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The Photo Bush and Cheney Won't Let You See 4/13
If The Invading Boots Were Not Our Own -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
Rep. Waxman asks Justice Department to Release Information on Post-Sept. 11 Departure of Saudi Citizens (PDF) 4/13
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The Bush Excuse. What More Do You Want from Us? We're Just Plain Incompetent. Now, Scram. 4/13
Iraqi clerics say coalition 'must pay' for crisis. U.S. general wants 10,000 more troops. 4/13
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In more than three years in office, President Bush has held precisely two news conferences on prime-time television. On Monday, he said he would hold his third. "Unless he steps down, it's going to be hard to run as anything but as an incumbent." 4/13
The National Guard and Army Reserve are crucial to the U.S. military, yet its soldiers get hand-me-down equipment and fewer benefits 4/13
Slain Soldier's Family is Bitter Against Bush 4/13
How They Let Us Down on August 6, 2001 -- A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution from One Citizen
Kerry Says U.S. Must 'De-Americanize' Iraq Policy 4/13
Un-Fair and Un-Balanced Coverage -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
Paul Krugman: When will we learn that we're not going to end the mess in Iraq by getting bad guys? There are always new bad guys to take their place. 4/13
THE Book is Here! Richard Clarke's "Against All Enemies: Inside the White House's War on Terror--What Really Happened" Get Your Copy from BuzzFlash
The Buying of the President 2004: Who's Really Bankrolling Bush and His Democratic Challengers--and What They Expect in Return -- The Center for Public Integrity and Charles Lewis
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U.S. Troops Deploy Outside of Najaf. Another U.S. Apache helicopter crashed and was in flames on the ground. 4/13
BuzzFlash Editorial Cartoon by Kirk Anderson - April 12, 2004
"Stay The Course" -- BuzzFlash Editorial Cartoon by Steve Bradenton
"Ask Not" -- BuzzFlash Editorial Cartoonist Thomas Burns
Halliburton's Role in Iraq -- from Meals to Oil 4/13
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Learn More About the REAL Condi Rice, Lynne Cheney, Laura Bush and the Other Bush Women. We Recommend "Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species," by Laura Flanders
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Hilarious Comic Relief for the Dark Ages of the Bush Years, The White House Inc. Employee Handbook: A Staffer's Guide to Success, Profit, and Eternal Salvation Inside George W. Bush's Executive Branch by the Writers of WhiteHouse.Org
LOL: Bush Sees Need for Reorganizing U.S. Intelligence. Okay, Then Mr. Can't Protect America from Terrorists. If You Want to Reorganize Intelligence, Resign. 4/13
Swatting Flies - A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
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Message to Osama bin Laden from BuzzFlash: Next time you fly airplanes into American buildings, Bush wants you to draw him a map. The Village Idiot of the World is Occupying the White House. The 26th BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week is George W. Bush.
The April 12th World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia
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RNC Choice of NYC Convention May Backfire 4/13
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Good Morning Vietnam! 4/13
THE 9/11 INVESTIGATION: Bending reality 4/13
"FRAUD: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and Why the Media Didn't Tell You."
David Corn: One Cover-up Revealed and Who Knows How Many More to Go? 4/13
BuzzFlash Discloses Alleged Memorandum Bush Sent to 9/11 Commission A Breaking News Satire Alert That Is Too Close to the Truth
"Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election" DVD
Women & The Media: Taking Our Place in the Public Conversation. A Conference. 4/13
Abizaid seeks more combat troops for Iraq 4/13
Family of Military Dead Start to Revolt Against Bush in Increasing Numbers 4/13
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else, by David Cay Johnston
Sharon: Israel Keeping 5 Settlement Blocs 4/13
Scalia Apologizes for Seizure of Reporters' Audio. Hey, Antonin, They Will be Able to Record Your Phone Conversations When You End Up in Jail. Just an FYI. 4/13
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'The Texas Try' on Terrorism: "the clever timing of this release can not hide the Bush administration's failure to act decisively in attempting to thwart al Qaeda activities in the United States prior to 9/11." 4/13
Check Out this Rap Song from Citizen Truth: "Dubya". Site Contains Lyrics Not Suitable for Children or Republicans.
