Making Sense of it All

The newly poor have Michael Moore, and the rich get interviewed:
BBC NEWS | Americas | Soros calls for 'regime change' in US

ajc.com | News | Turner not optimistic about world's future

MM has a new book coming out Oct. 7:
Michael Moore.com : Dude, Where's My Country?

New deck of cards:
Yahoo! News - In French Deck, Bush Is King of Diamonds
"I found it completely indecent to present a manhunt as a game," said Thierry Meyssan, the man behind the French deck. "We thought this card game would allow us to ... explain why we consider the government of George Bush a threat to international security."

The Bush Regime Card Deck [Réseau Voltaire]

They forgot Grover Norquist:
Grover Norquist

The only article that I have found that translates the Dean phenomenon almost as well as meeting him at a small house party in NH:
LA Weekly: Features: The Doctor is In

To get a feel for the folksy atmosphere generated by his campaign scroll through the main page at this site:
seniors4dean.com - Howard Dean in 2004 -

& for those with a desire to understand the neo-cons economic strategy that equals the patience to read this long article:
Krugman/NYT: The Tax-Cut Con September 14, 2003

Two Years On, World Media Sympathy Comes With Warnings (washingtonpost.com)
&
I encourage you to read this blog from a soldier in Iraq:
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Excerpt:
9.12.2003:
...who are we to throw away such an opportunity...to see the other side...to feel one another’s pain...to work for a better tomorrow...to make good on bad decisions...

& a very good news blog:
THE WAR IN CONTEXT:: Iraq, the War on Terrorism, and the Middle East Conflict - in Critical Perspective

Washington Post 'Media Notes' had some very good sources today (excerpts below, but here's the link):
Why Dean Got Hit on Israel (washingtonpost.com)

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall
is steamed at Rummy calling for critics to exercise restraint on Iraq: Quoting the secretary:

"'To the extent that terrorists are given reason to believe he might, or, if he is not going to, that the opponents might prevail in some way, and they take heart in that, and that leads to more money going into these activities, or that leads to more recruits, or that leads to more encouragement, or that leads to more staying power, obviously that does make our task more difficult.'

"In other words, the problem is not any shortcoming in the president's policies, but the president's domestic critics who are emboldening 'the terrorists' by pointing out the shortcomings of the president's policies. . . .

"It's everyone's fault but theirs. 'The terrorists', domestic enemies, cultural declension, the French, perhaps tomorrow the decline of reading, the end of corporal punishment in the schools, permissive parenting, bad posture, rock 'n roll, space aliens. The administration is choking on its own lies and evasions. And we have to bail them out because the ship of state is our ship."

Paul Krugman/NYT:
Other People's Sacrifice
"It's now clear that the Iraq war was the mother of all bait-and-switch operations. Mr. Bush and his officials portrayed the invasion of Iraq as an urgent response to an imminent threat, and used war fever to win the midterm election. Then they insisted that the costs of occupation and reconstruction would be minimal, and used the initial glow of battlefield victory to push through yet another round of irresponsible tax cuts.

"Now almost half the Army's combat strength is bogged down in a country that wasn't linked to Al Qaeda and apparently didn't have weapons of mass destruction, and Mr. Bush tells us that he needs another $87 billion, right away. It gives me no pleasure to say this, but I (like many others) told you so."

Arab News: No Awe in Baghdad and Shock Is Creeping Into Washington

"In the past year, George Bush has recruited more jihadis to the Islamist cause than Osama Bin Laden could have dreamt of. This assertion will raise hackles in Washington, but does not change the fact. It may surprise the wise in Washington to learn that even a terrorist needs a cause before he goes on that suicide mission that is playing such havoc on the nerves of young American soldiers who no longer understand what they are doing in Iraq. Iraq has bred jihadis from Indonesia to Morocco in a manner that Afghanistan never did."

& other links:
Wired News: Bush Impeached? Wanna Bet?

washingtonpost.com: Gen. Clark's Critique

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May all be without disease.
May all creatures have well being.
And may none suffer misery of any sort.
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WorkingForChange-Wounded in Iraq, deserted at home
"The wounded represent something that we'd really not rather have to deal with," Todd Ensign, director of Citizen Soldier, a GI rights advocacy organization, told me in a phone interview. "They leave a bad taste in our mouths. The fact that there's so many wounded clearly represents a failed policy and the media isn't all that interested in covering these stories."

"The American media is by and large controlled and dominated by corporations that line up politically with the Bush Administration," Ensign added. "They appear to be increasingly incapable of grappling with such a highly charged issue as the wounded."

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraq: Why Bush now wants the UN

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Powell pushes new UN Iraq role

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraq: Why Bush now wants the UN
"Paul Bremer, in a Washington Post interview, blew the ship out of the water by revealing that the costs of reconstruction will be huge and cannot be covered by Iraqi oil exports.//"

Bremer: Iraq Effort to Cost Tens of Billions (washingtonpost.com)

Molly Ivins:Sun, Jun. 22, 2003
There's gold in them there Iraqi hills

I guess nobody told the Pentagon
U.S. rushed post-Saddam planning - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics

There's still hope...
Dean for America: Foreign Policy Speech from Drake University
Foreign Policy Address
Drake University
February 17, 2003