A New York Times / CBS News poll finds that only 16% of Americans think the Bush Administration is telling the truth about what they knew prior to 9/11 about possible terrorist attacks on the US.

“We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who may now, if he so decides,…declare you an “unlawful enemy combatant” and ship you somewhere - anywhere.”

Iraq’s mortality rate in the year before the invasion was 5.5 deaths per 1,000 people; in the post-invasion period it was 13.3 deaths per 1,000. The difference between these rates was used to calculate “excess deaths.” - Washington Post

U.S. assets must be unhindered in carrying out their space duties, the Bush space policy says, stressing that “freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.”

(Not a new policy. See: Space Dominance

I am Sam Lwin, an ex-Marine, a conscientious objector and an anti-war activist from the first Gulf war. I would like to say a few words about the connection between 9/11 and war.”