf War Numbers 7/9

Outrageous Violation of Democracy and the Bush Cartel Hypocrisy in a Nutshell, Pathetic: Bush Cartel Has Residents of "Slave" Island Herded Up and Detained Until Bush Finishes Remarks on Slavery So They Won't Interrupt His Photo-op! 7/9

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US withheld uranium intelligence from UN 7/9

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The Bush "Bait and Switch" in a Pathetic Nutshell: Congress set to slash Africa aid 7/9

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Seven U.S. Soldiers Wounded as Iraqi Attacks Continue: Bush Taunts and Lies and Our Soldiers Die 7/9

Bush Cartel Hampering 9/11 Probe. No Kidding! 7/9

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British report pours scorn on evidence for Iraqi weapons 7/9

UN Warns of Worsening Conditions in Africa 7/9

Held Over, Just Too Important: "The Attack Has Been Spectacular," by BuzzFlash Writer Maureen Farrell. It Knocked Our Socks Off!

BuzzFlash Quoted in E.J. Dionne's Washington Post Column on Dean's Internet Fundraising Success

The Bush Legacy of a Failed War on Terrorism: Key US partners clash while Taliban regroups 7/9

Army Report: Vehicle Accident Injuries, Not Combat, Caused Jessica Lynch Injuries 7/9

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.

It All Started on BuzzFlash.com. HELD OVER by Popular Demand: Would You Hire this Man? The George W. Bush Resume That First Appeared on BuzzFlash.Com!

Anti-democracy Republicans Say Recall Vote on Davis is Now a Certainty 7/9

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Asbestos bill could save Halliburton $3.5bn 7/9

U.S. Officials Cite Importance of African Oil to U.S. Economy 7/9

The Angry Liberal is Mad as Hell And Isn't Going to Take It Anymore!

Edwards Gets Tough in New Hampshire 7/9

BuzzFlash Post Office Re-opens! The BuzzFlash Mailbag is Back! Our Managing Editor and Postmaster is Back from Paternity Leave. July 8th Edition.

Five people, including three young children, were found shot to death in a home Tuesday morning, police said, in Bakersfield, California. So Much for Homeland Security, When the NRA Controls Our Gun Policy. 7/9

Welfare Reform Veers Sharply to the Right in the Senate 7/9

For a Town Council in Iraq, Many Queries, Few Answers 7/9

New Book on BuzzFlash: From 9/11 to Terror War: The Dangers of the Bush Legacy, by Douglas Kellner (Author of "Grand Theft 2000")

Will Dems Filibuster Bush's "Enrich the Insurance Companies" Legislation? 7/9

Paul Wellstone's Legacy Lives On: A BuzzFlash Interview With Jeff Blodgett, Former Campaign Manager for Paul Wellstone and Executive Director of Wellstone Action

Bush Finds Iraq’s Nuclear Weapons Program, By Osama bin Hiding

Sinking U.S. Dollar Could Drag World Under 7/9

Court Rejects Bid to Stop Cheney Energy Task Force Lawsuit 7/9

Holy Mother of Josphine: Tom Daschle Actually Calls for an Investigation of Something! We Were Wondering Where You Were, Tom. We Were About to Report You as a Missing Person. 7/9

Bush is Not Doing Enough to Protect Our Nuclear Power Plants 7/9

Two Blasts Wound Three U.S. Soldiers 7/9

Ex Chief of Virginia GOP Fined $5,000 for Eavesdropping. How are You Ever Going to Round Up all the Republican Bad Boys? 7/9

Pakistani embassy in Kabul attacked, closure of embassy ordered 7/9

GOP to Move Bill to Enrich Insurance Companies Under the Spin of "Malpractice Reform" 7/9

"The House is expected this week to pass legislation ensuring that federal employees, including members of Congress, will have prescription drug benefits better than those available through Medicare when they retire." No Kidding! 7/9

Bush Wants New Nukes 7/9

From a BuzzFlash Hero, Cong. Henry Waxman: "New information from the International Atomic Energy Agency reveals that for over six crucial weeks in December and January the Administration withheld from the international agency important information" 7/9

Palestinian P.M. Abbas Threatens to Quit 7/9

Exposing the deceptions about Iraq 7/9

White House admits Bush lied about Iraqi nukes 7/9

A Diplomat's Undiplomatic Truth: They Lied 7/9

"The evidence mounts that Americans marched to war in Iraq with an incomplete, at best, or deliberately deceptive, at worst, version of the facts." 7/9

Frist Puts Family Wealth First In Malpractice Debate 7/9

Democrats Say Changes May Derail Medicare Deal 7/9

Blair's Iraq Claim Challenged 7/8

Iraq-Turkey Oil Pipeline Hit by Sabatoge 7/9

Internet Site Posts False Report of Congresswoman's Death 7/9

Bush Goes to Bat for Big Insurance Companies 7/9

Man is Arrested for Throwing Water Balloon at Dennis Hastert 7/9

"Nearly one in three doctors reports withholding information from patients about useful medical services that aren't covered by their health insurance companies, and the number may be on the rise, a study reports." 7/9

