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Sen. Robert Byrd: "I become ever more convinced that the war in Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time in the wrong place for the wrong reasons."
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Report: Last Year Bush Administration Told Senators that Saddam Could Bomb the East Coast 12/17 Halliburton served troops dirty food in dirty kitchens, yet Bush Gives Them More Contracts. Go Figure. 12/17 BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! Truck Bombing Kills at Least 10 in Iraq 12/17 Charles Krauthammer's Unethical Behavior As a Psychiatrist, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Hastert Covers Up a GOP Bribe 12/17 Get It and Support BuzzFlash: New! The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq: "a chilling portrait of the cabal of neo-cons who have commandeered American foreign policy" Howard Dean’s Loose Lips, by BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell Be Cool in a BuzzFlash Hat! 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Investigate Westar's campaign donations, says Public Citizen 12/17 Appeals court upholds medical marijuana use 12/17 Israel planned assassination of Saddam in 1992 12/17 BUSHel Full of Lies for the Holiday Season: A BuzzFlash Four-Book Special that Catalogues the Bush Lies from Soup to Nuts Washington State Jobs Moving Overseas 12/17 Best-Selling Michael Moore Book, "Dude, Where's My Country?", Is Now Available as a Premium from BuzzFlash.com After being deserted by industry, a Southern mill town now finds itself abandoned by government. Welcome to Henderson, North Carolina, where Bush economics is hitting home. 12/17 Progressives hit the streets in massive voter outreach 12/17 The Great Big Book of Tomorrow, by Tom Tomorrow , Creator of "This Modern World" BuzzFlash Headlines On YOUR Web Site for Free (You Can't Get Any Cheaper Than That!) -- Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Word! Drive the Message Home, "Save America: Recall Bush" End America's Nearly Three Years of a Bush Cartel Halloween Nightmare CIA To Interrogate Saddam: "I think we'll be lucky to get anything useful out of him." Will They Get Him to Lie for Bush's Sake? 12/17 The Politics of Energy: Oil & Gas; How a gusher of giveaways to oil and gas industry was crafted in Congress 12/17 The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist) No Surprise Here: Bush Would Back Gay Marriage Ban 12/17 Interview with Mr. Show's David Cross. He reads BuzzFlash. 12/17 Is BuzzFlash worth $1 a day to you? For about $1 a day, you can buy One Premium a month and help BuzzFlash stay Independent. We Take No Advertising. Help Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Message. (BuzzFlash Contributions are Not Tax-Deductible) It's Time for Plame-Case Reporters to Out the Administration Leakers! 12/17 Rumsfeld and his 'old friend' Saddam 12/17 Washington Wrap: Countdown to Iowa; AARP Pulls Out of Bush's Social Security Forums; Breaux’s Out, But Who’s In?; and more 12/17 The Perfect Companion to Al Franken's Book: "The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly." Now At BuzzFlash.com. U.S. Cracks Down On Iraq Rebels; A roadside bomb wounded three soldiers in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit; a U.S. soldier died after falling out of a moving vehicle north of Baghdad. attacks on U.S. troops remain at around 18 per day. 12/17 "Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War" Get This DVD! Without You, There is No BuzzFlash! Buy Your Holiday Gifts at BuzzFlash.Com And Support Our Growth! We have no subscription fees or corporate or organizational advertising. Your purchases pay for the site and help us expand. December 16th Mailbag. The Real "No Spin Zone": The BuzzFlash Mailbag! Uncensored and Unvarnished Truth from BuzzFlash Readers. Why Are People Shooting Each Other? GunGuys.com Has the News. 12/17 Hussein Tells Interrogators He Didn't Direct Insurgency 12/17 Recent Zogby Presidential Polling 12/17 From the Archives: Iraq: Declassified Documents of U.S. Support for Hussein 12/17 Al Franken's "Fair and Balanced" Book is Now One of Our Premiums at BuzzFlash.com! Clark Releases Financial Statements 12/17 Daily Reality Check: Bush is Still Spinning 12/17 Halliburton Gets More Business in Iraq. They Rip-Off American Taxpayers and Get More Gov't Contracts. Gee, Do They Know Someone in the White House? 12/17 "Saddam Hussein Captured: Was It Worth It?" from BuzzFlash Columnist The Angry Liberal TX Woman Faces Charge for Selling Vibrator to Undercover Narcotics Team. In Texas, Are Drug Dealers Less Important than Vibrator Dealers? Just Asking. 12/17 Earlier This Month, We Posted a Link to This Article in Which a Republican Illinois Congressman Said That He Knew U.S. Was About to Capture Saddam. That Was on December 2. A Planned Christmas Surprise, as BuzzFlash Had Predicted? They DO Dare Call It Treason, Part 2; WorldNetDaily teams up with a Moonie publication for a ham-handed attack on Hillary. 