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"Tony Blair had joined forces with the Americans to produce evidence on how the WMDs were removed by Saddam Hussein prior to invasion." Yeah, right. 8/27

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Maureen Dowd: The Jihad All-Stars 8/27

Did Joe Wilson Imply That Karl Rove Was One of the Two Senior Administration Officials Who Outed a CIA Operative, Doing Grave Harm to the National Security of the United States? Joe Wilson Has Cause to be Angry. The CIA Operative Outed Was His Wife. 8/27

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Al Franken Takes a Victory Lap 8/27

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GAO: EPA Lacked Data for Pollution Claims; Relied on Industry Quotes instead of Real Statistics. What a Farce. 8/27

We Have Ways of Making You Talk: The United States figures it can get plenty out of the newly captured Chemical Ali. But how? And are these ‘interrogation’ techniques being readied for American citizens? 8/27

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President Bush Urges Senate to Support Retroactive 'Enron Escape' 8/27

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Teens support gun control, poll says 8/27

Repost: A Weapons Cache We'll Never See by Scott Ritter 8/27

Bush Has Two Fundraisers, on Our Dime, Talks Tough about Iraq, and then Runs Back to Crawford to Hide Like a Chickenhawk Weasel. 8/27

Growing Unrest About Iraq 8/27

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Commandments fray goes beyond Alabama 8/27

Bush Cartel Opposes Suit by Ex-Hostages in Iraq 8/27

A vote of no confidence: When a Hopkins computer scientist declared a new breed of electronic voting machinery to be junk, he cracked open a wide and costly debate. 8/27

Some Of Army's Civilian Contractors Are No-Shows In Iraq 8/27

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E.J. Dionne, Jr.: A beacon of tough hope; As rookie priest, Father Phil organized parishioners to march with Martin Luther King, Jr. 8/27

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IL Sen. Durbin opposes bid to privatize jobs at air traffic control towers 8/27

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Behind the Curtain: George W. Bush's stealth assault on environmental rules 8/27

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Democrats Cite Deficits As Bush's Failure. Duh! 8/27

The Bush Legacy: 2002 Worst Smog Season In Recent Years, Outlook Bleak Without Decline In Pollution Levels: Report Underscores Health Threat Of Imminent EPA And Congressional Decisions 8/27

Dean Launches TV Ads in Six States 8/27

Businessman Bill Simon, the GOP nominee against Gov. Gray Davis last year, dropped out over the weekend. But Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock says he's in the race for good. What "inducements" will the Bush Cartel offer this guy to pull out? 8/27

Study Ties Biggest CEO Raises to Largest Layoffs 8/27

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U.S. Should Set Nuclear Disarm Example 8/27

Yale Workers May Strike as School Begins 8/27

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The first day of six-nation talks aimed at ending the standoff over North Korea's suspected nuclear weapons program has ended with no visible rifts among the attending parties. 8/27

Bid for Texas Redistricting Fails Again 8/27

Greg Palast: Black-Out at the Times -- Readers Forced to View Unsolicited Corpornography 8/27

For Outsider Bid, Schwarzenegger Seeks Insider Advice 8/27

A soldier's death on Tuesday means more troops have died in Iraq since President Bush declared major combat over on May 1 than during the first phase of the war. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Keep on Dying.

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Greens Caused the Blackout? The Latest Chestnut from the Right. 8/27

Hatfill Sues Over Anthrax Probe 8/27

The Bush Legacy: CBO: Gov't Faces Years of More Deficits 8/27

Get to the truth: WAS IRAQ an "imminent threat" to the United States? Did President Bush or other senior administration officials knowingly exaggerate evidence about weapons of mass destruction or deceive the American public? 8/27

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Even the Judicial Process Goes "Private" When It Comes to Enron 8/27

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Afghanistan Revisited 8/27

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Exactly what is involved in the "Judge Moore" 10 Commandments conflict? 8/27

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Blair Fighting 2nd War Over Iraq 8/27

Free trade's victims turning against Bush, GOP 8/27

Promise in King speech unfulfilled, Jackson says 8/27

Mexico Challenges U.S. on Protection of UN Workers 8/27

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The Bush Legacy: Analysts to predict record $500 billion deficit 8/27

Democratic hopefuls blast Bush over Iraq 8/27

Death of 8-year-old at church ruled homicide 8/27

Not Up to Code? Embellishing the Flag, Then the Web Site 8/27

Bush's Master Plan for the Internet 8/27

Dissenters can count on vicious attack: Fox, Franken and a ridiculous lawsuit 8/27

The World Is Waiting For Americans to Take Back America, To Rescue Her. But you Don't Enable Co-Dependents 8/27

"We're not buying lame excuses for high gas prices" 8/27

Memorial Space at Ground Zero Will Hold Unidentified Remains 8/27

Thou Shalt Not... "The Alabama controversy, Younge concludes, isn't just about Moore's convictions -- it's also about America's contradictions." 8/27

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Abandoned weaponry litters Iraq 8/27

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Molly Ivins: Use your noggin; Knowledge is a virtue in an executive officer. We promise. 8/27

Liberal Conspiracy: Take the 9/11 Quiz 8/27

Computer Program That Analyzed Shuttle Was Misused, Engineer Says 8/27

The great American land row: American Indians are embroiled in a $137bn lawsuit with the US Government over land royalties. 8/27

