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President Bush's approval rating on handling Iraq has fallen to its lowest level ever, and his overall approval rating is the lowest it has been since the 2001 terrorist attacks 9/18
The chief of the U.S. Army Reserve is taking the unusual step of warning all 205,000 soldiers under his command that the Army Reserve is "on a war footing" and will need to take tough measures to meet commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan. 9/18
Cheney's Streak of Lies: " With so many soldiers and civilians dead, his gravitas now leads to the grave." 9/18
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Bush Distances from Cheney on Saddam-9/11 Link: Trying to Figure Out Why Anyone in the Bush Cartel Says Anything on Any Particular Day is Like It Used to be Trying to Read Between the Lines of Kremlin Proclamations. This One is SUPER Weird. 9/18
Bush Cartel Shifts Burden of Cleaning up Environment from the Industry to the Tax Payer 9/18
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Cheney's Big Lies 9/18
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Lawmakers Tell Bush They May Ditch ANWR 9/18
Bush's Terrorism Financier Pals: Saudis consider nuclear bomb 9/18
Senate Makes a Curb on Abortion Likely 9/18
Report From Pakistan Paper: Taliban claim capture of four US troops 9/18
Arnold Terminates Family Values, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
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Feds to Create Single Terror 'Watch List'. Who's Watching Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft? Just Checking. 9/18
The Shredding, Starring John Ashcroft 9/18
Did OPRAH hear Arnold's Toast to Waldheim at their Wedding, A BuzzFlash Reader
Iraq's despair reflected in youth's suicide; Postwar chaos makes urban life unending struggle 9/18
House Dems Demand EPA Hearings on Sept. 11 9/18
NYSE Chairman Resigns Amid Furor Over Pay
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Merrill bankers charged over Enron 9/18
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From 9/11 to Terror War: The Dangers of the Bush Legacy, by Douglas Kellner (Author of "Grand Theft 2000")
Burning the Old Library Card - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Recall Money Watch. All This Money is Being Wasted Because of the Republican Effort to Overthrow Democracy Wherever They Can. 9/18
"Not talking to print. Only talking to television." Why the Attorney General feels justified doing that. 9/18
Clinton blasts California recall, predicting "long-term damage" 9/18
Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Condi, Now Bush: No Evidence Saddam Involved in 9/11. What's the Story There? Something Big is Going Down About This Public Admission. Bizarre, Twisted, Demented. 9/18
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Electronic Voting at its Finest: Voters Forced to Recast Ballots 9/18
Bush, Bono Clash Over AIDS Funding 9/18
A Blistering Must Read: Minneapolis Star Tribune Exposes Cheney's Lies 9/18
General Wesley Clark Officially Throws His Hat Into the Ring 9/18
Regime Change Begins at Home: Senate OKs Bush's nuclear ambitions. Stop the Insanity. 9/18
Iraq's Former Info Min Says Baghdad Had No WMD 9/18
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Six Degrees of al Qaeda 9/18
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Mass. Gov. Romney eyes benefit cuts for jobless. What a nice guy. 9/18
Connections to the Internet would remain tax-free under a bill the House passed Wednesday. 9/18
House Right Wingers Work to Undermine Medicare 9/18
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The Bush Legacy: the government has produced $400.5 billion in red ink in the first 11 months of the 2003 budget year — twice the total for the same period a year earlier 9/18
A Disgrace: Pay cuts possible for Guard members in Mideast 9/18
Ashcroft Claims That He Will Declassify Data on His Soviet-Style Library Snooping. The Devil Will be in the Details. 9/18
The Idiocy and Dishonesty of "Conservative" Talk Radio. A BuzzFlash Guest Commentary by Las Vegas Radio Talk Show Host Doug Basham
The September 17th World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia
A Guardian Article from March of This Year: "Cheney is still paid by Pentagon contractor" 9/18
Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources.
