The Dem Diatribe Project

Democracy For America has put out a short Flash animation describing the Downing Street Memo and what it means for America. Take a look: http://democracyforamerica.com/memo_movie.php

"Maybe his mother loved him, but I've never met anybody who does." That's what Dick Cheney had to say about my brother, Howard Dean, on Monday. This wasn't a quote from an insecure schoolyard bully at recess -- this was our vice president speaking on prime time television. It's outrageous! But then again, this is a guy who has no regrets about misleading America into a war with Iraq and the deaths of over 1,700 brave men and women in uniform. He has no remorse over mismanaging our nation's economy and running up the biggest deficit in history. He wants to destroy Social Security. And he has given away billions to his corporate cronies at Halliburton. Howard has said a lot of things about Republicans, but he was wrong about Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney has worked a day in his life -- and the nation is worse off because of it. Vice President Cheney says he has never met anyone who likes Howard - well, it's time for us to re-introduce ourselves to him. It...

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I'll take "The Obvious" for $1000, Alex. Providing yet more evidence that Bush cannot think more than about one move ahead in any situation, the Washington Post is reporting on British analysis that the Bush administration had not given any serious thought regarding what to do with Iraq after the invasion. Forget chess. This man probably sucks at checkers. And he is "leading our country", YOW! A briefing paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top advisers eight months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq concluded that the U.S. military was not preparing adequately for what the British memo predicted would be a "protracted and costly" postwar occupation of that country. The eight-page memo, written in advance of a July 23, 2002, Downing Street meeting on Iraq, provides new insights into how senior British officials saw a Bush administration decision to go to war as inevitable, and realized more clearly than their American counterp...

The evidence in Bush's manufacture of evidence for war seems to keep growing. How long can the U.S. mainstream media ignore this? Isn't it about time for a special counsel to investigate Bush's lies to Congress, the American people and the world? MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal. The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office briefing paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W Bush three months earlier. Read more ...

Republican U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris, who was praised and vilified for her role as Florida's secretary of state in the 2000 presidential recount, said today she will run for the U.S. Senate next year against Democrat Bill Nelson. Running against an incumbent may be a more difficult challenge, but Harris is considered a top fundraiser and is a popular figure among Republicans." "A popular figure among Republicans". I'll bet she is. Her reward for giving Bush the WH was tons of campaign funding. She raised more than $2 million for her House seat campaign. The incumbent did not raise that much in his ten years in office. ggggrrrrrrrrrr

Senate panel votes to expand Patriot Act This week the Senate was to take up the repeal of the Patrion Act, or at least consider scaling it back. Instead, the controversial post-9/11 law would be expanded to give the FBI new powers to demand documents from companies without a judge's approval, according to a vote late Tuesday by the Senate Intelligence committee. The latest proposal grants the FBI more power to seek information from banks, hospitals, libraries, and other organizations through "administrative subpoenas" without prior judicial oversight. In addition, the FBI may designate that the subpoenas are secret and punish disclosure of their existence with up to one year in prison. The ACLU denounced the Senate Intelligence committee's vote. "In a move antithetical to our Constitution, the new 'administrative subpoena' authority would let the FBI write and approve its own search orders for intelligence investigations, without prior judicial approval,...