Robert Scheer: Arrogant Arnold or capable Cruz? 'Giggle factor' could put Schwarzenegger in charge of California 8/27

Ellen Goodman: The 2003 Equal Rites Awards; Recognizing those who have done the most to set back equality 8/27

"With the death yesterday of another U.S. soldier in Iraq, the number of U.S. troops who have died there since May 1, when President Bush declared an end to major combat operations, rose to 138." This Story Has Disappered from CBS News Online. 8/26

The Bush Legacy: Analysts to Predict Record $500B Deficit 8/26

U.S. Gas Prices Make Record Jump 8/26

A Soldier from Pennsylvania Writes to His Local Newspaper: "Contrary to reports made by senior ranking officials in the national media, morale among the troops is fast approaching an abysmal state" 8/26

Top U.S. Expert on North Korea Steps Down 8/26

Activists Find Home Near Bush Ranch 8/26

BRITISH troops serving in Iraq are so poorly equipped they are known as "The Borrowers". 8/26

Arnold's No Longer Leading Man 8/26

Will Arnold Go to Sacramento to Pump up Enron?

The Never-Take-Responsibility-for-Anything Republicans are Now Blaming Chinese Currency for the Loss of American Jobs 8/26

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Fox News seems to think it runs United States; The network might as well be on Bush's payroll 8/26

Sorry, But Anyone Who REALLY Believed that Bush Was "Compassionate" to Anyone But Campaign Contributors was a Fool 8/26

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Inside story of the fruitless hunt for Bin Laden. Did Bush cut a deal with Musharraf? 8/26

Frankensteins in the Pentagon 8/26

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Feds to profile all U.S. air passengers: "In the name of security, the government intends to create database profiles of all American air travelers and could blacklist some from commercial flights without recourse." The Soviet-Style Bush Cartel. 8/26

Jon Carroll: "The invasion of Iraq by the United States is not as bad an idea as I thought it was. It's worse" 8/26

"Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry charged that the Bush administration has failed U.S. troops in Iraq while neglecting soldiers who served in past wars." 8/26

Bustamante, a onetime fruit picker, could become California's first Latino governor in 120 years 8/26

Howard Dean's Karate School 8/26

Californians Against the Costly Recall

Korean War veteran and "Veterans For Peace" director calls for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq before America becomes Fortress America. 8/26

More Feckless Bush Cartel Propaganda Effort to Woo Arabs. What a Waste of OUR Money. 8/26

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Bustamante Gets More Backing in Calif. Campaign 8/26

Latest Karl Rove/Tom DeLay Attempt to Steal Democracy in Texas Ends, for the Moment. Heroic Texas Dems Plan to Say in Exile in Order to Prevent Sneak Republican Theft in the Middle of the Night. 8/26

Defending Dixie: The Washington Times has always been conservative and error-prone. Now, it's helping to popularize extremist ideas 8/26

'I hope and pray I don't have to go back,' says Marine glad to be in U.S. after comrades killed in Iraq 8/26

The Threat of Black Box Voting 8/26

Widow fears Pentagon 'lying' on pneumonia 8/26

Iraqi cleric calls for 'independence'; The leader of Iraq's best-known Shia opposition group has told thousands of supporters that Iraqis would not accept a government imposed by foreigners. 8/26

"The Clinton Wars" Excerpts: Bush Ignored The Terrorist Threat

Feds Want to Track the Homeless 8/26

Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources.

NYT Ed.: Recalling for Dollars 8/26

Harley Sorenson: Saving face, losing a war 8/26

War views hurt Kerry with Dems. Subtle, Nuanced Position Not Winning Anti-War Dems Over. 8/26

Son of James Watt: J. Steven Griles, Deputy Secretary of the Interior 8/26

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The Bush Legacy of an Incompetent War on Terrorism: Bloodshed in Iraq: A Hospital Sees It All 8/26

Army foresees doubling up tours 8/26

Monsanto Fined $700 Million for Poisoning People with PCBs 8/26

Bush Administration makes Labor Protest in Iraq a Crime 8/26

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"The United States' reluctance to respond militarily to the recent spate of attacks by Taliban fighters on Afghan government forces could come back to haunt it and impair US credibility in Afghanistan" 8/26

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Iraq Peace May Cost More Lives Than War 8/26

Bigger Brother? Utah Senator Orrin Hatch and four of his Republican cronies are out to make the word "narco-terrorism" a household term. 8/26

Resources and Links for Soldiers on BringThemHomeNow.org 8/26

Rym Brahimi: '12 attacks daily' on U.S. convoys 8/26

The Achilles' heel of the Bush Doctrine 8/26

Bush Had Better Ask for Help 8/26

Sometimes You Get What You Dream For, Mr. Bush: Since You Started the War, Iraq Has Finally Become a Nation of Terrorist Attacks

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Jimmy Breslin: The Air Is Thick With Lies 8/26

GAO: "The White House collaborated heavily with corporations in developing President Bush's energy policy but repeatedly refused to give congressional investigators details of the meetings" 8/26

Paul Krugman: Dust and Deception 8/26

The Power Behind the Throne and Accountable to No One: Cheney Stifled Energy Probe, GAO Investigators Say


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