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Bush Backs Boeing Plan that's LEAST Fiscally Smart and Will NOT Create Jobs. Good Job, George. One More Nail in the Economy's Coffin. 9/18
507th weapon records gone; Ruben Estrella, father of 18-year-old Pvt. Ruben Estrella-Soto, from El Paso, said he no longer believes anything the Army tells him. 9/18
Clinton blasts Bush on economy 9/18
How the GOP Will Attack Clark 9/18
Eternal Vigilance: Presidents during wartime often curtail civil liberties in the name of national freedom, as George Bush is now doing. 9/18
Saying 'no' to the war in Iraq 9/18
Appeals Court Might Review Postponement Of Calif. Recall 9/18
Ashcroft-Lite? Romney urges stepped-up antiterrorism efforts, Wants to enlist citizens in 'intelligence networks' 9/18
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The Daily Mislead: President Bush Undermines Clean Air Act with New Source Review Decision 9/18
NY Times Columnist Sees Gloom in America's Future 9/18
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Big Difference 24 Hours Can Make in Cheney's Media Fantasy Parade! A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Lawmaker Wants to Put 'French' Back in Fries 9/18
New Purported Saddam Tape Broadcast. Is Saddam Live, or is it Bushorex Propaganda? 9/18
Commander: GIs in Iraq Face Revenge Raids 9/18
Seattle Tells Police Pot Crimes Are Low Priority 9/18
Unilateralism Disgrace: The price we all have to pay for Bush's botched tack 9/18
Cheney Sticks By His Lies that He's Not on Halliburton's Payroll, but The World Knows the Truth. 9/18
When Will Our Country Return to the Land of the Free? - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Joseph Wilson, Daniel Ellsberg among recipients of The Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling 9/18
The Man Behind Bin Laden. (No, Not Bush, He Hasn't a Clue about Bin Laden's whereabouts.) How an Egyptian doctor became a master of terror. 9/18
Online Games Grab Grim Reality: "9/11 Survivor" and "Waco Resurrection" 9/18
Gene Lyons: Bush II: Tragedy or Farce? 9/18
Here We Go Again: The Bush administration named Syria and Libya yesterday as "rogue states" whose weapons of mass destruction must not just be controlled but must be eliminated by whatever means necessary. 9/18
Treasury Dept. Fines Record Store Owner $10 Grand for Going to Iraq to Help Some Kids 9/18
Voters in Seattle Reject Espresso Tax 9/18
The Scourge of Militarism: In the neoconservative world view, America was to be the new Rome. But the neocons learned the wrong lessons from Rome's imperial experience. 9/18
U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying.
David S. Broder: Endangered Suffrage 9/18
Military Tribunals Challenge America's Legal Tradition 9/18
Bill Berkowitz: The real cost of war; Web site monitors mounting price tag in your town 9/18
Republicans taste their own medicine 9/18
My son's death in Iraq 9/18
King George, The Idiot Diplomat, Removes Photo Exhibit of Famous Diplomats to Display More Pics of King George (Much Like Saddam Adorned Iraq with His Visage? Just Asking). They Even Misspelled Tiananmen Square. 9/17
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Full Coverage of the GOP Missouri Hidden Handgun Vote Scandal 9/17
Senate Votes to Repeal New Media Ownership Rules 9/17
LA Times Editorial: Cheney in Wonderland
California Wants Court Review of Vote Delay 9/17
Bush Would Use Mini-Nukes, Professor Warns 9/17
The Bush Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Insanity: Senate Democrats Fail to Block Nuke Funds 9/17
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This Needed to be Posted Twice: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday he had no reason to believe that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had a hand in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
