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In Sunday Speech, Bush Asks for 87 Billion Dollars More, In Large Part to Pay Padded No-Bid Contracts to Bush/Cheney Contributors, Much of the Work That Could be Done by Iraqis for a Fraction of the Cost While Earning Their Good Will. 9/8
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The Bush Legacy of Incompetence: Now Everyone Hates Us 9/8
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The Bush Legacy of Incompetence as Commander in Chief Threatens Our Soldiers on the Front Line: "Faulty Armor" 9/8
Tom Shales, WP Television Critic, Pans Bush's Speech: Also, Joe Biden Joins the Joe Lieberman Democratic Wing of the Republican Party. Biden Makes Bush's Erroneous Case for Him. 9/8
Bush's "Call" for U.N. Help is About Re-election, Not Iraq 9/8
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It Should Not be This Easy to Get a Gun 9/8
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The Colorado GOP Gets Politically Correct: "Top Republican legislators are working on a plan that would require Colorado colleges and universities to seek more conservatives in faculty hiring" 9/8
Send the Message Across the Nation: "Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died" Postcards. The Perfect Message to Your Senators and U.S. Representatives.
An Issue to Think about in 2004: The Difference Between Democrats and Republicans, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Bush's Real Six-Point Plan for an Economic Recovery, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Bush Boggles the Mind 9/8
CBS Poll: Bush Failing On Economy 9/8
Bumbling Bush may have given Osama an open goal 9/8
The Legacy of Bush's Incompetent War on Terror: Evil awakening gives new life to terrorism 9/8
Edwards Won't Run for Re-Election to the Senate in 2004 9/8
Taliban Coming in From Afghanistan 9/8
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From 9/11 to Terror War: The Dangers of the Bush Legacy, by Douglas Kellner (Author of "Grand Theft 2000")
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Arafat Taps Legislator As Premier 9/8
Republican Hypocrisy on Deficits
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The Shameless Legacy of the Bush Incompetent War on Terror: Bush's Invasion of Iraq Opens Up the Country to al-Qaeda. The Man Should be Impeached and Tried for Treason. And Where are Many of the Terrorists Coming From, Saudi Arabia, Who Bush Protects.
Take Back the Media 9/8
Beware of Angry, Jobless Men and Women 9/8
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About World War IV 9/8
That's a Wrap! 9/8
"Governor Gang Bang" (AKA, the On-Air Groper) Snubbed by Mexican Holiday Parade 9/8
"Tucked inside an 800-page energy bill winding its way through Congress is a short section that would exempt from federal regulation a lucrative gas-drilling process perfected by the energy company Vice President Dick Cheney once ran." 9/8
Bush May Be Lucky There's No Federal Law to Allow Recall 9/8
Greg Palast Reported the Story About the Bush Cartel Allowing the bin Laden Family and Saudis to be Flown Out of America After 9/11. BuzzFlash Reported It. Democrats.com Reported It. The Tampa Tribune Reported It Back Then. Mainstream Media a Bit Slow.
Britain and US will back down over WMDs 9/8
The Bush Legacy: U.S. Employers Shed 93,000 Jobs in August 9/8
What will it take to get Tony Blair to finally tell the truth? 9/8
Silence is deafening from those who thought Iraq would be a cinch 9/8
Texas Overshadows the Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) Effort to Steal Democracy in Colorado Through Redistricting. It's Now In the Supreme Court There. 9/8
No More Dancing Around the Truth 9/8
Mad Mel Gibson: He Threatens Frank Rich, "I want to kill him. I want his intestines on a stick. ... I want to kill his dog." Mel, Why Don't You Volunteer for the Front Lines in Iraq and Do Something Useful With Your Hateful Spite? 9/8
Lone Star State Grand Hypocrisy Party Feuding: "Pressed by reporters to respond to growing speculation that she may run for Texas governor in 2006, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison did little to discourage such talk on Friday." Hutchison V. Perry? 9/8
How Extreme are Rupert Murdoch and His New York Post (FOX News, Weekly Standard, Blah, Blah, Blah). The Post Thinks that Bush is Selling Out by Asking the U.N. to Become Involved. The Blood of American Soldiers is Dripping from the Hands of Rupert Murdoch
Joe Conason's "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth," at BuzzFlash.com.
