I am sure that the uber right is pissed as hell, but the very hate-filled anti-choose bill has dies the death that all hate bills should.

From the Clarion-Ledger

Mississippi lawmakers left Jackson shortly after 1 p.m., ending a lively 2006 session.

"There’s a time to plant and there’s a time to reap," said House Speaker Billy McCoy. "We don’t think further resolve can come. There’s always a time to shut her down, and that time is now."

In the three-month session, a $4.5 billion budget was approved, along with pay raises for state workers and college professors.

Measure that could not pass both chambers included a ban on more abortions, limiting government’s ability to condemn property and a tax swap to raise the tax on cigarettes and lower the tax on groceries.

A last-minute effort to pass $22 million in bonds for access roads to Chevron’s Pascagoula plant also failed to gain support during the final day of debate.

Well it looks like Kaloogian has changed his photo on his web site of the peaceful streets of Baghdad. He, like most of the right-wing nuts out there so want you to think that Iraq is doing great. So Kaloogian’s new photo, Baghdad at like 3000 feet.

Here is his new Image…

Mr. Kaloogian, sorry dude but you are not going to convince poeple that Baghdad is so great at this altatude. Fact is hell looks great at 3000 feet.

Mr. Kaloogian is like the rest of the Republican party, dishonest.

In case you forget this is the original photo here it is…

and here it is on the site, less we forget that it was on the site, we have that as well

if you want to see it in full size click here.

While our "President" was holding hands with the leaders of the nation that sent us most of the 9/11 hijackers, they have also been secretly building a Nuclear program, with the help of our other friends, the Pakistanis, Thanks Bush, and thank you Republican shills in Congress for allowing him to get away with murder, real live murder!

From AFX News via Forbes

Saudi Arabia is working secretly on a nuclear program, with help from Pakistani experts, the German magazine Cicero reported in its latest edition, citing Western security sources.

It says that during the Haj pilgrimages to Mecca in 2003 through 2005, Pakistani scientists posed as pilgrims to come to Saudi Arabia.

Between October 2004 and January 2005, some of them slipped off from pilgrimages, sometimes for up to three weeks, the report quoted German security expert Udo Ulfkotte as saying.

According to Western security services, the magazine added, Saudi scientists have been working since the mid-1990s in Pakistan, a nuclear power since 1998. Cicero, which will appear on newstands tomorrow, also quoted a US military analyst, John Pike, as saying that Saudi bar codes can be found on half of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons ‘because it is Saudi Arabia which ultimately co-financed the Pakistani atomic nuclear program.’

Yah! Under Bush, more people got nukes than ever before. Maybe we should look into the ties of the Bush family and Nuclear material, I am sure there has to be a "Bush’s Nukes-R-Us" somewhere.

From Truthout

It may seem as though it’s been moving along at a snail’s pace, but the second part of the federal investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is nearly complete, with attorneys and government officials who have remained close to the probe saying that a grand jury will likely return an indictment against one or two senior Bush administration officials.

These sources work or worked at the State Department, the CIA and the National Security Council. Some of these sources are attorneys close to the case. They requested anonymity because they were not permitted to speak publicly about the details of the investigation.

In lengthy interviews over the weekend and on Monday, they said that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has started to prepare the paperwork to present to the grand jury seeking an indictment against White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove or National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley.

Although the situation remains fluid, it’s possible, these sources said, that Fitzgerald may seek to indict both Rove and Hadley, charging them with perjury, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy related to their roles in the leak of Plame Wilson’s identity and their effort to cover up their involvement following a Justice Department investigation.

There is more, you should go and read now…

No joke, the self-hating gay (allegedly) that runs the Republican Party was sent this memo from Jan van Lohuizen (I am guessing the alleged fag hag?) warning Republicans that is the question Bush, they question the GOP and if they lose, it is all their fault.

