DavidB

The White House is taking umbrage over new press reports that George W. Bush misled the American people on a key justification for invading Iraq. But Bush’s latest excuse – that he was just an unwitting conveyor of bad information, not a willful purveyor of lies – has been stretched
thin by overuse.

Nevertheless, White House spokesman Scott McClellan lashed out at a Washington Post report that in May 2003, Bush described two Iraqi trailers as mobile biological weapons labs although two days earlier a Pentagon field investigation had debunked those suspicions in a report to Washington.

“The lead in the Washington Post left the impression for the reader that the President was saying something he knew at the time not to be true,” McClellan said on April 12, 2006. “That is absolutely false and it is irresponsible, and I don’t know how the Washington Post can defend something so irresponsible.”

But the t***h is that Bush has been caught, again and again, relying on lies and distortions to confuse the American people about the Iraq War. Sometimes, he can blame U.S. intelligence agencies for the false
information, but other times, he simply lies about facts that he personally knows.

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Founder of Delta Force: "There is No Real Threat to the US in the World"

"Bush has formented world war three"
"Americans v**ed for a second Bush administration out of fear, so fear is what they're going to have from now on."

Q: What's your assessment of the war in Iraq?

A: Utter debacle. But it had to be from the very first. The reasons were wrong. The reasons of this administration for taking this nation to war were not what they stated. (Army Gen.) Tommy Franks was brow-beaten and ... pursued warfare that he knew strategically was wrong in the long term. That's why he retired immediately afterward. His own staff could tell him what was going to happen afterward.

We have fomented civil war in Iraq. We have probably fomented internecine war in the Muslim world between the Shias and the Sunnis, and I think Bush may well have started the third world war, all for their own personal policies.

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Secretary of Homeland Insecurity
The New York Times | Editorial

Friday 24 March 2006

Sometimes it's hard to understand just how Michael Chertoff understands his title, secretary of homeland security. Take this week, when Mr. Chertoff appeared before executives of the chemical industry, whose plants remain one of the nation's greatest vulnerabilities more than four years after 9/11. Mr. Chertoff did not chastise the industry for failing to protect their plants adequately. He proposed weak federal safety standards. He did not even fully embrace a recently introduced bipartisan Senate bill that would create meaningful standards.

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'Is Another 9/11 in the Works?'


Posted on Thursday, March 16 @ 10:09:16 EST

Paul Craig Roberts, Antiwar.com

If you were President George W. Bush with all available US troops tied down by the Iraqi resistance, and you were unable to control Iraq or political developments in the country, would you also start a war with Iran?

Yes, you would.

Bush's determination to spread Middle East conflict by striking at Iran does not make sense.

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The Bush Administration's Top 40 Lies
about War and Terrorism

By Steve Perry

Editor's note: In the interest of relative brevity I've stinted on citing and quoting sources in some of the items below. You can find links to news stories that elaborate on each of these items at my online Bush Wars column, www.bushwarsblog.com.

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Why We Fight

By: Karen Kwiatkowski, Ph.D

Director Eugene Jarecki has put together a wonderful, moving and important film that examines the modern American military machine and the modern American militaristic mindset.

His film is the 2005 Sundance Film Festival’s Documentary Award-winning Why We Fight. The title of the film recalls Frank Capra’s World War II films – popular movies that promoted, eulogized and helped mythologize America’s participation and sacrifice in that war.

We fought in World War II for many reasons, but mostly it seems, because we believed.

Why We Fight carefully illustrates how our beliefs, our national character, our shared view of ourselves as Americans have changed since World War II. Jarecki utilizes President Eisenhower’s famous farewell speech of January 17th, 1961. In this speech, Ike warned of a growing military-industrial complex, and its possible negative impact on our democracy and our republic. As the late Colonel David Hackworth used to remind me, Eisenhower spoke of the dangers presented by military-industrial-congressional complex.

