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Bush Campaign Peddles Lies, Fear Posted: Tuesday, September 14, 2004
'Gates of Hell' are Open in Iraq It is a telling indication of the problems in Iraq that the US State Department wants to switch money earmarked for water, sewage and electricity improvements to the training of Iraqi security forces.
47 dead in Baghdad market blast Insurgents Target Iraqi Police; 59 Dead Dozens killed in massive Baghdad blast 'He's just sleeping, I kept telling myself'
Fallacy and fallout
What the neo-cons can't tell Americans Why did the United States invade Iraq? President George W Bush claims that Iraq was an immediate threat, while Senator John Kerry says we Americans were misled into war. Other theories abound: filial revenge, oil dependency, or Halliburton's profits. But in fact, Bush's foreign policy advisers are driven by Cassandra-like visions of a dangerous future.
Why Americans love George W Bush
US troops face new torture claims
No OBL, No WMD Bush 0-2 in '04 All of President Bush's chest-puffing, swaggering and tough talk over winning the war on terrorism reduce to one big nothing when you consider – with the kind of cold-eyed logic and dispassion that eludes today's courtier press and punditry – that on the two biggest issues of his term, he is a miserable failure.
The Real Reason We're In Iraq
Warren Report-Watergate II
Israel intensifies land seizures
Bush Campaign Peddles Lies, Fear; Anything To Get The Man Re-Elected Bush hides from the truth, Cheney preaches fear and the American media largely ignore the important issues and stick to the administration's agenda of deception and diversion. Into mid-September the strategy is working and Karl Rove, the president's political brain, could not be happier.
George W. Bush is a coward
Terror Threat May Be Mostly a Big Bluff Just what is the evidence for this alleged terrorist threat that now dominates foreign affairs and the presidential election? The third anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the Pentagon and New York's World Trade Center has come and gone without any terrorist attacks in the U.S. No terrorists attacked the Olympics in Greece, as so many feared. Nor did they attack the Republican convention in New York. And the big statistical picture of terrorism has changed little in years.
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