When the only thing that's left is fear
Posted: Thursday, October 21, 2004

A schoolgirl riddled with bullets. And no one is to blame
The undisputed facts are these: it was broad daylight, 13-year-old Iman al-Hams was wearing her school uniform, and when she walked into the Israeli army's "forbidden zone" at the bottom of her street she was carrying her satchel. A few minutes later the short, slight child was pumped with bullets. Doctors counted at least 17 wounds and said much of her head was destroyed.

129 Palestinians killed during IDF's Gaza raid

Only Anti-Castro Agitators Need Apply

America's Hidden Vote

Undecided or Undiagnosed?
If you shout "fire" in a crowded theater, most people will respond, one way or another. Most of them will run out onto the sidewalk and start to form a lynch mob; some of them will boldly check the theater for combustion-related activities. The undecided voter is the guy still sitting there in the middle of row 43. And not because there wasn't a fire. This mug just can't make up his mind whether to burn to death or see the rest of the movie.

Bush Backers Steadfast on Saddam, WMD

The Truth About Beslan “Too Scary” to Reveal

Bush Predicted No Iraq Casualties, Robertson Says
The Rev. Pat Robertson said President Bush dismissed his warning that the United States would suffer heavy casualties in Iraq and told the television evangelist just before the beginning of the war that "we're not going to have any casualties."

Voter registration workers cry foul

Exaggerations, distortions and lies
When the headline in the Boston Herald screams "Vote Kerry, Get Nuked, Veep warns," you know one thing for sure, the US presidential campaign has entered the final stretch, when any scare will do.

Holding Up a Mirror to the Face of U.S. “Exceptionalism”

When the only thing that's left is fear
George W. Bush uses fear in his message, too, only in a different way. If for Roosevelt, fear was the great enemy, for Bush, it is the great friend.



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