WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 /U.S. Newswire/ — The Battleground 2004 poll shows that while a majority of voters continue to approve of the job George W. Bush is doing as President (54 percent approve) and a majority of voters continue to approve of President Bush personally (67 percent approve), there has been a consistent drop in [...]

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BUSH: I believe we’re going to add jobs, because I believe this economy is strong.
HUME: How soon do you expect that to start happening?
BUSH: Well, you know, I don’t know…
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AUSTRALIAN investigative journalist John Pilger says he has evidence the war against Iraq was based on a lie that could cost George W. Bush and Tony Blair their jobs and bring Prime Minister John Howard down with them.

A television report by Pilger aired on British screens overnight said US Secretary of State Colin Powell and [...]

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AUSTRALIAN investigative journalist John Pilger says he has evidence the war against Iraq was based on a lie that could cost George W. Bush and Tony Blair their jobs and bring Prime Minister John Howard down with them.

A television report by Pilger aired on British screens overnight said US Secretary of State Colin Powell and [...]

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Irish rock star Bono has pressed President George W. Bush to set aside more cash for AIDS initiatives but came away disappointed after a face-to-face talk with the president at the White House.
“We had a good old row,” Bono said of his meeting with Bush. “What I just can’t agree with him on is the [...]

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Unelected in 2000, the Washington regime of George W Bush is now totalitarian, captured by a clique whose fanaticism and ambitions of “endless war” and “full spectrum dominance” are a matter of record. All the world knows their names: Bush, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Cheney and Perle, and Powell, the false liberal. Bush’s State of the [...]

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WASHINGTON - Unemployment queues lengthened to a two-month record last week, data showed Thursday, and a new analysis suggested the “true” U.S. unemployment rate was now 9.1 percent.
The number of first-time jobless benefit claimants in the week ended September 6 rose 3,000 to a two-month record 422,000, following a 22,000-strong leap the previous week, seasonally [...]

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“The United States economy stumbled again yesterday with the release of crucial retail sales, consumer confidence and inflation data that were uniformly worse than analysts had been expecting.
According to the US commerce department, retail sales rose by 0.6% in August, well below Wall Street forecasts of 1.4%. In July, retail sales grew at a far [...]

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Remembering al-Qaida’s attacks on America tomorrow, many will wearily note that the world did indeed change that day two years ago and that our newspapers are still full of the reverberations. Without 9/11 there would have been no Iraq war. Without Iraq there would be no Hutton, and without Hutton, TB wouldn’t be looking quite [...]

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September 11 1973 was a day of terror and bloodshed in Chile. After months of rising tension, army troops stormed the presidential palace, leaving President Salvador Allende dead and thousands prisoners throughout this previously democratic nation.
Now, on the 30th anniversary of the coup, professors, journalists and citizen activists around the world are continuing to expose [...]

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France and Germany will back the new UN resolution on Iraq sought by President George Bush only if the proposal gives the UN full political rule over the country.
The countries have also demanded a clear programme for returning power to Iraqis.
The high price sought by the French suggests that Mr Bush is going to struggle [...]

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Put President George W. Bush in a national park and he gives out great sound bites. But his actions don’t always match his words.
Last month, after flying to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, and touring a nursery where native grass and plants are grown, he told of progress on his campaign promise to [...]

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A friend of mine just emailed me this news that was on CNBC tonight:
Gen. Barry MacCaffrey on CNBC tonight put a figure on the total cost of the war in Iraq:
$150 billion/year x 5 years
= $750 billion (2004 through 2008)
+ >$100 billion spent in 2003
+ $30 billion buildup (2002)
= $990 billion!!
Over $1 trillion with interest [...]

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BERLIN - The German government on Monday again ruled out sending troops to Iraq and refused to make any substantive comment on a weekend speech by US President George W. Bush other than saying it had brought

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