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Crusaders R’ Us

by Propagandee May 20, 2009

Early on in the American occupation of Iraq, gruesome video of Americans being beheaded by their captors surfaced, fueling worldwide outrage against the perpetrators. A thousand years earlier, Christian crusaders, laying siege to fortified Muslim cities, used as missiles for their catapults the severed heads of Muslims.

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Torture In Context

by Propagandee April 22, 2009

Demonstrating an “enhanced interrogation technique”
In 1999, Bush’s family biographer, Mickey Herskowitz, reports that W. told him he was intent on invading Iraq, saying that his status as a war time president would give him enough political capital to push through his conservative domestic agenda.
(That would include the privatization of social security whose blood rich corpse [...]

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Strange Bedfellows

by Michael Hart April 12, 2009

You can live with each other, you just can’t be married.

“And who knows which is which, and who is who”
—Pink Floyd

The long evolutionary heritage of religion has always been inextricably linked with the forms and functions of the evolution of government.  Long ago, the early tribal shamans were the go-to guys for all the practices [...]

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Bush Bids Adieu

by Propagandee January 15, 2009

Tuesday, George W. Bush held his final cabinet meeting where he said:
I tell people I leave town with a great sense of accomplishment and my head held high.
The problem with that is, well, obvious.

George W. Bush in a rare moment of introspection
As the worst president in US history winds down his delusional legacy protection tour, [...]

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White House Aide Trampled To Death

by Propagandee December 1, 2008

Bush bids farewell

White House Employee Trampled To Death As Bush Aides Flee
Jan. 19, 2009
WASHINGTON D.C. [C.U.News] —  Long time White House doorman, Oscar Willit, who served four different presidents, died in a stampede today as aides to President Bush and Vice President Cheney fled the building in advance of the incoming Obama Administration.
“It [...]

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Iraqis Crap On Bush’s SOFA, Update III

by Propagandee October 25, 2008

Well, it looks like the Cheney Administration’s attempt to handcuff the next US president to it’s depraved Iraq agenda has, like a John McCain piloted fighter jet, gone down in flames.
McClatchy reports that:
Iraq’s prime minister won’t sign U.S. troop deal
By Roy Gutman | McClatchy Newspapers
October 24, 2008
BAGHDAD — Fearing political division in the parliament [...]

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Bulldog Mauls Pitbull

by Michael Hart October 3, 2008

“She’s got my vote and my heart,” says Joe Dirt
LOS ANGELES — So what if it’s predictable and strains credulity— Joe Dirt loves Sarah Palin.  “She may be an airhead and what not, and she was pretty much mauled by that Bulldog Biden guy, but she’s still the pitbull who like stole my heart when [...]

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The Difference Between Palin and Bush?

by Propagandee September 8, 2008

Lipstick.
To the apocalypse lobby, Sarah Palin is everything that they had hoped George W. Bush would be; and more.
Making what a lot of fundies consider a downpayment on the rapture, Bush told Palestinian leaders at the White House in June ‘03 that he was instructed by God to remove Saddam from power:
“God told me, [...]

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China, Iraq Sign $3 billion Oil Deal

by Propagandee August 30, 2008

Finally.
We now know why we’ve lost over 4150 troops, suffered 10ks of thousands of grievously wounded, murdered a million Iraqis, created refugees out of millions more, destabilized the Middle East, squandered our remaining moral standing in the world, and saddled our children’s children’s children with trillions of dollars of crushing debt.
The neoconmen must be apoplectic.
Iraq [...]

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Iraqis Crap On Bush’s SOFA, Par Deux

by Propagandee August 23, 2008

WASHINGTON (C.U.News)  Proving that he was a maverick all along, President McCain, on the anniversary of his first week in office, has ordered the re-invasion of Iraq.
“The agreement reached by the previous US president and the current Iraqi prime minister to pull US troops out of Iraq on a timetable is not in the best [...]

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Sow The Wind, Reap The Economic Whirlwind

by Propagandee August 15, 2008

A number of significant economic statistics were announced yesterday: inflation hit a 71/2 year high; consumer earning power declined 3 1/2% from last year; and home foreclosures rose 55%.
Fueling these economic fires has been the soaring cost of the Iraq war and occupation.
Using credit cards, American taxpayers bought huge amounts of stock in Corporate America’s [...]

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Is McSame a Hypocrite Or Merely Senile?

by Propagandee August 13, 2008

At a press conference today meant to display John McSame’s superior foreign policy credentials, the Rethuglicans‘ reality challenged presidential candidate either had a senior moment, or he believes that the corporatist media is so in the tank for him that he is free to utter even the most egregious hypocritical pronouncements and escape scrutiny.
Case [...]

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Updates To Some Recent Posts

by Propagandee August 12, 2008

McSame’s Mock Obama Strategy Under the direction of John McSame’s new Rovian campaign strategist, Steve Schmidt, the attacks against Obama’s character have become so vituperative that even long-time McSame supporters like Mike Murphy and Mike Weaver are crying foul, (or at least, lame). Not only because they are damaging his brand as someone [...]

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The Surge Is Not A Success

by Propagandee August 2, 2008

                 Urban renewal project in beautiful downtown Baghdad
Chris Matthews‘ substitute host, McCain enthusiast Mike Barnicle, reacted incredulously Wednesday to a comment by Iraq war vet Jon Soltz, co-founder and chairman of VoteVets.org, that the so-called “surge” has not been a success. Pressed by Barnicle, who refelcts the corporatist media’s official narrative of [...]

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Wrecking the Economy

by Propagandee July 29, 2008

Impact of two terms of Bush’s management of the US Economy
The Bush Administration today issued a mind boggling record deficit projection of $482 billion for 2009. And that’s not even counting the off-budget estimated $80 billion being spent in Iraq and Afghanistan, nor the cost of the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac and homeowner bailout bill.
That’s a [...]

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