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March 17, 2004 - 11:35am -- jim
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"Iraq on the Record" Database

Prepared by Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Iraq on the Record

On March 19, 2003, U.S. forces began military operations in Iraq. Addressing the nation about the purpose of the war on the day the bombing began, President Bush stated: "The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder."

March 14, 2004 - 11:31am -- jim
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Bush II has 187 "Rangers" who have raised at least $200,000 for his
campaign. I think it would be nice to target some of these rich henchmen for Bush
with protests at their businesses or homes. Some of them might be boring
targets, but others are probably CEOs of union busting, environment
destroying corporations.


This website has actually done some of the hard research work for us: www.whitehouseforsale.org
There are 31 Rangers and Pioneers for 2004 listed for NY state. People
like Alfonse D'Amato (former senator), George H. Walker IV (Goldman
Sachs), and Ivan Seidenberg (Verizon).

March 10, 2004 - 9:32am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Electoral Politics

"Kerry's Foreign Policy Record Suggests Few Differences with Bush"

Stephen Zunes, www.dissidentvoice.org

Those who had hoped that a possible defeat of President George W.
Bush in November would mean real changes in U.S. foreign policy have
little to be hopeful about now that Massachusetts Senator John Kerry
has effectively captured the Democratic presidential nomination.

March 10, 2004 - 9:32am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Electoral Politics

"Kerry's Foreign Policy Record Suggests Few Differences with Bush"

Stephen Zunes, www.dissidentvoice.org

Those who had hoped that a possible defeat of President George W.
Bush in November would mean real changes in U.S. foreign policy have
little to be hopeful about now that Massachusetts Senator John Kerry
has effectively captured the Democratic presidential nomination.

March 7, 2004 - 12:05pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Electoral Politics

"A War Against the Elites:

The America That Will Vote for Bush"

Tom Frank, Le Monde Diplomatique, Feb 2004

The US is currently going through the peculiar process of deciding which
Democratic presidential candidate will stand against George Bush in
November. The aversion to Bush, at home and abroad, makes us forget how many
people support this spokesman for another America sure of its superiority
and its values.

March 4, 2004 - 9:15pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Electoral Politics

"Bush or Kerry? No Difference"

John Pilger, New Statesman, 8th March 2004

The man who, after Super Tuesday, is all but certain to become the Democrats' candidate for president is as dedicated as any Republican to the American empire.


A myth equal to the fable of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction is gaining strength on both sides of the Atlantic. It is that John Kerry offers a world-view different from that of George W Bush. Watch this big lie grow as Kerry is crowned the Democratic candidate and the "anyone but Bush" movement becomes a liberal cause celebre.

March 1, 2004 - 12:58pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Electoral Politics

"France: United Radical Left Campaign Gathers Momentum"

Murray Smith, Paris, Green Left Weekly, March 3, 2004

The united campaign being waged by France's two largest revolutionary
socialist parties — the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) and Workers
Struggle (LO) — for the March 21 regional elections is getting a good
reception.

February 28, 2004 - 4:38pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Electoral Politics

"An Enemy of the People"

John Chuckman

Ralph Nader has defined a perfect moral dilemma for thinking Americans.


He finds himself in a situation resembling that of Dr. Stockmann in Ibsen's drama, "An Enemy of the People." Dr. Stockmann discovered the municipal baths were contaminated, but good burghers worried about the destructive effects of the truth on the town did not want the doctor revealing it.

February 23, 2004 - 11:42am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Electoral Politics

An anonymous coward writes:

"Open the Debates"

Ralph Nader, CommonDreams.org

Last week, Open Debates (see Opendebates.org), a
nonprofit, non-partisan organization, whose purposes I
support, filed a complaint with the Federal Election
Commission (FEC) against the Commission on Presidential
Debates (CPD) which was created and is controlled by
the Republican and Democratic Parties. Open Debates
charged, with documentation, that the CPD is not non-
partisan but is deeply bi-partisan, serving and obeying
the dictates of the two major Parties.


Open Debates argues that such control is a violation of
FEC debate regulations. Corporate contributions which
could go only to an educational association are instead
going to a bi-partisan political organization which is
unlawful.

February 23, 2004 - 11:17am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Electoral Politics

"A Bush Covert Operative Takes Over Al Sharpton's Campaign"

Wayne Barrett, Village Voice

Roger Stone, the longtime Republican dirty-tricks operative who led the mob that shut down the Miami-Dade County recount and helped make George W. Bush president in 2000, is financing, staffing, and orchestrating the presidential campaign of Reverend Al Sharpton.


Though Stone and Sharpton have tried to reduce their alliance to a curiosity, suggesting that all they do is talk occasionally, a Voice investigation has documented an extraordinary array of connections. Stone played a pivotal role in putting together Sharpton's pending application for federal matching funds, getting dollars in critical states from family members and political allies at odds with everything Sharpton represents. He's also helped stack the campaign with a half-dozen incongruous top aides who've worked for him in prior campaigns. He's even boasted about engineering six-figure loans to Sharpton's National Action Network (NAN) and allowing Sharpton to use his credit card to cover thousands in NAN costs -- neither of which he could legally do for the campaign. In a wide-ranging Voice interview Sunday, Stone confirmed his matching-fund and staffing roles, but refused to comment on the NAN subsidies.

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