"We must have a foreign policy that is both strong and smart. Yes, the Republicans have been strong, but they haven't been smart. And the policy is one big mess, everyone knows it."
- Senator Chuck Schumer
View Article  Bush's Debate Preparation - by Drew Sheneman from the Newark Ledger
View Article  U.S. casualties grim cost of Iraq war
SANDRO CONTENTA from the Toronto StarEUROPEAN BUREAU

LANDSTUHL, Germany—At the U.S. military hospital on a wooded hilltop here, the cost of the Iraq war is measured in amputated limbs, burst eyeballs, shrapnel-torn bodies and shattered lives. They're the seriously wounded U.S. soldiers who arrive daily at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, a growing human toll that belies American election talk of improving times in Iraq. They're the maimed and the scarred that hospital staff believe are largely invisible to an American public ignorant of their suffering. "They have no idea what's going on here, none whatsoever," says Col. Earl ...   more »
View Article  It's not "Bush-World", It's "Cheney World"

Dick: The Man Who Is President(Don't miss our interview with John Nichols on Friday at 5:00PM EST)

"John Nichols' compact, scathing book on Richard Cheney takes as a given that the Vice President controls the Bush White House....In Nichols' portrait, Dick is a power-obsessed, conniving, not particularly competent, and generally nasty fellow....Nichols, The Nation's Washington correspondent, describes a Vice President who has benefited hugely from his man-behind-the-curtain persona. Dick is a frightening and witty book that does much to reveal the inner Cheney." Anna Godbersen, Esquire...

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View Article  The Man Behind the Headlines: Jimmy Walter

Multi-Millionaire Jimmy Walter Funds Nationwide Ad Campaign to Re-Open 9/11 Investigation

(Don't miss our interview with Jimmy Walter on Thursday at 5:00PM EST.)

Spending over $1,500,000, California-based Jimmy Walter has launched advertising blitzes in America's most prominent newspapers and magazines, including full-page color ads in Business Week, Forbes, Newsweek, the New York Times, Washington Post, Readers Digest, New Yorker, etc., entitled "Are We Safer Now? The 9/11 Report has been published, but some very troubling questions remain unanswered." (walden3.org) ...

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View Article  My question for Mr. Bush

Mr. President, you have repeatedly said "I was young and irresponsible when I was young and irresponsible." You were arrested multiple times for driving while intoxicated. There are rumors about other problems and about your behavior while in the Texas Air National Guard. Your "young and irresponsible" days lasted until age 40. And, yet you want to change our laws so that children must stand trial as adults at age 14.

So, Mr. President, why do you give yourselfa pass on your indiscretions until age 40 while you want everyone else to be held accountable for their actions at age 14?

(Please submit your questions for Mr. Bush as comments to this item!) ...

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View Article  Fear of Flying

by RUSS BAKER

The Nation [Reprinted by permission | September 29th, 2004]

(We interviewed Russ about this article prior to publication. So, be sure to listen to the repeat of Conversations- until 4:00PM EST Thursday. GS)

A new source has emerged with what she says is personal knowledge about why George W. Bush prematurely left his Texas National Guard unit in 1972--because nerves, fear and a possible drinking problem were affecting his ability to pilot his F-102A plane. If true, this information further confirms a growing body of evidence that Bush has not been candid about his departure from his unit. At various times the President and his spokespersons have offered shifting rationales, from the planned eventual mothballing of the F-102As, to his doctor's unavailability to give him a flight physical, to a professional opportunity in another state. ...

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