The real scoop on Dubya

June 9, 2003 D. H. McKee
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... George W. Bush is fully aware of how his enemies perceive him, and this is precisely how he wants them to react. His personality and mannerisms are actually the result of deliberate effort. This is not to say that it's all an act, but he does emphasize these elements of his personality for the benefit of the press and general public. And yet these affectations continue to be astonishingly effective; his act still manages to fool even his political opponents, who really ought to know better. After all, the basis of Bush's phenomenal political career has been people's underestimating him.
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Pentagon lied about Iraq WMD?

June 5, 2003 D. H. McKee
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Senior Pentagon officials made a rare appearance in front of the media Wednesday to deny they lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

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Blair welcomes probe into Iraq dossier

June 5, 2003 D. H. McKee
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The prime minister has been criticized since media reports emerged that the government might have punched up the dossier to exaggerate claims that Saddam Hussein would be able to launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.
No one has found any weapons of mass destruction inside Iraq, increasing pressure on the British government to explain the dossier that formed the underpinnings of Blair's decision to go to war.
Last week, BBC Radio quoted a source within the British intelligence community as saying intelligence officers had cast doubt on the validity of the 45-minute reference in the dossier.

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PM tables relaxed pot law

May 27, 2003 D. H. McKee
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The federal government moved today to eliminate criminal penalties for simple possession of marijuana, but promised a tougher line against growers and dealers. Under legislation introduced by Justice Minister Martin Cauchon, possession of up to 15 grams of pot would be a minor offence punishable by a fine.
Youths could face fines of up to $250 for minor possession while adults could be fined $400.
By contrast, the maximum sentence for illicit growers would be boosted to 14 years in prison from the current seven.
The penalty for trafficking would stay the same, with a maximum life sentence.

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Tory MPP ‘flips the bird’

May 13, 2003 D. H. McKee
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A Progressive Conservative MPP gave opposition politicians "the finger" yesterday as debate over the government's controversial budget hit a new low.
Amid allegations of obscenities and heated heckling from the Tory benches during the raucous debate, John O'Toole (Durham) "flipped the bird" at the opposition benches.
He made the coarse gesture after NDP House leader Peter Kormos rose on a point of order during O'Toole's allotted time.

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We went to war just to boost the white male ego

April 30, 2003 D. H. McKee
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The key question remains . why did we go to war? It is not yet answered. In the end, it is likely that a host of responses will produce a cognitive stew, which does, at least, open the way to offering one.s own notion. We went to war, I could say, because we very much needed a war. The US economy was sinking, the market was gloomy and down, and some classic bastions of the erstwhile American faith (corporate integrity, the FBI, and the Catholic Church, to cite but three) had each suffered a separate and grievous loss of face.

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The New McCarthyism

April 24, 2003 D. H. McKee
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They asked if they could come into the apartment. "Do you have a warrant?" Brown asked. "And they said no, they didn't have a warrant, but they wanted to just come in and look around. And I said, 'Sorry, you're not coming in.' "
One of the agents told Brown, "We already know what it is. It's a poster of Bush hanging himself," she recalls. "And I said no, and she was like, 'Well, then, it's a poster with a target on Bush's head,' and I was like, nope."

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The battle for American science

April 17, 2003 D. H. McKee
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Welcome to the new battlegrounds of American science. No conspiracy, nor even one political agenda, links the incidents above. But US scientists say they are indicative of a new climate that has emerged under the Bush administration: one driven partly by close relationships with big business, but just as much by a fiercely moral approach to the business of science. The approach is not exclusively religious, nor exclusively rightwing, but is spreading worry as never before through the nation's laboratories and lecture halls.

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How Bush kicked the [expletive] out of the Geneva Conventions

April 8, 2003 D. H. McKee
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"The people who mistreat the prisoners will be treated as war criminals."
--George W. Bush
And so they should be. That video footage of U.S. soldiers being subjected to a humiliating public display and harsh interrogation -- possibly after beatings -- was disgusting. Iraqi soldiers should respect long-standing norms for treatment of prisoners of war, even though we know better than to expect the same from Saddam Hussein.
But nothing George Bush says on the subject of Geneva Conventions and international legal standards is likely to convince anyone. He has unleashed the greatest onslaught against international law of any U.S. president in living memory. He has torn up arms-control agreements and worked to sabotage the International Criminal Court. In his campaign against terrorism, he has not only flouted the venerable Geneva accords but sought to deny suspects the benefits of the law he is sworn to uphold.

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Freedom Fries Radio

April 7, 2003 D. H. McKee
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Welcome to Freedom Fries Radio on Radio Zuckervati. This station came into being after perusing the list of songs banned during the Gulf War, and 9/11.

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