The Phoney War 7/9

Prewar intelligence doesn't hold up 7/9

Is Bush a Shoo-In for '04? Not Yet. 7/9

Another Republican Hypocrite with Checkered Past Tries to Undo Democracy by Leading California Recall Drive 7/9

Former Democratic Alaska Governor to Seek Senate Seat 7/9

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CBS Washington Wrap 7/9

Senators Attempt to Close Secrecy Hole 7/9

Bush Cartel Won't Let Airport Screeners Unionize 7/9

The Most Egregious War Crime 7/9

DLC Division 7/9

Shoestring logistics -- the American way 7/9

Bush enmeshed in uranium controversy 7/9

More on the Savage Cancellation 7/9

What Did Eisenhower Mean When He Warned of a Military Industrial Complex? Take a Look at the Carlyle Group. A BuzzFlash Interview.

Ohio bill might restrict rights of protesters 7/9

Clear Channel Co-host Sues, Claiming that She Was Fired Because She Opposed Iraq Invasion 7/9

Ashcroft Death Penalty Case Stirs Puerto Rico 7/9

Liberalizing the Media 7/9

Medical marijuana proponents say DEA raid on pot farm was illegal 7/9

Kick Out Those Feckless Guys at the DLC and Put Helen Thomas in Charge! "Dems Have Shot In '04 -- If They Don't Go Wobbly" 7/8

The Liberal Guardian Is Going to Launch an American Edition! 7/8

Ted Rall: Sodomize This! 7/8

P.M. Carpenter: The Middle Road to Extremism

To the Heads of the DLC Who Seem More Interested in Following Than Leading: They Too Have Failed and Now are Frantically, Recklessly Trying to Preserve a Power Base Within a Losing Strategy, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary with a BuzzFlash Follow-up Note

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Podesta Democratic Think Tank Taking Shape 7/8

The Betrayal of Using One War to Distract Americans from Another 7/8

"James Madison once warned that accumulation of the legislative, executive and judicial powers in the same hands is 'the very definition of tyranny.' 7/8

Problems, Problems in Iraq 7/8

Norman Mailer: "Democracy, more than any other political system, depends on a modicum of honesty." 7/8

And Just What Did Bush Think of the Texas Sodomy Law in 1994? 7/8

The Knee Pad Media 7/8

Seniors Stretched by Prescription Costs 7/8

Florida GOP is Cutting Off Medicaid Funding for Circumcisions. (We Wouldn't Touch That Headline With a Ten-foot Clipper!) 7/8

Britain Knew Uranium Claims Were False 7/8

The Most Dangerous President Ever 7/8

The Bush Legacy: Rented Park Rangers 7/8

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War and Westminster 7/8

People of Peace, Stand Proudly as Patriots, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary

Dissertation Could be Security Threat 7/8

Sudanese Plane Crashes Killing 116 7/8

Who Will Save Our Soldiers from this Madness? "Three American soldiers were killed in about a 12-hour period Sunday and early today in Baghdad amid growing signs of guerrilla resistance to American forces." Bush Taunts and Lies and Our Soldiers Die.

Experts Grow More Sceptical of Threat Posed by Saddam Before War 7/8

Foreign student tracking system called inefficient, intrusive 7/8

But let Stephen Moore tell it: "The only reason God put Republicans on this earth is to cut taxes... . We want to improve the party's gene pool." 7/8

Drug Bill is a Well-Financed Victory for Drug Companies and Their Lobbyists 7/8

The BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia, is Back! From Gloria's Site. Thanks Gloria! July 7th Edition.

Sabotage Rising in Iraq 7/8

Okay, Let's Dream! What About the Case for Cheney's Impeachment? 7/8

Bush Can Smell the Oil in Africa 7/8

CIA Claims Voice on Tape is Saddam's. Now is this the most incompetent administration or what? They Can't Bag Saddam, Osama, the Anthrax Terrorist, and So On. Of Course, Saddam May be Dead and the CIA Needs a Bad Guy to Scare Everybody and Distract Us.

The Afghan Cauldron is on the Boil Again 7/8

A New Bush Cartel Soundbite for Iraq 7/8

CBS News Washington Wrap 7/8

Another Republican Congressman Breaks Term Pledge Limit 7/8

Query for Rumsfeld: What's Arabic for 'Vietnam'? 7/8

Will Bush Ratings Follow Slumping Economy? 7/8

From Last Year: A Declaration of Independence Written to Dubya 7/8

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Report Blasts Blair 7/8

General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last week that "intelligence doesn't necessarily mean something is true. I mean, that's not what intelligence is." Yes, Indeedy! 7/8

The Republican Party's Radical, Extremist Prophet of Permanence 7/8

Kucinich Visits California Dock Workers 7/8

Report: Nigerian Police Kill 10 Protestors 7/8

Millions Die in the Congo, But It Is Not Important to the Bush Cartel Because There is No Oil to Speak of There 7/8

Harley Sorenson: The Madness of King George 7/8

What the Bush Cartel Learned from Ken Starr 7/8

Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough" and a BuzzFlash.Com Honest-to-Goodness Piggy Bank! Can You Beat a Combination Like That?

