Liberty or Death
Rebellion to Tyrants20051130
Bush is a prisoner of his own demons, and we, in this era of the imperial presidency, are his prisoners, as he steers the country on a reckless road to ruin. The idea that there is something very wrong with that man in the White House, that he is wreathed in a darkness of potentially apocalyptic deadliness – that he is, in short, a deeply disturbed and dangerous individual – is chilling. From the image of the president as benevolent father-figure, we have come, in the historical blink of an eye that marks the time since the days of Dwight Eisenhower, to the chief executive as a reckless and wanton destroyer – not Zeus, but Loki. Blind to evidence, and rendered half-mad by a toxic mix of religious and ideological fervor, the most powerful man in the world is on a death-dealing rampage. No different, really, than one of those crazed gunmen you read about in the news, who go on a spectacular crime spree, kidnapping and murdering their way across several state lines, holding hostages and threatening to kill them the whole way.http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8185
We are, all of us, George W. Bush's hostages, and, what's especially scary is that we don't know what he's going to do next. He seems capable of anything. Hersh reports the creation of a special squadron detailed to crossing over the border and pursuing the insurgents into Syria, and certainly we have every reason to expect this war to spread. The reversion to air power perhaps augurs the dawning of new "shock and awe" campaigns, this time over Damascus and points west. This is what the War Party is gunning for, and unless popular opposition to the war forces an American withdrawal along lines suggested by Rep. Murtha – out in six months – that is exactly the prospect we face. We must escalate, or get out – we cannot "stay the course." The president and his advisers are beginning to realize this, and, given Bush's views – after all, I didn't entitle a column "George W. Bush, Trotskyite" for nothing – I leave it to the imagination of my readers which option he will choose.
We aren't cutting and running, according to Hersh: we're cutting and bombing. The idea is to substitute air power for boots on the ground and cut down our losses. It'll be just like in the Kosovo war, when the "Kosovo Liberation Army" acted as spotters for our fighter jets, who would rain down death on targets scouted out by the KLA. That this will greatly increase Iraqi casualties, civilian as well as military, seems not to be a consideration: the assumption is that we'll be killing the bad guys, with the Iraqis doing most of the grunt work. Not everyone, however, is happy with this new strategic turn. The Air Force, says Hersh, is balking, and he quotes a senior Pentagon consultant who defines the problem inherent in such a strategy: "A lot of Iraqis want to settle old scores," but "who is going to have authority to call in air strikes?" As Chris Matthews pointed out on Hardball Tuesday, you're going to have the Air Force at the beck and call of Ahmed Chalabi, a prospect that ought to transfix American policymakers with the sheer horror of it.
We aren't withdrawing from Iraq: instead, the war is being intensified, with the so-called El Salvador option unleashed, as predicted here some months ago. Iraqi death squads are even now roaming the streets of our "liberated" province, murdering Sunnis and ravaging other centers of opposition to the consolidation of Shi'ite rule. The party militias – the Badr Brigade, the Da'wa Party, the Mahdi Army of Moqtada Sadr, and others – have taken over the Iraqi "police," and the fastening on of a new tyranny is taking place in Kurdistan, where the authorities are preparing an all-out attack on the Arab population. With the full authority and backing of the two major Kurdish parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), Arabs are being systematically forced out of their homes. Meanwhile, the ultra-nationalist Kurdish parties subsidize "settlements" for "repatriated" Kurds from all over the Middle East, in a conscious imitation of the Israelis.
Israel by the way, is the Kurds' major ally and regional sponsor, as Hersh reported in a previous New Yorker piece. Their agents, said Hersh, are crawling all over Kurdistan, even as they recognize that the American attempt to pacify the rest of Iraq is failing. This is their "Plan B," as Hersh calls it: if Iraq is being split apart at the seams, their best option is to grab a piece of it as it decomposes. That Kirkuk-to-Israel pipeline Chalabi promised his neocon backers may not be a pipe dream after all, especially if the Kurds succeed in their plan to shift the ethnic balance of oil-rich Kirkuk and seize control of the city they hail as their Jerusalem. This has American officers worried, and it contradicts the much-touted "pro-American" reputation of the Kurds as our trusted friends and allies: American commanders fear the Kurdish militias are about to precipitate a civil war, with our troops caught in the crossfire.
Once we make this an air war, the Kurdish parties will wield American jet fighters as a whip to be used against their sectarian enemies, lashing out at the Arabs, the Assyrians, and anyone else who gets in their way. While Shi'ite and Kurdish death squads comb the streets, carrying out search and destroy missions against alleged "terrorists," the Americans will patrol the skies, zapping entire villages as directed by our proxies on the ground.
There's just one problem with this strategy: "It's not going to work," says the former director of air power studies at the Royal Air Force's advanced staff college, Andrew Brookes, now an analyst with the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. Hersh cites him as asking a very pertinent question, one that conjures up the same ghosts of interventions past channeled by van Creveld.
"'Can you put a lid on the insurgency with bombing? No. You can concentrate in one area, but the guys will spring up in another town.' The inevitable reliance on Iraqi ground troops' targeting would also create conflicts. 'I don't see your guys dancing to the tune of someone else,' Brookes said. He added that he and many other experts 'don't believe that airpower is a solution to the problems inside Iraq at all. Replacing boots on the ground with airpower didn't work in Vietnam, did it?'
"For misleading the American people, and launching the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 B.C. sent his legions into Germany and lost them, Bush deserves to be impeached and, once he has been removed from office, put on trial along with the rest of the president's men. If convicted, they'll have plenty of time to mull over their sins."
This isn't some poster over at DailyKos.com or Democratic Underground talking: van Creveld is the author of some 15 books on military history and strategy, including Supplying War (1977), Command in War (1985), and The Sword and the Olive (1998), and has been on the faculty of Hebrew University in Israel since 1971.
Yes, says van Creveld, we must withdraw, and it will be a long and very painful retreat, likely to incur many casualties, but it is nevertheless "inevitable." Yet, in his view: "A complete American withdrawal is not an option; the region, with its vast oil reserves, is simply too important for that. A continued military presence, made up of air, sea and a moderate number of ground forces, will be needed."
The world is spinning on a tenuous thread attached to the murky forces of the underground. In the caves beneath the soil, the rats are scurrying around trying to find exits that won’t let them out in the bright daylight.The State coffers are emptied of all contents, the blood of the enemy is seeping into the cracks of the walls and slowly covering the ground in the caves, the rats are roaring like wounded tigers. The age of darkness has arrived and nothing can be seen, no light is getting through to the interior of the cave from the outside world.
From far off, a faint beating of a drum can be heard, a beat that’s getting more and more distinct, a drum beat of life amidst all the sordid darkness and blood and the shrill squeaking of the rats. The beat is getting stronger every second. It seems as if several drums have joined the one lone drum that was heard from far away at the beginning.
And now the entrance to the cave is broken down by a hoard of people armed with nothing but their fists and their drum beat. The daylight is coming back, it’s seeping through the door and the rats are getting blinded. They are scurrying around like doomed beasts, trying desperately to find an exit in some dark corner.
Outside in the light of the rising sun a procession of marching people has formed and they are moving unstoppably across hills and valleys, across rivers and through forests. The procession is growing in size every minute and the drum beat is steadily getting louder. The masses of people sweep up everything in their way.
They are singing now, singing first hesitantly, then more and more assured. Old people and children have joined them in their march. The procession is moving forward and it’s growing and growing. It’s getting wider and longer and it is finally covering the country. The people build bridges over the waters, they walk across mountains and through deserts. They are leaving behind the rats in the cave who are quivering in fear and they keep marching, keep gathering strength and numbers, keep marching, keep marching. And the drummers keep drumming louder and louder. The people come from the mountains and they come from the flatlands, they come from the forests and they come from far away valleys.
They are in the hundreds, they are in the thousands, they are in the millions. Finally they are in the hundreds of millions. They are covering the ground, the mountains, the valleys, the horizons. They are pushing ahead, ahead, towards the light that’s freedom, to stop the furious spinning of the world.
The rats have nowhere to go. They are deafened by the drum beat, hypnotized by the masses of people. They cower, they get blinded by the light, they shrivel to foul pieces of crumpled flesh and the people march over them, not even seeing the squalid lumps of dirt that get kicked into the ditches.
They are at last getting hold of the thread that’s holding the world, the world that is spinning and spinning in a desperate attempt to make us believe that it’s the normal way of life. The world is spinning at a crazed rhythm and the masses of people are finally seeing that it didn’t have to be like this. The world can slow down. The world can wait for us, the people. The world can count us all in. It can take us all in under its huge roof. The bleeding can stop. We don’t need any more slaughter.
We don’t need the rats any more, the rats who made us feel so desperately scared. The rats who kept telling us “There is not enough food, there is not enough water. There is not enough room for everyone. We have to go on plundering, conquering, destroying mountains to find the gold that’s buried underneath. We have to go on accumulating. We have to go on, go on, go on.”
The rats couldn’t see that life is just living. That’s all there is to life. It’s living for us and for all those who are coming to replace us when we are gone. What life is all about is just living.
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_20073.shtml
GeoWBush is at it again, going around saying that we can’t leave Iraq because we haven’t won yet. There’s no telling when we will ever kill the last terrorist, and judging by the experience of Israel, it will be never.
But that’s the “truth” of the lie. Al Kady can never surrender, and never will, because they don’t really exist. Of course, we must continue to fight the terrorists, says Gee Bee, because they kicked sand in our faces back a few Septembers ago. Never mind and never say that buildings don’t fall down like that.
But that’s always how we get into it. Somebody “attacks” us. We must have revenge, and stop them from doing it again. But, there’s no telling who “they” really are this time, and stomping into sovereign nations wrecking shit like an ATF/DEA/SWAT team was not exactly the way a smart person would have run such an endeavor. This crap costs a ton of money, and now that we are seeing that we are broke financially, we are also discovering that our leaders are morally bankrupt as well. It’s not just the magnitude of the lie, but the magnitude of the continuing deception, and the magnitude of the continuing damage.
Nearly every member of Congress is still in line with the big lie, the one that says we were attacked by terrorists on 9/11/2001. BYU administrators suddenly know more about physics than their own professors do. The incredible stupidity of the media-controlled general populace worldwide shines bright in the seemingly easy way in which they let themselves believe that buildings fall straight down after a bit of impact and fire. It’s no wonder they believe the lie of Muslim/Arab terrorism, because they are incredibly stupid by design, and I’m not talking about any “God”, I’m talking about the indoctrination traditions of cultures everywhere that encourage acceptance of easily falsifiable dogma.
Outraged persons across the planet are wondering when the common American man will join them in their outrage. If it happens, it will happen after the economic fall, and if the truth about 9/11 is ever accepted it will be after the upheaval, because the current establishment is too invested in the lie. But, as an American myself, I have to wonder if the good ol’ American sense of justice has engaged again, this time upon America itself, as the collective guilt becomes realized and acknowledged. America done fucked up big time…again…and must now be punished.
Americans still have their innate sense of what’s right, and are at this moment awaiting their just desserts. When they receive it, the “truth” of it will have to align with the lie. Let’s hope the common people will understand this concept by then, and see the lie for what it is..."evil"...then perhaps we can vow to never be fooled again.
Here is a tacttic that George Bush could use to save his royal ass and make it profitable for everyone.
Pull the troops home? No . . . in this scenario the world-wide companies that thrive on war profits wouldn't be too happy. They won't send trained assassins to kill him like they did JFK in 1963. With Georgie boy the son of American royalty wannabes, the CIA will make sure he gets to exit stage right with an excuse ready-made to draw public sympathy. "Bush Decides to Resign, Cites Pressures From Anti-War Movement". That will start a civil war, just as it would have in 1963 if we all knew what group was really behind JFK's assassination.
This scenario gives Bush an almost heroic exit to many Americans, who when sentimentally-challenged will do what many Germans did in the 1930's, embrace Adolf Hitler. The "popular" outcry for the president's return will boost ratings tremendously, like Caeser's march into Rome. Meanwhile, there will be "popular" outcry against those who challenged this "great" president's very sanity and doubted his word. How dare they hurt our legendary hero, George Bush? Persecution and arrest of the liberal "conspiracy" to overthrow our government will start in earnest.
Even if this tactic doesn't work and the public tell's George "good riddance and I'm glad that you're mentally destroyed!", it will serve as a major distraction and divisive tactic of the American people, allowing those in the shadows to operate with less scrutiny to slow them down. So what I am saying bascially is this- George Bush can run down the streets of DC tonight bare naked and it wouldn't make a bit of difference to those who see him as some sort of savior. Remember Jesus could walk on water . . . well this president actually has the balls to run naked in DC. If people have their minds made up and it would hurt their itty-bitty American pride to admit they are wrong about George Bush, President Bush can run naked with Jennifer Anniston on his shoulders and it wouldn't matter to "good, God-fearing, Bible-thumping, apple-pie-eating, win-at-any cost" Americans.
That would be a Karl-Rove-on-acid scneario probably, and it might actually work. Here is my plan for Mr. Bush-
Announce a phased withdrawal from Iraq, telling the public that he is now that confident that the war in Iraq is under firm control of the new American-trained Iraqi army. This is a lie, of course, but many Americans will be blinded with the pride that we trained the Iraqis just like John Wayne trained those poor little Viet Namese in "The Green Berets". Bush's continued stubbornness in the face of facts is purely political. He knows that he could announce a withdrawal and the American public would never really be able to get a fair accounting of just how many troops there still are in Iraq. He would Enron Iraq. This would also make Bush an instant "people's president", but I'm quite sure Bush doesn't want to go to his grave in his high society graveyard having been labelled a man who actually helped the dirty stupid common man! That's like cavorting with the enemy.
Bush could be elected life-time president by the American people if he brought the troops home, fired all of his advisers, told Ariel Sharon to stick his requests where the sun don't shine, admit to the American public what his family is being blackmailed on and who is doing the blackmailing, legalized marijuana(I bet he he is funny guy when he is stoned!), gave free health care to everyone, jobs to everyone, dismantled the federal reserve system, prosecuted those who have abused this government, including his own dad . . . in other words, if Bush just does a 180 degree turn over-night and becomes a one-man American Revolution 2. This won't happen, of course, because Bush either doesn't have the courage or the concern to do it. I remember a brave president who did have this courage and at least the semblance of real concern, but he was murdered in 1963.
Limits easing for sharp objects on planes?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/11/30/tsa.rules/index.html
The change in rules, expected to go into effect December 20, will allow for some scissors less than 4 inches long and some tools less than 7 inches long.
As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/iraq-media-offensive.html
Many of the articles are presented in the Iraqi press as unbiased news accounts written and reported by independent journalists. . The stories trumpet the work of U.S. and Iraqi troops, denounce insurgents, and tout U.S.-led efforts to rebuild the country. The Bush administration has come under criticism for distributing video and news stories in the United States without identifying the federal government as their source and for paying American journalists to promote administration policies, practices the Government Accountability Office has labeled "covert propaganda." U.S. law forbids the military from carrying out psychological operations or planting propaganda with American media outlets. Yet several officials said that given the globalization of media driven by the Internet and the 24-hour news cycle, the Pentagon's efforts are carried out with the knowledge that coverage in the foreign press inevitably "bleeds" into the Western media and influences coverage in U.S. news outlets.
The Abuse of 'Democracy'
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wittner/wittner16.html
When, in the aftermath of World War II, Stalin had the Soviet Union gobble up the nations of Eastern Europe, he christened them People’s Democracies – although they were neither democratic nor meant to be. This debasement of “democracy” and other noble terms such as “freedom” and “peace” to crude propaganda was undoubtedly what George Orwell had in mind when he wrote his powerful novel, 1984, which portrayed a nightmarish society in which words were turned inside out to justify the policies of cynical and unscrupulous rulers.
Did we defeat the world communist revolution only to launch our own world democratic revolution? Did we bury the Comintern of Stalin only to create our own? What happened to the America that minded her own business?
http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=8176
Why is Bush outsourcing foreign policy to neocons who are the source of most of his headaches today?
Bush's Deadly Dance with Islamic Theocrats
http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=8181
For well over a year now, Human Rights Watch has been cataloguing Interior Ministry abuses and warning about a human rights catastrophe unraveling in "our" Iraq. Last July, Peter Beaumont of the British Observer revealed that the Shi'ite religious/political powers-that-be had set up not one detention-and-torture center but a whole "ghost network" of them – in some cases, he gave locations – in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities, partly financed by British and American funds originally intended for the rebuilding of the police force. In these centers, torture methods "resurrected from the time of Saddam" were being used; and the centers, in turn, were connected to paramilitary commando units (and police units) – basically kidnapping and death squads – being run by the Interior Ministry as well as by the Shi'ite religious parties. Such units are increasingly engaged in a war of revenge with Sunni insurgents and in an ever growing campaign of assassinations, summary executions, and disappearances in Sunni neighborhoods which months ago reached "epidemic levels." Human rights organizations in the country have hundreds of cases of disappearances on their lists – as well as assassinations, torture of every sort, and an endless raft of human rights violations.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/11/30/tsa.rules/index.html
The change in rules, expected to go into effect December 20, will allow for some scissors less than 4 inches long and some tools less than 7 inches long.
As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/iraq-media-offensive.html
Many of the articles are presented in the Iraqi press as unbiased news accounts written and reported by independent journalists. . The stories trumpet the work of U.S. and Iraqi troops, denounce insurgents, and tout U.S.-led efforts to rebuild the country. The Bush administration has come under criticism for distributing video and news stories in the United States without identifying the federal government as their source and for paying American journalists to promote administration policies, practices the Government Accountability Office has labeled "covert propaganda." U.S. law forbids the military from carrying out psychological operations or planting propaganda with American media outlets. Yet several officials said that given the globalization of media driven by the Internet and the 24-hour news cycle, the Pentagon's efforts are carried out with the knowledge that coverage in the foreign press inevitably "bleeds" into the Western media and influences coverage in U.S. news outlets.
The Abuse of 'Democracy'
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wittner/wittner16.html
When, in the aftermath of World War II, Stalin had the Soviet Union gobble up the nations of Eastern Europe, he christened them People’s Democracies – although they were neither democratic nor meant to be. This debasement of “democracy” and other noble terms such as “freedom” and “peace” to crude propaganda was undoubtedly what George Orwell had in mind when he wrote his powerful novel, 1984, which portrayed a nightmarish society in which words were turned inside out to justify the policies of cynical and unscrupulous rulers.
Did we defeat the world communist revolution only to launch our own world democratic revolution? Did we bury the Comintern of Stalin only to create our own? What happened to the America that minded her own business?
http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=8176
Why is Bush outsourcing foreign policy to neocons who are the source of most of his headaches today?
Bush's Deadly Dance with Islamic Theocrats
http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=8181
For well over a year now, Human Rights Watch has been cataloguing Interior Ministry abuses and warning about a human rights catastrophe unraveling in "our" Iraq. Last July, Peter Beaumont of the British Observer revealed that the Shi'ite religious/political powers-that-be had set up not one detention-and-torture center but a whole "ghost network" of them – in some cases, he gave locations – in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities, partly financed by British and American funds originally intended for the rebuilding of the police force. In these centers, torture methods "resurrected from the time of Saddam" were being used; and the centers, in turn, were connected to paramilitary commando units (and police units) – basically kidnapping and death squads – being run by the Interior Ministry as well as by the Shi'ite religious parties. Such units are increasingly engaged in a war of revenge with Sunni insurgents and in an ever growing campaign of assassinations, summary executions, and disappearances in Sunni neighborhoods which months ago reached "epidemic levels." Human rights organizations in the country have hundreds of cases of disappearances on their lists – as well as assassinations, torture of every sort, and an endless raft of human rights violations.
20051129
Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051128-9.html
"And the biggest problem we got is we're still at war. I wish I could report to you we weren't at war, but there's an enemy that still lurks that wants to do harm to the United States of America. And they want to do us harm because we stand squarely for freedom and democracy and we're not going to change. You see, they can't stand the fact -- (applause) -- they can't stand the fact that we allow people to worship freely, or to speak their mind in the public square, or to print articles the way they want to print them in America. They have a different view of the world. They've got this vision of darkness that stifles dissent and stifles the freedoms that many of us take for granted...The enemy has made Iraq a central front in this war on terror, so we must take it seriously...Jon Kyl understands that in this war on terror it's important to have members of the United States Senate who understand mixed messages...You know, I just recently came off a trip to the Far East...And it struck me that I was in a region of the world where there -- where wars had started."
The Iraq war is a perfect opportunity for the American people to take action which will result in all war profiteering being treated as treason--and the people involved put to death in public.
Here's a primer on the "unique threats" that have faced this country in the past.
1. In 1776 we rebelled against the most powerful nation on earth. Our forefathers didn't see the threat posed by Britain sufficient to justify the abandonment of human rights. Just the opposite, they used their experience to justify the bill of rights.
Now, more "unique threats" from the past.
2. War of 1812. Britain invades and burns Washington DC.
3. Civil War. Nation's survival at stake in the War between the States.
4. 1870's to 1890's. Labor unrest due to exploitation of industrial workers reaches such crisis proportions, that the national government fears a revolution. Armories are built in cities throughout the nation to be used to put down revolts if necessary.
5. World War I erupts. Pax Britannica is broken with the war to end all wars. The US faces the most powerful nations on earth in a struggle for life and death.
6. The Great Depression. Again threats of revolution by a destitute population.
7. World War II. The United States goes to war against the two most powerful military nations on earth.
8. The Cold War. Russia develops the capacity to vaporize American cities with hydrogen bombs.
And so on.
Now, let's take a look at the current "terrorist" threat. According to the FBI, in 2001 there were 100 Al-Queda members world wide. There's probably a lot more now but their power is nothing compared to the threat posed by the former Soviet Union.
The point I am making is this. There has never been a time in American history when some "unique threat" could not be used as an excuse to trample on civil rights or violate international law.
Never.
Until now, America has generally been able to resist the call of those who supported "gutter tactics" in the fight to preserve this nation.
Of course, that was before George Bush came along.
Just a few bad apples blowing off steam. Right?
The worst stuff I saw was from the detaining units who would torture people in their homes. They were using things like burns. They would smash people's feet with the back of an axe-head. They would break bones, ribs, you know. That was serious stuff. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/interviews/lagouranis.html
I remember one guy who was forced to sit on an exhaust pipe on a humvee, and he had a pretty huge blister on his leg. Another guy, I don't know what they used to burn him, his legs. He was blindfolded so he didn't know either, but it looked like it might have been a lighter. He had some pretty big, [some] smaller blisters, but a lot of them.
A Leader Like This Doesn't Come Around Every Millenium
http://www.forward.com/articles/6936
"For misleading the American people, and launching the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 B.C. sent his legions into Germany and lost them, Bush deserves to be impeached and, once he has been removed from office, put on trial along with the rest of the president's men. If convicted, they'll have plenty of time to mull over their sins."
Bush ally faces 10 years' jail for $2.4 million in bribes
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1895459,00.html
After the hearing, Cunningham was led away to be fingerprinted and released until a sentencing hearing on February 27. He had already announced in July that he would not seek re-election next year. Cunningham’s guilty pleas came amid a series of Republican scandals, most notably the indictment of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff of Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, over his role in the CIA leak affair. Tom DeLay had to step down as House leader on being indicted for money-laundering, and Bill Frist, the Senate leader, is being investigated over a stock sale. All deny wrongdoing.
After September 11, 2001, we made a decision to play offense in fighting the war on terror, to track down enemies who would kill Americans and give them no place to hide. Our troops are doing a fantastic job, and terrorists know they have no hope of defeating our troops in the field. They know that the center of gravity in their fight is to undermine the will of the American people.
http://wilson.house.gov/NewsAction.asp?FormMode=Releases&ID=1127
I would rather have American soldiers hunting down terrorists over there, than have American firefighters and police officers responding to attacks here at home."
About 100,000 Iraqi civilians - half of them women and children - have died in Iraq since the invasion, mostly as a result of airstrikes by coalition forces!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1338749,00.html
"US General Tommy Franks is widely quoted as saying 'we don't do body counts'!"
Growing bored of the carnage … as crime of the century unfolds
It has also now been confirmed that the Americans have been using chemical weapons in Iraq. White phosphorus (WP) shells were used against insurgents in the siege of Fallujah last year in defiance of the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention. The shells were used for “shake and bake” operations, in conjunction with high explosives.
There’s no evidence that WP was used against civilians. But since some 50,000 Iraqis remained in Fallujah last November, it seems only a matter of time before we discover that it was. WP works by entering the body though soft exposed tissue and burns down to the bone. The use of WP by the Saddam Hussein against the Kurds in 1991 was cited by the US Defence Department in 1995 as an example of the dictator’s own infamy, and was one of the justifications for regime change. The US have also used thermobaric or “fuel air” weapons and depleted uranium shells. Really, if they wanted to turn public opinion against them, the occupying forces could not have done better if they tried.
The worst stuff I saw was from the detaining units who would torture people in their homes. They were using things like burns. They would smash people's feet with the back of an axe-head. They would break bones, ribs, you know. That was serious stuff. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/interviews/lagouranis.html
I remember one guy who was forced to sit on an exhaust pipe on a humvee, and he had a pretty huge blister on his leg. Another guy, I don't know what they used to burn him, his legs. He was blindfolded so he didn't know either, but it looked like it might have been a lighter. He had some pretty big, [some] smaller blisters, but a lot of them.
A Leader Like This Doesn't Come Around Every Millenium
http://www.forward.com/articles/6936
"For misleading the American people, and launching the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 B.C. sent his legions into Germany and lost them, Bush deserves to be impeached and, once he has been removed from office, put on trial along with the rest of the president's men. If convicted, they'll have plenty of time to mull over their sins."
Bush ally faces 10 years' jail for $2.4 million in bribes
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1895459,00.html
After the hearing, Cunningham was led away to be fingerprinted and released until a sentencing hearing on February 27. He had already announced in July that he would not seek re-election next year. Cunningham’s guilty pleas came amid a series of Republican scandals, most notably the indictment of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff of Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, over his role in the CIA leak affair. Tom DeLay had to step down as House leader on being indicted for money-laundering, and Bill Frist, the Senate leader, is being investigated over a stock sale. All deny wrongdoing.
After September 11, 2001, we made a decision to play offense in fighting the war on terror, to track down enemies who would kill Americans and give them no place to hide. Our troops are doing a fantastic job, and terrorists know they have no hope of defeating our troops in the field. They know that the center of gravity in their fight is to undermine the will of the American people.
http://wilson.house.gov/NewsAction.asp?FormMode=Releases&ID=1127
I would rather have American soldiers hunting down terrorists over there, than have American firefighters and police officers responding to attacks here at home."
About 100,000 Iraqi civilians - half of them women and children - have died in Iraq since the invasion, mostly as a result of airstrikes by coalition forces!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1338749,00.html
"US General Tommy Franks is widely quoted as saying 'we don't do body counts'!"
Growing bored of the carnage … as crime of the century unfolds
It has also now been confirmed that the Americans have been using chemical weapons in Iraq. White phosphorus (WP) shells were used against insurgents in the siege of Fallujah last year in defiance of the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention. The shells were used for “shake and bake” operations, in conjunction with high explosives.
There’s no evidence that WP was used against civilians. But since some 50,000 Iraqis remained in Fallujah last November, it seems only a matter of time before we discover that it was. WP works by entering the body though soft exposed tissue and burns down to the bone. The use of WP by the Saddam Hussein against the Kurds in 1991 was cited by the US Defence Department in 1995 as an example of the dictator’s own infamy, and was one of the justifications for regime change. The US have also used thermobaric or “fuel air” weapons and depleted uranium shells. Really, if they wanted to turn public opinion against them, the occupying forces could not have done better if they tried.
Heather Wilson can burn in hell
New Mexico Rep. Heather Wilson says that A House investigation into intelligence failures leading up to the war in Iraq would be a distraction? How much money has Heather Wilson recieved from Tom Delay, Jack Abramoff, and AIPAC (The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee)? Why were AIPAC Israeli Spies who are currently on trial, working in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans fixing intelligence about Iraq's WMD and ties to the September 11, 2001 attacks? Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, George Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks.But, in the 2003 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030319-1.html...it states, "including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001."Then George Bush flip flopped again in 2004 saying, "We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11 attacks!" Our leaders took and oath to protect and defend the US Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic. They didn't take an oath to protect and defend George Bush or Israeli spies. The dishonorable Heather Wilson should step down and resign.
New Mexico Rep. Heather Wilson says that A House investigation into intelligence failures leading up to the war in Iraq would be a distraction? How much money has Heather Wilson recieved from Tom Delay, Jack Abramoff, and AIPAC (The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee)? Why were AIPAC Israeli Spies who are currently on trial, working in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans fixing intelligence about Iraq's WMD and ties to the September 11, 2001 attacks? Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, George Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks.But, in the 2003 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030319-1.html...it states, "including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001."Then George Bush flip flopped again in 2004 saying, "We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11 attacks!" Our leaders took and oath to protect and defend the US Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic. They didn't take an oath to protect and defend George Bush or Israeli spies. The dishonorable Heather Wilson should step down and resign.
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Troops Involved In Naked Ritual Abusehttp://infowars.net/articles/november2005/281105troops_rituals.htm
So why are we surprised that they believe "abuse" of Iraqis to be perfectly normal?
The Ministry Of Defence has described these events captured on film last May as "a bit of fun that got out of hand".
Where have we heard that before? Were they "just letting off steam" as Rush Limbaugh would say?
The Royal Marines in this footage were stripped naked and forced to beat each other as part of an "initiation ritual". The top left picture reveals that ALL the troops are made to take part in this appalling activity, and it's not just two guys having a bit of fun. All are naked except for one man who is dressed in a surgeon's scrubs and another who is wearing a schoolgirl uniform.
The bottom left and right Pictures show what happens as one of the men is kicked hard in the face by "the Surgeon" and is apparently knocked unconscious.
In the 1980s a number of soldiers claimed they had been abused during initiation ceremonies. One 20-year-old man said his genitals were burned, and he was indecently assaulted with a broomstick.
New rules banning such ceremonies were introduced but they have continued.
A Court Marshall in February of this year further revealed some of the humiliating "rituals" that the troops are subjected to. A "Japping" was described whereby a soldier is tied to an ironing bored and has ball bearings fired at him from a gun. The victim involved in this case was also alleged to have been sodomized with a broom handle. According to the London Guardian, Timothy Lyons, of the 29 Commando Regiment, who admitted taking part in the ritual, said it was seen as "fun" and an accepted part of military life.
Another ritual is said to be called "babooning" where new soldiers are beaten severely on the backside until their bottoms become as red as those of Baboons.
It has also been claimed that in another ritual for mounted regiment recruits, soldiers are stripped naked and covered with food which a horse then eats off their bodies.
Since the early nineties their have been a number of reports of severe bullying at British Army Barracks. Most Notably at Deepcut in Surrey where four recruits died, all under mysterious circumstances between 1995 and 2002. There have been 23 deaths of recruits at Catterick in Yorkshire since 1994, where a similar video of bullying emerged earlier in the year. Most Notably it has been regiments from these barracks that have faced serious allegations, some proven, of mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners. The Most famous case hit the headlines when the Daily Mirror published photographs of the alleged abuse. The Government had a field day when it turned out that the photos were fake. However they later admitted that the actual incident HAD occurred and the photos were a reconstruction of REAL events.
An independent inquiry by the adult learning inspectorate earlier this year found that recruits to the British army are still subjected to a culture of bullying and racism despite repeated promises by senior officers to root it out.
It is no surprise that when the soldiers get to Iraq, they initiate the same kind of ritual abuse on Iraqi prisoners. They have become so tuned into it, it is an everyday part of their lives. Furthermore, ritual abuse and torture is now the norm in military circles, not just among the troops, but all the way through the command structure..
Last Month Alex Jones interviewed Janis Karpinski, the former General who commanded troops at Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq. Karpinski's career was ruined in the torture scandal, and she is now determined to reveal that the orders for torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib came all the way from the top. Karpinski revealed that the incidents were not isolated but were "the result of conflicting orders and confused standards extending from the military commanders in Iraq all the way to the summit of civilian leadership in Washington."
A recent PBS documentary highlighted the case of Brig. Gen. Rick Baccus, a former Commander at Guantanamo Bay, who was fired for refusing to torture detainees.
IPS News reported recently that human rights organizations are deeply concerned about dozens of secret gulag detention centers that are operating completely without oversight and hold an undetermined amount of prisoners.
The Washington Post reported that the government had set up secret gulag compounds throughout Eastern Europe to house prisoners without trial or legal representation, largely something we already knew.
Specially designated torture planes transport nameless victims of the faux 'war on terror' between different third world dictatorships for their security services to work the cattle prod magic on poor bewildered goat herders and shoemakers.
And now torture seems to be becoming ingrained in everyday life, not just in military circles but in life in general. Popular TV shows, 24, Threat Matrix and the British drama Spooks have all recently featured plots where the "good guys", our intelligence services, torture detainees.
Our Nightly news shows are debating whether or not we should torture children of suspected Al Qaeda members.
And of Course the Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, just loves torture.
Scott McClellan tells us that the Bush administration is unequivocally against torture under any circumstances and yet it is Bush and his handler Dick Cheney publicly blocking the legislation that would outlaw torture.
Use of Chemical WMD in Iraq Ignites Debate?OCCUPIED BAGHDAD — Omar Ibrahim Abdullah went for a walk to get away from the heavy fighting in Fallouja a little over a year ago and, by his account, came across such a grotesque sight that he's been unable to banish it from his memory.The United States had mounted a full-scale offensive to pacify the rebel-controlled Iraqi city, and Abdullah said he was eager to escape the Askari district, where he lived. He walked south toward the Euphrates River and stumbled on dozens of burned bodies that he said were colored black and red.
"They must have been affected by chemicals," he said, "because I had never seen anything like that before."The corpses, he said, had suffered burns from the U.S. military's use of an incendiary chemical known as white phosphorus.The Pentagon and other U.S. officials at first denied, and later admitted, that troops had used white phosphorus as a weapon against insurgents in Fallouja during that fiercely fought campaign. Its use became public because of questions raised by an Italian television documentary Nov. 8, which alleged that civilians had been targeted "indiscriminately" and that hundreds had died.But even though U.S. officials have admitted using the substance against enemy fighters, they have denied the allegations of Fallouja residents such as Abdullah that its use was widespread and civilians were among those killed."We don't use munitions of any kind against innocent civilians," Army Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch said during a news conference. "In accordance with all established conventions, [white phosphorus] can be used against enemy combatants."Nicknamed "Willie Pete" by troops, white phosphorus is a dangerous chemical that combusts on contact with oxygen. The military employs it mainly to illuminate battlefields and provide smoke screens. But its use is highly controversial because the only way it can be extinguished is by shutting off its air supply. When it comes in contact with humans, the chemical will burn through to the bone.Incendiaries are considered particularly inhumane weapons under international treaty, and a 1980 United Nations convention limits their use. The U.S. has not signed the part of the convention that deals with incendiary weapons. Nevertheless, it largely has avoided using incendiary weapons since the Vietnam War and destroyed the last of its napalm arsenal four years ago.In the 1990s, in fact, the U.S. condemned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for allegedly using "white phosphorus chemical weapons" against Kurdish rebels and residents of Irbil and Dohuk.In regard to a war the U.S. said it fought partly because of fears that Hussein would employ chemical or other nonconventional weapons, some critics say the use of white phosphorus is contrary to the spirit of American aims."An incendiary weapon cannot be thought of just like any conventional weapon," said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Assn. in Washington. "There are rules that apply, and we have to make sure that they are being followed for various reasons." He went on to explain that for the last century and a half, the U.S. has led international efforts to establish humane conduct standards in war, in part because American troops or civilians could be harmed."There is an important principle at stake here. The United States should be very interested in making sure that we are following the rules and other people understand we are following the rules," Kimball said. But Pentagon officials say the use of white phosphorus, even as an incendiary weapon, is not proscribed by any treaty as long as it is directed solely against military targets.The question is whether its use in November 2004 against insurgents fighting in a city that most, but not all, civilian inhabitants had fled violates the Inhumane Weapons Convention, to which the United States is a party. Another issue is whether the United States is obliged to follow the convention's rules on incendiary weapons, given that the U.S. Senate has not ratified that protocol.The rule bans the use of incendiary weapons against civilian targets or military targets not clearly separated from "concentrations" of civilians.On the streets of Fallouja, the common allegation is that the U.S. used incendiary bombs against civilians. Iraqi doctors and the local human rights organization have pointed to scores of burned corpses as evidence.But there's been no independent verification. U.S. officials have accused doctors in Fallouja of lying about such issues because, the officials say, the physicians are loyal to or intimidated by insurgents. The blackened corpses seen in the Italian documentary, for instance, may have been burned by conventional explosives or resulted from decomposition, some viewers have argued.Abdul Qadir Sadi, an Iraqi from Fallouja in his 30s, said doctors had told him that two of his family members were killed by white phosphorus. "They had a lot of serious skin burns," Sadi said. "The doctor at the hospital told us that they must have been hit by these chemicals. They were being treated by the doctor, but after a while, these burned places started to dissolve.""We have registered the documents and exhibits of everything that happened," said Mohammed Tariq, a human rights worker in Fallouja. "We informed the Iraqi Red Crescent, the International Red Cross and [other] international organizations, but our efforts were in vain." Pentagon officials say troops used white phosphorus in the Fallouja offensive for several reasons."It was used to mask and obscure U.S. troop movements and to flush out dug-in insurgents from spider holes and trenches," said Maj. Todd Vician, a Pentagon spokesman. "It was lawfully used against legitimate military targets."When stories surfaced last year that the U.S. had used white phosphorus as an incendiary weapon in Fallouja, the State Department flatly denied the allegations. Such denials from Pentagon and diplomatic officials continued until only weeks ago.According to talking points issued by the State Department in December, "U.S. forces have used [white phosphorus rounds] very sparingly in Fallouja, for illumination purposes. They were fired into the air to illuminate enemy positions at night, not at enemy fighters." Vician said he could not explain the denials.Elsewhere, soldiers and Marines had publicly praised the weapon's effectiveness against insurgents during the battle. A group of artillery officers who fought in Fallouja wrote in a military journal this year that white phosphorus, typically referred to as WP, "proved to be an effective and versatile weapon.""We used it for screening missions … and, later in the fight, as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents … when we could not get effects on them with [high explosives]," the officers wrote in the March-April issue of Field Artillery magazine."We fired 'shake and bake' missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and [high explosives] to take them out."The U.S. began using white phosphorus extensively during World War II, when soldiers found the chemical useful for smoke screens, marking enemy positions and attacking military targets. For more than half a century, white phosphorus has been a staple of the U.S. arsenal.John E. Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington-based military affairs think tank, doubts the claims made in the Italian television report that the U.S. military was aiming such munitions at civilians."What purpose could possibly be served by targeting civilians in Iraq?" he asked. "It would accomplish nothing, it would be counterproductive, and it would be a waste of ammo."To journalists who saw white phosphorus used during the campaign, it appeared that it was meant for illuminating, not killing, insurgents.Los Angeles Times reporter Patrick J. McDonnell, who accompanied Charlie Company of the 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, as it fought its way into Fallouja, recalls seeing night virtually turn to day as white phosphorus shells burst in the air."We only saw 'Willie Pete' being used for illumination purposes," McDonnell said. But he also remembers how the proximity of the fiery blasts concerned the Marines."The guys in my company were somewhat annoyed for two reasons: It illuminated our positions at night, not a nice thing, and occasionally the bursts came quite close to us. There didn't seem to be a lot of coordination," he said by e-mail.At the time, most civilians had fled town, and U.S. troops seemed to be fighting in a city devoid of almost everyone but insurgents, McDonnell noted."We had rounds of white phosphorus burst in the air quite close to us, and the Marines were quite concerned, since they knew of its impact — that it burns through flesh and is impossible to extinguish," he said."Many Marines on the ground cursed the 'Willie Pete' every time it went off."*
Daniszewski reported from Baghdad and Mazzetti from Washington. Special correspondent Asmaa Waguih contributed to this report.*(BEGIN TEXT OF INFOBOX)White heatWhite phosphorus, a highly flammable substance that ignites on contact with oxygen, is a longtime staple of the U.S. military arsenal. Some uses: {bull} Can be loaded into a mortar shell, howitzer round or other projectile and fired at a target. {bull} When delivered by an exploding shell, white phosphorus in contact with oxygen produces a smoke screen on the ground that can last up to 15 minutes. It can also illuminate battlefield targets.{bull} Can be used as a weapon. Human contact with white phosphorus results in severe burns. The fire can only be extinguished by eliminating the oxygen supply.Sources: Integrated Publishing, fas.org
The Bush "administration" has shot their wad. With very few exceptions, there is NO credibility left on either side of the aisle, Republican or Democrat. Invoke the 25th amendment for starters, and go on from there....install a caretaker government until we find some "honest" people.... "Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage - - - -torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians - - - - which does not change its moral color when it is committed by our side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."-George Orwell
Anticipating a Terrorist Attack on Congress
If the entire Congress gets blown up, Bush would "have no choice" but to assume dictatorial powers to deal with the "emergency".
