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"There is no denying that this race is mainly about Mr. Bush's disastrous tenure. Nearly four years ago, after the Supreme Court awarded him the presidency, Mr. Bush came into office amid popular expectation that he would acknowledge his lack of a mandate by sticking close to the center. Instead, he turned the government over to the radical right."
"We look back on the past four years with hearts nearly breaking, both for the lives unnecessarily lost and for the opportunities so casually wasted. Time and again, history invited George W. Bush to play a heroic role, and time and again he chose the wrong course. We believe that with John Kerry as president, the nation will do better." -- New York Times 17 Oct, 2004
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'This nation is about to embark upon the first test of a revolutionary doctrine applied in an extraordinary way at an unfortunate time. The doctrine of preemption -- the idea that the United States or any other nation can legitimately attack a nation that is not imminently threatening but may be threatening in the future -- is a radical new twist on the traditional idea of self defense. It appears to be in contravention of international law and the UN Charter. And it is being tested at a time of world-wide terrorism, making many countries around the globe wonder if they will soon be on our -- or some other nation's -- hit list.'
-U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, Feb. 12, 2003
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'It was bad enough for the U.S. to have endured the intelligence failures that led to Sept. 11; it's another thing to know that 18 months, billions of dollars and untold numbers of bombs later that Osama bin Laden and most of his top advisers remain on the loose. This failure ought to be thrown daily in Mr. Bush's face, but he has diverted attention to Iraq, where the United States is about to make a mistake of historic proportions.'
-Jeffrey Simpson in The Globe and Mail, 18 Feb 2003
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 Friday, 7 February 2003
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The Onion | North Dakota Found To Be Harboring Nuclear Missiles 'The man at the center of the controversy is North Dakota's leader, Gov. John Hoeven. Having risen to power in 2000 after amassing tremendous wealth in the private sector, Hoeven lives a life of comfort and excess inside the heavily patrolled North Dakota governor's mansion, a lavish dwelling paid for entirely by the state, while many of his people engage in subsistence farming.'
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Powell's evidence fails to sway most of Security Council
The evidence Colin Powell presented Wednesday, intended to convince
members of the UN Security Council that a war in Iraq is necessary,
instead convinced most members to improve the UN weapons inspections.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
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Iraq dissects, dismisses U.S. case to UN
The United States used fabrications and misquotations to try to persuade
the United Nations to take action against Saddam Hussein, Iraq said
Thursday.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
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Guardian Unlimited Observer | Comment | Terry Jones: I'm losing patience with my neighbours, Mr Bush 'For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors down the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the health food shop. They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson is planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover what. I've been round to his place a few times to see what he's up to, but he's got everything well hidden. That's how devious he is.'
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Ashcroft pushes for more death sentences. World: The US attorney general has overruled his own federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for 28 defendants. [Guardian Unlimited]
The evil in America
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US is told: turn on us and you get total war 'Washington is seeking to focus US and international attention on Iraq, in preparation for military action. To admit it is facing a separate crisis with a second "rogue state" - this one almost certainly possessing nuclear weapons - would only heighten already profound anxiety over the wisdom, morality and repercussions of an invasion of Iraq.'
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UK war dossier a sham. British 'intelligence' lifted from academic articles, say experts. [Guardian Unlimited]
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The Outlook for Suicide Bombing in the U.S.. A&E's "Suicide Bombers" documentary about the possibility of suicide bombings in America is a low-budget thriller with minimal reporting and haphazardly arranged interviews. [New York Times: Arts]
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Is That Legal: "North Carolina congressman Howard Coble has gone public with his support for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II." Ed Cone is calling this Coblegate. Coble is chairing a House subcommittee on crime and terrorism. Coble was one of the supporters of Howard Berman's bill that would make hacking users' computers legal for the entertainment industry. [Scripting News] The evil in America.
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"Powell's intelligence dossier "plagiarised"" [Daypop Top 40] 'The government's carefully co-ordinated propaganda offensive took an embarrassing hit tonight after Downing Street was accused of plagiarism.'
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