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Text of Letter to Bush from Iranian President Ahmadinejad
10 MayFull text of letter by President Ahmadinejad to President Bush
Warning: Link is to a pro-Iran website, so consider that following it may get you on the NSA watch list.
I have copied the letter to my own website, and the link above is now going there rather than to the original source (which is here).
Hookergate?!?
10 MayIn case you have been asleep for the past few days, here’s a real nice summary of Hookergate and why you should care.
Hookergate: Poker, hookers and the Watergate building by Molly Ivins
Excerpt: Any journalist who claims Hookergate is not a legitimate scandal is dead — has been for some time and needs to be unplugged.
Delay and Dean on ABC This Week
9 MayVIDEO – GOP Roadkill: Dean Buries DeLay’s Rotting Political Corpse
If you are a fan of DNC Chairman Howard Dean then you’ll enjoy this video. For those that get physically sick at the sight of DeLay, you might want to skip the first 5 minutes.
Bush renames the “War on Terror”
7 MayBush calls terror fight World War III
US President George W. Bush has said the September 11 revolt of passengers against their hijackers on board Flight 93 had struck the first blow of “World War III”. Continue reading
Republican Arlen Specter comes out fighting – Against Bush and the “signing statements”
6 MayThe chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accusing the White House of a ”very blatant encroachment” on congressional authority, said . . . he will hold an oversight hearing into President Bush’s assertion that he has the power to bypass more than 750 laws enacted over the past five years.
”There is some need for some oversight by Congress to assert its authority here,” Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, said in an interview. ”What’s the point of having a statute if . . . the president can cherry-pick what he likes and what he doesn’t like?”
The Moussaoui Paradox in The Nation
5 MayThe Moussaoui Paradox
Bruce Shapiro
Anyone who feels that the Moussaoui verdict somehow cheated justice should also consider the fact that an individual with genuine, direct criminal responsibility for the 9/11 conspiracy is in US custody yet the Justice Department has no intention of bringing him to trial. For three years the Bush Administration has held and interrogated Al Qaeda’s Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in secret prisons, unindicted, untried and unrepresented–at least in part to avoid revealing details of his probable torture.
Click through to read the entire editorial.
Leonard Pitts on ‘United 93’
5 May‘United 93’ not only timely but necessary
Leonard Pitts
Like Leonard, “I have trouble with the question of whether United 93 arrives too soon. Some of us would say it arrives not nearly soon enough.” To me, the timing is a little too convenient. Mid term elections coming up… Time to ramp up the emotional level again?
An Aging Trans Woman 