Saturday

Mercury News | 03/20/2004 | Iraq invasion protested: "I bought into the whole rationale for the war, that there were weapons of mass destruction,'' Lyons said. "Now the whole thing disgusts me. I've come to believe that President Bush is the most dangerous man on the planet."

Friday

The Salt Lake Tribune -- Department memo told park heads to spin cuts
Op-Ed Columnist: Taken for a Ride: "So if the Bush administration were really concerned about maintaining a united front against terrorism, all it would have to do is drop its my-way-or-the-highway approach. But it won't."
TAP: Web Feature: Allies Axed. by Tara McKelvey. March 17, 2004.: "The message is: If you want to get re-elected, don't go to Crawford. Bush is a political liability -- in Europe, in particular. His foreign policy has trampled on the European views and it's now resulting in the election of governments that do not support his approach."

Wednesday

The Spokesman-Review.com - Bush's partial history The White House documents do show that Bush's military job description, called an Air Force Specialty Code, or AFSC, was listed as ‘‘1125D, pilot, fighter interceptor.”
Bush's pilot code was among those covered by Air Force Regulation 35-99, a previously undisclosed document recently obtained by The Spokesman-Review. Regulation 35-99 contains an extensive explanation of the Human Reliability Program.
Human reliability regulations were used to screen military personnel for their mental, physical and emotional fitness before granting them access to nuclear weapons and delivery systems.
Under the rules, pilots could be removed immediately from the cockpit for HRP issues, which happened in the 1974 Washington Air National Guard case. The two Washington airmen were suspended on suspicion of drug use, but eventually received honorable discharges.

"Unknown Soldier" Speaks Out To Bring Troops Home: "Q: Are the men and women in the U.S. military in Iraq sufficiently trained before going over there?
A: No. I am extremely concerned about the major shift that is taking place right now, between now and June, where there's going to be a much higher percentage of the troops being Reserves rather than full-time, active duty military. The difference is that the active duty go through far more training than Reserves."
St. Patrick, Rid Us Of These Snakes!: "No Republican gathering, from a fund-raiser to a Bush cabinet meeting to duck hunting with a Supreme Court justice, can be held without the blessing and imprimatur of the Almighty. "
Al-Ahram Weekly | OPINION | Clerical credentials: "When sects abound in a country lacking plural democracy, men of religion become communal spokesman, supplanting political plurality....Theirs become the final word for a factional identity that has nothing to do with the profound understanding of religious law....The stature is born of circumstance, stimulated by the collapse of civil society groups."
Iraq on the Record
Ballot mistake clouds election outcome - newarkadvocate.com
The Daytona Beach News-Journal: East Volusia: "So last week's election was the second Florida election this year that developed a kink despite low turnout."
Greenspan Shifts View on Deficits: "On Monday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office published new calculations showing that the budget deficit now stems almost entirely from tax cuts and spending increases rather than from lingering effects of the economic slowdown. "
Op-Ed Columnist: Weak on Terror: "Some of the administration's actions have been so strange that those who reported them were initially accused of being nutty conspiracy theorists."
KRT Wire | 03/15/2004 | Iraqi exile group fed news media false information: "Feeding the information to the news media, as well as to selected administration officials and members of Congress, helped foster an impression that there were multiple sources of intelligence on Iraq's illicit weapons programs and links to bin Laden.
In fact, many of the allegations came from the same half-dozen defectors, weren't confirmed by other intelligence and were hotly disputed by intelligence professionals at the CIA, the Defense Department and the State Department.
Nevertheless, U.S. officials and others who supported a pre-emptive invasion quoted the allegations in statements and interviews without running afoul of restrictions on classified information or doubts about the defectors' reliability."

Tuesday

The Miami Herald | 03/16/2004 | Miami soldier resists: 'This war is evil': 'I am not against the military. The military has been my family,'' said Mejia, 28. ``My commanders are not evil but this war is evil. I did not sign up for the military to go halfway around the world to be an instrument of oppression.''
Memo highlights Speaker's many new enemies - newarkadvocate.com: "We just kept looking around at each other like cows looking at a new gate."

Monday

Federal Times Online: Unpaid Halliburton subcontractor threatens to end hot meals for troops. "I just want to get paid," says this patriot.
MSNBC - Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermind: "People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president's policy of preemption against terrorists."
OrlandoSentinel.com: Entertainment: "$1.4 billion flowed from the House of Saud to the Bush family and their interests.
So how much influence does this $1.4 billion buy?"
KR Washington Bureau | 03/14/2004 | Families of slain troops join antiwar protest outside Dover air base: "You will not end terrorism by invading a country"

Sunday

Missteps on Economy Worry Bush Supporters (washingtonpost.com): "Clearly, the machinery's not working very well"