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Southwest boots woman for shirt Lorrie Heasley to sue for being asked to leave a flight because of her politically charged T-shirt. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Southwest Airlines kicked a woman off one of its flights over a political message on her T-shirt, the airline confirmed Thursday, and published reports say the passenger will sue. Lorrie Heasley, of Woodland, Wash., was asked to leave her flight from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore., Tuesday for wearing a T-shirt with pictures of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and a phrase similar to the popular film...

Sept. 11 Attacks Likely to Shape Bush Campaign 1 hour, 4 minutes ago Add Politics - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - George W. Bush's presidency was meandering along until the Sept. 11 attacks gave it a purpose, and his vigorous response drew world praise that fell apart over his invasion of Iraq (news - web sites). Reuters Photo AP Photo Slideshow: President Bush Latest headlines: · Kerry Urges Bush to Demand Attacks Stop AP - 1 minute ago · FACTBOX-Speakers at Republican National Convention Reuters - 1 hour, 1 minute ago · Bush Campaign Expects...

Dear Saddam, Remember when we first met on that magic night in Baghdad in 1983? You were gassing those wacky Iranians with chemical weapons and having a grand old time, but Ronnie and I just said hey, 'dictators will be dictators' - know what I mean?!! Hahaha. It's a good thing we sold you all those weapons and military equipment that you used in crushing your own people. Lord knows what might have happened if we hadn't stepped in to help you out. What a time it was too! We sold you all kinds of fun things - anthrax, VX...

The chairman of the independent commission investigating the 9/11 attacks is hinting that he's prepared to place blame at the doorstep of the Bush White House for not acting on evidence that could have prevented the catastrophe. But commission chairman, former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, has yet to examine key evidence indicating that President Clinton knew Osama bin Laden was planning to attack America, but failed to take appropriate action to stop him as the 9/11 operation was being organized. "[9/11] was not something that had to happen," Kean told CBS News on Wednesday, adding that officials in...

<p>Jan O. Karlsson, the Swedish Minister for Migration, has got himself into trouble after calling the American President «that #$$%#! Texas geezer».</p> <p>The rather impolite description of George W. Bush was presented by the Swedish minister during a meeting with the press this week. According to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, Mr. Karlsson called Mr. Bush «that fu**ing Texas geezer». News bureau TT asked Mr. Karlsson if these were in fact his words, and the minister responded: «Well, I have read in the newspaper that I have said something like that, but I can not remember exactly which words I used».</p>

Prez Wannabe Graham Eyeing Evidence That Bush Blew 9/11 Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bob Graham is reportedly sitting on damaging evidence that the Bush administration could have prevented the Sept. 11 attacks - but he hasn't released the information yet because it's classified. "I think Bob Graham has a smoking pistol on the Bush administration," Congressional Quarterly's Craig Crawford told WABC Radio's John Batchelor and Paul Alexander late Tuesday. Crawford explained that Graham's mystery evidence has to do with "their failures, particularly intelligence failures, before 9/11." In recent weeks Sen. Graham, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, has...

WELLINGTON: Anti-war protesters tried to storm the US embassy in New Zealand's capital during a rally on Sunday against a possible American-led war in Iraq, police and demonstrators said. Protesters carrying ladders and mock metal detectors tried to climb over a 2-metre (6-foot) iron gate in front of the embassy compound in Wellington, saying they wanted to check the premises for "weapons of mass destruction owned and operated by the United States." But police who were guarding the embassy hauled them down and arrested 23 demonstrators. "Those protesters who broke the law ... were charged with ... disorder, assault and...