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2/2/2006; 8:11:09 |
| NYT Endorses Kerry for President: |
| "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 |
| Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences: |
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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 |
| On the road to losing the peace : |
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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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A very clear explanation of how the Bush administration is trying to fool the people. Techniques include: false dilemma, argument from ignorance, slippery slope, ad hominem attack, fallacy of exclusion, appeal to authority. Fortunately, it's not the people who are the fools. We see through them.  < 11:15:39 AM>.kuro5hin.org || Logical Fallacies and The Rush To War 'Dave Koehler of PhillyBurbs.com has written an outstanding summary of the logical fallacies used by the Bush administration to try to convince the world at large of the necessity of invading Iraq in the absence of any sort of compelling evidence.' < 3:15:20 AM>.Organizers of Antiwar Movement Plan to Go Beyond Protests (washingtonpost.com) '"We still believe we can stop this war before it begins," said Chris Nineham, one of the British organizers of this weekend's conference, held at the Stop the War Coalition's offices in northeast London. "But if not, we're putting the warmongers on notice that there will be massive protests on the day war breaks out and the following weekend."' < 3:13:26 AM>.How the Protesters Mobilized. The Internet has changed protests by allowing mobilization to emerge from free-wheeling amorphous groups. [New York Times: Technology] < 2:46:33 AM>.Senate report: FBI still unprepared. A bipartisan report says the agency is still too cautious in dealing with terror suspects -- and has promoted the agents who bungled the Moussaoui case. [Salon.com] < 2:36:43 AM>.Powell's moment of truth. He went from being the Bush administration's voice of moderation to its leading advocate for war. With a diplomatic meltdown looming, the secretary of state is in the hot seat. [Salon.com] < 2:35:35 AM>.Sex boycott urged over war. Women opposed to the war with Iraq are being urged to withhold sexual favours if their men are pro-war. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] < 2:34:11 AM>.US angry over N Korea jet intercept. Washington will protest after four North Korean fighters tailed a US spy plane in international airspace. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] < 2:31:07 AM>.Canada's Iraq plan raises interest at UN 
Canada's ambassador to the United Nations says a Canadian proposal on Iraq was well-received Monday by non-voting members of the United Nations Security Council. [CBC News] < 2:18:46 AM>.Lance Knobel quoting Joshua Micah Marshall: "[I]f you want some evidence of this administration's diplomatic incompetence, consider this. We publicly sold out the Kurds to get this deal. We really should have made sure we had a deal before we tipped our hands to the Kurds about the price we were willing to pay for it." [Scripting News] < 2:05:36 AM>.US prepares to use toxic gases in Iraq 'The US is preparing to use the toxic riot-control agents CS gas and pepper spray in Iraq in contravention of the Chemical Weapons Convention, provoking the first split in the Anglo-US alliance. "Calmative" gases, similar to the one that killed 120 hostages in the Moscow theatre siege last year, could also be employed.' Disarm Bush < 2:00:48 AM>.US orders more troops to Gulf. The Pentagon deploys another 60,000 troops, but says they might arrive only after a war with Iraq has begun. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] < 1:37:50 AM>.kuro5hin.org || Bad credit? No credit? Then you might just be an airline security risk 'All airline passengers meeting certain criteria will be assigned security risk levels of green, yellow and red. Those with red levels will not be allowed to fly. Passengers will not be allowed to view their personal information used in such determinations, and the information used will be on file for 50 years.' < 1:35:26 AM>.NOW: Commentary - Bill Moyers on Patriotism and the American Flag | PBS 'I put it on to remind myself that not every patriot thinks we should do to the people of Baghdad what Bin Laden did to us. The flag belongs to the country, not to the government. And it reminds me that it's not un-American to think that war ? except in self-defense ? is a failure of moral imagination, political nerve, and diplomacy. Come to think of it, standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.' < 1:31:37 AM>.Stop clapping, this is serious - smh.com.au 'Tom Lehrer is still feisty and funny, but the king of sophisticated satire tells Tony Davis there's no place for his style of humour now: the world just wouldn't get it. 'I'm not tempted to write a song about George W.Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them."' < 1:20:22 AM>.MoveOn.org: Emergency Appeal to the U.N. 'Dear Member of the U.N. Security Council, We are citizens from countries all over the world. We are speaking together because we will all be affected by a decision in which your country has a major part -- the decision of how to disarm Iraq.' This is the beginning of a letter whcih moveon.org will send to UN security council members this week. Please go to the site and sign the letter. |
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