Speaking for all of us,
I am sorry to say, but we
will not be here until next
Wednesday. Which is a
real shame because I just
read in my local paper that
Bush finally took some blame.
So long!

President Bush claims that technically he didn’t
lie in his State of the Union Address, but there
was nothing true in the Uranium claim. I believe
that is fraud or close to it. Bush has crossed the
line by grossly exaggerating the truth, and
misleading the people of the United States.
All we did in this war was lose soldiers and
allies.

citypaper.net
Criminal or Scofflaw?

I believe that abortion is a legal right.
Women should be able to have abortions
without being faced with adversity. Abortion
is simply a matter of choice, not life or
death. In a world with more advanced
technology than ever before people
have more control over childbirth. Some
of it can be scary, but abortion should
not be. Therefore, I think abortion should
be accepted as a natural part of our way
of life.

The Austin Chronicle.com
Fighting a Rising Tide

I would like to apologize for the few broken links in the archive.
We are trying to refind the articles that we linked to right away.
Thanks for your patience and consideration.

I think we all agree that terrorism is evil, but I
just hope that after we have accomplished “our
goals” that we are not left in a world dominated
by police states. I understand that to increase
security has often meant to have a little more
restrictions and therefore a little less freedom.
This occurred a lot at first with beefed up airport
security, which I do like, to secretly detained
immigrants, which I do not like. This started shortly
after 9/11 and most of it with good reason, yet I
do not want it to last. Bush stated that the war
on terrorism will be long and difficult, but the people
have their limits. It is not just the US either; we
just have changed the most because, in our
governments mind, we had the most to change.
Countries all over are pushing the freedoms of their
people to capture different terrorists. Police
organizations are becoming the dominant protection
force in individual countries that have not been
reached by the US and others like Afghanistan and
Iraq. We want the terrorists to be null as a threat,
but we also want our freedom back.

Chicago Tribune.com (Free password needed)
Shootout in Saudi Arabia kills Eight
ArabicNews.com
One Bahriani arrested in Saudi Arabi
New York Times.com (Free password needed)
Israel to Free Many Militants and Lift Some Roadblocks
Baghdad: 3 Iraqi's Killed as G.I.'s Set Up Raid in Hunt for Hussein
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Democratic presidential candidate
Joe Lieberman criticized the Bush
administration because they weren’t
prepared for post-Saddam Iraq.
Senator Lieberman excused President
Bush for his error in the State of the
Union address, but he doesn’t excuse
Bush’s handling of the “occupation” of
Iraq. I whole-heartedly agree with
Senator Lieberman that Bush should have
been more prepared for the government
of post-Saddam Iraq. Now, soldiers are
being shipped back in caskets daily. But,
I guess the thrill for Bush was in the
fighting of the war. Bush needs to learn
how to end his fights, not just start them.

New York Post.com
Lieberman Criticizes Bush Policy on Iraq

Like Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune said
"Yes, it's bad to be wrong, particularly
about something this serious. But it's worse
to be stubborn." Too many people are
still being stubborn and not seeing the
light. Whether you are glad or not that
the Iraqi's are "freed" you still have to
realize that support for the war was
conjured up by false pretenses. The US
had two goals: to oust Saddam and to get
rid of his biological weapons cache. The
latter reason was a big cause for ousting
Saddam in the first place, but we have not
found any weapons. The slightest information
about weapons we got was a British
falsehood. Eric Zorn is a born again anti-war
person. With the complete lack of evidence
you would think there would be more people
like him, but there are too many people who
are just too stubborn to face the facts.

"He is our president so we should support him"
is an argument I often hear. True, he is our
president but it is okay to question our
government and even to go against their
decisions. That is what the whole democratic
process is for. What our country needs right
now is two fold. First, we need more
democracy. Second, we need fewer stubborn
people who are to willing to support a cause
that is not ours and that does not exist.

Chicago Tribune.com
Like weapons, support for war is now missing (Free password needed)

In the 2000 elections, Bush kept saying
that Al Gore said he invented the internet.
If Vice President Cheney had done half
that, then we would have a much better
and much more productive Vice President.
The biggest news about Cheney so far
was his heart attack. More people knew
about Gore when he was Vice President
than they know about Cheney, now.
Cheney just hides in the shadows. I
believe that if Bush is miraculously
elected President again, Cheney won’t
be with him. Cheney has been a dead
weight for Bush from day one. Of course,
Bush hasn’t carried his own weight too
well either.

So, Bush goes on and posts pictures of whom he
thinks are Saddams' dead sons. Let's just hope
the golden rule does not apply in this case, because
I remember that in the last war there was a big ordeal
about US prisoners being shown on TV. That is against
the Geneva convention and we rightfully tried to ensure
their safety. This time Bush must have decided to
bypass instead of break the code, because he is not
showing prisoners because he killed them first. But
don't worry because confirmation of their identity is
being checked now. Sad these days that you have to
kill a person to find out who he really is. Well, I hope
this does not have any repurcussions because I do
not want to see the "enemy" doing what Bush has
done to them.

