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Hanged by your own words, convicted by your own deliberate lies... You, sir, have no business being president. MSNBC's polemicist-in-chief Keith Olbermann lets loose over the lies being told about what Bush knew about Iran's nuclear ambitions.

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No Nukes For You, Nasty Iran!
12 dec  |  A recent U.S. National Intelligence Estimate revealed that Iran shut down its nuclear weapons program in 2003. But if you were gunning for another war, take a trip down saber-rattling lane with this recap of some rhetorical highlights of those heady pre-NIE days. . . read more
Resisting the Drums of War
8 sep  |  Examining how the Bush administration promoted the misguided war in Iraq by targeting five core concerns - vulnerability, injustice, distrust, superiority, and helplessness. The continuing occupation of Iraq - and an attack on Iran - will be sold in much the same way. . . read more
George Bush - President for Life
25 aug  |  Angry Aussie - George Bush should be President for Life . . read more
Noam Chomsky on U.S. Policy Towards Iran
20 nov  |  Noam Chomsky, activist, intellectual and Professor of Linguistics at MIT, gives some historical context to the current confrontation between the USA and Iran and talks about how the Bush administration's assumptions about Iran may be wrong. . . read more
Bush's Credibility Gap on Iran
5 dec  |  Bush and Cheney have been ramping up the war talk against Iran but U.S. intelligence has revealed that Iran isn't working on nuclear weapons. Dan Abrams talks about the recent revelations on MSNBC. . . read more
White House vs CIA
18 dec  |  The fallout continues from the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report, which stated Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. Aijaz Ahmad, political commentator for the Indian news magazine, Frontline, discusses the split between Bush's administration and the intelligence community. . . read more
Leaked Red Cross Report Sets Up Bush For War Crimes Trial
5 sep  |  A leaked report from the International Committee of the Red Cross, the body responsible for safeguarding the Geneva Conventions, shows that there's a growing mountain of evidence being gathered to try Bush and members of his administration in an international war crimes trial. . . read more
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Bush's Depraved Indifference to Democracy
9 sep  |  President Bush's visit to APEC was not big news in the USA but his surprise visit to Iraq on the way to Sydney has made headlines as it revealed one of Bush's biggest lies of the war. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann lets loose. . . read more
The Rudd Delusion - From Antony Loewenstein
22 nov  |  The Federal election will be a contest between a social and economic conservative (John Howard) and a marginally less social and economic conservative (Kevin Rudd). Those so-called progressives, such as Robert Manne, hoping that a Rudd victory would usher in a period of more reflective foreign policy and the ability to say "no" to Washington, are kidding themselves... The Labor Party is not the utopia imagined by people like Manne, but rather a business that may tinker around the edges of domestic policy, but maintain an essentially U.S.-focused outlook. The key question facing a newly elected Rudd Government (or a re-elected Howard one) is a possible US or Israeli-led strike on Iran...

A Rudd Government would likely sanction a U.S.-led strike against Iran. Perhaps covertly, but Rudd has offered no assurances that he believes the Bush Administration should not be trusted over its Iran policy. Besides, arguing against the Iraq invasion is a luxury that Rudd would never indulge in power. Not unlike Howard and a host of past Labor Prime Ministers, Washington’s call is one that Australian leaders find impossible to resist...

A likely Rudd Government may be forced to make a decision on this matter within months of assuming office. Silence is not an option. If Rudd, like Howard, joins America in an unprovoked attack against a Middle Eastern nation, he will be as worthy of contempt as our current prime minister.  . . read more

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