9/11: Tender Is The Right
Frankly, I don't see how 9/11 can be venerated in any legitimate collective way as long as George Bush is leading that process. Above all, BushCo's manipulation of the survivors and victims on the anniversary of this abhorrent tragedy shows the blasphemy of someone whose actions consistently demonstrate duplicity...
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What's In A Face: The (Not So) New Bush 9/11 Strategy
Writes Cohen: By bringing 14 high-level terror suspects out of secret prisons run the the Central Intelligence Agency and into the rlative open of the guantanamo Bay detention center, and by demanding that Congress approve war-crives trials of these men by military tribunals, Bush seemed to change the political...
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On Message
It was reported Rove entertained the reporters with a hunting story. With Bush's political message falling on deaf ears, however, it looks as much like Rove reinforced the rudimentary mantras: "stay the course" and "we're (perpetually) at war."
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Blair's Fut ure
This is what's known as a newswire death knell. In the past twenty-four hours, we've had a a 10 Downing Street reminder of how abruptly and unceremoniously the long-running Margaret Thatcher show was cancelled. We've had a blunt and auspicious close-up of the 10 Downing Street entrance. (Don't let the...
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9/11 As A Long Term Loss
Viewed from afar, I greatly appreciate this latest cover of TIME. It presumes a look back at 9/11 from a distance of 30 years. The prominent "We" makes me think of the concept in terms of an American identify crisis. (Ignoring the projection though, isn't part of the underlying...
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New Face Of The Armed Forces
For the longest time, the President's "stay the course" meme translated into "can do" MSM images of the American fighting machine. Now, the growing reality of the Iraq quagmire and the escalating rejection of the war seems to have finally ushered in a new theme. Call it: "Feeling the...
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Abu Ghraib: Parting Shots
Looking at these photos, one question you have to ask is, how much of the jubilation expressed at the bus station is the expression of freedom granted to the innocent? And, how many of those shipped to other locations remain in limbo under quasi-legal status?
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Working It Up
Although well into the process of diligently dismembering the White House analogy between fascism, communism and "Islamicism," the liberal blogosphere may be missing the point.... When you find the MSM and the White House highlighting the same behavioral features, you must be suspicious. If you noticed, the point made,...
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The "Plot" Against George W. Bush
Take one part Oswald, one part Hinckley, one part Sirhan, stir it together with plenty of enmity toward GWB, and what have you got? As of today, you've got this screen shot released by England's Channel 4. It's a promotion for a 90 minute fictional documentary, to be aired in...
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