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From The Guardian:

Al Gore has made his sharpest attack yet on the George Bush presidency, describing the current US administration as "a renegade band of rightwing extremists".

In an interview with the Guardian today, the former vice-president calls himself a "recovering politician", but launches into the political fray more explicitly than he has previously done during his high-profile campaigning on the threat of global warming.

Denying that his politics have shifted to the left since he lost the court battle for the 2000 election, Mr Gore says: "If you have a renegade band of rightwing extremists who get hold of power, the whole thing goes to the right."

Isn't it funny that we have a president who is right of Hitler politically, but any time someone criticizes that incompetent, extremist sonofabitch, he or she is accused of being a leftist?

I was watching BushCo Whore Extraordinaire Paula Zahn last night interviewing Rep. John Murtha with regard to the Haditha Massacre/Cover-Up, and she practically accused Murtha of being a traitor for criticizing BushCo on this issue. Murtha handled himself pretty well; but as I was watching it, I couldn't help but think that things might be different today had Zahn and the rest of the Corporate Media been that aggressive with Bush Regime officials during the run-up to the Iraq Catastrophe.

Speaking of which, it looks like Bush's hopes of beginning troop withdrawals prior to the 2006 Mid-Term Elections may be fading fast:

The Pentagon's hopes of making substantial reductions in U.S. troop levels in Iraq this year appear to be fading as a result of resurgent violence in the country, particularly in the Sunni Arab stronghold of Al Anbar province, military officials acknowledge.

Army Gen. George W. Casey, commander of U.S.-led forces in Iraq, said Tuesday that he was moving 1,500 "backup" troops from Kuwait to Al Anbar, the western region that includes the war-torn cities of Fallouja and Ramadi.

Publicly, Pentagon officials insisted Tuesday that the move was temporary and unrelated to Casey's much-delayed recommendation on overall troop levels, now expected to be made next month. But other officers have privately acknowledged that the worsening situation in Al Anbar — particularly in Ramadi, which U.S. officials say is now under insurgent control — is likely to prevent any significant drawdown this year.

Don't forget what Dick "Dick" Cheney said a year ago yesterday: "The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."

I bet Cheney wishes he could take that one back.