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i never felt completely satisfied with the BushCo Rap Sheet we tried to compile on this site, but Karl Rove's paw prints were certainly all over it.

Leo and i had a chuckle and cheer listening to Democracy Now today... what a surreal moment: The US pledges to close its secret prisons, and repudiates torture.

hell yes, President Obama.

i'm not sure how this isn't bigger news, but i was thrilled to hear we won in Iraq!

well the Yes Men predicted it, and now the White House has confirmed it. phew!

man, i bet W is happy we snuck in that victory before he left office. it was a real nail-biter, wasn't it?

spread the word! we're #1!

well, what is it now, 2008? as the NY Times reported a few days ago, it looks like (gasp) there really was a centralized Pentagon propaganda campaign, with collusion from big media, to sell the Iraq war (and smooth over all of its atrocities along the way).

slide 1: Seattle

our local protest was sad, wet, and dispirited yesterday. left me feeling the same way...

slide 2: Dick

(today's Democracy Now!, ~4:45)

Good Morning America: 2/3 of Americans say it's not worth fighting

Dick Cheney: so?

so it looks like the biggest US contractor in Iraq, Kellog, Brown & Root (part of Cheney's Halliburton until recently), with $16 billion in war-related contracts, is evading paying taxes by hiring workers offshore. war profiteering by the VP's company while they massively cheat US taxpayers. good stuff.

what have you thought about Iraq lately? anything?

i'm in a curious state about it lately. confounded, i suppose. the latest congressional chess matches -- attaching strings to the budget per voting demographic calculations -- seem like pure folly... ("we'll only give you 50 billion more and then you're really asking for it, W!")

i hadn't heard from Norman Solomon for a few years, until a few days ago RED pointed me to a new film project based on a book of his and created by the folks at the Media Education Foundation.

the film is called War Made Easy, and it's about the mass media's role in facilitating US wars over the last 50 years.

i plan to create my own anti-Bush T-Shirt using cafepress or some similar service, based on our BushCo Rap Sheet. here's the wording i currently have in mind...

Front:
Bush
Behind
Bars

unbelievable op-ed in the Times last weekend, arguing for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. (registration required, temporary accounts available at bugmenot.com.)

hmm, they're making all of the same arguments that saner voices were making back in 2003.