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I will be taking a break from posting any new statements until after the New Year. Have a happy holiday! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bush's Lies ...Barbra Streisand Posted on December 19, 2005 Bush’s Lies On December 14, 2005 Bush gave a speech concerning the situation we are facing in Iraq. Recently, public support for the war has plummeted (the latest CBS news poll shows that 60% of Americans support decreasing our troop levels or bringing our troops home now) and the President has endured record low approval ratings. Finally the country is beginning to vocalize their anger and disapproval for the dishonest...

Count Ann Coulter among the conservatives who are unhappy with President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. Asked by NewsMax.com if she considers Miers to be what she had called John Roberts after his nomination - a "tabula rasa” - Coulter, who’s now out with the paperback edition of her best-seller "How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must),” said: "No. She’s something new: a complete mediocrity.” Ouch.

The problem is not that his speech Tuesday night failed to quell his critics: The problem is that his speech failed to reassure his worried supporters. Those of us who support this president and this war do not need to be told how important it is to win. That's precisely why we are worried — because every day brings terrible news that makes us fear that the war is being lost. He could have cited the capture of three of the top insurgent leaders over the last three months, including Abed Dawood Suleiman (Abu Musab Zarqawi's top military aide), Muhammad...

Andrew Greeley, the renegade priest-author-sociologist, asks, “How long can Bush get away with lies?” and responds, “As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course. The White House propaganda mill will hail it as another victory for the president and ignore the fact that most Europeans still consider the war dangerous folly and the president a dangerous fool.”Greeley continues, “Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the...