SPINNING IRAQ IS IRAN NEXT? DEAN CHALLENGED FOR DEM JOB Democracy paid a visit to Iraq yesterday with the semblance (charade?) of a free and fair election featuring 111 different slates, and 7400 candidate who could barely campaign and were mostly unknown. 44 people died in violence. The absence of even more violence was taken [...]
TORTURE WATCH Check out Maureen Dowd’s chilling description in her column yesterday of on how Gitmo detainees were taunted by interrogators in mini skirts: “A former American Army sergeant who worked as an Arabic interpreter at Gitmo has written a book pulling back the veil on the astounding ways female interrogators used a toxic combination [...]
AP reports that Deaniacs are screaming fowl: “WASHINGTON – A group of state party leaders slowed Howard Dean’s fast-moving campaign to become Democratic Party chairman by backing rival candidate Donnie Fowler. “The executive committee of state party chairs voted Sunday to endorse the 37-year-old Fowler, who headed Sen. John Kerry’s successful presidential nominating campaign in [...]
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