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On Friday, while former Defense Sec. Donald Rumsfeld was visiting France, human rights groups based there and in the United States filed complaints against him, charging him with approving torture:
Rumsfeld is accused of authorizing torture at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
The French complaint accuses Mr. Rumsfeld of authorizing torture [...]

Woman screams ‘War criminal!’ at Rice and ‘Take her to the hague!’ Cops drag Code Pink members out screaming even though it’s unclear they were involved

Just as surely as the Republican minority in Congress will approve this new $46 billion spike in funding demanded by Pres. Bush for the war in Iraq — an amount that would more than cover the Democrats’ proposed expansion of health insurance coverage for children — the Democrats will get blamed for it:
Setting up another [...]

During the first three years of the war, when the GOP controlled Congress and the White House, there was very little, if any, accountability of the money spent by government contractors in Iraq.
Among the problems identified before the audit was suspended were duplicate payments, the purchase of a never-used $1.8 million X-ray scanner and payments [...]

Mid-2003: A reporter in Iraq stands on a pallet filled with shrink-wrapped bricks of C-Notes
“Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone?” — Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.
Pres. Bush said he vetoed the Democrats’ expansion of the SCHIP children’s health insurance program because it was too costly. This [...]

At about the 5:15 mark, Bush starts a running joke about the search for WMD. Very funny, especially now that nearly 4,000 U.S. troops have died on his orders to find the weapons.

Pete Stark, Democrat of California, speaking on the House floor yesterday:
First of all, I’m just amazed that they can’t figure out — the Republicans are worried that we can’t pay for insuring an additional ten million children. They sure don’t care about finding $200 billion to fight the illegal war in Iraq. Where are you [...]

New York Times:
Attempts by American-led reconstruction teams to forge political reconciliation, foster economic growth and build an effective police force and court system in Iraq have failed to show significant progress in nearly every one of the nation’s provincial regions and in the capital, a federal oversight agency reported on Thursday.
The report, by the Office [...]