#14: Taiwan status. French: Bush's 911. Bush's Iraq War. Impeach Bush? 07.7.8=7 10:40pm.

Taiwan status: http://tinyurl.com/yt76e8

'Yahoo Answers References' by RWH:
http://tinyurl.com/yspjwo

What is the status quo in the Taiwan Strait?

What were the Six Assurances of President Reagan? What is the US position regarding sovereignty over Taiwan? Yahoo Answers #2
What criteria does Taiwan need to meet in order to enter the United Nations? Yahoo Answers #3
Does the One China Policy include the concept/precept that Taiwan is a part of China? Yahoo Answers #4
Where is a geographic area which appears to meet the Montevideo Convention's criteria but really doesn't? Yahoo Answers #5
What is the legal status of the Republic of China on Taiwan? Yahoo Answers #6
What is the basis for considering the Republic of China on Taiwan to be an independent sovereign nation? Yahoo Answers #7
What is the legal basis for considering native Taiwanese persons to be ROC citizens? Yahoo Answers #8
Is the territorial sovereignty of a country always owned by the government? Yahoo Answers #9
Regarding the territorial cessions of Louisiana, Alaska, the Virgin Islands, etc. who owned the sovereignty? Yahoo Answers #10
What is the disposition of Taiwan under the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1952? Yahoo Answers #11
How can I prove the contention that Taiwan is an overseas territory of the United States? Yahoo Answers #12
Can a comparison be made between the situation of Cuba after the Spanish American War and Taiwan after WWII? Yahoo Answers #13
Was the territorial sovereignty of "Formosa & the Pescadores" returned to the Republic of China on Oct. 25, 1945? Yahoo Answers #14
What is the legal basis for saying that Taiwan is part of China? Yahoo Answers #15 "
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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/08/2376/

'A Profile in Cowardice', by Frank Rich; Published on July 8, 2007 by the New York Times

"THERE was never any question that President Bush would grant amnesty to Scooter Libby, the man who knows too much about the lies told to sell the war in Iraq. The only questions were when, and how, Mr. Bush would buy Mr. Libby’s silence. Now we have the answers, and they’re at least as incriminating as the act itself. They reveal the continued ferocity of a White House cover-up and expose the true character of a commander in chief whose tough-guy shtick can no longer camouflage his fundamental cowardice."
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"No one can stop Mr. Bush from freeing a pathetic little fall guy like Scooter Libby. But only those who paid the ultimate price for the avoidable bungling of Iraq have the moral authority to pardon Mr. Bush."

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http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0735514520070707

'French official suggested Bush was behind September 11', Sat Jul 7, 2007 10:52AM EDT

"PARIS (Reuters) - A senior French politician, now a minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government, suggested last year that U.S. President George W. Bush might have been behind the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to a website.

The www.ReOpen911.info website, which promotes September 11 conspiracy theories, has posted a video clip of French Housing Minister Christine Boutin appearing to question that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda group orchestrated the attacks. Boutin's office sought to play down the remarks.

Asked in an interview last November, before she became minister, whether she thought Bush might be behind the attacks, Boutin says: "I think it is possible. I think it is possible."
Boutin backs her assertion by pointing to the large number of people who visit websites that challenge the official line over the September 11 strikes against U.S. cities.
"I know that the websites that speak of this problem are websites that have the highest number of visits ... And I tell myself that this expression of the masses and of the people cannot be without any truth."

Boutin's office sought to play down the remarks, saying that later in the same interview she says: "I'm not telling you that I adhere to that position." This comment does not appear on the video clip on ReOpen911.

Numerous other websites have also posted the clip in recent days and the story has started to seep into the mainstream media.

"Christine Boutin snared by her controversial suggestions about September 11," Le Monde newspaper said in a headline.

Liberation newspaper on Saturday quoted Boutin's spokesman Christian Dupont as saying that she had not wanted to appear pro or anti-Bush at a time when Sarkozy was being branded a "U.S. poodle" after meeting the president in Washington.

"And then she is not the foreign minister," Dupont added.

France appears to be particularly fertile ground for conspiracy theories. In 2002, a book that claimed that no airliner hit the U.S. Pentagon in the September 11 attacks topped the French bestseller lists.

However, the French are not alone in their skepticism.

According to a Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll carried out last July, more than one-third of Americans suspect U.S. officials helped in the September 11 attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could later go to war.

The U.S. State Department has rejected these accusations.

Almost 3,000 people died when hijackers crashed planes into New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

© Reuters 2007. All rights reserved. "

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Impeach Bush?

1) http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/08/2386/

'Sheehan Plans Run Against Pelosi Unless Bush Impeachment Sought', by Angela K. Brown

"CRAWFORD, Texas - Cindy Sheehan, the fallen soldier’s mother who galvanized the anti-war movement, said Sunday that she plans to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unless she moves to oust President Bush in the next two weeks."
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© 2007 The Associated Press
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2) http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/08/2381/

'An Open Letter to Nancy Pelosi', by John Atcheson; Published 7/8/07 by CommonDreams.org

"Madam Speaker:

It is time to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney.

We all know the case for doing so: the litany of this administration’s offenses is long and tragic, the damage they have wrought to our nation and the principles it was founded upon profound."
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"John Atcheson’s writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, The San Jose Mercury News and several other major papers. He is currently at work on a novel about global warming."
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3) http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/07/2385/

'Nobody Marched to Impeach Bill Clinton', by Linda Milazzo; 7/8/07 by CommonDreams.org
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"“Impeachment Centers” WEREN’T opened dedicated to impeaching Bill Clinton like the one in Los Angeles that opened on the Fourth of July, dedicated to impeaching George Bush and Dick Cheney.

Hundreds of people DIDN’T join together in a park on a national holiday for an impeach-Bill-Clinton-rally the way they joined together in a park in Los Angeles on Wednesday for an impeach-Bush-and-Cheney-rally."
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"Linda Milazzo is a Los Angeles based writer, educator and activist. Her writing has appeared in numerous domestic and international newspapers, magazines and journals. Over the past three decades, Linda has divided her time between the entertainment industry, community development projects and education"
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