What's really important, of course, is that political figures stick to the issues, like the Bush adviser who told The New York Times that the problem with Senator John Kerry is that "he looks French."

Al Jazeera has apparently been blackballed online as well. The channel's attempts to buy promotional ads on Yahoo and AOL were refused. Google News did not include the site in its index until today (Sept. 30). A Google spokesman said the site had not been indexed for technical reasons.

Often ignored are the Bush family's post-World War II dealings with former Nazis. John Foster Dulles, who had worked with the Bush family in the Harriman Company in laundering money for Nazi Germany, was Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of State. His brother Allen became CIA director.

Rove, who has been based in Utah and associated with the Mormon Church, is widely viewed as the chief engineer of the current Bush administration. He and Tom DeLay are attempting to force the Texas legislature to redistrict its Congressional delegations, adding seven sure seats to the Republican column. By controlling the state houses in New York, Florida, Texas and California, the GOP would have a lock on the four largest states in the union, and thus the ability to manipulate vote counts and strip voter registration rolls in the run-up to the 2004 election.

US Gave Israel Greenlight for Attack. Raid on Syria is a Lethal Step Towards War. By ROBERT FISK
In Jerusalem lives a prime minister, Ariel Sharon, who was adjudicated to be "personally responsible" by Israel's own Kahane commission of enquiry for the massacre of up to 1,700 Palestinian civilians at the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in Beirut in 1982. But he is not going on trial for war crimes.
If America cannot control Iraq, why should Syria fear Israel?

Rove lobbied intensely for his former employer's nomination after Ashcroft lost his senate seat to a dead man, the late Mel Carnahan.
While Ashcroft was not Bush's first choice for attorney general, Rove reportedly told Bush that spilling some blood over the nomination of the fiercely right-wing Ashcroft was "a no-lose proposition."

The Vice President's DNA imprint is all over the OSP, and the Niger uranium fiasco. NESA is headed up by his daughter, Elizabeth. Those infamous sixteen words that got into the President's State of the Union – the single most important speech on our chief executive's calendar – had to be retracted by a White House that rarely admits error. Somebody is going to pay, and my guess is it's going to be the Vice President and/or Libby.

Libby has already been implicated as the Spy-gate leaker by Larry Johnson, a former CIA officer who worked with Ms. Plame while she was in training. As Marc Rich's lawyer for 15 years, Libby has some interesting connections.

The trail begins with a January 2001 break-in at Niger's diplomatic mission in Rome: the place is riffled, files are scattered about, no serious damage done. Police theorize that the purpose was to gain official seals and other information essential to forging documents.

If Libby is implicated as having anything to do with Plame's "outing," then that, in turn, implicates Cheney, who must take responsibility. The Vice President's resignation, under these circumstances, is a distinct possibility. Will we soon hear an announcement that he's retiring "for health reasons"?

We also note that Mr. Rove was reportedly fired from the campaign of President George H.W. Bush over a leak to Robert Novak.

According to the London newspaper, The Guardian, on October 1, several journalists have confirmed off the record that Mr. Rove is the source these leaks. We know from the Washington Post that fully, six journalists were called with the initial leak.

Here that's pretty patent, but in addition to it, there's 746,000 reasons why there should be a -- an independent counsel here -- because that's the amount of dollars that John Ashcroft paid Karl Rove as a political consultant in the course of three campaigns.

Vice President Cheney's daughter, Elizabeth Cheney, and his son-in-law, Philip Perry, were appointed by President Bush to high-level positions: deputy assistant secretary of State and chief counsel for the Office of Management and Budget, respectively. Nepotism is on the rise, both in Washington and across the nation.
The Los Angeles Times recently reported that at least 28 members of Congress have close relatives working as Washington lobbyists, some without experience.
The appointment of family members of powerful figures is the modern equivalent of ancient medieval marriages between families of different kingdoms.