Our Unconscious Minds Know the Truth
The war is lost. We must get out!
White House lays foundation for US troop withdrawal
Even though Bush has never publicly issued his own withdrawal plan and criticized calls for an early exit, the White House said many of the ideas expressed by the senator were its own?
US May Use Air Strikes as Substitute for Troops
Video of Brits Shooting Iraqis Prompts Probe
NETWORKS PLAN 'END OF AMERICA' SHOWS
ABC alone has at least two would-be shows set in post-apocalyptic America ("Resistance" and "Red & Blue") while Gavin Polone and Bruce Wagner are teaming for the comfy-sounding plague drama "Four Horsemen" at CBS (which also is developing "Jericho," about life in a small town after America is destroyed).
Piece of Supreme Court Facade Falls
A basketball-sized piece of marble moulding fell from the facade over the entrance to the Supreme Court, landing on the steps near visitors waiting to enter the building.
CNN OPERATOR FIRED AFTER SUGGESTING 'X' OVER CHENEY WAS 'FREE SPEECH'
"We did it just to make a point. Tell them to stop lying, Bush and Cheney," the CNN operator said to a caller. "Bring our soldiers home."
50 cent calls Bush 'a gangsta'
"I wanna meet George Bush, just shake his hand and tell him how much of me I see in him," 50 told GQ. If the rapper's felony conviction didn't prevent him from voting, 50 said he would have voted for Bush. Meanwhile, Kanye basically called Bush a racist on national television, and has since rethought his strategy for speaking out. "When NBC edited it out on the West Coast, that was a wakeup call," West told the magazine. "It let people know how censored we still are. This is supposed to be America, but you can't get your opinion out. There's all kinds of things I want to say, but I need to pace myself, to make sure my opportunities to say these things aren't taken away too abruptly."
Letter: Mass media not covering positive changes in Iraq
Forty-seven countries have re-established their embassies in Iraq.In Iraq, 3,100 schools have been renovated, and 263 new schools are under construction.The Iraqi police force now has over 55,000 active officers, with five academies that produce 3,500 officers every 12 weeks.Ninety-six percent of children under 5 years old have received the first two rounds of their polio vaccine.4.3 million Iraqi children were enrolled in primary school by October.The Baghdad stock exchange opened June 2004.Those are just a few of the positive changes, as reported on the Department of Defense Web site, that have gone relatively uncovered in the news.
Editor
Ben Mills 2 year old DOD talking points still don't excuse the lies the US Government and its Corporate Media are still telling us about the New Iraq. Iraq is a T-H-E-O-C-R-A-C-Y, not a D-E-M-O-C-R-A-C-Y. This so called War on Terror seems a lot more like a War on Freedom. The naive Peace movement should realize that the exit strategy out of Iraq is through Syria and Iran ending in Russia and China. The DOD has announced it's withdrawl plan from Iraq that consists of using airstikes instead of Troops. We have been bombing Iraq with airstrikes for 15 years, between both of George Bush's Iraq Wars killing over a million Iraqis. With very few exceptions, there is NO credibility left on either side of the aisle, Republican or Democrat. The time has come to invoke the 25th amendment, install a caretaker government, put the former US Government and Corporate Media on trial for War Crimes, get some rope, until we find some honest people who don't want to swing from lamposts for lying to the American People. It's called Freedom!
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Americans’ anger at an all-time high!
"In the case of Iraq, the American public has failed its soldiers,” “we did not prevent the Bush administration from spending their blood in an unnecessary war based on contrived concerns about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. President Bush and those around him lied, and the rest of us let him. Harsh? Yes. True? Also yes.”
Bush may signal Iraq drawdown
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20051126-18565500-bc-iraq-bush.xml
Bush caves to terrorists!
Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/26/AR2005112600857_pf.html
BOOM!
"In the case of Iraq, the American public has failed its soldiers,” “we did not prevent the Bush administration from spending their blood in an unnecessary war based on contrived concerns about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. President Bush and those around him lied, and the rest of us let him. Harsh? Yes. True? Also yes.”
Bush may signal Iraq drawdown
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20051126-18565500-bc-iraq-bush.xml
Bush caves to terrorists!
Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/26/AR2005112600857_pf.html
BOOM!
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US Soldiers 'enhanced' by battle
...there can be feelings of spiritual development, improved relationships, a sense of personal strength, a better appreciation of life and new interests and priorities?
The “war on terror” rallied the country behind Bush, and dozens of neoconservative keyboards gushed forth analogies with Roosevelt and Churchill fighting Hitler, the Saddam Hussein of yesteryear. “Pre-emptive” war quickly effected “regime change” in Afghanistan and Iraq, where “democracy” put down its roots, women enjoyed rights for the first time, and “weapons of mass destruction” would soon be found. The invincible Bush basked in triumph.
Tactics, Not Strategy, in the Antiwar Movement
"The Price of Freedom is Never Free"
The White House had no comment on the return of the protesters.
George Bush's supporters were expected to arrive in his adopted hometown for a PRO WAR RALLY!
Bush supporters will hold a rally because war protesters are being disrespectful to soldiers and hurting troop morale?
Bush supporters will hold a rally because war protesters are being disrespectful to soldiers and hurting troop morale?
Even Bush Supporters Doubt President as Issues Pile Up
She never considered President Bush a great leader, but she voted for him a year ago because she admired how he handled the terrorist attacks of 2001?
The Secret Service did nothing. The dog did not bark.
Quod Erat Demonstradum, the Bush Administration was part of the 9-11 plot.
Quod Erat Demonstradum, the Bush Administration was part of the 9-11 plot.
'Mothers know when it's time to stop. It's time to stop. It's time to bring them home.'
Now we realize that even before Sept. 11, the powerful people in the administration (Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz) wanted a war with Iraq. The day of the attack some of them tried to find evidence that Iraq had attacked us. Now there was certainly going to be a war, and the challenge was to present a case to the American people to win their support for the war.
Islam bans cremation, and the video images were compared here to photographs of U.S. troops abusing prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
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JUST WATCH ME BURN
Who doesn't like a good imperial ruin? Millions flock to Pompeii, so why not Sunny Fallujah, once the "city of mosques" with a quarter-million inhabitants, but massively destroyed in November 2004 by American planes, artillery, tanks, and mortars and now being picturesquely rebuilt as a giant Orwellian prison-camp city. Don't miss the retinal ID scans on your way in, but be careful to stay in your Humvee. Despite the best efforts of the American military, dangers abound. Who built the seven gates of Thebes? The books are filled with names of kings. Was it the kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone? And Babylon, so many times destroyed. Who built the city up each time? In which of Lima's houses,That city glittering with gold, lived those who built it? In the evening when the Chinese wall was finished. Where did the masons go? Imperial Rome Is full of arcs of triumph. Who reared them up? Over whom Did the Caesars triumph? Byzantium lives in song. Were all her dwellings palaces? And even in Atlantis of the legend. The night the seas rushed in,The drowning men still bellowed for their slaves. Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army?Phillip of Spain wept as his fleetwas sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears?Frederick the Greek triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who triumphed with him? Each page a victoryAt whose expense the victory ball? Every ten years a great man, Who paid the piper? So many particulars. So many questions. Bertolt Brecht
If US Forces in Iraq are fighting for our freedom, why have protests been banned outside of the President's farm?
If the Pentagon says that White Phosphorous isn't a chemical WMD, why did they say White Phosphorous was a Chemical WMD when Saddam used it?
If the White House says that allegations that George Bush wanted to bomb Al Jazeera are absurd and outlandish, why has the British Government warned news organizations against publishing details of yet another top secret Downing Street Memo?
Iraq says troop pullout will lead to violence
More deadly blasts shatter Iraqi cities
OCCUPIED BAGHDAD, The New Iraq - A suicide bomber blew up his car outside a hospital south of Baghdad on Thursday while U.S. troops handed out candy and food to children, killing 30 people and wounding about 40, including four Americans.
The controversy over the American use of white phosphorus as a weapon of war in Fallujah deepened yesterday when it was revealed that a US intelligence assessment had characterised WP as a "chemical weapon".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10356665
"When Saddam used WP it was a chemical weapon but when the Americans use it, it's a conventional weapon. The injuries it inflicts, however, are just as terrible, however you describe it".
A torrent of bad news — rising soldier death tolls, suicide bombers, torture allegations — is riling America right now with the hard realities of Iraq.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-11-23-iraq-reality_x.htm
It's not that the situation in Iraq has necessarily gotten worse — it may be just that America's understanding of Iraq has gotten better.
1) Your nation is attacked on lies. 2) Your family and friends are murdered, imprisoned, raped, robbed, tortured. 3) Your nation is contaminated with depleted uranium munitions, which will cause death and suffering for years to come. 4) Your government is replaced with a puppet regime doing the bidding of the occupiers. 5) Death squads roam the country rounding up and torturing and murdering innocent civilians who want nothing more than to be left alone. 6) Your infrastructure is destroyed, your museums looted, your intellectuals assassinated, your culture mercilessly degraded. 7) You are not allowed to write anything critical of the occupation. 8) The so-called "free" elections are nothing more than a repeat of the US electoral farce. 9) Your military is disbanded, unemployment hovers at tragic numbers. 10) The occupying nation builds military bases on your soil so that they can better steal your natural resources. I can go on and on with reasons why Iraqis are fighting back.
Bush: Congress Shouldn't Have Trusted Rice?
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,176308,00.html
The Bush administration is in the process of establishing a dangerous new precedent in relations between the president and Congress on issues of national security and intelligence -- one that could seriously hamper future presidents of either party. It’s called caveat emptor (buyer beware). It goes something like this: If I (the executive branch) provide you (the Congress) with intelligence that proves to be completely wrong and I (the executive branch) exaggerate and hype the meaning of this intelligence and you (the Congress) are gullible enough to vote with me on the basis of this false intelligence and my spin, you are as guilty as sin for your vote and shouldn’t complain to anyone.
Bush faces dual challenges on Iraq
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10198172/page/2/
Most worrisome to the administration, given overall disapproval of the war, is that a slight majority of Americans now say they believe Bush deliberately misled the country in making the case for war in 2002 and 2003!
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/lies.mp3
Does President Bush believe that by his announcing that critics of the Iraq war dampen our troops' morale he will prevent such criticism? Does he believe his words will silence critics and raise troop morale?
This is America, and if Americans share a common trait, it's rebellion at those who wield power. Well, they used to, anyway - most of them. Remember, this country was born in revolution.
The fallen soldier's mother whose August vigil near President Bush's ranch reinvigorated the anti-war movement returned to Texas to resume her protest Thursday as the president celebrated Thanksgiving a few miles away.
A few miles away, a Bush supporter set up camp with a tent and signs saying "A Noble Cause" showing pictures of smiling Iraqi children.
U.S. troops mistakenly open fire on civilians
U.S. forces mistakenly fired on a civilian vehicle outside an American base in a city north of Baghdad on Monday, killing three people, including a child.
75 US Soldiers Killed in Iraq Since Nov. 1
A total of 2,104 US troops have died in Iraq since the invasion.
Qaeda (NUDGE NUDGE WINK WINK) posts video of Baghdad hotel blasts
"See the flames which have engulfed Iraq ... and with God's will, the fire will also burn the crusader army," a voice which sounded like al Zarqawi's said, who also urged more resistance until the "crusaders" left Iraq."
Thanksgiving in the CIA's Secret Prisons
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Thanksgiving/story?id=1342154
A can of Ensure is the highlight of Thanksgiving for the dozen or so top al Qaeda terrorists in the CIA's secret overseas prisons. Besides the repetitive playing of rap music, they have been made to talk by harsh treatment that includes water boarding, in which water is poured over the face to make them think they are drowning. "The person believes they are being killed, and as such it really amounts to a mock execution," said John Sifton, the Afghanistan researcher at Human Rights Watch. The inmates rarely see daylight, and the CIA gives them the bare minimum to make sure they do not die in U.S. custody. That includes the cans of Ensure and shots of vitamin B12. Yet, U.S. officials have little sympathy for the prisoners. Collectively, they have admitted responsibility for the deaths of several thousand innocent civilians.
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The British government has warned news organizations against publishing details of a secret memo which one London tabloid newspaper said recounted discussions between Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush about bombing the headquarters of the Arabic news network Al-Jazeera.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/23/britain.jazeera/index.html
A White House official told CNN, "We are not going to dignify something so outlandish with a response." And a Pentagon official called the Daily Mirror report "absolutely absurd."
If it is so "absurd" and "outlandish" why has the British Government warned news organizations against publishing details of another secret Downing Street Memo?
Ah yes, it is that time again. The smell of roasting turkey and cigar smoke and Polo cologne, perfume like florid gasoline. Copious forced laughter that sounds like geese mating in a broom closet. It is Thanksgiving dinner at the Bush White House, where the guests mingle as though their genitals were being squeezed by manic elves, as if they were all coated in vanilla pudding being licked off by Pat Robertson. Which, truth be told, some of them seem to enjoy. A lot.
They await the appearance of the bird in the cozy, heavily paneled White House drawing room with the grand chandelier sparkling there since the Truman administration, the rest of the space engorged with stuffy furniture Laura chose herself and which she thinks is manly and presidential but which actually looks like it was bought at a Jersey consignment store run by Ethan Allen's stoned brother.
Barbara rules. Owns the house, despite how she hasn't lived here in over 13 years. Laura can only look at her in numb awe, her own stiff skirt pleats appearing humble and small in comparison to Barb's massive teal dress ensemble, so epic and balloon-like it would seem to envelope all it comes near, like a giant ocean algae bloom, a massive amoeba, a cloud of righteous know-it-allness that makes easy mockery of Laura's little beige blouse of meek sexless humility. Barb is a force of nature, commanding the staff and chatting up the various heads of state and smiling at everyone with that glassy omnivorous stare. They all hate her.
George Sr. notices this, of course, from his usual place back beside the old bookcase that hasn't been perused in five years, sips his gin fizz and chuckles softly at the scene, thinkin' about golf, thinkin' about how long ago it all seems since his reign of tepid ineptitude, but thinkin', also, about how history will be much kinder to him now that his son has run the country into a blood-drenched wall. He-he-he. He'll drink to that.
It's the thing no one mentions, but which hangs over the room like a pall. Junior's current miserable poll numbers now mean that he and his father share the honor of being two of the four most unpopular presidents in modern history, right alongside Carter and Nixon. But Bush 41 does not care. He gets to hang with Clinton now. He is grandfatherly and forgettable and almost invisible. In other words, his stature has improved considerably, in relation to his son. Damn this gin is good. Too bad Junior can't have some. Looks like he could use it.
George Jr. is perturbed. He is sulky and pouty and has to force a smirky grin at the guests as they enter the banquet room, pretending as if he really wanted them all there, all these betrayers and backstabbers and people he thought he knew but who turn out, instead, to be involved in whole big bunches of illegal and traitorous stuff he has no clue about. They are all a bunch of goddamn boogerheads, he thinks.
He forces a smile. No one is willing to hold his blinky little gaze for more than three seconds. He wants to scream. He wants to run away. He wants a beer. He wants 10 beers. He grabs a fistful of baseball-shaped hors d'oeuvres (Gul-dang, I love baseball, he thinks). Barb shoots him a look: Sit up straight, stop pouting or else, use a napkin. He sips his mineral water, sullenly, chats with McClellan while scanning the room for Condi, though his eyes first find Rove, slithering around as usual.
Rove works the room, shakes hands, squeezing a little too hard to remind everyone who "the architect" really is. Everyone understands, even as they furtively wipe their hands on their pants after he touches them. Rove grabs fistfuls of baby shrimp and shoves them into his mouth when he thinks no one's looking, swallows without chewing. He smells like baby aspirin and old bacon.
Karl sneaks furtive glances at Barb. He is awed by her natural power, her girth, her effortless cunning. That teal makes her look so ... so ... seaworthy. He wants her. Badly. She knows it. They have a secret thing -- it is matronly and sweaty and creepy as hell and takes place every other Sunday in a Ritz-Carlton just off the Beltway.
Rummy knows all about it. He and Dick stand near the bar and take huge swigs of scotch and puffs from thick Cuban cigars and speak in low, mean tones out the sides of their mouths, occasionally bursting into dark laughter that sounds like a brick being dragged over a cheese grater. Rummy says something about the Karl/Barb flesh-fest and wonders, a little too loudly, if Oedipus would have felt differently about his mother if she had spanked him. Cheney grunts, retorts with a joke about how pleasurable it must be to hold a lit cigarette near the open eyeball of a terrified prisoner in Guantanamo and demand Osama's cell phone number. Ha.
Dick glances over at Lynne, who is, of course, eyeing one of the Latina servants with open-mouthed hunger. Dick hasn't seen Lynne naked in years. He realizes this is a very good thing. Something to be thankful for, certainly. But Lynne is happy. Her life is full of joyous bridge tournaments and bashing of gay rights and copious lesbian fantasies. She is nothing like poor, lost Condi.
Condi is lonely. So, so lonely, sitting over in the far corner, all by herself, nursing her one glass of white wine. No one really talks to her anymore except Dubya and a maybe few brusque words from Rummy, who she suspects is always imagining her cleaning his guns and polishing his boots and calling him "master." Suddenly, her heart jumps. She sees Dubya looking at her from across the room. She smiles that demonic, dominatrix-y smile that always creeps out the Asian press. He does that thing with his thin little lips, that little gesture only she understands. Her body is instantly warmed. Oh their special bond, a dark secret. It is her breath, her raison d'être. It keeps her alive.
Sam Alito stops by, darts in and out, stealing bites, patting everyone on the back, runs up and gives Dubya a big hug, which embarrasses Dubya and makes Cheney look at him even more disdainfully. Sam is laughing too loudly. He smells of tequila and bad ideas. Laura, however, giggles and looks at him coyly. Her legs quiver. She is wearing way too much White Diamonds and her hair hasn't moved since 2003. No one cares.
Meanwhile, Jenna and Barbara Jr. sneak tequila shots in the Rose Garden and flirt with the Secret Service for, like, the millionth time, to no effect. Jenna is so, like, buzzed. She adjusts her bra strap, again. Then her thong. Damn but she hates these formal things. That Alito guy keeps coming out, begging for shots. They don't want to go back into that miserable, dank banquet room. Barbara Jr. stares vacantly into the near distance. Why couldn't life be more like it is on "The West Wing"? That show, like, totally ruled.
The banquet room reeks and coils and sighs. It is full of bleak energy and missed opportunities, spiritual paranoia and repressed desire and dishonest laughter. The turkey comes out dry. There is not enough pie for Dubya. Rumsfeld slurps his scotch, drunkenly. Dick eyes the dark thigh meat. Condi has to pee. There is little to be thankful for, inside this room.
Outside, however, among the nation's awakening throngs, gratitude and hope are beginning to swell and grow anew. Only three years left. It's long but not that long. Every person in that gloomy room will be gone. History. Nothing left but an ugly stain, oily residue, scar tissue. The room will be refreshed. The turkey will be moist. There will be more cranberry sauce. This dark, warmongering chapter will finally end. Pie all around.
It is not, the world realizes, too early to be thankful for that.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/23/britain.jazeera/index.html
A White House official told CNN, "We are not going to dignify something so outlandish with a response." And a Pentagon official called the Daily Mirror report "absolutely absurd."
If it is so "absurd" and "outlandish" why has the British Government warned news organizations against publishing details of another secret Downing Street Memo?
Ah yes, it is that time again. The smell of roasting turkey and cigar smoke and Polo cologne, perfume like florid gasoline. Copious forced laughter that sounds like geese mating in a broom closet. It is Thanksgiving dinner at the Bush White House, where the guests mingle as though their genitals were being squeezed by manic elves, as if they were all coated in vanilla pudding being licked off by Pat Robertson. Which, truth be told, some of them seem to enjoy. A lot.
They await the appearance of the bird in the cozy, heavily paneled White House drawing room with the grand chandelier sparkling there since the Truman administration, the rest of the space engorged with stuffy furniture Laura chose herself and which she thinks is manly and presidential but which actually looks like it was bought at a Jersey consignment store run by Ethan Allen's stoned brother.
Barbara rules. Owns the house, despite how she hasn't lived here in over 13 years. Laura can only look at her in numb awe, her own stiff skirt pleats appearing humble and small in comparison to Barb's massive teal dress ensemble, so epic and balloon-like it would seem to envelope all it comes near, like a giant ocean algae bloom, a massive amoeba, a cloud of righteous know-it-allness that makes easy mockery of Laura's little beige blouse of meek sexless humility. Barb is a force of nature, commanding the staff and chatting up the various heads of state and smiling at everyone with that glassy omnivorous stare. They all hate her.
George Sr. notices this, of course, from his usual place back beside the old bookcase that hasn't been perused in five years, sips his gin fizz and chuckles softly at the scene, thinkin' about golf, thinkin' about how long ago it all seems since his reign of tepid ineptitude, but thinkin', also, about how history will be much kinder to him now that his son has run the country into a blood-drenched wall. He-he-he. He'll drink to that.
It's the thing no one mentions, but which hangs over the room like a pall. Junior's current miserable poll numbers now mean that he and his father share the honor of being two of the four most unpopular presidents in modern history, right alongside Carter and Nixon. But Bush 41 does not care. He gets to hang with Clinton now. He is grandfatherly and forgettable and almost invisible. In other words, his stature has improved considerably, in relation to his son. Damn this gin is good. Too bad Junior can't have some. Looks like he could use it.
George Jr. is perturbed. He is sulky and pouty and has to force a smirky grin at the guests as they enter the banquet room, pretending as if he really wanted them all there, all these betrayers and backstabbers and people he thought he knew but who turn out, instead, to be involved in whole big bunches of illegal and traitorous stuff he has no clue about. They are all a bunch of goddamn boogerheads, he thinks.
He forces a smile. No one is willing to hold his blinky little gaze for more than three seconds. He wants to scream. He wants to run away. He wants a beer. He wants 10 beers. He grabs a fistful of baseball-shaped hors d'oeuvres (Gul-dang, I love baseball, he thinks). Barb shoots him a look: Sit up straight, stop pouting or else, use a napkin. He sips his mineral water, sullenly, chats with McClellan while scanning the room for Condi, though his eyes first find Rove, slithering around as usual.
Rove works the room, shakes hands, squeezing a little too hard to remind everyone who "the architect" really is. Everyone understands, even as they furtively wipe their hands on their pants after he touches them. Rove grabs fistfuls of baby shrimp and shoves them into his mouth when he thinks no one's looking, swallows without chewing. He smells like baby aspirin and old bacon.
Karl sneaks furtive glances at Barb. He is awed by her natural power, her girth, her effortless cunning. That teal makes her look so ... so ... seaworthy. He wants her. Badly. She knows it. They have a secret thing -- it is matronly and sweaty and creepy as hell and takes place every other Sunday in a Ritz-Carlton just off the Beltway.
Rummy knows all about it. He and Dick stand near the bar and take huge swigs of scotch and puffs from thick Cuban cigars and speak in low, mean tones out the sides of their mouths, occasionally bursting into dark laughter that sounds like a brick being dragged over a cheese grater. Rummy says something about the Karl/Barb flesh-fest and wonders, a little too loudly, if Oedipus would have felt differently about his mother if she had spanked him. Cheney grunts, retorts with a joke about how pleasurable it must be to hold a lit cigarette near the open eyeball of a terrified prisoner in Guantanamo and demand Osama's cell phone number. Ha.
Dick glances over at Lynne, who is, of course, eyeing one of the Latina servants with open-mouthed hunger. Dick hasn't seen Lynne naked in years. He realizes this is a very good thing. Something to be thankful for, certainly. But Lynne is happy. Her life is full of joyous bridge tournaments and bashing of gay rights and copious lesbian fantasies. She is nothing like poor, lost Condi.
Condi is lonely. So, so lonely, sitting over in the far corner, all by herself, nursing her one glass of white wine. No one really talks to her anymore except Dubya and a maybe few brusque words from Rummy, who she suspects is always imagining her cleaning his guns and polishing his boots and calling him "master." Suddenly, her heart jumps. She sees Dubya looking at her from across the room. She smiles that demonic, dominatrix-y smile that always creeps out the Asian press. He does that thing with his thin little lips, that little gesture only she understands. Her body is instantly warmed. Oh their special bond, a dark secret. It is her breath, her raison d'être. It keeps her alive.
Sam Alito stops by, darts in and out, stealing bites, patting everyone on the back, runs up and gives Dubya a big hug, which embarrasses Dubya and makes Cheney look at him even more disdainfully. Sam is laughing too loudly. He smells of tequila and bad ideas. Laura, however, giggles and looks at him coyly. Her legs quiver. She is wearing way too much White Diamonds and her hair hasn't moved since 2003. No one cares.
Meanwhile, Jenna and Barbara Jr. sneak tequila shots in the Rose Garden and flirt with the Secret Service for, like, the millionth time, to no effect. Jenna is so, like, buzzed. She adjusts her bra strap, again. Then her thong. Damn but she hates these formal things. That Alito guy keeps coming out, begging for shots. They don't want to go back into that miserable, dank banquet room. Barbara Jr. stares vacantly into the near distance. Why couldn't life be more like it is on "The West Wing"? That show, like, totally ruled.
The banquet room reeks and coils and sighs. It is full of bleak energy and missed opportunities, spiritual paranoia and repressed desire and dishonest laughter. The turkey comes out dry. There is not enough pie for Dubya. Rumsfeld slurps his scotch, drunkenly. Dick eyes the dark thigh meat. Condi has to pee. There is little to be thankful for, inside this room.
Outside, however, among the nation's awakening throngs, gratitude and hope are beginning to swell and grow anew. Only three years left. It's long but not that long. Every person in that gloomy room will be gone. History. Nothing left but an ugly stain, oily residue, scar tissue. The room will be refreshed. The turkey will be moist. There will be more cranberry sauce. This dark, warmongering chapter will finally end. Pie all around.
It is not, the world realizes, too early to be thankful for that.
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A Thanksgiving Prayer by William Seward Burroughs
Thanks for the wild turkey andthe passenger pigeons, destinedto be shit out through wholesomeAmerican guts. Thanks for a continent to despoiland poison.
Thanks for Indians to provide amodicum of challenge anddanger. Thanks for vast herds of bison tokill and skin leaving thecarcasses to rot.
Thanks for bounties on wolvesand coyotes. Thanks for the American dream,To vulgarize and to falsify untilthe bare lies shine through. Thanks for the KKK. For nigger-killin' lawmen,feelin' their notches. For decent church-goin' women,with their mean, pinched, bitter,evil faces. Thanks for "Kill a Queer forChrist" stickers. Thanks for laboratory AIDS. Thanks for Prohibition and thewar against drugs. Thanks for a country wherenobody's allowed to mind theown business. Thanks for a nation of finks. Yes, thanks for all thememories-- all right let's seeyour arms! You always were a headache andyou always were a bore. Thanks for the last and greatestbetrayal of the last and greatestof human dreams.
A Thanksgiving Prayer
Oh thank you Lord for giving we the American people an entire continent to take away from the Native People.
For giving to us the opportunity to exploit and plunder this great land, we thank you oh Lord.
Thank you Lord for giving us the opportunity to show the Native People their proper place is on the reservations that we have carved out for them.
Thank you Lord for the opportunity to ethnically cleanse and reeducate the Native People and to show to them the American way of life.
Thank you Lord for this day of Thanksgiving whereby we can celebrate a national day of genocide.
Thank you oh Lord for our bounteous blessings and our amply filled bellies.
Thank you oh Lord for our shopping malls and our super highways.
Thank you oh Lord for our cars and our trucks.
Thank you oh Lord for giving to we the American people the world’s resources to exploit and use up.
Thank you oh Lord for giving us the superior position in our world and for making America the world’s last super power.
Thank you oh Lord for our wise political leaders and their policies of preemptive war.
Thank you oh Lord for America’s military might.
Thank you oh Lord for America’s superior military technology.
Thank you oh Lord for our depleted uranium weapons, our laser guided munitions, our cluster bombs, our white phosphorous bombs, and of course our napalm.
Thank you oh Lord for our thermo-baric bombs and our satellite precision munitions.
Thank you oh Lord that our political leaders have placed Muslim men, women, and children into secret detention. Thank you oh Lord for Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib Prison, Bagram Airbase, and the various secret facilities that our CIA keeps secret from America and the world.
Thank you oh Lord for the torture being worked on our behalf. Thank you oh Lord that our political leaders are keeping America safe from the terrorists.
Thank you oh Lord for this day of Thanksgiving, we surely have much to be thankful about.
Thanks for the wild turkey andthe passenger pigeons, destinedto be shit out through wholesomeAmerican guts. Thanks for a continent to despoiland poison.
Thanks for Indians to provide amodicum of challenge anddanger. Thanks for vast herds of bison tokill and skin leaving thecarcasses to rot.
Thanks for bounties on wolvesand coyotes. Thanks for the American dream,To vulgarize and to falsify untilthe bare lies shine through. Thanks for the KKK. For nigger-killin' lawmen,feelin' their notches. For decent church-goin' women,with their mean, pinched, bitter,evil faces. Thanks for "Kill a Queer forChrist" stickers. Thanks for laboratory AIDS. Thanks for Prohibition and thewar against drugs. Thanks for a country wherenobody's allowed to mind theown business. Thanks for a nation of finks. Yes, thanks for all thememories-- all right let's seeyour arms! You always were a headache andyou always were a bore. Thanks for the last and greatestbetrayal of the last and greatestof human dreams.
A Thanksgiving Prayer
Oh thank you Lord for giving we the American people an entire continent to take away from the Native People.
For giving to us the opportunity to exploit and plunder this great land, we thank you oh Lord.
Thank you Lord for giving us the opportunity to show the Native People their proper place is on the reservations that we have carved out for them.
Thank you Lord for the opportunity to ethnically cleanse and reeducate the Native People and to show to them the American way of life.
Thank you Lord for this day of Thanksgiving whereby we can celebrate a national day of genocide.
Thank you oh Lord for our bounteous blessings and our amply filled bellies.
Thank you oh Lord for our shopping malls and our super highways.
Thank you oh Lord for our cars and our trucks.
Thank you oh Lord for giving to we the American people the world’s resources to exploit and use up.
Thank you oh Lord for giving us the superior position in our world and for making America the world’s last super power.
Thank you oh Lord for our wise political leaders and their policies of preemptive war.
Thank you oh Lord for America’s military might.
Thank you oh Lord for America’s superior military technology.
Thank you oh Lord for our depleted uranium weapons, our laser guided munitions, our cluster bombs, our white phosphorous bombs, and of course our napalm.
Thank you oh Lord for our thermo-baric bombs and our satellite precision munitions.
Thank you oh Lord that our political leaders have placed Muslim men, women, and children into secret detention. Thank you oh Lord for Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib Prison, Bagram Airbase, and the various secret facilities that our CIA keeps secret from America and the world.
Thank you oh Lord for the torture being worked on our behalf. Thank you oh Lord that our political leaders are keeping America safe from the terrorists.
Thank you oh Lord for this day of Thanksgiving, we surely have much to be thankful about.
US intelligence classified white phosphorus as 'chemical weapon'
The US State Department and the Pentagon have shifted their position repeatedly in the aftermath of the film's showing. After initially saying that US forces do not use white phosphorus as a weapon, the Pentagon now says that WP had been used against insurgents in Fallujah. The use of WP against civilians as a weapon is prohibited.
"In remarks before the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative research organization where he once served as a research fellow and a trustee, Cheney said Democratic critics of the war are lying when they say Bush lied about prewar intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. . .
"(T)hey attacked us on 9/11 here in the homeland, killing 3,000 people. Now they are making a stand in Iraq. . . . '
Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda, according to government records and current and former officials with firsthand knowledge of the matter.
In barely legible handwriting, Cheney wrote in the margin of the report:
"This is very good indeed … Encouraging … Not like the crap we are all so used to getting out of CIA."
UPDATE: Bush al-Jazeera 'plot' dismissed...
The White House has dismissed claims George WMD Bush was talked out of bombing Arab television station al-Jazeera by UK Prime Minister Tony Bliar.
Legal gag on Bush-Bliar war row
The attorney general last night threatened newspapers with the Official Secrets Act if they revealed the contents of a document allegedly relating to a dispute between Tony Blair and George Bush over the conduct of military operations in Iraq.
The US State Department and the Pentagon have shifted their position repeatedly in the aftermath of the film's showing. After initially saying that US forces do not use white phosphorus as a weapon, the Pentagon now says that WP had been used against insurgents in Fallujah. The use of WP against civilians as a weapon is prohibited.
"In remarks before the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative research organization where he once served as a research fellow and a trustee, Cheney said Democratic critics of the war are lying when they say Bush lied about prewar intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. . .
"(T)hey attacked us on 9/11 here in the homeland, killing 3,000 people. Now they are making a stand in Iraq. . . . '
Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda, according to government records and current and former officials with firsthand knowledge of the matter.
In barely legible handwriting, Cheney wrote in the margin of the report:
"This is very good indeed … Encouraging … Not like the crap we are all so used to getting out of CIA."
UPDATE: Bush al-Jazeera 'plot' dismissed...
The White House has dismissed claims George WMD Bush was talked out of bombing Arab television station al-Jazeera by UK Prime Minister Tony Bliar.
Legal gag on Bush-Bliar war row
The attorney general last night threatened newspapers with the Official Secrets Act if they revealed the contents of a document allegedly relating to a dispute between Tony Blair and George Bush over the conduct of military operations in Iraq.
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The New World Order will simply burn Bush, install a different brand of puppet and the agenda will steamroll on.Iraqis are faking their deaths, says US Air Force commander
There are no official figures on civilian casualties in Iraq. "We control the collateral damage, and we have very strict rules of engagement to guide us through minimizing noncombatant injuries and death!"
About 100,000 Iraqi civilians - half of them women and children - have died in Iraq since the invasion, mostly as a result of airstrikes by coalition forces.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1338749,00.html
"US General Tommy Franks is widely quoted as saying 'we don't do body counts',"
"9/11 was too ambiguous," Madonna tells the magazine. "You couldn't prove how the government was somehow in on the deal. There were too many arguments against it. You could say, 'Oh, that's just Michael Moore,' 'Oh, that's just hearsay.' New Orleans was undeniable irresponsibility."
Letter: Calling Bush a terrorist means we're all terrorists?
Editor,I read a letter in Friday's Daily Lobo titled "U.S. terrorism not covered by mainstream media" that accused the armed forces of being "a terrorist organization commanded by the world's No. 1 terrorist, George Bush."I am often shocked by a person's willingness to shirk all responsibility and blame someone else for their actions. It is important to realize who ultimately has control over President Bush - us. We put him into office, we provided him with the power he has, and are therefore responsible for his actions, whatever they may be. I know what your childish responses will be: "I didn't vote for him." Well, guess what. That doesn't matter. You are responsible for him. When he was elected, you gave him your power to speak and act for you in leading this nation - the same is true for all senators, governors and other elected officials. In calling Bush a terrorist, you are calling yourself a terrorist, as he is merely the public face of this people and accountable to us. We are the terrorists. We are the ones using white phosphorous in Fallujah, and we are the ones beating prisoners overseas. You put your power into the hands of this government, freely, and it is your power being used to commit these atrocities you so often complain about. If it offends you to be accused of killing thousands, good. Remember that if the people are sufficiently dissatisfied with the performance of their figurehead, they retain the power to remove him and put in place someone more satisfactory. This we have not done, and so our power continues to be exercised through Bush, and we continue to be accomplices in his actions. My suggestion is that if war, lies and death do in fact bother you, get off your lazy ass and correct the problem. This is your country. You are responsible for it. If you aren't ashamed enough to get Bush out of office, then stop whining - it's annoying, pointless and makes you sound like you are 5.Tylor NelsonUNM student
Iran will be destroyed - holocaust, hand of Bush
A million martyrs await the call
Iraq is a mess but widening the conflict by attacking Iran would be an act of madness. That little stream on the western edge of Mehran is a Rubicon we must never cross.
Iraq is a mess but widening the conflict by attacking Iran would be an act of madness. That little stream on the western edge of Mehran is a Rubicon we must never cross.
It’s time Cheney steps downIn his speech to the American Enterprise Institute, Richard Bruce Cheney said: "The flaws in the intelligence are plain enough in hindsight. But any suggestion that prewar information was distorted, hyped or fabricated by the leader of the nation is utterly false."
