After the events of September 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, Russian special services several times received information that the official services of the Saddam regime were preparing 'terrorist acts' on the United States and beyond its borders," he told reporters.

Russian 'warning' on Saddam puzzles US. (ABC News Online)

Maria
NYC

Subject: McCain has been bought off by the Bush Cartel

Dear Fellow BuzzFlash Readers:

Greetings from the Christian Liberal.  Thought I'd check in with all of you on the latest developments as we head towards our own version of "D" day, which is November 2nd.

I see Sen. John McCain (who was one of my last hopes for a decent GOP in their bunch) has kissed and made up with GeeDubya and is planning to campaign for a man who slandered him, his wife and family, four years ago, when McCain stomped him in the first four Republican primaries.  Isn't anyone wondering what has turned McCain from maverick GOP to GeeDubya's prostitute? Especially since he got a legit invitation from John Kerry to actually run for VP?

Well, fellow Buzzers, not too much gets past the Christian Liberal.

The long and short of it: MC CAIN's BEEN BOUGHT OFF BY THE BUSH CARTEL.

I don't know if he's been promised a truckload of money, or a key Cabinet position (maybe replacing Rummy, Ashcroft, Condosleezza or Colin) should the Cartel gain or steal the election again.  I'm just wondering how could Sen. McCain be so, ahem, "FORGIVING" of GeeDubya.  Could it be that GeeDubya has come out of the continual chemical haze he seems to be in and realizes an angry John McCain could be very dangerous to his campaign?

I think the Reagan family will be the next ones on GeeDubya's list to be "dealt with."  They will tell Nancy to shut up about the nonsense of stem-cell research, and watch how swiftly they muzzle the Reagan children and force them to hit the stump for GeeDubya's election.  However, I also expect the Nancy Reagan of old to show up and should GeeDubya or his handler, Karl Rove, decide to go after the recent widow in her fragile state, that might be more than GOPers can handle and they will stay away on November 2nd (we hope).

Just a thought.  Till next time; stay strong, stay focused and most of all, Be Wonderfully and Richly Blessed.

Leutisha Stills   one of the most loyal readers and supporters of BuzzFlash; a proud Christian Liberal and knows that one needs to vote this November or he/she can't complain about the results.

Subject: Control Room - Can F9/11 top THIS?

I finally got a chance to see Control Room.  I don't think Fahrenheit 9/11 can top this movie, but this weekend I will see.  For one, it gave me great respect for foreign journalism.  Say what they want about Al Jazeera, but it is truly an outfit engulfed in professionalism. The fact that Condi Rice labeled them biased and unprofessional translates to they are not drinking our war propaganda.  This was a fascinating movie.  It made me cry to think about what was truly happening in the Iraq war.  It gave me great hope to see that the rest of the world was not as totally STUPID as the majority of the American electorate.

One very telling line in the movie:  "Who will stop this shift toward American Imperialism: Only Americans."  At this point, only we Americans can stop Bush, it is a fact otherwise all is lost.  In addition, this person that runs Al Jazeera says HE BELIEVES in the American CONSTITUTION.

Truly fascinating.  Almost too intellectually deep for Americans to comprehend.  Didn't Dodgeball make the most money this weekend?

P Jones
Mesquite, TX

Subject: Afghanistan casualty count

In case you didn't know: Lunaville also does its best to track casualties in Afghanistan:

http://lunaville.org/OEF/default.aspx

While not anywhere near as comprehensive as its Iraq casualty count (so little information is
made public), it offers the best estimate available. Keep up the good work.

Albert Clark, NY

Subject: 7 MINUTE SILENCE?

On 9/11, a Telling Seven-Minute Silence (washingtonpost.com)

I called that reporter to thank him for the article -- but to also ask if he didn't know that Bu$h was informed of a problem *before* he left the hotel.   His response was less than reassuring, although he did tell me to send him information supporting my claim.

(A reporter asked him as he was leaving the hotel if he knew what was going on in New York.  Response:  "Yes.  We'll have a statement about that later."  Plausible deniability:  If you don't get the details about the crash you can pretend you didn't realize the seriousness of the situation.  But, after 1993, how could *anything* hitting the WTC not be worth a few minutes delay in order to find out what it was?)

