Bush: "because the Middle East is free of suiciders"

11-9-2007 • My San Antonio

Describing the war as a battle between "light and dark," Bush said, "If you kill people to achieve a political objective or to advance an ideology ... you are nothing but evil.

Video Games: The closest Bush will come to combat

11-9-2007 • AFP

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Bush helped "shoot the bad guys" in a Baghdad neighborhood, albeit virtually.

DENNIS KUCINICH ON MSNBC TUCKER NOV 06, 2007

11-09-2007 • YouTube

Dick Cheney Impeachment (The media are doing their best to keep this whole effort quiet)

Bush Calls Gen. Musharraf -- Benazir Bhutto Placed Under House Arrest

11-8-2007 • LA Times

Pakistani police backed by armored vehicles surrounded the Islamabad home of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Friday, and a security official said she had been placed under house arrest.

Will 'armloads' of US cash buy tribal loyalty?

11-8-2007 • Christiqan Science Monitor

Inside a stately guesthouse on the grounds of Saddam Hussein's palace in Tikrit on the banks of the Tigris, sheikh Sabah al-Hassani jokes that the initials "SH" of the former dictator etched on the walls are his.

Congress Overrides Bush for First Time on Massive Pork Laden Water Bill

11-8-2007 • Bloomberg

Congress handed President George W. Bush the first veto override of his presidency, voting to revive a $23 billion water-projects measure he rejected last week on grounds it was too expensive.

Mukasey confirmed as attorney general

11-8-2007 • AP

The Senate confirmed retired judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general Thursday night to replace Alberto Gonzales, who was forced from office in a scandal over his handling of the Justice Department.

U.S. Debt Tops $9 trillion for first time-Treasury

11-8-2007 • Reuters

The increase in the debt limit is the fifth since Bush took office in January 2001. The U.S. debt stood at about $5.6 trillion at the start of his presidency.

The increase in the debt limit is the fifth since Bush took office in January 2001. The U.S. debt stood at about $5.6 trillion at the start of his presidency.

Topping Nixon, Bush disapproval soars to highest level ever recorded in Gallup poll

11-7-2007 • Raw Story

Gallup details Bush's falling numbers in a series of graphs that appear below. They note that Bush's "strongly disapprove" rating is the highest Gallup has ever measured for a US president.

We Have Ways…..

11-06-2007 • James Bovard

The Times has revealed the DOJ produced a 2005 secret legal opinion permitting interrogators to use head slapping, waterboarding, frigid temperatures, extended stress position manacling, and sleep deprivation against detainees

George Bush’s Criminal Conspiracy of Torture

11-6-2007 • Crooks & Liars (video)

In his latest fire-breathing Special Comment Keith Olbermann tears into President Bush for firing a true patriot that spoke out against torture, while cowardly and simultaneously ordering others to commit the very same heinous crime.

White House Edits ABC News Then Takes it Back

1106-2007 • ABC

ABC News' Jonathan Karl Reports: News flash -- The White House has selectively edited a report on Iraq, taking out negative information and distorting the report's meaning. This isn't about intelligence or weapons of mass destruction.

House Democrats press Bush on subpoenas

11-6-2007 • AP

House Democrats threatened to hold President Bush's key confidants in contempt of Congress unless they comply with subpoenas for information on the Justice Department's purge of federal prosecutors last winter. The White House shrugged off th

Disagreement in Bush administration over Iranian nukes

11-04-2007 • Miami Herald

Despite President Bush's claims that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons that could trigger "World War III," experts in and out of government say there's no conclusive evidence that Tehran has an active nuclear-weapons program. Even h

Rice Faces Subpoena in Espionage Case

11-3-2007 • AP

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and some of President Bush's top foreign policy advisers must testify about their conversations with pro-Israel lobbyists, a federal judge ruled Friday in a trial over the misuse of classified information.

From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld . . .

11-01-2007 • Washington Post

Staff Memos - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor", "keep elevating the threat," "link Iraq to Iran" and develop "bumper sticker statements" to rally public support fo

Bush says Cheney is Darth Vader

11-1-2007 • AFP

US President George W. Bush joked Wednesday that Vice President Dick Cheney, sometimes caricatured as Darth Vader, did not need a costume to play the sinister "Star Wars" villain for Halloween.

FEMA director fires(?) Communications Director.

10-30-2007 • CNN

Philbin was scheduled to become director of public affairs for the director of national intelligence -- a job National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell said Philbin will not be doing. Not immediately clear whether Philbin resigned or was fired ju

Rumsfeld Fled France to Avoid Torture Arrest

10-30-2007 • Pensito Review

U.S. embassy officials whisked Rumsfeld away from a breakfast meeting in Paris after human rights groups filed a criminal complaint against the man who spearheaded President Bush’s “war on terror.” France is obliged to investigate when a complaint is

FOX News Sunday: Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran (VIDEO)

10-29-2007 • CrooksandLiars

It’s Sunday morning, so it’s time once again to let the FOX News panel of Brit Hume, Mara Liasson, Bill Kristol and Juan Williams to get their wargasm on.

Fearing Fear Itself

10-29-2007 • New York Times - By PAUL KRUGMAN

there isn’t actually any such thing as Islamofascism — it’s not an ideology; it’s a figment of the neocon imagination. The Term was created to transition from pursuing Osama bin Laden, who attacked America, to Saddam Hussein, who didn’t.

Congress Must Re-Assume War Powers, Lawmakers Say

10-29-2007 • CNSnews.com

At a press conference Thursday on Capitol Hill, Reps. Walter B. Jones (R-N.C.), William Delahunt (D-Mass.), Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.) announced H. J. Res. 53, the Constitutional War Powers Resolution.

Fake FEMA news conference director gets promotion

10-28-2007 • Raw Story

John "Pat" Philbin, the Director of Public Affairs responsible for FEMA's recent faked news conference, is effectively receiving a promotion. Philbin's new job was an "amazing opportunity to head the communications shop at ODNI

Bush would probably have been replaced as leader of his party. But the majority of the American people still think of him as a man of good will and very stout heart who is pursuing his duties as he sees them, a man, moreover, of conspicuous incorrupt

Bush would probably have been replaced as leader of his party. But the majority of the American people still think of him as a man of good will and very stout heart who is pursuing his duties as he sees them, a man, moreover, of conspicuous incorrupt

Bush would probably have been replaced as leader of his party. But the majority of the American people still think of him as a man of good will and very stout heart who is pursuing his duties as he sees them, a man, moreover, of conspicuous incorrupt

On Track for U.S. Collapse

10-28-2007 • LewRockwell

Bush and Cheney are steering the U.S. into a collapse. Only strong public voices by influential people can prevent the coming disaster.

Where is the National Guard?

10-27-2007 • by Gov. Bill Richardson

Today, we all extend our sympathies and prayers to those devastated by the wildfires in California. Millions of Americans are impacted by this natural disaster. I look at the natural disaster and feel compelled to ask where is our National Guard?

US to order diplomats to serve in Iraq

10-27-2007 • AP

In the largest call-up of U.S. diplomats since the Vietnam War, the State Department is planning to order some of its personnel to serve at the American Embassy in Iraq because of a lack of volunteers. Those designated "prime candidates**