President Bush told a roomful of top Pentagon brass on Thursday that his administration would never stop looking for ways to harm the United States

Grok Headline matches for President Bush told a roomful of top Pentagon brass on Thursday that his administration would never stop looking for ways to harm the United States

Bush Insists His Administration Seeking
'new Ways to Harm Our Country' - from
TBO.com

Bush Insists His Administration Seeking
'new Ways to Harm Our Country' - from
TBO.com 08/05/2004 07:41 PM
Bush Insists His Administration Seeking 'new Ways to Harm Our Country' - from TBO.com .. runs with it: .. Linky link

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"?Bush Insists His Administration
Seeking ?new Ways to Harm Our
Country? The Associated Press Published:
Aug 5, 2004?"

"?Bush Insists His Administration
Seeking ?new Ways to Harm Our
Country? The Associated Press Published:
Aug 5, 2004?" 08/07/2004 03:47 PM

Pentagon Deleted Rumsfeld Comment---The
Pentagon deleted from a public
transcript a statement Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld made to author Bob
Woodward suggesting that the
administration gave Saudi Arabia a
two-month heads-up that President Bush h

Pentagon Deleted Rumsfeld Comment---The
Pentagon deleted from a public
transcript a statement Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld made to author Bob
Woodward suggesting that the
administration gave Saudi Arabia a
two-month heads-up that President Bush h 04/22/2004 05:17 AM

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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Quotes
from Either President of the United
States George W. Bush or
Senator/Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine
from the Star Wars Movies

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Quotes
from Either President of the United
States George W. Bush or
Senator/Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine
from the Star Wars Movies 02/10/2004 02:50 AM
Quotes from George W. Bush and which are from Senator/Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine

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"stepping up to prevent him from
becoming President of the United States"

"stepping up to prevent him from
becoming President of the United States" 05/04/2004 05:02 PM

"Bill Clinton, Former President of the
United States"

"Bill Clinton, Former President of the
United States" 07/29/2004 01:02 AM

Even the president of the United States
sometimes must have to stand naked

Even the president of the United States
sometimes must have to stand naked 07/15/2004 01:55 AM

Two decades ago I had the odd and daunting experience of defending my undergraduate thesis, on several of Shakespeare's plays, before a panel of scholars. While hardly as rigorous as the real orals a PhD thesis is supposed to be subjected to, this encounter was part of what my department at Harvard required for graduation, and I faced it with some trepidation.

When I walked in, I was introduced to William Alfred, the playwright, poet and English professor. I hadn't studied with Alfred, and had no idea what to expect from the rumpled man. He broke the ice with a simple question: At the start of "King Lear," Cordelia refuses her royal father's demand for a profession of love. There's a foreign phrase that describes her act in legal terms -- what is it?

I'm not sure how many layers of my brain I had to dig through to find it, but somehow I retrieved the desired answer, the medieval label for an injury to the royal office: "Lese majeste!" Alfred's eyes twinkled; my response seemed to satisfy my interrogators' basic requirement of literacy, and from there, all went swimmingly. (Alfred, a brilliant and generous soul with whom, alas, I only had a handful of further conversations, died in 1999.)

Of all things, this distant recollection popped into my head after I finally caught up with Michael Moore's much-debated "Fahrenheit 9/11." Many words have already been flung across the political spectrum about the movie. I will limit my contributions to this one phrase: What Moore has, I think, accomplished, particularly in the movie's more coherent and better-assembled first half, is an outrageous and highly effective act of lese majeste.

George Bush campaigned as an informal man of the people, and he did not carry a very dignified bearing into the Oval Office. (Remember that strange boil on his face during the Florida recount?) But from 9/11 on, his team of handlers began to weave a cocoon of larger-than-life pomp around him. Partly, it was what the nation wanted; it was also smart political opportunism. It has, to be sure, frayed some since the Iraq war and its attendant scandals. The "Henry V"-style bullhorn at ground zero struck a chord with many Americans; the "Mission Accomplished" aircraft carrier stunt backfired.

But "Fahrenheit 9/11" methodically dismantles this president's carefully manicured dignity: It says to the viewer, "Pay attention to the man behind the curtain -- he's smaller than life." The movie's most indelible sequences are those that show our president as he really was in the face of the great crisis of 9/11: Not, as we were told by Showtime' s "DC 9/11," a stirring take-charge commander, but a passive photo-op participant who sat paralyzed for achingly long minutes of "My Pet Goat" rather than take the initiative to say "excuse me" to the class and leave the room.