Bliar talked Bush out of bombing al-Jazeera
George WMD Bush planned to bomb pan-Arab television broadcaster al-Jazeera, British newspaper the Daily Mirror said, citing a Downing Street memo marked "Top Secret"!
US bombs Al-Jazeera center in Baghdad
The Pentagon denied it had deliberately targeted Al-Jazeera’s offices, insisting they were located in a “target-rich environment.” US State Department spokesman Nabil Khoury told the network: “I personally cannot imagine that a country which respects general freedoms can target media establishments.”
US Bombs Al-Jazeera, Again
Al-Jazeera has come under intense criticism from the Pentagon and the White House for offering a no-holds-barred alternative to the heavily edited "official" reporting broadcasted by Western media.
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Iraqis killed as U.S. fires on car
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/21/iraq.main/index.html
The U.S. spokesman could not confirm whether children were among those killed.
Military fears critics will hurt morale?
http://washtimes.com/national/20051121-122534-5301r.htm
No major stocks of banned weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have been found since the 2003 invasion.
U.S. forces used chemical weapons against Iraqis
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=257089&area=/insight/insight__international/
Hussein, facing a possible death sentence, is accused of mass murder, torture, false imprisonment and the use of chemical weapons. He is certainly guilty on all counts. So, it now seems, are those who overthrew him.
Atta files destroyed by Pentagon
Protecting an asset until he could be used, or just covering their own tracks? Or maybe concealing the link from Atta to Abramoff?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=mohammed+atta+jack+abramoff&spell=1
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=jack+abramoff+heather+wilson&btnG=Search
If that weren't bad enough, the botched invasion -- and the corrosive distrust of the political structure that it has generated among Americans -- may eventually breed a brand-new Vietnam syndrome, this one the "Iraq syndrome." That will make it difficult for a future American president to respond militarily even to a legitimate threat.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucas/bellicoseadministrationrefusestoconcedeitserrors;_ylt=AooKIrbfSDIdwXjI.AGIny4DW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
And both the Iraq syndrome and its earlier version will have a common heritage, inspired when an American president took the country to war on the wings of lies.
Door thwarts quick exit for Bush
George WMD Bush tried to make a quick exit from a news conference in Beijing on Sunday - only to find himself thwarted by locked doors.
What do you think about Pennsylvania Rep. John Murtha’s call for a withdrawal of American forces from Iraq within six months?
Withdrawing would be the wrong thing to do on a moral level.
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Withdrawing would be wrong because it would be a strategic disaster for our national interests.
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Withdrawing is the best option for our strategic national interests.
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Withdrawing is the right thing to do on a moral level.
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How and when the troops should come home
HOW? Just undo everything you did originally. Go back to Kuwait. Get on the boats and planes that took you there, and come on home.
America was able to launch many battleships on a moments notice when they wanted to check out the damage to Bushs oil company after the tsunami struck Indonesia, so it can't be that hard to mobilize a fleet.
The American public is praying and waiting for your safe return.
WHEN? NOW.
And leave Chalabi behind. Let the Iraqis deal with him.
And since the Zionists pushed for this war, let the UN order the World Bank and IMF to pay restitution for the damage to the Iraqi infrastructure--just like how countries have been tapped for money for decades by the Zionists for supposedly taking part in the holocaust.
Paul wolfowitz was a major player in starting this war. Let the institution that he is now president of be the first to pay up. Halliburton should also be drained of its assets in the efforts to restore Iraq. The companies that used the depleted uranium in the weapons should also be drained of all assets for the medical care of Iraqis in the future.
Then the American people can start to work on how their government got out of control, and how to ensure it will not happen again. These are steps in the right direction. I don't like globalization, but we only have one planet to live on, and we cannot act the way we have been acting. There is only one global community, and we have got to become a good neighbor and a good member of that community. I don't want to be ashamed to be American.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/21/iraq.main/index.html
The U.S. spokesman could not confirm whether children were among those killed.
Military fears critics will hurt morale?
http://washtimes.com/national/20051121-122534-5301r.htm
No major stocks of banned weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have been found since the 2003 invasion.
U.S. forces used chemical weapons against Iraqis
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=257089&area=/insight/insight__international/
Hussein, facing a possible death sentence, is accused of mass murder, torture, false imprisonment and the use of chemical weapons. He is certainly guilty on all counts. So, it now seems, are those who overthrew him.
Atta files destroyed by Pentagon
Protecting an asset until he could be used, or just covering their own tracks? Or maybe concealing the link from Atta to Abramoff?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=mohammed+atta+jack+abramoff&spell=1
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=jack+abramoff+heather+wilson&btnG=Search
If that weren't bad enough, the botched invasion -- and the corrosive distrust of the political structure that it has generated among Americans -- may eventually breed a brand-new Vietnam syndrome, this one the "Iraq syndrome." That will make it difficult for a future American president to respond militarily even to a legitimate threat.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucas/bellicoseadministrationrefusestoconcedeitserrors;_ylt=AooKIrbfSDIdwXjI.AGIny4DW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
And both the Iraq syndrome and its earlier version will have a common heritage, inspired when an American president took the country to war on the wings of lies.
Door thwarts quick exit for Bush
George WMD Bush tried to make a quick exit from a news conference in Beijing on Sunday - only to find himself thwarted by locked doors.
What do you think about Pennsylvania Rep. John Murtha’s call for a withdrawal of American forces from Iraq within six months?
Withdrawing would be the wrong thing to do on a moral level.
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Withdrawing would be wrong because it would be a strategic disaster for our national interests.
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How and when the troops should come home
HOW? Just undo everything you did originally. Go back to Kuwait. Get on the boats and planes that took you there, and come on home.
America was able to launch many battleships on a moments notice when they wanted to check out the damage to Bushs oil company after the tsunami struck Indonesia, so it can't be that hard to mobilize a fleet.
The American public is praying and waiting for your safe return.
WHEN? NOW.
And leave Chalabi behind. Let the Iraqis deal with him.
And since the Zionists pushed for this war, let the UN order the World Bank and IMF to pay restitution for the damage to the Iraqi infrastructure--just like how countries have been tapped for money for decades by the Zionists for supposedly taking part in the holocaust.
Paul wolfowitz was a major player in starting this war. Let the institution that he is now president of be the first to pay up. Halliburton should also be drained of its assets in the efforts to restore Iraq. The companies that used the depleted uranium in the weapons should also be drained of all assets for the medical care of Iraqis in the future.
Then the American people can start to work on how their government got out of control, and how to ensure it will not happen again. These are steps in the right direction. I don't like globalization, but we only have one planet to live on, and we cannot act the way we have been acting. There is only one global community, and we have got to become a good neighbor and a good member of that community. I don't want to be ashamed to be American.
20051120
British-trained police in Iraq 'killed prisoners with drills' http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article328214.ece
In the US-controlled districts of Iraq, some senior military and intelligence officials have been accused of giving tacit approval to the extra-judicial actions of counter-insurgency forces. Critics claim the situation echoes American collaboration with military regimes in Latin America and south-east Asia during the Cold War, particularly in Vietnam, where US-trained paramilitaries were used to kill opponents of the South Vietnamese government.
The Dirty War: Torture and mutilation used on Iraqi 'insurgents'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article328158.ece
Amid the acrid smoke and dust, the cries of the injured being dragged out of the rubble, General Adnan Thabit arrived at the Hamra hotel bomb site in sunglasses, pressed fatigues and a crimson beret.
"Well, gentlemen," he said to me and another journalist who had just been blasted out of our hotel rooms by suicide bombers, "this is what happens when terrorists carry out terrorism - a lot of people dead, a lot of people hurt. Now you can see what we are up against."
The general was savouring his moment. His special forces have been accused by the media and others of carrying out the worst human rights abuses against "suspected insurgents" in what is becoming an ever more savage and dirty war.
Behind the daily reports of suicide bombings and attacks on coalition forces is a far more shadowy struggle, one that involves tortured prisoners huddled in dungeons, death-squad victims with their hands tied behind their backs, often mutilated with knives and electric drills, and distraught families searching for relations who have been "disappeared".
This hidden struggle surfaced last week when US forces and Iraqi police raided an Interior Ministry bunker only a couple of hundred yards from where we were standing. They found 169 tortured and starving captives, who looked like Holocaust victims. The "disappeared" prisoners were being held, it is claimed, by the Shia Muslim Badr militia, which controls part of the ministry. Bayan Jabr, the Minister of the Interior, is himself a former Badr commander, but the ministry's involvement does not end there: General Adnan's commandos come under its control. So does the Wolf Brigade, which vies with the commandos for the title of most feared.
Baghdad is now a city in the shadow of gunmen. As I left the Hamra to replace what was lost in my bombed room, I had to negotiate checkpoints of the Badr militia, their Shia enemies, the Mehdi Army of the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and the Kurdish peshmerga. The Iraqi police and the government paramilitaries have their own roadblocks.
And there are others: the Shia Defenders of Khadamiya - set up under Hussein al-Sadr, a cousin of Muqtada, who is an ally of the former prime minister Iyad Allawi - and the government-backed Tiger and Scorpion brigades. They all have similar looks: balaclavas or wraparound sunglasses and headbands, black leather gloves with fingers cut off, and a variety of weapons. When not manning checkpoints, they hurtle through the streets in four-wheel drives, scattering the traffic by firing in the air. Out of sight they are accused of arbitrary arrests, intimidation and extrajudicial killings.
The US and Britain, which trained many of the forces involved, and which still have ultimate responsibility for them, are implicated. But the pattern of illegality is also the continuation of a process that began with the questionable justification for the invasion. American and British forces have played their own part, from the abuses of Abu Ghraib to deaths in British military custody, from the deployment of white phosphorus as a chemical weapon in the assault on Fallujah to the wild use of overwhelming American firepower, which some have called almost as indiscriminate as the killings caused by Sunni insurgents' car bombings.
But more than two years after President George Bush officially declared a victorious conclusion to the war in Iraq, the body count continues to rise. Faced with an insurgency that shows no signs of abating, the US and Iraqi government rely more and more on the paramilitaries. Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, has said units such as General Adnan's commandos are among "forces that are going to have the greatest leverage on suppressing and eliminating the insurgency".
Those on the receiving end of some of this "leverage", however, describe terrifying experiences. Ahmed Sadoun (not his full name) was arrested in the middle of the night at his home in Mosul by government paramilitaries accompanied by American soldiers. He was held for seven months before being released without charge and left Iraq as soon as he could.
Speaking from Amman, Mr Sadoun, a 38-year-old engineer, said: "They kicked down our door and asked about a neighbour. When I said I did not know where the man was, they started kicking me and beating me. The soldiers had paint on their faces and did not have same uniforms as other troops. The Americans did not take part, but they saw what was happening.
"But this was nothing. When they took me to their base I was blindfolded and beaten very, very badly with metal rods. They then hung me up on hooks by my wrists until I thought they would tear off. I think that stopped because one of the Americans said something. I could hear English spoken in an angry voice. But this happened again later.
"I was in a room which was so small that not all the prisoners could even lie down properly. All night we could hear people screaming, people being hit. One day they said I could go, but after what happened to me I know they could do this to me again. So I left."
At one roadblock I met the Wolf Brigade, which was widely involved in suppressing disturbances in Mosul around the time Mr Sadoun was being held, though he does not know which paramilitaries seized him. One of them took off his balaclava and turned out to be in his late teens, belying the ferocity of the snarling wolf badges on his arms.
The young man shook his head about what happened at the Hamra. "That is bad, very bad," he said. "But you are alive, that is good - too many dead people in Baghdad." He was keen to make the point that "the people like us because we kill the people who try to kill them. Listen, mister, we are fighting bad people, you cannot treat them like normal persons."
But what about the innocent who get caught and end up being abused in detention centres? "Mister, those are just lies, you must not believe them. These people are terrorists. We are here because the police cannot do the job by themselves."
The paramilitary influence on the police is particularly overt in the British-controlled south of Iraq, where the British invited the militias to join the security forces, and then saw them take over. Nothing was done by the British authorities when police in plain clothes, along with their militia colleagues, killed Christians, claiming they sold alcohol, or Sunnis for being supposedly Baathists.
Action was only belatedly taken when a particularly menacing faction, a "force within a force" based at the Jamiat police station on the outskirts of Basra, captured two SAS soldiers who were gathering information on their mistreatment of prisoners.
British troops smashed into a police station to rescue the two soldiers and later arrested more than a dozen others. But now they more or less stay out of Basra, leaving Iraq's second city at the mercy of a police force that even its commanders say they barely control. There have been dozens of assassinations, including that of at least one foreign journalist.
Even families of fellow policemen are not exempt. Ammar Muthar, a member of the border police, knew his father, Muthar Abadi, was on the Shia militia hit list, because he had acted as a missile engineer in the war against Shia Iran. Ammar brought his father from Al-Amarah to Basra for safety. But while he was out one day, six policemen, in uniform but wearing black masks, dragged Abadi away. His body was later found, shot five times, three in the face.
"The neighbours could do nothing because it was the police who took him away," said Ammar. "They wanted to kill him, and no one could stop them."
One British officer said: "You hear about the militias infiltrating the police. But they did not have to. We invited them to join."
THE CHARGE SHEET
Endemic torture of prisoners
The discovery last week of starved and tortured prisoners in an Interior Ministry bunker emphasised that detention without due process remains endemic in Iraq, echoing the Saddam era. In Basra, militia elements in the police used cells to imprison and torture their enemies. When the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal broke, it emerged that among the prisoners being maltreated by US soldiers were "undocumented" detainees who had been kept hidden from the Red Cross. And Britain was shamed by the death of Baha Mousa, a Basra hotel clerk, in British military custody.
Use of napalm and phosphorus
Last week the Pentagon admitted using white phosporus as an offensive weapon in last year's assault on Fallujah. Its official use is to create smokescreens to shield troop movements, but if fired into trenches or foxholes it can burn victims to the bone. The legality of this use is debatable. Last year the US also admitted, after previous denials, that it had used napalm - which Britain has banned - against Iraqi forces during the invasion. There is also controversy over the deployment of cluster munitions, which Britain has said should not be used in or near civilian areas.
Extra-judicial killings
Early in the insurgency, it appeared that Sunnis loyal to Saddam were attacking defenceless Shias - an impression the coalition authorities sought to reinforce. Extra-judicial killings by Shias in the paramilitary groups operated by the Interior Ministry, or in party militias, have become increasingly open. Victims are rounded up in house-to-house raids at night and their bodies, frequently handcuffed, are found dumped later. Sunni civilians are the main target, but Shias seen as collaborators under Saddam, or connected with rival militias, have also "disappeared".
Indiscriminate 'spray and slay'
Heavy-handed tactics against the insurgency, dubbed "spray and slay", have attracted much criticism. The current American offensive in the west and north-west appears to replicate the methods used in Fallujah: the population is ordered to leave before the town is sealed off and subjected to an air and ground assault. Those killed are invariably described as insurgent fighters, even in incidents where there is strong evidence that groups of civilians, including women and children, have been caught up in airstrikes.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article328158.ece
Iraq: Another week of carnage
Five civilians are killed and 20 wounded when car bombs explode in a marketplace in Baghdad. One Iraqi policeman is killed and another seriously injured when their patrol is attacked. Another policeman dies in an attack in Kirkuk.
* SUNDAY
Five Iraqi soldiers are wounded when a roadside bomb explodes near their patrol in Kirkuk. One insurgent is killed by Iraqi troops while allegedly trying to plant a bomb.
* MONDAY
Three people are killed when a roadside bomb explodes in a busy shopping street in Baghdad. Coalition air strikes kill 37 in the town of Ubaydi during an operation near the Syrian border. Two US Marines killed.
* TUESDAY
Three policemen killed when a roadside bomb blows up next to their patrol car in Kirkuk. Two more die when a parked car explodes next to a Baghdad restaurant. A university lecturer is wounded and his driver killed by gunmen near Baghdad's Mustansiriya University.
* WEDNESDAY
Five US Marines die in a combat operation close to the Syrian border, the highest daily death toll for American troops in Operation Steel Curtain; 16 insurgents are killed.
* YESTERDAY
At least 77 people are killed and 150 wounded when two suicide bombers blow themselves up in two Shia mosques in Khanaqin, about 93 miles north-east of Baghdad. Eight Iraqis are killed, including two children, and 60 are wounded when two suicide car bombs explode near the Hamra hotel. The establishment in central Baghdad is used by foreign journalists.
* SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER
Five civilians are killed and 20 wounded when car bombs explode in a marketplace in Baghdad. One Iraqi policeman is killed and another seriously injured when their patrol is attacked. Another policeman dies in an attack in Kirkuk.
* SUNDAY
Five Iraqi soldiers are wounded when a roadside bomb explodes near their patrol in Kirkuk. One insurgent is killed by Iraqi troops while allegedly trying to plant a bomb.
* MONDAY
Three people are killed when a roadside bomb explodes in a busy shopping street in Baghdad. Coalition air strikes kill 37 in the town of Ubaydi during an operation near the Syrian border. Two US Marines killed.
* TUESDAY
Three policemen killed when a roadside bomb blows up next to their patrol car in Kirkuk. Two more die when a parked car explodes next to a Baghdad restaurant. A university lecturer is wounded and his driver killed by gunmen near Baghdad's Mustansiriya University.
* WEDNESDAY
Five US Marines die in a combat operation close to the Syrian border, the highest daily death toll for American troops in Operation Steel Curtain; 16 insurgents are killed.
* YESTERDAY
At least 77 people are killed and 150 wounded when two suicide bombers blow themselves up in two Shia mosques in Khanaqin, about 93 miles north-east of Baghdad. Eight Iraqis are killed, including two children, and 60 are wounded when two suicide car bombs explode near the Hamra hotel. The establishment in central Baghdad is used by foreign journalists.
Six feet from death on the day Iraq descends further into Hell
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article327983.ece
The bomb exploded at 8.25 in the morning. The noise was terrifying. I was lying in bed reading when the first blast sprayed slivers of glass across the room.
It was quickly followed by another, even louder, blast, this time sending chunks of the wall and the window frame hurtling into a heavy, 12ft wardrobe. It tottered towards the bed, and then collapsed in on itself like a cardboard pantomime prop.
The room was wrecked but all I had were cuts and bruises. Staying in bed a little longer than usual had saved me from serious harm.
Outside the hotel, the Iraqis, without the protection of a blast wall, had no such luck. All around was wild gunfire, which seems to follow all bombings. That and the wailing and screaming of women and children. A row of houses had collapsed, others were on fire. The bombing at the Hamra hotel in Baghdad killed eight people, two of them children, and injured about 60 others. Many of them are not expected to survive. More people were buried under the smouldering ruins of what had been their homes.
On an exceptionally bloody day, even by the standards of this savage conflict, there was even greater carnage elsewhere.
Two suicide bombers killed 74 people gathered for Friday prayers at two Shia mosques in Khanquin, in the north-eastern Kurdish part of the country, which had thus far escaped the worst of the violence so far.
Ali Abdullah was bowing his head in worship as a bomb went off. "I had seen the two men come in, they walked into the middle of everyone and then blew themselves up. The roof fell in on us. You can see flesh on the walls of the mosque, a holy place."
Kamaran Ahmaed, the director of the Khanaquin hospital, said: "Apart from the dead, there are about 150 injured. I fear the number of dead is going to rise."
The attack at the Hamra was also carried out by two suicide bombers, using a van and a flatbed truck, packed with plastic explosives. It was markedly similar to another bombing on the Palestine hotel, which is also used by the international media.
The Hamra is in the Jadriyah district, just 200 metres from the interior ministry bunker where 169 tortured and starved prisoners were found a few days ago. The captives are supposed to have been held by the Shia Badr Brigades militia. The Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr, a former Badr commander, maintained that the claims of torture were exaggerated. He also said the government was in full control of security in the area.
The bombings at Khanaquin and the Hamra may have been Sunni retaliations for the bunker. But a senior American officer, said he thought it was revenge by the Shias against Western journalists at the hotel who first published the story of the prisoner abuse.
Security cameras show the lead bomber, in a light blue van, ramming the concrete blast wall in an attempt to punch a hole for the flatbed truck to follow. The concrete barriers are just 20 metres from my second-floor room, and I had often stood on the balcony with colleagues musing on what would happen if an assault came from that direction.
We found out yesterday. It seems the van leading the charge had been packed with too much explosive. It crumbled the until-now reassuringly formidable-looking walls, but also gouged out a crater so deep that the flatbed could not get through.
Some of the security guards at the hotel opened fire with their Kalashnikovs. The bomber made one more attempt to drive his way in, and then, having failed, blew himself up. The two blasts tore apart the bomb vehicles and set fire to a line of parked cars. Fountains begun to sprout from the burst water mains forming dark brown pools.
But the real damage was in the homes beyond. People crawled out of the debris with blood on their faces, often pulling injured relations behind them through the acrid smoke and the dust. The air was filled with sound of the injured moaning and the wailing of their anguished families, and all around there was the smell of burning.
An elderly woman, wearing a black abaya, sat in the mud rocking backwards and forwards and beating her temple with her fists. "The family is back there," said Rashid Saffa, 19, gesturing with his thumb towards the piles of bricks and mortar. "She cannot speak now, she is just crying. I am her grandson. My mother and father are back there, I must go back and look."
The Iraqi families living around here benefit from the Hamra's generator during the frequent power cuts in Baghdad. They also get a certain amount of protection from criminals due to the presence of the security guards hired by the hotel and the media. But having a large number of foreigners in their midst also brings danger as yesterday showed so painfully.
However, the local people are also thought to have supplied information about the torture dungeons and may have been marked out for retribution because of that - an atrocity for reporting an atrocity. "We have the hotel, yes. But they targeted Shia houses here regardless, why?" shouted Hameed Taha. "I myself pulled out a young girl from the rubble, why did they do this?"
Mohammed Yasin, 61, shook his head tiredly. "We knew about the hotel, but we chose to stay. These people just like to kill. This is Baghdad; if we don't get killed here, we die somewhere else."
Parts of the bombers' bodies were strewn around - a charred foot outside the hotel entrance, a scrap of scalp next to the swimming pool. The night manager's son had been among those killed. "He was a good, polite boy," said a colleague. "You have met him. He had no chance, the bomb went off when he was right next to the van."
The US and Iraqi forces arrived half an hour after the bombings and blew up a suspicious car. The Americans were led by Brigadier General Karl Horst, who had also led the raid on the interior ministry building. The Iraqi commander was General Adnan Thabet, whose special forces are accused of some of the worst human rights abuses.General Horst said: "If the second bomber had got through the Hamra would not be standing now."
There was an awful lot of blood on the landing and stairwell on my floor at the hotel. The only person regularly using the corridors at that time would have been the cleaner, an ever-smiling young man who would practise his English with us. We had checked whether our colleagues in the media were all right, but I had not even thought about him.
As we picked our way through the debris in search of our belongings, there was news about the bombings in Khanquin. There the searches were for bodies. As dusk fell, and the digging continued, a 12-year-old girl, Sarkhel Akram, collected Korans from the wreckage of the mosques, kissed them, and put them away.
About the same time, outside, I found Rashid Saffa returning from the Yarmuk Hospital. "My mother and father are injured, but they are alive, inshallah. They are badly hurt but they are alive," he wiped his eyes.
20051119
There is one sure way for the tax slaves to stop the war in Iraq:Stay out of the Armed Forces.
You are not defending your country.
You are not defending freedom.
You are not defending the Constitution.
You are being used by a pack of lying thugs who are brave only with other people’s blood.
It doesn't matter what oaths you took, what your intentions are, or what your parents or pastor said.
You are working for war criminals.
They will lie about anything and everything, then lie to cover up their original lies.
If an enemy does not exist they will create one.
If there is peace, they will provoke an attack.
They will use you, then let you rot in a VA hospital or a coffin, all the while saying they support the troops.
Elections change nothing. This scam has been going on since war was invented. Liars are replaced by better more ruthless liars.
It will continue as long as there are misguided fools to fight each other while the rich get richer.
You can wake up or die like pigs.
20051118
Chimperor Disgustus
Editor,
If 67 percent of Daily Lobo readers believe the commander in chief of the United States armed forces lied to start a war, according to the poll on the Lobo's Web site, I hope they have the courage to stand up and do something about it.For over a week, I have been following the reports that U.S. forces used chemical weapons against Iraqis in last year's territorial pissing in Fallujah. There seems to be some sort of news blackout on this story in America, but here in the information age, we can all see the evidence for ourselves.I'm just worried about the 7 percent of Daily Lobo readers who think Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.On Tuesday, the Pentagon confirmed that they used white phosphorous on "terrorists" in Fallujah, after saying for over a year that they had not. The armed forces are a terrorist organization commanded by the world's No. 1 terrorist, George Bush. The actions of the United States' mainstream media are those of traitors to the American people.
http://www.dailylobo.com/media/paper344/news/2005/11/18/Opinion/Letter.U.Terrorism.Not.Covered.By.Mainstream.Media-1110467.shtml
Brian Fejer
UNM student
Chavez calls Bush 'killer', 'madman'
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/18/051118160830.t90od5qw.html
"The planet's most serious danger is the government of the United States. ... The people of the United States are being governed by a killer, a genocidal murderer and a madman!"
Riot police used high-powered water hoses Friday to hold back rock-throwing protesters chanting "No Bush!" as President Bush and other leaders from the Asia-Pacific region discussed free trade issues during the opening of an annual economic conference.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8DV0QJ00.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down&chan=db
Police sprayed the protesters with water after they started banging on the containers and demanding to pass. Some protesters responded by attacking police with rocks and bamboo sticks. Others fastened a rope to several containers and pulled them, knocking police from the top.
Al-Zarqawi Threatens to Kill Jordan's King
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/18/D8DV13H03.html
"Your star is fading. You will not escape your fate, you descendant of traitors. We will be able to reach your head and chop it off," al- Zarqawi said, referring to the king.
US: Nearly 50% OK with torture?
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1836289,00.html
Former CIA director accuses Cheney of overseeing torture
http://channels.netscape.com/news/story.jsp?floc=ne-us-12-l2&flok=FF-AFP-uswashrpt&idq=/ff/story/7000%2F20051117%2F2010000001.htm&sc=uswashrpt
Admiral Stansfield Turner, a former CIA director, accused US Vice President Dick Cheney of overseeing policies of torturing terrorist suspects and damaging the nation's reputation.
OCCUPUPIED BAGHDAD, New Iraq - Suicide bombers killed 65 worshippers at two Shiite mosques near the Iranian border Friday while in Baghdad two car bombs destroyed the blast wall protecting a hotel housing international journalists and killed eight Iraqis.
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20051118013809990001
At first the target appeared to be an interior ministry building where U.S. troops on Sunday found about 170 detainees, some of whom appeared to have been tortured.
In S. Korea, Another Blow to Bush's Efforts in Iraq
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bush18nov18,0,4950015.story?coll=la-home-world
"We're bound by our love of freedom," Bush said. "And those commitments by your government indicate how close we are in terms of promoting the values of freedom and democracy."
20051117
Rope and lamp posts for all...
Asked if he agreed with the vice president or with Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) who said this week that it was patriotic to question the government during a war, Bush's face tightened and he answered sharply, "The vice president."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/16/AR2005111601853.html
Pressed to elaborate, Bush said: "I expect there to be criticism. But when Democrats say that I deliberately misled the Congress and the people, that's irresponsible."
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/lies.mp3
20051116
OCCUPIED UBAYDI, Iraq - Five marines were killed and 11 were wounded in an ambush at a farmhouse on the outskirts of this rural town while they were hunting for "insurgents".
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/international/middleeast/16cnd-marines.html
It was the deadliest day for the Marines since beginning an aggressive sweep on Nov. 5 for guerrillas near the Syrian border.
Bob Woodward, assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, today apologized to his newspaper's executive editor for waiting two years to tell him that a senior Bush administration official had told him about the C.I.A. operative Valerie Wilson.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/politics/16cnd-woodward.html?hp&ex=1132203600&en=fc9686e76884eb36&ei=5094&partner=homepage
"I'm quite confident we're going to find out that it started kind of as gossip, as chatter, and that somebody learned that Joe Wilson's wife had worked at the CIA and helped him get this job going to Niger to see if there was an Iraq/Niger uranium deal," he said. "There's a lot of innocent actions in all of this."
According to U.S. intelligence sources, the White House exposure of Valerie Plame and her Brewster Jennings & Associates was intended to retaliate against the CIA's work in limiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. WMR has reported in the past on this aspect of the scandal. In addition to identifying the involvement of individuals in the White House who were close to key players in nuclear proliferation, the CIA Counter-Proliferation Division prevented the shipment of binary VX nerve gas from Turkey into Iraq in November 2002. The Brewster Jennings network in Turkey was able to intercept this shipment which was intended to be hidden in Iraq and later used as evidence that Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. U.S. intelligence sources revealed that this was a major reason the Bush White House targeted Plame and her network.
http://aliberaldose.blogspot.com/2005/11/some-really-good-shit.html
Brewster Jennings CIA counter-proliferation network prevented a WMD "salting" operation by Bush White House in Iraq. In fact, U.S. intelligence sources report that the first shipment of VX nerve gas to Saddam Hussein was carried out between 1988 and 1989. The gas was shipped to Iraq by a U.S. company that was established in 1987 -- The Carlyle Group.
A U.S. official disbelieved Israel's assurances during the Cold War that it would avoid acquiring nuclear weapons and feared the United States' main ally in the region would spark a Middle East nuclear arms race, documents from that time show.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Nixon-Papers.html?hp&ex=1132203600&en=71e9fedf9d97021a&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Among those dangers: ''Israel's possession of nuclear weapons would do nothing to deter Arab guerrilla warfare or reduce Arab irrationality; on the contrary it would add a dangerous new element to Arab-Israeli hostility with added risk of confrontation between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.''
WANT TO KNOW WHY BUSH DECLARED WAR?
George Bush and most of the Republicans in Congress were alarmed by public reaction to the Bush and FEMA inaction during Katrina. They came up with a strategy to take some of the blame away. They said that everybody was to blame: city, county, state officials and maybe, perhaps, even the President may have incurred a tiny bit of blame. Today they have reworked this strategy to take the growing heat off of the Bush administration for ostensibly lying, or spinning, the truth about going to war with Iraq. They have decided that, like Katrina, everybody is to blame, and maybe, perhaps, even the President may have been misled, innocently but heroically. They are going to stick with this explanation, for the same reason that Bush is going to stay the course in Iraq. They have nothing better. But if they cannot find a good reason for going to war, perhaps they can obscure the issue by introducing red herrings into our daily menu of explanations. Distraction, denial and secrecy are the most valuable tools of the Bush administration and he will play those cards inexhaustibly to enhance his propaganda. It was difficult to find the ostensible reasons in George Bush’s head, or those of his handlers, to declare war with Iraq. The reasons keep shifting, like desert sands, and what seemed clear one day was completely obscured another day. Certainly for religious devotees of Bush the reason adduced was all-sufficient for their support and acceptance. Here it is: "God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did." - Bush to Mahmood Abbas, quoted in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Readers will be familiar with the frequent references Bush has made to his conversations with his Old Testament God. Evidently whatever God wants, is what God gets from Bush. Nothing else matters, no law, no Constitution, no judicial nor diplomatic history of our country, no political “values”, only some sort of Divine whispering into Bush’s ear is sufficient to dismiss all political, social and historical values to undertake a mighty mission for Yahweh. Bible quotations are used by the Bush administration as the basis for legislation to supersede that of a more secular constitution, making us wonder if Iraq had witches that needed obligatory execution. Nothing can be more absolute, more compelling, than the word of some ancient divinity from a backwater pastoral culture that was kept wandering in the wilderness for 40 years and was fed on heavenly mush. It is interesting that all the words of all the other hundreds of divinities or entities of 4,000 years ago are regarded by the Bush people as false, erroneous, superstition, or sinful. But there is no accounting for absolutism, either in politics or in religion. Once you pick your favorite superstition, you are stuck with it. Obviously not all people of the United States share the Bush administration’s evangelical charismatic dogma. They cannot believe that a modern President would act like a Greek emperor on the basis of Oracles, flights of birds, dreams and godlike whispers from Divinities like Zeus or semi-human heroes like Hercules. They want to find other reasons than religious for Bush to declare war, cause endless death, destruction and hatred at enormous expense which will be shifted to their grandchildren eventually. In searching newspapers, magazines, listening to TV or radio, looking at blogs and commentaries, scrolling through old computer files, I found many reasons for Bush and his supporters claiming their absolutist view of the dismal situation. I don’t know how many reasons were “legitimate”, if any, but here are some: Top reasons that George W. Bush invaded Iraq. Because he needed some good distraction to get the public attention away from his desultory performance as peace-time President. Because he knew that by scaring the hell out of the public, they would be forced to depend on him for their safety. Because it would have been too easy to catch Osama bin Laden, thus preventing him from attempting future unnecessary invasions, so Bush let bin Laden escape, thus allowing him to remain as War President and strut about like a war hero. Because he didn’t like Saddam Hussein’s big black mustache, as he could only achieve a sort of straggly weak effect. Because he was jealous of Saddam’s waving a big rifle from the Presidential palace and shooting holes in the sky. Because he was certain that Saddam had many pilotless planes all loaded with biological or atom bombs to bomb the hell out of his precious ranch in Crawford, Texas. Think of all that brush piling up! Because Saddam was not cooperative in the Oil for Food campaign with Bush contributors so their corruption efforts were thwarted. Because Saddam personally arranged the attack on 9/11, paying cash for terrorists to bomb the Twin Towers. Because Saddam personally trained the 9/11 terrorists how to get a plane up in the air but never showed them how to get down again. Because the US was under obvious “imminent threat” of attack from Saddam some day, soon, perhaps to the great alarm of Condi Rice as war might get her expensive shoes dirty. Because Saddam probably had nuclear bombs that someday might possibly reach the U.S. causing incalculable damage to unknown numbers of innocent Americans and ruining their baseball season. Because Saddam had weapons of mass distraction, er, destruction that could ruin all of Walmart’s retail sales and ruin their cash flow. Because Saddam was training the Al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists in order to attack the Republican Senator’s elaborate country homes, pensions and life style and the moral values of Tom Delay. Because Bush wanted to liberate the Iraqi people from an irritable and egomaniacal ruler, making intolerable competition for Bush. Bush just wanted to liberate the Iraqi people by knocking down their old houses and getting rid of excess population, for which he would deserve flowers, thanks and effusive praise. Bush wanted to get American oil out from under the Iraqi sand. Because Bush wanted to mention 9/11 several hundred times and pretend he did something heroic at that time. Because Bush wanted to find the yellow cake that Saddam was importing. Condi Rice wanted the recipe for the cake. Because Bush wanted to stop Saddam from importing aluminum tubes which could be used for Heaven-only-Knows mischief. Because Bush’s friends wanted to apply preemption to somebody to see how it would turn out as preparation for future assaults of Syria, Iran, Libya, and maybe even North Korea. Because the Bush cabinet and speech-writers wanted to prate endlessly on TV about morals, freedom, and “our brave boys” thus getting the public attention off of the dire domestic situation. Because Bush said to Karl Rove, “How can I say “F... you to the entire world??” Because Bush’s trigger finger was getting restless to push a red button so he could smirk and swagger heroically at bringing death to millions of Muslim infidels, thus pleasing Pat Robertson. Because Bush’s handlers wanted to let him think he could make some decisions for himself. Because he heard that Osama bin Laden was someplace in Afhgnistan Afghnistingan Ahfghannistin, oh hell, in Iraq. Because Cheney wanted to save Iraqi oil for his old Millennium Corporation and let Iraqis extract it at minimum wages. Because Bush wanted one or two of Saddam’s old palaces, at least one for Dick Cheney, another for Karl Rove, one for Condi, one for Rumsfeld, one for Wolfowitz, and another where Ashford could retire permanently in quiet ease. Scooter Libby would get one, maybe Jerry Falwell another. Good times! Because somehow the issue of Iraqi oil came up, and Millennium Corporation given the oil without contract, showing how fair corruption can become. Because the Bush invasion of Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with oil, absolutely nothing, no sirree, don’t even mention it. Get it? Because North Korea had nuclear bombs and Iraq didn’t. Because Dick Cheney told him to do it to show his moral authority over the Muslim infidels and besides it’s fun to kill Muslims with Shock and Awe. Because Wolfowitz wanted to see our troops decorated with flowers and kisses by the Iraqis. In return we will throw the Iraqi urchins chewing gum, Mars candy bars, and cluster bombs to blow the little bastards sky-high. Because it would make the entire world jealous of the military and diplomatic prowess of the Bush heroic warhawks entitling them to wear 10 yards of gold braid and to wear Bush Freedom medals prominently suspended from solid gold necklaces. Because the Bush dirty-tricks people could leak the name of CIA agents whenever necessary to distract from serious economic issues. To distract attention from that “global warming” nonsense. To give True Believers something to pray about and demonstrate that their Yahweh is bigger, better, and brighter than any other old divinity from the rubbish heap of history. To show Bill Clinton how a Texan can govern without actually being in Washington To show the world what a BIG smoking gun looks like. To be able to use big colorful symbols to indicate when to be scared, poop in one’s pants, and when to say “just kidding.” Because Bush corporate friends wanted to sell a lot of duct tape with which to seal up homes against poison gas and bacteria. Because Iraq posed a clear and present danger to public awareness of Bush’s governing incompetence. Because Bush wanted to give his troops some healthy exercise sunning and playing baseball in a sandy country. Because by killing Muslims in Babylon, there wouldn’t be enough left of them to set off bombs in London or New York. Because it is better to invade sooner than later before taxpayers can protest. Because it would show those damned French and Germans that Bush can go it alone anytime anyplace. Because it shows True Believers that God is on their side and wants another crusade to kill surplus women, children and abominable infidels. To put a stop to the horrible tyranny of Saddam and substitute that of the Bush neocons. To show that unprovoked attacks are profitable to the military-industrial establishment. To show that Bush intends to impose sovereignty and security on a region that was only civilized for 3,000 years. To show that cowardly neocons can impose massive casualties and destruction without getting their own skins scratched. To let billions of dollars flow through the hands of neocons and let the nation accumulate the largest deficit in history. To let Bush and his Republicans pose in front of flags, and talk about their “brave boys” while prohibiting pictures of coffins and keeping their wounded in seclusion away from dangerous publicity. To practice secrecy and see how far lies, misinformation, deception, stealth, and preemption can take an incurious, manic, petulant, and irritable president to make a “legacy.” To see how far stupidity will distract from the environment and other serious issues of the day. To make sure that “regime change” only works in one direction. To condemn the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as infamous treachery, but the Shock-and-Awe attack on Baghdad as judicious and careful Christian stealth and deceit. To avoid irritable international discussion of world bodies, like the UN, by taking unilateral effective action. To destroy homes, industries, roads, bridges, hospitals and thousands of lives to avenge an attack on Bush’s daddy. To demonstrate that peaceful diplomacy is folly, the UN unworkable, world organizations inept, but Karl Rove is a wonderful guy. To show that an endless cycle of hatred and revenge can be started by cowardly warhawks and result in thousands of deaths for the profit of a few neocons. To please Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson by destroying infidels and showing the superiority of Baptism and Methodist peace efforts by killing Muslims.. To demonstrate that you can kill, torture or abuse any number of Iraqis, so Republican Senators will simply call it “trivial” and perhaps even like a “prank,” thus demonstrating their moral superiority. To prove you can invade a country without knowing anything about it, or being able to pronounce anyone’s name there. To show forcefully that you can lie to invade a country and nobody will dare impeach you but on the contrary a compliant press will applaud your heroic efforts to bring democracy and freedom with cruise missiles. To show that if you have enough money, and control of the armed forces, you can invade any place in the world without undue criticism. To hold daily prayer sessions, to bless your invading army and show that God is on your side. To be able to swagger in military uniform and excite female admiration. To be able to land on an airplane carrier in military uniform, declare a war a complete success and then spend the next several years or decades fighting “terrorism” that Bush started. Because Bush must blast Saddam to Hell. The reason why, I cannot tell. But this I know, and know full well, Bush must blast Saddam to Hell To declare Bush the greatest leader since Newt Gingrich and strut about in monkey pants. To dispossess Arabs who have only lived in their area for 4,000 years. To bring back the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon by importing cactus and sagebrush from Texas. To add another story on the Tower of Babylon and irritate Allah. Because there is more Sand in Iraq than on most beaches. Because you can play outdoor soccer in Iraq 12 months a year. Because you can travel 1000 miles over sand on a camel? Because successful corporate executives can Own-a-harem. Because you can guarantee Water shortages every summer. Because the Iraqis are now content with power outages, and no longer demand more power, thus saving a lot of effort in useless “reconstruction.” Because Bush can kill any Iraqi for any reason and nobody will do anything about it because Bush talks to his invisible divinity. Because you can test your nuclear weapons in other people’s countries. Because Iraqis don’t bother with toilets, just poop in the street, like people in Alabama. Because you get to occupy Saddam’s palaces. Because Iraqi money looked like Monopoly paper. Because they were resisting our efforts to dominate them by getting huffy and threatening to use force against us. Because Bush holds Iraq accountable for opposing resistance to our invasion and occupation. Because Bush didn’t think Iraqis should fight back for us meddling in their affairs. After all, we are moral Americans on a religious crusade. Because if we’d never invaded Iraq, thousands of men and women would not be facing lives without limbs. But this is a magnificent opportunity for people who manufacture limbs to make a fortune. Because our wounded wouldn’t have endured the anguish of being injured in combat or developed the stress-induced mental illness that will ruin many of their lives and many psychologists, psychiatrists and thousands of other mental illness people would not be able to make a very good living off of our wounded.
