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Charges Dismissed Against Rev. Lennox Yearwood for Assaulting a Capitol Police Officer
CHARGES DISMISSED AGAINST AFRICAN-AMERICAN MINISTER TARGETED AND TACKLED BY CAPITOL POLICE
October 1, 2007
1 Oct 2007 // Washington, D.C. – Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., president of the Hip Hop Caucus and peace activist, announced today that the D.C. Superior Court dismissed charges against him of assaulting a Capitol Police officer while in line to attend a hearing in the House of Representatives. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) represents Rev. Yearwood in his case.
New York Times public editor repudiates MoveOn.org ad on General Petraeus
New York Times public editor repudiates MoveOn.org ad on General Petraeus
By Bill Van Auken
WSWS
25 September 2007
Recriminations over the MoveOn.org newspaper ad questioning the credibility of Gen. David Petraeus’s defense of the Bush administration’s military surge in Iraq continued over the weekend, with the public editor of the New York Times repudiating the newspaper’s decision to run the ad.
The U.S. Senate just told you to sit down and be quiet.
I will fight back
The U.S. Senate just told you to sit down and be quiet. They passed a resolution condemning MoveOn.org and it has one purpose: to intimidate all of us who care about responsibly ending this war. They wanted to send a message that anyone who speaks unpleasant truths about this war will pay. To make everyone--especially politicians--think twice before they accuse the administration of lying.
We can't let that happen.
“It is a sad day in the Senate when we spend hours debating an ad while our young people are dying in Iraq,” Sen. Chris Dodd
Published on Thursday
September 20, 2007 by The Hill (Washington, DC)
Senate Repudiates MoveOn Ad, Obama Misses Vote
by Klaus Marre
The Senate voted on Thursday to repudiate an ad from MoveOn.org that referred to Gen. David Petraeus as “General Betray Us.” Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) opposed the measure, while her closest competitor, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), missed the vote.
The Senate approved a resolution condemning the ad and all attacks on members of the military by 72-25.
Yesterday Abu Risha Was Assassinated by Bombers in Anbar
Yesterday Abu Risha was assassinated by bombers in Anbar
An assassination that blows apart Bush's hopes of pacifying Iraq
Last week George Bush flew into Iraq to meet Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, leader of Anbar province. This week General David Petraeus told the US Congress how Anbar was a model for Iraq.
Yesterday Abu Risha was assassinated by bombers in Anbar
By Patrick Cockburn
The Independent
14 September 2007
Ten days after President George Bush clasped his hand as a symbol of America's hopes in Iraq, the man who led the US-supported revolt of Sunni sheikhs against al-Qa'ida in Iraq was assassinated.
The Petraeus Performance - Matthew Rothschild
The Petraeus Performance
By Matthew Rothschild
September 10, 2007
The opening day of the Petraeus performance went pretty much according to script. The somber general and the geeky ambassador were careful to promise not victory but the possibility of success, vaguely defined. And, of course, Petraeus warned of the “devastating consequences” of what he called a “premature drawdown.”
Petraeus threw out a bunch of stats, flipped some charts, and pointed to tables all indicating that the situation is improving. These are suspect. “The number of overall civilian deaths” has declined since December, he said, for instance. But a report by the McClatchy news service on Sunday rebuts this.
Why Is This Man Smiling?
Why Is This Man Smiling?
Sep 4, 2007
By Robert Scheer
TruthDig
All smiles: President Bush poses with the troops at Al-Asad Airbase in Iraq’s Anbar province. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak
