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Bush is an incompetent leader. In fact, he's not a leader. He's a person who has no judgment, no experience and no knowledge of the subjects that he has to decide upon..... He has on his shoulders the deaths of many more troops, because he would not heed the advice of his own State Department of what to expect after May 1..... The shallowness that he has brought to the office has not changed since he got there.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi

Latest Polls

NATIONAL POLLS:
• FOX News : Bush 42, Kerry 42, Nader 3
• Battleground States: Bush 43, Kerry 37
• IBD/TIPP: Bush 42, Kerry 41, Nader 7
• Rasmussen: Bush 45, Kerry 44
• Bush Job Approval at 46% in RCP Avg
STATE POLLS:
PA: Kerry 48%, Bush 43%
FL: Bush 47%, Kerry 46%, Nader 3%
NJ: Kerry 46%, Bush 43%, Nader 5%
TX: Bush 58%, Kerry 29%
NC: Bush 48%, Kerry 41%, Nader 3%
SENATE, HOUSE & GOV POLLS :
SD: Daschle 49%, Thune 47%
IL: Obama 48%, Ryan 40%
SD: Herseth 49%, Diedrich 40%

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Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids -- $500 sneakers for what? And won't spend $200 for 'Hooked on Phonics.' ..... They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English, I can't even talk the way these people talk: 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' . . . And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. . . . Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. . . . You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth!"
Bill Cosby speaking at Constitution Hall commemorating Brown v. Board

That is exactly where we are today — in the midst of measureless peril. But as lethal and confounding as the terrorist fighters and their allies currently are in Iraq, our greater peril lies within ourselves. We have the strength — military, economic, cultural, diplomatic, (dare I include the strength of our religious faith, also?) - to persist around the world unto victory - for generations if necessary. But all this potential capacity for victory can only be brought into full being by a sustained act of collective will. It is heartbreaking, though no longer perplexing, that the president's political and media opposition want the president's defeat more than America's victory.
Tony Blankley - Washington Times

So a Sarin-infected device is exploded in Iraq, and across the border in Jordan the authorities say that nerve and gas weapons have been discovered for use against them by the followers of Zarqawi, who was in Baghdad well before the invasion. Where, one idly inquires, did these toys come from? No, it couldn't be....
Christopher Hitchens - Slate

Look at those monsters standing there five of them and they cut the guy's head off, they sawed his head off, shouting God is great. Now that is what we are dealing with, that is the kind of people who will run the world if we do not win this war on terrorism And it is being fought in Iraq and we have got to win and that is it. Full stop. There is just no losing this thing or else the world will be run by monsters."
Mort Kondracke - FOX News

"The idea that these prisoners - you know, they're not there for traffic violations. If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners -- they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals. And I hasten to say, yes, there are seven bad guys and gals that didn't do what they should have done. They were misguided. I think maybe even perverted. And the things they did have to be punished, and they're being punished. They're being tried right now and that's all taking place. But I'm also outraged by the press and the politicians and the political agendas that are being served by this, and I say political agendas because that's actually what is happening."
Senator James Inhofe - R - Oklahoma

The Abu Ghraib Incident

• Abuse Transcript : Taguba, Cambone on Abu Ghraib Report
Hearing Transcripts: Senate | House
• Rumsfeld's Statement to Committees
• Rumsfeld Warns of Worse to Come
• Will Rumsfeld Keep His Job?
• Congress Hears a Humbled Rumsfeld
• Secretary Feels Heat, Buys Time
• Text: President Bush on ALhurra TV
• Text: President Bush on Al Arabiya TV
• Rumsfeld in the Hot Seat on Iraq Abuses
• Rumsfeld to Testify on Capitol Hill
• Text of the Taguba Report

Westminster College - Fulton, Missouri

• "This Moment in Iraq is a Moment of Truth" - Senator John Kerry
• "Kerry's Troubling National Security Record" - Vice President Dick Cheney

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"On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked, 'Who would prefer that Saddam's torture chambers still be open?'" said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. "Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management."
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass

"Mr. Secretary, thank you for your hospitality, and thank you for your leadership. You are courageously leading our nation in the war against terror. You're doing a superb job. You are a strong Secretary of Defense, and our nation owes you a debt of gratitude...All Americans know the goodness and the character of the United States Armed Forces. No military in the history of the world has fought so hard and so often for the freedom of others. Today, our soldiers and sailors and airmen and Marines are keeping terrorists across the world on the run. They're helping the people of Afghanistan and Iraq build democratic societies. They're defending America with unselfish courage. And these achievements have brought pride and credit to this nation. I want our men and women in uniform to know that America is proud of you, and that I'm honored to be your Commander-in-Chief."
President George W. Bush - The Pentagon

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