Memorandum
To: Ken Mehlman
From: Jan van Lohuizen
Date: March 3, 2006
Re: Bush — Congressional Republicans

Per our conversation, we took another look at the way voters, Republicans specifically, link President Bush and Republicans in the House and the Senate. There are several points worth making:

1. President Bush continues to have the strong loyal support of Republican voters. Despite slippage in approval ratings among all voters, the President’s job approval among Republicans continues to be very high. Most members will be elected with between 80% and 100% of their support coming from Republicans. I don’t see that Republicans driving a wedge between themselves and the President is a good election strategy.

2. My read of the current environment is that our problem will be turnout. ‘06 could become an election like ‘82 or ‘84. In ‘82 Republicans showed up at relatively normal turnout rates, while Democrats, because they were angry, showed up at abnormally high turnout rates. In ‘94, Republican turnout was elevated, while Democratic turnout was depressed. We have every reason to believe ‘06 could become the inverse of ‘82. We don’t see signs of a depressed Republican turnout yet, but we have every reason to believe Democrats will turn out in high numbers. Anything we do to depress turnout, by not running as a unified party for instance, could very well lead to serious consequences in November.

3. The President is seen universally as the face of the Republican Party. We are now brand W. Republicans. The following chart shows the extremely close correlation between the President’s image and overall ratings of the party.

President Bush drives our image and will do so until we have real national front-runners for the ‘08 nomination. Attacking the President is counter productive for all Republicans, not just the candidates launching the attacks. If he drops, we all drop.

I thought this story was great, and it is ALL thanks to the Reublicans and their leader "President" George W Bush…

From the AFP via Yahoo. Bolds are mine.

Tick, 20,000 dollars, tock, another 20,000 dollars.

So rapid is the rise of the US national debt, that the last four digits of a giant digital signboard counting the moving total near New York’s Times Square move in seemingly random increments as they struggle to keep pace.

The national debt clock, as it is known, is a big clock. A spot-check last week showed a readout of 8.3 trillion — or more precisely 8,310,200,545,702 — dollars … and counting.

But it’s not big enough.

Sometime in the next two years, the total amount of US government borrowing is going to break through the 10-trillion-dollar mark and, lacking space for the extra digit such a figure would require, the clock is in danger of running itself into obsolescence.

The clock’s owner, real estate developer Douglas Durst, knew such a problem could arise but hadn’t counted on it so soon.

"We really expected it to be quite some time," Durst told AFP. "But now, with the pace of debt growth only increasing, we’re looking at maybe two years and certainly before President (George W.) Bush leaves office in 2009."  

Thanks Bush and your Republican asses, I want to send a personal thank you for screwing us all, god knows you will leave office and if you are not arrested for war crimes, I am sure you will sleep well on your pile of cash, while the rest of America struggles to clean up your mess. There is a special place in hell for you people.

This is funny as hell, we all know that most of the GOP is nothing but an bunch of liars, and here is more.

Howard Kaloogian, Republican shill out of CA wants to belive that this image is downtown Baghdad. Now we all know that the corrupt Republicans would love for you to think that everything is going great in Iraq, but the fact is that is not true. So the GOP is resorting to using images from somewhere else all together to make you think this is Baghdad.  It is not, it is Istanbul, Turkey.

Just look around, every single sign is in ROMAN characters, Iraq used Arabic script, Turkey on the other hand, uses Roman (for my dumb GOP readers, English also used Roman Characters).

See the red sign 2.Noter, that is the sign for a "2nd Notary Public", this is how you see them in Turkey. 

Take a look just below the Notary sign, “edo” is an Ice cream shop, and according to EDO’s Website… We found this blurb about them in the English Language Turkish Press

The taste for products of Turkish origin is becoming widespread around the world. The Inalbars family, who have been icecream makers for 155 years, are preparing to open shops selling Edo icecream in Israel, Egypt and Japan; the family already has 18 such branches in Turkey. Edo’s target for the year 2000 is to open 4 branches abroad

Now, lets move to the other side of the image, see the little brown van, with the brown man in brown shorts and an brown shirt, think brown, and wonder, Does UPS really drive around in Baghdad, I would say HELL NO!