We originally had a link to an article in the Walla Wall Union-Bulletin,
but the article has been moved, so we have linked to another article
that we feel is just as pertinent. Thanks.

ABC30.com
Photos of Saddam's Dead Sons Released
Warning: these photos are extremely graphic

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President Bush isn’t doing anything
for himself. He’s got the best technology
in the world, and he has all sorts of
assistants. But, he can’t even look
over his speech. President Clinton
pulled off ad-libbing for 15 minutes
when he had the wrong State of the
Union speech. President Bush needs
to have a part in his own speeches
so the uranium catastrophe won’t
happen again. I hope we get a
president who is not helpless in 2004.

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Today, and I mean right now, there are so many conflicts
that Bush would never be able to pacify all the opposing
parties himself. Sudan, Liberia, Iraq, Israeli-Palestine are
just a few of the many conflict areas. One country alone
cannot try to help that many places at once.

So when Bush went into Iraq with coalition
forces composed of mostly US and British troops, Bush
took a step in the wrong direction. Bush should have
looked at the world's problems that existed,
and said "look, the US and Britain cannot handle all the
responsibility so let's go in with the U.N. But
he did not, and now he would probably consider such
a move as disgraceful, to himself especially.

Well, I say that if one were to look at the polls pre-war Iraq
they would realize how many people who did not support
going into Iraq alone did support going in with the U.N.
We should have done it in Afghanistan, we should have
done it in Iraq, and Bush should do it in Liberia. If he does,
bring in U.N. side by side with the U.S. We would have a pattern
of two letter organizations: U.S., U.N., and the EU. But that
is not the important point, the point is we would be a team
player, for peace. Not just a one country police force, but
part of the greater community i.e., the world.

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An article in the Denver Post announced
that Vice President Cheney knew that the
CIA disagreed with the British intelligence.
He even stated that Iraq had reconstructed
their nuclear weapons program. Cheney
said the danger Iraq posed was severe
and approaching unless stopped at once.
But, we haven’t found any nuclear weapons
in Iraq. Cheney’s popularity as Vice President
in the White house will be indeed short lived.

Denver Post.com
Cheney's intelligence role scrutinized

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Bush appears to be calm about the danger
of North Korea, yet North Korea may have
begun making plutonium at a second base.
Isn’t North Korea a crazy country ruled by a
crazy man that could be a serious threat to
the world? But, he doesn’t react the same
way as he did when it came to Iraq. This
makes me suspicious. I believe that Bush
may have gone for Iraq because his daddy
couldn’t finish the job. North Korea is already
a threat, but Bush doesn’t care. Bush says he
is trying to be diplomatic and he claims that
North Korea is just pretending to have
weapons. Compare this to Bush’s
statements about Iraq. Why is Bush
staying calm about this known
threat to our country’s security?

IHT.com
Bush cool to threat on Korea plutonium

The Democratic presidential candidates
are taking blows from the people of the
United States for supporting the war.
Senator Howard Dean, a presidential
candidate, is also attacking these
Democrats. But, in defense for the
Democratic candidates who supported
the war, it was President Bush who grossly
exaggerated the threat from Iraq. They expected weapons
to be found. In a recent poll, the percent
of people who felt the war was worth while
has slipped down to 55%, and 50% of
Americans say the Bush administration
exaggerated their proof of Iraq’s nuclear
weapons program. Senator Howard Dean
brought up a good point by asking why the
members of congress didn’t validate the
president’s claims before the war. I say
that it is because people believed Bush.
Not many presidents have had the nerve
to lie at the State of the Union address.

Seattle Times.com
War politics perilous for candidates of all stripes

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The White House is shielding themselves from
more blame by pointing fingers. They are making
the CIA take the fall. Senator Durbin accused the
White House of forcing the CIA to incorporate
dubious intelligence in the State of the Union address.
The White House denied the charge and started pointing
fingers at the CIA. They said the CIA advised putting the
uranium segment into the State of the Union address.
CIA Director Tenet took the blame, but the GOP is giving
him a lot of grief over it. Republican Senator Shelby stated
that Tenet should be disposed of. The Democrats are still
accusing the White House of having a lot to do with this.
I think that the White House is acting very childish and
\should take the blame instead of taking the easy way
out. It also seems as if President Bush thinks that the
CIA just isn’t as good without his good ol’ daddy in the
captain’s chair.

CNN.com
Democrats see GOP looking for a scapegoat on intelligence flap

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Some people believe that when I say I support the soldiers but
not the war they think I am mincing words. Rhonda Thurman, of
Chattanoogan.com, is one of those people. However, whether
those soldiers do not like that kind of support or nor, that is the only type
of support I am going to give them. I support them as people,
not as soldiers, except for the fact that I do not want anyone of
them to get shot, wounded, or killed. They are my fellow Americans
too.