My colleague Andrew O'Hehir drew a connection between Moore and Dario Fo, the Italian playwright/performer most famous for his assaults on the dignity of the papacy. To be sure, Moore has none of Fo's skills as a physical clown and only a fraction of his instincts as an entertainer; Fo is an artist, while Moore is chiefly a propagandist. Still, it's a good comparison: The two men share a willingness -- more than that, a ferocious determination -- to strip away the niceties of ceremony from powerful men so that we can see their misdeeds.

That refusal of deference is, after you get past all the various problems with "Fahrenheit 9/11" as documentary and as history, what counts. The TV networks (though they thought nothing of rummaging through the details of Bill Clinton's tawdry sexual escapades) have decided to protect Bush from unflattering images. It falls to Moore to dig up the footage of protesters pelting his inaugural limousine with eggs, and play it for us again.

By the end of "Fahrenheit 9/11," Moore has flung his own messy indictment at the presidential portrait, and it won't be easily cleaned up. The filmmaker is deliberately, methodically, overflowingly disrespectful at a moment in our history when there's far too much respect in the land. When the throne holds an ignorant, incompetent, profligate pretender, lese majeste becomes a patriotic duty.

"Ronald Reagan, President of the United
States of America"

"Ronald Reagan, President of the United
States of America" 06/06/2004 03:13 AM

exclusive ten-minute interview with the
President of the United States

exclusive ten-minute interview with the
President of the United States 06/26/2004 04:33 AM
link to El Blowhard Supremo interviewed in Ireland .. this video link to Bush on Irish TV .. Video

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Loyalty Day, 2004 by the President of
the United States of America a
Proclamation

Loyalty Day, 2004 by the President of
the United States of America a
Proclamation 05/02/2004 12:37 PM
"Loyalty Day"?

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"Loyalty Day, 2004 by the President of
the United States of America a
Proclamation"

"Loyalty Day, 2004 by the President of
the United States of America a
Proclamation" 05/02/2004 03:40 PM

Remarks by the President at the United
States Air Force Academy Graduation
Ceremony

Remarks by the President at the United
States Air Force Academy Graduation
Ceremony 06/03/2004 06:36 AM
Text Of The President's Remarks At The United States Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony .. the commencement address

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"French investigators questioned seven
men pointed out by U.S. intelligence but
found no evidence they planned to use a
Los Angeles-bound jet to launch terror
attacks against the United States,
French authorities said Thursday"

"French investigators questioned seven
men pointed out by U.S. intelligence but
found no evidence they planned to use a
Los Angeles-bound jet to launch terror
attacks against the United States,
French authorities said Thursday" 12/26/2003 09:03 PM

but for the fact that the president had
so explicitly said that there were
weapons of mass destruction that posed
an imminent threat to citizens of the
United States

but for the fact that the president had
so explicitly said that there were
weapons of mass destruction that posed
an imminent threat to citizens of the
United States 12/19/2003 11:41 AM
Remember 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'? For Bush, They Are a Nonissue

nytimes.com/2003/12/18/politics/18PREX.html
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Report: Last Year Bush Administration
Told Senators that Saddam Could Bomb the
East Coast 12/17

Report: Last Year Bush Administration
Told Senators that Saddam Could Bomb the
East Coast 12/17 12/18/2003 04:32 AM
they had the means to deliver them to East Coast cities .. reports Florida Today .. a Florida senator

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"The President of the whole entire
United States makes a July 4th speech
about national security on state
property and it's a private campaign
rally with a dress code?"

"The President of the whole entire
United States makes a July 4th speech
about national security on state
property and it's a private campaign
rally with a dress code?" 07/05/2004 09:10 PM

"Why hold a self-proclaimed polemicist
to a higher standard than you hold the
president of the United States?"

"Why hold a self-proclaimed polemicist
to a higher standard than you hold the
president of the United States?" 07/02/2004 09:14 PM

"the President of the United States is
not bound by laws banning the use of
torture and anyone he orders to torture
another could not be prosecuted"

"the President of the United States is
not bound by laws banning the use of
torture and anyone he orders to torture
another could not be prosecuted" 06/08/2004 08:23 PM

"President Bush on Friday wished Bill
Clinton "best wishes for a swift and
speedy recovery." "He's is in our
thoughts and prayers," Bush said at a
campaign rally. Bush's audience of
thousands in West Allis, Wis., booed.
Bush did nothing to stop them. "

"President Bush on Friday wished Bill
Clinton "best wishes for a swift and
speedy recovery." "He's is in our
thoughts and prayers," Bush said at a
campaign rally. Bush's audience of
thousands in West Allis, Wis., booed.
Bush did nothing to stop them. " 09/04/2004 02:46 AM

A lot of gun-rights advocates are from
mildly upset to livid over President
Bush and his administration

A lot of gun-rights advocates are from
mildly upset to livid over President
Bush and his administration 04/14/2004 06:22 AM
questioning their support .. Los Angeles Times .. LATimes story .. tide turns .. suggests

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President Bush: Why Can?t He Stop Lying?

