Month: June 2007

Tales from the Cheney Side

Today the Washington Post begins a four-day profile of the man the Secret Service calls ‘Angler’: Dick Cheney. Part One: Working on Background, appears today. Monday they’ll look at War and Interrogations,...

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Shell Oil and Iraq

These are some items that document Shell Oil’s activities in Iraq: August 2004: Shell Oil Looking for PR Officer with `Strong Family Connections’ to Work for Shell Iraq Despite having told shareholders that it has no...

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Pointlessness in Iraq

The Iraqis finally got around to sentencing Chemical Ali to death. He’s the guy that used chemical weapons on the Kurds. Meanwhile: As the verdicts were read out in Baghdad, to the north some 10,000 American troops were in...

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Regeneration Through Violence; Part Two

George Bush says he going on offense rather than defense, he’s going to use the military rather than the police to deal with terrorists whom he has defined as enemy combatants rather than criminals, he says he will use any...

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