IRAQ ONLY ONE PRIZE

SEA-LEVELS throughout the New American Empire in the Next American Century:: "Iraq Only One 'Prize' in a 'Lifetime' of Wars
Documents Reveal Planning for U.S. Superpower Empire
and Invasion Began Years Ago, Like Set-up for ' 9/11 '
Billions of Dollars in Narcotics Another Goal"

The missing link? Partner of GOPUSA founder has checkered past as Republican moneyman

The Raw Story | A rational voice � The missing link? Partner of GOPUSA founder has checkered past as Republican moneyman: (More; click on link above)

The Raw Story | The real questions about Gannon

The Raw Story | The real questions about Gannon: "HARD JOURNALISM
Real questions about Gannon
Over the past few weeks, quite the scandal has blown up around a �reporter� known for asking particularly Republican-friendly questions in the White House Press Room. The reporter, who went by the name of Jeff Gannon, is actually named James Guckert, and worked for an organization called Talon News. (For ease of identification, I will refer to him as �Gannon.�) After Gannon was linked with several gay websites, he resigned from the notoriously anti-gay Talon, and many of his stories have been pulled from the site. The mess triggered issues that range across the political spectrum, from salacious details of his involvement with the gay escort business to questions of the White House�s relationship with the press." (more; click on link above)

TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA | Top Story

TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA | Top Story: "55 dead in eight Iraq suicide bombings
By MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press Writer
Saturday, February 19th, 2005 " (more... click on link above)

ABC News: Bush Requests $82B for Iraq, Afghan Wars

ABC News: Bush Requests $82B for Iraq, Afghan Wars (click on link above... more)

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Sidney Blumenthal: A hireling, a fraud and a prostitute

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Sidney Blumenthal: A hireling, a fraud and a prostitute: "A hireling, a fraud and a prostitute

Bush's agent in the press corps has given spin a new level of meaning

Sidney Blumenthal
Thursday February 17, 2005
The Guardian " (more... click on link above)

Bush administration blurs media boundary | csmonitor.com

Bush administration blurs media boundary | csmonitor.com: "from the February 17, 2005 edition

Bush administration blurs media boundary

Controversy over a 'journalist' adds to the buzz about message control in capital." (more.. click on link above)

Programs Eliminated or Cut in the 2006 Bush Budget

(Feb. 12) - Here are the 154 programs that President Bush wants to eliminate or cut in his 2006 budget proposal. Bush would terminate 99 programs and make major spending reductions in 55. Separately, the administration listed eight major reforms Bush proposed that also would produce spending cuts.

Of the terminations, Bush has recommended 59 of them before. Twenty-seven of the 55 programs targeted for spending reductions have been previously submitted to Congress.

(to see the list of 154 programs click here)

Bush's State of the Union Address (Full Text; Transcripts)

Bush's State of the Union Address: "Bush's State of the Union Address
Wednesday, February 2, 2005" (more.. click link above)

CBS News | Go Ask Alberto | January 6, 2005�03:30:06

CBS News | Go Ask Alberto | January 6, 2005�03:30:06: "More relevant to me about Gonzales' candidacy is the clemency evaluation work he did on behalf of George W. Bush when the latter was governor of Texas and the former was his counsel. As chronicled brilliantly by Alan Berlow in the Atlantic Monthly magazine in the summer of 2003, Gonzales 'repeatedly failed to apprise Bush of some of the most salient issues' in the dozens and dozens of cases he was asked to evaluate on behalf of the Governor.

'A close examination of the Gonzales memoranda,' Berlow wrote, 'suggests that Governor Bush frequently approved executions based on only the most cursory briefings on the issues in dispute. In fact, in these documents Gonzales repeatedly failed to apprise the governor of crucial issues in the cases at hand, ineffective assistance of counsel, conflict of interest; mitigating evidence; even actual evidence of innocence.' " (more.. click on link above)

Democracy Now! | No Mercy: Gonzales Clemency Memos to Bush Facilitated Texas Executions

Democracy Now! | No Mercy: Gonzales Clemency Memos to Bush Facilitated Texas Executions: "No Mercy: Gonzales Clemency Memos to Bush Facilitated Texas Executions"(more... click on link)

civilrights.org --

civilrights.org -- Printer Friendly: "Gonzales's Clemency Memos Criticized
January 6, 2005

R. Jeffrey Smith
The Washington Post


'In 1995, a one-eyed drifter named Henry Lee Lucas was headed for execution by injection in a Texas prison for the murder of an unnamed woman, one of hundreds he confessed to killing in a crime spree lasting more than a decade. " (more... click on link above)

KR Washington Bureau | 02/02/2005 | Gonzales' fingerprints all over un-American behavior

KR Washington Bureau | 02/02/2005 | Gonzales' fingerprints all over un-American behavior: "Gonzales' fingerprints all over un-American behavior

By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY

Knight Ridder Newspapers


WASHINGTON - President Bush this week gets the attorney general he wanted for his Cabinet, Alberto Gonzales, a longtime Texas friend and his White House counsel during his first term.
Although a president is given wide latitude in choosing his own Cabinet no matter which party controls the Senate, the time may come when the question is asked: Did Republican senators do George Bush any favor when they voted to confirm Gonzales as the nation's chief of law enforcement? " (more.. click on link above)