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May 24-25
2003 Weekend Edition |
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Just why did we invade Iraq?
By Molly Ivins 5-24-03
MUCH as I hate to interrupt what is apparently a deeply felt triumphalism
on the American right, now that it's over, does anyone see any reason for
our having invaded Iraq?
I realize that's what we all kept trying to figure out before the
invasion, but don't you think it should at least be visible in hindsight?
Good thing we won the war, because the peace sure looks like a quagmire.
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On the streets of Baghdad, there are no heroes or villains. Only ...
Independent, UK By
Phil Reeves in Baghdad 5-24-03
Haider Tahab was so quiveringly
angry that the blood vessels at his temples seemed ready to burst. He kept
returning to deliver another blast of point-blank invective, as if driven by
a compulsion that would only fully be relieved once he had hit someone. |
Tax plan relief to some, not much to others
Florida Today, FL By Brian Moore
5-24-03
Brevard residents reacted
differently to President Bush's efforts to stimulate the economy with
billions of dollars in tax cuts -- with some families saying they applaud
the move, others that it's simply not enough and is aimed more at the rich. |
Today's cartoon was inspired
by the unrighteous right's obsession with sex. It's fun to be able to return
the favor.
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SOME VIEWER
SUGGESTIONS for Terror Alert Girl of the Month:
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Michelle
Malkin. Parents came from Phillipines but she does nothing but write
about the evils of immigration and whining that the borders should be shut
down.
Was gung-ho about people being pulled over in airports, but didn't like it
when
it was done to her recently. After all, she had an American flag t-shirt
on her
young daughter.......
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Zazu Pitts,
Spring Byington, Shirley Temple, Patty Hearst, Cher,
Jane Fonda, Lucile Ball, Ethel Mertz, Anna Nicole Smith
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anita beer
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bill gates,
steve ballmer, chris sontag and darl mcbride.
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Lisa, you
are the poster girl for EVERY month. Veritas
Veritas: <blush> - I should
give others their 15 minutes of fame. -Lisa
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Nearly 3 in 4 Americans think Saddam is alive, poll says
By THOMAS HARGROVE and GUIDO H. STEMPEL III,
Scripps Howard News Service
(May 23, 8:30
p.m. PDT) - Americans are fairly certain the use of military force in Iraq
was the right thing to do, but they are considerably less confident that
Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction before the war
began.
A survey of 1,010 people by Scripps Howard New Service and Ohio University
also found overwhelming confidence that Saddam is still alive somewhere. The
nation has a widespread expectation that U.S. troops must remain in Iraq for
at least a year.
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Police, Dressed As Homeless, Give Tickets
Thu May 22, 7:25 AM ET
(Kissimmee, FL) Homeless advocates are outraged by an operation
where undercover police officers dressed as vagrants, observed drivers running
red lights or committing other traffic violations, then radioed ahead to other
officers who stopped those cars and wrote tickets.
"Today, the United Nations approved a
resolution to lift the sanctions against Iraq. ... Yeah, the move will allow
Iraqis to buy things they don't have, such as medicine and weapons of mass
destruction." —Conan O'Brien
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Sent in By Erich Mengl
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Hello,
You said: "It has become a crazy world since Bush went to the US Supreme Court
to stop the counting of votes in Florida. It has been a downhill slide since
that single event."
I would say that it went downhill when the DNC cut Ralph Nader out of the
debates the previous fall. By removing other candidates, Gore set himself up for
a simplistic GOPig polarity game, and didn't have Nader to scream bloody murder
in Florida when no one else would (other than the Black Caucus and a few of us
crazy protesters).
By turning against democracy, the Dems got their arses handed to them by real
evil. It is a lesson not learned if the Supremes are given the credit for
destroying our democracy.
The Democratic Party leadership did it----the Supremes just peed on their
cowardly heads afterward.
Paul
When did the downhill slide begin?
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Did it begin with McCarthyism?
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Or was it when when the Democratic National
Committee was burglarized by Nixon's henchmen?
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Or was it when Reagan-Bush decided to illegally
sell weapons behind Congress' back to Iran?
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Or possibly was it when Donald Rumsfeld met
with Saddam Hussein and discussed those Weapons of Mass Destruction?
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Or maybe it began with Newt Gingrich and his
Contract ON America?
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Or possibly maybe all these republican
shenanigans just started when Bush went to the US Supreme Court to stop the
vote counting in Florida, where his brother was governor?
The single event I noted began a highly visible
downhill slide -- no breaks in time.
I blame Gore for not having Bill Clinton campaign
for him. Selection 2000 could have been avoided.
Nader has become too shrill for
my taste -- although I agree with him on many issues.
Thanks for writing.
Viewer Email:
Subject: Senator Byrd
No homer, not hardly. The Senator served up an
infield blooper of fuzzy rhetoric and hot air.
Senator Byrd is a work of art. Of course that is a kind of neo-ante bellum art,
cloaked once in sheet and
hood, dripping with sugary rhetoric, and snuggled securely in the certainty that
the the barrel of pork in his native W. Virginia will go on for as long as the
white maned fossil remains the darling of under educated voters.
The Senator's carping criticism about the war, it's purpose and its outcome,
seems silly to most, sour grapes at best, hollow, short sighted, illogical, and
uttered in haste.
We feel sorry for Senator Byrd. He is on his way to becoming a bit of an
anachronism, charming, perhaps, but utterly out of touch with the realities of
his time. Sort of like Ramsey Clark.
Luke Angelo
Macon, GA
I was in W. Virginia many decades ago. Poverty
was rampant. Roads were few and in horrible condition.
Today, W. Virginia has roads, federal and private
jobs and other such pork brought in by Senator Byrd.
Do you consider Georgia federal funding of MARTA
in Atlanta pork? Or all the Georgia military bases pork?
The people of W. Virginia should be grateful to
Senator Byrd.
One man's pork is another's treasure.
"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his
rights." Napoleon Bonaparte
I protected Texas from Oklahoma
during the Vietnam war while
John McCain was a POW.
Ain't I cool?
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Viewer Commentary
anonymously sent to Zelda
Bush lied
G.I.s Died
That's a CRIME
Tax cuts for the wealthy cannot
return to the economy while continued off shore movement of tax refunds and
corporate profits are permitted.
Someone show me where and how the tax cuts for the wealthy are being
reinvested in the United States.
Termites international - " We Bore from within "
republicans are boring. loud and
repetitive.
shallow debate.
democrats have the freedom to think. your website is proof of that.
thank you.
I have one question today. Why
did Hillary Clinton have to give up her law practice during her husband's
Presidency, yet no one raised a fuss about Barbara Bush having her picture
on all those oatmeal boxes during George H.W. Bush's Presidency?
Eric M
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It's nice to hear the name Annika in the news instead of
Monica.
Sorenstam Misses Cut in PGA Experiment
Stamford Advocate, CT - 5-23-03
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Annika Sorenstam ended her
experiment on the PGA Tour the
same way it started: making a pressure-packed shot in front of an enormous
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Where're Osama, Saddam
and the unused weapons of mass destruction? - Lisa
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cya
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