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TWO ENDURING MYTHS
Posted April 29, 2005
There are two enduring myths that permeate American culture, which we
all subscribe to in varying degrees, regardless of our religious views.
They are the myth of an independent news industry consisting of diverse
interests competing to bring you the t***h, and the myth of our
government protecting us from evil and harm.
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THE SECRET GOVERNMENT - Bill Moyers

THE SECRET GOVERNMENT

The following is a transcript of a 1987 PBS TV program, narrated by Bill Moyers:

THE SECRET GOVERNMENT ­ The Constitution In Crisis

Bill Moyers: "The Secret Government is an interlocking network of official functionaries,

spies, mercenaries, ex-generals, profiteers and superpatriots, who, for a variety of motives,

operate outside the legitimate institutions of government. Presidents have turned to them

when they can't win the support of the Congress or the people, creating that unsupervised

power so feared by the framers of our Constitution. Just imagine that William Casey's

dream came true. Suppose the enterprise grew into a super-secret, self-financing,

self-perpetuating organization. Suppose they decided on their own to assassinate Gorbachev

or the leader of white South Africa . Could a President control them and what if he became the

enterprise's public enemy Number One? Who would know? Who would say no?"

"The history of our secret government."
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How our governments use terrorism to control us
By Tim Howells
Online Journal Contributing Writer

Nov 28, 2005, 13:55

The sponsorship of terrorism by western governments, targeting their own

populations, has been a taboo subject. Although major scandals have received

cursory coverage in the media, the subject has been allowed to immediately

disappear without discussion or investigation. Therefore the appearance this

year of two major studies of this subject is a welcome breakthrough, and provides

essential reading for anyone struggling to understand the events of September 11,

2001 and the post September 11 world.

The studies are complementary. NATO's Secret Armies, Operation Gladio and

Terrorism in Western Europe by Daniele Ganser concerns terrorism sponsored

by American and British intelligence in Western Europe and Turkey between the

end of World War II and 1985. The War on T***h, 9/11, Disinformation, and the

Anatomy of Terrorism by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed chronicles the cultivation and

sponsorship of militant Islamic terrorism by the intelligence services of the United States,

Britain and Russia from 1979 to the present. Both studies are models of scholarship --

meticulously documented and carefully reasoned -- but the world they reveal will boggle

the mind of the most wild-eyed conspiracy theorist.

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The Best Enemies Money Can Buy

From Hitler To Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden -
Insider Connections and the Bush Family's Partnership
with K**lers of Americans

Brown Brothers, Harriman - BNL- and the Carlyle Group

By Michael C. Ruppert

FTW, Oct. 9, 2001 - Since the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon, major media powerhouses and the increasingly
influential alternative media alike have begun to focus attention on Bush
family connections and a long history of arming and financing America's
attackers in the months and years prior to the outbreak of war. Recent
stories in the Wall Street Journal (Sept. 27 & 28, 2001), ABC News (Oct.
1, 2001), as well as a host of reports from so-called alternative news
sources have begun to focus attention on the Bush family's
profit-making role in creating and arming our enemies.

The following is a more comprehensive look at the documented history of
these relationships that will also open some new avenues of inquiry for
the press, Congress and the American people.

In a world now filled with biowarfare agents, backpack nuclear devices,
and chemical weapons like Sarin gas -- where there are people in many
countries with reasons to oppose the United States -- the Bush
Administration is following predictable strategies in a way that redefines the
concept of brinksmanship. Human survival may depend upon the will and
the ability of both the Congress and the press to focus on these
relationships and to take appropriate action. Moreover - and I am not the first
to say this - if a national security priority is to seize the financial
assets of those who support terrorists, then perhaps we should start
right here at home.
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Wars Are a Contrivance of Military-Industrial Complex

By Karl Schwarz

There is an interesting part at the beginning of the movie Braveheart -

“I shall tell you of William Wallace. Historians from England will say I am a

liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.”

That is a very true statement. I have watched over the years as one president after

another has conducted themselves in dishonorable ways and then control the facts

and suppress the t***h so history is written to make them look good. None in the

history of this nation have been more guilty of such actions than George H W Bush,

Bill Clinton and George W Bush. Each of them has had more spin doctors than advisors with brains.

To understand why Washington, DC does what it does, you must first understand

who the enemy really is. Our biggest enemy is within our gates. Our biggest enemy is homegrown.

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Cracking the Case: An Interview With Sibel Edmonds

by Scott Horton

"Sibel Edmonds: Absolutely. And I cannot go into any details. … But even the

AIPAC spy scandal, as far as I'm reading today, is just touching the surface of it.

It's going only to a certain degree. It doesn't go high enough, in what it involves and

how far it goes, and that's as far, and the best – as far as I can explain."

The following is the transcript of my Aug. 13 interview with the courageous FBI

linguist/whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. What connection does Sibel Edmonds' story

have to the prosecution of Larry Franklin, Steve Rosen, and Keith Weissman of the

Pentagon/AIPAC spy scandal? And for that matter, to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001?

