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US Government Restricting Research Libraries
An anonymous reader writes: "In a move that has been termed 'positively Orwellian' by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Executive Director Jeff Ruch, George W. Bush is ending public access to research materials at EPA regional libraries without Congressional consent. This all-out effort to impede research and public access is a [loosely] covert operation to close down 26 technical libraries under the guise of budgetary constraint. Scientists are protesting, but at least 15 of the libraries will be closed by Sept. 30, 2006."
Yeah, except today's story is wrong. How much of that book is wrong too? It's hard to say with all the sensationalism that exists today.
Look at our President, Bush. He's never been to a library in his life and hes just fine. Hes the freaking President.
Carter didn't inherit the Iranian hostage fiasco from anyone. And his efforts were unfotunate. Having diminished our military ability to the point that we couldn't manage a rescue attempt without abject failure, Carter left us with not only a damaged economy, but damaged military and failed Middle East policy.
Had Clinton taken ANY action in 8 years to answer Saddam's obvious disregard for international law, if not opinion, would W have had the 'opportunity' to enforce the U.N. sanctions that most nations voted for, but did not have the stomach to actually enforce?
And perhaps Clinton could be accused of being distracted from foreign affairs, having become preoccupied with his own?
Paint with both hands, gang, or just be reduced to partisan whining.
rick
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
Bush might not eat babies, but he's sure been responsible for a lot of deformed ones.
That is a very compelling movie about the use of depleted uranium in Iraq and Afghanistan and the horrific affects it's having there, and on hundreds of thousands of our soldiers and their families.
The pictures of deformed babies is almost unbearable, and the evidence overwhelming. Just how little of this is getting reported in the normal news is probably most shocking.
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As always slashdot is just plain wrong. They aren't burning books. They are simply purging books that no one read anyway. The president has said that most of these books are out of date and no one has any reason to look at them. So typical to leave out the facts that explain this is a completely reasonable step. I know the slashdot crowd that blames everything on Bush will say that requiring government censoring on all new books published is some kind of violation of the first amendment. Of course, they will leave out the fact that free speech is not the same as the freedom to print any kind of anti-freedom and anti-american drivel.
God slashdot is predictable.
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Carter was the one who made the treaty with NK, remember? Thought they weren't pulling his leg about peaceful nuke purposes.
We were "respected" under Clinton because we were going along with the Euro idea that you could talk and reason with a culture that wants all western civilization off the face of the Earth.
Read Iraqi blogs and polls. They are overall glad we're there and want us to stay until the conversion is done. They are glad Saddam is out and actually want to hang him.
Don't conflate Iraqi's with Iranian and Syrian insurrectionists.
There was, of course, that little adventure in Afghanistan... Not just expelling the Taliban, but also tracking Osama who was assumed to ACTUALLY BE IN AFGHANISTAN AT THE TIME. And I'm the one who doesn't know their history? You people are too easy. rick
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.