Because George Bush said : "Every human life is precious, and yet I have to answer, yes, it has been worth it." Because Bush wanted to give Iraqis sovereignty with a list of exiled leaders and legislation that he personally approved. Because Bush instead of promising Iraqis "blood, sweat, and tears," they got spin, risk avoidance, and promises without costing the tax payers more than a trillion dollars. Because Bush wanted to show he disregarded any reprisals or responsibility by forcing Iraqis to give all occupiers immunity. Because Saddam pissed Bush off. Because the Taliban and Al Qaeda were in Afghanistan and that is too close to Iraq to ignore. Because Bush wanted to see how far he could stretch his troops. Because Bush wanted to do his part to bring on the Apocalypse. Because Bush wanted to show that he was a “compassionate conservative.” by killing A-rabs. Because the Bush supporters needed another 300 billion dollars to play with. Because Bush thought he could invade Iraq and no one would notice. Because the Bush people knew they could print money to pay for their war and simply let the deficit pile up for generations, and devalue our currency. Because Bush, Dick, Karl and Paul thought it was worth doing. They all said so. Because Bush thought losing several thousand American troops was worth getting bases, oil and embassies in Iraq. Because Bush thought his lies were so good that nobody would ever find out. Why change horsemen in mid-apocalypse? Because the Tooth Fairy told Bush to invade. Because Bush felt stress at his failure as a President of the U.S. and wanted to see if being President of Iraq would be different. Bush wanted to rebuild Iraq because he was ruining his own country and wanted another place to rest up after experiencing a “hard” presidency. Because Bush planned to “promote democracy” by using cruise missiles, humvees, grenades, automatic weapons, huge tanks, helicopters, fighter planes and show those Iraqis what peace and freedom was all about. Because Bush thought spreading democracy was like spreading manure on his ranch in Texas. Because Bush wanted to give the proselytizers the chance to convert Moslems to Baptist Fundamentalist snake-handlers, foot-washers and anointers and let them worship replicas of the 10 or 20 Commandments. Oil? Oil? What Oil? Who mentioned Oil? Cheney never mentioned oil. To destroy non-existent WMD’s. To remove a hostile dictator from power without getting Bush removed himself. To seize Saddam’s palaces and make a BIG embassy, with thousands of True Believers and neo-cons, in order to insure world domination for corporate executives and White Christian Supremacists. To build permanent military bases for threatening or carrying out operations, preemptions, and occupations of any recalcitrant nation. To punish those foreigners at the UN who think that they can tell the US how to help the environment, stop AIDS or disease, or anything else. To tell those Frenchies nyah, nyah. To let the Pentagon warhawks destroy things and kill people. To be able to use real live targets for all those missiles that we have stored and are simply wasting away. The Iraqis weren’t with us, so they must have been against us. To be able to seize all the ill-gotten gains of Saddam into the ill-gotten hands of the Bush people. To be able to confiscate nail-clippers, pocket knives and box cutters at airports, thus giving the American public total security. To be able to tell the Muslims and Liberals, “get over it.” To be able to modify the Geneva Convention to whatever suits Bush lust for power. To show our unconcern for spending billions of dollars on an illegal war instead of on schools, Medicare, veteran’s hospitals, the environment, and other trivial things. To let Cheney, Millennium, and Enron manage a backward country to extract oil efficiently at minimum wages for contractors, proselytizers, missionaries, and assorted mercenaries. As an excuse to invade a harmless country, that had no WMD’s, to destroy or steal its resources with little risk or disapproval. To raise the price of oil for the oil corporation’s profit and happiness and put the money into the pockets of Bush lobbyists, senators and cabinet officers. Iraq pumps 2,000,000 barrels day - oil sells for $65 a barrel. Who got the money? On what was it spent? Go fish! To free the Iraqi people by killing thousands of rag heads. To get Dan Rather fired. To let fake journalists praise Bush leadership and explain lucidly to the public why he kills people to give them freedom and democracy. To give Bush speechwriters full opportunity to mention 9/11, patriotism, “our brave boys”, morals, and other exploitations. To give the media an opportunity to repeat daily the most outrageous lies of the Bush administration in utmost sincerity, waving flags, and shouting Pledges of Loyalty to Bush. To show that Watergate and lying presidents get deep affection from Republican senators. To let troops fight and die for great corporation profits. To find out how many soldiers must die before Bush admits he got into a war that he can’t win. Because Bush knows evil when he sees it, and he seen it, dude. To find out how many soldiers must die before Bush admits that the cost is too high. 3,000, 4,000, 5,000? To find out how many reasons Bush will give to justify his invasion. To see how many reasons Rove and Wolfowitz can invent for going to war. To let Millennium take care of supplying our troops with maximum corruption before Bush notices that billions of dollars are missing or stolen. To give fat-headed, fat-rumped, fat-lipped neo-cons the chance to give speeches about their vision of American military might and their desire to help Bush dominate the world. To begin the long process of “liberating” other countries like Syria and Iran, as soon as the Bush people can drum up pretexts to kill more American troops and foreign infidels to boost their egos. To fight terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, then let him escape and immediately switch to invading Iraq where there were no terrorists to begin with. To give the Bush people the chance to impose secrecy, censorship, tapping phones, looking up library cards, violating civil rights, detaining anyone for any reason indefinitely because Bush is above the law and the constitution. To let Bush impose his own reign of terror upon the American public as a way of getting reelected. We invaded because they had the arms that we sold them. Because the “terrorist rag heads” hate our guts. To prevent proliferation of WMD’s, if ever we find any. To show that regime removal is practical, but not for the U.S. To finish the first Gulf War. Because Bush could and Condi said it was okay to do it. Because only the US should have weapons or bombs. Because Saddam was violating civil rights, and only Bush is authorized to do that. Because Saddam was mistreating the poor, aged, sick and homeless and only Bush is authorized to do that. To liberate the Iraqi people from their land, homes, resources and other onerous burdens. To give the Bush legacy something historians can point to with horror. Because after we took out the inspectors, there weren’t enough inspections. To show the neocons that the ideology of imperial world domination by military superiority, deceit and preemption is good for economic exploitation of any population. To show American religious fanatics that they are better than any foreign religious fanatics. To scare Americans into accepting a petulant, irritable, incurious and irresponsible party boy as world leader of a moral crusade. Because Iraq continued to “flaunt its hostility toward America,” simply because Bush was bombing it day and night. Because the Pentagon had “misplaced much war materiel” and we had to go to Iraq to look for it. In order to kill those terrorist killers. To please Ariel Sharon and Tony Blair To set Iraq as an example of what happens to nations that call Bush “sissy.” To keep Crawford, Texas, from being bombed, gassed, or threatened in any way by mad dictators. Because Saddam kept moving his weapons away from the UN inspectors and burying them deep in the sand. Because Saddam showed disrespect for the United Nations, but only Bush and Bolton are allowed to do that. Because Bush needed another vacation in Crawford, Texas. So we can bring stability to Iraq, like we did to Yugoslavia and Somalia. To preserve the peace by making war. Because Iraq was close to Afghanistan and could conceivably help the Taliban by giving them sand. To show the UN diplomats that Bush’s unilateralism is much better for making the world safe by killing everybody involved. Because Saddam scorned the imperial orders of Bush and that is against the will of Yahweh. By forcing Bush to remove his attention from governing the US. Because Saddam was guilty of distracting Bush and must be stopped. Because Saddam kept moving his weapons away from the UN inspectors and burying them deep in the sand. Because Saddam showed disrespect for the United Nations, but only Bush and Bolton are allowed to do that. Because Bush needed another vacation in Crawford, Texas. Because Bush is so courageous that he really wants the Muslims to “bring it on.” He would personally take up a rifle and get on a humvee and patrol the streets of Baghad, except that his ranch needs his attention more. So we could give Iraq full sovereignty under Bush, like we did to Afghanistan and maybe in 20 or 40 years those dumb people will be able to govern themselves. To make the lives of Iraqis at least equivalent to our homeless. To raise the price of gasoline so corporations can become fabulously wealthy, and let Bush walk hand in hand with Prince Bandar, kiss his cheek or hind-quarters, and smirk at oil profits. Finally, it’s a secret that we invaded that only the Bush neo-cons know, that Bush can smirk about, and Condi scowl and glare over. If the Far Right and corporate executives are happy, then what’s the beef?
To bring the survivors of Shock-and-Awe the blessings of the Bush administration of their country. So Bush could start threatening the entire world with his version of freedom and democracy, mixed with a little fascism, plutocracy, and theocracy. To show how Bush is kind, gentle, compassionate and wants only to extract maximum profit from Iraq for his corporate friends. To show that Bush will reluctantly have to kill 100,000 people in order to give them a puppet regime in return for military bases and oil. To show the world that occupying a county should not have to cause resentment, fear, anger or death. Because Bush is a simpleton in a complex world and the only tactic he knows is brute force. Because Bush wanted “to take the fight to the enemy.” To give the International Red Cross something to complain about. So Bush could try out his new bunker buster bombs on really dumb people. To show the Iraqis that Bush is unconcerned about American deaths and insists he is “taking it to the Iraqis or “got them on the run.” To camp out in Iraq for the next twenty years, enjoying the sand and the sun. To hoist the Confederate Flag over Baghdad. To help Rumsfeld, Condi, Perle, Bolton, Perle and Rove “take it to” the entire Middle East. To help Osama bin Laden in his recruiting efforts. To give senators some place to visit other than Crawford, Texas. In order to get all the world terrorists to come to Iraq, so we can kill the lot of them and rid the world of terrorism. Because of Intelligence Failure. Bush fails the Intelligence Test. So Starbucks will have a new place to sell expensive coffee. Because Saddam sent Bush a nasty e-mail message. To give our generals a chance to earn more medals. To make a tunnel which we can look thru for the light. So Halliburton and Bechtel can find new sources of corruption and charge soldiers $30.00 a plate for chipped beef. To make an excellent propaganda smokescreen to hide all those things that the Bush administration has failed at. Because Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 and we didn’t forget it. Because Saddam shows resentment at Bush trying to kill him. Because the Republican Senators were just aching for a good war. Because Saddam doesn’t rewind his rental tapes. Because Saddam doesn’t bother to wrap up separate recyclables. Because Bush throws like a girl. Because it would be an “easy” victory Because Wolfowitz told Bush the Iraqis would throw flowers, not grenades. Because it is our destiny To make the world safe for Exxon, Enron, Millennium, Fox News, Jeb Bush, and Elian Gonzales. To enhance financial contributions of defense contractors to selected politicians. To extend political, military, and economic hegemony over most of the world because Bush merits great acclaim. To fight a moral crusade against communists, atheists, liberals, democrats, and other forms of terrorists. To bring down the Berlin Wall and erect another in Israel. To fight whatever form of evil Bush thinks is appropriate at the time. To carry out endearing forms of torture and abuse as a tribute to Bush rising above legalities. Because military muscle has to be flexed every once in a while. So our air force could practice bombing for more than 40 days and nights in order to kill one man, unloading 17 million pounds of bombs on “collaterals” which don’t really count on the record of courage of a violent president. So we could give Fox News vivid pictures of the greatest aerial onslaught in the history of the world. Lots of death and destruction. Good watching. So we could get rid of some of those depleted uranium weapons by incinerating Iraqis. So we could bury dozens of people alive with huge bombs. So we could destroy hospitals and get a chance to rebuild them later to show our disdain for expense, death, or destruction. So we could pour billions of dollars into reconstruction a country we were simultaneously destroying, further mixing stupidity with neocon ideology. So a handful of wealthy people can still own Iraq, while the poor remain poorer. So Bush can claim that all the death and destruction he caused is motivated only by “humanitarian” and “compassionate” impulses. To rid the earth of people who are not white, Christian, and wealthy. Because some of the big generals and politicians were bored, and wanted something to watch on TV other than reruns. Because no reason is really necessary. Just DO IT. Because the US has a rich history of foreign interference. Because Tony Blair was sleeping with George Bush. Because George Bush the First wants George Bush the Second to become a man. Because George Bush refused to listen to generals and statesmen who warned him about the quagmire he was would enter. So we can make a board game with a Monopoly in Iraq, building hotels and MacDonald’s, and charging terrorists to stay in our Hilton Hotel There’s no point at having the title COMMANDER IN CHIEF if you aren’t going to use it. Because Donald Rumsfeld needs something to do to keep him out of the Oval Office. Because Bush has designed a new uniform, like that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court with big epaulets, gold braid and some feathers. In order to spread Christianity, er, tax cuts. Yeah, tax cuts. To raise the price of gas so corporate execs can all buy new Lear Jets and mansions. To “Give War a Chance.” Because of all the widespread murder, corruption, rape and torture, and that’s just in Texas. Because of a brutal thug who does wicked, despicable things, and wants to be US ambassador. To use nuclear technology to threaten his neighbors, or sell it to unsavory entities, and keep Saddam from doing the same. Because Bush wanted to reward his friends for their loyalty, their contributions and their truth spinning. Because neither Bush nor Saddam were content with Iraq’s borders Because Saddam is no worse than Putin but we can only invade one country at a time. Because Bush thinks of Iraq as a military base with a large oil reserve underneath, which somehow got under the sand; you can’t ask for anything better than that. Because George Bush got sick laughing about duping the nation into believing that Iraq posed an imminent threat on the United States: Because Dick Cheney wants to run another oil company when he stops being V.P. This was not about oil but to free the Iraqis from the burden of extracting it. So Bush can pose, looking solemn, and talk about “our brave boys” while refusing to attend their funerals. So Colin Powell could hold up some test-tubes while demonstrating to the U.N. that Saddam had really evil intentions and therefore should give up his regime to George Bush. To give former oil industry executives a chance to show the Iraqi’s how to run their business which they had run for over a hundred years. To help the Iraqis decide to privatize their oil and be reasonable in letting the U.S. control the production and distribution. Bush Invaded Iraq to ’Secure Israel,’ Says Sen. Ernest “Fritz” Hollings who is now serving his final term in Washington. Bush Invaded Iraq to seek Jewish support in his election campaigns. Because of the Domino Theory of Democracy in The Project For The New American Century which Bush neocons take as their Bible. Because few people were willing to stand up and say what was really going on in the U.S. Because Bush made a mistake like happened in Vietnam, and with the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident and will be part of his “legacy” forever, but he will never admit it. To defeat terror we have no choice but to invade Afghinisting, Aghfanista, Afiganastin, Afiagin....Iraq. Because of stunning incompetence of the Bush and Blair conspiracy we must swallow their explanations and distortions and allow preemption, dishonesty, and deadly violence become our modus of operation. But we secured the Oil Ministry of Iraq right away, so everything will be alright, right? Because Bush picked a war he could win. Because a war that could cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars was of strategic importance to the neocon world domination game plan and to a second term for a failing president. To keep the numerous Bush domestic disasters off the political table in the U.S. and allow him to smirk and swagger during his gala speeches prepared by Turd Blossom Rove. Because War will supersede even a failing economy and administration. War is Good for Business, especially Millennium’s. Because keeping a threat of terror simmering on the burner scares Americans into supporting whoever is in office. Because Americans look to psychological tormentors for protection against an outside evil perceived as the more serious than inside evils. Because a war in Iraq offers almost bottomless billion-dollar profiteering opportunities for campaign contributors and administration officials. Because Halliburton, the Carlyle Group, etc. can reap big financial benefits from the destruction of the Iraq infrastructure thus giving Republican campaigns a vast source of contributions from quid pro quo understandings. To blow Iraq up with bombs paid for by taxpayers -- then use taxpayer dollars to pay campaign contributors and companies with connections to administration officials to rebuild it.. Because the neocons don’t want anybody but Bush Cartel Chicken hawks calling the international shots. Only moral cowards are allowed to declare war and call it “peace efforts.” Because of financial "inducements" Bush people offered some nations to support the war, with an ingenious way to pay back campaign contributors. Bush will give Poland six billion dollars of taxpayer money with which Poland will buy six billion dollars worth of fighter jets from Lockheed-Martin.. Because showing brute power in Iraq will bully dissenters at home into submission or scare them into “dazed and confused” passivity. Because the conquest of Iraq will shore up a Middle East alliance with the Sharon government, with whom the Bush Cartel shares a common worldview. Because God chose Bush to run America, consolidate both political parties into the Oval Office, and make the charismatic evangelists happy. To incrementally seize power until, unnoticed, the administration crosses the line into a fascistic dictatorship and theocracy. To pave the way for a huge Republican majority in which civil rights will be illusory, priests will control the educational system, eminent domain will rule property rights, and the stupidity quotient of Americans will exceed all previous expectations. To consolidate a government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich. To accelerate dismantling of government services and removal of any church/state separation in favor of fundamentalist organizations and giant corporations in bed with politicians. To provide entertainment for Fox News “reporters” and allow them to spin truth like whirling dervishes. Because War is profitable for the news media. To see who can stretch Truth the farthest: Baghdad Bob or the Presidential Spokesmen. Because war will increase oil prices and give large oil reserves to American and British oil companies, who financially support the Republican Party. To ensure that no one digs up the truth about the Bush administration’s catastrophic failure to prevent 9/11, including an August briefing that warned Bush about terrorist hijackings when Bush did nothing in response. To distract from the release of the Downing Street memos. To energize the religious right and Neo-Confederacy warrior culture to contribute more to the Republican election effort, and turn out committed sheep at the polls. There is nothing like war to try out the latest bombs and hi-tech weapons on infidels. Because it’s hard to find a place to target practice nowadays, let alone a whole country with real live people in it. Because when bombs are blown up, more bombs are needed. They just happen to be manufactured by companies that contribute to the Bush Cartel. And the more taxpayer money goes toward bombs and military equipment, there is less money for government services. This makes it the perfect war for extremist right wingers running the U.S.. Plan “A” of the Bush Cartel to send our sons and daughters into War is because it has no Plan “B” to send their sons and daughters into War. Because the Bush Cartel is banking on making the kind of impression on the world that a thug makes with a baseball bat on a car. Because why Screw just one Intern, like Bill Clinton, When You Can Screw the Entire Country Because Saddam irritated Bush by keeping his blinker on while driving. Because the war allowed a president with virtually no knowledge of world events, recent or historic, or of foreign cultures and no experience in battle, to send us to war and call himself the War Prezydent. Because all the neocons could patriotically wave their collective flags and sing praises to their War God as war was waged, as it sputtered in failure, and as it stands today mired in its own stagnation, but left the neocons rich. Because governance by brazen muscle power needs unfailing commitment to destroy targets as an example of ruthlessness and the will to use any means to assert and preserve leadership Because to the victor go the spoils of war, right into the pockets of the warmongers. Because an aggressor must never let facts get in the way of the mission. Getting distracted by truth and ethics is a sign of weakness. Bush can kill America by claiming failure as proof of success. So Cheney and Rumsfeld can make up for their “loss of face” in the White House in the 700’s when we won the Vietnam War by leaving it. To show that even colossal blunders on the part of a theocrat, based on smoke and mirrors, do not really matter to True Believers. So that the Chicken hawks who are “too busy” to sign up for military service can wave flags, and use the rallying cry of terrorism as their vehicle to ensnare the gullible American people. So that Bush can continue to rule by the deception that he is a bold, resolute wartime leader instead of a cowardly irresponsible incompetent Far Right poster-boy. Because stupidity, incompetence and failure begets the need for more of the same. Because we were promised a shower of roses but were left standing with a pile of corpses and a mountain of debt. Because a cowering lazy mainstream press can stand any amount of incompetence and lying and still appear to be credible by constant repetition of official lies and misdirection. “Either you are with our failed policy, or you are siding with the terrorists.” Because as each excuse to invade is proven false, Karl Rove will think up a dozen new excuses and the compliant press will print it without further investigation. Because having the Keystone Cops in charge of protecting us has become a habit, and there is no alternative but to use duct tape and color symbols and confiscating nail clippers for security. Because if we didn’t invade we would appear to be weak and the True Believers would be so disappointed that they would oust Bush. Because Bush follows a pattern. He fails, gets into a jam, then expects everybody to bail him out. Because there are only a fixed number of terrorists, and if you attract them to Iraq then you can put out flypaper and catch them all at once. In that way they will never “come over here.” Because Bush intended to use the “Ostrich” approach to National Security, and cut brush at Crawford, Texas anytime the going gets “hard.” Because Oil and Dick Cheney just naturally go together. Because Bush Just felt like it. Don’t you dare question his decision. Because it was supposed to be a cakewalk but those damned Iraqis just won’t let Bush make them into colonists of the U.S. Because playing with obedient soldiers is fun. They have to die for their glorious leader who then announces it was “worth it.” Because fat-head ideologues have convinced themselves that they are the enlightened masters of the universe. Because if you repeat a lie five times, it becomes the truth. Once you find a good lie, stick to it. The more the lie defies common sense the more Bush supporters who rely on Fox news are likely to believe it. Because people who are amoral, sociopath, ruthless and lust for power will do things that people in their right mind would not do. Because Bush really wants to find out what’s going on. Even if it takes years and he has to shred all documents and appoint endless commissions of sycophants to declare he had nothing to do with anything. Because the war is about whether anyone in the Bush Administration is subject to laws of the United States, subject to truth, and to being punished for making our nation less secure, and responsible for the deaths of about 2,000 American “brave boys” who died for oil and military bases. Because Bush and Rove appear to have more in common with Joseph Stalin than with Abraham Lincoln and run the country like the Politburo. Because the Bushites want to hide their incompetence under plain sight while using perpetual terror alarms to keep sheep-like Americans in subjection. To protect the Fundamentalist Christian Jihadists and U.S. Taliban from any legalities or government interference with plans to dominate the country. Because The War was intended to Deceive America Into War -- And the War was intended to Cover Up the Deception that caused the war. The Bush sycophants try to create a conspiracy of credibility around Bush going to war, where none can exist to a person of common sense or integrity. Because the Bush administration said it was “going to fix” intelligence to start a war and the lie was successful and few people seemed to question that approach. Because England and the U.S. flew sorties over Iraq in 2002 to provoke Saddam and destroy his infrastructure to prepare for the war. Why would any nation object to the U.S. flying over their territory with war planes fully loaded with bombs? Because Dick Cheney put heavy pressure on CIA analysts to “fix” data which provided a pretext for war. Anyone care to guess why Dick did it? Because the lies about WMD would last long enough so we could invade and then laugh off and forget the absence of WMD by making patriotic speeches about our “brave boys.” Because the analysts who made the false allegations backing up pretensions for war were promoted and given bonuses. Because Bush personally took Richard Clarke aside and told him to make the facts work for a war with Iraq. Because former Sec. of Treasury O’Neill wrote that Bush wanted “to get” Iraq from the moment he was sworn in a president. Because The PNAC (Project for the New American Century) plan to invade Iraq was written primarily by Bush Neo-cons who guided us into the war for personal profit, glory, and power. Because The Bush Administration outed Valerie Plame as a CIA operative specializing in tracking the illicit sale and movement of Weapons of Mass Destruction because her courageous husband, Joe Wilson, exposed the Niger documents as a fraud, so they just had to go to war. Because the Bush administration is extremely secretive and vindictive and sought vengeance on anyone for exposing their phony war based on daily lies about WMDs so they just had to go to war. Because John Bolton fired an official for seeking a peaceful way out of the Iraq War. Because Donald Rumsfeld said that the U.S. would take Saddam and all of “them” out. Because Advanced U.S. forces were sent into Iraq before the war had even started. Because Rumsfeld set up a Pentagon psy-ops operation to create propaganda and disinformation for going to war with Iraq. Because the Bush Administration conducted a successful misinformation campaign to make Americans believe that Saddam Hussein was partly responsible for 9/11 and that the hijackers were Iraqi. Because reporting the news honestly and with full details is now secondary to lauding a failed presidency, and distracting the public from incompetence. Because the media feel obliged to show Bush as a glorious leader and to hide any details of his record that might offend him. Because lies by Bill Clinton regarding a blow-job are treasonable, while lies by Bush that got thousands of people killed are simply college pranks. Because Bush is working hard to protect the public by taking more vacations than any president in U.S. history, Because people who blow the whistle on the crimes or incompetence of Bushite zealots are traitors. Because we now have one-party Pinochet style of government in which the Bush judges would throw out any evidence regarding Bush complicity in death and destruction. Because the buck never stopped at Bush’s desk, but was diverted by Karl Rove and listed as missing. Because the media moguls got huge tax breaks which let them expand their stations, presses and holdings at will so they back up any lie of the administration with full misdirection. Because the Bush administration can scare off any journalist with Karl Rove stunts like “Rathergate” or “Koran Flushgate.” Or, how about those Swift Boat zealots? Much of the media form an echo chamber for GOP propaganda, in which Bush appears as a saint or Caesar, instead of a petulant, irritable, irresponsible, manic, vindictive would-be dictator. Because honest journalists get targets on their backs, whereas any reporter singing praises of Bush will get press passes, invitations, and have a flourishing career. Because the Bush Administration is using the war to justify attacks on the environment, such as opening up public lands, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to drilling for oil. Because while the Bush Administration is waging war to get oil from Iraq, towns in the U.S. suffer from fossil-fuel pollution from power plants, oil refineries, and gas-guzzling recreation vehicles. Because we tried coups in Iraq, tried to encourage rebellion in Iraq, tried funding Iraqi opposition, then finally decided to try bombs, missiles, tanks and other peace-making methods.
Because Bush wants to spread democracy, like manure, over the entire Middle East. Because Bush wants to appear like a reverse Robin Hood. Take from the poor and give to the rich. Because Bush’s messianic policies are driven by a venal desire to enrich his sponsors, not by any constitutional values. Because the Bush strategy reflects his simplistic nature: Strike without warning, strike hard, kill without compunction or regret, then give a self-satisfying smirk. Because to make war on Iraq was like Truman invading Mexico after Pearl Harbor. There were only two credible reasons for invading Iraq: control over oil and preservation of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Yet Bush and Cheney keep silent on these factors. In 1990, Dick Cheney wrote: "Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well." In 1999, Iran began pricing oil in Euros. In late 2000 Saddam made the switch for Iraqi oil. In early 2002 Bush declared, using the authority of his God, that Iran and Iraq were in “The Axis of Evil.” If other OPEC countries had followed the move to Euros, the consequences for neo-cons could have been disastrous. The dollar would plummet, the huge deficit would not be manageable and many U.S. and British corporations would go out of business. The need to secure access to Arabian Gulf Oil was a major factor in deciding to invade Iraq. Protecting troops was secondary to protecting the vast oil fields. Bush planned to invade before he had any plan to protect, secure, feed, water, clothe, provide armor, house or best utilize US troops and equipment, other than blast the hell out of the Iraqis. Any soldiers killed for lack of body armor or armored vehicles are due to Bush impatience and recklessness. As long as Republicans control Congress there will be no serious investigation of corruption, mismanagement, incompetence, waste or stupidity of the highest officials of the Bush administration. They will do everything in their power to distract and trivialize or manipulate any investigation. Recently, however, the Democrats seem to have taken vitamins and have insisted that the Iraq War intelligence twisting should be investigated. If any investigation is to take place, secondary officials will take the bullet. The real reasons for Bush and his Neocons to invade Iraq will be sealed for a generation to come, unless some Deep Throat of the present neo-cons will reveal the national planning and strategy of the Bush crowd prior to 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq. All the details of the oil grab, the seizing of land for military bases, and the building of a huge embassy from which to launch strikes on Iran and Syria are still to be examined in detail, as well as the delightful details of torture, abuse and detention of anyone Bush feels should be tortured and abused to obtain the valuable information that some people hate him enough to blow themselves up as long as they can take some Bush people with them. In the meantime, if anyone knows of additional reasons why Bush invaded Iraq, please feel free to comment and supplement. Bush says he wants to know those facts.
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George Bush and most of the Republicans in Congress were alarmed by public reaction to the Bush and FEMA inaction during Katrina. They came up with a strategy to take some of the blame away. They said that everybody was to blame: city, county, state officials and maybe, perhaps, even the President may have incurred a tiny bit of blame. Today they have reworked this strategy to take the growing heat off of the Bush administration for ostensibly lying, or spinning, the truth about going to war with Iraq. They have decided that, like Katrina, everybody is to blame, and maybe, perhaps, even the President may have been misled, innocently but heroically. They are going to stick with this explanation, for the same reason that Bush is going to stay the course in Iraq. They have nothing better. But if they cannot find a good reason for going to war, perhaps they can obscure the issue by introducing red herrings into our daily menu of explanations. Distraction, denial and secrecy are the most valuable tools of the Bush administration and he will play those cards inexhaustibly to enhance his propaganda. It was difficult to find the ostensible reasons in George Bush’s head, or those of his handlers, to declare war with Iraq. The reasons keep shifting, like desert sands, and what seemed clear one day was completely obscured another day. Certainly for religious devotees of Bush the reason adduced was all-sufficient for their support and acceptance. Here it is: "God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did." - Bush to Mahmood Abbas, quoted in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Readers will be familiar with the frequent references Bush has made to his conversations with his Old Testament God. Evidently whatever God wants, is what God gets from Bush. Nothing else matters, no law, no Constitution, no judicial nor diplomatic history of our country, no political “values”, only some sort of Divine whispering into Bush’s ear is sufficient to dismiss all political, social and historical values to undertake a mighty mission for Yahweh. Bible quotations are used by the Bush administration as the basis for legislation to supersede that of a more secular constitution, making us wonder if Iraq had witches that needed obligatory execution. Nothing can be more absolute, more compelling, than the word of some ancient divinity from a backwater pastoral culture that was kept wandering in the wilderness for 40 years and was fed on heavenly mush. It is interesting that all the words of all the other hundreds of divinities or entities of 4,000 years ago are regarded by the Bush people as false, erroneous, superstition, or sinful. But there is no accounting for absolutism, either in politics or in religion. Once you pick your favorite superstition, you are stuck with it. Obviously not all people of the United States share the Bush administration’s evangelical charismatic dogma. They cannot believe that a modern President would act like a Greek emperor on the basis of Oracles, flights of birds, dreams and godlike whispers from Divinities like Zeus or semi-human heroes like Hercules. They want to find other reasons than religious for Bush to declare war, cause endless death, destruction and hatred at enormous expense which will be shifted to their grandchildren eventually. In searching newspapers, magazines, listening to TV or radio, looking at blogs and commentaries, scrolling through old computer files, I found many reasons for Bush and his supporters claiming their absolutist view of the dismal situation. I don’t know how many reasons were “legitimate”, if any, but here are some: Top reasons that George W. Bush invaded Iraq. Because he needed some good distraction to get the public attention away from his desultory performance as peace-time President. Because he knew that by scaring the hell out of the public, they would be forced to depend on him for their safety. Because it would have been too easy to catch Osama bin Laden, thus preventing him from attempting future unnecessary invasions, so Bush let bin Laden escape, thus allowing him to remain as War President and strut about like a war hero. Because he didn’t like Saddam Hussein’s big black mustache, as he could only achieve a sort of straggly weak effect. Because he was jealous of Saddam’s waving a big rifle from the Presidential palace and shooting holes in the sky. Because he was certain that Saddam had many pilotless planes all loaded with biological or atom bombs to bomb the hell out of his precious ranch in Crawford, Texas. Think of all that brush piling up! Because Saddam was not cooperative in the Oil for Food campaign with Bush contributors so their corruption efforts were thwarted. Because Saddam personally arranged the attack on 9/11, paying cash for terrorists to bomb the Twin Towers. Because Saddam personally trained the 9/11 terrorists how to get a plane up in the air but never showed them how to get down again. Because the US was under obvious “imminent threat” of attack from Saddam some day, soon, perhaps to the great alarm of Condi Rice as war might get her expensive shoes dirty. Because Saddam probably had nuclear bombs that someday might possibly reach the U.S. causing incalculable damage to unknown numbers of innocent Americans and ruining their baseball season. Because Saddam had weapons of mass distraction, er, destruction that could ruin all of Walmart’s retail sales and ruin their cash flow. Because Saddam was training the Al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists in order to attack the Republican Senator’s elaborate country homes, pensions and life style and the moral values of Tom Delay. Because Bush wanted to liberate the Iraqi people from an irritable and egomaniacal ruler, making intolerable competition for Bush. Bush just wanted to liberate the Iraqi people by knocking down their old houses and getting rid of excess population, for which he would deserve flowers, thanks and effusive praise. Bush wanted to get American oil out from under the Iraqi sand. Because Bush wanted to mention 9/11 several hundred times and pretend he did something heroic at that time. Because Bush wanted to find the yellow cake that Saddam was importing. Condi Rice wanted the recipe for the cake. Because Bush wanted to stop Saddam from importing aluminum tubes which could be used for Heaven-only-Knows mischief. Because Bush’s friends wanted to apply preemption to somebody to see how it would turn out as preparation for future assaults of Syria, Iran, Libya, and maybe even North Korea. Because the Bush cabinet and speech-writers wanted to prate endlessly on TV about morals, freedom, and “our brave boys” thus getting the public attention off of the dire domestic situation. Because Bush said to Karl Rove, “How can I say “F... you to the entire world??” Because Bush’s trigger finger was getting restless to push a red button so he could smirk and swagger heroically at bringing death to millions of Muslim infidels, thus pleasing Pat Robertson. Because Bush’s handlers wanted to let him think he could make some decisions for himself. Because he heard that Osama bin Laden was someplace in Afhgnistan Afghnistingan Ahfghannistin, oh hell, in Iraq. Because Cheney wanted to save Iraqi oil for his old Millennium Corporation and let Iraqis extract it at minimum wages. Because Bush wanted one or two of Saddam’s old palaces, at least one for Dick Cheney, another for Karl Rove, one for Condi, one for Rumsfeld, one for Wolfowitz, and another where Ashford could retire permanently in quiet ease. Scooter Libby would get one, maybe Jerry Falwell another. Good times! Because somehow the issue of Iraqi oil came up, and Millennium Corporation given the oil without contract, showing how fair corruption can become. Because the Bush invasion of Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with oil, absolutely nothing, no sirree, don’t even mention it. Get it? Because North Korea had nuclear bombs and Iraq didn’t. Because Dick Cheney told him to do it to show his moral authority over the Muslim infidels and besides it’s fun to kill Muslims with Shock and Awe. Because Wolfowitz wanted to see our troops decorated with flowers and kisses by the Iraqis. In return we will throw the Iraqi urchins chewing gum, Mars candy bars, and cluster bombs to blow the little bastards sky-high. Because it would make the entire world jealous of the military and diplomatic prowess of the Bush heroic warhawks entitling them to wear 10 yards of gold braid and to wear Bush Freedom medals prominently suspended from solid gold necklaces. Because the Bush dirty-tricks people could leak the name of CIA agents whenever necessary to distract from serious economic issues. To distract attention from that “global warming” nonsense. To give True Believers something to pray about and demonstrate that their Yahweh is bigger, better, and brighter than any other old divinity from the rubbish heap of history. To show Bill Clinton how a Texan can govern without actually being in Washington To show the world what a BIG smoking gun looks like. To be able to use big colorful symbols to indicate when to be scared, poop in one’s pants, and when to say “just kidding.” Because Bush corporate friends wanted to sell a lot of duct tape with which to seal up homes against poison gas and bacteria. Because Iraq posed a clear and present danger to public awareness of Bush’s governing incompetence. Because Bush wanted to give his troops some healthy exercise sunning and playing baseball in a sandy country. Because by killing Muslims in Babylon, there wouldn’t be enough left of them to set off bombs in London or New York. Because it is better to invade sooner than later before taxpayers can protest. Because it would show those damned French and Germans that Bush can go it alone anytime anyplace. Because it shows True Believers that God is on their side and wants another crusade to kill surplus women, children and abominable infidels. To put a stop to the horrible tyranny of Saddam and substitute that of the Bush neocons. To show that unprovoked attacks are profitable to the military-industrial establishment. To show that Bush intends to impose sovereignty and security on a region that was only civilized for 3,000 years. To show that cowardly neocons can impose massive casualties and destruction without getting their own skins scratched. To let billions of dollars flow through the hands of neocons and let the nation accumulate the largest deficit in history. To let Bush and his Republicans pose in front of flags, and talk about their “brave boys” while prohibiting pictures of coffins and keeping their wounded in seclusion away from dangerous publicity. To practice secrecy and see how far lies, misinformation, deception, stealth, and preemption can take an incurious, manic, petulant, and irritable president to make a “legacy.” To see how far stupidity will distract from the environment and other serious issues of the day. To make sure that “regime change” only works in one direction. To condemn the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as infamous treachery, but the Shock-and-Awe attack on Baghdad as judicious and careful Christian stealth and deceit. To avoid irritable international discussion of world bodies, like the UN, by taking unilateral effective action. To destroy homes, industries, roads, bridges, hospitals and thousands of lives to avenge an attack on Bush’s daddy. To demonstrate that peaceful diplomacy is folly, the UN unworkable, world organizations inept, but Karl Rove is a wonderful guy. To show that an endless cycle of hatred and revenge can be started by cowardly warhawks and result in thousands of deaths for the profit of a few neocons. To please Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson by destroying infidels and showing the superiority of Baptism and Methodist peace efforts by killing Muslims.. To demonstrate that you can kill, torture or abuse any number of Iraqis, so Republican Senators will simply call it “trivial” and perhaps even like a “prank,” thus demonstrating their moral superiority. To prove you can invade a country without knowing anything about it, or being able to pronounce anyone’s name there. To show forcefully that you can lie to invade a country and nobody will dare impeach you but on the contrary a compliant press will applaud your heroic efforts to bring democracy and freedom with cruise missiles. To show that if you have enough money, and control of the armed forces, you can invade any place in the world without undue criticism. To hold daily prayer sessions, to bless your invading army and show that God is on your side. To be able to swagger in military uniform and excite female admiration. To be able to land on an airplane carrier in military uniform, declare a war a complete success and then spend the next several years or decades fighting “terrorism” that Bush started. Because Bush must blast Saddam to Hell. The reason why, I cannot tell. But this I know, and know full well, Bush must blast Saddam to Hell To declare Bush the greatest leader since Newt Gingrich and strut about in monkey pants. To dispossess Arabs who have only lived in their area for 4,000 years. To bring back the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon by importing cactus and sagebrush from Texas. To add another story on the Tower of Babylon and irritate Allah. Because there is more Sand in Iraq than on most beaches. Because you can play outdoor soccer in Iraq 12 months a year. Because you can travel 1000 miles over sand on a camel? Because successful corporate executives can Own-a-harem. Because you can guarantee Water shortages every summer. Because the Iraqis are now content with power outages, and no longer demand more power, thus saving a lot of effort in useless “reconstruction.” Because Bush can kill any Iraqi for any reason and nobody will do anything about it because Bush talks to his invisible divinity. Because you can test your nuclear weapons in other people’s countries. Because Iraqis don’t bother with toilets, just poop in the street, like people in Alabama. Because you get to occupy Saddam’s palaces. Because Iraqi money looked like Monopoly paper. Because they were resisting our efforts to dominate them by getting huffy and threatening to use force against us. Because Bush holds Iraq accountable for opposing resistance to our invasion and occupation. Because Bush didn’t think Iraqis should fight back for us meddling in their affairs. After all, we are moral Americans on a religious crusade. Because if we’d never invaded Iraq, thousands of men and women would not be facing lives without limbs. But this is a magnificent opportunity for people who manufacture limbs to make a fortune. Because our wounded wouldn’t have endured the anguish of being injured in combat or developed the stress-induced mental illness that will ruin many of their lives and many psychologists, psychiatrists and thousands of other mental illness people would not be able to make a very good living off of our wounded.
