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It’s important to observe that the USA is not fighting a war in Iraq. The reason I say that is that it’s an occupation, and the fighting that takes place involving the U.S. military is all in support of the occupation. As far as I can tell, the Iraqis who are fighting Americans [...]

A few years ago, the youth group from my congregation participated with the youth group from the mosque on a service project. At the end of the night, the kids returned to HUCC for debriefing. The Muslim youth later complained they felt it was wrong for boys and girls to sit together in [...]

As any honest person knows, the idea the the surge worked, in any sense of the word as meant be the Pentagon, is a bold-faced lie.
h/t Down With Tyranny!

This four and a half minute video was made by an Iraqi journalist in Baghdad. “Five years of war… and we live like this?… Tell the world. [...]

Spencer Ackerman tackles the Bush administration’s Orwellian assault on the English language as it applies to Iraq:

Few governments have relied more on euphemism than the Bush administration. Euphemism is different from spin. Spin puts the best face forward on a given policy; euphemism uses its opposite to describe itself. Hence the Clear Skies Initiative to [...]

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 [...]

From Think Progress:
This morning, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) held a press conference to express their “pleasure” about President Bush’s statement this morning regarding what he described as “encouraging news from Iraq” and “the success of the surge.”

Warning! - malarkey levels unsafe for logical comprehension:
LIEBERMAN: That’s why Senator Graham and I [...]

President Bush now wants a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. I assumed you would read this while sitting, otherwise I apologize and I’ll give you a moment to get up off the floor…

“Kilroy was here”

Remember when anyone who favored withdrawal was accused of wanting to “surrender,” and betray the troops?
Senator [...]

I don’t know how many times we have to tell you people. The idea of fighting terrorism with law enforcement agencies belongs to an outmoded, naive September 10 mentality. People who think that Al Qaeda’s attacks on the USA could have been stopped by the FBI (if the top brass listened to their [...]

The parade of phony Iraq experts appearing on TV lately has treated us to nonstop blather about “conditions on the ground” and “facts on the ground.” Usually the magic words are said with a satisfied smirk, implying that the Average Americans wouldn’t be so keen on getting our troops back home if only they [...]

Via Talking Points Memo and Think Progress: Yesterday, Senator McCain told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that Maliki’s 16-month timetable for withdrawal from Iraq is a “pretty good timetable.” He only adds that “they have to be based on conditions on the ground.”
In other words, Barack Obama’s 16-month timetable is a catastrophe but Maliki’s is “pretty good”. [...]

Rocky was great also in subsequent testimony. This session lasted SIX HOURS!
Here are more segments of the hearing.
The last hour of the hearing was the most compelling argument for why we MUST impeach Bush to save the Constitution…literally.

Thanks, Raw Story. The House Judiciary Committee has released a witness list for its hearing on the impeachment of President George W. Bush.
Late Thursday afternoon, the committee released the full witness list, broken down into two panels.
Panel One
The Honorable Dennis Kucinich, Representative from Ohio
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