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Entries from August 13th, 2007

Bryan Young: Tony Snow’s September 1, 2007 Press Briefing

August 13th, 2007 · No Comments · Iraq, Surge, War

MR. SNOW: ..And with that I’ll open the floor for questions. Q: Here we are, the first day of September and this was the month we were given to look at progress on the surge, and now that it’s September, does the White House feel the surge is working? MR. SNOW: Well, first of all, [...]

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Shredding the Fourth Amendment

August 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Constitution

In describing the recent [tag]FISA[/tag] “revisions,” Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter says: “This is not the feverish imagination of left-wing bloggers and the ACLU. It’s the plain truth of where we’ve come as a country, at the behest of a president who has betrayed his oath to defend the Constitution…” read more | digg story [tags]Bush is [...]

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Fatigue Cripples US Army in Iraq

August 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Iraq, War

Exhaustion and combat stress are besieging US troops in Iraq as they battle with a new type of warfare. Some even rely on Red Bull to get through the day. As desertions and absences increase, the military is struggling to cope with the crisis. Peter Beaumont in Baghdad Sunday August 12, 2007 read more | [...]

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Bush War Adviser Says Draft Worth a Look

August 10th, 2007 · No Comments · Iraq, War

Trial Balloon? After 4 years the Army is broken, both in personnel and equipment. They are now offering people up to $40,000.00 to enlist and it is costing them (us) a fortune. Deployment times have gone from 12 months to 18 months. Solution…. draft your kids and grandkids into Cheney’s and Bush’s war fiasco. The [...]

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Old-line Republican warns ‘something’s in the works’ to trigger a police state

August 8th, 2007 · No Comments · Todays Top Story

Maybe we WILL have Bush/Cheney around longer than 18 months. Thom Hartmann began his program by reading from a new Executive Order which allows the government to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies. He then introduced Paul Craig Roberts by quoting: “Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year [...]

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