President Bush and 7 top members of his Administration made at least 935 false and misleading statements in the 2 years after 9-11 in order to justify their illegal invasion of Iraq. We have known for some time that the Bush administration methodically and repeatedly told blatant lies about the National Security threat posed [...]

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Two Years after Calling for a Redeployment of U.S. Forces from Iraq — President Bush Refuses to Provide the American People with a Responsible Exit Strategy
(Washington D.C.)- Tomorrow marks the two year anniversary of Congressman John P. Murtha’s, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, public call for the redeployment of U.S. forces from [...]

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From: The Boston Globe
If the Bush administration succeeds in its latest request for funding for the war in Iraq, the total cost would rise to $611.5 billion, according to the National Priorities Project, a nonprofit research group.
Almost 18 months’ worth of free gas for everyone
US drivers consume approximately 384.7 million gallons of gasoline a day. [...]

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“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln

I always look forward to the Special Comments that Keith Olbermann occasionally does for his show. You can always count on it being an intense, passionate and emotional critique of [...]

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Dear America, thanks for all the money. Sorry about your kids. Signed, Haliburton, Blackwater, Bush, Cheney, Nouri al-Maliki, and Congress
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will end up costing $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years, according to a new CBO estimate. That’s $8,000 for every man, woman and child in the US, and it’s [...]

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For three decades Vice President Dick Cheney conducted a secretive, behind-closed-doors campaign to give the president virtually unlimited wartime power. Finally, in the aftermath of 9/11, the Justice Department and the White House made a number of controversial legal decisions. Orchestrated by Cheney and his lawyer David Addington, the department interpreted executive power in an [...]

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