Just Call It the Grand Soviet Party of Texas, Formerly Known as the GOP 9/8
You Know Bush is On the Ropes, When You Find This Editorial in the Washington Times: The job-loss recovery 9/8
'Unaccounted for' Iraqi weapons may be bookkeeping glitches 9/8
The Bush Legacy of Incompetence on the Economy: Asian debt withdrawal threat to US deficit 9/8
Okay, al-Qaeda is a Terrorist Organization, But Why Do Their Tapes Threatening Americans Seem to Show Up at Times When Bush is Low in the Polls? Just Asking. 9/8
"Bush has perfected the rhetoric of fear and permanent war, justifying a wartime military budget, using the Patriot Act to negate the Bill of Rights, promoting any and all proposals, and invoking special wartime powers." 9/8
Rare Tape Shows Both Planes Hitting WTC 9/8
Things to Do With $80 Billion 9/8
Chicago Tribune Reviews Sid Blumenthal's "The Clinton Wars." "The idea that some kind of right-wing conspiracy was behind the Clintons' troubles has almost become a laugh line in American public life, but Blumenthal makes a powerful, compelling case."9/8
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Unpatriotic Acts: The FBI's Power to Rifle Through Your Records and Personal Belongings Without Telling You 9/8
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Support for Bush Slips in Wisconsin 9/8
Baghdad Burning 9/8
Another White House Whitewash Ahead: This One Involving Karl Rove and the Interior Department 9/8
The Lessons of History: "All The Shah's Men" - A BuzzFlash Reader Review
Meanwhile, Back at the White House 9/8
Tom Shales: Showtime's 'DC 9/11' Is A Shameless Bush Booster. "It's one more encomium in a movie already so slanted that it risks sliding right off the screen."
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It's Past Time for Bush to Brush Up on His Math 9/8
Deconstruct This! A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Radio Inside Scoop 9/8
Gag Us with a Spoon! Bush's nephew begins law career clerking in Dallas. You Know, the One Who Broke Into His Girlfriend's House, According to Documents on Smoking Gun.com. 9/8
Ms. Musings 9/8
U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying.
The Judy Martz: Is that the governor in the nude mural? 9/8
Bush's Business of Mass Destruction 9/8
Sidney Blumenthal is Bob Beckel's Progressive of the Month 9/8
Respect Our Reserve Heroes, Too 9/8
Watch Out for More Terror Alerts and Anonymous Administration "Frighten Americans Into Submission" Stories: Bush Numbers Hit New Low, According to Latest Zogby Poll
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Getting the Energy Picture! 9/8
Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources.
Repost: "The Clinton Wars" Excerpts: Bush Ignored The Terrorist Threat
Journalists Killed by Friendly Fire in Iraq 9/8
Moses in Alabama 9/8
For Veterans, an Evocative Repeat: Rising Casualties in Iraq Prompt Memories 9/8
The biggest story of the year in England, and a huge story everywhere else in the world except the USA. 9/8
Where Was George the Second, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Bush must defend a new front: presidential job security 9/8
Unfair, Unbalanced and in the Twilight Zone 9/8
The Bush Legacy of Incompetence in the War on Terrorism: Jailing Iraqi Scientists May Be Hurting Weapons Search 9/8
EPA Appointment Leavitt and "Whirling Disease" 9/8
Presidential hopeful Howard Dean gets a big show of support in S.F. 9/8
We Pay for Bush's Incompetent War on Terrorism. He Destroyed the Infrastructure of Iraq, Then Gives Padded, No-Bid Contracts to Companies that are Campaign Contributors. Nice Racket, And Now We Will Pay $80 Billion More. 9/8
Bush is an Affront to Our Fighting Soldiers: He Even Gets Cheap on Medals, While Giving Padded No-bid Contracts to Campaign Contributors 9/8
The Daily Outrage: DeLay and Hate 9/8
Bush Deserves Impeachment 9/8
Eric Alterman: Colin Powell and 'The Power of Audacity' 9/8
The Bush Legacy of Failure with His "Road Map": Middle East peace plan in disarray 9/8
A quagmire? More like a presidential fixation 9/8
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"It's failure everywhere you look with this administration, and we have to keep banging it home," said Barney Frank. 9/8
Battle of An Nasiriyah was day their illusions died 9/8
Bush World - What CNN Didn't Tell You - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
The Bush administration’s military predicament in Iraq has suddenly gotten worse. 9/8
Anti-war US Marine sentenced to six months in jail 9/8
Army finds clues in pneumonia cases in Iraq, Afghanistan 9/8
US, EU Butt Heads On Airline Info 9/8
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Critics Expand Attacks on New Media Rules 9/8
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday she planned to block President Bush's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency over an internal report saying the EPA misled New Yorkers about health risks after the World Trade Center attack 9/7
"It seems to me the only people for whom Schwarzenegger is a true voice is that group of people we call idiots." 9/8
The Irrepressible Bartcop! 9/8
Six months after it was established to protect the nation from terrorism, the Department of Homeland Security is hobbled by money woes, disorganization, turf battles and unsteady support from the White House 9/7
One Story That Explains Why the Iraqi People are Not Feeling Liberated at All: Farah tried to plead with the US troops but she was killed anyway 9/7
