U.S.
troops in Iraq
Saddam Captured
Even Al Jazeera admits U.S. success as it declares a
"major
coup for the beleaguered U.S. occupation fores." Read
the Al Jazeera article...
The only Weapons of Mass Destruction found by U.S. troops so far have
been these paintings of surface-to-air missiles in one of Saddam's
palaces. The lead WMD story has been buried under the news of
Saddam's capture, but the broad-scale search for weapons caches
is being phased into more detailed searches for cells of
counter-insurgents (speculatively - Iranian and Syrian Islamic
militants).
- moja vera, turningtables.com
Read Scott Fleming's "Dispatch from Baghdad" and view his photo
essay.
Read "Defend America,"
the official DoD publication
about the war on terrorism.
Read an article by Jack Beatty from
Atlantic
Monthly, called "The War After The War."
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"The Financial Times reports that
more than 3,000 Saudi young men have 'gone missing' in the past two
months. Many crossed over into Iraq to mount a jihad against the
occupation."
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Of Greed & Power
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Gallagher for President
 Gallagher returns from a
fact-finding mission in the Midwest. He's mad as hell about NAFTA
and he's not going to take it any more. California is a
destination state for travelers from the Midwest, that's where the
money comes from. Because America is a team, when one falls, it slows
us all down. Gallagher wants to say he's not an Independent candidate
but a Dependent Candidate. Read
more...
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Haliburton & The Reconstruction
On April 30, 2003, shortly after U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein's
government, U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., wrote a letter to
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld inquiring about evidence that
American oil services giant Halliburton Corp. had  profited
from doing business with countries that sponsor terrorism. He got no
response. On Sept. 30, Waxman wrote to Joshua Bolten, the Bush
administration's director of the Office of Management and Budget, with
concerns about overspending and a lack of oversight in the
reconstruction operations in Iraq. He got no response. For almost six
months now the California Democrat has been asking the Bush
administration to explain why Halliburton, formerly run by Vice
President Dick Cheney, has been charging what appears to be five times
the necessary cost of importing millions of gallons of gasoline from
Kuwait into Iraq. To date, the White House hasn't responded. Read
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The U.S. Air Force's Future Tanker Fleet?
The Air Force pursued the idea of leasing rather than
purchasing the new tankers after it became clear that Congress would
permit it. The lease could be paid out of the Air Force operations and
maintenance funds rather than the usual procurement accounts already
committed to the purchase of $61 billion worth of other new weapons
systems, aircraft, and ships. That would, in effect, stretch the Air
Force's procurement budget.
Not only
would the lease with Boeing be more costly, it could, in the end,
actually leave the Air Force with fewer tankers than it currently has.
The leased 100 Boeing tankers are slated to replace older KC-135
tankers almost on a one-to-one basis. The lease would require the Air
Force to return the 767 tankers to Boeing after only six to 10 years
though they could last for decades. That would leave the tanker fleet
with a net loss of 100 or more tankers after the Boeing 767s are
returned to the defense contractor. Read more
at Pogo...
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The
Governator
 DECEMBER
8--A Los Angeles woman who came forward during the California
gubernatorial campaign to accuse Arnold Schwarzenegger of previous
instances of sexual harassment today sued the Hollywood star, claiming
that he, an aide, and his campaign smeared her as a convicted felon
when she made her charges. Read about it at The Smoking Gun...
Once a pariah within his own party, former Gov.
Pete Wilson has re-emerged as a political force as mentor to Gov.-elect
Arnold Schwarzenegger. Read more from the Sacramento Bee...
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What is
Howard Dean Hiding?
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Dean, it is clear is making use of the hate pouring out of the far left
to energize his campaign. Dean goes further, reinforcing his campaign
position with the rhetorical, hateful class warfare nonsense that has
always been red meat for Democrats. Only one problem... and it's
a lesson the left has never learned, for all of their rhetoric on the
subject... Hate never wins for long. Read more from Bits...
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