Because George Bush said : "Every human life is precious, and yet I have to answer, yes, it has been worth it." Because Bush wanted to give Iraqis sovereignty with a list of exiled leaders and legislation that he personally approved. Because Bush instead of promising Iraqis "blood, sweat, and tears," they got spin, risk avoidance, and promises without costing the tax payers more than a trillion dollars. Because Bush wanted to show he disregarded any reprisals or responsibility by forcing Iraqis to give all occupiers immunity. Because Saddam pissed Bush off. Because the Taliban and Al Qaeda were in Afghanistan and that is too close to Iraq to ignore. Because Bush wanted to see how far he could stretch his troops. Because Bush wanted to do his part to bring on the Apocalypse. Because Bush wanted to show that he was a “compassionate conservative.” by killing A-rabs. Because the Bush supporters needed another 300 billion dollars to play with. Because Bush thought he could invade Iraq and no one would notice. Because the Bush people knew they could print money to pay for their war and simply let the deficit pile up for generations, and devalue our currency. Because Bush, Dick, Karl and Paul thought it was worth doing. They all said so. Because Bush thought losing several thousand American troops was worth getting bases, oil and embassies in Iraq. Because Bush thought his lies were so good that nobody would ever find out. Why change horsemen in mid-apocalypse? Because the Tooth Fairy told Bush to invade. Because Bush felt stress at his failure as a President of the U.S. and wanted to see if being President of Iraq would be different. Bush wanted to rebuild Iraq because he was ruining his own country and wanted another place to rest up after experiencing a “hard” presidency. Because Bush planned to “promote democracy” by using cruise missiles, humvees, grenades, automatic weapons, huge tanks, helicopters, fighter planes and show those Iraqis what peace and freedom was all about. Because Bush thought spreading democracy was like spreading manure on his ranch in Texas. Because Bush wanted to give the proselytizers the chance to convert Moslems to Baptist Fundamentalist snake-handlers, foot-washers and anointers and let them worship replicas of the 10 or 20 Commandments. Oil? Oil? What Oil? Who mentioned Oil? Cheney never mentioned oil. To destroy non-existent WMD’s. To remove a hostile dictator from power without getting Bush removed himself. To seize Saddam’s palaces and make a BIG embassy, with thousands of True Believers and neo-cons, in order to insure world domination for corporate executives and White Christian Supremacists. To build permanent military bases for threatening or carrying out operations, preemptions, and occupations of any recalcitrant nation. To punish those foreigners at the UN who think that they can tell the US how to help the environment, stop AIDS or disease, or anything else. To tell those Frenchies nyah, nyah. To let the Pentagon warhawks destroy things and kill people. To be able to use real live targets for all those missiles that we have stored and are simply wasting away. The Iraqis weren’t with us, so they must have been against us. To be able to seize all the ill-gotten gains of Saddam into the ill-gotten hands of the Bush people. To be able to confiscate nail-clippers, pocket knives and box cutters at airports, thus giving the American public total security. To be able to tell the Muslims and Liberals, “get over it.” To be able to modify the Geneva Convention to whatever suits Bush lust for power. To show our unconcern for spending billions of dollars on an illegal war instead of on schools, Medicare, veteran’s hospitals, the environment, and other trivial things. To let Cheney, Millennium, and Enron manage a backward country to extract oil efficiently at minimum wages for contractors, proselytizers, missionaries, and assorted mercenaries. As an excuse to invade a harmless country, that had no WMD’s, to destroy or steal its resources with little risk or disapproval. To raise the price of oil for the oil corporation’s profit and happiness and put the money into the pockets of Bush lobbyists, senators and cabinet officers. Iraq pumps 2,000,000 barrels day - oil sells for $65 a barrel. Who got the money? On what was it spent? Go fish! To free the Iraqi people by killing thousands of rag heads. To get Dan Rather fired. To let fake journalists praise Bush leadership and explain lucidly to the public why he kills people to give them freedom and democracy. To give Bush speechwriters full opportunity to mention 9/11, patriotism, “our brave boys”, morals, and other exploitations. To give the media an opportunity to repeat daily the most outrageous lies of the Bush administration in utmost sincerity, waving flags, and shouting Pledges of Loyalty to Bush. To show that Watergate and lying presidents get deep affection from Republican senators. To let troops fight and die for great corporation profits. To find out how many soldiers must die before Bush admits he got into a war that he can’t win. Because Bush knows evil when he sees it, and he seen it, dude. To find out how many soldiers must die before Bush admits that the cost is too high. 3,000, 4,000, 5,000? To find out how many reasons Bush will give to justify his invasion. To see how many reasons Rove and Wolfowitz can invent for going to war. To let Millennium take care of supplying our troops with maximum corruption before Bush notices that billions of dollars are missing or stolen. To give fat-headed, fat-rumped, fat-lipped neo-cons the chance to give speeches about their vision of American military might and their desire to help Bush dominate the world. To begin the long process of “liberating” other countries like Syria and Iran, as soon as the Bush people can drum up pretexts to kill more American troops and foreign infidels to boost their egos. To fight terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, then let him escape and immediately switch to invading Iraq where there were no terrorists to begin with. To give the Bush people the chance to impose secrecy, censorship, tapping phones, looking up library cards, violating civil rights, detaining anyone for any reason indefinitely because Bush is above the law and the constitution. To let Bush impose his own reign of terror upon the American public as a way of getting reelected. We invaded because they had the arms that we sold them. Because the “terrorist rag heads” hate our guts. To prevent proliferation of WMD’s, if ever we find any. To show that regime removal is practical, but not for the U.S. To finish the first Gulf War. Because Bush could and Condi said it was okay to do it. Because only the US should have weapons or bombs. Because Saddam was violating civil rights, and only Bush is authorized to do that. Because Saddam was mistreating the poor, aged, sick and homeless and only Bush is authorized to do that. To liberate the Iraqi people from their land, homes, resources and other onerous burdens. To give the Bush legacy something historians can point to with horror. Because after we took out the inspectors, there weren’t enough inspections. To show the neocons that the ideology of imperial world domination by military superiority, deceit and preemption is good for economic exploitation of any population. To show American religious fanatics that they are better than any foreign religious fanatics. To scare Americans into accepting a petulant, irritable, incurious and irresponsible party boy as world leader of a moral crusade. Because Iraq continued to “flaunt its hostility toward America,” simply because Bush was bombing it day and night. Because the Pentagon had “misplaced much war materiel” and we had to go to Iraq to look for it. In order to kill those terrorist killers. To please Ariel Sharon and Tony Blair To set Iraq as an example of what happens to nations that call Bush “sissy.” To keep Crawford, Texas, from being bombed, gassed, or threatened in any way by mad dictators. Because Saddam kept moving his weapons away from the UN inspectors and burying them deep in the sand. Because Saddam showed disrespect for the United Nations, but only Bush and Bolton are allowed to do that. Because Bush needed another vacation in Crawford, Texas. So we can bring stability to Iraq, like we did to Yugoslavia and Somalia. To preserve the peace by making war. Because Iraq was close to Afghanistan and could conceivably help the Taliban by giving them sand. To show the UN diplomats that Bush’s unilateralism is much better for making the world safe by killing everybody involved. Because Saddam scorned the imperial orders of Bush and that is against the will of Yahweh. By forcing Bush to remove his attention from governing the US. Because Saddam was guilty of distracting Bush and must be stopped. Because Saddam kept moving his weapons away from the UN inspectors and burying them deep in the sand. Because Saddam showed disrespect for the United Nations, but only Bush and Bolton are allowed to do that. Because Bush needed another vacation in Crawford, Texas. Because Bush is so courageous that he really wants the Muslims to “bring it on.” He would personally take up a rifle and get on a humvee and patrol the streets of Baghad, except that his ranch needs his attention more. So we could give Iraq full sovereignty under Bush, like we did to Afghanistan and maybe in 20 or 40 years those dumb people will be able to govern themselves. To make the lives of Iraqis at least equivalent to our homeless. To raise the price of gasoline so corporations can become fabulously wealthy, and let Bush walk hand in hand with Prince Bandar, kiss his cheek or hind-quarters, and smirk at oil profits. Finally, it’s a secret that we invaded that only the Bush neo-cons know, that Bush can smirk about, and Condi scowl and glare over. If the Far Right and corporate executives are happy, then what’s the beef?
To bring the survivors of Shock-and-Awe the blessings of the Bush administration of their country. So Bush could start threatening the entire world with his version of freedom and democracy, mixed with a little fascism, plutocracy, and theocracy. To show how Bush is kind, gentle, compassionate and wants only to extract maximum profit from Iraq for his corporate friends. To show that Bush will reluctantly have to kill 100,000 people in order to give them a puppet regime in return for military bases and oil. To show the world that occupying a county should not have to cause resentment, fear, anger or death. Because Bush is a simpleton in a complex world and the only tactic he knows is brute force. Because Bush wanted “to take the fight to the enemy.” To give the International Red Cross something to complain about. So Bush could try out his new bunker buster bombs on really dumb people. To show the Iraqis that Bush is unconcerned about American deaths and insists he is “taking it to the Iraqis or “got them on the run.” To camp out in Iraq for the next twenty years, enjoying the sand and the sun. To hoist the Confederate Flag over Baghdad. To help Rumsfeld, Condi, Perle, Bolton, Perle and Rove “take it to” the entire Middle East. To help Osama bin Laden in his recruiting efforts. To give senators some place to visit other than Crawford, Texas. In order to get all the world terrorists to come to Iraq, so we can kill the lot of them and rid the world of terrorism. Because of Intelligence Failure. Bush fails the Intelligence Test. So Starbucks will have a new place to sell expensive coffee. Because Saddam sent Bush a nasty e-mail message. To give our generals a chance to earn more medals. To make a tunnel which we can look thru for the light. So Halliburton and Bechtel can find new sources of corruption and charge soldiers $30.00 a plate for chipped beef. To make an excellent propaganda smokescreen to hide all those things that the Bush administration has failed at. Because Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 and we didn’t forget it. Because Saddam shows resentment at Bush trying to kill him. Because the Republican Senators were just aching for a good war. Because Saddam doesn’t rewind his rental tapes. Because Saddam doesn’t bother to wrap up separate recyclables. Because Bush throws like a girl. Because it would be an “easy” victory Because Wolfowitz told Bush the Iraqis would throw flowers, not grenades. Because it is our destiny To make the world safe for Exxon, Enron, Millennium, Fox News, Jeb Bush, and Elian Gonzales. To enhance financial contributions of defense contractors to selected politicians. To extend political, military, and economic hegemony over most of the world because Bush merits great acclaim. To fight a moral crusade against communists, atheists, liberals, democrats, and other forms of terrorists. To bring down the Berlin Wall and erect another in Israel. To fight whatever form of evil Bush thinks is appropriate at the time. To carry out endearing forms of torture and abuse as a tribute to Bush rising above legalities. Because military muscle has to be flexed every once in a while. So our air force could practice bombing for more than 40 days and nights in order to kill one man, unloading 17 million pounds of bombs on “collaterals” which don’t really count on the record of courage of a violent president. So we could give Fox News vivid pictures of the greatest aerial onslaught in the history of the world. Lots of death and destruction. Good watching. So we could get rid of some of those depleted uranium weapons by incinerating Iraqis. So we could bury dozens of people alive with huge bombs. So we could destroy hospitals and get a chance to rebuild them later to show our disdain for expense, death, or destruction. So we could pour billions of dollars into reconstruction a country we were simultaneously destroying, further mixing stupidity with neocon ideology. So a handful of wealthy people can still own Iraq, while the poor remain poorer. So Bush can claim that all the death and destruction he caused is motivated only by “humanitarian” and “compassionate” impulses. To rid the earth of people who are not white, Christian, and wealthy. Because some of the big generals and politicians were bored, and wanted something to watch on TV other than reruns. Because no reason is really necessary. Just DO IT. Because the US has a rich history of foreign interference. Because Tony Blair was sleeping with George Bush. Because George Bush the First wants George Bush the Second to become a man. Because George Bush refused to listen to generals and statesmen who warned him about the quagmire he was would enter. So we can make a board game with a Monopoly in Iraq, building hotels and MacDonald’s, and charging terrorists to stay in our Hilton Hotel There’s no point at having the title COMMANDER IN CHIEF if you aren’t going to use it. Because Donald Rumsfeld needs something to do to keep him out of the Oval Office. Because Bush has designed a new uniform, like that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court with big epaulets, gold braid and some feathers. In order to spread Christianity, er, tax cuts. Yeah, tax cuts. To raise the price of gas so corporate execs can all buy new Lear Jets and mansions. To “Give War a Chance.” Because of all the widespread murder, corruption, rape and torture, and that’s just in Texas. Because of a brutal thug who does wicked, despicable things, and wants to be US ambassador. To use nuclear technology to threaten his neighbors, or sell it to unsavory entities, and keep Saddam from doing the same. Because Bush wanted to reward his friends for their loyalty, their contributions and their truth spinning. Because neither Bush nor Saddam were content with Iraq’s borders Because Saddam is no worse than Putin but we can only invade one country at a time. Because Bush thinks of Iraq as a military base with a large oil reserve underneath, which somehow got under the sand; you can’t ask for anything better than that. Because George Bush got sick laughing about duping the nation into believing that Iraq posed an imminent threat on the United States: Because Dick Cheney wants to run another oil company when he stops being V.P. This was not about oil but to free the Iraqis from the burden of extracting it. So Bush can pose, looking solemn, and talk about “our brave boys” while refusing to attend their funerals. So Colin Powell could hold up some test-tubes while demonstrating to the U.N. that Saddam had really evil intentions and therefore should give up his regime to George Bush. To give former oil industry executives a chance to show the Iraqi’s how to run their business which they had run for over a hundred years. To help the Iraqis decide to privatize their oil and be reasonable in letting the U.S. control the production and distribution. Bush Invaded Iraq to ’Secure Israel,’ Says Sen. Ernest “Fritz” Hollings who is now serving his final term in Washington. Bush Invaded Iraq to seek Jewish support in his election campaigns. Because of the Domino Theory of Democracy in The Project For The New American Century which Bush neocons take as their Bible. Because few people were willing to stand up and say what was really going on in the U.S. Because Bush made a mistake like happened in Vietnam, and with the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident and will be part of his “legacy” forever, but he will never admit it. To defeat terror we have no choice but to invade Afghinisting, Aghfanista, Afiganastin, Afiagin....Iraq. Because of stunning incompetence of the Bush and Blair conspiracy we must swallow their explanations and distortions and allow preemption, dishonesty, and deadly violence become our modus of operation. But we secured the Oil Ministry of Iraq right away, so everything will be alright, right? Because Bush picked a war he could win. Because a war that could cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars was of strategic importance to the neocon world domination game plan and to a second term for a failing president. To keep the numerous Bush domestic disasters off the political table in the U.S. and allow him to smirk and swagger during his gala speeches prepared by Turd Blossom Rove. Because War will supersede even a failing economy and administration. War is Good for Business, especially Millennium’s. Because keeping a threat of terror simmering on the burner scares Americans into supporting whoever is in office. Because Americans look to psychological tormentors for protection against an outside evil perceived as the more serious than inside evils. Because a war in Iraq offers almost bottomless billion-dollar profiteering opportunities for campaign contributors and administration officials. Because Halliburton, the Carlyle Group, etc. can reap big financial benefits from the destruction of the Iraq infrastructure thus giving Republican campaigns a vast source of contributions from quid pro quo understandings. To blow Iraq up with bombs paid for by taxpayers -- then use taxpayer dollars to pay campaign contributors and companies with connections to administration officials to rebuild it.. Because the neocons don’t want anybody but Bush Cartel Chicken hawks calling the international shots. Only moral cowards are allowed to declare war and call it “peace efforts.” Because of financial "inducements" Bush people offered some nations to support the war, with an ingenious way to pay back campaign contributors. Bush will give Poland six billion dollars of taxpayer money with which Poland will buy six billion dollars worth of fighter jets from Lockheed-Martin.. Because showing brute power in Iraq will bully dissenters at home into submission or scare them into “dazed and confused” passivity. Because the conquest of Iraq will shore up a Middle East alliance with the Sharon government, with whom the Bush Cartel shares a common worldview. Because God chose Bush to run America, consolidate both political parties into the Oval Office, and make the charismatic evangelists happy. To incrementally seize power until, unnoticed, the administration crosses the line into a fascistic dictatorship and theocracy. To pave the way for a huge Republican majority in which civil rights will be illusory, priests will control the educational system, eminent domain will rule property rights, and the stupidity quotient of Americans will exceed all previous expectations. To consolidate a government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich. To accelerate dismantling of government services and removal of any church/state separation in favor of fundamentalist organizations and giant corporations in bed with politicians. To provide entertainment for Fox News “reporters” and allow them to spin truth like whirling dervishes. Because War is profitable for the news media. To see who can stretch Truth the farthest: Baghdad Bob or the Presidential Spokesmen. Because war will increase oil prices and give large oil reserves to American and British oil companies, who financially support the Republican Party. To ensure that no one digs up the truth about the Bush administration’s catastrophic failure to prevent 9/11, including an August briefing that warned Bush about terrorist hijackings when Bush did nothing in response. To distract from the release of the Downing Street memos. To energize the religious right and Neo-Confederacy warrior culture to contribute more to the Republican election effort, and turn out committed sheep at the polls. There is nothing like war to try out the latest bombs and hi-tech weapons on infidels. Because it’s hard to find a place to target practice nowadays, let alone a whole country with real live people in it. Because when bombs are blown up, more bombs are needed. They just happen to be manufactured by companies that contribute to the Bush Cartel. And the more taxpayer money goes toward bombs and military equipment, there is less money for government services. This makes it the perfect war for extremist right wingers running the U.S.. Plan “A” of the Bush Cartel to send our sons and daughters into War is because it has no Plan “B” to send their sons and daughters into War. Because the Bush Cartel is banking on making the kind of impression on the world that a thug makes with a baseball bat on a car. Because why Screw just one Intern, like Bill Clinton, When You Can Screw the Entire Country Because Saddam irritated Bush by keeping his blinker on while driving. Because the war allowed a president with virtually no knowledge of world events, recent or historic, or of foreign cultures and no experience in battle, to send us to war and call himself the War Prezydent. Because all the neocons could patriotically wave their collective flags and sing praises to their War God as war was waged, as it sputtered in failure, and as it stands today mired in its own stagnation, but left the neocons rich. Because governance by brazen muscle power needs unfailing commitment to destroy targets as an example of ruthlessness and the will to use any means to assert and preserve leadership Because to the victor go the spoils of war, right into the pockets of the warmongers. Because an aggressor must never let facts get in the way of the mission. Getting distracted by truth and ethics is a sign of weakness. Bush can kill America by claiming failure as proof of success. So Cheney and Rumsfeld can make up for their “loss of face” in the White House in the 700’s when we won the Vietnam War by leaving it. To show that even colossal blunders on the part of a theocrat, based on smoke and mirrors, do not really matter to True Believers. So that the Chicken hawks who are “too busy” to sign up for military service can wave flags, and use the rallying cry of terrorism as their vehicle to ensnare the gullible American people. So that Bush can continue to rule by the deception that he is a bold, resolute wartime leader instead of a cowardly irresponsible incompetent Far Right poster-boy. Because stupidity, incompetence and failure begets the need for more of the same. Because we were promised a shower of roses but were left standing with a pile of corpses and a mountain of debt. Because a cowering lazy mainstream press can stand any amount of incompetence and lying and still appear to be credible by constant repetition of official lies and misdirection. “Either you are with our failed policy, or you are siding with the terrorists.” Because as each excuse to invade is proven false, Karl Rove will think up a dozen new excuses and the compliant press will print it without further investigation. Because having the Keystone Cops in charge of protecting us has become a habit, and there is no alternative but to use duct tape and color symbols and confiscating nail clippers for security. Because if we didn’t invade we would appear to be weak and the True Believers would be so disappointed that they would oust Bush. Because Bush follows a pattern. He fails, gets into a jam, then expects everybody to bail him out. Because there are only a fixed number of terrorists, and if you attract them to Iraq then you can put out flypaper and catch them all at once. In that way they will never “come over here.” Because Bush intended to use the “Ostrich” approach to National Security, and cut brush at Crawford, Texas anytime the going gets “hard.” Because Oil and Dick Cheney just naturally go together. Because Bush Just felt like it. Don’t you dare question his decision. Because it was supposed to be a cakewalk but those damned Iraqis just won’t let Bush make them into colonists of the U.S. Because playing with obedient soldiers is fun. They have to die for their glorious leader who then announces it was “worth it.” Because fat-head ideologues have convinced themselves that they are the enlightened masters of the universe. Because if you repeat a lie five times, it becomes the truth. Once you find a good lie, stick to it. The more the lie defies common sense the more Bush supporters who rely on Fox news are likely to believe it. Because people who are amoral, sociopath, ruthless and lust for power will do things that people in their right mind would not do. Because Bush really wants to find out what’s going on. Even if it takes years and he has to shred all documents and appoint endless commissions of sycophants to declare he had nothing to do with anything. Because the war is about whether anyone in the Bush Administration is subject to laws of the United States, subject to truth, and to being punished for making our nation less secure, and responsible for the deaths of about 2,000 American “brave boys” who died for oil and military bases. Because Bush and Rove appear to have more in common with Joseph Stalin than with Abraham Lincoln and run the country like the Politburo. Because the Bushites want to hide their incompetence under plain sight while using perpetual terror alarms to keep sheep-like Americans in subjection. To protect the Fundamentalist Christian Jihadists and U.S. Taliban from any legalities or government interference with plans to dominate the country. Because The War was intended to Deceive America Into War -- And the War was intended to Cover Up the Deception that caused the war. The Bush sycophants try to create a conspiracy of credibility around Bush going to war, where none can exist to a person of common sense or integrity. Because the Bush administration said it was “going to fix” intelligence to start a war and the lie was successful and few people seemed to question that approach. Because England and the U.S. flew sorties over Iraq in 2002 to provoke Saddam and destroy his infrastructure to prepare for the war. Why would any nation object to the U.S. flying over their territory with war planes fully loaded with bombs? Because Dick Cheney put heavy pressure on CIA analysts to “fix” data which provided a pretext for war. Anyone care to guess why Dick did it? Because the lies about WMD would last long enough so we could invade and then laugh off and forget the absence of WMD by making patriotic speeches about our “brave boys.” Because the analysts who made the false allegations backing up pretensions for war were promoted and given bonuses. Because Bush personally took Richard Clarke aside and told him to make the facts work for a war with Iraq. Because former Sec. of Treasury O’Neill wrote that Bush wanted “to get” Iraq from the moment he was sworn in a president. Because The PNAC (Project for the New American Century) plan to invade Iraq was written primarily by Bush Neo-cons who guided us into the war for personal profit, glory, and power. Because The Bush Administration outed Valerie Plame as a CIA operative specializing in tracking the illicit sale and movement of Weapons of Mass Destruction because her courageous husband, Joe Wilson, exposed the Niger documents as a fraud, so they just had to go to war. Because the Bush administration is extremely secretive and vindictive and sought vengeance on anyone for exposing their phony war based on daily lies about WMDs so they just had to go to war. Because John Bolton fired an official for seeking a peaceful way out of the Iraq War. Because Donald Rumsfeld said that the U.S. would take Saddam and all of “them” out. Because Advanced U.S. forces were sent into Iraq before the war had even started. Because Rumsfeld set up a Pentagon psy-ops operation to create propaganda and disinformation for going to war with Iraq. Because the Bush Administration conducted a successful misinformation campaign to make Americans believe that Saddam Hussein was partly responsible for 9/11 and that the hijackers were Iraqi. Because reporting the news honestly and with full details is now secondary to lauding a failed presidency, and distracting the public from incompetence. Because the media feel obliged to show Bush as a glorious leader and to hide any details of his record that might offend him. Because lies by Bill Clinton regarding a blow-job are treasonable, while lies by Bush that got thousands of people killed are simply college pranks. Because Bush is working hard to protect the public by taking more vacations than any president in U.S. history, Because people who blow the whistle on the crimes or incompetence of Bushite zealots are traitors. Because we now have one-party Pinochet style of government in which the Bush judges would throw out any evidence regarding Bush complicity in death and destruction. Because the buck never stopped at Bush’s desk, but was diverted by Karl Rove and listed as missing. Because the media moguls got huge tax breaks which let them expand their stations, presses and holdings at will so they back up any lie of the administration with full misdirection. Because the Bush administration can scare off any journalist with Karl Rove stunts like “Rathergate” or “Koran Flushgate.” Or, how about those Swift Boat zealots? Much of the media form an echo chamber for GOP propaganda, in which Bush appears as a saint or Caesar, instead of a petulant, irritable, irresponsible, manic, vindictive would-be dictator. Because honest journalists get targets on their backs, whereas any reporter singing praises of Bush will get press passes, invitations, and have a flourishing career. Because the Bush Administration is using the war to justify attacks on the environment, such as opening up public lands, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to drilling for oil. Because while the Bush Administration is waging war to get oil from Iraq, towns in the U.S. suffer from fossil-fuel pollution from power plants, oil refineries, and gas-guzzling recreation vehicles. Because we tried coups in Iraq, tried to encourage rebellion in Iraq, tried funding Iraqi opposition, then finally decided to try bombs, missiles, tanks and other peace-making methods.
Because Bush wants to spread democracy, like manure, over the entire Middle East. Because Bush wants to appear like a reverse Robin Hood. Take from the poor and give to the rich. Because Bush’s messianic policies are driven by a venal desire to enrich his sponsors, not by any constitutional values. Because the Bush strategy reflects his simplistic nature: Strike without warning, strike hard, kill without compunction or regret, then give a self-satisfying smirk. Because to make war on Iraq was like Truman invading Mexico after Pearl Harbor. There were only two credible reasons for invading Iraq: control over oil and preservation of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Yet Bush and Cheney keep silent on these factors. In 1990, Dick Cheney wrote: "Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well." In 1999, Iran began pricing oil in Euros. In late 2000 Saddam made the switch for Iraqi oil. In early 2002 Bush declared, using the authority of his God, that Iran and Iraq were in “The Axis of Evil.” If other OPEC countries had followed the move to Euros, the consequences for neo-cons could have been disastrous. The dollar would plummet, the huge deficit would not be manageable and many U.S. and British corporations would go out of business. The need to secure access to Arabian Gulf Oil was a major factor in deciding to invade Iraq. Protecting troops was secondary to protecting the vast oil fields. Bush planned to invade before he had any plan to protect, secure, feed, water, clothe, provide armor, house or best utilize US troops and equipment, other than blast the hell out of the Iraqis. Any soldiers killed for lack of body armor or armored vehicles are due to Bush impatience and recklessness. As long as Republicans control Congress there will be no serious investigation of corruption, mismanagement, incompetence, waste or stupidity of the highest officials of the Bush administration. They will do everything in their power to distract and trivialize or manipulate any investigation. Recently, however, the Democrats seem to have taken vitamins and have insisted that the Iraq War intelligence twisting should be investigated. If any investigation is to take place, secondary officials will take the bullet. The real reasons for Bush and his Neocons to invade Iraq will be sealed for a generation to come, unless some Deep Throat of the present neo-cons will reveal the national planning and strategy of the Bush crowd prior to 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq. All the details of the oil grab, the seizing of land for military bases, and the building of a huge embassy from which to launch strikes on Iran and Syria are still to be examined in detail, as well as the delightful details of torture, abuse and detention of anyone Bush feels should be tortured and abused to obtain the valuable information that some people hate him enough to blow themselves up as long as they can take some Bush people with them. In the meantime, if anyone knows of additional reasons why Bush invaded Iraq, please feel free to comment and supplement. Bush says he wants to know those facts.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=9185
Clintons Announce Opposition to Iraq War
POLITICS/CORRUPTION
Yep, she's running for President!
U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Israel on a visit intended to put to rest any lingering doubts about her support for Israel.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20051113-09514500-bc-israel-hillary.xml
In her 2000 Senate race, Clinton staked out a number of positions that appealed to Jewish voters, declaring, for example, that Jerusalem should be the "eternal and indivisible capital of Israel."
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Voices Support For Israel's Partition Wall
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=92916
"The Palestinian nation must change its approach to terrorism and prevent it?"
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton visits Western Wall
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=645415&contrassID=19
Children threw candy at the New York Democrat, while she posed with women celebrating their sons' bar mitzvahs at the Western Wall.
Hillary in the Holy Land
There really is no way of getting around it. Senator Hillary Clinton may well be future presidential material after all.
Sen. Clinton, along with her husband Bill, paid a visit to Israel this past weekend. The former President Clinton was a featured speaker at a mass rally that marked the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. It was Hillary's second visit to Israel since she was elected to office in 2000. In fact, I think the senator has visited Israel more times in the past four years than she's been to visit her constituents where I reside, in upstate New York.
Video of the hidden Fallujah massacre
IRAQ
Including modem versions.
US defends use of white phosphorus weapons in IraqReuters AlertNet, UK - 45 minutes agoBy Will Dunham. WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Wednesday acknowledged using incendiary white-phosphorus munitions ...
UK: Troops used phosphorus for smokeAljazeera.net, Qatar - 1 hour agoThe British military has used white phosphorus in Iraq but only to lay smoke screens, according to Prime Minister Tony Blair's official spokesman. ...
MoD urged to rethink chemical useScotsman, United Kingdom - 2 hours agoThe Ministry of Defence is facing calls to review the use of white phosphorus by British forces following the disclosure that it was deployed by the Americans ...
White phosphorus: weapon on the edgeBBC News, UK - 2 hours agoBy Paul Reynolds. The Pentagon's admission - despite earlier denials - that US troops used white phosphorus as a weapon in Falluja ...
Q&A: White phosphorusBBC News, UK - 3 hours agoThe Pentagon's confirmation that it used white phosphorus as a weapon during last year's offensive in the Iraqi city of Falluja has sparked criticism. ...
UK used white phosphorus in IraqBBC News, UK - 4 hours agoUK troops have used white phosphorus in Iraq - but only to create smokescreens, Defence Secretary John Reid has said. MPs are worried ...
Pentagon admits to using controversial weaponChannel 4 News, UK - 4 hours agoThe weapons contain chemicals that can contain horrific burns and the Pentagon had previously denied they were used. They claimed ...
Britain dragged into white phosphorus rowTimes Online, UK - 4 hours agoBy Philippe Naughton. Britain was drawn into the controversy surrounding America's use of white phosphorus in last year's battle ...
Iraq probes US phosphorus weaponsBBC News, UK - 6 hours agoAn Iraqi human rights team has gone to the city of Falluja to investigate the use of white phosphorus as a weapon by US forces, a minister has told the BBC. ...
British discuss use of phosphorous in IraqSan Jose Mercury News, United States - 6 hours agoLONDON - The British military uses white phosphorous in Iraq but only to lay smoke screens, Prime Minister Tony Blair's official spokesman said Wednesday ...
US admits using phosphorus as weapon in IraqCTV.ca, Canada - 5 hours agoUS troops used white phosphorus as a weapon against insurgents in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, a spokesman for the US military has admitted. ...
MPs' concern on US arms admissionBBC News, UK - 7 hours agoThe admission that US forces used white phosphorus in Iraq risks damaging the "battle for hearts and minds", say the Liberal Democrats. ...
US official admits phosphorus used as 'weapon' in IraqCBC News, Canada - 8 hours agoA spokesman for the US military has admitted that soldiers used white phosphorus as an "incendiary weapon" while trying to flush out insurgents in the northern ...
Pentagon admits incendiary use in IraqAljazeera.net, Qatar - 12 hours agoPentagon officials have acknowledged that US troops used white phosphorous as a weapon during the battle of Falluja last November. ...
US forces used 'chemical weapon' in IraqIndependent, UK - 12 hours agoThe Pentagon has admitted US forces used white phosphorus as "an incendiary weapon" during the assault last year on Fallujah. A ...
US forces used 'chemical weapon'Scotsman, United Kingdom - 16 hours agoUS forces used white phosphorus as an "incendiary weapon" against Iraqi militants during the battle of Fallujah in November 2004, the Pentagon has said. ...
US admits using white phosphorous in FallujaGuardian Unlimited, UK - 17 hours agoUS forces yesterday made their clearest admission yet that white phosphorus was used as a weapon against insurgents in Iraq. A Pentagon ...
Chemical grenade used on rebelsTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 17 hours agoBy Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent. The Pentagon admitted yesterday that it had used an incendiary grenade against Iraqi insurgents ...
'Chemical' rounds used against rebel fightersTimes Online, UK - 19 hours agoBy Our Foreign Staff. THE US military has admitted that white phosphorous bombs were deployed against insurgents in Iraq last year ...
Pentagon used white phosphorous in IraqSan Jose Mercury News, United States - 20 hours agoWASHINGTON - Pentagon officials acknowledged Tuesday that US troops used white phosphorous as a weapon against insurgent strongholds during the battle of ...
WHITE PHOSPHOROUS USED IN IRAQSpecial Broadcasting Service, Australia - 21 hours ago"White phosphorus is a conventional munition. It is not a chemical weapon. They are not outlawed or illegal," Lieutenant-Colonel ...
US used white phosphorus in IraqBBC News, UK - 22 hours agoThe Pentagon has confirmed that US troops used white phosphorus during last year's offensive in the northern Iraqi city of Falluja. ...
War Without RulesOutlook (subscription), India - Nov 15, 2005Did US troops use chemical weapons in Falluja? The answer is yes. The proof is not to be found in the documentary broadcast on Italian ...
"White Death" Is A Losing StrategyWashington Post, United States - Nov 15, 2005The military's use of white phosphorus during operations in Fallujah last year is making its way around the world media and blogosphere, with the claim being ...
The US used chemical weapons in Iraq - and then lied about itGuardian Unlimited, UK - Nov 14, 2005Now we know napalm and phosphorus bombs have been dropped on Iraqis, why have the hawks failed to speak out? Did US troops use chemical weapons in Falluja? ...
The fog of war: white phosphorus, Fallujah and some burning ...Independent, UK - Nov 14, 2005By Andrew Buncombe and Solomon Hughes in Washington. The controversy has raged for 12 months. Ever since last November, when US forces ...
UK used white phosphorus in IraqUnited Press International - 55 minutes agoLONDON, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- British forces used white phosphorus in Iraq, but only as a smokescreen, Defense Secretary John Reid said Wednesday. ...
UK Says White Phosphorous Used for SmokeLeading The Charge, Australia - 2 hours agoBY ED JOHNSON, 16 minutes ago. LONDON - The British military uses white phosphorous in Iraq but only to lay smoke screens, the government ...
Pentagon Admits Using Phosphorous Bombs on FallujahCounterPunch, CA - 2 hours agoBy DAVE LINDORFF. Not only does America use grotesque chemical weapons in its "War of Liberation"--in this case white phosphorus ...
White PhosphorusHere and Now, MA - 3 hours agowere just used to illuminate parts of the city of Fallujah, which would have been a conventional use of the weapon. . Now the Pentagon ...
