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Cites 'family reasons.' The truth, of course, is something else.

Trailer for the upcoming documentary directed by Errol Morris about the Abu Ghraib prison scanadal. Opens April 25th.

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From The New York Times last week:

"Two senior members of the Senate Armed Services Committee have requested a full accounting of how Iraq is spending its soaring oil revenue, amid starkly conflicting estimates of how much the country has invested in rebuilding its broken infrastructure and providing basic services to its citizens."

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From an article by Warren P. Strobel:
"An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network."

Not sure if anyone (other than Dick Cheney and a few other right-wing crackpots) is still disputing this point but it's always good to reinforce it.

Steve King, R-Iowa

All I have to say is, "Whoa!" From ABC News' Political Punch blog:

"Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, speaking to a local Iowa radio station, said that terrorists would dance in the streets if Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, is elected president -- precisely because of not only Obama's position on withdrawing US troops from Iraq, but because Obama's middle name is "Hussein," his father's Muslim roots, and his appearance -- or "optics," as King put it."

Fast forward to 6:15 to hear him reaffirm his belief that waterboarding is torture. Er... I guess after seeing that, I'm now slightly confused.

Wow! There are no words...

"The White House says President Bush will veto legislation on Saturday that would have barred the CIA from using waterboarding — a technique that simulates drowning — and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects.

Bush has said the bill would harm the government's ability to prevent future attacks. Supporters of the legislation argue that it preserves the United States' right to collect critical intelligence while boosting the country's moral standing abroad.

From an LA Times article:

"The White House said Wednesday that the widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding is legal and that President Bush could authorize the CIA to resume using the simulated-drowning method under extraordinary circumstances.

The surprise assertion from the Bush administration reopened a debate that many in Washington had considered closed. Two laws passed by Congress in recent years -- as well as a Supreme Court ruling on the treatment of detainees -- were widely interpreted to have banned the CIA's use of the extreme interrogation method.

You didn't think I was gonna forget to post this, did ya??
"A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The study concluded that the statements "were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses."

Via YouTube, CNN's Jack Cafferty on how President Bush slipped a secret provision into a bill giving himself and his entire administration retroactive immunity against any possible future war crime charges:

Most.corrupt.president.ever....

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