Move to the right a little, and you will see a small yellow sign under the billboard, that sign says "carsi" (market or bazaar) and the blue one under it is "alis" (first part of the word "alisveris" = shopping, as in "alisveris merkezi" = "shopping center") are not EVER used in Arabic, why would you advert your shopping center in a text that is not red in Iraq? Lets look past the way the girl is dressed, and the Taxi is a tipical turkish cab.

In short, Howard Kaloogian is one of 2 things, dumb, or a liar. Even worst, he thinks you are dumb too.

So this leads to some questions,

Does Kaloogian even know where Iraq is, or is he such a shill that he will buy anything the GOP gives him?
Has he ever even been to Iraq, as he claims on his site? I am not so sure really.
Given that everything points to this image not being from Baghdad, do you want a person willing to (I will be nice) misrepresent the truth represent you in Congress?

For the Record, here is what he has as the caption of the image…

Downtown Baghdad
We took this photo of dowtown Baghdad while we were in Iraq.  Iraq (including Baghdad) is much more calm and stable than what many people believe it to be.  But, each day the news media finds any violence occurring in the country and screams and shouts about it - in part because many journalists are opposed to the U.S. effort to fight terrorism.

UPDATE: Card will be replaced by Josh Bolten, current budget director and former deputy White House chief of staff.

UPDATE II: The AP has now picked-up the story, and here it is.

WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff Andy Card has resigned and will be replaced by budget director Josh Bolten, an administration official said Tuesday.

President Bush was expected to announce the shake up during a meeting with reporters with reporters later Tuesday morning in the Oval Office of the White House.

The move comes amid a sharp decline in Bush’s approval ratings and calls from Republicans for the president to bring in new aides with fresh ideas and new energy.

Card came to Bush recently and suggested that he should step down from the job that he has held from the first day of Bush’s presidency, said the administration official.

Bush decided during a weekend stay at Camp David, Md., to accept Card’s resignation and to name Bolten as his replacement, said the source who spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not want to pre-empt the president.

Bolten is widely experienced in Washington, both on Capitol Hill as well as at the White House, where he was deputy chief of staff before becoming director of the Office of Management and Budget.

I will be the first to say that the Dems have done very little to really stand up and kick the shit out of the Republicans while they are down, but this is still great news. From the DNC Website

A few interesting notes from Time Magazine’s most recent profile of the 2006 midterm election landscape. First, there are the numbers:

Time. 1,003 Adult Americans. March 22-23, 2006. MoE +/- 3%

Which party would do a better job of rebuilding New Orleans and the Gulf Coast?

Democrats: 48%
Republicans: 21%

Standing up to special interests?

Democrats: 40%
Republicans: 22%

Managing government spending?
Democrats: 46%
Republicans: 31%

Dealing with corruption?
Democrats: 39%
Republicans: 25%

Protecting the rights of Americans:
Democrats: 48%
Republicans: 35%

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the poll also shows that a majority of Americans believe the Republican Party does not have a clear set of policies for the country. Of course, the Democratic Party does have a clear plan:

1. American jobs that will stay in America, using energy independence to generate those jobs.

2. A strong national defense based on telling the truth to our citizens, our soldiers and our allies.

3. Honesty and integrity to be restored to government.

4. A health care system that works for everybody just like they have in 36 other countries.

5. A strong public education system so we can have optimism and opportunity back in America.

The article also talks about something we discussed late last week, Republicans fleeing from the adminstration on it’s course, but quickly embracing the president for his ability to raise cash. Not much new here, just a few funny quotes:

Considering that Vice President Dick Cheney had come a long way to help Florida Congressman Ric Keller raise $250,000 last week, the reception he got in the Sunshine State could have been a bit warmer. After extolling Cheney as "one of the most effective Vice Presidents in the history of the U.S.," Keller launched into all the times he had recently opposed the Bush Administration, including the deal to allow a Dubai company to manage operations at several U.S. ports. And then Keller went right for the punch line: "’Don’t be too hasty,’" he claimed the Vice President had pleaded with him. "’Let’s go hunting. We’ll talk about it.’"

The Vice President might have no business on American Idol, but maybe an evening at the Improv would suit him better.

