Recently, Dov Weisglass, the Prime Minister Sharon's bureau chief said, "The significance of our disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process. It supplies the formaldehyde necessary so there is no political process with the Palestinians… effectively this whole package called a Palestinian state has been removed indefinitely from our agenda.”

Mr. Weisglass, as Sharon's chief bureaucrat, who meets regularly with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and other international dignitaries simply confirms what Sharon has been saying publicly within Israel for several months now. The peace is dead, and Israel will continue to act unilaterally in the face of international pressure and with the full support of the U.S.

And so on it goes. As the Gaza massacre by the IDF precipitated by Qassam rocket fire meant over 90 dead, as Israeli tourists were bombed in the Sinai peninsula, and the American Vice Presidential debate confirming that there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans on the issue of Israel and Palestine, this will certainly embolden the Sharon government to continue a unilateral policy until
You pony-tailed pinheads are totally clueless as to what is at stake in this election.  John Kerry is undoubtedly even more clueless than you!  Just today, he actually said, when asked what HE would do [re: Iraq], given the same circumstances as President Bush, and he actually said that he didn't know what he will find on January 20th…..
WHO THE HELL IS HARVEY WASSERMAN and how come he is so smart? I loved the trifecta column which i just read and i look forward to more good stuff.

Palm Harbor, Fl.
Harvey if you think kerry will change the march to fascism in this country or stop the imperialist drive to rule the world .you are letting your political affiliation overpower your common sense.show me one thing that kerry has said that indicates a fundamental change in direction of the foreigen policy of the u.s.He  just like bush wants to protect us and keep us safe from the big bad bogeymen of the world which is just the way dictators use fear to destroy  freedom .Its time all people that love the idea of America and what it has strived to be , never perfect but always seeking to be just ,take back our country.HOW? voting for the lesser of two evils, both appointed lackeys of the corporate war machine wont do it so if nobody voted at all that would send a message but better yet if everybody voted for a third party candidate , that, barring an assassination might change things.well so much for fantasyland.Given the stranglehold those in power have on the media and the gullibility of the average oprah ,jerry springer watching ,American I fear we are doomed.

Wow! What a great idea. 

But after a couple minutes thinking about it, I wondered if he could still be elected.  Would the republicans make a rule that if you vote for Bush, it would be a vote for Cheney? Would Cheney be electable if Bush resigned?

  It seems that things would get far worse if he was in charge, maybe he already is.

The whole Bush team is scary.

  I would love to hear Kerry say that though.  

Ron Andersen
Anchorage, Alaska
You sure don't say much about the slaughter in Gaza. Lots to say about bush the dork - but nothing about Sharon the butcher.

Are you playing the good "Jew" / bad "Jew" gambit?
During Tuesday’s Vice Presidential debate, Dick Cheney defended his tenure as Halliburton’s CEO when Sen. John Edwards rightfully called into question Halliburton’s dealings with rogue nations, such as Iran, while Cheney was CEO and the fact that Halliburton paid a fine for an accounting scandal that took place under Cheney’s watch. Cheney responded to Edwards’ criticism by saying “the reason they keep mentioning Halliburton is because they're trying to throw up a smokescreen. They know the charges are false.”

Cheney then directed the public to factcheck.com (he got the domain name wrong. It’s factcheck.org) to get the truth about Halliburton.  

Well, this morning factcheck.org wants you to know that Cheney stuck his foot in his mouth. It seems that the vice president is the one that doesn’t have his facts straight. Once again, as Edwards pointed out, Cheney is not being straight with the American people with regard to his dealings with Halliburton.  

All of these issues took place while Cheney was CEO of Halliburton, according to factcheck.org:  

BARCELONA -- An oppressive and beleaguered empire, a terrorist international, a storm raging in the international press about torture, right-wing Christians on the march against moral decline and the collapse of family values Ö you can stand here on Montjuic hill and history grips you by the arm.

In 1896, all of Europe was shaken by reports of the terrible tortures endured by prisoners entombed in the dungeons of the fortress built by the Bourbons on Montjuic. Terror, in the form of militant anarchism -- the Al Qaeda of its era -- had already been on the march for a generation, its detonations caused by such devices as the "Orsini bomb," with its sinister horns filled with fulminate of mercury, which exploded on impact, thus bypassing the need for a fuse. The testing range selected by Felice Orsini, an Italian nationalist who had taken up residence in Palmerston's England, were abandoned quarries in Devonshire and Sheffield. Orsini went to the guillotine in 1858 after hurling his invention at Louis Napoleon. He missed, but killed eight and injured 156. In 1862, Nobel patented dynamite and gave "propaganda of the deed" a deadlier tempo.

John Kerry can win the debate and the election tonight by opening with the four most obvious words in global politics today: "George Bush must resign."

The confirmations that Bush lied about Saddam's non-existent ties to Al Quida, 9/11 and Weapons of Mass Destruction mean one vital thing above all: this administration can no longer conduct a credible foreign policy. Not in the next four years, four months or four days.

It's not about whether the Iraqi invasion was "worth it." Or whether the world is safer without Saddam Hussein.

It's about the inevitable next crisis. About the fact that this administration has taken the world to war on false pretenses.

And that it will never be believed again: It lied to the American people. It lied to Congress. It lied to the global community.

Next time, Bush will not be believed by any of them, no matter what the truth or urgency of the situation. The public, the Congress, the UN have all been burned, and "won't be fooled again."

So in all practical terms, Bush has nullified his ability to act on the world stage.

If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is…Peggy Lee


Words out there’s another election ‘bout to take place, and rumor has it this time it’s really, really important. Who is going to win this election, or what difference it will make is as insignificant as our choices seconded only to the obsolete ritual act of choosing.

Our nation’s original band of brothers were rascals, rogues, and renaissance men who drafted our nation’s position papers not in disregard of history, but because of it. From the declaration of its birth, 278-years ago, the concept of “We the people”, a “Representative Government” with “checks and balances” a “Constitutional Republic” and our original Patriot Act, known as “The Bill of Rights” was the foundation and promise of this new nation.

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