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Immediately after the President's speech on Iraq, ABC radio went to its damage control and counterattack segment(under the guise of analysis). First up was a foreign policy 'expert', which they loudly trumpeted as working for the Reagan, Bush, and (suddenly mumbled) Clinton administrations, implying that he was oh so impartial. He immediately began to attack Bush's credibility, focusing on how there was no connection between Al Queada and Iraq. Said Bush wants badly to imply such a connection, while being careful not to actual state any proof, since "clearly there is absolutely no connection between Iraq and Al Quaeda." I...

The uncertain times after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have given rise to all sorts of rumors. E-mails have circulated about malls that will be attacked on Halloween, about Osama bin Laden being spotted in Utah and Oliver North having warned about bin Laden at the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987. None of these turned out to be true and quickly were debunked on Internet sites devoted to "urban legends." The most prominent of these is Snopes.com, a Website started in 1995 as a hobby by David and Barbara Mikkelson, respectively a Web programmer and housewife in the Los Angeles area....

Minister's stance defies spirit of dealWASHINGTON – Two years ago, near the beginning of Jorge Castaneda's tenure as Mexico's foreign secretary, he floated a bold plan for managing the old problem of illegal immigration to the United States. If the United States would legalize millions of Mexicans already here and invite others to come as temporary workers, Mexico would end its laissez faire policy at the border and take firm steps to block illegal immigrants from crossing. But last week a member of Mexican President Vicente Fox's Cabinet flatly rejected the notion that Mexico would restrain its people's illegal movement...

Democrats Making 'Unforgivable Mistake' The Democratic candidates for president – and many in the media – are trying to make President Bush seem like a liar. In so doing, they are making an unforgivable mistake. In his State of the Union Address to Congress on Jan. 28, 2003, President Bush said, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, defending himself before the House of Commons for making a similar representation, said last week that the representation was true and comes from a different source than the...

A former US intelligence official who served under the Bush administration in the build-up to the Iraq war accused the White House yesterday of lying about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. The claims came as the Bush administration was fighting to shore up its credibility among a series of anonymous government leaks over its distortion of US intelligence to manufacture a case against Saddam. This was the first time an administration official has put his name to specific claims. The whistleblower, Gregory Thielmann, served as a director in the state department's bureau of intelligence until his retirement in September,...

AUSTIN -- Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick overstepped his authority by dispatching state troopers to search for Democratic state representatives who bolted in May to kill a redistricting bill, a state district judge ruled Thursday. State District Judge Charles Campbell ruled that a state government code defining the role and limits of Texas Department of Public Safety officers superseded a House rule employed by Craddick to hunt down the legislators. More than 50 Democratic representatives fled the Capitol May 12. Craddick, citing House rules, ordered the DPS to try to find the missing legislators. Most of them soon turned up...

C'mon Mike, You got caught. As we will see below, the event is all too illustrative of Moore's approach. In producing a supposed "documentary," Moore simply changes facts when they don't suit his theme. The viewer cannot count on what he sees, or is told, having any relation to facts. Whenever Moore desires, facts will be manufactured in the editing booth. 2. NRA and the Reaction To Tragedy. The dominant theme in Bowling (and certainly the theme that has attracted most reviewers) is that NRA is callous toward slayings. The theme begins early in the film, and forms its ending,...

"How can Bush claim to care so much about human rights in Iraq while embedding himself in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait?" Lindsay said during a recent antiwar rally in Washington. "Will America forget about nation building in Iraq -- the same way America forgot about nation building in Afghanistan -- as soon as the Iraqi oil wells are secured?"

<p>NEW YORK — Cell phones provide freedom of movement, which apparently allows plenty of room to stretch the truth.</p> <p>How often have you stood on a street corner next to someone shouting an excuse into their cellular about why they are late — seemingly unfazed that countless strangers are witnessing them in their moment of mobile make-believe?</p>

From the opinion section of the distinguished scientific journal Nature: More heat, less light on LomborgNature 421, 195 (2003); doi:10.1038/421195b A Danish committee has picked an appropriate target and misfired. Not surprisingly, last week's ruling by the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty (DCSD) that Bjørn Lomborg, in his controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist, selected data in a "severely biased" manner and exhibited poor scientific practice (see page 201) received widespread international media coverage. But whether the DCSD emerged with credit also deserves reflection. Lomborg's hypothesis that warnings issued by environmentalists and scientists are unwarranted, presented in the book rather than...

Please note that this is a user submitted article, and has not been commissioned by IranMania. It is 'user opinion'. IranMania does not accept responsibility for the accuracy of submitted articles. By: R. Ebrahimi During a trip I met a female American tourist. It was the time of hostage taking of Western tourists in the Philippines by members of Islamist commando Abu-Sayaf. This young lady asked me if I was feeling responsible… I didn’t understand what she wanted to insinuate. Responsible for what and for whom? She then explained to me: “as a Muslim, you should feel responsible for what...