12/17 Fewer Palestinians back suicide bombings - poll 12/17 The Daily Mislead: White House Admits Pre-9/11 Warnings; Bush Still Denies It 12/17 The Ellen Mariani lawsuit: To hold Bush and Cheney "accountable for allowing the '911' attacks against her nation to occur to profit personally and politically from an illegal war on international terror." 12/17 Louisiana Senator Breaux won't run next year 12/17 Kerry Seeks Block of NRA Channel 12/17	Iraq's moment of joy will soon pass; Contrary to American claims, the resistance will grow now that Saddam has been found, writes Sami Ramadani. 12/17 Robert Scheer: We Got Him ... Now What? Bush administration might come to regret capture of Hussein. 12/17 New Jersey can't trifle with air quality. It can't sit passively while the Bush administration neuters the Clean Air Act. 12/17 Saddam Military Capture A Fraud? Israelis Suggest Saddam was Already a Prisoner of $25 Million Reward Seekers 12/17 The Special Saddam Hussein BuzzFlash Mailbag Buy Your Holiday Gifts at BuzzFlash.Com And Support Our Growth! Group Seeks E-Voting Standards 12/17 "The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception." Now in Stock. "Captured Saddam" action figure. Same company offers French President Jacque Chirac, whom it calls "le Worm" in a flouncy French maid's outfit. They Must Sell Exclusively to Ignorant Dittoheads. 12/17 Buy Your Holiday Gifts at BuzzFlash.Com And Support Our Growth! Jim Hightower: Tom Delay thinks he's God's man in Congress 12/17 Keep BuzzFlash Free for Everyone and Free From Advertising. We Don't Even Rent Our E-mail List. "Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?" Postcards from BuzzFlash.com. Send Them to Your Republican Friends. Joe Conason's "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth," at BuzzFlash.com. Click Here to Make a Difference! BuzzFlash Depends Entirely Upon You. We are THE Pro-Democracy News and Commentary Site for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. We Have No Advertising, Just You. Help Us Expand. Anti-War Protest Set for Republican Convention 12/17 The Neatest Thing about That $87 Billion -- Bush and congressional leaders plan to treat the Iraq spending as if it were off-budget, pretending they're not creating red ink 12/17 How to Contact Congress? Buy the BuzzFlash 2003-2004,174-Page Congressional Directory as a Premium. Advocate and Help Out BuzzFlash.Com at the Same Time! (Includes Photos of Your Favorite Career Politicians) Content Provided by Capitol Advantage. From Nov. 24: Sen. 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Carpenter Saddam joy gives way to wrangling 12/17 The Morning After: Saddam Arrest Cheer Fades Into Iraqi Ire at U.S. Doug Basham: The Capture Of Saddam Hussein Does Not Change AT ALL That This Nation Was Lied Into War And Our Soldiers Died As A Result. The United States will pay a price in the Islamic world for our public debasement of Saddam 12/17 Unthinkable: How the Internet could become a tool of corporate and government power, based on updates now in the works 12/16 King County (WA) passes domestic-partner benefits ordinance 12/17 Carlyle eyes BPO, services sector in "three countries: China , India and Korea" 12/17 New Iraq faces problem of Sunni participation Source of greatest resistance also is key group for rebuilding 12/17 Jim Hightower: Your Friendly Cable-TV Price Gouger 12/17 U.S. Is Accused of Violating Pact in Iraq Bid Policy 12/17 "Save California: Recall Bush" Bumper Stickers, From BuzzFlash.com (In Stock and Shipping!) Hussein's family demands international trial 12/17 U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying. American Data Aided Iraq Arms Program 12/17 Get A BuzzFlash.com T-shirt And Spread the News! The Progress Report: Bush Bill Signing Today; Halliburton Mistreats U.S. Troops; The Day After the Capture; and more 12/17 Get Paul Krugman's Book at BuzzFlash.com Debate Rages Over Saddam Trial 12/17 A Supreme Conundrum: How will the Court Determine that a Partisan Redistricting is TOO Partisan? 12/17 Andrew Card, Bush's Chief of Staff, Has Gone FUBAR! He Has the Honor of Being This Week's BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite. (For Your Audio Pleasure, Scroll Down) Evil GOP Bastard of the Month: Zell Miller 12/17 Bush Cartel Points to Communist Party Celebration of Saddam Capture as Sign of Democracy. Hmmm. 12/17 James Baker Boasts "I Fixed Florida," According to Palast. (Scroll Down) 12/16 The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether Vice President Dick Cheney must disclose his contacts with energy executives, including some from Houston's Enron Corp., as the Bush administration drew up its energy policy. Let's See, 5-4 for Cheney! U.S. Troops Disperse Pro-Saddam Protest in Tikrit; "Shortly afterwards U.S. soldiers charged the protest, beating and arresting some protesters, the witnesses said." 12/16 Neither Bush Nor Saddam Will Divert BuzzFlash From the Issues the Bush Cartel Wants Buried: BuzzFlash.com Talks with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., About His Emile Zola-like "J'Accuse" Indictment