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by Geezer Power 12:09:00 PM PDT


Iran uses pre-2000 American diplomacy & releases the British soldiers


Posted by kayinmaine on April 4th, 2007

Isn’t that interesting. George W. Bush has touted that he is the King of Everything for the past seven years, but yet hasn’t shown a stitch of diplomacy or peace in all those years.

(Did George Bush take up Saddam’s offer to talk things out before Bush decided to illegally invade his country? Nope! Did George Bush make a plea to any of the kidnappers of US soldiers or American citizens (media included) to be released unharmed? Nope! Did George Bush hold direct talks with North Korea all these years? Nope! (they have now, but it’s too late…North Korea has nukes because George ignored them) Did George Bush take up Iran’s offer years ago when they said they would help our country capture terrorists? Nope! Did George Bush talk with Saudi Arabia to tell them that funding the people who are killing our soldiers is making the war in Iraq worse and it must stop? Nope!)

Thanks To Bush, The GOP Committed Suicide!

by S-Q @12:20 PM MDT


Salon

A new study shows that unless the Democrats self-destruct, they could walk into the White House in '08 -- and might hold it for years.

By Gary Kamiya

March 27, 2007 | Democrats should give two cheers for George W. Bush. He and his political mastermind, Karl Rove, dreamed of achieving a permanent Republican majority. Instead, his disastrous presidency has dealt a devastating blow to the GOP, one from which it may not recover for many years.

That's the inescapable import of a major study of American voters' values and attitudes by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, released March 22. The study finds that voters have turned dramatically away from the GOP since Bush took office. Iraq, of course, is the single biggest reason for this. (A separate Pew poll, released on March 26, shows that 59 percent of Americans want their congressional representatives to support a bill calling for U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq by August 2008, with only 33 percent opposed.) But even more troubling for Republican strategists is the fact that underlying attitudes and beliefs are trending against them. The study's implication is that the GOP, especially in its current far-right incarnation, was facing serious structural, long-term problems anyway, and that Bush delivered the coup de grâce.

Gonzales Advised Bush On Probe After Learning He Might Be A Subject

By S-Q @ 9:29 AM MDT

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales reportedly advised President George W. Bush on a federal inquiry even after learning his own actions might be probed.

Citing government records and interviews, the National Journal reported Thursday that, shortly before he advised Bush in 2006 on whether to shut down a Justice Department investigation into the administration's warrantless domestic eavesdropping program, Gonzales learned that his own conduct would likely be a focus of the inquiry.

Bush shut down the Justice Department investigation in April 2006 by denying investigators security clearances they would have needed to examine the eavesdropping program.

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