McCarthyism Watch, from the Progressive 7/8

The Iraq-o-meter 7/8

Will India Send Troops to Iraq? 7/8

A Soldier Who Returned Jessica Lynch to American Hands Dies in Freak Car Crash After Returning Stateside 7/8

Soldier Stress is Key Concern 7/8

Riddle as Bush Spy Chief Quits 7/8

Government secrecy seriously harms security against terrorism 7/8

A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights

Democracy Dumbed Down by Media 7/8

Sidestepping Sanctions 7/8

Bush's Deputy Transportation Secretary Resigns 7/8

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Teens Charged with Planning Murder Spree in New Jersey. Of Course, They Had a Lot of Guns. It's the American Way. 7/8

Some Fear Ruin for Head Start 7/8

The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist)

Arnold for Governor? What Has This Country Come To? 7/8

Tom Teepen: Courting the Right 7/8

A Video That Shows How Long Bush Sat Staring at a Book AFTER He Was Informed of the Second 9/11 Crash Into the World Trade Center

Fewer foster homes and a rising need 7/8

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"

Remember that Whitewater was, in part, a Banking Scandal that DIDN'T Involve the Clintons. Here is a Banking Scandal in Which a Republican Congressman is Accused of Fraud, and Ashcroft, Apparently, Isn't Interested in the Least.

MAD AS HELL ABOUT WMDs

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Bush Taunts and Lies and Our Soldiers Die -- And He Cuts Their Benefits Too to Give Tax Cuts to the Rich! If The Democrats Can't Beat This Chickenhawk Hypocrite, They Can't Eat Standing Up. All They Have to Do is Tell the Truth ABOUT HIM!

Updated and Expanded American Edition of Greg Palast's "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." Available Now at BuzzFlash.Com.

Scalia Rants that there is a "law-profession culture that has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda." 7/8

Bush Keeps Promoting Former Starr Henchmen 7/8

Take Back the Media.com Celebrates the Firing of Michael Savage 7/8

Now Tommy Franks Gets In On the Shameless, Reckless Act of Taunting Iraqis by Repeating Bush's "Bring 'Em On" Statement, As Three More American Soldiers Die. We Have Entered a Parallel Universe of Betrayal of Our Troops by Their Leaders. 7/8

"Three U.S. soldiers were wounded in two separate blasts in central Iraq on Tuesday, with no sign of let-up in a guerrilla campaign against U.S. occupation forces in the Sunni Muslim heartland." Bush Taunts and Lies and Our Soldiers Die 7/8

Theft of Democracy Update: Texas House Approves Redistricting Map That Hands Victory to Republicans 7/8

Bush Can be Beat 7/8

Suicide Bombing in Jerusalem Breaks Truce 7/8

Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting Program: Breaking Story About Electronic Voting 7/8

"A senior Democratic lawmaker probing the Pataki administration's hiring practices is charging that the governor's operatives have begun investigating him." 7/8

George W. Bush's Africa Fan Club Is Hard to Find 7/8

Is It Judith Miller Time Yet at the New York Times? Update on a Reporter Who Seemed to be a Reporter FOR the Pentagon. 7/8

Well Worth Viewing this Flash of An Affirmative Action Beneficiary, Just Like Bush. Eric Harrison's BuzzFlash Cartoon: A Message from Clarence Thomas

Bush is Outed, So for the First Time We Can Remember the White House Admits An "Error" (Read Lie): Remember the Phony African-Iraq Uranium Deal? 7/8

MSNBC Fires Michael Savage. Who Ever Hired Him Should be Fired Too.

More Evidence Bush Misled Nation 7/8

Medical Examiner Who Came Up With Novel Theory to Explain Death of Young Female Staffer Inside of Joe Scarborough's Florida Office Was Recently Fired 7/8

Still No Flowers for the Bush "Liberation Army": Urban Combat Frustrates Army. Duh! What Morons Do We Have in Charge of This Operation? What Were They Expecting? Spud Guns? 7/8

In Senegal, They Protest Bush 7/8

6 Die in Shooting at Miss. Lockheed Plant. Lockheed Martin is the largest defense contractor in the United States. 7/8

The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things. The Book that Inspired "Bowling for Columbine."

Meditations On a White House Yale Reunion, Hosted by the Model "Academically Mediocre Son of a Wealthy Eastern Seaboard WASP" Affirmative Action Admission Candidate. Bush Had to Show Those Yalies That He Had the Biggest House in Town -- and Codpiece.

AWOL Bush and His Chickenhawk Colleagues in Cowardly Behavior

Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute! On Hiatus While Our Managing Editor is on Family Leave. You See, BuzzFlash.com Practices What It Preaches!


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