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Slain Soldier's Kin Want Sibling GIs Home 4/13
Shiite Cleric Pulls Back Iraqi Militias 4/13
Bill Moyers Talks to Kevin Phillips 4/13
U.S. Army Says It Intends to 'Kill or Capture' Sadr 4/13
Iraq Kidnappings Continue; 12 Released 4/13
Already Stretched, Afghan Leaders Face New Threat 4/13
FDA held back results of child suicide study 4/13
Forest Service caught using misleading photo; Area shown suggested natural area but was actually logged 4/13
Waking up to body bags: The taboo against media coverage of US war casualties has broken down, reports Catherine Hours. 4/13
Hamburger Consumption Spurs Amazon Deforestation 4/13
DuPont to Cut 3,500 Jobs, 70% in U.S. 4/13
A Lot of the Press Press Didn't Buy White House Spin on 9/11 Document, Even Though the WH Dumped It on Saturday Night 4/13
Some soldiers bitter about staying in Iraq 4/13
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The Silent President: It is time for the president to drop his political posture and reassure the country that his first and foremost concern is not his re-election but the safety of Americans at home and abroad. 4/13
Germans Evacuated from Iraq, Guards Still Missing 4/13
The Corporate Propaganda Machine 4/13
A Must for Any BuzzFlash Reader Library: "Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the G.O.P., Their Friends and a Few Others, 1994-2004"
DeFazio bill would raise soldiers' pay 4/13
Iraq: The Ten Factors of Failure 4/13
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Another Week, Another Gas Record; Gasoline prices are up 31.5 cents per gallon nationwide since late December 4/13
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The Daily Mislead: Bush Denies Info Clearly Contained in PDB 4/13
U.S. Forces Surround University in Baghdad 4/13
CAMPAIGN CASH: It's on the Web: Who gave what to whom 4/13
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Film Rights Optioned to Clarke Bestseller 4/13
Decoding The PDB: Are George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice really as clueless as they are claiming to be? 4/13
The Progress Report: FYI, The PDB Doesn't CYA; Mistakes, Missteps, Miscalculations in Iraq; and more 4/13
Gulf War vet says she's had it with the government denying that her health problems may be linked to chemical exposure from the first Gulf War. 4/13
Colorado Races To Shift Map For Democrats; Republican Senator's Retirement May Tip Senate Control, Reverberate to Key Contests 4/13
Hans Blix Tells His Side of the Story: "Disarming Iraq." Available from BuzzFlash.com.
Defiant US says Falluja dead were rebels; 600 dead in besieged Iraqi city - but marine commander claims victims mostly insurgents 4/13
Help VerifiedVoting.org lobby Congress "for reliable and publicly verifiable elections systems" 4/13
More than 600 Iraqis have been killed in fighting in Fallujah since Marines began a siege against Sunni insurgents in the city a week ago. More Than 50 U.S. Troops Have Died. Meanwhile, Bush is On Vacation, Fishing. 4/12
Three More Marines Killed in Iraq 4/12
Bob Herbert: Scalia Violates the Constitution. Not only was it an affront to the Constitution to seize and erase the recordings, Ms. Kirtley believes it was also a violation of the Privacy Protection Act, a law passed by Congress in 1980. 4/12
Pathetic and Disgusting. As Our Soldiers are Sent to Die, They are Asked to Pray for Bush While He Goes Fishing! 4/12
On deck for the 9/11 hot seat this week is Attorney General John Ashcroft, who may be pressed on why he nixed FBI pleas to boost counterterror funds the day after the worst attacks ever on U.S. soil. 4/12
A Book You Should Read: "Rogue State: America at War With the World"
The FBI on Friday disputed National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's testimony that it was conducting 70 separate investigations of al-Qaida cells in the United States 4/12
"Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time"
Japan Times: Tokyo's angry reaction to the threatened retaliatory killing by Iraqi militants of three young Japanese civilians taken hostage this week reminds one of how much the impasse in Iraq parallels the 1960s quagmire in Vietnam. 4/12
Senior British commanders have condemned American military tactics in Iraq as heavy-handed and disproportionate. 4/12
In a disclosure likely to rekindle privacy-concern fires, AMR Corp.'s American Airlines admitted giving information on 1.2 million passengers to outside research companies vying for contracts with the Transportation Security Administration.
Iraqis who detested Saddam and welcomed the invasion are uniting against a new perceived oppressor - the US. 4/12
Democrats, who less than a year ago faced dim chances of overcoming the GOP's 51-48 majority, now lead in the polls in all seven competitive races in which head-to-head public polling has been done 4/12
Protest Against NRA Planned in Pittsburgh for This Week
Insurgents killed eight U.S. soldiers in various attacks in the past two days, the U.S. military said in a statement on Sunday. 4/12
As Our Soldiers are Shot Dead and Hundreds of Iraqi Men, Women and Children Die, Bush Goes Fishing 4/12
Impeach Bush for the Most Brazen Lie in an Administration that Depends Upon Daily Onslaught of Audacious Lies: Remember That the Title of the August 6th PDB Was "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US" 4/12
Must Read from the BuzzFlash 2002 Archives: What Bush Knew In July, 2001 4/12
"Bush's War," By James Moore, Author of "Bush's Brain." Moore Doesn't Forget the Military Victims of the Bush Cartel War Machine and Neither Do We. This is a Book that is Written With Heart, Soul, and a Sense of Deep Betrayal by Bush and His Cohorts.
Wounded children lie in a makeshift hospital in Fallujah, bandaged and bloodied from fighting between US forces and Sunnis that has raged through the town's alleyways for days. Hundreds have been killed in the fighting. 4/12
After 9/11: the Saudis Who Slipped Away 4/12
From the Archives. More Proof of Rice's Incompetence: Exactly two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal report warned the executive branch that Osama bin Laden's terrorists might hijack an airliner and dive bomb it into the Pentagon. 4/12
Senator Robert Byrd: Follow the Exit Signs 4/12
The Book on Bush: How George W. Bush (Mis)Leads America, by Eric Alterman and Mark Green
Seven Chinese Kidnapped in Iraq; China Urges Rescue 4/12
In the Tradition of Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Rice, a Blundering Bremer 4/12
Did the White House Pull a Bait and Censor with the August 6th PDB?
Craig Unger: The 9/11 commission should ask who authorized the evacuation of Saudi nationals in the days following the attacks 4/12
U.S. may be facing intifada 4/12
TONY Blair is to send hundreds more British troops to Iraq in a bid to prevent the south of the country descending into bloodletting and anarchy, Scotland on Sunday can reveal. 4/12
Cynthia Tucker: An Administration Built Upon Mendacity 4/12
Howard Dean Tells Ralph Nader, I Love You Man, But Don't be a Fool and Run 4/12
From the 2001 BuzzFlash Archives: Buzzflash Chilling Alert About A Karl Rove/Bush Advisor's Plans For Neutralizing "Liberals"
Helen Thomas: Bush Sr. Has Questions To Answer On Iraq 4/12
The True Mission of Condoleezza Rice, A Flash from Take Back the Media 4/12
Black Commentator: The Crimes of Condoleezza Rice 4/12
Even with al-Qaeda's top ideologues on the run and its second-in-command potentially facing capture, security specialists say the West still has failed to understand the true nature of its enemy. 4/12
From the Archives: The Bush Cartel, The Saudis and the Phantom Flight from Florida 4/12
Nicholas Von Hoffman: When the Going Gets Rough, Bush Gets Going 4/12
"House of Bush, House of Saud"
Rice angers Lockerbie victims' families 4/12
William Rivers Pitt: A Perfectly Good Train Wreck 4/12
Why Your Tax Cut Doesn't Add Up 4/12
Faces of the Fallen 4/12
And as for the Real Reason the Bush Cartel Invaded Iraq? How is the Oil Industry Doing There? 4/12
Unfit in Iraq 4/12
The Society of Professional Journalists today called on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia "to respect the First Amendment rights of journalists to gather news when he speaks at public events." 4/12
Just Who are Our Soldiers Dying For In Iraq Now? Who are They Fighting? The People Bush "Liberated?" The Only Friend Bush Has Left In Iraq is Oil. 4/12
Bush's Ralph Nader: Roy Moore for President! Go, Roy, Go! 4/12
Tom DeLay Made Some People Very Unhappy! 4/12
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Another Important BuzzFlash UPDATE: Bush Cartel Inflicted Indignities Endured by U.S. Military Veterans
How do you spell fiasco? B - U - S - H 4/13
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As the Fate of the Nation was Doomed, the Global Village Idiot Gave No Sign of Worry in August of 2001 4/12
Iraq hostage nightmare as US threatens besieged city 4/12
James Carville, "Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back." Available on BuzzFlash.com. Your Carville Book Purchase is the Way We Pay for the Site. Remember, No Outside Advertising, No Subscription Fees, No Sales of Our E-mail List. We Depend on You.
