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"Political will is the ultimate determinant of spending priorities. There's always money available for war and corporate bailouts; there's rarely money available for social programs."

Adolph L. Reed, Jr.

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Questions to ask the Candidates in 2003 - 2004 national election campaigns

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Questions for Mr. Bush - George McGovern
Carte Blanche - Congress & Bush - Iraq
Is Bush a War Criminal?

Cheney & Halliburton: Go Where the Oil Is
Bush's Messiah Complex

Bush's accomplishments as President
The Weird Men Behind George W. Bush's War on Iraq
Beware the [Political] Psychopath, My Son (5/08)

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"I say, bomb the hell out of them [Iraqis]. If there's collateral damage, so be it."

U.S. Senator Zell Miller, D-GA - on the day after the September 11 attack

Chickenhawks page

cheerleaders for war who managed to avoid going themselves
(from New Hampshire Gazette website)

 

"The U.S. has a special role in the world and should not adhere to every international agreement and convention that someone thinks to propose."

Secretary of State Colin Powell

Colin Powell

The Real Colin Powell
Questions for Powell
The Powell Trap
Deconstructing Powell
Colin Powell's List
Behind Colin Powell's Legend (12/00)

Colin Powell: Failed Oppportunist (11/04)
Colin Powell: Still Craven After All These Years (11/05)
Soldier - Colin Powell (10/06)

"I'm going to be bringing people into the public diplomacy function of the department who are going to change from just selling us in the old USIA way to really branding foreign policy, branding the department, marketing the department, marketing American values to the world and not just putting out pamphlets."

Secretary of State Colin Powell to House Budget Committee, March 2001

 

Articles

Russ Feingold interview
Representative Barbara Lee - the Lone Dissenter (11/01)

[Cynthia] McKinney Rises Again (5/04)
12 Democrats who voted for Bush's torture bill & against habeas corpus
The Folly of Experience [U.S. presidency] (3/08)
"WHAT IF ?" speech - Congressman Ron Paul - on floor of U.S. House of Representatives, February 12, 2009


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