Carolyn Gray
for Dirtybu$h.com

Subject: Who wants to be a Millionaire?

Just last week I ran into an old friend whose brother recently returned from serving with the military in Iraq. He's chosen not to renew his contract with Uncle Sam. And luckily, he received his discharge orders before the U.S. issued the general stop-loss order.

Yes, he will be going back to Iraq, and doing essentialy the same job. Just not with the military.

He's accepted a position with a firm to work as part of a large security force already established there. He's actually pretty excited about it because he'll be making $150,000.00 monthly, totin' a gun for one of Halliburton's many security subcontractors.

No, that figure is not a typo. 

His parents and friends are begging him not to go back, but he hasn't been able to find a job stateside doing what Uncle Sam trained him to do and what he has had most experience doing.

I just wonder if those profiteering corporations hiring our ex-soldiers are offering tax shelter counseling for the cool $1.8 million he'll be pulling down that first year. But I really don't see how they can afford to award perks like that, because they're paying to fly grief counselors to the families of those who have lost their lives for their paycheck On top of that, they're not even going to bill us for their fine work at Abu Ghraib, at least not until they get that legal thing behind them.

Coincidentally, on the very same day, another acquaintance emailed a website address to me which displays the nightmarish photos of the last American that was beheaded. As far as I could tell, the reason this guy sent it to me was to underscore his position that we should be in Iraq.

I can tell this is the point he wanted to make because the link takes me to a "gung-ho kill 'em all let God sort 'em out" pro-Iraq war website (although the most recent decapitation took place in Saudi Arabia).

After visiting the website, I calmly wrote to remind him that even though the press keeps simply calling the guys that were beheaded "Americans," the fact is that every single one of them were "contractors." Folks from other cultures might call them "mercenaries," especially those who are being tortured and murdered in their own country for corporate profits!

This guy had reassured me "going in" that Iraq would be a short war, which would automatically cause peace to just "catch on" all over the mideast. I guess by sending that link he's now saying that we must "stay the course" in his own charming neoconservative way.

Meanwhile, the Rent-a-gun is constructing 14 military bases in Iraq to help "secure the peace" in Iraq. Let's not forget that although we lost over 30,000 troops in the Korean War, a half-century later we still have over 37,000 based there. That is, until they redeploy those troops to Iraq.

That's right,  14 military bases, even though the evil and most powerful Saddam Hussein has been captured, and we've vanquished those vaunted stockpiles of WMD.

Oh well. At least Bush's mideast connections and his successful Iraq adventure has kept our energy prices from skyrocketing.

One Citizen

Subject: You Know the GOP is Scared When...

Dear BuzzFlash Readers:

'Tis me, again, your favorite Christian Liberal, LOL. I thought I'd check in with a ditty that can be said to the tune of Jeff Foxworthy's "You Must Be a Redneck," only it's called, "You know the GOP is Scared When..." Hope you enjoy it, and let's keep it going for a spell.

You know the GOP is scared when:

John Ashcroft can be in contempt of Congress when he refuses to obey their request for information; then he goes on TV with a terrorist alert to scare everybody and distract our attention from the fact that he's the worst Attorney General since Ed Meese.

Saxby Chambliss used the Vietnam wounds of Max Cleland to challenge Cleland's patriotism to win the Senate seat in 2002. Now we have the "tit-for-tat" threat of ethics charges against a prominent democrat, because someone had the guts to go after Tom "Rip-Off Artist" DeLay.

Ann Coulter uses her column to trash, spew venom and lie against anyone who's a Democrat, liberal or does not agree with her. Why does she still have a job? But then again, we could ask the same question about Judith Miller.

The GOP Political Consultants start a weblog to attack Michael Moore for making truthful documentaries that expose the Bush Gang for what they are and who they REALLY represent. (Farenheit 9/11)

Colin Powell goes on TV and admits to the lies that have been told about the war in Iraq.

Bob Barr tries to sue Bill Clinton, James Carville and Larry Flynt, and the judge told him to take a hike.

Courting Ralph Nader in order to split "swing" votes, and using Al Sharpton to split the African-American vote because they know he's angling to be the next Jesse Jackson.

