FalloutStories related to 11 Sept 2001. |
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| 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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Hell, a peace sign is enough to get you arrested in the US.  < 10:57:34 PM>.Compromise resolution likely. Britain is secretly working on a compromise UN resolution on Iraq in the face of opposition from France, Russia and Germany. [Guardian Unlimited] Excellent. The Bush's 'war party' must be spitting mad. < 10:54:17 PM>.Britain's dirty secret. This is Falluja 2, identified by Colin Powell as an Iraqi chemical weapons plant. Confidential documents show we were warned but we helped build it. And we covered it up. [Guardian Unlimited] < 10:47:58 PM>.Blix wants more time for inspections 
Iraq is taking a lot of steps toward compliance with UN demands for disarmament, but more time is needed for inspections, chief inspector Hans Blix said on Wednesday. [CBC News] < 10:42:12 PM>.Thousands of pupils in nationwide protest. Education: Thousands of pupils walked out of classes yesterday in a spate of anti-war protests which also saw sacks of farmyard manure dumped on the steps of Labour party headquarters. [Guardian Unlimited] < 9:31:15 PM>.ABCNEWS.com : Lawyer Arrested for Wearing a 'Peace' T-Shirt '"I was in the food court with my son when I was confronted by two security guards and ordered to either take off the T-shirt or leave the mall," said Downs. When Downs refused the security officers' orders, police from the town of Guilderland were called and he was arrested and taken away in handcuffs, charged with trespassing "in that he knowingly enter(ed) or remain(ed) unlawfully upon premises," the complaint read.' Unfreakin' believable. How about we all sing a round of 'America the Beautiful'? < 11:28:59 AM>.God, Satan and the Media 'Claims that the news media form a vast liberal conspiracy strike me as utterly unconvincing, but there's one area where accusations of institutional bias have merit: nearly all of us in the news business are completely out of touch with a group that includes 46 percent of Americans. That's the proportion who described themselves in a Gallup poll in December as evangelical or born-again Christians. Evangelicals have moved from the fringe to the mainstream, and that is particularly evident in this administration.' Yikes! < 10:05:26 AM>.Uncle Sam's dirty tricks?. Alleged U.S. spying at the U.N. -- huge news in the rest of the world, ignored here -- provides fodder to festering anti-Americanism. [Salon.com] < 12:45:03 AM>.USATODAY.com - Ugly sentiments sting American tourists '"Man, it was bad," says the Rat Pack-y star of Swingers. "These girls saw us and were kind of flirting, and they kept asking us if we were American. Finally we said, 'Yes,' and they just took off. "One girl turns and says, 'We were hoping you were Canadian.' Canadian? Since when was it cooler to be Canadian?"' Since, like, forever baby! < 12:33:42 AM>.Globe and Mail: Jeffrey Simpson 'The ideologues believe they are the terrorists' nightmare, but, instead, they are the terrorists' dream, because they have overreacted. By pursuing "regime change," starting with a U.S. general running Iraq for two years or more, the U.S. will turn even more people against them and provide the best recruiting ground yet for militant fundamentalism. The shock sought by the Americans, therefore, will more likely be to themselves. Unless, of course, the U.S. does an Afghanistan, and turns Iraq, once conquered, from last year's headlines to today's back pages. In which case, Iraq, an artificial country, will fall apart in chaos.' Another fine editorial from Simpson. Throughout it he refers to the Bush administration as 'the war party'. Excellent. It all becomes pretty clear if you think of it that way. < 12:31:21 AM>.Globe and Mail: Norman Spector 'Of course, it's about oil. So was the first Persian Gulf war against Saddam Hussein. And why else did the Americans, and before them the British and French, penetrate the region in the first place?' Spector doesn't let anyone off the hook here. The Americans want the oil. They bomb Iraq and protect the Saudis. The French are pushing in the opposite direction but for the same reason. And we Canucks will piously denounce Bush and then end up going along with them because we are so dependent on them. |
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