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<p>Moderator note: I know it's going to be tough, but, please watch the calls for violence against this creature.</p> <p>In a demoralizing message to U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq, visiting New York Sen. Hillary Clinton told them that Americans back home are growing increasingly skeptical of President Bush's decision to send them into battle.</p> <p>Describing two meetings with G.I.s over turkey dinners in Baghdad, Sen. Clinton told reporters later that soldiers wanted to know "how the people at home feel about what we are doing."</p>

The bombers dance a jig while Bush just gets shriller, writes Paul McGeough in New York. George Bush sold war against Iraq as a king-hit in the war on terrorism. But just as he and Tony Blair began to strut for the cameras in London this week, the bombers capped off a bloody series of Ramadan attacks with two devastating strikes in Istanbul. In a flash, what was to have been a self-congratulatory tango became another sombre session of "we will not flinch; we will not compromise", this time a bit shriller than the last. In that swaggering way of...

<p>"Massachusetts' highest court ruled Tuesday that same-sex couples are legally entitled to wed under the state constitution," the Associated Press reports. But the court "stopped short of allowing marriage licenses to be issued to the couples who challenged the law." Instead it "ordered the Legislature to come up with a solution within 180 days."</p>

A group of Italian anti-war militants is raising funds to support the armed Iraqi resistance, the BBC has learned. The discovery comes as Italy mourns 19 men killed in a suicide attack in Iraq last week. The "Antiimperialista" organisation's internet campaign asks people to send "10 Euros to the Iraqi resistance". Nineteen Italians were killed in last week's suicide attack in Nasiriya They say they have collected 12,000 euros ($14,165) in the past eight weeks and admit the money used could be used to buy weapons. The Antiimperialistas are a group of European anti-war and anti-globalisation supporters. They are currently...

'War," wrote John Stuart Mill, one of the 19th century's greatest thinkers, "is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. "The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight," Mill continued, "is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." That brings to mind the anti-war crowd – those stumping for the Democratic presidential nomination, those opining on the nation's...

Disunity in the US makes Iraq look like a failure September 02, 2003 Opinion Times of London Amir Taheri The reality isn't grim; but Bush must find a clear strategy to win the peace For the world’s 300 million Shia Muslims, Najaf, a dusty city in central Iraq, is the gateway to paradise: to be buried there is a privilege. Today Ayatollah Muhammad Baqr al-Hakim, one of Iraq’s senior religious leaders, will enjoy that privilege when his mortal remains are laid to rest near the tomb of Ali, the first imam of the faith. Hakim’s death in a terrorist attack...

It was a world exclusive for NBC's Jim Miklaszewski, the only television reporter able to show footage of the devastating attack on a Baghdad hotel that narrowly missed Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.snip... Gary Thatcher, communications chief for the U.S. occupation authority [said,] "Instead of rendering or summoning aid, they focused on gathering video footage of people in agonizingly painful situations . . .snipSays Miklaszewski..."Our impression was that this was an attempt to censor the news. This event shot holes in the administration's insistence that everything was going well in Baghdad."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of more than two dozen House of Representatives Democrats on Monday said they had introduced a resolution urging President Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "This resolution would make official what so many members of Congress already believe -- that the soldiers in Iraq and America's foreign policy would be helped greatly if Donald Rumsfeld would leave," Rep. Charles Rangel of New York said in a statement. Rangel said he so far had 25 co-sponsors to the resolution who were "willing to stand up and say what so many policy makers know, that the...

<p>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday that Democrats will not cede ground to the Bush administration on military issues.</p> <p>"I think that there is a very strong indictment that can be made against the administration for its lack of preparation for postwar Iraq," Pelosi told reporters.</p>

t sounds like the beginning of a political joke: What do you get when you put Moby, a former White House chief of staff and Katrina vanden Heuvel in the same room? What you got on Tuesday night was an unorthodox attempt to combine brains, beauty and star power to focus criticism of the war in Iraq and the White House's foreign policy. The occasion was a screening of a documentary film called "Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War" by Robert Greenwald, a Hollywood producer and director who has spent the last several months interviewing former diplomats, weapons...

Media Aiding Terrorists in Iraq Major media continues to refer the “Iraqi Resistance” when reporting on who might be behind the bombings and attacks on American troops. While it has been said, “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” the goal of these killers has nothing to do with freedom. What they are resisting, is peace, freedom and progress. They attack and kill innocents and relief workers to spread terror and chaos. They bombed the Red Cross and the United Nations headquarters and sabotage oil pipelines, water treatment plants and electric generators. What they are resisting, is truth and...

As Democratic presidential hopefuls escalate their criticism of President Bush's policy on Iraq, we should recognize the constant theme amid their calamitous clamor: obstructionism in the War on Terror. No sooner had they joined with the president in resolving to go after terrorist targets and the corrupt Taliban government in Afghanistan did they begin their handwringing at the prospect that we were about to become bogged down in a quagmire. "We haven't put enough troops on the ground." "We haven't properly trained the Afghan rebels." "We haven't found Osama." Meanwhile, President Bush calmly and deliberately stayed the course, exercising presidential leadership and...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com Wednesday Oct. 29, 2003; 12:12 a.m. ESTMedia Has Blood on its Hands, Iraq GI Tells Rep. King Rep. Peter King, R-NY, delivered a stark message on Tuesday from an unnamed U.S. military officer now stationed in Baghdad who believes negative press coverage of the U.S. war effort has cost American soldiers their lives. While flying back to the U.S. aboard a military transport, King told nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity via satellite phone, "I promised an American colonel yesterday, an Army colonel, that [I'd relay his message]: 'There's blood on the hands of the American media.'"...

ABC Radio News now referring to Terrorists in Iraq who kill our Troops as “Iraqi Resistance” The ABC Radio News, which airs on ABC radio affiliates nationally, is now referring to terrorists in Iraq who are engaged in terror and murder of Iraqi civilians, Iraqi police and politicians, and international troops and diplomats as “Iraqi resistance”. When I heard the airing of the news, a local host who airs a live gardening show at the time of the report was so outraged that even he, a-political, had to comment on the unbelievable anti-American provocation of the news broadcast as soon...

Is Sen. Edward Kennedy the Joe McCarthy of today? Yes, but -- But in my estimation, the comparison does a disservice to McCarthy. McCarthy insisted more communists than Alger Hiss had infiltrated the government but couldn't effectively prove it. We now know in retrospect that there was the basic undercurrent of truth in the Wisconsin senator's charges. But last month, by ignoring the written and spoken record, Kennedy trashed the truth in attacking President Bush on the issue of Iraq. On Sept. 18, the senator said: ''There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January...

When it comes to the future of Iraq, there's not just one Democratic Party; there are three. First, there are the Nancy Pelosi Democrats. These Democrats voted against Paul Bremer's $87 billion plan for the reconstruction of Iraq. The essence of their case is that the Bush administration is too corrupt and incompetent to reconstruct Iraq. If Bush is for it, they're against it. Their hatred for Bush is so dense, it's hard for them to see through it to the consequences of their vote. But if Pelosi's arguments had carried the day, our troops in Iraq would be reading...

PRESS RELEASE... Post-War Iraq Planning Was 'Perfect Storm' of Mistakes and Bad Luck: Weak Intelligence, Wrong Assumptions, Blinders, Poor Coordination Sunday September 28, 10:49 am ET Infighting at State Dept. and Pentagon Prevented U.S. From Taking Control Of A Bad Situation at the Outset NEW YORK, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Newsweek interviews with top government officials involved in the planning and execution of the reconstruction of Iraq point to a "perfect storm" of mistakes and bad luck: wrongheaded assumptions, ideological blinders, weak intelligence and poor coordination by White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice. Much of the damage was done...

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president . . . right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Teddy Roosevelt, 1918 Ever have one of those foreign military adventures when your own foot becomes a better target than the enemy? If the tough-guy act is wearing thin, you can always whine. Faced with well-deserved criticism of their adventure in Iraq, Bush administration officials have started to point fingers -- blaming, variously, the French, the United Nations, al-Qaida, Syria and Saddam Hussein. (Who knew Saddam might...

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getpage.cgi?position=all&page=S11969&dbname=2003_record Mr. BYRD. Will the distinguished majority leader yield? Mr. FRIST. Yes, sir. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from West Virginia. Mr. BYRD. I would rather my leader propounded this question but inasmuch as I am the ranking member of the Appropriations Committee, the reason I hoped all Members would sit—although there is no requirement they have to in the rules, unless the Chair insists on it—we have a problem. I think the full Senate ought to know about it. That is why I have urged Senators sit if they will; then they will be more comfortable. I don’t know...

General Zinni Bashing Bush Iraqi policy on NIGHTLINE