President Bush: Why Can?t He Stop Lying? 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
President Bush, apparently unable to run on his nonexistant record, has resorted to running misleading attack ads against his opponent,?

"The Bush administration has decided to
repeal most of its 20-month-old tariffs
on imported steel to head off a trade
war that would have included foreign
retaliation against products exported
from politically crucial states"

"The Bush administration has decided to
repeal most of its 20-month-old tariffs
on imported steel to head off a trade
war that would have included foreign
retaliation against products exported
from politically crucial states" 12/02/2003 03:01 AM

Retired Pentagon Brass Seek Abuse Probe
(AP)

Retired Pentagon Brass Seek Abuse Probe
(AP) 09/09/2004 01:16 AM
AP - The Pentagon is under increasing fire for its handling of the prison abuse investigation, as some retired military officers call for an independent commission to get to the bottom of the four-month-old scandal.

Pentagon tried to hide details about top
brass responsibility for U.S. torture of
Iraqis

Pentagon tried to hide details about top
brass responsibility for U.S. torture of
Iraqis 08/27/2004 01:22 PM
According to a New York Times report, buried in the part of the Fay-Jones report on abuses at Abu Ghraib that was classified by the Pentagon is the detail that: Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the former top commander in Iraq, approved the use in Iraq of some severe interrogation practices intended to be limited to captives held in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and Afghanistan. Moreover, the report contends, by issuing and revising the rules for interrogations in Iraq three times in 30 days, General Sanchez and his legal staff sowed such confusion that interrogators acted in ways that violated the Geneva Conventions, which they understood poorly anyway. ... [Sanchez'] memorandum, while not authorizing abuse, effectively opened the way at Abu Ghraib last fall for interrogation techniques that Pentagon investigators have characterized as abusive, in dozens of cases involving dozens of soldiers at the prison in Iraq. The techniques approved by General Sanchez exceeded those advocated in a standard Army field manual that provided the basic guidelines for interrogation procedures. But they were among those previously approved by the Pentagon for use in Afghanistan and Cuba, and were recommended to General Sanchez and his staff in the summer of 2003 in memorandums sent by a team headed by Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, a commander at Guantánamo who had been sent to Iraq by senior Pentagon officials, and by a military intelligence unit that had served in Afghanistan and was taking charge of interrogations at Abu Ghraib.... This is the same General Miller who Rumsfeld sent over to take charge of Iraqi prisons after the abuses at Abu Ghraib were revealed, who is currently in charge of Iraqi prisons. What was Rumsfeld trying to cover up? The passages involving General Sanchez's orders were among several deleted from the version of the report by Maj. Gen. George R. Fay that was made public by the Pentagon on Wednesday.... The classified sections of the Fay report reinforce criticisms made in another report, by the independent panel headed by James R. Schlesinger, the former defense secretary. That panel argued that General Sanchez's actions effectively amounted to an unauthorized suspension of the Geneva Conventions in Iraq by categorizing prisoners there as unlawful combatants. Clearly, there are still depths to be plumbed: The classified section of the Fay report also sheds new light on the role played by a secretive Special Operations Forces/Central Intelligence Agency task force...

OpinionJournal - We're Not GOP Shills,
President Bush can't stop us from
telling the truth about John Kerry

OpinionJournal - We're Not GOP Shills,
President Bush can't stop us from
telling the truth about John Kerry 08/27/2004 05:25 PM
motives .. Johns

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"Bush told he is playing into Bin
Laden's hands: Al-Qaida may 'reward'
American president with strike aimed at
keeping him in office, senior
intelligence man says"

"Bush told he is playing into Bin
Laden's hands: Al-Qaida may 'reward'
American president with strike aimed at
keeping him in office, senior
intelligence man says" 06/20/2004 04:17 PM

Why The United States Just Doesn't Get
The United Nations

Why The United States Just Doesn't Get
The United Nations 06/22/2005 02:41 AM

For years I have been amazed as I’ve listened to people here in the United States demonstrate their complete ignorance of the purpose and tremendous value of the United Nations, even to the point of our country not paying dues to the organization. Ambassador to the United Nations havs often been viewed as second-class or B-level diplomatic job and with the current presidential perspective, the UN has become a troublesome entity and the appointment of…

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A member of the audience pulls a
demonstrator’s hair as he forces
her out of an auditorium where President
Bush was addressing a crowd of
supporters at Byers Choice in Colmar,
Pa. Thursday Sept. 9, 2004. (AP
Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

