A GOP lawmaker has an idea to keep the so-called "architect" of the Iraq War from standing in the unemployment line. "I would like to suggest...that maybe we give Paul Wolfowitz a new job and send him over [to Iraq] as mayor," said Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., "since the neocons got us in over there."
Intro to and excerpt from the book "Looking for Bigfoot." It's the story of Jack Robert King, an Internet radio host who broadcasts from the farm house on The Field of Dreams movie site in eastern Iowa. Jack wants to know the truth about America. He's tired of Frosted Flakes and he's tired of lies.
In defending the Iraq war, leading Republican presidential contenders are increasingly echoing words and phrases used by President Bush in the run-up to the war that reinforce the misleading impression that Iraq was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
If this was truly "intelligence that everyone saw," then those who voted to give this president authorization to go into Iraq, Democratic or Republican, need to tell us and let the electorate decide how their seeming disregard for this ominous warning will effect their next vote.
While Gonzales has been associated with a pernicious assault on our freedoms, he has never been the independent actor, but rather a dutiful toady carrying out the wishes of a tightly monitored White House with the blessings of the president.
The hagiographic re-writing of history after Reagan's death, and more recently after Gerald Ford's, should have prepared us for the inevitable whitewash of Blair's historic crimes following the announcement last week of his upcoming resignation, but on this occasion I do believe the media has surpassed itself.
"In the off chance there is anyone out there who continues to harbor doubts as to whether Alberto Gonzales is a liar, I present you with a rather blatant example of the man's dishonesty that, for reasons I can't quite understand, doesn't seem to have been reported anywhere."
Rep. Jim Cooper, D-TN, has asked for a federal investigation into reports that Army recruiters encouraged applicants to lie so they could be accepted for military service. Stories document Army recruiters at 3 locations in Middle Tennessee urging applicants to lie about their mental health so they could meet official recruiting standards.
How many lies is George Tenet allowed to tell on TV before he immolates the last shred of credibility? Judging by his latest sad performance on Meet the Press I would say his time is up. Tenet insisted to Tim Russert that he was crystal clear in debunking the assumption that Al Qaeda and Iraq were in cahoots
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The vice president not only twisted my views but Democratic Party's, too. Chicago, is sometimes dubbed "the Windy City." Cheney converted the chilly wind of Chicago into hot air. On one point I do agree with Cheney: Today's Democrats are taking positions on the Iraq war similar to the views I held toward the Vietnam War. But that is all
The FBI used a secret intelligence unit to detain war protesters in Washington and interrogate them about their political and religious views, according to police logs that have recently surfaced in a civil lawsuit filed by 20 demonstrators who were arrested by D.C. police in 2002 during rallies on the mall.
This is only a PARTIAL LIST of the horrific weapons verified to have been recovered in Iraq to date. Yet, Americans overwhelmingly believe U.S. and coalition forces found NO weapons of mass destruction.
Photographs of flag-draped coffins bearing American casualties from Iraq should not have been made public under a Pentagon policy prohibiting media coverage of human remains, officials said. "Quite frankly, we don't want the remains of our service members who have made the ultimate sacrifice to be the subject of any kind of attention that is u
The Iraqi defector known as Curveball, whose fabricated stories of "mobile biological weapons labs" helped lead the U.S. to war four years ago, is still being protected by the German intelligence service. Curveball's false tales became the centerpiece of Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech before the United Nations in February 2003.
The neo-cons running this administration's foreign policy are like most ideologues. Rather than allowing the facts to determine a course of action, they have their predetermined opinions and then shape the evidence to match.
A "very damning" report by the Defense Department's inspector general depicts a Pentagon that purposely manipulated intelligence in an effort to link Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda in the runup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, says the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
There's marketing yourself on your resume, and then there's flat-out lying. Many job seekers are crossing the line.
In business, politics and romance, it would be nice to know when we're being lied to.
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold told a group of Madison area residents this morning that the ongoing U.S. presence in Iraq is the result of an "outrageous pile of lies" and called for more accountability.
An always relevant set of rules to help identify quacks and charlatans.
The Bush administration continues to bypass standard intelligence channels and use what some believe to be propaganda tactics to make a case for war with Iran, US foreign policy experts and former US intelligence officials report.
An anonymous "senior British official knowledgeable about the [hair-gel bombers]" told NBC that there was no threat to airplanes last week...
The public record is replete with 'historical' accounts of the cause and effect of the many wars enjoyed by the sprawling masses of humanity. A little known fact however is that, from the point of view of accuracy, the public record stinks.
Oh my God do they ever lie. All of them: Big Auto, Big Oil, BushCo, Pennzoil and Havoline and Saudi Arabia and crusty Alaska Senator Ted Stevens and the oil lobbyists and lackey scientists working for the Department of Energy and all the rest, on down the line and right up to your garage door.











