The Bush family are carriers of the deny-destroy-and-be-damned virus. Prescott Bush never apologized for trading with the Nazis. George Bush Senior professed to know nothing of the drug and arms dealing that funded the bloody, illegal Iran-Contra operations, although it was common knowledge that he directed them. He and his sons enriched themselves through shady real estate deals and financial manipulations that brought down entire banking and savings and loan institutions. They are all consummate inside traders, looting and leaving ruin in their wake.

President-Select George Bush is no exception. He has no scruples about exploiting his office for personal and family gain. The Texas governor who could joke about frying prisoners in the electric chair will not, as president, agonize over the decision to send young men and women into battle--or over denying them medical care when they are injured.

I would just like to comment on the Wasserman article "Put George W. Bush in Prison"   Is he serious!  Put The President of the United States in prison for something an undisciplined, vigilanti MP battalion did?   Come on!  Did Wasserman clamor for Pres. Clinton's imprisonment when his air force was scandolized by numerous sexual assaults on female cadets?   Or any of the other of military scandals in the last dozen years?  No way!  I understand he doesn't agree with the war; and is legitimately concerned about Bush's Iraqi policy.  But he doesn't argue his case objectively.  His article is 99% left-leaning, political rhetoric.  And for you to call yourself "freepress" and yet give voice to such bias opinion is rediculous.    What a joke.  Pathetic.

As we watch the horror unfolding before our eyes like a giant time-delayed broadcast, a deeper horror should also be setting in. The entire discussion surrounding the "revelations" of mistreatment of Iraqis by the US (does bombing water purification plants count as mistreatment?) has taken on a sickening, surreal turn. I feel like we are watching "things fall apart," as Chinua Achebe once wrote. The center, indeed, does not hold, and we are witnessing the spiraling out of control of almost every element of our perception: moral compass spinning aimlessly, intellectual ground slipping, right merging with wrong, a sort of Mad Imperial Tea Party. Up is down, day is night, and war is peace as we descend Down the Spider Hole.

As revelations surface from interviews with Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, former Iraqi prison commander, that the Abu Ghraib prison evolved into an interrogation center -- Orwellian goodspeak for torture chambers -- and control of the prison shifted to the military intelligence command, one name resurfaces from the archives of recent scandal: Boykin.

Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin is under a reluctant investigation for a church-to-church speaking tour last year in which he demonized Islam and Muslims and characterized the current conflict as a religious war between Christians, who are good, and Muslims, who are on the side of 'Satan.' To make matters worse, it was discovered that he often wore his military uniform during these speeches, furthering the impression that he was speaking from the military's viewpoint.

The Bush administration is dragging its probe into Boykin's statements, which is understandable considering the evangelical ties between Boykin and Bush. However, the investigation of Boykin and how his personal views are shaping his actions on the ground need to be accelerated. The reason for

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  Just seen your web site. Think it's great - to the point and punchy. We are putting links to it from our site in New Zealand and would appreciate any reciprocal links or mentions you could manage.

When you have a moment please visit nuclearfree.lynx.co.nz

Larry Ross, founder of Nuclear-Free NZ is planning some protests and US awareness raising projects soon and will send press releases nearer the time. I can't believe the news we get where the doting US population adores Bush, thinks he is a christian and cannot see what he is doing. They will not believe anything bad of him.

From the other side of the planet, I see this dangerous religious fervor where people no longer reason for themselves.

It was not so long ago that the US government was making people believe terrible stories of "Communist brainwashing" I see no difference here, just a different country. Hitler  had a few followers too.