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The New York Times reports on March 19 that whereas the Bush administration sold the Iraq war to the congress as a $50 billion investment, the actual costs are more like–
1.) ultra-conservative Pentagon estimate: $600 billion and counting
(note: this Honest Abe estimate categorically excludes “extras” such as operations in the war zone, [...]

Yesterday Bush booted CENTCOM Commander Admiral Fallon for refusing to assist in the distruction of American and The World. Today, we have already forgotten, thanks in part to Dick4brains Spitzer.
Does this man look like a traitor? Where is Sean Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, George Will, or that Daddy’s girl William (Wanker) Kristol? What [...]

Ka—BoooooooooM
Update: YouTube video of former governor Don Siegelman telling his story.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymqcU5zOP…
h/t ThinkProgress
Last night, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired its long-awaited report on Alabama’s incarcerated former governor Don Siegelman, featuring allegations that Karl Rove personally told a Republican operative in the state to find evidence that Siegelman was cheating on his wife.
Siegelman, a Democrat, was convicted in [...]

I wonder how a Bush Lover would hear this? Do they still think the heavy-handed unilateral approach to terrorism is the proper course? Are they really still so afraid they are willing to subvert the constitution and the rule of law?
It must feel like being betrayed by a lover who used and abused [...]

Download Countdown Special Comment on FISA: President Bush Is A Liar And A Fascist
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Thanks as always to Norm at OneGoodMove for providing this video.
Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on today’s Countdown was a scathing rebuke of President Bush for continuing to play the fear card, trying to scare the hell out of [...]

From an email sent by Wexler’s office:

Today, in hearings on Capitol Hill, I confronted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her role in the lies, exaggerations, and misdirection that led us into the Iraq war.
During my questioning, Secretary Rice falsely stated [...]

Weapons of mass destruction capable of killing millions… Iraq is allied with al Qaeda and a training ground for terrorists… The smoking gun could be a mushroom cloud… September the 11th… Mobile biological weapons facilities… Unmanned aerial vehicles… Aluminum tubes… Chemical weapons… Uranium from Niger…

A new study [...]

I have little editorial comment on this new development other than to say, fuck you Bush! And a holiday prayer that The Real America vis-a-vis our principles come crashing down on his coke head.
Happy Holidays!
From The Nation Lawyers Stepping Up
Katrina vanden Heuvel

We are lawyers in the United States of America. As such, we have [...]

h/t Crooks and Liars  A Crippling Legacy
By: Nicole Belle
Vanity Fair offers a sobering look at the costs that we — and our children and their children — will pay for the last eight years of Bush/Cheney economics.
The damage done to the American economy does not make front-page headlines every day, but the repercussions will be [...]

Seven years later, at least the cable media is beginning to pull their noses out of Bush’s ass and do their job.
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Many scandals ago, with each new one, I would think it couldn’t get any worse. Today I believe we will continue to uncover [...]

Randi Rhodes of Air America, speech to the 50th Anniversary party of “PEACE ACTION of Michigan” on November 11, 2007.
DO not miss this. It is the most honest REAL discussion of what is really happened over the past seven long years.

This “blast from the past” stands as a stark reminder of the chorus corporate controlled media, coordinated talking points and hyperbolic name-calling that manged to shout down anyone who presented reason and fact in the face of the drumbeat to attack Iraq.
This little piece contains all the now classic tactics so shamefully employed against the [...]