Read for yourself.. (Bolds are Mine)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060309-8.html

President’s Statement on H.R. 199, the "USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005"

Today, I have signed into law H.R. 3199, the "USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005," and then S. 2271, the "USA PATRIOT Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006." The bills will help us continue to fight terrorism effectively and to combat the use of the illegal drug methamphetamine that is ruining too many lives.

The executive branch shall construe the provisions of H.R. 3199 that call for furnishing information to entities outside the executive branch, such as sections 106A and 119, in a manner consistent with the President’s constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch and to withhold information the disclosure of which could impair foreign relations, national security, the deliberative processes of the Executive, or the performance of the Executive’s constitutional duties.

The executive branch shall construe section 756(e)(2) of H.R. 3199, which calls for an executive branch official to submit to the Congress recommendations for legislative action, in a manner consistent with the President’s constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch and to recommend for the consideration of the Congress such measures as he judges necessary and expedient.

GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

March 9, 2006.

# # #

So, Bush is saying that he sees the part of the Bill that makes him give a report to the congress BY LAW, oversite, and this administration will have none of that. He has told congress to stick it in thier ass.

Thomas Paine’s Corner has a great post written by Dr. Steve Jonas, and I think you should go read it too. While there are many many people see a real Hitler / Bush sameness, the writer says that we are wrong, and that there are are 17 points that are not the same…

In the United States a controversy rumbles with increasing intensity: are comparisons claiming that George Bush and Adolf Hitler have much in common valid? I would like to weigh in on the side that holds such comparisons indeed are not valid, for the following 17 reasons.

1. Bush had two Time covers, Hitler only one.

2. Hitler obtained an explicit Constitutional Amendment in the German Reichstag, the Enabling Act, to establish his dictatorial powers.

Bush is creating his dictatorial powers not by obtaining a Constitutional Amendment, which is rather more difficult to secure under the US Constitution than under the German Weimar Constitution of Hitler’s time. Rather, to start with he is using a creative reading of the US Constitution as to what the term “Commander-in-Chief” means. Then, he is broadly interpreting a particular (“use of force”) resolution of Congress — one that has no language establishing a dictatorship and refers specifically to one foreign country, Afghanistan — and an act of Congress, the USA “Patriot Act” that, itself, violates the Constitution by vitiating the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments. On March 23, 2006, for example, he noted upon signing the renewal of the Patriot Act, passed at his very strong behest, that he would not abide with all of its provisions for reporting by the Executive Branch to the Congress. Nevertheless, unlike Hitler Bush is proceeding one step at a time to establish his dictatorship rather than doing it at one swell foop.

3. To obtain the 2/3s majority needed in the Reichstag to obtain passage of the Enabling Act, Hitler had his private Army, the Sturmabteiliung (“Storm Division,” S.A.) arrest all the Communist deputies who had not left the country when Hitler became Chancellor on Jan. 30, 1933 and immediately began hunting down the Communist leadership, arrested or forced the emigration of certain Socialist deputies, had all the Nazi deputies dress in S.A. uniforms at the time of the vote, and ringed the hall with other S.A. men.

Bush already has a majority of both Houses of Congress (some possibly elected fraudulently, as he was), his majority in the House of Representatives solidified by an un-Constitutional redistricting in Texas. With two possible exceptions, neither Bush nor any of his supporters directly or indirectly killed any opposition legislators nor did he force any to emigrate.

4. Hitler used the Reichstag Fire to create a “national emergency” enabling him to obtain dictatorial powers from the Reichstag. He produced documents purporting to show that the German Communist Party set the fire. These were later proven to be forgeries. The fire was clearly set by a deranged person acting alone, as the Berlin police had told Hitler at the time. Hitler just took advantage of an event he clearly had nothing to do with.

The book is far from closed on Bush and 9/11. Bush may have just used it, but there is suspicion in many quarters that he either knew something was coming and let it happen, or even played an active part in creating the tragedy.

5. For Hitler, the Weimar Constitution had an Emergency Powers clause for the President (although not the Chancellor). Pres. Hindenburg invoked it even before the passage of the Enabling Act.

