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  • Every Mother’s Son
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. - Stephen King
    George W. Bush hauled stakes for Texas and a vacation a few days ago. Cindy Sheehan followed. She got off a bus Saturday afternoon and started walking to the Crawford ranch. She wanted some answers and was going to get them.
    Sheehan had met Mr. Bush once before. On April 4, 2004, just shy of a year after Bush stood on an aircraft carrier beneath a banner that read "Mission (...)

  • Conyers to Object to Ohio Electors, Requests Senate Allies
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Representative John Conyers, ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, will object to the counting of the Ohio Electors from the 2004 Presidential election when Congress convenes to ratify those votes on January 6th. In a letter dispatched to every Senator, which will be officially published by his office shortly, Conyers declares that he will be joined in this by several other members of the House. Rep. Conyers is taking this dramatic step because he believes the (...)

  • Osama’s Election Editorial
    30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    So the bastard is still alive.
    He isn’t dead of kidney failure or rotting in a cave somewhere in the Hindu Kush. He wasn’t smoked out of his hole, and he in no way appeared to be on the run. The images broadcast on every American television station in the last few hours showed a man apparently in good health, clothed in traditional white and wrapped in a golden robe. His hands were steady and his voice was clear. From all appearances, Osama bin Laden is (...)

  • Cheney’s Avalanche of Lies
    7 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Rivers Pitt "The vice president, I’m surprised to hear him talk about records. When he was one of 435 members of the United States House, he was one of 10 to vote against Head Start, one of four to vote against banning plastic weapons that can pass through metal detectors. He voted against the Department of Education. He voted against funding for Meals on Wheels for seniors. He voted against a holiday for Martin Luther King. He voted against a resolution calling for the (...)

  • It Was a Rout
    5 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    "Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!" Howard Cosell
    There was a President on that stage in Florida on Thursday night, and his name was not George.
    This was supposed to be the debate that played to the strengths of Bush and his administration. Foreign policy in general and the protection of the United States from terrorism in particular, according to all the polls and every talking head within earshot, are the areas where George (...)

  • When the Rabbits Get a Gun
    15 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Rivers Pitt
    This is the comforting fiction: Osama bin Laden is a monster who sprang whole from the fetid mire. He had no childhood, no influences, no education, no experiences to form his view of the world. He did not exist, and then he did, a vessel into which the universe poured the essence of evil. It is a simple, straightforward story of a man who hates freedom and kills for the pure joy of feeling innocent blood drip from his fingers.
    This is the fairy tale by which (...)

  • Nausea in New York
    2 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    "One of the interesting things people ask me, now that we are asking questions, is, ’Can you ever win the war on terror?’ Of course you can." George W. Bush, April 13 2004
    You just can’t make this stuff up.
    George W. Bush, in an interview broadcast Monday by the ‘Today’ show, told host Matt Lauer that he doesn’t think his ‘War on Terror’ is winnable. "I don’t think you can win it," said Bush. "But I think you can create conditions so that those who use (...)

  • Not So Swift Boat Veterans
    23 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Rivers Pitt
    Ever hear the old story of the lady and the snake?
    A lady finds a snake injured in the road. She takes it home, cares for it, helps it heal, and the two become friends. One day, the lady is in her garden with the snake, and the snake suddenly bites her in the throat. The lady lays dying and gasps, "Why did you bite me? I was your friend?" The snake replies, "Lady, you knew I was a snake when you picked me up."
    This is a parable the Bush/Cheney campaign is (...)

  • Torturing Children
    21 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    The biggest story of the Iraq war is not about missing weapons of mass destruction, or about deep-cover CIA officers getting their covers blown by vengeful White House agents, or even about 896 dead American soldiers. These have been covered to one degree or another, and then summarily dismissed, by the American mainstream news media. The biggest story of the Iraq war has not enjoyed any coverage in America, though it has been exploding across the international (...)

  • Only Cowards Cancel Elections
    15 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    A number of trial balloons have been floated in recent days, from Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge specifically, about canceling or postponing the national election because of a terrorist attack. DeForest B. Soaries Jr., the Bush-appointed chairman of the newly minted U.S. Election Assistance Commission, apparently got the ball rolling with Ridge by writing a letter to him. In it, he bade Ridge ask Congress for the power to put off the November election in the (...)