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Well- It is about time
Labor, Breaking Tradition, Criticizes War Preparations Labor, Breaking Tradition, Criticizes War Preparations
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE

OLLYWOOD, Fla., Feb. 27 ? After backing administrations in the Korean, Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars, the labor movement departed today from tradition and criticized President Bush's approach to a conflict with Iraq.

At its winter meeting, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council unanimously approved a resolution urging Mr. Bush to embrace a broad multilateral approach to Iraq and criticizing the administration for dividing the world and insulting America's allies.
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Caught on Film Caught on Film:



The Bush Credibility Gap

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Peace Protests Moving to L.A. Neighborhoods VOICES / A FORUM FOR COMMUNITY ISSUES
Peace Protests Moving to L.A. Neighborhoods

?By D. H. Kerby, D.H. Kerby is a writer in Los Angeles.
There is something important stirring on the street corners of Los Angeles and other cities around Southern California. Sharing the antiwar passion -- if not the crowds -- of the massive demonstrations that have occurred all over the world, neighborhood efforts for peace are building.
Local people are conducting picket lines at intersections. Steve Fine, an organizer with Neighbors for Peace and Justice, began picketing in Silver Lake with only a few people in September. In October, Congress passed a resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq. Intended to appease critics who quite rightly pointed out that only our national Legislature has the constitutional authority to declare war, the resolution instead helped spur protests.

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Yahoo! News - THE CASE FOR THE FRENCH Op/Ed - Ted Rall
THE CASE FOR THE FRENCH
Thu Feb 27, 7:08 PM ET

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By Ted Rall

America As Its Own Worst Enemy

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LOS ANGELES--Who are we to be bashing the French?


The trouble began when President Jacques Chirac openly expressed the private beliefs of virtually every other world leader--that George W. Bush's desire to start an unprovoked war with Iraq (news - web sites) is both crazy and immoral. It has quickly disintegrated into a ferocious display of American nativism that would be hilarious if its gleeful idiocy wasn't so frightening.
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We have the best allies money can buy(Just like Bush bought the election,
Bush's Warsaw War Pact

Bush's Warsaw War Pact
By MAUREEN DOWD

ASHINGTON

The diplomatic motorcade pulled up to the White House yesterday with great fanfare. The two Marine guards at the door of the colonnaded West Wing saluted smartly. TV cameras pressed close to get pictures of the vital American ally alighting from the black sedan for his one-on-one with President Bush.

It was a summit of the two great strategic partners, America and Bulgaria.

Bulgaria?

As the world's only remaining superpower was conferring honor upon one of its only remaining friends, America smashed through the global looking glass.

To get Saddam, the Bush administration has dizzily turned the world upside down and inside out.

Our new best friends are the very people we used to protect our old best friends from. During the cold war, we safeguarded Old Europe from the Evil Empire. Now we have embraced the former Soviet Bloc satellites to protect us from the Security Council machinations of our former paramours France and Germany. NATO was created to protect Western Europe from the Communist hordes ? namely the Bulgarians, who tried to outdo the bizarro Albanians as the most Stalinist regime in Eastern Europe and were renowned for the "thick necks" who did wet work for the K.G.B.
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Another thank you, W.

BBC NEWS | Business | US confidence hits 10-year low US confidence hits 10-year low
US consumer confidence has dropped to its lowest level since October 1993, prompting fears about the prospects for economic recovery.

Confidence fell by an unexpectedly-steep 15 points in February, figures from private business group the Conference Board showed.

Rising oil prices and the threat of a war with Iraq have been blamed for the gloomy mood.

The monthly survey is seen as a barometer of future consumer spending, which makes up about two thirds of the US economy.
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Threats, Promises and Lies Threats, Promises and Lies
By PAUL KRUGMAN

o it seems that Turkey wasn't really haggling about the price, it just wouldn't accept payment by check or credit card. In return for support of an Iraq invasion, Turkey wanted ? and got ? immediate aid, cash on the barrelhead, rather than mere assurances about future help. You'd almost think President Bush had a credibility problem.

And he does.

The funny thing is that this administration sets great store by credibility. As the justifications for invading Iraq come and go ? Saddam is developing nuclear weapons; no, but he's in league with Osama; no, but he's really evil ? the case for war has come increasingly to rest on credibility. You see, say the hawks, we've already put our soldiers in position, so we must attack or the world won't take us seriously.

