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Hundreds Turn Out For May Day Rally
KATU NEWS
by Sarah Linn
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=66935

What's Wrong With Curves?
ALTERNET
by Ruth Rosen
http://alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18569

Wolfie's Fuzzy Math
NEW YORK TIMES
by Maureen Dowd
http://truthout.org/docs_04/050304I.shtml

But it's unhealthy to censor the ugly realities of war. The real danger is when the architects of war refuse to rethink bad assumptions, wrapping themselves in the blindly ideological nobility of their mission. Senator John McCain let Sinclair have it with both barrels, noting that the public needed "to be reminded of war's terrible costs, in all their heartbreaking detail" and calling the pre-emption "unpatriotic." (Shouldn't John Kerry be running as John McCain's vice president?)

The Pictures That Lost The War
SUNDAY HERALD
by Neil Mackay
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0502-02.htm

Grim images of American and British soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners have not only caused disgust and revulsion in the West, but could have forever lost Bush and Blair the moral high ground that they claimed to justify the invasion of Iraq.