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Sometimes just stating the record is more powerful than commenting on it. [→ READ ]
Guardian UK: ‘Jack Straw and his US counterpart, Colin Powell, privately expressed serious doubts about the quality of intelligence on Iraq’s banned weapons programme at the very time they were publicly trumpeting it to get UN support for a war on Iraq.’ [→ READ ]
As Kos summarizes,
We went to war without clear evidence of WMDs. Bush claimed the opposite.
Bush lied.
People died.
[via Daily Kos]
The tax bill that President Bush signed May 28 dropped a child tax credit provision … that would have assisted close to 12 million children in low-income working families. [→ READ ]
The tax bill that President Bush signed May 28 dropped a child tax credit provision included in the Senate version of the bill that would have assisted close to 12 million children in low-income working families, many of whom receive no benefit from the final legislation.
Bill Moyers: ‘It’s the richest Americans — the top one percent — who get the lion’s share of the tax cuts – people like … Vice President Dick Cheney …’ [→ READ ]
Remember that $400 per child tax credit that was in the tax bill? We have now learned that at the very last minute, behind closed doors, the Republican leaders in Congress pulled a bait-and-switch. They eliminated from the bill that $400 child credit for families who make just above the minimum wage. They will use that money to pay for the cut on dividend taxes. Eleven million children in families with incomes roughly between ten thousand and twenty six thousand dollars a year won’t be getting the check that was supposed to be in the mail this summer. Eleven million children punished for being poor, even as the rich are rewarded for being rich.
A breakdown of coalition (US and UK) service deaths by day since the first casualties were incurred. [→ READ ]
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