A US soldier from the 101st Airborne Division, based in the northern region of Mosul, has died of gunshot wounds, the army said on Wednesday. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying. 9/17
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Iraqi Leader Says U.S. Troops Mistreat Civilians 9/17
Why Did Oprah Give Governor Gang Bang (Remember His Most Recent Public Groping Events Were Just a Couple of Years Ago) Prime Time Exposure Without Having Other Recall Candidates On, Especially the Governor of California? Shame on Oprah! 9/17
Unbelievable: The Washington Post Couldn't Even Wait Until Clark Announced to Start Trashing Him. George Soros, Why Don't You Finance a Real Liberal Paper for Washington, D.C., and Put the Post Out of Business? 9/17
The Bush Legacy of Incompetence in the War on Terror: Iraqis' Bitterness Is Called Bigger Threat Than Terror
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Latest Wrinkle in Federal Court Hearings on California Recall: A Strange Twist Unfolds 9/17
Joe Wilson: White House in Full Retreat From Iraq Reality 9/17
New Administration Line: U.S. Never Said Saddam Was Behind 9/1. Gee, How Many of Our Soldiers Died for These Idiots in the Bush Cartel? 9/17
Molly Ivins: Us Vs. Us 9/17
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The Only Way to Beat Bush in 2004 is to Come Out Fighting 9/17
Save New York from Tom DeLay: Recall Pataki! 9/17
A BuzzFlash Reader Describes the Turn of the "Killer Ds" to the Texas State House. A BuzzFlash Exclusive. It Will Make Your Proud. Includes URL for Photographs.
Elderly Americans: Victims of the Bush Tax Cut. A New York Times Editorial. 9/17
Cheney Met by Protestors as He Fundraises in West Virginia 9/17
It Looks Like the Theft of Democracy, Engineered by Karl Rove and Tom DeLay Through Their Puppet Rick Perry, Will Succeed. Democracy R.I.P. 9/17
US officials have admitted they are holding 10,000 prisoners in Iraq, double the number previously reported 9/17
Rush Limbaugh Says Blacks And Hispanics Are Too Stupid To Know How To Vote 9/17
Clark's Entry Could Shake Up Race 9/17
Janklow Proves, Once Again, That Republicans Can Never Do Anything TOO Low to Cause Themselves Enough Embarrassment and Shame to Quit, Such as Kill a Man With His Car 9/17
Where Did A Republican Party Operative Accused Of Placing "Swinging Couple" Ads Get $150,000 During The 2000 Recount To Finance A Campaign To Oust Florida Supreme Court Justices? A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS!
Testing B. V. Gore 9/17
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Cheney Wants Tony "The Fixer" Scalia to Put the Fix in Again and Help Dick Keep the Public from Knowing About Its Own Business. Who Does Cheney Work for Anyway, the American People or the Energy Industry? Tony Will TCB for Dick, Don't Worry. 9/17
In Missouri, A GOP Reservist Breaks the Rules to Pass a Hidden Handgun Law: It’s the Rule of Law for Democrats, and Anything Goes for Republicans, A BuzzFlash Guest Commentary
The NRA/GOP Alliance Subverts Democracy in Missouri. GOP fund paid for Dolan's trip from Cuba. Will He Be Court-Martialed? 9/17
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"A Few Words about My Dog, Election 2004, and General Wesley Clark." by BuzzFlash Columnist The Angry Liberal
US vetoes UN Arafat resolution 9/17
MUST, MUST READ: "The publication of a full report on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction has been indefinitely postponed after inspectors found no evidence that any such weapons exist, reports the Times of London."
