Notes from the Members, February 2007 Ruben Navarette Jr: Commentary: Anti-immigrant mob creates false heroes (thank you, Carmen) Interested in Iran: view this analysis from Physicians for Social Responsibility Bush Countdown Clock Bill, Al and W (Joke) Thank you Betty What did your representative say about the Iraq resolution? Helpless Democrat (Joke) A short quiz about your political beliefs (thank you Betty) Note about phone tax and this year's income tax credit (thank you Gayle EXCERPTS:
"The explanation for the hysteria has long been obvious. The White House was terrified about being found guilty of a far greater crime than outing a C.I.A. officer: lying to the nation to hype its case for war. When Mr. Wilson, an obscure retired diplomat, touched that raw nerve, all the president’s men panicked because they knew Mr. Wilson’s modest finding in Africa was the tip of a far larger iceberg. They knew that there was still far more damning evidence of the administration’s W.M.D. lies lurking in the bowels of the bureaucracy."
"... Whether he [Libby] will go to jail for his misplaced loyalty is the human drama of his trial. But for the country there are bigger issues at stake, and they are not, as the White House would have us believe, ancient history. The administration propaganda flimflams that sold us the war are now being retrofitted to expand and extend it."
Why Dick Cheney Cracked Up
By FRANK RICH Excerpts:
"Molly never lost sight of two eternal truths: rulers lie, and the times when people are most afraid to challenge authority are also the times when it’ s most important to do just that. And the fact that she remembered these truths explains something I haven’t seen pointed out in any of the tributes: her extraordinary prescience on the central political issue of our time."
"Was Molly smarter than all the experts? No, she was just braver. The administration’s exploitation of 9/11 created an environment in which it took a lot of courage to see and say the obvious."
Missing Molly Ivins
By PAUL KRUGMAN Two quotes from Chuck Hagel worth reading:
"There is no strategy, this is a ping-pong game with American lives. These young men and women that we put in Iraq are not beans... they're real lives...and we better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of us, before we put twenty-two thousand more Americans into that grinder."
"Why were you elected? If you want a safe job, go sell shoes." (crticizing Republicans on the Foreign Relations Committee who oppose the president's war plan, but are not willing to vote against it.) Excerpt:
"But there is growing alarm among military and intelligence experts that Bush already has decided to attack and simply is waiting for a second aircraft carrier strike force to arrive in the region - and for a propaganda blitz to stir up some pro-war sentiment at home."
Iran Clock Is Ticking
By Robert Parry | 