After six days of bloodbath in the besieged city of Fallujah, the US-led coalition and Iraqi insurgents last night agreed to a 12-hour ceasefire starting at 0600 GMT today to pave the way for US Marines to leave the town, an Iraqi mediator said. 4/12
Why Were Warnings of Al-Qaeda Activity Taken Out of the PDB of August 6th, 2001, And Only Then Distributed to Other Government Officials? A VERY Good Question. 4/12
"Lies That Kill, Part Two" -- Episode #13 of "The Last Chance Democracy Cafe" -- Political, Historical Fiction by Steven C. Day
Important BuzzFlash UPDATE for April: Bush Cartel Inflicted Indignities Endured by U.S. Military. How the Bush Cartel Disrespects and Short Sheets Our Soldiers.
"Condi" - Animated BuzzFlash Editorial Cartoon by Eric Harrison
Pacification: Worth the Price? -- A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution from Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness
Why was the Fired Head of Saudi Intel in the United States, While 15 Saudis Were Carrying Out Their 9-11 Mission? - A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution
Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources.
"Chickenhawk Dick" -- Iraq Sketchbook, a tribute to the service and sacrifice of the men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Will the 2004 Election Be Called Off? Why Three Out of Four Experts Predict a Terrorist Attack by November -- BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell
"Bush, Cheney, and Rice to Testify: How They Will Avoid Telling the Truth" by BuzzFlash Columnist The Angry Liberal
"Bring 'Em On," "Mission Accomplished," AWOL Chickenhawk, Liar-in-Chief Bush Declares, I Don't Know When the Killing is Going to Stop in Iraq. Leave Me Alone, I'm Busy Fishing and Golfing. Now Scram. You Think I Get Paid to Think Or Something?
70 Troops, 700 Iraqis Killed in Recent Fighting 4/12
An Iraqi intifada: Now the war is being fought in the open, by people defending their homes 4/12
Images of civilian dead, wounded in Fallujah become anti-American rallying point 4/12
Kerry releases 'misery index' report: Middle class hurt by rising health care, college costs, Democrat says 4/12
BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell: Deconstructing a Bush Cartel Character Assassination Attack Dog
"A Lost Opportunity" -- BuzzFlash Columnist P.M. Carpenter
BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell: Clear Channel, Howard Stern, the Bush Cartel, and the De Facto Emergence of a Government Aligned Media.
U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying.
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This Week's Top Ten Conservative Idiots: Condi, You're Number One! 4/12
The Dubya Chronicles 4/12
Please, Not the "I" Word! 4/9
Bush Has a Talk with the Easter Bunny 4/11
A Picture of John Ashcroft's Face 4/12
Bush Takes Sunni Triangle Golf Vacation 4/12
Washing Instructions in French Slam Bush 4/12
Ashcroft's Sculpture Garden 4/11
Rice's Testimony Machine 4/12
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