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*** Voice of America's Prepared Obituaries for Castro and Yeltsin
In a decision it now calls a mistake, the US government's news
organization has released audio of two advance obituaries for still-living
leaders. Hear them online
http://www.thememoryhole.org

http://slate.msn.com/id/2113314/

The Plain Meaning of Torture?
Literary deconstruction and the Bush administration's legal reasoning.
By Peter Brooks
Posted Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2005, at 2:07 PM PT

Has newly minted Attorney General Alberto Gonzales studied the opinion handed down by the Supreme Court last November in Leocal v. Ashcroft? There, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist issued a ringing reaffirmation of "plain meaning." "Our analysis begins with the language of the statute," Rehnquist wrote. "When interpreting a statute, we must give words their 'ordinary or natural' meaning."


http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/211556_fisk11.html

Mideast: No peace without justice

ROBERT FISK
BRITISH COLUMNIST

So, the Palestinians will end their occupation of Israel. No more will Palestinian tanks smash their way into Haifa and Tel Aviv. No more will Palestinian F-18s bomb Israeli population centers. No more will Palestinian Apache helicopters carry out "targeted killings" -- i.e., murders -- of Israeli military leaders.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1410432,00.html

The cheers were all ours

Iraq's illegitimate election did not justify the invasion, nor did it make occupation popular

Jonathan Steele
Friday February 11, 2005
The Guardian

Iraq is a "totalitarian state", and that's official, according to the logic of Condoleezza Rice this week. Maybe it was because she was in carefree Paris. Maybe it was because she was having breakfast with a bunch of French intellectuals. But the new US secretary of state let down her political hair and stunned the company with the looseness of her terminology.