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George WMD Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York September 14.Faced with the unprecedented destruction of a major U.S. city, George Bush is using an address to the nation to offer a package of new federal aid to help uprooted hurricane victims rebuild their lives.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/15/D8CKNBVG2.html
...the televised address also aimed at mending his image as a strong leader in a time of crisis? Rather than speak before a live audience, Bush planned to stand alone and broadcast his message directly into the camera from the evacuated city's historic Jackson Square? The perception of a sluggish response to the storm has led to the lowest approval ratings of Bush's presidency.
Baghdad: The bloodiest day
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article312735.ece
On a day when more than a dozen co-ordinated attacks thundered across Baghdad from dawn into the late afternoon - claiming 152 lives and wounding 542 - al-Qa'ida in Iraq said it was retaliating against a US-Iraqi operation directed at the insurgents' northern stronghold of Tal Afar. And as the hours passed with car and roadside bombs shattering the relative calm of the past few days, fears of civil war intensified.
OCCUPIED BAGHDAD, The New Iraq - Two suicide car bombers struck within a minute of each other and a half-mile apart in southern Baghdad on Thursday, killing seven policemen and raising the day's death toll from blasts in the capital to at least 31, police said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5280208,00.html
The U.S. Occupation and Iraqi police drove through Baghdad's Dora neighborhood, where the bombings were concentrated, warning residents to stay indoors because five more car bombers were said to be ready to attack?
Calling U.S. troops `occupation forces,' Iraqis seek timetable for exit
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12636388.htm
The report is the second time in four months that National Assembly members have expressed frustration with the continued American military presence. In June, one-third of the 275 assembly members signed a petition asking the United States to set a timetable for withdrawal.
Iraq's violence "not yet" civil war
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4249172.stm
Is what is happening in Iraq a civil war?
"Terrorists" unite to plot Iraqi civil war
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1781036,00.html
“The enemy here did just the most horrible things you can imagine, in one case murdering a child, placing a booby trap within the child’s body and waiting for the parent to come recover the body of their child and exploding it to kill the parents,” said Colonel H R McMaster, a senior American commander in the town.
U.S. Briefing on Iran Alleges Pattern of Concealment, Deception
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/International/story?id=1127021
Iran Briefing on U.S. Alleges Pattern of Concealment, Deception
Millions for a wall in Israel, but no money for a wall for New Orleans. Billions for a war based on lies, paid for by slashing funding for flood control, hurricane protection, and emergency preparedness here at home. Most of the National Guard on the other side of the planet. ¶ 15.9.05
