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10/29/04

This Week In the News:

A compenduium of this weeks headlines:

It is pretty much not possible for Bush to have hit a worse newscycle than he was served up with this week. People who still want to vote for him at this point, probably didn't catch much of the news this week, so in case one of them happens to stumble on this site (likely? I'm a dem, I'm used to hoping against hope.) I've put all the major news together so you can see it in one place. Letsee:

Information came out that 380 Tons of missing high weapons grade explosives went missing in Iraq, the government has no idea where they are but they were most likely looted by insurgents and are now being used against our own troops. The right-wing news came back, trying to back peddle on this claiming they were gone before they even got to Iraq. Video evidence has since disproved this. Meanwhile, Rudolph Guilianiin an attempt to cover Bush's a** said on NBC's today show "No matter how you try to blame it on the president, the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search carefully enough? Didn't they search carefully enough?" Bad move.

The FBI has made a formal request to interview the Army Corps of Engineers chief contracting officer who has alleged her agency unfairly awarded no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars to a Halliburton subsidiary for work in Iraq.

GDP growth weaker than expected

Unemployment claims up more than expected

The Bush Campaign got in trouble when a new ad spot was shown to have been doctored, repeating the same 5 soldiers in a crowd, over and over to make it look like a sea of military listening to Bush.

Oh yeah, and regardless of how Americans react to the Bin Laudin tape, there is one indisputable fact: he is still alive and in pretty good health.