A member of the audience pulls a
demonstrator’s hair as he forces
her out of an auditorium where President
Bush was addressing a crowd of
supporters at Byers Choice in Colmar,
Pa. Thursday Sept. 9, 2004. (AP
Photo/Jacqueline Larma) 09/11/2004 05:53 AM

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The United States, Backed By The
European Union, Japan And Canada, Has
Turned Back A Bid By Developing Nations
To Place The Internet Under The Control
Of The United Nations Or Its Member
Governments

The United States, Backed By The
European Union, Japan And Canada, Has
Turned Back A Bid By Developing Nations
To Place The Internet Under The Control
Of The United Nations Or Its Member
Governments 12/09/2003 03:48 AM
Washington Times .. second paragraph

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"President Bush Said On Thursday That He
Did Not Believe Senator John Kerry Lied
About His War Record, But He Declined To
Condemn The Television Commercial Paid
For By A Veterans Group Alleging That
Mr. Kerry Came By His War Medals
Dishonestly (Free New..."

"President Bush Said On Thursday That He
Did Not Believe Senator John Kerry Lied
About His War Record, But He Declined To
Condemn The Television Commercial Paid
For By A Veterans Group Alleging That
Mr. Kerry Came By His War Medals
Dishonestly (Free New..." 08/27/2004 03:50 PM

HILLARY ON THE "IRREPARABLE HARM" A
PRESIDENT CAN DO

HILLARY ON THE "IRREPARABLE HARM" A
PRESIDENT CAN DO 12/07/2003 07:08 AM
Matt Drudge reports the following .. report from Drudge .. HILLARY BASHES GW

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"It’s difficult to think of anyone who
has inflicted more harm on Americans
than their current president."

"It’s difficult to think of anyone who
has inflicted more harm on Americans
than their current president." 05/24/2004 09:53 PM

The United States of Texas

The United States of Texas 06/24/2004 01:23 AM
Salon Jun 24 2004 5:21AM GMT

The United States Is In Deep Doo doo!

The United States Is In Deep Doo doo! 03/14/2003 05:07 PM
The United States Is In Deep Doo doo! In the end, there is no such thing as a free lunch. You cannot make money grow in value by shaking it back and forth from one bank to another. You cannot prosper a nation by doing each other's laundry, or filling out their government mandated and greatly obfuscated paperwork, or flinging stock certificates around which may have as little real worth as Federal Reserve Notes. To make money, to show a profit, you must make products that somebody else wants to buy, and sadly, that is a capability the United States has allowed to slip away in great measure.

A Map of Languages in the United States

A Map of Languages in the United States 06/22/2004 06:04 AM
A Map of Languages in the United States
http://www.mla.org/census_main

The MLA Language Map is intended for use by students, teachers, and anyone interested in learning about the linguistic and cultural composition of the United States. The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and seven groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States. The Language Map illustrates the density of language speakers in zip codes and counties. The Data Center provides actual numbers and percentages of speakers.

4 Rivals Almost United on Ways to Fight
Spam

4 Rivals Almost United on Ways to Fight
Spam 06/22/2004 11:38 PM
New York Times Jun 23 2004 3:55AM GMT

United Nations Votes to Study
Administration of the Internet

United Nations Votes to Study
Administration of the Internet 12/16/2003 12:35 PM
United Nations Votes to Study Administration of the Internet
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/12/15/technology/15divide.html
The delegates at a U.N. conference on the Internet have decided that a "working group" should be set up to consider introducing more international oversight of the Internet and its administrative bodies (such as ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a company that has a U.S. Commerce Department contract to coordinates Internet addresses and some other technical issues). At the conference, delegates from the developing countries were unsuccessful in getting the U.N. to take full administrative control of the Internet, although they did get a promise that ways will be explored to close the "digital divide" between richer and poorer nations. Eli M. Noam, who heads the Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia University, notes: "Even if it is not true, there is a perception that the U.S. government is running the Internet."

States Pan Pentagon 's Enviro Plans

States Pan Pentagon 's Enviro Plans 04/20/2004 09:54 AM
CBS News Apr 20 2004 2:11PM GMT

People of the United States, why is
everyone yelling at you???

People of the United States, why is
everyone yelling at you??? 04/14/2005 06:53 PM
Beware! We will take over television studios, kidnap so-called commentators and broadcast calm, well-reasoned discussions of the issues of the day. The manifesto of the Unitarian Jihad.
Grok Description matches for President Bush told a roomful of top Pentagon brass on Thursday that his administration would never stop looking for ways to harm the United States
GrokA matches for President Bush told a roomful of top Pentagon brass on Thursday that his administration would never stop looking for ways to harm the United States

President Bush told a roomful of top Pentagon brass on Thursday that his administration would never stop looking for ways to harm the United States