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With the encouragement of Democrats-from-Mars
BushCheney really is planning to attack Iran!
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February's Lowdown
How corporate money took over Washington--and created the mobs who rant against reform
Despite a constant racket from the forces of the far-out right (Fox television's yackety-yackers, just-say-no GOP know-nothings, tea-bag howlers, Sarah Palinistas, et al.), the great majority of Americans support a bold progressive agenda for our country, ranging from Medicare for all to the decentralization and re-regulation of Wall Street. Indeed, in the elections of 2006 and 2008, people voted for a fundamental break from Washington's 30-year push to enthrone a corporate kleptocracy.
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WHAT TORTURE IS
Bill Clinton got roundly ridiculed and then impeached by Congress for a sexual encounter that he tried to dismiss by quibbling over what the meaning of "is" is.
Yet, we now have a president who is engaged in a far more damning constitutional encounter that he is trying to dismiss by quibbling over what the meaning of "torture" is. Why isn't he facing an impeachment inquiry?
From Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo to extraordinary renditions, Bush and Gang have violated our own laws and international treaties that flatly prohibit torture of war prisoners. Yet Bush & Company keep trying to excuse their abhorrentbehavior by writing secret memos to themselves redefining torture as...well...not torture. Of course, Bush refused to show us the memos, and his staff has even attacked the media for revealing that they exist!