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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-29-04 09:06 AM
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Fascinating news view from "Red" country
These are today's headlines from Arizona Republic that "Bush Country" voters are seeing:

Bush camp replaces ad; images doctored
MIAMI - President Bush's campaign said Thursday that it was replacing one of its closing advertisements after acknowledging that it included an image that had been doctored to increase the number of soldiers appearing to listen to Bush.

36 newspapers do flip-flop to endorse Kerry
The Orlando Sentinel has backed every Republican seeking the White House since Richard Nixon in 1968. Not this time.

Plan to offer rosy view of U.S. safety disavowed
WASHINGTON - A Bush political appointee in the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection bureau drafted and distributed a public-relations strategy designed to ''change perception'' about the nation's security by repeating the message, in the weeks leading up to the presidential election, that America is safer, according to internal government documents.

Video: GIs arrived before arms vanished
A video made by a television crew that was with U.S. troops when they opened bunkers at a sprawling Iraqi munitions complex south of Baghdad shows a huge supply of explosives still there nine days after the fall of Saddam Hussein, apparently including some sealed earlier by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

FBI expands its investigation of Halliburton unit contracts
WASHINGTON - The FBI has expanded an investigation into allegations of contract irregularities by Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root Inc. in Iraq and Kuwait.

100,000 Iraqi civilians have died in coalition actions, study estimates
Researchers who conducted a house-to-house survey of Iraqi families estimated Thursday that at least 100,000 civilians died as a result of the U.S.-led invasion, far more than any previous estimates.


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RobbyRoo Donating Member (46 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-29-04 09:07 AM
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1. Watch F 9/11 online
Watch F 9/11 online. Here's the link:
http://www.bush-flipflop.com/f911.html



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JuniorPlankton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-29-04 09:11 AM
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2. Those stubborn FACTS!
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-29-04 09:17 AM
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4. Pfff! You can prove anything with facts! - Homer Simpson
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tomfodw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-29-04 09:28 AM
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8. The "reality-based community" bites back!
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Stuckinthebush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-29-04 09:12 AM
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3. It's enough to make one giddy
Yeehaw!

:D
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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-29-04 09:20 AM
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5. 100,000???
Not sure I believe that one.... the highest I've seen is more like less than half of that. I'd be inclined to believe 30-50K, but 100?
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-29-04 09:24 AM
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6. Why not 100,000?
Ever see a Spooky gunship in action?

Breathtaking, it is.
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-29-04 09:27 AM
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7. READ THIS THREAD...
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