For Bush, there is no existing Emergency Powers clause in the US Constitution. He just made one up with his interpretation of the Commander-in-Chief clause that matches no previous interpretation of that clause. He gave himself powers that the rest of the Constitution is designed to prevent the acquisition of by the President, built as it is around the concept of “checks and balances" between the three branches of government.

6. The primary racial targets of the both Bush and Hitler are of Semitic origin. But there the similarity ends. For Hitler it was the Jews. For Bush the target is being developed, but does include at least some Arab members of the Muslim religion, the object of burgeoning Islamophobia. Arabs are indeed Semites.

7. Hitler came to power with a small, under-armed national military, the Reichswehr. He built it into what for a time became the world’s most powerful military, the Wehrmacht. Bush started out with the world’s most powerful military and is in the process of running it into the ground.

8. Hitler, upon taking power, established a government Ministry of Propaganda. The Georgites “buy news” at home and abroad, but that’s a small-scale if growing operation. True to their ideology, their MoP is privatized, through thousands of right-wing religious radio and TV stations, the hundreds of right-wing radio and TV talk show hosts, the Fox"News”Channel, and their “semi-official” (as they say of Al-Ahram in Egypt and the New China News Agency) newspaper, the Washington Times.

9. Hitler’s first foreign military adventure, the re-militarization of the Rhineland in 1936, was a success; as were his second, his intervention in the Spanish Civil War beginning in 1937; his third, the annexation of Austria (the “Anschluss”) in March 1938; his fourth, the annexation of the Czech Sudetenland in Sept. 1938; his fifth, the conquest of the balance of Czechoslovakia with the establishment of a separate fascist Slovakia in March, 1939; his sixth, the conquest of Poland in Sept., 1939; and his seventh, the conquest of France, the Low Countries, Denmark and Norway, in the late Spring of 1940. His unbeaten success streak ended with these “Lucky Seven.” His eighth and ninth foreign military adventures, the Battle of Britain, late 1940, and the invasion of the Soviet Union, June 1941, eventually lead to his overall defeat.

Bush’s first foreign military adventure, the War on Iraq, is a disaster-in-the-making on a variety of dimensions, and may become a major factor in the downfall of Georgitism, if that eventually happens.

10. Hitler had a muddled approach to religion. He was born a Catholic. Early on in his reign he made an arrangement with the Catholic Church to leave them alone if they left him alone. His own religious beliefs, however, are quite uncertain. He did use the slogan “Gott Mit Uns” (God is with us) for his military. He had strong support among the old-line Protestant clergy in Germany. He appealed to Christians across the board for his attacks, rhetorical and real, on “Godless Communism,” and to many Christians with his rampant anti-Semitism transformed into official policy. But there was also the Nazi “Religion of the Blood,” which harked back to the paganism of the German/Nordic founding myths. Confusing to say the least.

Bush is totally politically loyal to and personally believes in U.S. Right-Wing Christian Fundamentalism. He believes “God”, as defined by this movement, is personally guiding him. He may well believe in "innerantism" (that is that a particular English translation — the "King James version" of a Latin translation of a Greek translation of a Hebrew translation of an Aramaic/classical-Hebrew text for the Old Testament and a Greek text for the new, known to have been written by many hands [literally], hand-copied through the ages by hundreds if not thousands of scribes, is the literal "word of God," and he may be a millenialist. But pagan certainly not and personally believing at one time or another in both of the two major streams of Christianity that have been at each other’s throats on and off for the last 500 years, certainly not.

11. Hitler created a concentration camp system almost immediately upon taking power. Bush may be only just now starting one.

12. Hitler faced the worst Depression the world had ever known. Principally by massive re-arming, he got German industry to spend its hoarded capital and achieved a decent economic turnaround.

Bush took a flourishing economy with a Federal budget surplus and a declining national debt and put them into reverse, all the while strongly encouraging the export of US capital, not its investment at home.

13. Hitler left the League of Nations. Bush can say only that the man he sent to the United Nations to represent the United States has only advocated so doing.

14. Hitler’s foreign policy was complex: driven by anti-Semitism, anti-Slavism, the drive for more farmland, the destruction of Soviet Communism, rivalry with the British and French overseas empires. To deal with Communism, until 9/1/39 he had the covert support of the UK and to a lesser extent France. His foreign policy also focused on the acquisition of adequate oil supplies, primarily to support the German military.

Bush’s foreign policy is largely driven by oil, but unlike Hitler, the motivation is the drive for ever-increasing oil company profits. Georgite foreign policy is also driven by the ever-intensifying drive by major U.S. corporations to export capital, the needs of the Israeli Right, and some vague campaign to establish U.S. “hegemony” around the world. The UK is an ally; France is not.

15. Hitler used both psychological and physical terror to cement his dictatorial powers. Bush so far has used only psychological terror at home (although it appears as if he is training a cadre of physical terror practitioners abroad for possible future use at home).

16. Hitler dealt with his principal rivals/enemies within his own Party by killing them (most notably on the “Night of the Long Knives,” June 30, 1934.) So far Bush has dealt with his internal enemies only by doing things like threatening to cut off their campaign funds.

17. Hitler acquired support from major German industrialists after his Party had announced their platform/ideology and had begun to implement it, beginning in the 1920s. (Foreign industrialists also formed part of Hitler’s early core of support. A George Bush great-grandfather, George Herbert Walker, began providing financial aid to the him in 1924.) Hitler came first; his industrialist support came second. Bush is the creation of major U.S. industrial interests.

So, there are obviously significant differences between Bush and Hitler. Indeed, based on the examples in this list, Bush is not Hitler. In fact, compared with Hitler, Bush is something of a piker. Yes, one must conclude that such comparisons are totally unfair — to Hitler.

Well worth a read, from HNN… (bolds are mine)

President Bush has given Commander-in-Chief Bush unlimited wartime authority. But the "war on terror" is more a metaphor than a fact. Terrorism is a method, not an ideology; terrorists are criminals, not warriors. No peace treaty can possibly bring an end to the fight against far-flung terrorists. The emergency powers of the president during this "war" can now extend indefinitely, at the pleasure of the president and at great threat to the liberties and rights guaranteed us under the Constitution.

When President Nixon covertly subverted checks and balances 30 years ago during the Vietnam War, Congress passed laws making clear that presidents were not to engage in unconstitutional behavior in the interest of "national security." Then Congress was reacting to violation of Fourth Amendment protections against searches and seizures without judicial warrants establishing "probable cause," attempts to assassinate foreign leaders and surveillance of American citizens.

Now the Iraq war is being used to justify similar abuses. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, providing constitutional means to carry out surveillance, and the Intelligence Identification Protection Act, protecting the identity of undercover intelligence agents, have both been violated by an administration seeking to restore "the legitimate authority of the presidency," as Cheney puts it.

The presidency possesses no power not granted to it under the Constitution. The powers the current administration seeks in its "war on terror" are not granted under the Constitution. Indeed, they are explicitly prohibited by acts of Congress.

The Founding Fathers, who always come to mind when the Constitution is in danger, anticipated just such a possibility. Writing in the Federalist Papers, James Madison defined tyranny as the concentration of powers in one branch of the government.

"The great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department," Madison wrote in Federalist 51, "consists in giving to those who administer each department, the necessary constitutional means, and personal motives, to resist encroachments of the others."

Warming to his subject, Madison continued, "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition;" the interest of the office holders must "be connected with the constitutional rights of the place."

It is time to take back America people. If you love America, I mean truly love America, you will vote Democrat this November. Restore checks-and-balances before Bush ruins America to the point that we have to scrap it. You don’t have to love the Dems, but you have to vote for them, the current Republicans have shown that they are unwilling to apply ANY oversite to Bush. Under the Republicans Congress is gone, they are nothing more than a rubber-stamp for Bush’s agenda to distroy America. Vote Dem 2006 - Your Nation Needs You.

