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Bush's Dollar Drop Maps Loss of U.S. Clout at Final G-8 Summit
By James G. Neuger
July 3 (Bloomberg) -- When President George W. Bush went to his first Group of Eight summit in 2001, a dominant issue was the dollar -- the strong dollar, that is. The U.S. currency was on a record-setting streak, and the free-marketeering president wasn't going to stand in the way.
IT TOOK five years, the deaths of 4,100 US soldiers, and the wounding of 30,000 more to make Iraq safe for Exxon. It is the inescapable open question since the reasons given by President Bush for the invasion and occupation did not exist, neither the weapons of mass destruction nor Saddam Hussein's ties to Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Published on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 by the Boulder Daily Camera
Impeachment Critical to Set Standards for Future Administrations
by Nancy Sullo, Tom Moore, Liz Robinson and Bruce Robinson
There seems to be considerable confusion as to what is being asked of the Boulder City Council regarding an “Impeachment Resolution.” It is not an “Impeachment Resolution.” To quote from the resolution:
LONDON - More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict in their country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to research conducted by one of Britain’s leading polling groups.0131 07
The survey, conducted by Opinion Research Business (ORB) with 2,414 adults in face-to-face interviews, found that 20 percent of people had had at least one death in their household as a result of the conflict, rather than natural causes.
False Pretenses
Following 9/11, President Bush and seven top officials of his administration waged a carefully orchestrated campaign of misinformation about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
By Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith