What the Bastards Are Up To Today

Everything's Grand in Iraq

While the Bush/Cheney/Halliburton administration busily maintains that the situation in Iraq is going well, the body of an American peace activist was discovered dumped on a pile of garbage in Baghdad. Tom Fox, a representative of the Christian Peacemaker Teams, was in Iraq to campaign against the U.S. occupation and to try to get Iraqis held by the U.S. released.

Reuters reports that Fox was taken hostage in November by a group called "Swords of Truth." The Swords evidently can't tell the difference between their opponents and their supporters, or don't care.

In more good news (according to the BCH administration) a senior editor for the Iraq state television was shot dead in his car on Saturday. Reuters reports that he was the second journalist to be killed in one week.

Story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060311/ts_nm/iraq_journalist_dc

More Bush/Cheney/Halliburton Sleaze

Another of the Bush/Cheney/Halliburton administration's buddies got himself into hot water with the police last week. Claude Allen, a former domestic policy person, is reported by Reuters to have been arrested this week for "alledgedly swindling two stores out of more than $5,000..."

Reuter's Story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060311/pl_nm/bush_aide_dc

Rolling right along:

Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior, has announced that she is resigning her post. This is the woman who presided over the opening of Tellowstone National Park to snowmobiles and helped the BCH administration push for energy development on public lands. The really big suprise is that she's going to work for the private sector. That's really novel.

Norton, of course, claims that the investigations of Jack Abramoff's dealings with her department have nothing to do with her resignation. Right, and there are WMDs in Iraq. Why don't we put these people in jail?
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