:: Has the whole world gone mad or is it just me. ::

:: Saturday, February 15, 2003 ::

Antiwar Aussies
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Sydney rallies against war on Iraq Hundred of thousands of people are attending a huge protest against a possible US-led war in Iraq in the Australian city of Sydney.

We want our prime minister to listen to us, we don't want war with Iraq

Thomas Aiken, Sydney, Australia




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Anti-War Protesters Hold Global Rallies (washingtonpost.com) Anti-War Protesters Hold Global Rallies
Millions Gather in Cities Around the World to Protest Iraq War
By Robert Barr
The Associated Press
Saturday, February 15, 2003; 2:25 PM
Millions of protesters - many of them marching in the capitals of America's traditional allies - demonstrated Saturday against U.S. plans to attack Iraq.
In a global outpouring of anti-war sentiment, Rome claimed the biggest turnout - 1 million according to police, while organizers claimed three times that figure.
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You GOTTA see this!Anti-Peace Anthem
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Yahoo! News - Singular focus on Saddam poses risks in war on terror Singular focus on Saddam poses risks in war on terror
Fri Feb 14, 8:13 AM ET

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During a week when the Bush administration would have liked nothing more than to continue its laserlike focus on the threat posed by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), the war on terror grabbed center stage in a series of chilling revelations.
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Hhhmmmmmmmmmmmm:
Iraq Adventure Helps bin Laden February 14,?2003|1:08 PM



The sudden reappearance of Osama bin Laden is suspiciously timed.
Iraq Adventure Helps bin Laden

by Joe Conason

Whatever anyone says about Osama bin Laden, they can?t call him unhelpful. (They obviously can?t call him "dead," either.) Just when the Bush administration needs compelling reasons to justify war, he sends a new message to Arab television affirming Al Qaeda?s solidarity with the Iraqi regime against the United States. The President and his aides may not want to talk about him, but he still talks about them. What more could a murderous fanatic do to assist the "war on terrorism"?

At deadline, the text of the latest remarks by the terrorist leader were not yet available, although someone had considerately provided a transcript to Colin Powell in time for his morning appearance before the Senate Budget Committee on Feb. 11. That was when the Secretary of State predicted an imminent broadcast of a new statement from the fugitive terror master on Al Jazeera, the satellite station based in Qatar. A few hours later, the management of Al Jazeera confirmed that it had received a message from Osama bin Laden that "urged Muslims to show solidarity and defend the Iraqi people
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The Bush Family Comes by Their Fascism Genetically
Clamor Magazine - Heir to the Holocaust While the Enron scandal currently unfolds, another Bush family business scandal lurks beneath the shadows of history that may dwarf it.

On April 19, 2001, President George W. Bush spent some of Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Capital Rotunda with holocaust survivors, allied veterans, and their families. In a ceremony that included Jewish prayers and songs sung by holocaust victims in the camps, Benjamin Meed, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, movingly described to the gathering what he experienced on April 19, 1943.


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Somebody knows how to shake our tree.

Front Story Detail Bin Laden tape ?faked?
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swissinfo??

November 29, 2002 11:01 AM


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Swiss researchers say the voice is unlikely to be Osama bin Laden's (Keystone Archive)
Swiss researchers say they are 95 per cent certain that a recent audio tape attributed to the Saudi dissident, Osama bin Laden, is not genuine.
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The Lausanne-based Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial Intelligence (IDIAP) claims it was recorded by an impostor.

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Another inconvenient truth. Why isn't this front page stuff?
House of Cards February 11, 2003
E-mail story ? Print?
Robert Scheer:
House of Cards
Bush's paper-thin evidence to justify a war has fallen apart

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At least one guy other than me remembers Osama.
Yahoo! News - CIA Director to Focus on Threats at Hearing CIA Director to Focus on Threats at Hearing
1 hour, 42 minutes ago

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By Tabassum Zakaria

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA (news - web sites) Director George Tenet in testimony to the U.S. Congress on Tuesday was expected to warn that al Qaeda still poses a threat to American interests, amid a heightened national alert and with Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) not yet found.
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I thought GOP were the responsible ones.
An Approaching Tide of Red Ink

he government is fast running out of money to meet its bills. Treasury officials warn that the nation will bang up against the legal debt ceiling of $6.4 trillion before the end of this month. There is little doubt Congress will back into its duty and vote to raise the debt limit, even as President Bush blithely compounds the deficits deep into the decade with new untax-and-spend stratagems. But the lawmakers' partisan shucking of responsibility for the rising tide of red ink promises to be exquisitely hypocritical this time around.

The anti-deficit Republicans of yore, now that their courageous enmity toward taxation helped win them the majority, will argue that more borrowing turns out to be not so bad after all. The Democrats will counter that the sudden end of the Clinton budget surpluses was caused in great part by the Bush tax cut. This is a valid complaint that overlooks the fact that Democratic votes helped assure passage of Mr. Bush's plan, encouraging him to seek even bigger tax cuts as the debt mounts.

While much of the government has been getting ready for a war whose price tag has not been included in the presidential budget, the House Republican leaders quietly reinforced their political defenses. They passed a rule letting lawmakers raise the debt ceiling automatically with each spending resolution. Constituents can only wish their A.T.M.'s were so forgiving.

The G.O.P. ended that very same stealth practice eight years ago when it took power and promised to put lawmakers' feet to the fire and make them go on the record whenever they increased the debt's burden on the future. That's gone with the Gingrich wind. But Democrats must recall that the evasive maneuver, now revived, was originally one of their brainstorms.

This time, if there is no public vote, taxpayers can only hope there will be enough private guilt about raising the debt ceiling to at least keep lawmakers from bellying up to the next round of the president's detaxation mania.




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What ever happened to the GOP being for "Fiscal Responsibilty"? But I am dating myself here.
Yahoo! News - GOP Plays Down Massive Federal Deficits
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See? What did I tell you?Blix report on Iraq may be too late for U.S. liking
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If we don't hurry up, W might not get his fun war, you know.Yahoo! News - Powell: More Inspections Won't Solve Iraqi Problem
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