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Bush--Index 26
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April 19, 2006 The 10-track set, called Living with War, was recorded this month by a "power trio" – electric guitar, bass and drums – plus trumpet and a 100-member choir, the Canadian-born musician announced on his website. April 19, 2006 "Current and former American military and intelligence officials" tell Hersh "that President Bush is determined to deny the Iranian regime the opportunity to begin a pilot program, planned for this spring, to enrich uranium." Of course, uranium enrichment for peaceful atomic energy is permitted by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which Iran is a signatory. Which is what the Iranians say they're doing. But the Bush Administration, which knows a little about lying, doesn't believe them. April 19, 2006 U.S. light crude for May delivery spiked to $71.79, a new intraday high, just following the report's release, but later fell back and traded at $71.14 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, down 21 cents from Tuesday's record $71.35 closing high. Oil was off 45 cents just before the government report. April 19, 2006 April 17, 2006 London's Brent crude was up 16 cents at $72.67 a barrel at 1449 GMT after peaking at a fresh record of $73.34. April 10, 2006 Edwards, a former Democratic vice-presidential candidate, was campaigning for legislative candidates in Iowa this past weekend. April 17, 2006 "It will continue to climb beyond $3, and most likely will stay there in May and June," said Bernard Baumohl, executive director at The Economic Outlook Group LLC in Princeton Junction, N.J. U.S. consumers are now paying on average $2.72 for a gallon of gasoline, according to AAA's daily fuel gauge report. That's up more than 45 cents from a year ago. April 15, 2006 "I believe that at the refinery supplier level the cost the wholesalers pay to refinery suppliers is excessive in some cases," said Richard Maxedon, executive director of the Kentucky Petroleum Marketers Association, pointing to Exxon-Mobil's record $36.1 billion in profits last year. April 15, 2006 It should come as no surprise that refiners are making lots of money; after all, Exxon Mobil Corp. posted more profit in 2005 than any corporation in history. The trend, it appears, is continuing. April 15, 2006 April 17, 2006 Bush didn't stop there. He issued an all-points bulletin requesting help for the prosecutor. "And if people have got solid information, please come forward with it. And that would be people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous sources, or people outside the information -- outside the administration. And we can clarify this thing very quickly if people who have got solid evidence would come forward and speak out. And I would hope they would." The day before, the president had sent out his press secretary, Scott McClellan, to announce that involvement in this incident would be a firing offense: "If anyone in this administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this administration." Last week, however, in a filing in his perjury and obstruction of justice case against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, Fitzgerald revealed that Libby had been authorized by the president and vice president to leak parts of the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to reporters. April 17, 2006 April 14, 2006 Nonetheless, several days later Rumsfeld revoked the harsher interrogation methods, apparently responding to military lawyers who had raised concerns that they may constitute cruel and unusual punishment or torture. April 13, 2006 "We interviewed women in the country and met with local NGOs dealing with gender issues to develop this survey, which asked questions about the quality of women's life and respect for their rights," said Senar Muhammad, president of Baghdad-based NGO Woman Freedom Organisation. "The results show that women are less respected now than they were under the previous regime, while their freedom has been curtailed." April 13, 2006 April 13, 2006 Forty-eight percent said they would support military action against Iran if it continues to produce material that can be used to develop a nuclear bomb, down from 57 percent in January. Forty percent oppose military action, up from 33 percent in January. April 17, 2006 PRINCETON, NJ -- American opposition to the war in Iraq appears to have steadied, with clear majorities saying that it was a mistake to send U.S. troops there, and that the United States will not win and should withdraw at least some, if not all, of its troops. Public approval of the way President George W. Bush has been handling the situation in Iraq is tied at the lowest level measured by Gallup. These findings come from the latest USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted April 7-9, 2006. It shows that 57% of Americans think the United States will not win in Iraq, including 21% who think the U.S. can win but will not. April 17, 2006 PRINCETON, NJ -- Public approval of the job Congress is doing has dipped to its lowest level of 2006, and is now the worst Gallup has recorded since the closing days of the Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994. April 10, 2006 Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, who retired in late 2002, also called for replacing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and "many others unwilling to fundamentally change their approach." He is the third retired senior officer in recent weeks to demand that Mr. Rumsfeld step down. April 12, 2006 U.S. defense spending is rising faster than expected -- confounding experts' who predicted a slowdown -- and rumors of cuts to big programs have not turned into reality. Allied with a boom in commercial aerospace, the profit outlook for defense contractors has never