December 2006

Quicktime Videos from http://www.justiceforbush.com

• David Swanson of AfterDowningStreet.org (8.5 min)
• Colonel Ann Wright (7 min)
• Elizabeth de la Vega (6 min)
• Dr. Dennis Loo (15 min)
• Rae Abileah & Suzanne Joi of CODEPINK (7 min)
• Mélida Arredondo (8 min)
• Carlos Arredondo (6 min)
• Helga Aguayo and Family (9 min)
• Tim Kahlor (7 min)
• Geoffrey Millard (4 min)

By David Swanson.

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has introduced articles of impeachment against George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice. In doing so, she alone has spoken for the 51 percent of Americans who Newsweek says want Bush impeached. A considerably higher percentage of Americans would, if asked, almost certainly acknowledge that the abuses with which McKinney charges Bush et al. have, in fact, been read more

By David Swanson

Did you notice something about the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group Report? It recommends all sorts of changes, all of them far short of actually ending the war, but it recommends them all to the same person responsible for the disastrous situation we’re in now. It doesn’t suggest what Congress should do to rein in an out-of-control president. Rather, it recommends that the President do dozens of things. Here’s one of them:

“RECOMMENDATION 22: The President read more

MEMO
To: Democratic Representatives and Senators
From: Mandate for Peace campaign
Date: December 4, 2006
Re: Need for Democrats to Carry Out the Voters’ Mandate for Peace, End the War, and Bring the Troops Home Now

Dear Democratic Representatives and Senators,

You are about to head into a week that will include a Democratic forum on December 5th to discuss the future of Iraq, and the release of the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group. This memo is to remind you that regardless of what Zbigniew read more

By David Swanson

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune recently published an editorial that said of Bush: “His pronouncements now bear no resemblance to reality.” Now? Oh, never mind.

Marc Sandalow, the Washington Bureau Chief for the San Francisco Chronicle, recently wrote: “There is mounting evidence that the world of public Bush-speak — from his vigorous support for al-Maliki and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to his rejection of direct diplomacy with Syria and Iran — read more