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I haven’t used the word “obscene” for a while, and this seems a perfect opportunity. George W has used the rescue of nine miners in Pennsylvania to drum up support for his so-called “War on Terrorism.” What possible connection could these two events have to each other, you ask?

The Boston Globe quotes Bush as having said that the “spirit of America” rescued the miners. Quoth the President: “It’s that spirit that’s … going to prevail in the big challenges we face around the world, the challenge of making sure that we hunt down every terrorist and bring them to justice, because we love freedom.”

Leaving aside the disgusting attempt to twist someone else’s nearly-fatal adventure to his own political advantage, W seems to have made an odd choice this time. After all, if it were safe to go to work in this country, those guys wouldn’t have needed to be rescued in the first place. The Bush administration has stopped action on 29 pending job safety initiatives, including 13 from the Mine Safety and Health Administration.

George Bush spoke today at the American cemetary in Normandy, site of 9,387 graves of Americans killed in the D-Day invasion. He drew a connection between his so-called War on Terrorism and the sacrifice of those who fought in WWII, proving once again that there is no flag in which Dubya will not wrap himself.

This seems as good a time as any to remind the gentle reader that George W. Bush evaded service in Vietnam by joining the Texas Air National Guard, and then didn’t show up for duty for a year.

Seems that W is working hard to increase Presidential secrecy in Washington, all of course in the name of national security. This is of course nothing new; Nixon was most famous for tarnishing the phrase “executive privilege,” his term for holding the President above the law. The current administration wants to hide Reagan administration documents from public view. Never mind that the Republicans were all about public scrutiny of Clinton documents while he was still in the White House.

John Henry Falk got to the essence of it: official secrets, he once said, always exist to hide official lying.

The President has criticized the government of Iran for being “unelected.” Why is this ironic? <ol type=a>

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