looked more robust. April 4, 2006 April 12, 2006 In its monthly accounting of the government's books, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday that federal spending totaled $250 billion last month, up 13.7 percent from March 2005. April 12, 2006 But when the president made this decision in the summer of 2003, his immediate goals apparently were to punish former ambassador Joseph Wilson for revealing that the White House had ginned up the case for war and to once again misinform the public about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's regime. These two goals were to serve the ultimate objective: concealing how the administration had misused prewar intelligence to sell Americans on an invasion of Iraq. April 11, 2006 The records show that Bush campaign operative James Tobin, who recently was convicted in the case, made two dozen calls to the White House within a three-day period around Election Day 2002 — as the phone jamming operation was finalized, carried out and then abruptly shut down. April 12, 2006 Despite U.N. trade sanctions, Iraq was pumping more than 2.5 million barrels a day then with plans underway to boost output to nearly three million barrels by the end of 2003. Oil Ministry sources, refusing to be named, said the Ministry's efforts to boost output have failed with technicians even fearing further slumps in production. April 11, 2006 The government's monitoring of anti-war protestors, including protests against the Military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, was first reported by the blog Coffee House Soapbox "The very idea that the federal government believes freedom of speech is a threat to national security is unconscionable," Steve Ralls, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's Director of Communications told PageOneQ today. "The Pentagon has acknowledged that collection of the information was perhaps inappropriate," Mr. Ralls said as he cited an earlier report by United Press International on the Pentagon's admission. April 11, 2006 "They are seen by the country as being in charge of a government that can't function," he said in an interview last week. "We could lose control this fall." Gingrich cited a series of blunders under Republican rule, from failures in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to mismanagement of the war in Iraq. April 11, 2006 "It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003," Gingrich said during a question-and-answer session at the school. "We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it." April 11, 2006 The survey found voters' sour mood extended to Congress, which had an even lower approval rating than the president. And those surveyed gave the most pessimistic assessment of the country's general direction than any recorded since 1992. April 9, 2006 April 11, 2006 Marie Fernandez, a spokeswoman for Saving Children From War, blamed a shortage of medical supplies and equipment for the higher mortality rates. She said that water-born diseases are becoming increasingly common. April 11, 2006 "We have to admit, this city is getting worse everyday in regard to the quality of life," said Fadia Ibraheem, a senior official at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. "As long as US troops remain, the city will continue to deteriorate." April 11, 2006 April 10, 2006 March 16, 2006 April 10, 2006 April 10, 2006 April 10, 2006 April 7, 2006 April 9, 2006 So what is to be done? We need fresh ideas and fresh faces. That means, as a first step, replacing Rumsfeld and many others unwilling to fundamentally change their approach. The troops in the Middle East have performed their duty. Now we need people in Washington who can construct a unified strategy worthy of them. It is time to send a signal to our nation, our forces and the world that we are uncompromising on our security but are prepared to rethink how we achieve it. It is time for senior military leaders to discard caution in expressing their views and ensure that the President hears them clearly. And that we won't be fooled again. April 10, 2006 As often the case in Post editorials related to Iraq, reporting in the newspaper proves that much of the above is pure hogwash. This reality checking usually doesn't happen the very same day, however. April 10, 2006 April 9, 2006 What makes this latest revelation important is that if Libby's claim is correct, it means the president has lied about his role, both to Fitzgerald's federal investigators, and to the American people. The former act--lying to a federal agent--could be a federal crime even though the president was not under oath. The latter--lying to the American people--was voted out of the House Judiciary Committee as an impeachable offense in the case of President Richard Nixon, and was one of the counts approved by the full House of Representatives against President Bill Clinton. While not a statutory crime, Congress has long held that lying to the public can be a "high crime" meriting of impeachment under the Constitution. April 9, 2006 But a week earlier, in an interview in his State Department office, Mr. Powell told three other reporters for The Times that intelligence agencies had essentially rejected that contention, and were "no longer carrying it as a credible item" by early 2003, when he was preparing to make the case against Iraq at the United Nations. April 17, 2006 (issue) The attention given to the nuclear option has created serious misgivings inside the offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he added, and some officers have talked about resigning. Late this winter, the Joint Chiefs of Staff sought to remove the nuclear option from the evolving war plans for Iran—without success, the former intelligence official said. "The White House said, 'Why are you challenging this? The option came from you.' " April 8, 2006 April 9, 2006 April 6, 2006 April 6, 2006 April 9, 2006 April 6, 2006 The discovery, 1,400 kilometres above the Arctic Circle, of fossilized skeletons of a creature dubbed Tiktaalik roseae is seen as filling a missing evolutionary link between fish and the first land animals. April 7, 2006 April 6, 2006 April 7, 2006 "I'm not going to rule it out," he said in a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. The testimony caused alarm among some lawmakers. "How can you not rule that out?" Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said later. "I think it's a stretch to assume we gave them the authority" to conduct warrantless surveillance of international phone calls. But it's unreasonable, he said, "that they would feel they have the authority to do domestic surveillance." April 6, 2006 Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., said Gonzales was frustrating his panel's oversight of the Justice Department and the controversial surveillance by declining to provide information about how the program is reviewed inside the administration and by whom. April 5, 2006 Iraqi politicians should be told that they have until May 15 to put together an effective unity government or we will immediately withdraw our military. If Iraqis aren't willing to build a unity government in the five months since the election, they're probably not willing to build one at all. The civil war will only get worse, and we will have no choice anyway but to leave. April 4, 2006 "During their 'disappearance,' the three men were kept in at least four different secret facilities, likely to have been in at least three different countries, judging by the length of their transfer flights and other information they have been able to provide," the report states. "Although not conclusive, the evidence suggests that they were held at various times in Djibouti, Afghanistan and Eastern Europe." April 5, 2006 April 5, 2006 April 2, 2006 The primary purpose of this elaborate operation, documents and interviews suggest, was not to neutralize a pair of potential terrorists -- authorities have offered no evidence that they were planning attacks -- but to turn them into informers. April 3, 2006 April 5, 2006 Khadr is charged with conspiring to commit war crimes and with murdering U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer with a grenade during a firefight at a suspected al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan in 2002. April 5, 2006 April 3, 2006 April 5, 2006 April 4, 2006 "Well, the hot story of the week is victory. The Tommy Franks-Don Rumsfeld battle plan, war plan, worked brilliantly, a three-week war with mercifully few American deaths or Iraqi civilian deaths. There is a lot of work yet to do, but all the naysayers have been humiliated so far. The final word on this is hooray." (Morton Kondracke, Fox News, 4/12/03) "This has been a tough war for commentators on the American left. ... Liberal writers for ideologically driven magazines like The Nation and for less overtly political ones like The New Yorker did not predict a defeat, but the terrible consequences many warned of have not happened. Now liberal commentators must address the victory at hand and confront an ascendant conservative juggernaut that asserts U.S. might can set the world right." (New York Times reporter David Carr, 4/16/03) April 3, 2006 The plea by Frank Figueroa, who ran U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Central and North Florida, keeps him from standing trial today in the Orange County Courthouse. April 6, 2006 Brian J. Doyle was chatting online with Polk County, Fla., detectives Tuesday night when investigators arrived at his Silver Spring house with an arrest warrant. He thought he was corresponding online with a 14-year-old cancer survivor, Florida police said. April 4, 2006 April 6, 2006 The plan would use a combination of financial incentives and penalties to expand access to health care over the next three years and extend coverage to the state's estimated 500,000 uninsured. April 4, 2006 Not so today. Fewer homes in Iraq have electrical power now than before the U.S. invasion in 2003. Iraqi civilians die on city streets daily, victims of a growing war between the occupying forces of the United States and the insurgents who are much better at waging war than American soldiers. April 4, 2006 Murmurs from the crowd turned to booing. "Pay a decent wage!" one audience member shouted. "I've heard that statement before," McCain said before threatening to leave. April 5, 2006 April 4, 2006 April 5, 2006 April 5, 2006 He has not backed away from his support of Bush, whose statewide University of Connecticut approval rating in late January was 25 percent. April 3, 2006 April 3, 2006 April 3, 2006 April 3, 2006 April 4, 2006 China held 256.7 billion dollars worth of US treasury debt as of the end of last year, making it the second largest holder. April 3-9, 2006 issue They say the officials are: former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and then-Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman. March 31, 2006 "It sure beats the brickbats," she said, referring to hundreds of vitriolic e-mails she's received since last week's encounter with Bush. "Some of them attack you ad hominem and call you a traitor and ask if you've ever been to Iraq," she said. "I think it's the frustration of those who are angry with me and take it out in e-mail. I think there should be a logical debate, but maybe that's not possible during an ongoing war." Thomas shared her roses with Hearst bureau chief Chuck Lewis and other colleagues and sent the bulk of them to wounded military personnel at Walter Reed Army Hospital. March 27, 2006 Strongly support.............29 Total support................41 Support - Oppose.........-15 March 27, 2006 Total support................41 Support - Oppose.........-15 April 3, 2006 April 3, 2006 |