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AM Feed - August 24, 2005

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President Bush continues to be hounded by antiwar protestors demanding
answers for his administration's policies. He hasn't offered any. Instead he
has
done what he usually does: lash out at those who oppose him. Yesterday Bush
again refused to meet with Cindy Sheehan, and stated that she and other
protestors
do not speak for the majority of families who have lost loved ones in
combat. But Sheehan and the protesters clearly aren't alone in their quest
to find
answers from the Bush administration. Recent polls indicate that a clear
majority of Americans are unhappy with the war in Iraq - a Newsweek poll
found
that 61 percent disapprove of the way Bush is handling it, and a
CNN/USAToday/Gallup poll found that 54 percent think that sending troops to
Iraq was a
mistake. Bush is now in Idaho on a quickly-planned junket to drum up support
for the war.
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Just how far do the Bush administration's propaganda efforts go? Even the
hallowed ground of Arlington National Cemetery isn't sacred: It seems the
administration
is breaking with tradition and engraving the tombstones of fallen soldiers
with their war slogans ("Operation Enduring Freedom," etc.) - often without
the surviving families' consent. Most tombstones from earlier eras supply
just basic information, but the Department of Veterans Affairs ordered the
change
after the invasion of Iraq. Families are supposed to be given the option to
include the slogans, but that hasn't always been the case as the family of
Patrick McCaffrey, who was killed in Iraq, found out. "In one way, I feel it
's taking advantage to a small degree. Patrick did not want to be there,
that
is a definite fact," said his father Robert.
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Who Says That?

"I'm kind of hanging loose, as they say." - President Bush, while on
vacation in Idaho from his vacation in Texas.

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Here's a question: Has anyone heard anything about Karl Rove lately? What's
going on with the Plame leak investigation? Has everyone just decided to
hang
loose on that as well?
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