War of the Quailhawks

Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant, and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president: Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Ammendment, Yale Law School, September 22, 2002


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Declassification in Reverse
The Pentagon and the U.S. Intelligence
Community's Secret Historical Document Reclassification Program
Edited by Matthew M. Aid
For more information contact:
Matthew Aid
William Burr
Meredith Fuchs
Thomas Blanton
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Posted - February 21, 2006

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The problem with American power is not that it is American. The problem is simply the power. It would be dangerous even for an archangel to wield so much power.: Timothy Garton Ash, Oxford historian, New York Times, April 9, 2002

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Jobs Cut at Energy Lab Restored before Bush Visit

President Bush says he wants to diversify the nation's energy mix to end America's dependence on foreign oil, yet some critics are wary of his commitment and point to cutbacks at a government energy laboratory in Golden. The lab helps develop the very renewable energy technologies the president is promoting. Over the weekend, just before Bush's planned visit to the lab on Tuesday, the government restored the jobs.


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The Last Days of the Ocean
NEWS: We're Pushing Our Seas to the Brink. Can They be Saved? A Mother Jones special report.


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The Fate of the Ocean
By Julia Whitty
NEWS: Assaulted by pollution, overfishing, climate change, trash, and noise, our oceans are approaching a point of no return. The health of the world they feed and protect won't be far behind.


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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace: Calgacus


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The Media's Next Quarry
by Russ Baker, TomPaine.com
Now that the press has come alive over the hunting accident, will it investigate the bigger scandals where Cheney plays a central role?


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"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.": Peyton Conway March (1864-1955) US Army General, US Army Chief of Staff during the final year of WWI

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War of the Quailhawks
By Tom Engelhardt
COMMENTARY: How Cheney's hunting mishap puts the Iraq invasion in a new light


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Number Of Iraqi civilians Slaughtered In America's War 100,000 +

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Slaughtered (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War 2276

The War in Iraq Costs $242,303,856,355 See the cost in your community

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Board of Advisors
IAVA PAC