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Thursday, April 15, 2004

Mahmood Mamdani, a Uganda-born political scientist and cultural anthropologist at Columbia University, says in his book ("Good Muslim, Bad Muslim”) that the American government fought global Communism towards the end by supporting low-level insurgency by private armed groups. Using third and fourth parties, the C.I.A. supported terrorist in Afghanistan and elsewhere. "The real damage the C.I.A. did was providing information about how to produce and spread violence - the formation of private militias - capable of creating terror." The best-known C.I.A.-trained terrorist is Osama bin Laden.

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It has now become impossible for the Bush administration to claim that their policies are good for Iraqis or Americans alike.

Lies regarding weapons of mass destruction and failures of an Iraq-obsessed White House to take real terrorist threats seriously has brought about the deaths and maiming of thousands young Americans as well as an unprecedented ballooning deficit. Bush’s claims of liberating Iraq from tyranny fall on Iraqi deaf ears when they see foreign soldiers outside their doors occupying their country. Violence is escalating on a scale unprecedented inside Iraq since the Iran-Iraq War. Many Iraqis, particularly many women, are afraid to leave their homes becomes of the surging violence.

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President Bush presents himself as a man of the people, but a look at his fundraising shows otherwise. Over $95 million of his money has come in the form of bundles of $2,000 checks from high-rolling CEOs and lobbyists.

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On the contradictions of the American right wing...The Coors family helped create the current conservative movement, founding the Heritage Foundation and giving the nation Paul Weyrich and James Watt. While the family was funding the Christian would-be theocrats, their company was airing TV hedonistic beer commercials.

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