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Helen, go ahead. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/10/20051012-1.html
Q I read that the President is seeking a regime change in Syria. Does he plan to widen the war in the Middle East? And just how does he -- what right would he have to unseat anybody in another country without provocation?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I don't know what you're reading, but it doesn't seem like it's an accurate reflection of our policy.
Q The Financial Times.
MR. McCLELLAN: I don't think it's an accurate reflection of our policy.
Q Are you denying --
MR. McCLELLAN: The President talked about our concerns when it comes to Syria earlier today --
Q I know. I'm asking you specifically --
MR. McCLELLAN: -- and he expressed what our view is.
Q -- is he seeking a regime change in Syria?
MR. McCLELLAN: There's no change in our policy toward Syria.
Q Whatever that is.
What a bunch of horse shit. Any American who believes in "al-Qaeda in Iraq" is an idiot. Wake the fuck up! The actions of the US Corporate media are those of traitors. They are not journalists, they are government propagandists. WHORES! I got the tar and feathers.
Forget about those indictments, we have AL QAEDA here!!!
Ooooh, Al Qaeda, ooohhh, bad, bad, BAD Al Qaeda!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/12/terror/main936411.shtml
Actually, Zawahri is correct. When the US bugged out of Vietnam, they abandoned their assets on the ground. I am certain that the people of Iraq are watching events unfold in the outing of Valerie Plame, and they know that if Fitzgerald does indeed indict most of the WHIG on conspiracy that the lies that led to war will be blown wide open. That will end all support for continuing the US presence in Iraq. The US presence will collapse, and the Iraqis need to be prepared to resume running their own country. Those US puppets in power now should re-read the history of what jappened to the Vichy Government and their supporters after the Nazis were driven out of France.
US publishes "al-Qaeda in Iraq" letter
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4335040.stm
US officials insist they believe it is genuine and recent. But it is impossible to check that independently.
Seized Letter Outlines Al Qaeda Goals in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/11/AR2005101101353_pf.html
The letter was posted yesterday on the Web site of Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte -- http://www.dni.gov -- after senior intelligence officials released excerpts of it last week.
Bush: Miers' Religion Cited in Court Nod
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051012/ap_on_go_su_co/miers_48;_ylt=Am0pfkeA.oKaRaHV6PMe.xhuCM0A;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
What a fucking idiot!
Bush tries to move beyond criticism over Katrina
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051011/pl_nm/hurricanes_bush_dc
As he has in the past, Bush said if a congressional investigation finds the federal government was at fault in the initial response to Katrina, he would accept responsibility.
Bush blinks twice. He touches his tongue to his lips. He blinks twice more. He starts to answer, but he stops himself.The president was a blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/11/AR2005101101577.html
Bush has always been an active man, but standing with Lauer and the serene, steady first lady, he had the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.The fidgeting clearly corresponded to the questioning.When the questioning turned to Miers, Bush blinked 37 times in a single answer -- along with a lick of the lips, three weight shifts and some serious foot jiggling.
Focus of CIA Leak Probe Appears to Widen
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB112907415441266084-VDsI1ez92Qlr0_XPP5IbwfiUKHI_20051111.html?mod=blogs
Lawyers familiar with the investigation believe that at least part of the outcome likely hangs on the inner workings of what has been dubbed the White House Iraq Group. Formed in August 2002, the group, which included Messrs. Rove and Libby, worked on setting strategy for selling the war in Iraq to the public in the months leading up to the March 2003 invasion. The group likely would have played a significant role in responding to Mr. Wilson's claims.
"It was not bad intelligence" that lead to the quagmire in Iraq, "It was an orchestrated effort [that] began before the war" that was designed to mislead the public and the world. Gardiner's research lead him to conclude that the US and Britain had conspired at the highest levels to plant "stories of strategic influence" that were known to be false.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2005_10_09_digbysblog_archive.html#112910098940371679
The new information indicates a pattern in which Bush, Cheney and their subordinates -- in public and behind the scenes -- made allegations depicting Iraq's nuclear weapons program as more active, more certain and more imminent in its threat than the data they had would support. On occasion administration advocates withheld evidence that did not conform to their views. The White House seldom corrected misstatements or acknowledged loss of confidence in information upon which it had previously relied
While the culprits would like to pin the blame on the Central Intelligence Agency, the facts point in a different direction. To cite just one example, the now-discredited claim that Saddam was trying to buy "Yellow Cake" Uranium from Niger came from the Pentagon, specifically from Paul Wolfowitz, using information the CIA stated was unreliable. Wolfowitz, and his assistant Douglas Feith, set up a special office called the "Office of Special Plans" in 2001, that fed information to the White House to urge the attack on Iraq. Shortly after the invasion, the OSP was disbanded.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/trailofdisinformation
So, this is the trail of the lies that started a war, beginning at the White House, and via Dick Cheney moving upstream to the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, under Wolfowitz and Feith, then from OSP to a parallel group operating out of Ariel Sharon's office in Israel.
Will Judith Miller Probe Go 'Public'?
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001304733
..."the flimsiness" of a Miller story in 2003 related to WMDs.
Scooter Libby: Screwed, Blued and Tattooed
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20051012/cm_huffpost/008737;_ylt=A86.I1VtSk1DoYoAPA_9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA
In two appearances before the federal grand jury investigating the leak of a covert
CIA's operative's name, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, did not disclose a crucial conversation that he had with New York Times reporter Judith Miller in June 2003 about the operative, Valerie Plame, according to sources with firsthand knowledge of his sworn testimony. ¶ 12.10.05