They have to have Jeb Bush rig another election in Florida with paperless voting.

They deify Ronald Reagan and whitewash what the man did to America for eight years. His only blessing is that he couldn't remember how he devastated the country with his policies.

GeeDubya has to go to the Pope to get him to whip the American bishops in line ("some of the Bishops are not with me..."). How convenient that GeeDubya would go to the Pope; could it be that the Christian right have started to study their Bibles and come to different conclusions then he has? Let's not forget that the sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church got so much attention that the American bishops should be trying to reinstall trust that a priest won't molest any more children, instead of trying to tell politicians how to decide and parishoners how to vote.

They try to intimidate any and all forms of dissent by making Fox Network News the channel of unfair and off balance.

They developed the Patriot Act.

They parade Condosleezza Rice on TV to reassure the country after her truckfull of lies to the 9/11 commission.

That's when you know the GOP is scared. I'm sure you can think of some more.

Leutisha Loyal Buzz Flash Reader and Proud Christian Liberal (if you don't stand for something in November, you will fall for anything thereafter! Please Vote!)

Subject: emails

Dear Buzz,

I know I am lazy, but I am busy, too. I very much wish we could use the mailbag for positive action. Along with every email it would be nice if an email address or link would be provided so we all could fire off emails to support the cause. 5 to 10 per day from all of us should
make a real difference. I used to do that on a daily basis. But I get tired of looking up the addresses and I don't have the time. That is what keeps us from really moving the country to the left.

A Faithful BuzzFlash Reader

It would seem to me that any state that doesn't have verifiable electronic voting machines -- with paper trails -- could be sued by all the other states. It is no longer a states issue, as the outcome in any given state affects all the other states with regard to the presidential election.

Therefore, I think it would be prudent to file a law suit against states like Florida for 3 reasons: 1) electronic voting machines that don't have paper trails and can't do a re-count, if needed, 2) Witnesses are no longer required for absentee ballots in Florida and 3) The number of so-called felons in Florida that are purged from the eligible voting list and the lists are made public.

I believe any state would have "standing to sue" a state like Florida as the presidential election results in that state directly affect all of the other states. So why not start a legal fund to sue Florida and any other state that is intending to jimmy the election?. Certainly I can already smell Florida's 2004 vote in California and it's only June.

Lastly, I would say that no State should have its electoral votes counted, if they don't have certifiable election equipment.

Hank McCann

Subject: anything and everything.

Sirs, one has only to look at the reality of your news reporting to wonder how in the hell did this country come to this point? This place is a mess!!!! We have corruption of any and every kind being done by everyone from the president on down to corporate level and beyond. We have another Vietnam, except now there is no where for the troops to hide or to take cover. Soldiers are being killed at an ever increasing rate, and this fact gets 'no' media coverage. Everyday there are new threats to the freedoms of this country being done either by our so-called president, or an ineffective, complacent Congress or the Inferior Court. What else could you call the highest court in the land, whose judges see nothing wrong with rubbing elbows with the biggest crooks in the land, and say so publicly.

And to top it all off, we, the voters of this country are facing November elections where the possibility of a fixed election is running very high. If one was betting on the likelihood, one would bet on a fixed election.

What exactly has happened to America?

It has become the land of greed, murder, and un-speakable crimes in too many high places. If America was a computer program, you would delete the entire program, and start again. Perhaps that is exactly what the voters this fall ought to do. Vote for 'no' sitting Congressman or politican anywhere, and be prepared to contest and raise a holy hell  the likes of never heard before in the face of any suggested, or hinted at, fixed election. And continue to vote for no sitting politican in every election from now on One term and out! It is more than time to take our country back, and to demand accountabilty everywhere. Either we do so, or be prepared to live in a country with less and less freedom and more and more corruption, and more dead sons and daughters in more wars, and less monies in our pockets, with more of our tax dollars in the hands of crooked and evil people. Evil is the key word here.

Qzr.

ADDRULEHERE

Subject: Joke of the Day

Reprise: How can you tell if Dick Cheney is lying?

His lips are moving.

This joke used to be funny.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

jj.