It is no exaggeration to say that lying has become Bush's signature as president. More distressing even than the president's lies, though, is the public's apparent passivity. Bush just seems to get away with it.

Without Saddam, neither Miller nor Bush would be where they are today.

the Al-Qaeda claim in Judith Miller's 4/21/03 article serves to justify the current war and the claim regarding Syria boosts for the (hypothetical) next war... "West European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and not exactly maintaining Germanic standards of hygiene."

Psychopatriots are a little nonplussed. Bush is merely "embarrassed." Peace advocates are sighing and drinking heavily. And of course the capacity to be outraged and appalled has been entirely drained out of you, out of this nation, replaced by raging ennui and sad resentment

Rumsfeld said. "They're going to get better every day. ... We can't make it like the United States in five minutes."

Buried in the rubble of Riyadh are some of the Bush administration's basic assumptions: that Al Qaeda was finished, that invading Iraq would bring regional stability and that a show of American superpower against Saddam would cow terrorists.

[Vinnell] has been controlled in the past through a web of interlocking ownership by a partnership that included James A. Baker III and Frank Carlucci, former U.S. secretaries of state and defense under presidents George [H.W.] Bush and Ronald Reagan respectively....

If you think Colombian terrorists couldn't sneak a WMD into the country, just ask yourself how all that cocaine gets here. And what about Osama bin Ladin? Remember him? Is he yet another phantom menace, or really the Lex Luther of terrorism?

During war, citizens of the war-making state may not question the motives of their leaders, lest they be accused of treason and summarily executed. Therefore, any state seeking permanent obeisance and minimal criticism from its citizenry will logically aspire toward a regimen of permanent war. It is supremely ironic that a majority of these citizens will wholeheartedly support such efforts, without realizing that it is the destruction of their own freedom that they are cheering

In December, the 911 Joint Inquiry issued its report, but only 24 pages were publicly released out of a total of over 800.

heres praps the most detailed 911/bush timeline

In the back of the room, Press Secretary Ari Fleischer caught Bush's eye and held up a pad of paper for him to see, with "DON'T SAY ANYTHING YET" written on it in big block letters.

For the fourth year in a row, an independent advisory panel criticized the State Department for failing to designate Saudi Arabia as one of the world's most egregious violators of human rights and as an exporter of extremist Islam.

In 1999, according to the Institute for Policy Studies, 51 of the world's 100 largest economies were corporations.

Another current director of Halliburton is Lawrence Eagleburger, who was United States Secretary of State under George H.W. Bush from 1992 to the end of the administration. Halliburton gave 95 percent of its federal campaign contributions during the past two election cycles to the Republicans.8 Halliburton has also strongly supported the election funds of relevant chairmen of Senate and Congressional committees, including Ted Stevens, Republican chair of the appropriations committee.9