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VCS Weekly Update: Veterans Day Press Conference

Show your support for our work. Order your bumper sticker or shirt today! November 4, 2005 Dear VCS Members and Supporters: The New York Times this week ran a critical article, “Detainee Policy Sharply Divides Bush Officials”, detailing the internal … Continue reading

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Bush Retreats Inside His Bunker — Support in Polls Drops to 35{cd9ac3671b356cd86fdb96f1eda7eb3bb1367f54cff58cc36abbd73c33c82e1d}

Bush Retreats Inside His Bunker — His administration has become its own republic of fear, and Bush is a prisoner to the right Sidney Blumenthal, Guardian, Thursday November 3, 2005 One year after his re-election President Bush governs from a … Continue reading

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Bush’s Iraq War Policy Is Now in Play

Bush War Policy Is Now in Play Democrats renew their criticism as public opposition solidifies, the body count grows and prewar intelligence is under a new assault. Janet Hook and Ronald Brownstein, Los Angeles Times, November 3, 2005 WASHINGTON — … Continue reading

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U.S. Detainee Policies Under Growing Fire

The secret prison system set up by the United States to hold suspects in the war on terror was under critical new scrutiny on every side Wednesday. And the controversy appeared linked to widespread and growing speculation that U.S. Vice … Continue reading

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First Casualty of War

First Casualty of War By Eric Alterman, Los Angeles Times, November 3, 2005 Eric Alterman is a senior fellow of the Center for American Progress. His “When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and its Consequences” is just out … Continue reading

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Partisan Quarrel Forces Senators to Bar the Doors

Partisan Quarrel Forces Senators to Bar the Doors By CARL HULSE and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, New York Times, November 2, 2005 WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 – Democrats forced the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session on Tuesday over the Bush … Continue reading

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CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons

CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons – Debate Is Growing Within Agency About Legality and Morality of Overseas System Set Up After 9/11 By Dana PriestWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, November 2, 2005; A01 The CIA has been hiding and … Continue reading

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Remember That Mushroom Cloud?

November 2, 2005, New York Times Editorial Board Remember That Mushroom Cloud? The indictment of Lewis Libby on charges of lying to a grand jury about the outing of Valerie Wilson has focused attention on the lengths to which the … Continue reading

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428 Civilian Contractors Killed in Iraq

Civilian contractors in Iraq dying at faster rate as insurgency grows By Seth Borenstein, Knight Ridder Newspapers, November 1, 2005 WASHINGTON – As the nation focused last week on the 2,000th U.S. soldier who died in Iraq, Gloria Dagit of … Continue reading

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Powell aide describes foreign policy cabal

In President Bush’s first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security — including vital decisions about postwar Iraq — were made by a secretive, little-known cabal. It was made up of a very small group of … Continue reading

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