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Bush and many others need to be tried in a court of justice. Justice and Rule of Law are the cornerstones of democracy.
And the process began some time ago, driven NOT by democrats, but by good republicans. Here is the list of Republican indictments since 1998.
Lets be honest, the number should at least [...]

There’s been a great deal of talk about corruption in politics. The last 8 years have seen a truly shocking level of corruption in government - from the Republicans K Street Project, to the Bushies’ endless politicizing of every aspect of government starting with no bid contracts for any firm connected to the Administration [...]

Raw Story reporter Eric Brewer recently asked White House Press Secretary Dana Perino to comment on Senator McCain’s interesting claim that he knows how to find Osama bin Laden.
Q: John McCain said recently that he knows how to get Osama bin Laden. And a couple of months ago he said that he knows how to [...]

National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, May 16, 2002
I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. [...]

Or, more correctly, what our sad anniversary tomorrow has been turned into by the presidential administration, and the current Republican candidates for President and Vice President.
This is supposed to be a day of remembrance. Remembrance of the attack, remembrance of the national unity which followed it.
Most important of all, remembrance of the dead.

h/t Existential Cowboy
To Bush administration chagrin and despite its best efforts to cover up the crime of 911, various independent investigations and courageous web warriors continue to expose Bush’s lies about 911.
A culprit, a fiendish cabal inside our own government, may yet be exposed to be mass murderers as well as war criminals, traitors, subversives, [...]

Last night, Bill Moyers interviewed Andrew Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power. It’s worth the time to read the whole transcript. In particular I was struck by this exchange - it began with Moyers reading a quote from Bacevich’s book:
BILL MOYERS: I was in the White House, back in the early 60s, [...]

Word 4 word from The Existentialist Cowboy
Like a cornered dog, the BBC has lashed out at a growing movement of organized critics of Bush ‘conspiracy theories’ of 911. How credible is this offensive? BBC reporting of 911 is at the very least ‘questionable’, at worst, ‘dishonest’. I suggest that the BBC is trying to save [...]

In Mistakes were made (but not by me) , Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson discuss the psychological process of self justification as it relates to initiation.
In particular, they cite a study in which students, to join a conversation, had to go through an initiation process; for one group it was relatively easy, for [...]

Via Think Progress: Today marks seven years since the day President Bush received a President’s Daily Brief entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” (PDF) What did Bush do? He stayed on vacation the rest of August.
The Bush administration finally scheduled a long-delayed meeting to discuss al Qaeda with Richard [...]

I reprint this article in its entirety. Rich alerted me to conspiratorial possibilities and suddenly, the guy commits suicide. Read it here or there, and lets see what ABC does.
(Updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV - Update V - Update VI)
The FBI’s lead suspect in the September, 2001 [...]