'We do not torture'. [Bush].How many lies can one man and his administration speak? The US does not do torture? How can this barefaced lie be allowed to pass without barely a mention? What about Abu Ghraib? What about Baghram? What about Guantanamo?

Before I knew it I was stripped, washed and laid out on a hospital bed, having been prodded, x-rayed and injected with God knows what.Before they were done I had IV drips in both arms, with four different solutions being flushed into me. This made th

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So having the enduring gastritis, the mending mouth sores, I was able to make the visa run to renew my visa. Sure enough, two hours into the journey I stopped the bus and got out to throw up like a roaring God, bellowing like a bull. I'd also suddenl

I'd been trying to leave BK, the city of angels for nearly three months now, but with the sort of ad-hoc things that kept cropping up - robbery, yeast infections sheer inertia and so sprinkled with the odd positive reason for staying 'just a few days

Last week Bush suffered one of his worst periods in office. Libby was indicted on five charges of obstructing justice and lying to grand juries. Miers, his supreme court nomination stood down. The US Iraqi death count soared past 2000. And so on.The