127^th in continuing blog series on the administration push to war. The year closes with a whimper, not a bang, as the disappointing and compromised election process ends with George W. Bush retaining the White House. Voters in Ohio and elsewhere are not strongly protected by their Congress. On other fronts, the dubiously credentialed James Guckert/Jeff Gannon steps up his defense of the White House in press briefings, the ‘war on terror’ continues its selective and closeted detentions, and the violence in Iraq intensifies.
December, 2004:

December, 2004. Abdallah Tabarak, formerly driver and companion to Osama bin Laden, ...   more »