Monday, December 20, 2004
The Rumsfeld Firing Date Countdown Starts Here
Maher Arar - Canada's top newsmaker
Remember how the Iraq war used to be described by Bush as the first step towards bringing democracy and freedom to the Middle East? "US slows bid to advance democracy in Arab world" (The New York Times via M.G.G. Pillai)
The Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney - Bob McKeown of CBC Canada's Fifth Estate news show keeps putting the smack down on Bush's bogus Iraq war policy. If this show on Dick Cheney's f-ckery had been produced in the US, it would have probably been shelved and never aired.
Rumsfeld continues to play himself - he needed yet another embarassing public disclosure before he did the right thing again? How long is Bush gonna let this go on? (BBC News)
And Time picks Bush as the Person of the Year joining such previous luminaries as Adolf Hitler (1938), Joseph Stalin (1942) and the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1979). I'd say that seems about right. (BBC News | Related: Time names Maher Arar, the Ottawa man sent from New York to a Syrian prison on allegations of links to terrorism, Canada's top newsmaker of 2004. CTV.ca)