This is still developing, but RAWSTORY has leared… (bolds are Mine)

The New York Times is planning an article on a secret memo from January 2003 that "sheds light on the buildup and decision-making process before the invasion of Iraq," RAW STORY has learned.

The article, written by Don Van Natta Jr., most likely addresses the Jan. 31, 2003 memorandum which was leaked to a British author and referenced in February of this year. It is unknown whether or not The New York Times was able to obtain a copy of the secret memo, and it remains possible that the Times has acquired a different memo.

According to an article on the memo published by the Guardian in February, "Mr Bush made it clear the US intended to invade whether or not there was a second UN resolution and even if UN inspectors found no evidence of a banned Iraqi weapons programme."

"The diplomatic strategy had to be arranged around the military planning", The Guardian reported that Bush told Blair. The prime minister is said to have raised no objection. He is quoted as saying he was "solidly with the president and ready to do whatever it took to disarm Saddam".

The memo is also said to reveal that President Bush suggested "flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft planes with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours," in order to provoke Saddam to shoot on them, therefore putting Iraq in breach of United Nations resolutions.

The memo was first obtained by Philippe Sands, a professor of international law at a British university, who wrote about it in an updated edition of his book, Lawless World.

So we were going to war with Iraq, and Bush knew that there was no WMDs, He Lied to the American people in order to go to war. He LIED TO THE AMERICANS PEOPLE, is this what we want in a "President" a liar and murderer?

In short, Bush said, “Thanks Congress for this bill, now go to hell if you think I am going to follow it.”

From the Boston Globe

When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was using the act’s expanded police powers.

The bill contained several oversight provisions intended to make sure the FBI did not abuse the special terrorism-related powers to search homes and secretly seize papers. The provisions require Justice Department officials to keep closer track of how often the FBI uses the new powers and in what type of situations. Under the law, the administration would have to provide the information to Congress by certain dates.

Bush signed the bill with fanfare at a White House ceremony March 9, calling it ”a piece of legislation that’s vital to win the war on terror and to protect the American people." But after the reporters and guests had left, the White House quietly issued a ‘’signing statement," an official document in which a president lays out his interpretation of a new law.

In the statement, Bush said that he did not consider himself bound to tell Congress how the Patriot Act powers were being used and that, despite the law’s requirements, he could withhold the information if he decided that disclosure would ”impair foreign relations, national security, the deliberative process of the executive, or the performance of the executive’s constitutional duties."

Bush wrote: ”The executive branch shall construe the provisions . . . that call for furnishing information to entities outside the executive branch . . . in a manner consistent with the president’s constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch and to withhold information . . . "

The statement represented the latest in a string of high-profile instances in which Bush has cited his constitutional authority to bypass a law.

Of ever there was a reason to call your congress person (you have 1 House Member, and 2 Senators), you can reach them all by calling the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. CALL THEM NOW PLEASE, DEMAND THAT THEY DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS NOW.

It is nice to know that the apple does not fall far from the tree. Barbara Bush, former First Lady, and mother of the current “President” gave money to the Bush [Sr.] / Clinton Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund. I think that is great that she has given some of their vast funds to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, especially in light of the fact that her son do willfully let them down.

Oh but wait, there is more to this…

When she gave this money to the Bush/Clinton Hurricane Fund, she demanded that it be earmarked, meaning she told them how the money could be spent. Want to know how it has to be spent. She said the money had to be spend on educational software that is made by her son Neal Bush. That is right folks, she DONATED money to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, were they allowed to buy food, Nope, Water, Not a drop, clothing, toys, medication, no, no and no… She demanded that it be spent on educational software that is made by her son Neil.

So she gets a tax deduction, her son gets money, and she gets to run around and say, “I donated cash to help the victims”. These poor people do not need your failure of a son’s software (Neil Bush was part of Silverado Savings and Loan, it costs the American taxpayer $400 - $600 Million to bail it out) they needed healthcare and a place to live.

This is sick, the Bush folks are SO corrupt that they can not even donate money to a cause without making sure that they some how get paid.

You can real all about this on the Houston Cronical Site