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Rove, Bush & Co. have taken newspeak to new lows
Fables, flim-flam, and urban legends of our time
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Corporations scoff at workers' rights--even the right to come home from work alive
Their names probably won't mean mean anything to you, but these people ought to have some modicum of personal recognition: Jason Anderson, Aaron Dale "Bubba" Burkeen, Donald Clark, Stephen Curtis, Gordon Jones, Roy Wyatt Kemp, Karl Kleppinger, Blair Manuel, Dewey Revette, Shane Roshto, and Adam Weise. These are the 11 workers who were killed when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico on April 20.
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Support our troops
No amount of posturing by George Flight-Suit-in-Chief Bush, as one of our nicknamers dubbed him, will stop those roadside bombs in Iraq. For months, entire units have gone begging for steel plates needed to armor their Humvees against the deadly blasts they encounter daily. Families of soldiers have offered to buy these steel plates themselves, but have been rejected by commanders who keep promising that the army will provide better equipment soon. Soon never seems to come, especially for the National Guard and reservists who are doing much of the most dangerous work in Iraq, so soldiers scavenge scrap metal and sand bags to harden their Humvees. But this hasn't stopped the deaths and maimings.
The Pentagon now says it hopes to have all Humvees armored by next Aprila full year and more than 1,000 deaths after Bush launched this poorly-prepared war.
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