Dear Losers,

Your capable of reading and writing, but not of reason - - a very seriously demented article. Your ideas lost - - yes LOST - - in the domain of public opinion.  Americans don't want the intolerant ideas you spew.  I love seeing liberals literally go crazy - - time to get professional help.  

Mike Palvic
Carmichael, CA

As the New Orleans disaster recedes from the headlines, citizen activists face a choice. We can focus exclusively on other newer issues. Or we can work to make the disaster one of those key turning points with the potential to transform American politics. For this to happen, we need to consciously create new dialogue, reaching well beyond the core converted.

If we think back to the 9/11 attacks, which have shaped American politics ever since, a brief window of critical reflection opened up in their immediate wake. Middle East experts critical of U.S. policies had op-eds in our largest newspapers and appeared on network TV. Ordinary citizens mourned the victims, while asking what would make the attackers so embittered they'd be willing to murder 3,000 innocent people. The next day, when I spoke about possible root causes, with even more frankness than usual, at a community college in the overwhelmingly Republican suburbs just north of Dallas, the response was amazingly receptive.

But by a few weeks later visible public questioning had largely ceased. Most Americans accepted the Bush administration's definition of a war of absolute

Dear FreePress:

It would be great if all who agree with your detailed findings would make themselves known. I believe every single outrage you have uncovered. Going to bed on the night of the election (in Berlin, Germany - keep in mind the time difference), as the postive trend began to turn and realizing that the Republican-owned voting machine companies had indeed done their work well, I too am convinced that most Americans' refusal to admit the cleverly, brazenly stolen election spells Doom for Democracy as we have known it in the US. That utterly sick feeling hasn't left since.

Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is trying to determine whether Vice President Dick Cheney had a role in the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson, individuals close to Fitzgerald say. Plame’s husband was a vocal critic of prewar intelligence used by President George W. Bush to build support for the Iraq war.

The investigation into who leaked the officer's name to reporters has now turned toward a little known cabal of administration hawks known as the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), which came together in August 2002 to publicize the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. WHIG was founded by Bush chief of staff Andrew Card and operated out of the Vice President’s office.

Fitzgerald’s examination centers on a group of players charged with not only selling the war, but according to sources familiar with the case, to discredit anyone who openly “disagreed with the official Iraq war” story.