The Man Needs a White Jacket: Rumsfeld Lacerates Iraqis for Not Acting Like They are Liberated. Insanity Reigns in the Defense Department -- And, Meanwhile, Our Soldiers Continue to Die and be Wounded Because We Have Idiots in Charge. 9/7
Dean Stumps for Davis in California: "I think this is the fourth attempt to undermine democracy in this country by the right wing of the Republican Party since the 2000 elections," said Dean. 9/7
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Alaska Passes Anti-Patriot Act Resolution; Second State to Oppose Feds 9/7
The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist)
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The Bush Legacy of Incompetence in the War on Terror: Another Iraq Trouble Spot? 9/7
Starving for Freedom in Burma 9/7
Postwar Iraq Moves Dangerously Close to Civil Disaster 9/7
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Abbas Departure Dims Hope for Mideast Peace 9/7
John "KGB" Ashcroft Ashcroft Defends Secret Searches in Patriot Act 9/7
The Bush Legacy of Incompetence in the War on Terrorism: " American officials said today that about 50 munitions sites in Iraq containing explosives similar to those used in the recent major bombings had only light security and were poorly guarded." 9/7
Is Bush Cartel Frantic Over Failure of War They Lied America Into? Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying. 9/7
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Repost: Zinni Blasts Bush's Incompetence in Iraq and Military Officers Applaud 9/7
No sign of Iraq's WMD 9/7
Cynthia Tucker: As Jobs Melt, Rich Just Chill 9/7
The Collapse of the American Middle Class: A Special BuzzFlash Guest Commentary By Congressman Bernie Sanders
Perspective of a Veteran: "There is no excuse sufficient to again deny passage of this legislation, even with the threat of a veto by a president who insults us with words of praise while stabbing us in the back." 9/7
It's Official, Conservatives are Seriously Ill 9/7
Report: Britain and US will back down over WMDs 9/7
White House Lies, Ground Zero, and the Public Trust, A BuzzFlash Editorial
Big Brother Takes Grip on America 9/7
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LOL: Bush Touts Education Law in Radio Address 9/7
Bush to Give His Latest National Address Filled With Lies on Sunday Night. Here's Our Challenge. Hook Him Up to a Lie Detector. If It Indicates He is Lying FewerThan Five Times in the Speech, We Will Stop Criticizing Him. We Can't Lose.
Editorial: Rumsfeld should resign. How about the entire administration resigning? 9/7
Hentoff lays bare a disturbing lack of courage among our ... political leaders. A paltry few have been willing to stand up to Ashcroft and his scandalous assertions that anyone who criticizes his tactics gives "ammunition to America's enemies." 9/7
Gov. Davis Blasts Bush Economic Policies. Save America: Recall Bush. 9/7
First the Patriot Act, now the Victory Act, Attorney General Ashcroft is working overtime to deny you your rights. 9/7
The Bush Legacy of Failure: Bush may be backing away from road map 9/7
Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century 9/7
Sign of the Times: "Ashcroft to address officers here; public barred" 9/7
From the Depression-Era Archives, the Republican Credo: "Nothing is unfair in politics. ... Fairness in an election is a contradiction in terms." 9/7
Dems Unmoved by Notion of Estrada Payback 9/7
Sharon: Hamas Leaders Marked for Death 9/7
The Real Reasons that We are In Iraq 9/7
The Bush Legacy: Soldier killed in Afghanistan returns 9/7
Zogby's South Carolina Poll Shows Four Democratic Candidates Tied for Lead 9/7
Refuting the Lone Egg Man Theory. The Case of Arnold S. 9/7
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Reposted: Constant threat of attack leaves soldiers stressed, stretched thin 9/7
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!
Hutton inquiry's transatlantic echoes 9/7
Updated and Expanded American Edition of Greg Palast's "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." Available Now at BuzzFlash.Com.
Troops Just Want Rumsfeld to Send Them Home! Rummy Cancels Appearance Before Armed Forces, No Doubt Because He Would Have Been Booed.
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Maureen Dowd: From Swagger to Stagger 9/7
Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni said last October that a war in Iraq could result in serious political instability and insert the U.S. military into an intractable internecine struggle. He Was Right. The Bush Cartel was DEAD Wrong. 9/7
Is Rummy On Some Mind-Altering Drug? Rumsfeld on Saturday outlined a bright future for Iraqis, saying he has seen "truly extraordinary" political, economic, social changes in the country since his last visit four months ago. 9/7
Bush Job Approval Falls in Two Polls 9/7
Dick Gephardt Gets Some of that Old Time Religion
Taking a Walk Down Memory Lane and Reliving the Arrogant Incompetence of the Bush Cartel: "Thank God for the death of the UN. Its abject failure gave us only anarchy. The world needs order." Richard Perle, March 21, 2003
The September 5th World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia
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"The Words of the Prophets" by BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell
"An Anaconda Deficit" by BuzzFlash Columnist P.M. Carpenter
"The Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Exploit the Lord Thy God for Cheap Political Gain" by BuzzFlash Columnist The Angry Liberal
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