"Cheney Utters 'F-Word' in Senate"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Vice President Dick Cheney blurted out the "F word" at Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont during a heated exchange on the Senate floor, congressional aides said on Thursday.

The incident occurred on Tuesday in a terse discussion between the two that touched on politics, religion and money, with Cheney finally telling Leahy to "fuck off" or "go fuck yourself," the aides said.

"The Michael Moore Conservatives:

Meet Britain's Anti-American Tories"

Adrian Wooldridge, Weekly Standard

There are many things that can be said against Michael Moore. An odd
combination of Howard Stern and Paul Krugman, Moore is the king of
all left-wing media, from films to books, who specializes in trashing
everything that conservative America holds dear. For Moore,
businessmen are always trampling on the faces of the poor,
Republicans are always the tools of sinister vested interests, and
America is always up to no good in the world. But say this for the
pudgy auteur, he has his uses as a timesaver at dinner parties in
hyper-partisan America. If the woman next to you admires Moore, she
probably dated Dean and is now firmly married to Kerry; if she
regards Moore as a bilious blowhard, then she is probably going to
vote for George W. Bush.

Michael Moore Has Film of US Hostage Berg

Contents of Interview with Beheading Victim Undisclosed

BBC News

Film director Michael Moore says he has interview footage of slain US hostage Nick Berg that was not used in his anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.

Moore, whose film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes festival, said the footage was about 20 minutes long.

He said it would not be released to the media and that he was dealing privately with Mr Berg's family about it.

Mr Berg's killing shocked Americans after an Arabic-language website showed a video of him being beheaded.

Neither Moore nor his representatives would discuss the nature of the interview with Mr Berg, or its contents, the Associated Press news agency reported.

"The Trail of Torture:

The Things Bush Didn't Say in His Speech"

Robert Fisk,
The Independent

I can't wait to see Abu Ghraib prison reduced to rubble by the Americans — at the request of the new Iraqi government, of course. It will be turned to dust in order to destroy a symbol of Saddam's brutality. That's what President Bush tells us. So the re-writing of history still goes on.

Last August, I was invited to Abu Ghraib — by my favourite US General Janis Karpinski, no less — to see the million-dollar US refurbishment of this vile place. Squeaky clean cells and toothpaste tubes and fresh pairs of pants for the "terrorist" inmates. But now, suddenly, the whole kit and caboodle is no longer an American torture centre. It's still an Iraqi torture centre, and thus worthy of demolition.