I also believe that we have every single right in the world
to question our government. In fact that would be freedom of speech
granted to us by the First Amendment. I mean we are a democracy, right?
When I voice my opinion against the war, I know that I am not
compromising love of country. Then, Ms. Thurman, you would say that my
anti-war talk would be making the old leader of Iraq smile, the one that our
troops were supposed to have killed. I do not think that he can hear me
anyway, so I am not worried.

Lastly, I know that your brother does not like this kind of support,
but I sincerely hope that he returns safely to his family.

Chattanoogan.com
Giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy

I know that right now the news is all about Iraq and “what did he know
and when did he know it”, but I would like to know something
else also. Whatever happened to Afghanistan? I mean have
you heard anything about it lately. Well, it perfectly peaceful
there because the coalition forces are still trying to hunt down
the remaining Taliban and Al-Qaeda remnants. Why, well for
one reason they were attacked today, so defense is a good
reason. What, oh yes they were attacked. Not that it surprises
me, sadly. Good news is that no injuries or deaths occurred.
I hope none of the coalition troops die, but the “terrorists”
are just going to fight guerilla warfare, probably for years if
they have to. I just do not want anything like the Jerusalem
conflicts to occur in Afghanistan. That does not mean pour
more troops in, we are fighting enough war as it is. This
just seems to be another failing attempt to stabilize a country.
We have tried before plenty of times, but when we pull out
what will happen. Maybe, those warlords will try up again.
I do not know. I just want to remind you that there is still
war in Afghanistan.

Hindustan Times.com (Link not found anymore)
US base comes under rocket attack in Afghan

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Bush had more questionable claims in his State of the
Union address than we remember. One of them was
that Saddam Hussein was buying aluminum tubes.
These were supposedly used for nuclear weapons
assembly, but they had the same properties as an
aluminum tube used for artillery. The Iraqis would
have to have gone through a lot of trouble to make
these usable for nuclear weapons. Bush claimed that
Iraq had multitudes of chemical weapons. Where are
these weapons? Another claim of our President’s was
that Iraq was contacting al Qaeda. He said that these
contacts went back a decade. Actually most of these
contacts were over a decade ago. Also, President Bush
said that a senior member of al Qaeda received medical
treatment in Iraq. Now, many people believe that this
senior al Qaeda member was an al Qaeda associate.
An al Qaeda associate has some ties to al Qaeda, but
for the most part works on their own. I think that this
shows a lack of credibility on Bush’s part, and it strongly
undermines his original case for war.

NPR Audio Segment
Reviewing What We Know about Iraq Intelligence

In my oh so humble opinion, the Denver Post editorialist may have a point
that the inclusion of the First Amendment in the beef promotion program
suit was rather strange, but that is all that we agree about. The ranchers
do not want to pay 1$ per cattle tax because that money is going to the
“Beef: It’s what’s for dinner commercials.” I completely agree with the
ranchers because the ranchers do not benefit from the commercial. Instead
it is the meatpacking industry and the other high conglomerate organizations
that keep beef prices set low so that only the big businesses can become rich
by selling them for high prices.

The editor also makes it sound like those few ranchers who opt out of the program
will actually hurt the beef promotion plan. I think that anybody who eats beef is
going to eat it anyway, and that a majority of Americans know the slogan.
That is whom the beef people care about right, we hard working Americans,
or is it the illegal immigrants who Bush is so worried about entering our country.
Neither really, but the illegal aliens are the major labor force in those slaughterhouses
and meat packing companies. I’m just happy to see one of those hard-working groups
actually start to get some severance for their work.

Lastly, the editor the makes a ridiculous statement that says since the ranchers do not
have to pay for the commercials, then Gore-voters will want to be excused from paying
taxes during Bush’s regime. I wish, but that is not going to happen. Why? It is because
we work for this country! Oh yeah, and the money that should be going to tests for E-coli
and other dangerous bacteria to make the consumer safer, does not go there.
It just makes wealthy people wealthier.

Denver Post.com
Beef: It's What's In Court

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Senator Durbin announced on Good Morning America that
a White House official wanted the line about the Iraq’s
“supposed” plan to buy uranium in the State of the Union
address, despite the fact that this intelligence was not
cleared by the CIA. Senator Durbin also said that CIA
Director George Tenet told the Senate Intelligence
Committee who this official was. White House spokesman
Scott McClellan denied this. He accused Durbin of
announcing this news in order to further damage
President Bush’s war on Iraq. McClellan said that Durbin
did this because Durbin was against the war. I think that
McClellan is just trying to defend his party from further
embarrassment.

Comcast News
Tenet Says Official Wanted Iraq Claim

The Bush Administration acknowledged that they were
wrong in stating that Iraq had plans to buy Uranium in Africa,
yet people such as House Majority Leader Tom Delay still say
that Bush’s statements were correct. Have we found any
uranium in Iraq? We the people of the United States expected
uranium and other dangerous substances to be found because
of President Bush’s statement. We should take a serious look
at how Bush is running his administration because if he can’t
get his facts right then why should we believe him.

Comcast News
Tenet to Testify on Iraq Uranium Claim