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• State of the Union Address 2005
• Budget for Fiscal Year 2006
• Policy Proposals
• The 'War on Terror'
• Iraq
• Smoke and Mirrors
• Also see Social Security (separate page)

State of the Union Address 2005

• American Progress Takes a Look Back at Bush's 2002, 2003 and 2004 speeches
  Center for American Progress
• Feeding the 'Crisis'
  E. J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post, 4 February 2005
• The President of Alienation
  Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, 3 February 2005
• Bush Pushes Aggressive Foreign Policy of 'Spreading Democracy'
  transcript, Democracy Now, 3 February 2005
• Discussion of the 2005 State of the Union Address
  Online chat with Washington Post Associate Editor Robert G. Kaiser, 2 February 2005
• Live Coverage of the State of the Union Address
  John Podesta, Think Progress, 2 February 2005
• Liveblogging the State of the Union Address
  Kevin Drum, Washington Monthly, 2 February 2005

Budget for Fiscal Year 2006

• Analysis of Bush's FY2006 Budget
  Democratic Staff, Senate Budget Committee, 8 February 2005 (Requires Acrobat® Reader to view)
• Laura Bush campaigns against gangs while George Bush cuts anti-gang programs from budget
  Helen Thomas, King Features Syndicate, 11 February 2005
• A Mean Budget
  Anuradha Mittal, CommonDreams, 23 February 2005
• Senators Protest Bush Cuts to Neighborhood Program
  Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout),5 March 2005
• Bush's Budget Screws the Children
  Molly Ivins, Truthout, 17 February 2005
• Farmers Who Backed Bush Upset with Budget
  John Seewer, Associated Press (in Truthout), 17 February 2005
• Budget cuts FDA safety checks
  Julie Appleby, USA Today, 14 February 2005
• Education reform is a clear loser in Bush's 2006 budget
  Robert Gordon, American Prospect, 14 February 2005
• A lesson in dishonesty
  Thomas Oliphant, Boston Globe, 13 February 2005
• Bush claims 'fiscal restraint', but cuts social programs to spend more on his pet project
  Warren Vieth and Joel Havemann, Los Angeles Times (in the Detroit News), 13 February 2005
• Programs Eliminated or Cut in New Budget
  Associated Press (in Truthout), 12 February 2005
• Bush's class-war budget
  Paul Krugman, New York Times (in The Smirking Chimp), 11 February 2005
• Bush's Budget Cuts Would Fall near Main Street
  Ron Scherer, Christian Science Monitor (in Truthout), 9 February 2005

Policy Proposals

• Political Appointees Falsify Commerce Department Report On Offshore Outsourcing
  Richard McCormack, Manufacturing & Technology News, 12 October 2005
• Gov't. Illegally Collected Airline Passenger Data
  Associated Press (in Truthout), 20 June 2005
• Revealed: How Oil Giant Influenced Bush's Stance on Global Warming
  John Vidal, The Guardian (in Truthout), 8 June 2005
• Gambling, GOP Politics Intertwine
  Michael Kranish, Boston Globe (in Truthout), 3 June 2005
• From Tax 'Reform' Panel, Expect a Foregone Conclusion
  Allan Sloan, Washington Post, 12 April 2005
• Experts Counter Bush on Warming Costs
  Associated Press (in Truthout), 15 April 2005
• Yucca Mountain probe focuses on possibly faked data
  Associated Press (in Truthout), 1 April 2005
• Moynihan's daughter says Bush lying about her father's position on Social Security
  Maura Moynihan, New York Daily News, 27 February 2005
• Bush promises to increase anti-gang programs, cuts budgets instead
  Think Progress, 2 March 2005
• Caps on malpractice awards would not reduce healthcare costs
  Steve Lohr, New York Times, 27 February 2005
• Bipartisan Study Assails No Child Left Behind Act
  Sam Dillon, New York Times (in Truthout), 23 February 2005
• Audit Faults U.S. for Its Spending on Port Defense
  Eric Lipton, New York Times, 20 February 2005
• Pro-life? Rate of abortions increased during Bush Administration
  Daily Kos, 19 February 2005
• Euphemisms that hide Bush's destructive agenda
  Alan Bisbort, Hartford Advocate (in The Smirking Chimp), 17 February 2005
• Ex-Aide Questions Bush Vow to Back Faith-Based Efforts
  Alan Cooperman and Jim VandeHei, Washington Post, 15 February 2005
• Bush’s Department of Health and Human Services keeps pushing ineffective abstinence programs
  Steve Yoder, In These Times, 10 February 2005
• Government-funded 'faith-based' programs get no oversight, show poor results
  Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange, 9 February 2005
• Bush's tax cuts increase tax burden on the middle class
  David Cay Johnston, New York Times, 13 February 2005
• U.S. Govt. Scientists Say They Are Told to Alter Findings to Favor Bush Policies
  Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 10 February 2005
• Head of Social Security issued assurances that employees will not be promoting Bush's plan — but she lied
  via Joshua Micah Marshal, Talking Points Memo, 10 February 2005
• What The President’s Budget Shows About The Administration’s Priorities
  Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 9 February 2005
• New White House Estimate Lifts Drug Benefit Cost to $720 Billion
  Robert Pear, New York Times, 9 February 2005

The 'War on Terror'