People know and have known the truth for a long time.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/9-11secretservice.html
The sarcasm of your talking head 'reporter' is the only offensive thing I saw throughout the interview with that BYU professor who at least has INTEGRITY, and loves the truth. God bless him. Quite opposite though, your talking head reporters attitude was biased and was ugly,his attitude was very offensive. Reminded me of [hypocthetically] listening to a KKK grand dragon sarcastically saying : "so Emmit Till was innocent? Well that idea would offend a lot of our audience..." ONLY A RASCIST SMALL MINDED BIGOT AUDIENCE WOULD FEEL THAT WAY. If that’s all who listen to you then you don't have much of an audience do you? Or are you INSULTING YOUR VIEWERS? Those who can think, see or distinguish BS from reality have tuned you out long ago. [All Main Stream Media]
There is no difference to the real time interview remarks and the hypothetical one.
NO DIFFERENCE. RASCISTS AND BIGOTS ALL WALK TALK AND SMELL THE SAME.
Funny thing about deciets. The person who decieves is counting on the blind foolishness of those who he decieves. So the liar is always in FEAR of others intelligence, perceptiveness, and objective vision. There fore the liar who is counting on the foolishness of others is himself a bigger fool than the ones he trys to fool. Because he is at complete mercy and vunerability to the minds and perception of others. He is fearful SLAVE to the perceptions of those he deems more ignorant than himself. He is a slave of fools, and terrified of able minds. How small is that? How limited is that? How fearful is that? How craven is that? How like that is the cockroach that flees from the light, the sight, the perceptiveness of others? Only the deciever lives in true slavery to his own base fear of discovery. Men of integrity are FREE even if you lock them in a cell. Because they are not slaves like the lot of you. Mahatma Gandhi Jee did not hate his cell. I know people who sell out their souls and their fellow man just do not comprehend that. It is purely their loss.
Your reporter finds truth offensive. That says a lot about him. What is offensive to Jesus, or Jefferson, Gandhi, or George Galloway is another thing entirely. Like LIES. Lies are repulsive to everyone except the pathological liars that vomit them perpetually. Only liars lap up lies like a dog greedily lapping up its own vomit. The rest of us are repulsed.
Lies are extremely offensive. And isn't that just about ALL that Main stream media dishes out is lies, lies and more lies? Don’t lie more and deny this fact. We know. We the world KNOW THE TRUTH. And you wonder why papers do not sell? The only good thing a news rag is good for is for drying windex off windows, lining the bird cage and to wrap fish in. ( Sad to say it ain't the fish that makes the paper reek. But the BS lies embedded into every section.)
The media has lost ALL CREDIBILITY.
Do you know that people call reporters and talking heads 'prestitutes'?
Do you know people think the media sold their souls long ago?
Do you know reporters are now despised maybe even more than attorneys?
Do you know that it is only reporters with integrity that are murdered or are victims of attempted murder. Like the Americans that tried to murder the Italian witness to US war crimes? How ironic that other so called reporters helped cover up that crime too. Why? Ya all afraid of dieing? If you had content of character maybe you would not fear the hellfire when you leave this world?
Do you know that people who sell out are the very self same greedy people that betray everyone else in the process?
Do you know that satan is the father of all lies and those who habitually lie are satanists by the fact they serve evil? Man cannot serve two masters ya know.
As if there is a price worth losing ones own soul. All of bill gates, ross perots, donald trumps, and every filthy rich bastard out there... if you combined ALL their wealth. It ain't worth it. All the gold in the world will not buy one mans way into heaven. But it will weigh a lot of vipers into the hell. Guareenteed.Or do you all think God was joking when He talked about NOT COVETING, STEALING, LIEING, MURDERING, BEARING FALSE WITNESS,etc,.
Do you know that lies are weak and liars are weak? Ask Bruno what courage is. Ask William Wallace. Ask George Galloway. Ask Micheal Rivero of Whatreallyhappened.com. And this BYU professor... These are men of courage, these are men who love the truth. These are men of integrity. If you'd emulate them you would sell so damn many papers maybe you'd become wealthy. People want the TRUTH. Give the people what they want. Or do not expect people to buy your product. American buisness is thinking so damn short term these days I question the sanity of US buisnessmen.
The only offensive thing I see is that people who decieve for a living think that people cannot see through the mountains of BS.
Susan Smith implicated people of hue for her crimes too. This is just on a massive global scale. Judgement day will be sweet for the murdered innocents, the persecuted, the people whom the media spin has born excessive false witnesses upon. Mercy is tempered by justice. Justice will come for EVERY INNOCENT SOUL. Ye reap what ye sow, so too do innocents reap, and theirs is a sweet harvest. Ye who are ACCOMPLICES TO CRIMES AGAINST THE HUMANITY [ON THE OTHER HAND] ARE COMPLICIT IN COVERING THEM UP, YE ARE AS GUILTY AS THE PERSONS WHO SET THE DETINATORS, WHO STOOD DOWN ALL RESPONSES, WHO CONTROLLED THE SO CALLED SECURITY OF WTC AND THE AIRPORTS, WHO PLANNED AND EXECUTED THIS MASSIVE CRIME. YE ARE ALL IN IT TOGETHER. AND YE ALL WILL REAP THE ROTTEN FRUITS OF YOUR COMPLICIT LIES. AND 911 IS JUST ONE OF THE SERIES OF CRIMES YOU ARE ALL COMPLICIT IN. Serial terrorism, false flags, fake car bombings the list is getting long... who but a criminal covers up the crimes of another criminal? Who but a criminal is ACCOMPLICE to crime?
Got news for ya. Real news. ( Unlike the farce we see paraded across the 'Headlines' in the so called news rags or programs)
Truth remains constant. There is only one truth. The truth will be revealed. History will be exposed. And every complicit accomplice will be held to account for the crimes against the humanity. Lies never manage to conseal truth. Apparently the media does not know that. Bitter irony is that lies tend to entangle the liars, besides betray the very lies that they fail to cover up. Hey even Ray Charles can see the reality. Get a clue. Lies always are discovered and betray the ones who lie. ALWAYS.
Do you also know, that when ANY TERROR happens ANYWHERE. Guess WHO is most Suspect? It is not the people you prestitutes want us to believe are guilty. The hypocrits that cry loudest are the ones most guilty. They are habitually PROJECTING their sins upon innocents. And everything is a bloody FRONT for this crime sydicate. Ultimately every thing that passes from the lips of pathological liars is not believed. WE all know the opposite is true. We all see who are todays Pharisees. We all watch you all bow to mammon. And lick satans cloven hooves... you please him to no end since he is father of lies. You all would say " What smoke? I do not see or smell smoke" if your own hair was on fire. I wonder if the liars in hell will be saying what brimstone? Likely so. Seems lies are addictive to pathological liars.
Personally I'd rather be murdered than sell my soul or betray human beings. I am amazed that reporters can actually read their tele prompters with a straight face. I could not and WOULD NOT do it. You'd have to kill me. How do the prestitutes sleep at night? Maybe they are ALL sociopathic? Or just that craven. Regardless its damn ugly either way. The living shake their heads as they witness the futile daily dance of lies. Its not unlike watching a bulimic convention throw a hurling contest. Repulsive. See who can lie the most, see who can spew the most bile. Not much difference. Liars suck. Liars are the Judases of the world.
I will NEVER commit suicide. People KNOW THAT. It is a Sin. And I could care less if I am murdered for speaking the truth. At least I would die with honor or truth on my lips. That is honor, unlike the dishonor of murdering and torturing innocent human beings. I and my loved ones will take no part in the destruction, the lies, the hypocricy. My soul ain't for sale. I do not serve liars. I will speak truth till my last breath.
BTW. All your booga booga scare tactics are not working. Many of us are not afraid. I could care less if the Al CIAda terrorists dropped a bomb on my head. Or the pandemic you'd blame on innocent groups of humans without the LABS OR SKILLS...Yeah try reporting that the US government took CIPRO ONE WEEK BEFORE THE FALSE FLAG ANTHRAX WAS SPREAD. Ya know some REAL HEADLINES FOR A CHANGE. At any rate, I really could care less if one of those pandemics were released and took me out of your ugly corrupt world of hypocricy. Your efforts to frighten many of us is futile wasted effort.
Your color coded red, yellow or PHOSPHOROUS WHITE. Your color du jour is just a repulsive cry of wolf. So too with the SILLY 'Lt flag' [ Ala MASH 4077] names for your precious exercises of destruction. Profiting via destruction is a FOOLS path. You can't take it with you when you leave this world. Nor the malevolent demons that perpetrated the inside trading before 911. They are guilty of murdering the people in those towers and profiting buckets of blood money. Wake up to the reality. IF YOU ARE TO TRY TO DESTROY TRUTH. YOU WILL HAVE TO DESTROY THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD INCLUDING YOURSELVES. LET ME REPEAT INCASE YOU DID NOT CATCH THAT. YOU WILL HAVE TO DESTROY THE WHOLE PLANET INCLUDING YOURSELVES. But the truth will never be destroyed. Besides there are BILLIONS of us and most of us do not give a damn about this world anyway. People like you have made it a very ugly polluted world. A worldly world attractive only to people eager to selling their souls and selling out humanity for 3 silver shekels. So why should I or anyone be attached to swimming through the raw sewage BS you shovel out every damn day? Maybe we are sick of the ugliness of your minions. Thank God corrupt polluted beings are too filthy to get into the heaven. So we decent folk can have vacation from the likes of you. Something to look forward to. Besides justice of the judgement day. Don't fret. God is just. Only evil screws its own ugly self.
BTW. one more thing about truth. It cannot be destroyed. Your efforts are futile and you only destroy your own souls when you betray or harm others. The truth will still BE even if you blow this rock into smithereens. TRUTH is indestructable. Your soul on the otherhand...
it can be tainted, polluted, corrupted, in essence destroyed. Pity you worldy sell outs. You destroy your most precious thing. Your own selves. No doubt you do not understand virtue is its own reward.
Cannot harm others without harming yourself. Who violates the golden mean the most, loses everything. There are universal laws that cannot be broken. Another one you've ignored for way too long now is: For every action is an equal or greater reaction. Funny thing, you all try to scare everyone... but it is all of you running scared. Truth is catching up to you. You can't run fast enough. You can't deny reality out of existance. And the german people that were reviled for complicity have been replaced by cowards that exceed the depravity of that history. And these new cowards are committing genocide against semite peoples. ARABS ARE SEMITES. So how about some of that truth in your news?
If I were to tell you all the facts the BILLIONS OF SOULS ALL KNOW... you'd probably go into convulsions. You cannot bury truth.
The more you try to hide it. The more it is FORCED OUT. Too many KNOW too many things. You cannot put the genie back into the bottle nor the cat back into the bag. You cannot make a seeing person not percieve. You cannot make a KNOWN unknown. The game is up. The prophecy is NOT in the favor of decietful bastards. Go rent the movie " Unbreakable" how does it feel to be Samuel Jacksons character at the end of the film? When someone has that "Oh Sh*t" moment when they wake up to what they have become, to who and what they have been serving all along. How does that feel?
Catch a clue. You are on a losing team. Decievers always are ya know. Decievers first decieve their own selves, before they try to decieve everyone else. Ironically. You will have to destroy yourselves and everything you cherish along with the rest of the world to try to hide truth. And even then, if you attempted that. YOU WILL FAIL IN THE END.
In the book of revelations there is the great whore of babylon. And the colition of the willing with the whore mentioned too. They are all partners in evil together. Who is in Iraq now? Who is planting fake suicide car bombs? Who is caught dressing up in arab costumes? Who is luring children with candies to staged bombs? Who is using chemical weapons? It ain't saddam. Who is torturing people? It ain't saddam. Who is the great whore? It ain't iraqis. Who is the players GOD revealed would serve evil? And quit waving around dead guys. You media people look so damn pathetic with your parade of charades. Osama is dead, Zarqawai is dead. Hell I expect the next fake Osama vidio will regress to an infant Osama in diapers, after all the botox Osama fakes. He keeps getting younger. Amazing for a dead guy that died of renal failure & who was looking so gray near the end. He died in december of 2001 BTW. IF YOU REPORTED NEWS I COULD HAVE LEARNED THAT FROM YOU HUH?
I REST MY CASE.
POLITICS/CORRUPTION
Yep, she's running for President!
U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Israel on a visit intended to put to rest any lingering doubts about her support for Israel.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20051113-09514500-bc-israel-hillary.xml
In her 2000 Senate race, Clinton staked out a number of positions that appealed to Jewish voters, declaring, for example, that Jerusalem should be the "eternal and indivisible capital of Israel."
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Voices Support For Israel's Partition Wall
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=92916
"The Palestinian nation must change its approach to terrorism and prevent it?"
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton visits Western Wall
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=645415&contrassID=19
Children threw candy at the New York Democrat, while she posed with women celebrating their sons' bar mitzvahs at the Western Wall.
Hillary in the Holy Land
There really is no way of getting around it. Senator Hillary Clinton may well be future presidential material after all.
Sen. Clinton, along with her husband Bill, paid a visit to Israel this past weekend. The former President Clinton was a featured speaker at a mass rally that marked the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. It was Hillary's second visit to Israel since she was elected to office in 2000. In fact, I think the senator has visited Israel more times in the past four years than she's been to visit her constituents where I reside, in upstate New York.
Video of the hidden Fallujah massacre
IRAQ
Including modem versions.
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US forces used 'chemical weapon' in IraqIndependent, UK - 12 hours agoThe Pentagon has admitted US forces used white phosphorus as "an incendiary weapon" during the assault last year on Fallujah. A ...
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US admits using white phosphorous in FallujaGuardian Unlimited, UK - 17 hours agoUS forces yesterday made their clearest admission yet that white phosphorus was used as a weapon against insurgents in Iraq. A Pentagon ...
Chemical grenade used on rebelsTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 17 hours agoBy Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent. The Pentagon admitted yesterday that it had used an incendiary grenade against Iraqi insurgents ...
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Pentagon used white phosphorous in IraqSan Jose Mercury News, United States - 20 hours agoWASHINGTON - Pentagon officials acknowledged Tuesday that US troops used white phosphorous as a weapon against insurgent strongholds during the battle of ...
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US used white phosphorus in IraqBBC News, UK - 22 hours agoThe Pentagon has confirmed that US troops used white phosphorus during last year's offensive in the northern Iraqi city of Falluja. ...
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"White Death" Is A Losing StrategyWashington Post, United States - Nov 15, 2005The military's use of white phosphorus during operations in Fallujah last year is making its way around the world media and blogosphere, with the claim being ...
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People know and have known the truth for a long time.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/9-11secretservice.html
The sarcasm of your talking head 'reporter' is the only offensive thing I saw throughout the interview with that BYU professor who at least has INTEGRITY, and loves the truth. God bless him. Quite opposite though, your talking head reporters attitude was biased and was ugly,his attitude was very offensive. Reminded me of [hypocthetically] listening to a KKK grand dragon sarcastically saying : "so Emmit Till was innocent? Well that idea would offend a lot of our audience..." ONLY A RASCIST SMALL MINDED BIGOT AUDIENCE WOULD FEEL THAT WAY. If that’s all who listen to you then you don't have much of an audience do you? Or are you INSULTING YOUR VIEWERS? Those who can think, see or distinguish BS from reality have tuned you out long ago. [All Main Stream Media]
There is no difference to the real time interview remarks and the hypothetical one.
NO DIFFERENCE. RASCISTS AND BIGOTS ALL WALK TALK AND SMELL THE SAME.
Funny thing about deciets. The person who decieves is counting on the blind foolishness of those who he decieves. So the liar is always in FEAR of others intelligence, perceptiveness, and objective vision. There fore the liar who is counting on the foolishness of others is himself a bigger fool than the ones he trys to fool. Because he is at complete mercy and vunerability to the minds and perception of others. He is fearful SLAVE to the perceptions of those he deems more ignorant than himself. He is a slave of fools, and terrified of able minds. How small is that? How limited is that? How fearful is that? How craven is that? How like that is the cockroach that flees from the light, the sight, the perceptiveness of others? Only the deciever lives in true slavery to his own base fear of discovery. Men of integrity are FREE even if you lock them in a cell. Because they are not slaves like the lot of you. Mahatma Gandhi Jee did not hate his cell. I know people who sell out their souls and their fellow man just do not comprehend that. It is purely their loss.
Your reporter finds truth offensive. That says a lot about him. What is offensive to Jesus, or Jefferson, Gandhi, or George Galloway is another thing entirely. Like LIES. Lies are repulsive to everyone except the pathological liars that vomit them perpetually. Only liars lap up lies like a dog greedily lapping up its own vomit. The rest of us are repulsed.
Lies are extremely offensive. And isn't that just about ALL that Main stream media dishes out is lies, lies and more lies? Don’t lie more and deny this fact. We know. We the world KNOW THE TRUTH. And you wonder why papers do not sell? The only good thing a news rag is good for is for drying windex off windows, lining the bird cage and to wrap fish in. ( Sad to say it ain't the fish that makes the paper reek. But the BS lies embedded into every section.)
The media has lost ALL CREDIBILITY.
Do you know that people call reporters and talking heads 'prestitutes'?
Do you know people think the media sold their souls long ago?
Do you know reporters are now despised maybe even more than attorneys?
Do you know that it is only reporters with integrity that are murdered or are victims of attempted murder. Like the Americans that tried to murder the Italian witness to US war crimes? How ironic that other so called reporters helped cover up that crime too. Why? Ya all afraid of dieing? If you had content of character maybe you would not fear the hellfire when you leave this world?
Do you know that people who sell out are the very self same greedy people that betray everyone else in the process?
Do you know that satan is the father of all lies and those who habitually lie are satanists by the fact they serve evil? Man cannot serve two masters ya know.
As if there is a price worth losing ones own soul. All of bill gates, ross perots, donald trumps, and every filthy rich bastard out there... if you combined ALL their wealth. It ain't worth it. All the gold in the world will not buy one mans way into heaven. But it will weigh a lot of vipers into the hell. Guareenteed.Or do you all think God was joking when He talked about NOT COVETING, STEALING, LIEING, MURDERING, BEARING FALSE WITNESS,etc,.
Do you know that lies are weak and liars are weak? Ask Bruno what courage is. Ask William Wallace. Ask George Galloway. Ask Micheal Rivero of Whatreallyhappened.com. And this BYU professor... These are men of courage, these are men who love the truth. These are men of integrity. If you'd emulate them you would sell so damn many papers maybe you'd become wealthy. People want the TRUTH. Give the people what they want. Or do not expect people to buy your product. American buisness is thinking so damn short term these days I question the sanity of US buisnessmen.
The only offensive thing I see is that people who decieve for a living think that people cannot see through the mountains of BS.
Susan Smith implicated people of hue for her crimes too. This is just on a massive global scale. Judgement day will be sweet for the murdered innocents, the persecuted, the people whom the media spin has born excessive false witnesses upon. Mercy is tempered by justice. Justice will come for EVERY INNOCENT SOUL. Ye reap what ye sow, so too do innocents reap, and theirs is a sweet harvest. Ye who are ACCOMPLICES TO CRIMES AGAINST THE HUMANITY [ON THE OTHER HAND] ARE COMPLICIT IN COVERING THEM UP, YE ARE AS GUILTY AS THE PERSONS WHO SET THE DETINATORS, WHO STOOD DOWN ALL RESPONSES, WHO CONTROLLED THE SO CALLED SECURITY OF WTC AND THE AIRPORTS, WHO PLANNED AND EXECUTED THIS MASSIVE CRIME. YE ARE ALL IN IT TOGETHER. AND YE ALL WILL REAP THE ROTTEN FRUITS OF YOUR COMPLICIT LIES. AND 911 IS JUST ONE OF THE SERIES OF CRIMES YOU ARE ALL COMPLICIT IN. Serial terrorism, false flags, fake car bombings the list is getting long... who but a criminal covers up the crimes of another criminal? Who but a criminal is ACCOMPLICE to crime?
Got news for ya. Real news. ( Unlike the farce we see paraded across the 'Headlines' in the so called news rags or programs)
Truth remains constant. There is only one truth. The truth will be revealed. History will be exposed. And every complicit accomplice will be held to account for the crimes against the humanity. Lies never manage to conseal truth. Apparently the media does not know that. Bitter irony is that lies tend to entangle the liars, besides betray the very lies that they fail to cover up. Hey even Ray Charles can see the reality. Get a clue. Lies always are discovered and betray the ones who lie. ALWAYS.
Do you also know, that when ANY TERROR happens ANYWHERE. Guess WHO is most Suspect? It is not the people you prestitutes want us to believe are guilty. The hypocrits that cry loudest are the ones most guilty. They are habitually PROJECTING their sins upon innocents. And everything is a bloody FRONT for this crime sydicate. Ultimately every thing that passes from the lips of pathological liars is not believed. WE all know the opposite is true. We all see who are todays Pharisees. We all watch you all bow to mammon. And lick satans cloven hooves... you please him to no end since he is father of lies. You all would say " What smoke? I do not see or smell smoke" if your own hair was on fire. I wonder if the liars in hell will be saying what brimstone? Likely so. Seems lies are addictive to pathological liars.
Personally I'd rather be murdered than sell my soul or betray human beings. I am amazed that reporters can actually read their tele prompters with a straight face. I could not and WOULD NOT do it. You'd have to kill me. How do the prestitutes sleep at night? Maybe they are ALL sociopathic? Or just that craven. Regardless its damn ugly either way. The living shake their heads as they witness the futile daily dance of lies. Its not unlike watching a bulimic convention throw a hurling contest. Repulsive. See who can lie the most, see who can spew the most bile. Not much difference. Liars suck. Liars are the Judases of the world.
I will NEVER commit suicide. People KNOW THAT. It is a Sin. And I could care less if I am murdered for speaking the truth. At least I would die with honor or truth on my lips. That is honor, unlike the dishonor of murdering and torturing innocent human beings. I and my loved ones will take no part in the destruction, the lies, the hypocricy. My soul ain't for sale. I do not serve liars. I will speak truth till my last breath.
BTW. All your booga booga scare tactics are not working. Many of us are not afraid. I could care less if the Al CIAda terrorists dropped a bomb on my head. Or the pandemic you'd blame on innocent groups of humans without the LABS OR SKILLS...Yeah try reporting that the US government took CIPRO ONE WEEK BEFORE THE FALSE FLAG ANTHRAX WAS SPREAD. Ya know some REAL HEADLINES FOR A CHANGE. At any rate, I really could care less if one of those pandemics were released and took me out of your ugly corrupt world of hypocricy. Your efforts to frighten many of us is futile wasted effort.
Your color coded red, yellow or PHOSPHOROUS WHITE. Your color du jour is just a repulsive cry of wolf. So too with the SILLY 'Lt flag' [ Ala MASH 4077] names for your precious exercises of destruction. Profiting via destruction is a FOOLS path. You can't take it with you when you leave this world. Nor the malevolent demons that perpetrated the inside trading before 911. They are guilty of murdering the people in those towers and profiting buckets of blood money. Wake up to the reality. IF YOU ARE TO TRY TO DESTROY TRUTH. YOU WILL HAVE TO DESTROY THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD INCLUDING YOURSELVES. LET ME REPEAT INCASE YOU DID NOT CATCH THAT. YOU WILL HAVE TO DESTROY THE WHOLE PLANET INCLUDING YOURSELVES. But the truth will never be destroyed. Besides there are BILLIONS of us and most of us do not give a damn about this world anyway. People like you have made it a very ugly polluted world. A worldly world attractive only to people eager to selling their souls and selling out humanity for 3 silver shekels. So why should I or anyone be attached to swimming through the raw sewage BS you shovel out every damn day? Maybe we are sick of the ugliness of your minions. Thank God corrupt polluted beings are too filthy to get into the heaven. So we decent folk can have vacation from the likes of you. Something to look forward to. Besides justice of the judgement day. Don't fret. God is just. Only evil screws its own ugly self.
BTW. one more thing about truth. It cannot be destroyed. Your efforts are futile and you only destroy your own souls when you betray or harm others. The truth will still BE even if you blow this rock into smithereens. TRUTH is indestructable. Your soul on the otherhand...
it can be tainted, polluted, corrupted, in essence destroyed. Pity you worldy sell outs. You destroy your most precious thing. Your own selves. No doubt you do not understand virtue is its own reward.
Cannot harm others without harming yourself. Who violates the golden mean the most, loses everything. There are universal laws that cannot be broken. Another one you've ignored for way too long now is: For every action is an equal or greater reaction. Funny thing, you all try to scare everyone... but it is all of you running scared. Truth is catching up to you. You can't run fast enough. You can't deny reality out of existance. And the german people that were reviled for complicity have been replaced by cowards that exceed the depravity of that history. And these new cowards are committing genocide against semite peoples. ARABS ARE SEMITES. So how about some of that truth in your news?
If I were to tell you all the facts the BILLIONS OF SOULS ALL KNOW... you'd probably go into convulsions. You cannot bury truth.
The more you try to hide it. The more it is FORCED OUT. Too many KNOW too many things. You cannot put the genie back into the bottle nor the cat back into the bag. You cannot make a seeing person not percieve. You cannot make a KNOWN unknown. The game is up. The prophecy is NOT in the favor of decietful bastards. Go rent the movie " Unbreakable" how does it feel to be Samuel Jacksons character at the end of the film? When someone has that "Oh Sh*t" moment when they wake up to what they have become, to who and what they have been serving all along. How does that feel?
Catch a clue. You are on a losing team. Decievers always are ya know. Decievers first decieve their own selves, before they try to decieve everyone else. Ironically. You will have to destroy yourselves and everything you cherish along with the rest of the world to try to hide truth. And even then, if you attempted that. YOU WILL FAIL IN THE END.
In the book of revelations there is the great whore of babylon. And the colition of the willing with the whore mentioned too. They are all partners in evil together. Who is in Iraq now? Who is planting fake suicide car bombs? Who is caught dressing up in arab costumes? Who is luring children with candies to staged bombs? Who is using chemical weapons? It ain't saddam. Who is torturing people? It ain't saddam. Who is the great whore? It ain't iraqis. Who is the players GOD revealed would serve evil? And quit waving around dead guys. You media people look so damn pathetic with your parade of charades. Osama is dead, Zarqawai is dead. Hell I expect the next fake Osama vidio will regress to an infant Osama in diapers, after all the botox Osama fakes. He keeps getting younger. Amazing for a dead guy that died of renal failure & who was looking so gray near the end. He died in december of 2001 BTW. IF YOU REPORTED NEWS I COULD HAVE LEARNED THAT FROM YOU HUH?
I REST MY CASE.
[hebrew chants]El- Hay (god -alive)El- HayEl- Hay Marumam Al Keruvim (god- alive to elevate cherub)Kulam Be-Ruho Ya'alu (everybody in he's spirit will rise)I'm not mistaken, it's an insurrection until such time as the action actually begins to bring real change, then it's a revolution.
Why Is France Burning?
The tsunami of vandalism, arson and riot by young people of color that began in the suburban ghettos of Paris--now in its twelfth night as I write--has rolled right across France, touching 274 cities and towns, and shows few signs of abating. It should have surprised no one, for it is the result of thirty years of government neglect--of the failure of the French political classes, both right and left, to make any serious effort to integrate its Muslim and black populations into the French economy and culture; and of the deep-seated, searing, soul-destroying racism that the unemployed and profoundly alienated young of the ghettos face every day of their lives, both from the police and when trying to find a job.
At what point do we call this a revolution?
War protester Cindy Sheehan said Wednesday she was demanding a trial for demonstrating without a permit outside the White House.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/16/national/main1047762.shtml?CMP=OTC-RSSFeed&source=RSS&attr=U.S._1047762
In Texas next week, Sheehan and at least a dozen supporters are prepared to be arrested as they return to the makeshift campsite along the road leading to Bush's ranch, where he is expected to spend the holiday.
According to U.S. intelligence sources, the White House exposure of Valerie Plame and her Brewster Jennings & Associates was intended to retaliate against the CIA's work in limiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. WMR has reported in the past on this aspect of the scandal. In addition to identifying the involvement of individuals in the White House who were close to key players in nuclear proliferation, the CIA Counter-Proliferation Division prevented the shipment of binary VX nerve gas from Turkey into Iraq in November 2002. The Brewster Jennings network in Turkey was able to intercept this shipment which was intended to be hidden in Iraq and later used as evidence that Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. U.S. intelligence sources revealed that this was a major reason the Bush White House targeted Plame and her network.
http://aliberaldose.blogspot.com/2005/11/some-really-good-shit.html
Brewster Jennings CIA counter-proliferation network prevented a WMD "salting" operation by Bush White House in Iraq.
In fact, U.S. intelligence sources report that the first shipment of VX nerve gas to Saddam Hussein was carried out between 1988 and 1989. The gas was shipped to Iraq by a U.S. company that was established in 1987 -- The Carlyle Group.
Explosive new theory!http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10053445/
Professor says bombs brought down the Twin Towers on 9/11 • FULL STORY
9/11 Videos:THE CONTROLLED COLLAPSE OF WTC 7
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc7.html
"Hey, World Trade 7 fell down like because, because, because, um, the mayor stored thousands of gallons of diesel fuel in an office building. Yeah, that's it. Diesel fuel. It's just a coincidence that every single load bearing member on the ground floor failed at the exact same moment in time. Coincidence. CO-IN-SEE-DUNCE! Trust us. We're the government."
It won't work this time
With a Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll finding 57 percent of Americans agreeing that George W. Bush “deliberately misled people to make the case for war with Iraq,” the president clearly needs to tend to his credibility problems. Hence the recent memo circulating around GOP circles detailing how a new attack by "Al Qaeda" (nudge nudge wink wink) would be a good thing for Dubya right now.
Some "Apparently" Tortured Detainees Found
The Bush administration found the reports troubling, "We don't practice torture, and we don't believe that others should practice torture?"
Iraq detainees 'found starving'
Iraq's government says it has begun an investigation into the alleged abuse of more than 170 detainees held by Iraqi security forces in Baghdad.
FLASHBACK: US troops 'starve Iraqi citizens'
A US military spokesman in Baghdad denied the allegations.
Pentagon admits using incendiary shells in Iraq but denies hitting civilians
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/Iraq/2005/11/15/1308376-ap.html
"How do you know you did not hit civilians with it?"
"If they're dead, they are no longer civilians."
The Pentagon says that troops fighting in Iraq last year used a chemical called white phosphorus in the assault on Falluja.
Despite insisting previously that the substance had not been used during the offensive, lieutenant-colonel Barry Venable has admitted that it was used to flush out enemy combatants in the insurgent stronghold.
20051115
Burn in hell, Mr. PresidentMy first reaction when I read the transcript of President George W. Bush’s Veteran’s Day speech was anger. No, not anger. Rage. Blind rage.
How dare he, I thought. Not even the lowest, scum-sucking son of a bitch in politics would stoop to using a day to honor those who served to instead promote his lies-based, illegal, immoral exercise in mass murder called the invasion of Iraq.
Yes he would. George W. Bush is a pathetic, pitiless scrap of sub-human trash that lacks any shred of decency or morality. So why wouldn’t he desecrate the memories of those who serve our nation?
As a journalist, I’m expected to be dispassionate about events and those who shape them. But I cannot be so when it comes to Bush. He’s a liar and a traitor to the oath he swore when he became President of the country he now works so hard to destroy.
Bush is much, much more than just a bad president. He is a genuinely evil man, a raving lunatic who cannot face the fact that his insane policies have destroyed a once-great country called America. George Bush’s America is an arrogant bully distrusted by its allies, hated by most of the rest of the world and divided internally by his divisive, duplicitous actions.
I can no longer regard this maniac with journalistic dispassion. I may be a journalist but I’m an American first and, as an American, I cannot stand silent as a truly evil man destroys the country I love.
Polls show most Americans share my distrust of Bush. We all see him for what he is – a dishonest, opportunistic political beast who lets nothing stand in the way of his unbridled lust for power. He speaks of God at one moment and calls those who dare disagree with him “motherfuckers” the next. He has, without blinking an eye, sent more than 2,000 American military men and women, along with countless thousands of Iraqi civilians, to their deaths in a senseless invasion based on manufactured “evidence” and outright lies.
Then he has the gall to stand up on the day we set aside to honor those who served and continue to promote his lies and call those who see the truth traitors who aid the enemy.
Sorry George. Your lies don’t play here or with the majority of American citizens. It is you who has sold out your country, who is a traitor and who has committed treason against your office, your country and humanity.
God may one day forgive you for your sins but I cannot. Neither can the wives, husbands, parents and relatives of those you sent to die in your dirty little war. Neither can memories of those who served, those we honored on Veterans Day and those whose memory you so callously dishonored with your propagandist pap.
On second thought, I’m not even sure God can forgive you for what you have done. You have lied and you have killed and those are sins that even an understanding God may have trouble forgiving.
If there is justice in the afterlife, you will stand and face that justice for your sins. And may you burn in hell for them.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7650.shtml
Bush rarely speaks to father, ‘family is split’
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash4.htm
George W, Bush feels betrayed by several of his most senior aides and advisors and has severely restricted access to the Oval Office. The president’s reclusiveness in the face of relentless public scrutiny of the U.S.-led war in Iraq and White House leaks regarding CIA operative Valerie Plame has become so extreme that Mr. Bush has also reduced contact with his father, former President George H.W. Bush, administration sources said on the condition of anonymity.“The atmosphere in the Oval Office has become unbearable,” a source said. “Even the family is split.”INSIGHT: Sources close to the White House say that Mr. Bush has become isolated and feels betrayed by key officials in the wake of plunging domestic support, the continued insurgency in Iraq and the CIA-leak investigation that has resulted in the indictment and resignation of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff.The sources said Mr. Bush maintains daily contact with only four people: first lady Laura Bush, his mother, Barbara Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes. The sources also say that Mr. Bush has stopped talking with his father, except on family occasions.
US uncovers secret prison in Iraq?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1873606,00.html
Up to 200 malnourished Iraqi detainees bearing signs of torture have been found in a secret prison in the basement of a Government building in Baghdad.
The fog of war: white phosphorus, Fallujah and some burning questions
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article327094.ece
One resident told him the US used "weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud" and that he watched "pieces of these bombs explode into large fires that continued to burn on the skin even after people dumped water on the burns." The doctor said he "treated people who had their skin melted"
'I treated people who had their skin melted'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article327136.ece
Some saw what they thought were attempts by the military to conceal the use of incendiary shells. "The Americans were dropping some of the bodies into the Euphrates near Fallujah," said one ousted resident, Abdul Razaq Ismail. Dr Ahmed, who worked in Fallujah until December 2004, said: "In the centre of the Jolan quarter they were removing entire homes which have been bombed, meanwhile most of the homes that were bombed are left as they were." He said he saw bulldozers push soil into piles and load it on to trucks to carry away. In certain areas where the military used "special munitions" he said 200 sq m of soil was being removed from each blast site.
Bomb explodes outside Karachi KFC restaurant
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10045392/
"We did it to protest, and we did it to pressure the government to get our rights."
GOP memo touts new terror attack as way to reverse party's decline
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7639.shtml
“In 30 years of sampling public opinion, I’ve never seen such a freefall in public support,” admits one GOP pollster.
20051114
NEW CHALLENGE TO THE US NEWS?WHORE$
The above is a photo of damage to the Hyatt from the recent bombing. We are being told that this bombing attack was carried out by "suicide bombers" wearing explosive belts. We are being told there is no truth to initial reports that the bombs were hidden above the ceilings (or that Israelis were yet again given advance warnings to leave).
Take a look at this photo. Does that look like a bomb went off about waist-high, or in fact exploded downward from the ceiling. Where is the blood splatter? If you wrap a belt around yourself like the one they claim and detonate it, you make a really big gooey bloody mess. The wall is clean. Is the "confession" a repeat of the infamous phony "Kuwaiti nurse"?
Arabs, Bombs and Al Queda oh my!!!
'Zionist links to Amman blasts'
Iran said on Sunday it suspected Israel was behind the suicide attacks in Amman, even though Jordanian officials have blamed the bombings on militants linked to Iraq-based al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
CHALLENGE TO THE US MEDIA
These last few weeks we have endured the mainstream media's proclamations about how sorry they were they did not report the truth that there were no WMDs in Iraq; how the media was deceived along with everyone else (ignoring the fact that pretty much everyone else knew what was going on), and how you would all try to do a better job.Well, here is your chance to prove that. Italian TV just aired a documentary that proves the US used chemical weapons against civilians in Fallujah, and how Giuliana Sgregna, the Italian Journalist who was kidnapped, then nearly assassinated by US troops following her release, had been reporting on that very story along with one other journalist who was killed by US troops at the time. The British Press picked up the story this morning. The rest of the world is picking up the story. So, where is the US mainstream media on this?Better hurry. Once again the blogs have beaten you to the story, and the longer you wait, the more obvious it will be that you have not really learned your lesson, that you still cover-up for the US Government, and all your recent apologies were just face-saving bovine excrement.
Video:http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/video/fallujah_ING.wmv
FUCK GEORGE W BUSH!
Bush to Fire Parting Shot at Iraq Critics
Bush has the lowest approval rating of his presidency and a majority of Americans say Bush is not honest and they disapprove of his handling of foreign policy and the war on terrorism.
DRONES 'TO FLY OVER CITIES'
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashmav.htm
HONEYWELL is developing a micro flying spy drone -- that would be used for civilian law enforcement!The device, a hovering robot carrying video cameras and other sensors, is being created and tested at HONEYWELL's Albuquerque, NM plant.
Bush to Fire Parting Shot at Iraq Critics
Bush has the lowest approval rating of his presidency and a majority of Americans say Bush is not honest and they disapprove of his handling of foreign policy and the war on terrorism.
DRONES 'TO FLY OVER CITIES'
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashmav.htm
HONEYWELL is developing a micro flying spy drone -- that would be used for civilian law enforcement!The device, a hovering robot carrying video cameras and other sensors, is being created and tested at HONEYWELL's Albuquerque, NM plant.
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.
20051111
FUCK GEORGE AWOL BUSH! WHAT A SON OF A FUCKING BITCH! FUCK THIS MOTHER FUCKER! I HOPE HE IS "BROUGHT TO JUSTICE"! I PISS DOWN HIS FUCKING THROAT! FUCKING TRAITOR! LYING TO START A WAR IS THE HIGHEST CRIME! FUCK THIS! FUCK!
Bush Attacks Critics of "War on Terror"
Bush Attacks Iraq War Critics
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111100916.html
Bush says critics are trying to rewrite history and undercut the work of forces on the front lines.