Another Republican Liar: Arnold Does Oprah and Embarrasses Maria Shriver. Maria Doesn't Directly Answer Question About Arnold's Extracurricular Sexual Activity, But Sort of Indicates That She Tolerates It Because She's Not Perfect Either. 9/17
For the first time since just before the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush's approval rating in California has slipped below 50 percent. Save California: Recall Bush! 9/17
John "KGB" Ashcroft May Have Met His Match: He Mocks Librarians! 9/17
Doctoring The Law: Liberal Democrats are scurrying to organize a filibuster in a last-ditch effort to sink what would be the first federal law banning an abortion procedure. 9/17
Church-state dispute hits Texas: Suit over Ten Commandments at Texas Capitol may reach Supreme Court 9/17
The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist)
Washington Wrap: Clark Gets In; Edwards Makes It Official; It’s Kind Of Over In Texas; Gephardt V. Dean 9/17
U.S. Raids in Saddam's Hometown Leave Iraqis Angry 9/17
Turning peril into peace: Bush has misused the memory of Sept. 11 to divide our nation, erode the constitution and justify an extensive program for war. 9/17
Fed Holds Key Rate At 45-Year Low; "Although the nation's unemployment rate dipped to 6.1 percent in August, businesses slashed 93,000 jobs, marking the seventh month in a row that the economy lost jobs." 9/17
Exploitation And Waste After 9/11: Instead of uniting the world against terrorism, the Bush Administration chose to reject the world and kill thousands of innocent people. 9/17
Live or Digital? The Bugler's Lips Are Sealed 9/17
CalPERS could stop investing in firms that privatize jobs in the public sector. 9/17
Pilot sues US over 9/11 arrest: A UK-based pilot wrongly accused of training the 11 September hijackers has begun a $20m (£12.5m) legal action against the US. 9/17
Free Speech Zones: As Bush spreads lies throughout the land, dissenters are corralled into “Free Speech Zones” –- is this America? 9/17
The Daily Mislead: President Bush's Mis-State of the Union 9/17
E. J. Dionne Jr.: Handing Out Hardship; Is this the Bush administration's idea of fiscal discipline? 9/17
The Big Lie: Dick Cheney's Outrageous Performance on "Meet the Press" 9/17
Bush's 'compassion gap' yawns 9/17
The 'war on terror' and its paradoxes 9/17
Who did America defeat in 1781? "Nearly seven in 10 Americans believe it is likely that ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the Sept. 11 attacks" 9/17
Robert Scheer: White House's cynical Iraq ploy; 'Misspeak' first, 'correct' it later 9/17
Geov Parrish: Two years, still no answers; Exploiting 2001's tragedy rather than accounting for it 9/17
Marie Cocco: Needed: A Breath of Fresh Air on Edits of EPA 9/17
Should Free Speech Cost $15,000? Lockheed Martin Launches Attack on Freedom of Speech! 9/17
Return of Texas Democrats Sparks Celebration 9/17
Cheney link of Iraq, 9/11 challenged 9/17
Molly Ivins: Us vs. us? Slash-and-burn Bush administration makes U.S. government out to be biggest enemy 9/17
Reservists say they remain in Iraq with no mission 9/17
What Bush Learned From Enron: How to hide an $87 billion debt by pretending it's off the books. 9/17
Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group, Available from BuzzFlash.Com
Ashcroft seeks to quash suit; He asks judge to deny contempt charge in terror case 9/17
The Kay Report Comedown. In the End, the Bush Cartel Couldn't Pull Off Planting WMD, So They are Holding Up Kay's Report to Come Up with the Best Spin for Their Biggest Lie Among Hundreds About the Iraq War. 9/16
No WMD's Found, No Nuclear Weapons Program of Any Value, No Link to 9/11: Well, We Guess the Iraq War Was Just One Big Bush Cartel OOPS! Unless You Remember That It Was Really About Securing an Oil Franchise Through a Military Invasion. 9/17
This Should be a Front Page Story on Every Paper in the Nation: Halliburton Paid Cheney as VP 9/17
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The Democratic Message in 2004: Looking Back to Find the Future - A Media Watch Special by Gloria LaLumia
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THE LIGHTER SIDE:
The September 15th Edition of Top Ten Conservative Idiots 9/15
Bush Does a "Britney" for Bump in Polls 9/17
Tom the Dancing Bug: Asteroid! 9/16
Whitehouse.org's Q&A With John Ashcroft 9/17
This Modern World: Clear-eyed Conservative Realists 9/17
Ann Coulter's School of Beauty and Elocution 9/15
Bush Admits He Doesn't Know Why We Invaded Iraq 9/16
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