of the Bush Anti-Environmental Record Congressman Jim McDermott Charges that Capture of Saddam Was Timed for Maximum Political Effect 12/16 The Comic Strip That Has Been, At Times, Temporarily Banned by the Washington Post and Other Papers for Being Critical of Bush, "A Right to be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury." Now Available as a Premium on BuzzFlash.com. More bloodshed in Iraq as world leaders exult capture of Saddam 12/16 Our Dead GOP Hypocrite of the Week: Thurmond Paternity Claim Valid, Family Says 12/16 "US Vice-President Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton, facing demands to pay back the money it has overcharged the American government for petrol in Iraq, has won a $222m (£127m) contract for work without competitive tender." 12/16 According to DEBKAfile analysts, these seven anomalies point to one conclusion: Saddam Hussein was not in hiding; he was a prisoner. 12/16 At Far as the White House and Saddam: When Does One Chickenhawk (Or In the Case of Cheney and Bush, Two) Call Another Chickenhawk a Chickenhawk? A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Hussein Tells Interrogators He Didn't Direct Insurgency 12/16 Actual Headline: Branson Says Schwarzenegger Trying To Woo Virgin 12/16 Highly Recommended: In Response to the "Capture" of Saddam, We are Re-Running Our March 17th Editorial, "Endgame," That Lists the Real Reasons the Bush Cartel Went to War With Iraq. Saddam is a Dramatic Distraction from the War on Terror.	Powell Has Cancer Surgery 12/16 Meanwhile, in Iraq the slaughter goes on 12/16 Get Your "Loaded Deck" of Playing Cards The Progress Report: What Does Saddam's Capture Mean?; Gilmore's Rebuke; and the Growing Inequality in the Economy 12/16 "At trial, the tyrant could reveal embarrassing secrets about his past warm dealings with the US, writes Amin Saikal." 12/16 Report: Saddam Tells Interrogators 'No WMD' Uh-Oh! Pro-Saddam Rallies Held in Iraq. 12/16 Updated, Indignities Endured by U.S. Military Dean Must be Getting Under Bush's Thin Skin 12/16 Saddam Could be Offered a Deal. Read from Karl Rove's Script and the Bush Cartel Won't Execute You. 12/16 Words Come Back to Haunt GOP Hypocrite Janklow: "I have a theory, and it's an accurate one, that most people who go to prison are losers," said Janklow. "They don't know how to be winners. They weren't even successful at crime," 12/16 Conference on Electronic Voting reveals stark division on computer systems' reliability; "Trust no one," the computer scientist intoned. 12/16 Updated: Bush Cartel Indignities Endured by U.S. Military Veterans After Cheney's Private Hunt, Others Take Their Shots 12/16 Flashback: Rumsfeld Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein 12/16 Christopher Scheer: Hussein's Capture Is Yesterday's News 12/16 Saddam Sideshow Obscures Reality 12/16 Dean Says America Not Safer After Capture 12/16 Stock Up on this Holiday Gift: "The I Hate Republicans Reader: Why the GOP is Totally Wrong About Everything" The High Price of Hunting the Taliban: Saddam's wife 'turned him in' 12/16 Anti-smoking advocates in California are fuming about one of the famous governor's favorite vices: cigars. Arnold Update. 12/16 City Buzzing Over Limbaugh 12/16 Bush Continues with Today's Edition of the Saddam Show: Yada, Yada, Yada 12/16 Father Of Slain Soldier Finds No Joy In Saddam's Capture; Pastor Says Administration Not Upfront On Reason For War 12/16 Dick Meyer: Pigs At The Taxpayer Trough 12/16 The Day After: Saddam Arrest Cheer Fades Into Iraqi Ire at U.S. 12/16 World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia Media's Anti-Gore Bias Continues 12/16 Rush "Junky" Limbaugh Seeks to Keep Medical Records Private. The Truth Shall Set You Free, Rush. 12/16 The 2004 Bushism Calendar: A Natural for Your Holiday Gift Giving. Hey, George, we're not laughing with you, we're laughing AT you. Will Durst: And now it's time to play "Who the Hell Said That?" 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Thurmond Had Illegitimate Daughter 12/16 Umm Qasr -- From National Pride to War Booty 12/16 Bin Laden hunt unlikely to heat up 12/16 Bush's Legacy of Incompetence: More Classified Data Missing at U.S. Weapons Lab 12/16 Daily Reality Check: Out of the Hole, But Not Out of the Woods 12/16 A New American Revolution: 2667 "House Parties" meet to discuss regime change in America 12/16 Aviation Security, Texas Style: recent incidents revealing chinks in the state's aviation security armor run the gamut from comic to tragic. 12/16 "Cooking with George" - BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison Paul Krugman on Patriots and Profiteering Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute! 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! This is Your Brain on Propaganda, by BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources. 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Sen. Robert Byrd: "I become ever more convinced that the war in Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time in the wrong place for the wrong reasons."