"Why are they coming after the taxi drivers?"

Last week, Bush showed that he's serious about helping them by pledging to appoint an assistant secretary of Commerce for manufacturing.

What Bush imagines he has learned is preposterous. If his teachers believe it they are fools; if not they are liars of the most dangerous sort.

As I've mentioned before, the whole point of the attack on Iraq has become the lining of American corporate pockets by leeching money off American taxpayers and Iraqi oil fields. Just how crooked would a foreign leader have to be to spend his country's money and the lives of his country's soldiers so that Dick and his close personal friends can afford bigger yachts? / I imagine what we'll see is the agreement by some countries to help, with no troops ever actually showing up in Iraq.

there is evidence that the terrorists had at least a bomb and a gun, and therefore presumably could have had any number of weapons available to them. / The argument was that since the hijackers only used weapons that were legally brought onto the planes, no one was legally responsible for allowing this to happen. This lie is now creating a huge hole in security at airports

"The surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans," Mr. Bush said.
Pundits noted the amount Mr. Bush seeks is equal to the U.S. government's annual spending on education.

The Israeli nation today rests on a scaffolding of corruption, and on foundations of oppression and injustice. As such, the end of the Zionist enterprise is already on our doorstep. There is a real chance that ours will be the last Zionist generation. There may yet be a Jewish state in the Middle East, but it will be a different sort, strange and ugly. / In a nation of chatterboxes, everyone has suddenly fallen dumb, because there's nothing left to say. We live in a thunderously failed reality.

Britain gave President Bush a categorical warning to expect multiple airline hijackings by the al-Qaeda network a month before the September 11 attacks / the US intelligence community has now received further information of an imminent second wave of terrorist attacks on America.

Fox News, widely viewed as an unabashed cheerleader for the Bush administration, was not the most positive network during those weeks of combat, according to the study. CBS's coverage of the so-called "Showdown With Saddam" was more positive than Fox's, while ABC, by a substantial margin, was the most negative on the war.

ABC's "World News Tonight" "was the most antiwar," the report says, with 34 percent of the on-air comments rated positive. "NBC Nightly News" was 53 percent positive, Fox's "Special Report" was 60 percent positive, and the "CBS Evening News" 74 percent positive.

Some White House reporters who accompanied George Bush to a military base in California are grumbling about having to wear press tags emblazoned with a picture of the president in a flight suit from his aircraft-carrier landing.
"The press advance office tries to include a small picture that reflects the theme of the event," says spokesman Scott McClellan. He says the "nice keepsake" shouldn't make any scribe feel like "a propagandist for the president."

In this picture, which is worth even more than a thousand words, MediaLab has merged a map of the 9/11 planes' flightpaths with a map of military bases in those areas. The flights went through some of the most heavily militarized parts of the country, yet nothing could be done to stop them?

"Those who criticise about human rights being breached must understand that all the bombing victims are more important than any human rights issue."

It now appears that the only place in the world where labs similar to those described by Powell actually exist is here, in the United States. Worse, according to the New York Times, the scientist responsible for the design and construction of the U.S. mobile biological lab is under suspicion by the FBI of using this technology to produce the dry powder anthrax used in the October 2001 letter attack


A U.S. audit last year, for example, found the Pentagon had lost track of more than one million chemical-biological protective suits, said Mr. Conetta, of the Project on Defense Alternatives, a private think-tank.

Ex-inspectors now say, five months after the U.S. invasion, that the notorious "unaccountables" may have been no more than paperwork glitches left behind when Iraq destroyed banned chemical and biological weapons years ago.
In perhaps the most striking example, U.S. government auditors found in 1994 that almost 2.7 tonnes of plutonium, enough for hundreds of nuclear bombs, had "vanished" from U.S. stocks, because of discrepancies between "book inventory" and "physical inventory."

Even when the dossier was in the stage of final review, Jones had decided to do something he’d never done in 15 years of dealing with the JIC: he wrote a memo expressing his reservations about the dossier’s language. / Blair had often repeated the assertion that ownership of the dossier lay with the JIC. But did it? If there was no final meeting of the JIC to sign it off, then why not?

leeden: We're dithering again, wasting time while the terror masters prepare their next assault, instead of going after them where they live

The figure of “more than 6,000” supplied to the Post therefore implies that over 4,500 US troops have required evacuation from Iraq for medical reasons other than combat or non-combat injuries. / The Post described the unexplained evacuations simply as the “thousands who became physically or mentally ill”.

The groups’ statement of purpose declares: “Not one more troop killed in action. Not one more troop wounded in action. Not one more troop psychologically damaged by the act of terrifying, humiliating, injuring or killing innocent people. Not one more troop spending one more day inhaling depleted uranium. Not one more troop separated from spouse and children. This is the only way to truly support these troops, and the families who are just as much part of the military as they are.”

"If you have Al-Jazeera day after day after day pounding the people of the region with things that are not true, that makes it difficult," Rumsfeld said.