A Toxic Mix: God, Country, and Perpetual Fear Ariana Huffington posted this article at Alternet on Sept. 29th, partly in response to the republican mailing that said democrats were aiming to ban the bible. The best nuggets: "Clearly, Bush and the GOP have taken their bible-thumping ways to a whole new level: now they’re using the Good Book to try and bash in the skulls of their opponents. This "God is on our side" attack is all the more outrageous…
“Bush doesn’t pray, at least not publically, for the innocent civilians are dying as a result of the U.S. attack on Iraq. He constantly ’embeds’ himself with the military at Goebbels-like speech fests and makes constant references to God when he refers to America’s ‘victory’ in Iraq, as if God endorses his sordid killing spree.”
"See, free nations do not develop weapons of mass destruction."George W. BushSource: The Chicago Sun-Times, Oct. 13, 2003 Is this an admission that the US is no longer free? We have all the weapons we prohibit others from having, and it looks like we’re revving up again for more nuclear weapons. Oh, and does anyone else remember Hillary Clinton calling for Americans to be told about what we are doing at Plum Island?
Thank you to The Truth about George for the latest update. Here are the bits that were most compelling to me. The site is a project of the National Organization for Women. Go to the site for much much more! "Ten million people people have registered to vote in Afghanistan in the upcoming presidential election." Later in the debate Bush remarked, "It’s a phenomenal statistic." Human Rights Watch released a 53-page report on Sept. 28 that stated the figure was…
Very nice overview of the real differences between Bush and Kerry on Iraq. Provides a nicely done attempt to present and discuss these positions in a way that people could fully comprehend the debaters’ stances, so that they can better make a decision about their agreement or disagreement. A nice alternative to the slanderous soundbites we’re all so tired of hearing. Go! Read it!
Intelligence says group too small to do what he claims or is blamed for Al-Zarqawi may not be behind Iraq attacks. According to an Arab intelligence assessment, al-Zarqawi is not capable of carrying out the level of attacks in Iraq that he has claimed and that American officials have blamed on him. Al-Zarqawi’s own militant group has fewer than 100 members inside Iraq, although al-Zarqawi has close ties to a Kurdish Islamist group with at least several hundred members, according…