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Papers -Editorial: Cheney Was Not a Victim of Bad Information (CBS News - The Nation) "Last week, Cheney blasted critics who claim Bush misled the nation into war, calling these accusations the most 'dishonest' and 'reprehensible' statements he's ever encountered in Washington." "Prior to the invasion, Bush, Cheney and other administration officials did make many statements that were not backed up by the available intelligence. Were these merely careless mistakes? Why not call for a quick conclusion to the Phase II investigation of the Senate intelligence committee and see what the evidence indicates?" "How does he explain that administration officials cited evidence that was in dispute — such as Iraq's infamous acquisition of aluminum tubes that Bush officials said could only be used for a nuclear weapons program — and claimed it was rock solid? Is it not a distortion to repeatedly cite an intelligence report that has been discredited by the CIA and the FBI?" 11-05 -Editorial: Cheney Was Not a Victim of Bad Information (Slate.com) "Dick Cheney calls it 'dishonest,' 'reprehensible' and 'not legitimate' to claim that the administration misled the public about prewar intelligence." "Many of the White House's most serious misrepresentations involve the case that Saddam was trying to build nuclear weapons, which he had in fact stopped trying to do in 1991. "We now know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons," Cheney said in August 2002, in one of his conclusive comments on the subject. This position was echoed by Bush and Rice, who both conjured the specter of a mushroom cloud, as well as by Rumsfeld and Colin Powell, who went into more detail about aluminum tubes and uranium. If you were on the inside and read even the now notorious National Intelligence Estimate of 2002, you at least knew that such statements were at the very least overdrawn. Analysts at the departments of Energy and State weren't buying the aluminum tubes and yellowcake theory that formed the basis of the nuclear case." 11-05 -Editorial: Ike Was Right About War Machine (CBS News - Rooney) "I'm not really clear how much a billion dollars is but the United States — our United States — is spending $5.6 billion a month fighting this war in Iraq that we never should have gotten into." "Now we have the hurricanes to pay for. One way our government pays for a lot of things is by borrowing from countries like China." "Another way the government is planning to pay for the war and the hurricane damage is by cutting spending for things like Medicare prescriptions, highway construction, farm payments, AMTRAK, National Public Radio and loans to graduate students. Do these sound like the things you'd like to cut back on to pay for Iraq?" "I'll tell you where we ought to start saving: on our bloated military establishment." "We had a great commander in WWII, Dwight Eisenhower. He became President and on leaving the White House in 1961, he said this: 'We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. …' " "Well, Ike was right. That's just what’s happened." 9-05 -Editorials: Progressive Views (StraitGateMinistry.org) Provides a range of essays and editorials about the war in Iraq and progressive positions. 12-04 Editorial - Security Comes From International Law (DailyStar.com) "If the world hopes to turn around the current trajectory toward greater violence and terror, and move instead toward peace and stability, the lynchpin of any such movement must be a universal, ironclad commitment to the rule of law as the organizing principle of relations among nations." "This critically important issue should be debated long and loud, so that short-term problems such as we have in Iraq do not recur often, and long-term global peace and security might be promoted through a more universal understanding of the spirit and letter of international law. Washington has responded to the illegal war allegations by claiming it considered that a previous UN resolution passed four months before the war gave it sufficient authority to attack, because Iraq had refused to surrender suspected weapons of mass destruction. The last 18 months of searching in post-Baathist Iraq have turned up no such weapons. So not only was the U.S.-led war illegal, it was also premised on wrong information at best, and a deceptive lie at worst." 9-04 Editorial - Why We Are in Iraq (GeorgeSoros.com - Soros) Argues that President Bush was not honest in his presentation of reasons for a pre-emptive attack against Iraq. 10-04 Editorial: War Crimes in Iraq (Truthout.org - Chomsky) "After several weeks of bombing, the United States began its ground attack in Falluja. It opened with the conquest of the Falluja General Hospital. The front-page story in the New York Times reported that 'patients and hospital employees were rushed out of rooms by armed soldiers and ordered to sit or lie on the floor while troops tied their hands behind their backs.' An accompanying photograph depicted the scene. It was presented as a meritorious achievement." "Some relevant documents passed unmentioned, perhaps because they too are considered quaint and obsolete: for example, the provision of the Geneva Conventions stating that 'fixed establishments and mobile medical units of the Medical Service may in no circumstances be attacked, but shall at all times be respected and protected by the Parties to the conflict.' Thus the front page of the world's leading newspaper was cheerfully depicting war crimes for which the political leadership could be sentenced to severe penalties under U.S. law, the death penalty if patients ripped from their beds and manacled on the floor happened to die as a result. The questions did not merit detectable inquiry or reflection." 04-06 Ending Bush Impunity (Commondreams.org) "The policies are matters of priorities. And the priorities of the Bush White House are clear. For killing in Iraq, they spare no expense. For protecting and sustaining life, the cupboards go bare." "The problem is not incompetence. It's inhumanity, cruelty and greed." 9-05 Iraq - PDA Position (PDAmerica.org) Provides the position of the Progressive Democrats of America regarding the war in Iraq. 12-04 Misrepresentations by the Bush Administration (Misleader.org) Provides quotes from key members of the Bush administration, especially the President, that Misleader.org presents as evidence of distortions of the truth. Examples include the following from President Bush's State of the Union address to the nation: "On the Economy: 'We will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents and other generations.' The truth: Factoring in the cost of reconstruction in Iraq and other laws that are set to be enacted, the federal budget deficit is close to $5 trillion over the next 10 years. The President's latest request to make his tax cuts permanent would add another nearly $1.6 trillion to the federal debt through 2013. That's $41,300 for every man, woman and child. On Jobs: My 'first goal is an economy that [will] employ every man and woman who seeks a job.' The truth: 2.5 million jobs have already been lost since 2001 and the President's own economic advisors project that his economic plan - if everything goes well - will create fewer jobs in the next year than were lost in the last year. This will make President Bush the first president since Hoover's Great Depression-era presidency to preside over an economy that has lost more jobs than it's created." 9-03 Projects Help for U.S. Soldiers and Iraqi Children (MichaelMoore.com) Describes projects to support U.S. soldiers, Iraqi children, and more. Some projects are anti-war. 10-04

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