But credibility isn't just about punishing people who cross you. It's also about honoring promises, and telling the truth. And those are areas where the Bush administration has problems.
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Dialing for bloggers | CNET News.com Dialing for bloggers
By Paul Festa
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
February 24, 2003, 4:59 PM PT


Updating a Weg log, already simplified by automated blogging sites, is now as easy as picking up the phone.

The latest trend in the increasingly popular Web log--a personal or professional online diary--is audioblogging, the posting of audio clips instead of or alongside text entries. In addition to providing a new means of keeping bloggers' fans up to date, the audioblog is inspiring software developers and start-ups to raise a whole new crop of tools and services.

Along with audioblogging, plain-text blogging is undergoing a subtle transformation as people begin to use their cell phones and other mobile devices to send written updates to their Web logs. This technique is sometimes called "moblogging," short for mobile blogging.

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Pat Buchannon for Pres????

Los Angeles Times: Wages of Empire http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-buchanan23feb23,1,2088226.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions

AMERICA

Wages of Empire
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "A Republic, Not an Empire" and editor of the American Conservative.

February 23, 2003
WASHINGTON -- To the acolytes of American empire, the invasion of Iraq is but Act I in the exhilarating unfolding drama of the 21st century. All the "Islamo-fascist" regimes of the Middle East and northern Africa -- Iran, Syria, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Libya -- are to follow Saddam Hussein's onto the landfill of history. As democracy was imposed on Japan by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, so shall it be imposed upon them all.
That is the vision of the neoconservatives to whom George W. Bush incarnates their Woodrow Wilson, FDR and Winston Churchill. Yet, their disillusionment is certain, for they misread the man and the times.
True, the relative power of the United States exceeds Britain's at the height of its empire. But this war to "liberate" Iraq and reshape it in our own image has already called into existence countervailing forces that stand athwart our path to empire.
The first is the force of world opinion. To protest a U.S. war on Iraq without U.N. Security Council sanction, there were million-person marches last week in the streets of the capitals of our staunchest allies, Spain, Italy, Britain. Polls show that huge majorities of Europeans oppose a U.S. war without U.N. sanction. Among Arabs and Turks, the opposition is visceral and well-nigh universal. We are as isolated as the Brits at the time of the Boer War. It is the height of hubris to believe America can indefinitely defy the whole world.
Even if Iraqis initially welcome U.S. soldiers as liberators, within months there will be Islamic bombers willing to die to drive us out, as they drove the French out of Algeria, the Israelis out of Lebanon, the Marines out of Beirut. While the Arab and Islamic worlds did not succeed in many endeavors in the 20th century, they did excel in terrorizing and expelling all the old imperial powers. Our turn is next.
Neoconservatives came to their editors' cubicles a century too late. Peoples everywhere have internalized Thomas Jefferson's dictum that all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and Wilson's gospel about all peoples being entitled to self-determination. This idea has taken root in the hearts of men: better to fight than be ruled by foreigners.
We may see American hegemony as benevolent. Is it not clear the world does not?
Already, Cold War friends and allies are revisiting the issue of whether the protection afforded by the presence of U.S. troops on their national soil is worth the price paid in alienation from their own peoples.
According to the New York Times, Crown Prince Abdullah will ask for withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Saudi Arabia at the end of the Iraq war.
The new president of South Korea was elected on a pledge to review the U.S. troop presence there. The Pakistanis want us out, and, after 60 years of occupation, even the Okinawans wish to be rid of us.
Nor should we resist the eviction orders, for the terrorists are only over here because we are over there.
Worldwide, the anti-American card has become a trump. Herr Gerhard Schroeder played it deftly to rescue himself from certain defeat in the German elections. And while Americans may be boycotting French wines, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin is a more celebrated figure in Old Europe than Colin L. Powell, let alone Bush.

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Yahoo! News - He may die laughing at duct-tape defense He may die laughing at duct-tape defense
Fri Feb 21, 7:35 AM ET

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Al Neuharth

''Old Whatshisname,'' the guy President Bush (news - web sites) vowed he would get ''dead or alive'' after 9/11, but whose name he hasn't uttered in more than a year, may face his greatest danger yet. He could die from laughing at the Bush administration's reaction to his latest videotaped
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