BushCo Under Investigation For Planting Fake News:
"Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq ... over a 10-month period at least 77 television stations were making use of the faux news broadcasts ... Among items provided by the Bush administration to news stations was one in which an Iraqi-American in Kansas City was seen saying 'Thank you Bush. Thank you USA' in response to the 2003 fall of Baghdad. The footage was actually produced by the State Department ..."

Pachacutec Remembers The Memorial Day Bush Forgot:
"Bushco has enslaved Americans into a psychological reign of 'War on Terror' that amounts to a criminal protection racket.  We are told we must be afraid.  That is, we are told we must live in terror.  This is to protect us from. . . terror.  Then, because we feel terrified, we must give up our freedom - freedom to write what we believe without fear of reprisal, freedom of due process and habeas corpus protection, freedom from secret intrusion into our private lives by government.  Today is Memorial Day.  Today we remember countless patriots who died and fought for those freedoms our president tells us we must abandon. . . in the name of 'freedom.'"

   

Cheney Calling The Shots On Bush's Extra-Judicial Signing Statements:
"Bush has used signing statements more than 750 times to effectively override legislation without going through the constitutionally laid out veto process ... this extra-juridical effort comes directly out of the office of the Vice President ... by effectively vetoing these hundreds of pieces of legislation with signing statements rather than actual vetoes, President Bush is effectively denying the Congress -- and thus the American people ... -- an opportunity to make their voices heard ... The precedent the Bush administration -- and in particular the Vice President and his chief of staff -- are setting today is dangerous."

Senior GOP Senator Sees Light, Admits Middle East Worse Under Bush:
"... President Bush delivered the commencement address at West Point and declared that his global war on terror is helping to spread freedom in the Middle East ... on Meet the Press, Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered a strong rebuke of Bush’s assessment of what’s going on in the Middle East ... Hagel isn’t alone in making his argument that the Middle East is worse off since the Iraq invasion ... Iraq mirrors a wider and troubling trend throughout this region that is being fostered by Bush ...  Once stable Arab countries are slowly polarizing and fragmenting into smaller units of ethnic, religious and tribal identities ..."