Archive for March, 2004

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

Nevertheless, the president recognizes the truly unique and extraordinary circumstances underlying the commission’s responsibility to prepare a detailed report on the facts and circumstances of the horrific attacks on September 11, 2001. Furthermore, we have now received assurances from the speaker of the House and the majority leader of the Senate that, in their view, […]

Sunday, March 28th, 2004

At the same time the federal government is reporting inflation at rock-bottom levels, the cost of medical care, tuition and housing have shot up. From gasoline to coffee to gold, commodity prices are soaring to heights not seen in years.
“We’re rewriting history,” said Chicago Board of Trade veteran Jacob Morowitz, who has watched soybean prices […]

Sunday, March 28th, 2004

White House allies and Republicans investigating the Sept. 11 attacks pressed Sunday to hear open testimony from national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, with one commissioner calling her refusal a “political blunder of the first order.”
Rice said in a TV interview that she wants to meet with the families of the Sept. 11 victims because she […]

Sunday, March 28th, 2004

By: Patrick Buchanan
A year has elapsed since President Bush ordered U.S. forces to invade Iraq. Since that March day, 2003, it has become clear as crystal: Operation Iraqi Freedom was an unnecessary war.
Saddam had had no role in 9-11 or the anthrax attack, no plans to attack us or to invade his neighbors. He […]

Friday, March 26th, 2004

“George Bush insulted me as a veteran and as a friend to many still serving in Iraq. This act lowers the dialogue about weapons of mass destruction. War is the single most serious event that a President or government can carry its people into. No weapons of mass destruction have been found and that is […]

Thursday, March 25th, 2004

The Bush administration’s failure to prevent the 11 September attacks came under even fiercer scrutiny yesterday, when it emerged that two veteran CIA counter-terrorism experts were so frustrated in summer 2001 that they considered resigning and making public their fears about an imminent terrorist strike against US targets.
The shock revelation comes in new findings released […]

Thursday, March 25th, 2004

In 2002, as news of the August 2001 briefing began to emerge, the Bush Cartel hauled out Condi to “explain” that it was true that Bush had been warned that it was highly possible that Al-Qaeda hijackings might occur in the near future, but that Bush wasn’t told specifically about plans to attack the World […]

Thursday, March 25th, 2004

I wonder why Condi insists on fighting her battles through the press. Meanwhile, Clarke has testified under oath. Put up or shut up!!!
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A fuming U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice accused former counter-terrorism aide Richard Clarke on Wednesday of shifting positions from backing President Bush’s war on terrorism to now questioning it.
Clarke has […]

Wednesday, March 24th, 2004

When the Bush administration was entering office, outgoing National Security Adviser Samuel Berger told his replacement, Condoleezza Rice, “she’d be spending more time on terrorism and al Qaeda than any other issue,” Berger told the panel investigating the attacks Wednesday.
“I did my best to emphasize the urgency I felt,” he said. “Getting” Osama bin Laden […]

Wednesday, March 24th, 2004

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Two-and-a- half years after assuaging Muslim anger over US President George W. Bush (news - web sites)’s use of the word “crusade” to describe anti-terror efforts, Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) slipped and allowed the term to re-enter the lexicon…
“We gave them 24, 48 hours to consider it […]