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Kucinich: Bush Has No Backup Plan for Iraq, Forfeits Right To Lead
http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=59635
Congress must end the war, HR 1234 is the Backup Plan

Libbygate: Now Let’s Get to the Real Story
Dave Lindorff
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0306-38.htm
So Scooter Libby has taken the fall. Three and a half years and a long bloody war after he and a gang of war-mongers in the White House and Blair House, including President Bush and Vice President Cheney, set out to undermine and trash the reputation of an Iraq war critic, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, Libby has been found guilty of perjury, lying to the FBI and obstruction of justice by a Washington jury. Now maybe special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald and what passes for journalists in the mainstream media can get down to the real business of finding out just why the entire White House smear operation was unleashed upon a minor state department official and why they went so far as to violate federal law and expose his CIA-operative wife, Valerie Plame, in the process destroying her entire network of contacts for monitoring the spread of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Because that's what this whole Libby story is really about.