Halliburton pays Vice President Dick Cheney up to $1,000,000 a year. Halliburton took $6,300,000 in bribes from a Kuwaiti contractor. They refunded this money to the US Army. Halliburton is under investigation for overcharging the US Army $16,000,000 for food. “The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that KBR may have overcharged by more than $16 [...]

A President should take responsibility for his words: State of the Union: 2003 Twelve years ago, Saddam Hussein faced the prospect of being the last casualty in a war he had started and lost. To spare himself, he agreed to disarm of all weapons of mass destruction. For the next 12 years, he systematically violated [...]

“In two weeks, I will send you a budget that funds the war, protects the homeland, and meets important domestic needs, while limiting the growth in discretionary spending to less than 4 percent. This will require that Congress focus on priorities, cut wasteful spending, and be wise with the people’s money. By doing so, we [...]

I thought these ads were funny. And scary. And hopeful. From MoveOn.org’s open contest, Bush In 30 Seconds

Bush Spending Bill $87,5 billion Iraq: $51 billion (57.5%) Target: Saddam Hussein, Baath Party Status: captured, disassembled Afghanistan: $33,5 billion (37.5%) Target: Osama bin Laden, Taliban Status: at large, Taliban active in South Micronesia: $4 billion (5%) Target: Pesky rhesus monkeys Status: still throwing poo at America The Stats are from a PEW Research Group [...]

Um, Bin Laden killed a lot of innocent people and I hear the healthcare’s not so good in Tora Bora. These stats and graphs are from the Pew Research Center. also, French, German and Italian people don’t like minorities. 50% de la France pense que les Nordafricains sont mauvaises. 40% of Germans think Turks are [...]

A Real Plan for Success in Iraq When the President flew out to the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and posed under the banner that read: “mission accomplished,” he made it clear he did not understand the scope of the mission. We need a success strategy. Only success that can honor the sacrifice of so many [...]

Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez said in Baghdad on Tuesday the number of foreign resistance troops was “probably a couple of hundred”… Sanchez also confirmed the detention of 20 men thought to have ties with Usama bin Ladin’s al-Qaida organisation. Al Jazeera The rest of the Article is the opinion of one prof at the University [...]

Milagros Perez, center, whose husband Joel was killed in a helicopter attack in Iraq on Nov. 2, at his funeral in Newark on Monday. (article)

Remarks by the President at the 20th Anniversary of the National Endowment for Democracy United States Chamber of Commerce Washington, D.C. Video and Text I agree that democracy is good and Middle East governments are corrupt, undemocratic, and hostile to human rights. I think that promoting Democracy in Iraq will help reform that entire FUBAR [...]