The 2002 congressional resolution cited by Bush referred to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and said Iraq threatened U.S. and international security because it continued "to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability," was "actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability," and was "supporting and harboring terrorist organizations." Subsequent investigations have shown that Iraq had nothing to do with the Sept. 11 attacks, had no stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons and did not have an active nuclear weapons program. The resolution did not mention Saddam Hussein or express a goal of removing him from power. Nor did it specifically refer to an invasion or occupation of Iraq. Instead, it authorized the president to use the U.S. military to "defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq" and to "enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions regarding Iraq."
TAR AND FEATHER THE LIARS
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/lies.mp3
Bush says Iraq intel critics irresponsible!
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11271973.htm
Bush, in a Veterans Day speech at an Army depot, fired back at Democrats who have been escalating accusations that Bush misused intelligence to justify an increasingly unpopular war.
Bush Unleashed: Slams 'Rewrite of History'...
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/11/D8DQE8480.html
George WMD Bush forcefully attacked critics of the war in Iraq on Friday, accusing them of trying to rewrite history and saying they are undercutting American forces on the front lines. "The stakes in the global war on terror are too high and the national interest is too important for politicians to throw out false charges," the president said in his combative Veterans Day speech.
Defending the march to war, Bush said that foreign intelligence services and Democrats and Republicans alike were convinced at the time that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
The president's remarks at the Tobyhanna Army Depot were part of the administration's effort to bolster waning U.S. public support for the war in which at least 2,059 U.S. troops have died. Bush offered a forceful defense of the war in Iraq, saying it is the central front in the war on terror and that extremists are trying to establish a radical Muslim empire extending from Spain to Indonesia. "We will never back down. We will never give in. We will never accept anything less than complete victory," he said Friday.
Bush Attacks Critics of "War on Terror"
Bush Attacks Iraq War Critics
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111100916.html
Bush says critics are trying to rewrite history and undercut the work of forces on the front lines.
The 2002 congressional resolution cited by Bush referred to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and said Iraq threatened U.S. and international security because it continued "to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability," was "actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability," and was "supporting and harboring terrorist organizations." Subsequent investigations have shown that Iraq had nothing to do with the Sept. 11 attacks, had no stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons and did not have an active nuclear weapons program. The resolution did not mention Saddam Hussein or express a goal of removing him from power. Nor did it specifically refer to an invasion or occupation of Iraq. Instead, it authorized the president to use the U.S. military to "defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq" and to "enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions regarding Iraq."
TAR AND FEATHER THE LIARS
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/lies.mp3
Bush says Iraq intel critics irresponsible!
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11271973.htm
Bush, in a Veterans Day speech at an Army depot, fired back at Democrats who have been escalating accusations that Bush misused intelligence to justify an increasingly unpopular war.
Bush Unleashed: Slams 'Rewrite of History'...
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/11/D8DQE8480.html
George WMD Bush forcefully attacked critics of the war in Iraq on Friday, accusing them of trying to rewrite history and saying they are undercutting American forces on the front lines. "The stakes in the global war on terror are too high and the national interest is too important for politicians to throw out false charges," the president said in his combative Veterans Day speech.
Defending the march to war, Bush said that foreign intelligence services and Democrats and Republicans alike were convinced at the time that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
The president's remarks at the Tobyhanna Army Depot were part of the administration's effort to bolster waning U.S. public support for the war in which at least 2,059 U.S. troops have died. Bush offered a forceful defense of the war in Iraq, saying it is the central front in the war on terror and that extremists are trying to establish a radical Muslim empire extending from Spain to Indonesia. "We will never back down. We will never give in. We will never accept anything less than complete victory," he said Friday.
20051110
GOP memo touts new terror attack as way to reverse party's decline!!!
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7639.shtml
“The President’s popularity was at an all-time high following the 9/11 attacks,” admits one aide. “Americans band together at a time of crisis.”
The memo outlines other scenarios, including:
--Capture of Usama bin Laden (or proof that he is dead);
--A drastic turnaround in the economy;
--A "successful resolution" of the Iraq war.
Usama bin Laden:A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osama_dead
It's been 1,515 days since GWB said he'd catch UBL 'Dead or Alive!'
Bush Leaves GOP in Crisis
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10210
Bush, in perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in U.S. history, invaded an Arab nation that had not attacked us, did not want war with us, and did not threaten us—to strip it of weapons we now know it did not have. Result: Shia and Kurds have been liberated from Saddam, but Iran has a new ally in southern Iraq, Osama has a new base camp in the Sunni Triangle, the Arab and Islamic world have been radicalized against the United States, and copy-cat killers of Al Qaida have been targeting our remaining allies in Europe and the Middle East: Spain, Britain, Egypt and Jordan. And, lest we forget, 2055 Americans are dead and Walter Reed is filling up.True to the neoconservative creed, Bush launched a global crusade for democracy that is now bringing ever closer to power Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Syria, and Shia fundamentalists in Baghdad and Basra. Democratic imperialism is still imperialism. To Arab and Islamic peoples, whether the Crusaders come in the name of God or in the name of democracy, they are still Crusaders.
Al-Qaeda Says It Carried Out Jordan Hotel Bombings
Oh? Then why did it bomb two hotels belonging to Palestinians? And note the claim that explosive belts were used by "suicide" bombers even though first reports indicated a bomb was hidden above a suspended ceiling.
Bomb in ceiling caused Jordan hotel blast
So ... why are we hearing "suicide bomber" all of a sudden?
Updated: 2:39 p.m. ET Nov. 9, 2005
AMMAN - A blast at the Radisson hotel in the Jordanian capital Amman on Wednesday was caused by a bomb placed in a false ceiling, police sources at the scene told Reuters.
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Palestinian spy chief killed in blast
Another clue who was really behind the bombings in Jordan.
Israelis evacuated from Amman hotel hours before bombings
Why did the Israelis get an advance warning?
Did anyone in the wedding party get an advance warning?
No Israelis were harmed in the bombings.
Know thy enemy.
Terror attacks spark fury in Jordan
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/10/jordan.blasts/index.html
Amman stunned by suicide bombings
White House Stands by 'Not Accurate' Quote in Dispute
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001477236
Fight Over Torture Pits Bush Against Party Allies!
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20051110072509990023
Should the U.S. ban abusive treatment of terrorism suspects?
Yes
79%
No
21%
President Bush has said "we do not torture" terrorism suspects. Do you believe him?
No
88%
Yes
12%
Total Votes: 10,629
The Last Lie of the Iraq War Exposed
The White House and its shameless surrogates continue to try to squelch criticism over the soaring body count by saying it dishonors and demoralizes the troops on the ground over there. In other words, if you don't support the war, you don't support the troops. Excuse me, but who doesn't support the troops? The war pigs need to take a long hard look in the mirror.
KENNEDY STATEMENT ON THE ADMINISTRATION'S EFFORTS TO EXAGGERATE THREATS IN THEIR MARCH TO WAR
http://kennedy.senate.gov/~kennedy/statements/05/11/2005B10439.html
AS CHALABI, THE PENTAGON'S FAVORITE IRAQI DISSIDENT, VISITS D.C., KENNEDY REMINDS SENATE OF CHALABI'S OWN WORDS
So Hunker down people. The worst is yet to come. Until some brave individual or group or foreign country or coalition of foreign countries or group of rouge industrialists with intelligence connections, moves to stop the madness coming from this group of terrorists fronted By George W. Bush - the United States of America will be left in ruins - an empire collapsed.
20051109
Iraq plans hotel and theme parks for a tourism boom!
BOOM?
BOOM?
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
"Tourists should dress like locals and maybe dye their hair. And they should have armed guards and they should be always vigilant."
BOOM!
11/9
Bride and groom both lose fathers to Jordan hotel blast
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=71403
"I lost my father and my father-in-law and I saw many other dead. This is a horrible crime, The world has to know this has nothing to do with Islam," he said.
Chinese Police Warns of Possible Terror Attacks
U.S. diplomats say that Chinese police have warned luxury hotels in China of possible terrorist attacks sometime next week. The warning Wednesday comes as preparations for President Bush's visit to Beijing later this month are under way.
Bride and groom both lose fathers to Jordan hotel blasthttp://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=71403
"I lost my father and my father-in-law and I saw many other dead. This is a horrible crime, The world has to know this has nothing to do with Islam," he said.
Chinese Police Warns of Possible Terror Attacks
U.S. diplomats say that Chinese police have warned luxury hotels in China of possible terrorist attacks sometime next week. The warning Wednesday comes as preparations for President Bush's visit to Beijing later this month are under way.
Of the MOSSAD, the Israeli intelligence service, the SAMS officers say: "Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act." [Washington Times September 10, 2001]
THE ISRAELI SPY RING "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified." IS ISRAEL BLACKMAILING AMERICA?
Who owns congress, part 1 Who owns congress, part 2 Who owns congress, part 3 Who owns congress, part 4 Israel: The Bombing That Started It All >> The Lavon Affair: Israel bombed Americans and British to frame Arabs. THE ATTACK ON THE USS LIBERTY >> Was the attack on USS Cole another 'USS Liberty'? Did Israel deliberately allow 241 American Marines to die in Beirut? How Israel got America to bomb LibyaMossad: "By way of deception, thou shalt do war"Home demolitions in Rafah >> Report from Ramallah The Death of Peace Activist Rachel Corrie >> "Unfortunate accidents" The Maps Tell the Story >> "AS THE ARABS SEE THE JEWS"CRITICISM OF ISRAEL IS NOT "ANTI-SEMITISM" The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide >> Some examples of hate speech ISRAEL DOES NOT SPEAK FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE >> JEWS AGAINST ZIONISM
THE ISRAELI SPY RING "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified." IS ISRAEL BLACKMAILING AMERICA?
Who owns congress, part 1 Who owns congress, part 2 Who owns congress, part 3 Who owns congress, part 4 Israel: The Bombing That Started It All >> The Lavon Affair: Israel bombed Americans and British to frame Arabs. THE ATTACK ON THE USS LIBERTY >> Was the attack on USS Cole another 'USS Liberty'? Did Israel deliberately allow 241 American Marines to die in Beirut? How Israel got America to bomb LibyaMossad: "By way of deception, thou shalt do war"Home demolitions in Rafah >> Report from Ramallah The Death of Peace Activist Rachel Corrie >> "Unfortunate accidents" The Maps Tell the Story >> "AS THE ARABS SEE THE JEWS"CRITICISM OF ISRAEL IS NOT "ANTI-SEMITISM" The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide >> Some examples of hate speech ISRAEL DOES NOT SPEAK FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE >> JEWS AGAINST ZIONISM
Suicide Bombers Kill 53 at Jordan Hotels...
Fake Al Qaeda
As the bombs continue to explode all over the world, with the media screaming "Al Qaeda!, Al Qaeda!", it is worth recalling that Al Qaeda may ot be what it is claimed to be.
Confirmed: U.S. used chemical weapons against Iraqi civilians
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/noviembre/mier9/46confirm.html
The U.S. Army used chemical weapons against civilians, among them a variant of napalm, during the November 2004 offensive to take control of the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
The following three countries currently have rioting and numerous incidents of arson:1) France 2) Belgium 3) Germany
The very interesting thing you need to know about these three countries at this moment in time...is that these were the three major NATO countries who were all opposed to the Iraq war.
The presumption of "Muslim Terrorists" causing these events, must therefore be false. There is no reasonable case for any terrorists to target these nations at all.
And since this violence is very widespread...and looks highly organized..."just like how the Nazis used to do this sort of thing all the time during pre-WW2 Germany"...we now have to ask the question of "who ultimately benefits the most" from all of these events.
Q: Whose agendas of our world would ultimately benefit from all of this rioting, arson and increased widespread panic over "terrorism" inside of the countries who were opposed to the Iraq War?
A: The United States, The United Kingdom, and Israel.
Yes, Bush sucks.
Its hard to backpedal when you are stepping on your dick.... Iraq, Katrina, CIA leak, Harriet Miers. Things couldn't possibly get any worse for President Bush.
Wait, they just did.
Wait, they just did.
Bush is a political toxin for Republicans!
The US Armed Forces are a terrorist organization, led by the world's most hated and powerful terrorist, George WMD Bush. Every nation has the right to resist an occupation of foreign fighters, wouldn't you?People fighting to protect their own homes and loved ones within sight have the most courage of all. There has been NO coverage by the mainstream media of the breaking story around the world that US forces used chemical "flares" during last November's attack on Fallujah. There is video of Men, Women, and Children in their beds with their faces burned off. The US Military says they were all "terrorists"? If we are going to execute Saddam Hussein for Pre-Emptively invading Kuwait, using chemical weapons on civilians, and torturing people, what are we going to do with George Bush for Pre-Emptively invading Iraq, using chemical weapons on civilians, and torturing innocent people in our search of WMD. So when does the Fourth Reich get invaded to remove George Bush's brutal regime that holds crooked elections, attacks other nations without cause, and uses torture on innocent people?
Fallujah - The Hidden Massacre
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10907.htm
WARNINGThis video contains images that depict the reality and horror of war.It should only be viewed by a mature audience
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"I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
White House keeps dossiers on more than 10,000 'political enemies''Spurred by paranoia and aided by the USA Patriot Act, the Bush Administration has compiled dossiers on more than 10,000 Americans it considers political enemies and uses those files to wage war on those who disagree with its policies.
US used Chemical Weapons on Iraqi civilians
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-11-08T170109Z_01_MCC861178_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-WEAPONS.xml
"Burned bodies. Burned children and burned women," said Englehart, who RAI said had taken part in the Falluja offensive. "White phosphorus kills indiscriminately." A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad said he did not recall white phosphorus being used in Falluja. "I do not recall the use of white phosphorus during the offensive operations in Falluja in the fall of 2004," Lieutenant Colonel Steven Boylan said. An incendiary device, white phosphorus is used by the military to conceal troop movements with smoke, mark targets or light up combat areas. The use of incendiary weapons against civilians has been banned by the Geneva Convention since 1980. The United States did not sign the relevant protocol to the convention, a U.N. official in New York said.
US criticised for use of phosphorous in Fallujah raids
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article325757.ece
The 1980 UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons bans the use of weapons such as napalm and white phosphorus against civilian - but not military - targets. The US did not sign the treaty and has continued to use white phosphorus and an updated version of napalm, called Mark 77 firebombs, which use kerosene rather than petrol. A senior US commander previously has confirmed that 510lb napalm bombs had been used in Iraq and said that "the generals love napalm. It has a big psychological effect."
All text is verbatim from senior Bush Administration officials and advisers. In places, tenses have been changed for clarity. Originally from Harper's Magazine, October 2003. By Sam Smith.
Sources
Once again, we were defending both ourselves and the safety and survival of civilization itself. September 11 signaled the arrival of an entirely different era. We faced perils we had never thought about, perils we had never seen before. For decades, terrorists had waged war against this country. Now, under the leadership of President Bush, America would wage war against them. It was a struggle between good and it was a struggle between evil.
It was absolutely clear that the number-one threat facing America was from Saddam Hussein. We know that Iraq and Al Qaeda had high-level contacts that went back a decade. We learned that Iraq had trained Al Qaeda members in bomb making and deadly gases. The regime had long-standing and continuing ties to terrorist organizations. Iraq and Al Qaeda had discussed safe-haven opportunities in Iraq. Iraqi officials denied accusations of ties with Al Qaeda. These denials simply were not credible. You couldn't distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talked about the war on terror.
The fundamental question was, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer was, absolutely. His regime had large, unaccounted-for stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons--including VX, sarin, cyclosarin, and mustard gas, anthrax, botulism, and possibly smallpox. Our conservative estimate was that Iraq then had a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical-weapons agent. That was enough agent to fill 16,000 battlefield rockets. We had sources that told us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons--the very weapons the dictator told the world he did not have. And according to the British government, the Iraqi regime could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as forty-five minutes after the orders were given. There could be no doubt that Saddam Hussein had biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.
Iraq possessed ballistic missiles with a likely range of hundreds of miles--far enough to strike Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, and other nations. We also discovered through intelligence that Iraq had a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We were concerned that Iraq was exploring ways of using UAVs for missions targeting the United States.
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Saddam Hussein was determined to get his hands on a nuclear bomb. We knew he'd been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believed he had, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons. The British government learned that Saddam Hussein had recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources told us that he had attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear-weapons production. When the inspectors first went into Iraq and were denied-finally denied access, a report came out of the [International Atomic Energy Agency] that they were six months away from developing a weapon. I didn't know what more evidence we needed.
Facing clear evidence of peril, we could not wait for the final proof that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud. The Iraqi dictator could not be permitted to threaten America and the world with horrible poisons and diseases and gases and atomic weapons. Inspections would not work. We gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in. The burden was on those people who thought he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they were.
We waged a war to save civilization itself. We did not seek it, but we fought it, and we prevailed. We fought them and imposed our will on them and we captured or, if necessary, killed them until we had imposed law and order. The Iraqi people were well on their way to freedom. The scenes of free Iraqis celebrating in the streets, riding American tanks, tearing down the statues of Saddam Hussein in the center of Baghdad were breathtaking. Watching them, one could not help but think of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
It was entirely possible that in Iraq you had the most pro-American population that could be found anywhere in the Arab world. If you were looking for a historical analogy, it was probably closer to post-liberation France. We had the overwhelming support of the Iraqi people. Once we won, we got great support from everywhere.
The people of Iraq knew that every effort was made to spare innocent life, and to help Iraq recover from three decades of totalitarian rule. And plans were in place to provide Iraqis with massive amounts of food, as well as medicine and other essential supplies. The U.S. devoted unprecedented attention to humanitarian relief and the prevention of excessive damage to infrastructure and to unnecessary casualties.
The United States approached its postwar work with a two-part resolve: a commitment to stay and a commitment to leave. The United States had no intention of determining the precise form of Iraq's new government. That choice belonged to the Iraqi people. We have never been a colonial power. We do not leave behind occupying armies. We leave behind constitutions and parliaments. We don't take our force and go around the world and try to take other people's real estate or other people's resources, their oil. We never have and we never will.
The United States was not interested in the oil in that region. We were intent on ensuring that Iraq's oil resources remained under national Iraqi control, with the proceeds made available to support Iraqis in all parts of the country. The oil fields belonged to the people of Iraq, the government of Iraq, all of Iraq. We estimated that the potential income to the Iraqi people as a result of their oil could be somewhere in the $20 [billion] to $30 billion a year [range], and obviously, that would be money that would be used for their well-being. In other words, all of Iraq's oil belonged to all the people of Iraq.
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We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. And we found more weapons as time went on. I never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country. But for those who said we hadn't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they were wrong, we found them. We knew where they were.
We changed the regime of Iraq for the good of the Iraqi people. We didn't want to occupy Iraq. War is a terrible thing. We've tried every other means to achieve objectives without a war because we understood what the price of a war can be and what it is. We sought peace. We strove for peace. Nobody, but nobody, was more reluctant to go to war than President Bush.
It is not right to assume that any current problems in Iraq can be attributed to poor planning. The number of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf region dropped as a result of Operation Iraqi Freedom. This nation acted to a threat from the dictator of Iraq. There is a lot of revisionist history now going on, but one thing is certain--he is no longer a threat to the free world, and the people of Iraq are free. There's no doubt in my mind when it's all said and done, the facts will show the world the truth. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind.
U.S. denies using Chemical Weapons on Iraqi civilians
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-11-08T203257Z_01_WRI861294_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAQ-USA-WEAPONS.xml
The documentary showed images of bodies recovered after a November 2004 offensive by U.S. troops on the town of Falluja, which it said proved the use of white phosphorus against men, women and children who were burnt to the bone.
FLASHBACK: Official US Government denial that illegal chemical weapons were used in Fallujah
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Powerful new evidence emerged yesterday that the United States dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus on the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack on the city in November 2004, killing insurgents and civilians with the appalling burns that are the signature of this weapon. Ever since the assault, which went unreported by any Western journalists, rumours have swirled that the Americans used chemical weapons on the city.On 10 November last year, the Islam Online website wrote: "US troops are reportedly using chemical weapons and poisonous gas in its large-scale offensive on the Iraqi resistance bastion of Fallujah, a grim reminder of Saddam Hussein's alleged gassing of the Kurds in 1988."The website quoted insurgent sources as saying: "The US occupation troops are gassing resistance fighters and confronting them with internationally banned chemical weapons."In December the US government formally denied the reports, describing them as "widespread myths". "Some news accounts have claimed that US forces have used 'outlawed' phosphorus shells in Fallujah," the USinfo website said. "Phosphorus shells are not outlawed. US forces have used them very sparingly in Fallujah, for illumination purposes."They were fired into the air to illuminate enemy positions at night, not at enemy fighters."But now new information has surfaced, including hideous photographs and videos and interviews with American soldiers who took part in the Fallujah attack, which provides graphic proof that phosphorus shells were widely deployed in the city as a weapon.In a documentary to be broadcast by RAI, the Italian state broadcaster, this morning, a former American soldier who fought at Fallujah says: "I heard the order to pay attention because they were going to use white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military jargon it's known as Willy Pete."Phosphorus burns bodies, in fact it melts the flesh all the way down to the bone ... I saw the burned bodies of women and children. Phosphorus explodes and forms a cloud. Anyone within a radius of 150 metres is done for."Photographs on the website of RaiTG24, the broadcaster's 24-hours news channel, www.rainews24.it, show exactly what the former soldier means. Provided by the Studies Centre of Human Rights in Fallujah, dozens of high-quality, colour close-ups show bodies of Fallujah residents, some still in their beds, whose clothes remain largely intact but whose skin has been dissolved or caramelised or turned the consistency of leather by the shells.A biologist in Fallujah, Mohamad Tareq, interviewed for the film, says: "A rain of fire fell on the city, the people struck by this multi-coloured substance started to burn, we found people dead with strange wounds, the bodies burned but the clothes intact."The documentary, entitled Fallujah: the Hidden Massacre, also provides what it claims is clinching evidence that incendiary bombs known as Mark 77, a new, improved form of napalm, was used in the attack on Fallujah, in breach of the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons of 1980, which only allows its use against military targets.Meanwhile, five US soldiers from the elite 75th Ranger Regiment have been charged with kicking and punching detainees in Iraq.The news came as a suicide car bomber killed four American soldiers at a checkpoint south of Baghdad yesterday.
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Q I'd like you to clear up, once and for all, the ambiguity about torture. Can we get a straight answer? The President says we don't do torture, but Cheney --
MR. McCLELLAN: That's about as straight as it can be.
Q Yes, but Cheney has gone to the Senate and asked for an exemption on --
MR. McCLELLAN: No, he has not. Are you claiming he's asked for an exemption on torture? No, that's --
Q He did not ask for that?
MR. McCLELLAN: -- that is inaccurate.
Q Are you denying everything that came from the Hill, in terms of torture?
MR. McCLELLAN: No, you're mischaracterizing things. And I'm not going to get into discussions we have --
Q Can you give me a straight answer for once?
MR. McCLELLAN: Let me give it to you, just like the President has. We do not torture. He does not condone torture and he would never --
Q I'm asking about exemptions.
MR. McCLELLAN: Let me respond. And he would never authorize the use of torture. We have an obligation to do all that we can to protect the American people. We are engaged --
Q That's not the answer I'm asking for --
MR. McCLELLAN: It is an answer -- because the American people want to know that we are doing all within our power to prevent terrorist attacks from happening. There are people in this world who want to spread a hateful ideology that is based on killing innocent men, women and children. We saw what they can do on September 11th --
Q He didn't ask for an exemption --
MR. McCLELLAN: -- and we are going to --
Q -- answer that one question. I'm asking, is the administration asking for an exemption?
MR. McCLELLAN: I am answering your question. The President has made it very clear that we are going to do --
Q You're not answering -- yes or no?
MR. McCLELLAN: No, you don't want the American people to hear what the facts are, Helen, and I'm going to tell them the facts.
Q -- the American people every day. I'm asking you, yes or no, did we ask for an exemption?
MR. McCLELLAN: And let me respond. You've had your opportunity to ask the question. Now I'm going to respond to it.
Q If you could answer in a straight way.
MR. McCLELLAN: And I'm going to answer it, just like the President -- I just did, and the President has answered it numerous times.
Q -- yes or no --
MR. McCLELLAN: Our most important responsibility is to protect the American people. We are engaged in a global war against Islamic radicals who are intent on spreading a hateful ideology, and intent on killing innocent men, women and children.
Q Did we ask for an exemption?
MR. McCLELLAN: We are going to do what is necessary to protect the American people.
Q Is that the answer?
MR. McCLELLAN: We are also going to do so in a way that adheres to our laws and to our values. We have made that very clear. The President directed everybody within this government that we do not engage in torture. We will not torture. He made that very clear.
Q Are you denying we asked for an exemption?
MR. McCLELLAN: Helen, we will continue to work with the Congress on the issue that you brought up. The way you characterize it, that we're asking for exemption from torture, is just flat-out false, because there are laws that are on the books that prohibit the use of torture. And we adhere to those laws.
Q We did ask for an exemption; is that right? I mean, be simple -- this is a very simple question.
MR. McCLELLAN: I just answered your question. The President answered it last week.
Q What are we asking for?
Q Would you characterize what we're asking for?
MR. McCLELLAN: We're asking to do what is necessary to protect the American people in a way that is consistent with our laws and our treaty obligations. And that's what we --
Q Why does the CIA need an exemption from the military?
MR. McCLELLAN: David, let's talk about people that you're talking about who have been brought to justice and captured. You're talking about people like Khalid Shaykh Muhammad; people like Abu Zubaydah.
Q I'm asking you --
MR. McCLELLAN: No, this is facts about what you're talking about.
Q Why does the CIA need an exemption from rules that would govern the conduct of our military in interrogation practices?
MR. McCLELLAN: There are already laws and rules that are on the books, and we follow those laws and rules. What we need to make sure is that we are able to carry out the war on terrorism as effectively as possible, not only --
Q What does that mean --
MR. McCLELLAN: What I'm telling you right now -- not only to protect Americans from an attack, but to prevent an attack from happening in the first place. And, you bet, when we capture terrorist leaders, we are going to seek to find out information that will protect -- that prevent attacks from happening in the first place. But we have an obligation to do so. Our military knows this; all people within the United States government know this. We have an obligation to do so in a way that is consistent with our laws and values.
Now, the people that you are bringing up -- you're talking about in the context, and I think it's important for the American people to know, are people like Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, Abu Zubaydah, Ramzi Binalshibh -- these are -- these are dangerous killers.
Q So they're all killers --
Q Did you ask for an exemption on torture? That's a simple question, yes or no.
MR. McCLELLAN: No. And we have not. That's what I told you at the beginning.
Q You want to reserve the ability to use tougher tactics with those individuals who you mentioned.
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, obviously, you have a different view from the American people. I think the American people understand the importance of doing everything within our power and within our laws to protect the American people.
Q Scott, are you saying that Cheney did not ask --
Q What is it that you want the -- what is it that you want the CIA to be able to do that the U.S. Armed Forces are not allowed to do?
MR. McCLELLAN: I'm not going to get into talking about national security matters, Bill. I don't do that, because this involves --
Q This would be the exemption, in other words.
MR. McCLELLAN: This involves information that relates to doing all we can to protect the American people. And if you have a different view -- obviously, some of you on this room -- in this room have a different view, some of you on the front row have a different view.
Q We simply are asking a question.
Q What is the Vice President -- what is the Vice President asking for?
MR. McCLELLAN: It's spelled out in our statement of administration policy in terms of what our views are. That's very public information. In terms of our discussions with members of Congress --
Q -- no, it's not --
MR. McCLELLAN: In terms of our members -- like I said, there are already laws on the books that we have to adhere to and abide by, and we do. And we believe that those laws and those obligations address these issues.
Q So then why is the Vice President continuing to lobby on this issue? If you're very happy with the laws on the books, what needs change?
MR. McCLELLAN: Again, you asked me -- you want to ask questions of the Vice President's office, feel free to do that. We've made our position very clear, and it's spelled out on our website for everybody to see.
Q We don't need a website, we need you from the podium.
MR. McCLELLAN: And what I just told you is what our view is.
Q But Scott, do you see the contradiction --
MR. McCLELLAN: Jessica, go ahead.
Q Will the President pledge not to pardon Lewis Libby?
MR. McCLELLAN: I'm not going to discuss an ongoing legal proceeding, and I'm not going to --
Q Can you just --
MR. McCLELLAN: No, I'm not going to speculate about any matters relating to it. This is something that is just beginning. There will be a hearing process that is going on right now, and we need to let that legal proceeding continue. I was asked this question last week, and that's -- I'm just not going to speculate about things at this point.
Q So if he's interested in seeing the legal process continue, that means he will not pardon him, is that correct?
MR. McCLELLAN: There is a legal proceeding --
Q That would interrupt the legal proceeding.
MR. McCLELLAN: -- that is going on relating to that individual. Under our system, there is a presumption of innocence. And we're not going to comment on it while it is continuing. And I'm not going to -- certainly not going to speculate about it, as well.
Q Should we take that to mean it remains a possibility?
MR. McCLELLAN: It should mean exactly what I said.
Go ahead, Goyal.
Q Scott, before my question, I would like to thank the President and Mr. Andy Card for -- at the White House -- (inaudible) --. My question is that we don't know when the immigration law pending in the Congress will be through, but at this time, trafficking problem is a big one, especially the --
MR. McCLELLAN: Trafficking in persons?
Q Yes.
MR. McCLELLAN: That is a high priority for this President to stop the trafficking in persons.
Q -- especially from South Asia, and now India Globe is working a story on a woman from Bangladesh. They bring them here, and then they won't give them a green card and citizenship and work. And then they exploit them and rape them and use them. And then these women have nowhere to go, and they seek help from -- what they should do because there is no one to help them out. And then Immigration have them deported -- they said you have no legal citizen here. What the President is going to do --
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, the President has made preventing the trafficking in persons a high priority, particularly trafficking that is involving sex crimes. That is something that he has talked about at the United Nations. It is an issue -- the trafficking in persons is an issue that he talked about just the other day when we were in Brazil, and the President was participating in a roundtable with some young professionals. And one of those persons was someone who worked for an organization that was committed to doing what they can to stop the trafficking in persons.
It's not only the sex trafficking, it's also the trafficking in persons that are seeking to come to our country illegally, simply to provide a better way of life for their families back home, their children, because they know that they might be able to provide a better opportunity for their families back home by coming here to the United States. And you have these coyotes, as the President has talked about, who illegally smuggle people into this country. That's something that we're focused on when it comes to enforcing our borders. That's why one of the President's top priorities on his agenda is taking steps to strengthen our border enforcement and to move forward on comprehensive immigration reform, because people have lost their lives needlessly and we've got to do more to enforce our borders, as well as to move forward on other initiatives to improve our immigration system. We need a more practical and realistic immigration system to address these problems.
Q At that meeting at Camp David, the President, Harriet Miers and Andrew Card talked about steps that would be taken -- does that mean there's going to be something in addition to the ethics --
MR. McCLELLAN: No, he was -- thank you for the opportunity to talk further about that. What the President directed them to do at Camp David was to move forward on the action that is taking place this week and next week, as well.
Q But, I mean, the steps being taken -- so that's it, just the classes?
MR. McCLELLAN: If you're asking me to limit the President's ability to make decisions that he deems are appropriate, I'm not going to do that. But this is the action that directed to be taken last week at Camp David.
Q Scott, is anyone in the White House exempt from participating in these and --
MR. McCLELLAN: No, it's a mandatory session.
Q Would the Vice President have to attend?
MR. McCLELLAN: It's mandatory for all White House staff. That's who it's for.
Q And he's considered staff?
MR. McCLELLAN: No, he's considered the Vice President. (Laughter.)
Q So he does not have to attend?
MR. McCLELLAN: All White House staff is required to participate in these sessions.
Q Scott, if that is a refresher course, the initial time that they took this class, was there any kind of statement that people had to sign saying they understood what they had been trained or taught --
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, when you go through the clearance process to receive classified clearances, or security clearances, you have to sign information and you go through detailed briefings.
Q And is there a portion in this training that says there are consequences if you don't follow the rules, if you don't follow these procedures --
MR. McCLELLAN: As I indicated at the beginning, everybody at the White House understands what's expected of them.
Q And they acknowledge that in a statement? Is that true?
MR. McCLELLAN: No, I'm not going to get into talking about everything that has to be signed when you go through a classified briefing on security clearances. But you do have to sign forms when you attend those briefings.
Q Saying that you understand the rules and the regulations, and that type of thing, and the training -- that you've taken this training and you understand the consequences?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, this is relating to classified security clearances, and that's all I'll say on it, and it's what I just said.
Q Scott, two on Australia and France. First of all, on the Australian arrests, has the U.S. coordinated with them, and is this as a result of Australia's cooperation with the United States?
MR. McCLELLAN: That's something that you ought to direct to Australian authorities. They've talked about it and you can check with our law enforcement authorities to see if there's any additional information. I'll be glad to check on that, as well.
Q Are you pleased with Australia's actions? Do you have any comment?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, they're a good partner in the global war on terrorism, and they have been pursuing individuals who seek to do harm to their citizens. And they've announced some of the steps that they've taken and some of the results of those steps. I don't have any additional information on it at this point, other than what they have said publicly, Connie.
Q On the French riots, do you have any message for the French, and for Europe, in general, in light of these riots? And should Americans be encouraged to go to France and other countries which might --
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, Americans should always look to the guidance put out by our State Department in terms of travel, wherever they are traveling. It provides information regarding any security precautions or warnings that they should heed. And beyond that, you ought to talk to France about the steps they're taking to address that.
Go ahead, April.
Q Scott, the President was asked about an apology to the Wilson family, and he did not answer it. And if -- I'm wondering if that non-answer goes to the fact that an apology would be under review right now from the administration.
MR. McCLELLAN: It goes to the fact that there's an ongoing investigation and legal proceeding, and we're not going to have any further discussion of it while it is ongoing.
Q So are you saying an apology would compromise the investigation?
MR. McCLELLAN: I don't know how I could make it more clear, in terms of our response to questions relating to an ongoing investigation.
Q You said that Chief of Staff and the White House Counsel were involved in planning the ethics classes. Karl is a pretty hands-on guy; how involved was he in the planning --
MR. McCLELLAN: It was the Counsel's Office. The Counsel's Office is the one that is responsible for conducting these ethics briefings. Richard Painter is our ethics counsel, and he is the one that conducts these briefings.
Q So he wasn't involved at all in setting it up, as Andy Card was?
MR. McCLELLAN: No, this was the President talking with Andy Card and Harriet Miers at Camp David, not this last weekend, but the weekend before.
Q So then you talk about having them in light of circumstances, is that a tacit acknowledgment that classified information has, in fact, been leaked?
MR. McCLELLAN: It was the way I described it.
Q Okay, one other quick one on the Vice President's lobbying. You said that we can direct questions to the Vice President's Office and, presumably, the Vice President is operating with the full knowledge of the President, in terms of lobbying to get an exemption for the CIA. Are you saying that the Vice President's Office is operating independently?
MR. McCLELLAN: What Helen was asking earlier was the exemption for torture, and that is just a flat-out false characterization. And no one is asking for that because the President has already made --
Q -- the question was --
MR. McCLELLAN: -- the President has already made it clear that we do not torture and we do not tolerate torture. In fact, if you look at -- let's go back and just step back from this and let's look at some of what has happened that has put a stain on the image of the United States abroad. And that was what happened at Abu Ghraib. Well, what our military has done is acted to hold people accountable for their conduct, and to take steps to prevent something like that from happening again. They went through some 12 major investigations or reviews and looked at these issues. And now they've been implementing steps to prevent something like that from ever happening again.
Now, I welcome an opportunity to talk about this -- uninterrupted, I might add -- to talk about the importance of what we're working to do in the global war on terrorism. And the American people I think ought to hear what we are working to do, because the President takes very seriously his responsibility to do all that he can to protect them. We saw what happened on --
Q -- (inaudible) --
MR. McCLELLAN: Hang on, I'm coming to your question. We saw what happened on September 11th, when some 3,000 innocent men, women and children were killed in New York, in Washington and in the fields of Pennsylvania. The President made a decision on that day that we were going to go on the offensive, that we were going to use all available tools to bring to justice those who seek to do us harm before they could carry out their attacks.
And he also made a commitment to work to change the status quo in the Middle East by spreading freedom. For too long we thought we had stability and peace in the Middle East, and we got neither. It became a breeding ground for terrorism. And that's why it's so important what we're working to achieve in the broader Middle East. That's why it's so important that we succeed in Iraq, because Iraq will be an example to the rest of the Middle East, just like Afghanistan is, in terms of that.
And in terms of what Congress is considering -- or, at least the Senate, in terms of this amendment -- the President answered this question just the other day. He talked about how we would continue to work with members of Congress to address this issue. But there are already --
Q What is the White House --
MR. McCLELLAN: -- there are already laws on the books, but not only laws, they're also values that we very much adhere to. But we have an obligation to the American people --
Q How do values blend with what you said earlier, which is "what is necessary"? If what is necessary needs to be done, does that -- does "what is necessary" necessarily fit in with our values?
MR. McCLELLAN: What is necessary within our laws and within our values.
Q So that means not torture --
MR. McCLELLAN: You bet, the President is going to act to do what he can to prevent an attack from happening on the American people. That's what the American people expect. But we're going to do so consistent with our laws and values, and we've made that repeatedly clear.
Q So what is the Vice President lobbying for? And is he doing it on behalf of the White House, or is he operating independently?
MR. McCLELLAN: Again, I just said we're going to continue to work with Congress.
Go ahead.
Q Why don't you answer the one question on exemption?
MR. McCLELLAN: I just did, Helen.
Q Does the Vice President's Office have -- I mean, you blanket -- covered the White House. The Vice President's Office is under the Office of the White House. Why can't you just -- why can't you answer?
MR. McCLELLAN: I'm not going to get into all the discussions we have with members of Congress. If they want to add additional information, you're welcome to contact their office, as well.
Q Well, they don't answer like you do. You are at that podium. We need to hear from you. You --
MR. McCLELLAN: And I just made it clear --
Q -- are the Press Secretary for all --
MR. McCLELLAN: There's a statement of administration policy that has been put out. And -- but let's talk about what this issue is relating to. This issue is relating to the protection of the American people and making sure that the President of the United States has the tools he needs to be able to prevent attacks from happening, and to be able to stop those terrorists who still seek to do us harm from carrying out their attacks in the first place.
Q -- the Vice President wants torture? Which --
MR. McCLELLAN: Wrong. That is absolutely false.
Q Well, then tell us --
MR. McCLELLAN: The President has made it very clear that we do not torture.
Q What is the Vice President doing?
MR. McCLELLAN: I just told you.
Q You have not. I'm not trying to be --
MR. McCLELLAN: I'm not going to let you -- you are mischaracterizing what this is about.