• Government Report on U.S. Aviation Warns of Security Holes
  Eric Lichtblau, New York Times (in Truthout), 14 March 2005
• Porous border a back door for terrorists?
  Shaun Waterman, UPI, 14 March 2005
• Biden chides Bush for not doing enough on rail security
  Alice Lipowicz, Washington Technology, 11 March 2005
• Audit Faults U.S. for Its Spending on Port Defense
  Eric Lipton, New York Times (in Truthout), 20 February 2005
• War Helps Recruit Terrorists, Hill Told
  Dana Priest and Josh White, Washington Post (in Truthout), 17 February 2005
• Bush Budget Scraps 9,790 Border Patrol Agents
  Michael Hedges, Houston Chronicle, 9 February 2005
• Lady Liberty Under Attack
  Marjorie Cohn, Truthout, 9 February 2005
• In Age of Security, Firm Mines Wealth of Personal Data
  Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post (in Truthout), 20 January 2005

Iraq

• The Downing Street Memo
  dated 23 July 2002; transcription in Salon, 19 May 2005
• Senate Intelligence chairman quietly 'fixed' intelligence, and diverted blame from White House over Iraq
  Larisa Alexandrovna, Raw Story, 11 August 2005
• Letter from an Iraq vet
  Army Sgt. John Bruhns, Salon, 6 August 2005
• Proposed Iraqi Constitution Curbs Women's Rights
  Edward Wong, New York Times (in Truthout), 20 July 2005
• At the Pentagon, truth is the enemy
  Joseph L. Galloway, Knight-Ridder, 20 July 2005
• US lied to Britain over use of napalm in Iraq war
  Colin Brown, Independent UK, 17 June 2005
• New Memos Detail Early Plans for Invading Iraq
  John Daniszewski, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 15 June 2005
• Full Text of British Briefing Papers Revealed More Evidence Intel Was Fixed
  ThinkProgress.org, 13 June 2005
• British Ministers Were Told of Need for Gulf War 'Excuse'
  Michael Smith, Sunday Times (in Truthout), 12 June 2005
• Prewar Findings Worried Analysts
  Walter Pincus, Washington Post, 22 May 2005
• US 'Backed Illegal Iraqi Oil Deals'
  Julian Borger and Jamie Wilson, The Guardian, 17 May 2005
• Body Counts
  Christopher Dickey, Newsweek (in Truthout), 11 May 2005
• CIA's Final Report: No WMD Found in Iraq
  Associated Press (in Truthout), 25 April 2005
• Intelligence reports undercut US claims of Iraq-Qaeda link: top US senator
  AFP (in Information Clearing House), 16 April 2005
• Bush regime ignored warnings Iraqi informant was unreliable
  Bob Drogin and Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 2 April 2005
• Bush regime dismissed CIA doubts about Iraqi weapons
  Dafna Linzer and Barton Gellman, Washington Post (in Truthout), 1 April 2005
• Iraqi Children Fared Better Under Saddam's Regime
  BBC (in Truthout), 31 March 2005
• Justice Department Suppressed Report of Guantanamo Torture
  R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post (in Truthout), 22 March 2005
• Irritated Iraqis Wait for Change
  Alissa J. Rubin, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 12 March 2005
• Fraud and Chaos in U.S. Rebuilding of Iraq
  T. Christian Miller, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 12 March 2005
• Bush's uncle cashes in on Iraq war
  Rupert Cornwell, Independent UK, 24 February 2005
• Bush's Iraq Coalition Shrinking
  Deb Riechman, Associated Press (in Truthout), 18 February 2005
• Uncovering the Rationales for the War on Iraq
  Devon M. Largio (Senior Honors Thesis), Department of Political Science, University of Illinois (undated)
• Rice Got Early al-Qaeda Warning But Failed to Act
  Scott Shane, New York Times (in Truthout), 12 February 2005
• Declassified Memo Proves Rice Lied About Al Qaeda Alerts
  Analysis by Susan Hu, Daily Kos, 10 February 2005
• Iraq's illegitimate election did not justify the invasion, nor did it make occupation popular
  Jonathan Steele, The Guardian (in Truthout), 11 February 2005
• What If (It Was All a Big Mistake)?
  Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), Speech to the House of Representatives (in Truthout), 26 January 2005

Smoke and Mirrors

• The Bush Syndrome: Dead Wrong and Proud of It
  Max J. Castro, Progreso Weekly, 7 February 2005
• News or Public Relations? For Bush It's a Blur
  David Barstow and Robin Stein, New York Times (in Truthout), 13 March 2005
• White House Cuts Entire Chapter from Economic Report
  OMB Watch, 7 March 2005
• The Danger in President's Bush's Conviction He's Right
  Tom Palaima, History News Network, 21 February 2005
• Administration Is Warned About Its 'News' Videos
  Anne E. Kornblut, New York Times, 19 February 2005
• AP Uncovers Ridge Meetings with Pollsters During Presidential Campaign
  Associated Press (in Editor & Publisher), 17 February 2005
  • Correlation of terror alerts with Bush's approval rating
• 'The delusional is no longer marginal'
  Bill Moyers, In These Times, 9 February 2005
• Lies, damned lies and Rice
  Harley Sorensen, San Francisco Chronicle (in The Smirking Chimp), 14 February 2005
• Bush's 'public' appearances are rigorously stage-managed with hand-picked audiences
  Ken Herman, Cox News Service (in The Smirking Chimp), 14 February 2005

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