Author: Charles Goyette

Charley Richardson and Nancy Lessin, co-founders of Military Families Speak Out do just that – in this case against the so-called “surge” of troops into Iraq and Afghanistan, the impotence political games of the Democrats, the completely ignored antiwar mandate from the American people last November, the scum that is Congressman Obey, his lie that it is to abandon the troops for Congress to mandate that money may only be spent on their safe withdrawal.

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Military Families Speak Out is an organization of people opposed to the war in Iraq who have relatives or loved ones in the military. Our membership currently includes over 3,000 military families, with new families joining daily. If you have family members or loved ones in the military and you are opposed to this war, JOIN by sending an e-mail to us at mfso@mfso.org

Lou Dubose, author of Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency, discusses what a hypocritical coward Dick Cheney is, his long march to power through the Nixon and Ford years, how his crew out-smarted and out-maneuvered Bush’s crew to take control over the White House, the reasons why he and Powell didn’t want to go “all the way to Baghdad,” fun speculation about what craziness may be going on inside his head, what involvement the OVP had in lying us into war, his corrupt no-bid contracts, how the Cheney Cabal killed Iran’s attempt to give up everything in April 2003.

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Lou Dubose is the former editor of the Texas Observer, where he followed the career of George W. Bush. He has cowritten two Bush books with Molly Ivins, “Shrub” and “Bushwhacked.” He is the co-author, with Jan Reid, of “The Hammer: Tom DeLay: God, Money, and the Rise of the Republican Congress.” His newest is Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency.

Former veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses his piece, “Why Cheney Lost It When Joe Wilson Spoke Out.”

Also: Senator Pat Roberts’ obstruction of the FBI and Senate investigations of the Cheney Cabal, Senator John D. Rockefeller IV’s cowardice and reasons why he thinks the chances Bush/Cheney will bomb Iran are now less than 50/50.

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Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years – from the John F. Kennedy administration to that of George H. W. Bush. He is a co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

James Marcinkowski, a former CIA officer and classmate of Valerie Plame discusses the conviction of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the necessity of Congress stepping up to investigate the OVP/OSP crew, Plame’s “non-official cover,” status, Brewster-Jennings and Accociates, etc.

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James Marcinkowski is a former CIA case officer and former administrative staff attorney in the Oakland County Michigan Prosecutor’s Office.

Michael Klare, defense correspondent for the Nation, discusses his TomDispatch article “Bush’s Future Iran War Speech, Three Charges in the Case for War.”

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Michael T. Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies (a joint appointment at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst), and Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), a position he has held since 1985. Before assuming his present post, he served as Director of the Program on Militarism and Disarmament at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. (1977-84).

Michael Klare serves on the board of directors of the Arms Control Association, the National Council of the Federation of American Scientists, and the advisory board of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch; he is also a member of the Committee on International Security Studies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Edward Peck discusses America’s newfound “diplomacy” with Iran and Syria, the situation in Iraq, the Bush regime’s lies about North Korea’s “uranium enrichment program,” and the possibility of war with Iran.

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Peck, a former U.S. chief of mission in Iraq and former ambassador to Mauritania, was deputy director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism in the Reagan administration.