20051112
"Sic Semper Tyrannis"
Bush denies manipulating prewar intelligence on Iraqhttp://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/12/content_3768895.htm
US President George W.M.D. Bush denied on Friday that the administration manipulated intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war.
"Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.html
The secret Downing Street memo
SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL - UK EYES ONLY
So, where did all this bad information come from? 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.
As Rove Disingenuously Packages Bush as a "Leader" on Veterans Day, Five More Troops Killed in Iraq. The Only Trick Left in Rove's Bag is Another Terrorist Attack.
We're supposed to be spreading "democracy" and "freedom" throughout the Middle East, according to this administration and its Washington amen corner, but how is human liberty advanced by frying Iraqi civilians with incendiary phosphorous bombs [video]?
If that isn't a war crime, then nothing is.
US Soldiers in St. Louis Admit to Rape and Murder in Iraq
The man apologized and said “you know I’m just back from Iraq and I’m acting a little crazy… in Iraq we can do whatever. You think they put all that shit on the news? Man ask anybody we rape those bitches over there and we take their men and blow their brains out just like that and nobody ever knows.”
U.S. 'can't maintain Iraq troop levels'
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051110-125019-8225r
Unless the Bush administration significantly cuts American troop levels in Iraq next year, the U.S. military's roughly 140,000-strong presence there will become a detriment to America's national security, according to a report released this week.
Bush, who appeared almost playful, fastened the heavy medal around Muhammad Ali's neck and whispered something in the heavyweight champion's ear. Then, as if to say "bring it on," the president put up his dukes in a mock challenge. Ali, 63, who has Parkinson's disease and moves slowly, looked the president in the eye -- and, finger to head, did the "crazy" twirl for a couple of seconds.
The room of about 200, including Cabinet secretaries, tittered with laughter. Ali, who was then escorted back to his chair, made the twirl again while sitting down. And the president looked visibly taken aback, laughing nervously. ¶ 12.11.05
