The Swamp / Eboy Central

• Iraq is worse off than before the war began, GAO reports
  
• Bush Criticizes Edwards' Lack of Experience [You're Kidding Right?]
  
• Bush Directs Majority of Democracy-Promotion Funds to Autocratic Regimes
  
• Few Iraq Detainees Are Foreign Fighters
  
• Defense Undersecretary Used Unauthorized Inspections to Push Contracts for Friends
  
• C.I.A. Held Back Data That WMD Programs Abandoned
  
• Cheney Had No New Data on Saddam, Al Qaeda-Panel
  
• Iraq is worse off than before the war began, GAO reports
  
• Ashcroft faces whistleblower secrets probe
  
• Justice: Sharing Data Would Crash System
  
• Audits Criticizing CPA Released
  
• Inquiry Confirms Medicare Chief Threatened Actuary

• Justice: Sharing Data Would Crash System
  
• Ashcroft faces whistleblower secrets probe

• Bush Continues to Tout Discredited Qaida/Saddam Links
  
• Experts Doubt Credibility of 9/11 Details Provided Under Torture
  
• Rumsfeld Issued an Order to Hide Detainee in Iraq
  
• Krugman on Ashcroft
  
• Speech Outlining the Nature and Dangers of Anti-Americanism

• Panel Says No Signs of Iraq, Qaeda Link
  
• POLL: Majority of Iraqis Would Feel Safer If We Left
  
• DOE official in charge of cleanup resigns
  
• Bush's Lavish Spending of U.S. Funds

• GAO Finds Problems With Awards of Iraq Contracts
  
• Early Attacks on Iraqi Leaders Killed Only Civilians
  
• Cheney Continues to Cite Discredited Hussein-al Qaida Connection
  
• League of Women Voters drops paperless vote support
  
• More Outrageous Halliburton Expenses (that we are paying for)
  
• Effort Fails to Block Study of New Nuclear Arms
  
• USDA Calls French Fries Fresh Vegetable

• Former U.S. Diplomats and Retired Generals Say: Bush Must Go
  
• Military Interrogators Reported Abuse in November
  
• Cheney Briefed On Halliburton Contract Before It Was Granted
  
• Supreme Court: BLM Can't Be Sued for Lapses
  
• Vaccine Preservative May Be Linked to Autism in Some People

• Fla. Voting Machines Have Recount Flaw
  
• More Problems with Electronic Voting
  
• More Florida Voting Fiascos Possible

• Study Commissioned by White House Shows Bush Pollution Plan Weakest of 3 Studied
  
• Medical records used in interrogations
  
• More Enron Tapes
  
• Bush Sides With Large Contributors in Telecom Case

• Lawsuit alleges torture for profit
  
• Bush's Tacit Acknowledgment that He Approved Some Torture
  
• State Dept. warned White House on torture

• State Dept. Doctored Terror Stats to Make Bush Response Seem Effective
  
• Ashcroft Testifies About Torture Memos
  
• Chilling Quote from Memo to Bush

• Justice Dept. Memo Offers Basis for Torture
  
• More About White House Justification for Torture
  
• Bill weakens separation of Church and State

• Bush Attempts to Cut Rent Subsidies for Low-Income Families
  
• Bush Awards Huge Contract to Tax Dodger
  
• Bush Plans Huge Cuts to Social and Education Programs in 2005 and Beyond
  
• Enron Traders' Calls Gloated About Cheating
  
• U.S. Is Sued Over Records of Military Prisoner Abuse

• Large Numbers of Iraqis Held for Little Reason According to Nov. 2003 Army Report
  
• Cheney coordinated Halliburton Iraq contract: report
  
• National Parks Cut Services Despite Administration Claims
  
• NPR Bias Study -- Surprising Result
  
• Bush Administration Blocked on Assisted Suicide

• Is the DOJ Covering Something Up By Retroactively Classifying Testimony by FBI Translator
  
• USDA Undermines Organic Standards

• Probe Finds Bush Used 'Illegal' Medicare Propaganda
  
• Reuters, NBC Staff Abused by U.S. Troops in Iraq
  
• U.S. quietly OKs imports of banned Canada beef
  
• Judge throws out ship-boarding charges against Greenpeace

• 1300 Lose Jobs at Factory Bush Touted as Proof of Tax Cut Benefits
  
• White House Trumpeting Programs It Tried to Cut
  
• 2 Companies Overseeing Fraud in Iraq Have Ties to Co.s They are Overseeing
  
• Enron Tapes Hint Chiefs Knew About Power Ploys

• Pentagon Admits Iraq Methods Violated Geneva Rules
  
• Pentagon Protecting Private Contractors Who May Have Ordered Torture
  
• Scientists: Star Wars Missile Defense Shield Won't Work
  
• Air pollution linked to genetic mutations

• General Who Made Anti-Islam Remark Tied to POW Case
  
• Harsh C.I.A. Methods Cited in Top Qaeda Interrogations
  
• Rumsfeld Approves Harsh Interrogation Tactics

• Military intelligence believes 70 - 90% of detained Iraqis were arrested by mistake
  
• A Progressive Response to the Nader Campaign

• Even Greenspan Finds the Looming Deficit Frightening
  
• Florida to purge voting roles -- risking disenfranchisement of many African American voters
  
• Limbaugh's Revolting Apologia For Sadism Meted out by Military
  
• Politics Trumping Science at FDA Over Morning-After Pill

• Red Cross Says Repeatedly Warned U.S. on Iraq Jail
  
• Diplomats criticize Bush on Israel policy
  
• U.S. jeopardizes global terror probes

• White House probably violated federal law by preventing actuary to testify
  
• More Treasury agents track Castro than Bin Laden

"I am opposed to sustaining the illusion that war can be waged by the sacrifice of a few without burdening the rest of us in any way. I oppose the notion that to be at war is to forfeit the right to question, criticize or debate our leaders' policies," he said.

Koppel has been attacked by right-wing broadcasters for making an anti-war statement. Koppel (believably) denies that there was any such intent and said that the sole goal was to remember those that have sacrificed their lives (especially since the administration will not allow pictures of their caskets to be shown). John McCain (no anti-war protester himself) wrote a scathing letter to the owner of the Sinclair Broadcasting group (which refused to air the Nightline episode on the seven ABC affiliates they own).

Those people (the administration, the right-wing media that wants to hide the bad news in Iraq) that try to hide the cost of war (in dollars and lives -- Iraqi and American) and shut down discussion of the war are being anti-American. If America stands for freedom and justice, then it requires opennness.

In fact, make good decisions requires debate and consideration of all the data -- not just the data that you like. The administration's refusal to consider ALL of the data (not just the data that supported their position) is what allowed us to get into this mess in the first place.

• U.S. plans to limit sovereignty of interim Iraqi government
  
• Bush - Thinks He is Crusader
  
• Bremer Accused Administration of Ignoring Terrorism in 2001
  
• More Attempts by Bush to Undermine 9/11 Commission
  
• Republicans fined for posing as Democrats
  
• U.S. Mistreatment of Iraqi Prisoners
  
• Funds Marked for Iraq Reconstruction Unspent - Being Diverted to Military Operations
  
• Bush Seeks to Reduce Sulfur Rules for Gasoline
  
• Bush administration distorting crucial information on women's issues from pay equity to reproductive healthcare
  
• Bush v. Fact Database
  
• Administration Ignored Pre-War Concerns About Post-War Iraq

• Bush to Double Logging - Remove Environmental Protections
  
• White House Added False Claim to EPA Mercury Proposal
  
• Bush Says Israel Could Keep Some Occupied Land
  
• Why the White House is Witholding Some Clinton Documents
  
• IRS Audits Less Despite Bush Claims
  
• Chomsky (Reluctantly) Supports Kerry
  
• Chaplain's Reprimand Thrown Out by General