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{ Monthly Archives } November 2004

US 2004 Election conclusions.

Bush will remain president.
The Democrats won’t have a Nader scapegoat (which they didn’t have in 2000, but don’t tell a Democrat that), they’ll have to face the fact that their candidate lost all on his own.
Kerry was a weak and stiff candidate—like Gore was in 2000 and Dole was before Gore.
Right now, Hillary Clinton is [...]

At least 100,000 Iraqi dead

According to an interview with Les Roberts on Democracy Now!:

The Pentagon may be collecting civilian death figures and keeping them secret.
A survey concluded that there is at least 100,000 Iraqi dead.

This is, of course, appalling but not surprising. And it still doesn’t come close to the estimate Secretary Albright gave of the deaths caused [...]