Notes"Call me paranoid, but seeing "Halliburton," "Homeland Security," and "detention centers" in the same article doesn't make me feel safe at all."Unfurl
Notes"It was a very unpleasant look at the twisted, ugly innards of the soul of the Republican party. Suddenly I knew what it must be like to be Ann Coulter's gynecologist."Unfurl
Notes"More to the point, does the president have a plan for all this? (The point is far from facetious; it's tragically clear, after all, that he didn't have a plan for how to fight the war if it extended beyond the collapse of Saddam.)"Unfurl
Notes"...as he paid tribute to veterans of this war and others, he did not accept responsibility for sending American troops into battle for a cause that did not exist."Unfurl
Notes"This week, unprecedented in history, an elected vice president of the United States of America proposed that Congress legally authorize the torture of foreigners by Americans."Unfurl
Notes"An open-ended declaration to stay ‘as long as it takes’ lets Iraqi factions maneuver for their own political advantage by making us stay as long as they want, and it becomes an excuse for billions of American tax dollars to be sent to Iraq..."Unfurl
Notes"No one died as a result of Watergate, but 2,000 American soldiers have now been killed and thousands more wounded to rid the world of an imminent threat that wasn't."Unfurl
Notes"The war in Iraq saw two milestones Tuesday that reflect the country's path toward democracy and its human toll as officials said the referendum on a draft constitution passed and the number of U.S. military deaths reached 2,000."Unfurl
Notes"We do not know what outcome we will face in Iraq. We do know that four years after 9/11, our whole foreign policy seems destined to rise or fall on the outcome of a war only marginally related to the source of what befell us on that day. There was nothinUnfurl
Notes"It is the president's opinion, and that of the entire administration, that the best way to honor the brave sacrifices of our fallen soldiers is by enjoying a relaxing vacation and not thinking about their deaths."Unfurl
Notes"The idea that we would be sending American servicemen over to Iraq on the basis of the Iraqis developing a new constitution is just so remote, so distant and so fallacious"Unfurl
Notes"Both have issued apologies Fox in a one-line statement to the Los Angeles Times and Loftus in an e-mail to the family after being contacted by the newspaper. The Voricks say they have yet to see or hear a correction."Unfurl
Notes"Now we know why Robertson and his allies want the Ten Commandments posted everywhere imaginible. They have so much trouble memorizing them!"Unfurl
Notes"President George W. Bush said Tuesday that anti-war protesters such as Cindy Sheehan, who want U.S. troops brought home immediately, are "advocating a policy that would weaken the United States.""Unfurl
Notes"Terrorist cells in Baghdad are in mourning for suicide bomber Ahmed al-Khalaf, 19, who was killed by a car bomb Monday, 200 yards from an Iraqi police station, his intended target."Unfurl
Notes"The shift in terms comes at a time when the US public is increasingly pessimistic about the war in Iraq - and sceptical about its links to the fight against terrorism."Unfurl
Notes"The United States administration turned a blind eye to extensive sanctions-busting in the prewar sale of Iraqi oil, according to a new Senate investigation." Any voters' remorse yet? Anyone else convinced they're crooks?Unfurl
Notes"Rove, on the other hand, is a U.S. citizen and, as deputy White House chief of staff, a high-ranking official of the U.S. government sworn to uphold and defend our nation, its laws and its interests. Yet he sold out America just to get even with Joe WilsUnfurl
Notes"Whatever the answers, there is a potentially calamitous mismatch between the Bush administration's avowed intentions and its tangible means. They can print or borrow money to float the national debt. They can't clone or borrow soldiers to float an imperiUnfurl
Notes"Iraq's ambassador to the UN has demanded an inquiry into what he said was the "cold-blooded murder" of his young unarmed relative by US marines."Unfurl
Notes"Our troops deserve better: they deserve leadership equal to their sacrifice." People keep asking for specifics from Democrats - well, here are some.Unfurl
Notes"Washington has, for the first time, acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said. "Unfurl
Notes"A pro-Iraq war US congressman who campaigned for French fries to be renamed "freedom fries" is now calling for US troops to return home from Iraq."Unfurl
Notes"For the first time since the war in Iraq began, more than half of the American public believes the fight there has not made the United States safer, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll." Any voters' remorse, maybe?Unfurl
Notes"THE IMPEACHMENT of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, should be part of mainstream political discourse."Unfurl
Notes'...now the US politician who led the campaign to change the name of french fries to "freedom fries" has turned against the war...' [nelson]HA-HA![/nelson] Jackass.Unfurl
Notes'Unfortunately, the mainstream media in the United States was too busy with wall-to-wall coverage of a "runaway bride" to cover a bombshell report out of the British newspapers'Unfurl
Notes"Now, we have the stone, cold evidence of bending intelligence to sell us on death by the thousands, and neither a Republican Congress nor what is laughably called US journalism thought it worth a second look."Unfurl
Notes"Seventeen American prisoners of war in the 1991 Gulf War failed on Monday to get the U.S. Supreme Court to review of a ruling that threw out a nearly $1 billion judgment against Iraq, Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi Intelligence Service."Unfurl
Notes"An alcoholic cousin of an aide to Ahmed Chalabi has emerged as the key source in the US rationale for going to war in Iraq." Oh god, it's so funny it makes me want to cry.Unfurl
Notes"He didn’t. Minutes later, no missiles came; months later, the frightening data across his monitor was determined to have been a system glitch."Unfurl