Smearing Joe Wilson, Again

The editorial page of Washington’s biggest newspaper might praise a whistleblower like Joe Wilson for alerting the American people to a government deception that helped lead the country into a disastrous war that has killed 2,627 U.S. soldiers.....more

Right wing uses ABC docudrama to push debunked claim blaming Clinton administration for 9-11

Summary: In anticipation of ABC's docudrama The Path to 9-11, the right-wing media have resurrected a debunked claim that attempts to place blame for the 9-11 attacks on the Clinton administration. Specifically, a review of the miniseries on the right-wing website Human Events Online asserted that the Clinton administration erected a "wall" to prevent information-sharing between government agencies. In fact, the "wall" long predated Bill Clinton's presidency......more

Bush’s Salt Lake Whoppers

Did you catch Bush’s speech to the American Legion on Thursday? It was another warm-up to the Iran War, with Bush rehearsing some of the same old lines he once used to whip up a frenzy over Iraq. Just as he once called Iraq a “grave threat,” he said in Salt Lake City that “the world now faces a grave threat from the radical regime in Iran.”......more

Dean Says Democrats Will Win `Referendum on Republican Rule'

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said his party will regain control of Congress because Americans are tired of Republican policies, including those on national security.....more

May the messiest mudslinger finish last

For instance, not in my 25 years in Florida have I seen U.S. Sugar take such an overt role in a governor's race. Apparently the sugar industry believes it can buy itself a governor, spending heavily to attack one of the Democratic candidates, Jim Davis of Tampa, to the benefit of Rod Smith of Gainesville......more

Music for Tomorrow

Turning rubble into rhetoric

With war's debris as backdrop, Hezbollah seeks to stoke anti-U.S. sentiment and gain Lebanese support. Now that the fighting is over, the propaganda war has begun. Using the rubble and widespread destruction in Haret Hreik, Hezbollah's public relations department has gone into high gear to garner international sympathy and win over Lebanese domestic opinion.....more

Errors of the war on terror

Israel's failure to subdue Hezbollah demonstrates the many weaknesses of the war-on-terror concept. One weakness is that even if the targets are terrorists, the victims are often innocent civilians, and their suffering reinforces the terrorist cause.....more

Bin Laden manhunt still drawing a blank

Five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the most publicized manhunt in history has drawn a blank. The CIA has dismantled its unit dedicated to finding the al-Qaida chiefs. And the American military's once-singular focus is diffused by the need for reconstruction and a growing fight against the Taliban, the resurgent Afghan Islamic movement that once hosted bin Laden.....more

Dems target Rumsfeld

"We are approaching 2,700 dead Americans, 20,000 wounded, many of them missing eyes, missing limbs, facing paralysis," said Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.). "They want to debate that; we're happy to debate that." ......more