Q Scott, no, we want to know --
MR. McCLELLAN: It's clearly in the statement of administration policy. April, look, you can keep showboating for the cameras, but we've made clear what our views are.
Q Thank you -- I showboat well, thank you --
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, you are. Let's be honest about it.
Q I'm being honest. I want an honest answer from you.
MR. McCLELLAN: And you got it in the statement of administration policy.
Q -- in the website. That is not -- that is not --
MR. McCLELLAN: You got it in the statement of administration policy. There are already laws on the books that cover these issues.
Q -- this issue --
MR. McCLELLAN: Yes, and that's what it is.
Q Well, give it to us then.
MR. McCLELLAN: Go look on our website. I'll be glad to provide it to you.
Q -- which website?
MR. McCLELLAN: And I just told you what it is. Are you not listening? I just told you what it is.
Q Scott, the Department of Defense is revising --
MR. McCLELLAN: I think you need to calm down a little bit and let me respond.
Go ahead.
Q Scott, the Department of Defense is revising its policy guidelines for the treatment of detainees for the war on terror --
MR. McCLELLAN: Yes.
Q Vice President Cheney's office, his senior staff, had advised the uniform military lawyers working on this document that the White House is opposed to including any reference to Geneva Convention terms for humane treatment of detainees. Vice President Cheney's spokeswoman told us last week that that -- that the Vice President is pursuing the President's policy in holding that --
MR. McCLELLAN: I don't think -- who told you the first part of this? Let's talk about where that came from, first of all.
Q Well, the -- what are you talking about?
MR. McCLELLAN: The Vice President's office I don't think told you that first part of that, and you made it sound like the first part of that was from the Vice President's office. I don't think they told you that.
Q No, I'm not trying to make it sound like they did. There's --
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, you're declaring that as fact.
Q -- published reports in The New York Times and The Washington Post -- we are reporting, as well. So the question is, what is the President's view with respect to this Department of Defense policy guideline on the treatment of --
MR. McCLELLAN: We have great confidence in Secretary Rumsfeld and the Department of Defense to move forward on steps to prevent something like what happened at Abu Ghraib from happening again. And that's what this comes out of, because, as I pointed out earlier, the Department of Defense undertook some 12 major investigations and reviews -- and/or reviews. They also pursued a number of cases against individuals who were responsible for these abuses, and they pursued people and held them to account. That's what the United States does. And that's the way we show the world what we are all about. We are about values and laws, and about adhering to those values and laws. And that's what we will continue to do. So they have taken steps, and are continuing to take steps, to put in place some policy directives that will build upon what they already had in place.
Q Is the President opposed to any reference to Geneva Convention or adherence to the Geneva Convention, directly, in this Department of Defense policy guideline?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, in terms of the guidelines, those are guidelines that the Department of Defense will issue. And so I'd encourage you to talk further with them about that. Anytime there's something like this, there's an interagency process that goes on, and a number of people are involved in providing input into that process. That's part of the interagency process; that's a healthy part of being able to come to these decisions. And so that's what you're talking about.
Q The President has no view?
Bush Declares: 'We Do Not Torture'
Bush is a bad mother fucker!
Thousands of Muslim’s have been swept up in a global dragnet and dumped in secret gulags where they are subjected to the grueling regimen of beatings and torture. The camps were authorized by President Bush in an executive “finding” 6 days after Sept 11, that’s when, as one high-ranking official said, “The gloves came off”. It “gave the CIA broad authorization to disrupt terrorist activity, including permission to kill, capture and detain members of "al Qaeda" anywhere in the world.”
Cheney Fights for Torture Policy!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/06/AR2005110601281.html
Cheney says the United States does not torture captives, but believes the president needs nearly unfettered power to deal with "terrorists" to protect Americans.
I think we should torture Scooter Libby.
Afterall, as Dick Cheney previously said:“A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies, if we’re going to be successful. That’s the world these folks operate in. And so it’s going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective.”And if we are going to get to the bottom of who put an American CIA agent in jeopardy, it is incumbent upon us to torture Scooter. Water board him, strip him naked and smear him with his own feces and walk him on a leash down the mall, beat him with rolled-up copies of Condolezza Rice's unread National Intelligence Estimates, keep him awake for hours on end while reading to him from James Lilek's new book, Cute Things Gnat Said While I Was Lurking Around the Bra Department At Target, until he tells us who tipped him off about Valerie Plame.A secure America demands no less.We might want to smack Karl Rove around too. That fat prick knows something. I can just feel it...
Cheney was pushing fake Al Qaeda claim long after source recanted
President Bush, Vice President Cheney and other top administration officials repeatedly claimed that Iraq was providing al-Qaeda with training in chemical and biological weapons. The administration’s claims were based on the statements of a known fabricator, al Qaeda senior military trainer Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi. It gets worse. The Washington Post reports that al-Libi formally retracted his claims in early 2004: In fact, in January 2004 al-Libi recanted his claims, and in February 2004 the CIA withdrew all intelligence reports based on his information. Months later, Cheney was still pushing al-Libi’s claims anyway. Here’s Cheney on CNBC’s Kudlow & Kramer, 6/4/04: "It’s clearly established in terms of training, provision of bomb-making experts, training of people with respect to chemical and biological warfare capabilities, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Iraq for training and so forth."
Torture debate divides US Republicans
How far should the Government be allowed to go to stop a terrorist attack?
How far should the Government be allowed to go to NOT stop a terrorist attack?
Iraq plans hotel and theme parks for a tourism boom?http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article325277.ece
The building will have to be built to withstand mortar and rocket attack, just as the one major existing hotel in the Green Zone. "Tourists should dress like locals and maybe dye their hair."
Iraq Conflict Not Worth Fighting, Say Americans
64 per cent of respondents believe the result of the war with Iraq was not worth the loss of American life and other costs. 57 per cent say things going badly for U.S. in Iraq, 48 per cent say Iraq will never become a democracy, 38 per cent say the Bush administration hid "important elements" when discussing the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
20051105
Cheney Seeks CIA Exemption to Torture Ban
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051105/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_torture;_ylt=AvYQUUqc7wD9beVrHZIInbqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ
Cheney told his audience the United States doesn't engage in torture, these participants added, even though he said the administration needed an exemption from any legislation banning "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment in case the president decided one was necessary to prevent a terrorist attack.
It's been 1,510 days since GWB said he'd catch UBL 'Dead or Alive!'
Usama bin Laden has been publicly silent for the longest period since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The question for U.S. intelligence: What, if anything, does it mean?
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/04/D8DM0S8O8.html
George Bush rarely mentions bin Laden, who has eluded U.S. capture despite being the most-sought terrorist in the world. Bush did mention him by name in a series of speeches focused on the war on terror last month.
George Bush and Latin American leaders entered a final day of talks Saturday to debate the future of a hemisphere-wide free trade bloc, meeting behind an array of street barricades and armed security forces at a summit tarnished by violent street protests. As the summit was inaugurated Friday, rioters smashed the glass storefronts of at least 30 businesses, set fire to a bank and battled police with slingshots and rocks. Police fought back with tear gas and made 64 arrests. No major injuries were reported.
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=051105&cat=frontpage&st=frontpageap20051105_307&src=abc
The violent demonstrators failed to break through the first of several police blockades protecting Bush and the other world leaders, and the summit's inauguration ceremony took place without a hitch on Friday.
Widespread riots across impoverished areas of France took a malevolent turn in a ninth night of violence, with youths torching an ambulance and stoning medical workers coming to the aid of a sick person. Authorities arrested more than 250 people, an unprecedented sweep since the beginning of the unrest.
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=051105&cat=news&st=newsd8dmb2ug0&src=ap
Bands of youths also burned a nursery school, warehouses and nearly 900 cars overnight as the violence spread from the restive Paris suburbs to towns around France. The U.S. warned Americans against taking trains to the airport through the affected areas.
A woman on crutches was doused in flammable liquid and set on fire earlier this week as she tried to get off a bus in a Paris suburb, a judicial official said Friday. She suffered severe burns.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/04/D8DLRF301.html
In the northeast suburb of Sevran on Wednesday, youths doused a woman on crutches with flammable liquid and set her on fire with a burning rag as she struggled to get off a bus, a judicial official said, citing the bus driver's report to police. The driver, who had ordered passengers to leave the bus because flaming objects were blocking the road, helped the injured woman get off, the official said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051105/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_torture;_ylt=AvYQUUqc7wD9beVrHZIInbqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ
Cheney told his audience the United States doesn't engage in torture, these participants added, even though he said the administration needed an exemption from any legislation banning "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment in case the president decided one was necessary to prevent a terrorist attack.
It's been 1,510 days since GWB said he'd catch UBL 'Dead or Alive!'
Usama bin Laden has been publicly silent for the longest period since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The question for U.S. intelligence: What, if anything, does it mean?
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/04/D8DM0S8O8.html
George Bush rarely mentions bin Laden, who has eluded U.S. capture despite being the most-sought terrorist in the world. Bush did mention him by name in a series of speeches focused on the war on terror last month.
George Bush and Latin American leaders entered a final day of talks Saturday to debate the future of a hemisphere-wide free trade bloc, meeting behind an array of street barricades and armed security forces at a summit tarnished by violent street protests. As the summit was inaugurated Friday, rioters smashed the glass storefronts of at least 30 businesses, set fire to a bank and battled police with slingshots and rocks. Police fought back with tear gas and made 64 arrests. No major injuries were reported.
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=051105&cat=frontpage&st=frontpageap20051105_307&src=abc
The violent demonstrators failed to break through the first of several police blockades protecting Bush and the other world leaders, and the summit's inauguration ceremony took place without a hitch on Friday.
Widespread riots across impoverished areas of France took a malevolent turn in a ninth night of violence, with youths torching an ambulance and stoning medical workers coming to the aid of a sick person. Authorities arrested more than 250 people, an unprecedented sweep since the beginning of the unrest.
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=051105&cat=news&st=newsd8dmb2ug0&src=ap
Bands of youths also burned a nursery school, warehouses and nearly 900 cars overnight as the violence spread from the restive Paris suburbs to towns around France. The U.S. warned Americans against taking trains to the airport through the affected areas.
A woman on crutches was doused in flammable liquid and set on fire earlier this week as she tried to get off a bus in a Paris suburb, a judicial official said Friday. She suffered severe burns.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/04/D8DLRF301.html
In the northeast suburb of Sevran on Wednesday, youths doused a woman on crutches with flammable liquid and set her on fire with a burning rag as she struggled to get off a bus, a judicial official said, citing the bus driver's report to police. The driver, who had ordered passengers to leave the bus because flaming objects were blocking the road, helped the injured woman get off, the official said.
20051104
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?" -- Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi
BOOM!
Bush's Popularity Reaches New Low
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/03/AR2005110301685_pf.html
The war has taken a toll on the administration's credibility: A clear majority -- 55 percent -- now says the administration deliberately misled the country in making its case for war with Iraq -- a conflict that an even larger majority say is not worth the cost.
Americans support consideration of impeachment over Iraq, 51-45 percent
Fire the liars.
Every single one.
Then fire those who refused to fire the liars. (Heather Wilson!)
Every single one.
Bush Sidesteps Questions About CIA Leak
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051104/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_4
"The way you earn credibility with the American people is to set a clear agenda that everybody can understand, an agenda that relates to their lives, and get the job done," Bush said.
Bush backs human rights?
Protesters call him 'fascist', 'terrorist'!
CIA holds terror suspects in secret prisons
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9890829/
Debate grows within agency about legality, morality of approach
Bush Tries to Improve U.S. Image at Summit
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=051104&cat=news&st=newsd8dlpml07&src=ap
"The United States has common ground with countries that promote democracy and freedom and believe in the rule of law," Bush said?
U.S. House delays vote on torture ban
The U.S. House Republican leadership has postponed a vote on a proposed ban against cruel, degrading treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody.
Bush's Popularity Reaches New Low
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/03/AR2005110301685_pf.html
The war has taken a toll on the administration's credibility: A clear majority -- 55 percent -- now says the administration deliberately misled the country in making its case for war with Iraq -- a conflict that an even larger majority say is not worth the cost.
Americans support consideration of impeachment over Iraq, 51-45 percent
Fire the liars.
Every single one.
Then fire those who refused to fire the liars. (Heather Wilson!)
Every single one.
Bush Sidesteps Questions About CIA Leak
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051104/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_4
"The way you earn credibility with the American people is to set a clear agenda that everybody can understand, an agenda that relates to their lives, and get the job done," Bush said.
Bush backs human rights?
Protesters call him 'fascist', 'terrorist'!
CIA holds terror suspects in secret prisons
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9890829/
Debate grows within agency about legality, morality of approach
Bush Tries to Improve U.S. Image at Summit
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=051104&cat=news&st=newsd8dlpml07&src=ap
"The United States has common ground with countries that promote democracy and freedom and believe in the rule of law," Bush said?
U.S. House delays vote on torture ban
The U.S. House Republican leadership has postponed a vote on a proposed ban against cruel, degrading treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody.
20051103
Senate to probe how case for war was made
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1103/p01s02-uspo.html
Now, so-called Phase 2 would investigate whether public statements, testimony, and reports by US government officials were supported by available intelligence.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/lies.mp3
Bush aide denies ties to fake Iraq-Niger documents
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051102/ts_nm/bush_leak_italy_dc
After consulting with a member of his staff "to refresh my memory," Hadley told reporters that the documents were first obtained by the State Department and then shared with the CIA' and that he does not recall ever discussing the issue with Italian intelligence officials.
White House Ducks Pre Iraq War Intel Questions
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051102/ap_on_go_pr_wh/senate_iraq
White House uneasy on 'secret' prisons
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,17125216%255E1702,00.html
The existence of secret CIA detention centres has long been claimed. Amnesty International denounced an "archipelago" of prisons in June as a "gulag of our times."
"It's an absurd allegation," Bush said in the White House Rose Garden this week. "The United States is a country that ... promotes freedom around the world. When there's accusations made about certain actions by our people, they're fully investigated in a transparent way. It's just an absurd allegation."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158555,00.html
"It seemed like to me they [Amnesty International] based some of their decisions on the word of — and the allegations — by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble — that means not tell the truth," the president added. "And so it was an absurd report. It just is."
Recently Amnesty International declared the United States a violator of human rights. They labeled the detention center in Guantanamo Bay Cuba, a modern day gulag. Amnesty Secretary General Irene Khan declared that nowhere has "the assault on fundamental values that is shaking the human rights world” been more damaging. In addition, she blasted “efforts by the U.S. administration to weaken the absolute ban on torture."
http://www.therealitycheck.org/GuestColumnist/dhagin053105.htm
America’s armed forces are doing battle with evil people who think nothing of attacking and killing innocent people?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1103/p01s02-uspo.html
Now, so-called Phase 2 would investigate whether public statements, testimony, and reports by US government officials were supported by available intelligence.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/lies.mp3
Bush aide denies ties to fake Iraq-Niger documents
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051102/ts_nm/bush_leak_italy_dc
After consulting with a member of his staff "to refresh my memory," Hadley told reporters that the documents were first obtained by the State Department and then shared with the CIA' and that he does not recall ever discussing the issue with Italian intelligence officials.
White House Ducks Pre Iraq War Intel Questions
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051102/ap_on_go_pr_wh/senate_iraq
White House uneasy on 'secret' prisons
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,17125216%255E1702,00.html
The existence of secret CIA detention centres has long been claimed. Amnesty International denounced an "archipelago" of prisons in June as a "gulag of our times."
"It's an absurd allegation," Bush said in the White House Rose Garden this week. "The United States is a country that ... promotes freedom around the world. When there's accusations made about certain actions by our people, they're fully investigated in a transparent way. It's just an absurd allegation."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158555,00.html
"It seemed like to me they [Amnesty International] based some of their decisions on the word of — and the allegations — by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble — that means not tell the truth," the president added. "And so it was an absurd report. It just is."
Recently Amnesty International declared the United States a violator of human rights. They labeled the detention center in Guantanamo Bay Cuba, a modern day gulag. Amnesty Secretary General Irene Khan declared that nowhere has "the assault on fundamental values that is shaking the human rights world” been more damaging. In addition, she blasted “efforts by the U.S. administration to weaken the absolute ban on torture."
http://www.therealitycheck.org/GuestColumnist/dhagin053105.htm
America’s armed forces are doing battle with evil people who think nothing of attacking and killing innocent people?
20051101
Frist sure had a meltdown today
Keep up the pressure.l Keep calling the media and telling them you KNOW the nation was lied to to trick us into war and demand to know when they will cover that story. When they get enough phone calls and letters, they will realize that the story is already out, and will be forced to cover it to save face.
We did it with the Downing Street Minutes. It took a month from when the story broke in Europe, but eventually the sheer weight of phone calls and letters broke through and the US media was forced to cover the story.
Now it is time to force the forged Niger Documents and the Lie Of The Century onto the front pages and TV sets of America.
The alternative is endless global war.
Dems Force Closed Door Session of Senate on Why and How Bush and Cheney Led America Into Iraq War.
After one of the most dramatic weeks in recent Washington history, Senate Democrats upped the ante on Tuesday (November 1). Not content to wait until Thursday's arraignment of former Vice Presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby (on charges that he lied about the leaking of a covert CIA agent's name) to start getting answers on prewar intelligence on Iraq, Democrats stunned Republicans with a surprise political maneuver. Without warning his Republican counterparts, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid effectively shut down the Senate Tuesday afternoon by invoking the rarely used Rule 21, which calls for a secret session of the Senate in order to discuss intelligence issues.Prior to calling for the closed session — which required all Senate staff, press and other officials not sworn to secrecy to leave the chambers — Reid said in light of the Libby indictment, the American people and soldiers need to know how and why the United States became engaged in the Iraq war (see "Dick Cheney Aide 'Scooter' Libby Indicted In CIA Leak Case, Submits Resignation"). He also said that Senators deserve an answer as to why a second phase of investigation into prewar intelligence has not been completed."The Libby indictment provides a window into what this is really all about, how this administration manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to sell the war in Iraq and attempted to destroy those who dared to challenge its actions," Reid said. "I demand on behalf of the American people that we understand why these investigations aren't being conducted, and in accordance with Rule 21 I now move the Senate go into closed session."Shortly thereafter, fellow Democrat Dick Durbin seconded the call, the public was ordered out of the chambers, all 100 Senators were ordered in and the lights were dimmed, according to CNN. The move sparked bitter reaction from Republicans, particularly Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who called the action a "stunt." It is the first time in more than 25 years that such a closed session has been called for.Clearly angered by Reid's actions, Frist said, "Not with the previous Democratic leader or the current Democratic leader have I been slapped in the face with such an affront to the leadership of this grand institution. Every other time there has been at least consideration for the other side of the aisle before a stunt, and this is a pure stunt, by Senator Reid."Friday's action against Libby, who is the first White House staffer in 135 years to be indicted, spurred Democrats to call the session to push for more answers on their questions about whether the administration manipulated intelligence in the run-up to the war.According to Senator Carl Levin, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, the move for the session came because a promised second phase of the investigation into prewar intelligence has not taken place. "Obviously the reason is that one of the five subjects of phase two is very sensitive to the administration, whether public statements by U.S. government officials were substantiated by intelligence information," Levin said. He added that there was "lots of evidence that the administration went way beyond the intelligence, particularly in how it related to Iraq and al Qaeda."In March the Senate Intelligence Committee's chairman, Republican Senator Pat Roberts, said the investigation into whether the administration manipulated prewar intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was over because an earlier panel had found that the intelligence was flawed and there was no need to continue the probe. CNN reported that there is a draft of the plan for the second phase of the investigation and that Democrats are asking why they have not been able to see that document yet and have vowed to keep the Senate closed until they get some answers. A vote of the Senate is required to re-open the Senate.According to CNN, Frist has asked that three members of each party meet in private to figure out what phase two of the Senate investigation should entail and that they return on November 14 with a plan.
Democrats Force Senate Into Iraq Meeting
Democrats Force Closed Meeting In Senate On Iraq, Pre-War Intelligence And Plamegate....
Enough Is Enough, Demand Answers...
Sen. Reid: Libby’s Indictment Shows “This Admin. Manufactured And Manipulated Intelligence In Order To Sell The War In Iraq”…The Republican Senate Has “Chosen To Protect The Republican Administration Rather Than Get To The Bottom Of What Happened"...Sen. Rockefeller: “At Its Core, This Is About Accountability”…
Despite administration claims, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq, and some Democrats have accused the White House of manipulating the information.
Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was indicted last Friday in an investigation that touched on the war, the leak of the identity of a CIA official married to a critic of the administration's Iraq policy.
"The Libby indictment provides a window into what this is really all about, how this administration manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to sell the war in Iraq and attempted to destroy those who dared to challenge its actions," Reid said before invoking Senate rules that led to the closed session.
Libby resigned from his White House post after being indicted on charges of obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury.
Democrats contend that the unmasking of Valerie Plame was retribution for her husband, Joseph Wilson, publicly challenging the Bush administration's contention that Iraq was seeking to purchase uranium from Africa. That claim was part of the White House's justification for going to war.
As Reid spoke, Frist met in the back of the chamber with a half-dozen senior GOP senators, including Roberts, who bore the brunt of Reid's criticism. Reid said Roberts reneged on a promise to fully investigate whether the administration exaggerated and manipulated intelligence leading up to the war. Reid claimed that Republicans have repeatedly rebuffed Democratic pleas for a thorough investigation.
Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., a former majority leader, said a closed session was appropriate for such overarching matters as impeachment and chemical weapons _ the two topics that last sent the senators into such sessions.
Keep up the pressure.l Keep calling the media and telling them you KNOW the nation was lied to to trick us into war and demand to know when they will cover that story. When they get enough phone calls and letters, they will realize that the story is already out, and will be forced to cover it to save face.
We did it with the Downing Street Minutes. It took a month from when the story broke in Europe, but eventually the sheer weight of phone calls and letters broke through and the US media was forced to cover the story.
Now it is time to force the forged Niger Documents and the Lie Of The Century onto the front pages and TV sets of America.
The alternative is endless global war.
Dems Force Closed Door Session of Senate on Why and How Bush and Cheney Led America Into Iraq War.
After one of the most dramatic weeks in recent Washington history, Senate Democrats upped the ante on Tuesday (November 1). Not content to wait until Thursday's arraignment of former Vice Presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby (on charges that he lied about the leaking of a covert CIA agent's name) to start getting answers on prewar intelligence on Iraq, Democrats stunned Republicans with a surprise political maneuver. Without warning his Republican counterparts, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid effectively shut down the Senate Tuesday afternoon by invoking the rarely used Rule 21, which calls for a secret session of the Senate in order to discuss intelligence issues.Prior to calling for the closed session — which required all Senate staff, press and other officials not sworn to secrecy to leave the chambers — Reid said in light of the Libby indictment, the American people and soldiers need to know how and why the United States became engaged in the Iraq war (see "Dick Cheney Aide 'Scooter' Libby Indicted In CIA Leak Case, Submits Resignation"). He also said that Senators deserve an answer as to why a second phase of investigation into prewar intelligence has not been completed."The Libby indictment provides a window into what this is really all about, how this administration manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to sell the war in Iraq and attempted to destroy those who dared to challenge its actions," Reid said. "I demand on behalf of the American people that we understand why these investigations aren't being conducted, and in accordance with Rule 21 I now move the Senate go into closed session."Shortly thereafter, fellow Democrat Dick Durbin seconded the call, the public was ordered out of the chambers, all 100 Senators were ordered in and the lights were dimmed, according to CNN. The move sparked bitter reaction from Republicans, particularly Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who called the action a "stunt." It is the first time in more than 25 years that such a closed session has been called for.Clearly angered by Reid's actions, Frist said, "Not with the previous Democratic leader or the current Democratic leader have I been slapped in the face with such an affront to the leadership of this grand institution. Every other time there has been at least consideration for the other side of the aisle before a stunt, and this is a pure stunt, by Senator Reid."Friday's action against Libby, who is the first White House staffer in 135 years to be indicted, spurred Democrats to call the session to push for more answers on their questions about whether the administration manipulated intelligence in the run-up to the war.According to Senator Carl Levin, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, the move for the session came because a promised second phase of the investigation into prewar intelligence has not taken place. "Obviously the reason is that one of the five subjects of phase two is very sensitive to the administration, whether public statements by U.S. government officials were substantiated by intelligence information," Levin said. He added that there was "lots of evidence that the administration went way beyond the intelligence, particularly in how it related to Iraq and al Qaeda."In March the Senate Intelligence Committee's chairman, Republican Senator Pat Roberts, said the investigation into whether the administration manipulated prewar intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was over because an earlier panel had found that the intelligence was flawed and there was no need to continue the probe. CNN reported that there is a draft of the plan for the second phase of the investigation and that Democrats are asking why they have not been able to see that document yet and have vowed to keep the Senate closed until they get some answers. A vote of the Senate is required to re-open the Senate.According to CNN, Frist has asked that three members of each party meet in private to figure out what phase two of the Senate investigation should entail and that they return on November 14 with a plan.
Democrats Force Senate Into Iraq Meeting
Democrats Force Closed Meeting In Senate On Iraq, Pre-War Intelligence And Plamegate....
Enough Is Enough, Demand Answers...
Sen. Reid: Libby’s Indictment Shows “This Admin. Manufactured And Manipulated Intelligence In Order To Sell The War In Iraq”…The Republican Senate Has “Chosen To Protect The Republican Administration Rather Than Get To The Bottom Of What Happened"...Sen. Rockefeller: “At Its Core, This Is About Accountability”…
Despite administration claims, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq, and some Democrats have accused the White House of manipulating the information.
Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was indicted last Friday in an investigation that touched on the war, the leak of the identity of a CIA official married to a critic of the administration's Iraq policy.
"The Libby indictment provides a window into what this is really all about, how this administration manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to sell the war in Iraq and attempted to destroy those who dared to challenge its actions," Reid said before invoking Senate rules that led to the closed session.
Libby resigned from his White House post after being indicted on charges of obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury.
Democrats contend that the unmasking of Valerie Plame was retribution for her husband, Joseph Wilson, publicly challenging the Bush administration's contention that Iraq was seeking to purchase uranium from Africa. That claim was part of the White House's justification for going to war.
As Reid spoke, Frist met in the back of the chamber with a half-dozen senior GOP senators, including Roberts, who bore the brunt of Reid's criticism. Reid said Roberts reneged on a promise to fully investigate whether the administration exaggerated and manipulated intelligence leading up to the war. Reid claimed that Republicans have repeatedly rebuffed Democratic pleas for a thorough investigation.
Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., a former majority leader, said a closed session was appropriate for such overarching matters as impeachment and chemical weapons _ the two topics that last sent the senators into such sessions.
P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act – Not "Patriot Act."
Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
As I project, here's what I think may be the "plan;"
One of the larger (remaining ...) "DEMOCRATIC" strongholds of Los Angeles County is suddenly infected by what is advertised as a "crossover" mutation of "the bird flu." It is (later) ostensibly traced to some anonymous international travellers from Indochina. Within just two or three days and with a most uncharacteristic swiftness, the situation becomes dire. People who are literally on their way to the hospital are dying in their cars. It's then realized that this particular strain of flu has an uncommonly extended incubation period, initially portraying only the symptoms of a mild cold, but then rapidly advancing to haemoragic lung failure.
Precisely at this time that long awaited "terror" incident is launched in South Central L.A., a "nuclear device is detonated at the Watts Towers.
REACTING IMMEDIATELY, Bush sets up a massive military quarantine of the entire county. As with NOLA after Katrina, EVERYTHING is shut down, including the hospitals, because those centers of medicine are proving to be the central points of contact spreading the flu. Phone lines are cut off. Radio and Television stations are commandeered to broadcast only one message -- "Stay indoors ... DO NOT LEAVE YOUR HOUSES! ... Anyone caught on the streets WILL BE SHOT! (thousands end up being shot, mostly in "poor" communities)... Help is coming -- In the end, the only "help" coming are those tasked with burning the massed hundreds-of-thousands of dead.
Because of the "bird flu," nobody -- especially not from ANY of the surrounding State governments -- is allowed by the Federal military jackboots in charge to "break quarantine" in order to help feed the millions of people in the affected area. "Look, lady-governor, we all got relatives somewhere ...". After all, can't let them nasty little bird bugs spread their infections.
In the meantime, because of the "terrist event," (for which nobody knows the extent of because of the regional lock down) the REST of the nation is placed under "limited" martial law. THAT limit seems to be violated ANYTIME anybody even remotely suggests that the government is not telling the truth about what is really happening. Those "doubtful Debbies" are summarily rounded up and placed in a FEMA detention center ... "BREAKING NEWS; FEMA detention center get hit by bird flu!"
Millions more die;
Nobody expresses doubt anymore.
In the meantime, various other strains of bird flu are ravaging the global population. 90 days later, around the globe three billion people are dead.
One of the larger (remaining ...) "DEMOCRATIC" strongholds of Los Angeles County is suddenly infected by what is advertised as a "crossover" mutation of "the bird flu." It is (later) ostensibly traced to some anonymous international travellers from Indochina. Within just two or three days and with a most uncharacteristic swiftness, the situation becomes dire. People who are literally on their way to the hospital are dying in their cars. It's then realized that this particular strain of flu has an uncommonly extended incubation period, initially portraying only the symptoms of a mild cold, but then rapidly advancing to haemoragic lung failure.
Precisely at this time that long awaited "terror" incident is launched in South Central L.A., a "nuclear device is detonated at the Watts Towers.
REACTING IMMEDIATELY, Bush sets up a massive military quarantine of the entire county. As with NOLA after Katrina, EVERYTHING is shut down, including the hospitals, because those centers of medicine are proving to be the central points of contact spreading the flu. Phone lines are cut off. Radio and Television stations are commandeered to broadcast only one message -- "Stay indoors ... DO NOT LEAVE YOUR HOUSES! ... Anyone caught on the streets WILL BE SHOT! (thousands end up being shot, mostly in "poor" communities)... Help is coming -- In the end, the only "help" coming are those tasked with burning the massed hundreds-of-thousands of dead.
Because of the "bird flu," nobody -- especially not from ANY of the surrounding State governments -- is allowed by the Federal military jackboots in charge to "break quarantine" in order to help feed the millions of people in the affected area. "Look, lady-governor, we all got relatives somewhere ...". After all, can't let them nasty little bird bugs spread their infections.
In the meantime, because of the "terrist event," (for which nobody knows the extent of because of the regional lock down) the REST of the nation is placed under "limited" martial law. THAT limit seems to be violated ANYTIME anybody even remotely suggests that the government is not telling the truth about what is really happening. Those "doubtful Debbies" are summarily rounded up and placed in a FEMA detention center ... "BREAKING NEWS; FEMA detention center get hit by bird flu!"
Millions more die;
Nobody expresses doubt anymore.
In the meantime, various other strains of bird flu are ravaging the global population. 90 days later, around the globe three billion people are dead.
Flu Epidemic Called Crisis Akin to Nuclear War
Updated 1:18 PM ET November 1, 2005
President Bush's plan to deal with a future flu epidemic will reveal some ugly realities of what could be in store if there is a global breakout of a strain of the Asian bird flu or some other super-strain of influenza. Parts of major cities would become ghost towns, travel restrictions would go into effect and hospitals would be overwhelmed. "We get into a realm here of some very ugly scenes," says Dr. Irwin Redlener of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. "There is most definitely the need to quarantine cities and quarantine people." The draft of Bush's report predicts as many as 200 million Americans would be infected and 200,000 Americans would die.
"The first thing that would happen is that hospitals all across America would be over full," said Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations. Garrett recently authored "The Next Pandemic?," a lengthy article on avian flu. Most cities would be expected to use large stadiums as makeshift hospitals, much as hurricane victims were given shelter in New Orleans and Houston. "Pseudo hospitals," Garrett said of such facilities. "There wouldn't be equipment and personnel to staff them adequately that you could really call them a hospital. You might more or less call them warehouses for the ailing. Very quickly our morgues would fill and we would have no place for the dead." Public heath officials envision a 21st century version of the worldwide flu epidemic of 1918, that killed more than 500,000 people in the U.S. alone. "Short of thermonuclear war, I have a hard time imagining anything in my lifetime that would be as horrible," Garrett said.
The Shadow Puppet’s Master
Most of us have gotten some good information on the why, who and what of the 9/11 theatre, the Virtual Reality Show that was the springboard into Iraq. And we all understand the many variables of the apparent underlying reasons (that our leaders and media obviously forgot to report), on why “they” needed to go to Iraq. The water for Israel, the fear of Hussain urging OPEC to change its currency to the Euro, and thus destabilize the American dollar, the oil mania, the Zionist land grab, the need to demonize Muslims.
Israel could have used desalinization, eliminating a need for Iraq’s water, The Federal Reserve Board is doing just fine at destabilizing American currency, better than Hussain could have ever wished, the oil men got less oil, rather than more, although the “shortages” have helped them reap profits of over 75% this quarter alone, but never-the-less most of America’s oil is still coming from Mexico, Canada and Venezuela, where-as Iraq only supplied 2% to the States. And Israel still does not believe in setting a finite border. Look at an atlas. And as for any Palestinian leader who has ever talked of a one state solution, well they have been eliminated; by assassination, scandal or imprisonment. Iraq had more PhD’s than existed in the whole of America; it had free health care, and was once considered the most secular of all Arab societies. A hard country to demonize, except “they “ played down the goodies that Hassain gave his country, and definitely turned up the volume about fundamentalist, a word now associated with Muslims. What we have learned is relevant, well articulated and very well researched, and refutes the apparent underlining reasons that we surmised were the true reasons for this recent holocaust.. So, is this the end of the story or just the beginning?
As we are start to analyze the fine spiders web of power that is collecting around us, whether it be called New World Order or the blueprint in the Protocols of Zion or the Project for the New American Century, the facts are lining up. Thankfully our gradual awareness requires a deeper, more “clear the board and let’s start over” look at the situation. While still vacillating over the who and the why, the connection of dots points to the consolidation of power and wealth at the top. That is a reality.
Divide and conquer, one of the oldest forms of control used by the ‘elites’, is still very much alive and well. So much so, that the schools of psychology, anthropology, and sociology have all added their talents to honing its art. And it continues to work as a divergence from looking at who really is sitting at the banquet table, and who is pulling the strings .Over time, we have used and have been used by this strategy. Our lands, countries, customs, and beliefs, have been stripped searched. Today we are divided from our community, friends and family. The circle gets smaller and smaller. Quietly, we are being divested of the very intimate knowledge of who we are as humans. It seems, at times, our very soul has gone AWOL. Is it because of this emptiness inside of ourselves, that we have become so malleable? The creation of sheeple has always been a constant in history. But sheeple are also known to revolt against their masters. At least the masters that one can see. With this imposed and internalized void, created now in our very own psyche, the elites no longer need to worry. The mirror that is held up for us to gaze upon is but a carrot on a stick. Substituting secular materialism for our true inheritance, this Trojan horse enters our consciousness and births a new day, in this age old tale of divide and conquer.
The story of Narcissus: the lad who did not fall in love with himself, but with his own reflection (and forever suffers), perhaps is a tale of warning from the ancients, that we need to head. If we fall in love with our reflection, how far will we go to keep this image of ourselves alive? If we allow ourselves to become rudderless, divorced from, and divided from all that has been our anchor, what lighthouse guides us? Who controls this hall of mirrors of ego and supply? Blinded to our own truth, we gaze intently into the well of illusion. By forfeiting ourselves, ‘their’ manufactured illusions become our reality. As a Pipe Piper, the secular materialist promises us the ride of our life. The power is irresistible, the brief satisfaction addicting. This house of mylar, our food supply of ego gratification, by its nature, is created and destroyed by our insatiable need to maintain the illusion. The division of self, scrounging in the wastelands of reflection, is forced to accept the lies that we have substituted for reality.
In his book, ‘Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited’, Sam Vaknia PhD, an Israeli Jew, describes the cannibalistic dance of the narcissist. As the grandiosity of the illusion we have accepted about ourselves becomes stronger, the decent into the hell of entitlement becomes increasingly rationalized, justified and protected. Psychologically this addiction becomes our Dorian Grey. Stroke by stroke, the flattery, the entitlement, the omnipresence of false ego must be kept alive, at any cost. We become our own gods and Chosen Ones by the same brush stroke. As we project this false ego, (and its constant need for acclaim) back onto the culture that is feeding us this very distortion of reality, a Catch 22 prevails. The disease becomes the norm, and this new reality like a plague, distorts us and destroys nations. When the bottom line of the almighty dollar can deprive us of every known human virtue, when the psychotic split tears asunder our very soul; has the end game of divide and conquer been achieved? Is perhaps this disease the very underpinnings used for the ultimate dominance? A control that no longer needs to be monitored from the outside, as we have become our own jailers? And as this narcissistic culture erodes the bedrock of self, and ultimately the foundation of humanity, we stand in silent witness to the blood-letting that sweeps across our world. The necessary ‘food supply’ of innocence and beauty in which we needed to see ourselves, and had once feasted upon, has been replaced. Now we laughingly call ourselves Masters of the Universe. Our vanity and conceit and arrogance, knowing no bounds, is quick to demonize any culture that rebukes our hall of mirrors. Selling our illusions and delusions of omnipotence, we must ridicule and bully those who have not entered the well of secular materialism with us. Is this disease the nuts and bolts, in the ‘how to’ manual of the Protocols? The psychological underbelly that allows for the New World Order? And perhaps that last question, for we have come full circle, can now be answered. Why have Muslims been demonized?
An excerpt from Ian Buckley’s, latest article “Why is Islam so feared and derided today?” states:
“Muslims will have to face the fact that they are hated, not for their vices, but for their virtues. The normal mind to a large extent rebels against such a novel thought. As with the true story of what really happened on September 11th, the average person has a mental block when confronted by the perverse, amoral wickedness implied by ‘hatred of virtues’.”
And what is virtue: moral excellence, goodness, righteousness, ethical principles, and admirable qualities. Would these definitions of virtue be seen as fundamental to our very well being? If so, then I guess, Muslims may justly be called Fundamentalists. And the opposite of virtue or as Mr. Buckley so aptly put it, “hatred of virtues”, could these be described as: pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed, and sloth? Are not these sins more apt to be associated with our culture than theirs? And if so, than do Muslims terrify us as they live a life of virtue? Is that what we mean by terrorists? Do we project unto them our fearful demons? And as the disease of narcissism progresses to our eventual unraveling, do we hope and secretly pray that the proverb of ‘Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you’, will never apply to us? The drums of our delusion as Masters of the Universe dissolve into suicide, homelessness, child prostitution, and addiction. We sell an empty bag of tricks, and others aren’t buying it. It was never about land, or even oil, was it? It was about looking at our brother in the eye and knowing that we aren’t even the lesser of two evils, we have reached first place.
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