The answer has something to do with international drug, weapon, and money-laundering rings,

and their ties to terrorists and unnamed officials of the Departments of State and Defense.

This mess also goes back to at least 1997. Sibel says that when the t***h comes out, it

will make the AIPAC case look "lame" by comparison. Who are the State Department

officials 1 and 2 and the Defense Department officials 1 and 2 referred to in the AIPAC

indictments[1][2]? Are they the same unnamed officials in the new Vanity Fair piece

about Edmonds ? Are these the same neocons who hired Iranian spy Ahmed Chalabi,

lied us into war with Iraq , drew up the occupation plans, and leaked the name of Valerie

Plame to the press? Is the quashed federal investigation out of Chicago into corruption on

the part of high-level members of both parties, referred to in the article as "the reason" Sibel

was gagged by John Ashcroft, related to the investigation of terrorist financing by former

agent Robert Wright? What does Patrick "Bulldog" Fitzgerald know about it? Which countries

involved in the international heroin market are the subject of such "sensitive diplomatic relations"

that their involvement in 9/11 should not be known to the people of the United States ? Uzbekistan ?

Tajikistan ? Kyrgyzstan ? Pakistan ? Kosovo?

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All Roads Lead to PNAC

(Deep Background to Fitz Saga)


With indictments due this week, those not familiar with PNAC might want to

know how/why we came to this historic moment in time.


George W. Bush constantly reminds the nation about the threat of terrorism

that began with 911 but he leaves out a few important details that you should know.........

In June 1997, the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) was born.

Populated by influential Movers of industry and Shakers of public opinion, the

PNAC is an organization united in the vision for a global U.S. empire - "Pax Americana" -

through coercion and military domination. Their philosophy can be simply summarized:

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AL QAEDA, U.S. OIL COMPANIES, AND CENTRAL ASIA

This very informative article clearly shows that our support of Arab terrorists in Central

Asia has been this country's policy since Ronald Reagan for the sole purpose of gaining inroads

into the oil-rich areas of central Asia . It is clear to me that the union of US oil

companies and United States government, now run by oil executives, led to the plan of

9/11 so that United States oil companies with the protection of the United States

military could take over the oil fields in Central Asia .

What is slowly emerging from Al Qaeda activities in Central Asia in the

1990s is the extent to which they involved both American oil companies

and the U.S. government. By now we know that the U.S.-protected

movements of al Qaeda terrorists into regions like Afghanistan , Azerbaijan

and Kosovo have served the interests of U.S. oil companies. In many cases

they have also provided pretexts or opportunities for a U.S. military commitment

and even troops to follow.

In my book Drugs, Oil, and War, I quote again from Olivier Roy:

"It is the Americans who have made inroads in Central Asia , primarily

because of the oil and gas interests. Chevron and Unocal are political

actors who talk as equals with the States (that is, with the presidents).”

It is clear they talk as equals in the current Bush Administration. Both

the President and Vice-President are former oilmen, as were some of their

oldest friends and political backers, like Kenneth Lay of Enron

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Latest Bin Laden Tape: Another of the NeoCons' "Greatest Hits"


Experts already begin to come forward with revelations that

Latest tape just another CIA f**e

Steve Watson | January 20 2006
http://infowars.com http://prisonplanet.net

Spying? Torture? Illegal airstrikes? SHUT UP and h**e Bin Laden.

The NeoCon use of Osama Bin Laden as a tool of fear and control is a
tried and tested method whenever the going gets tough. It's predictable
and it's tiresome, but the masses buy it every time and that's why he
has reappeared once again.

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When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing

By William M. Arkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, Feb. 1, 1999

"Gentlemen! We have called you together to inform you that we are going to o*******w the

United States government." So begins a statement being delivered by Gen. Carl W. Steiner,

former Commander-in-chief, U.S. Special Operations Command.

At least the voice sounds amazingly like him.

But it is not Steiner. It is the result of voice "morphing" technology developed at the Los Alamos

National Laboratory in New Mexico.

By taking just a 10-minute digital recording of Steiner's voice, scientist George Papcun is able, in

near real time, to clone speech patterns and develop an accurate facsimile. Steiner was so impressed,

he asked for a copy of the tape.

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Bin Laden Tape Probably F**ed by CIA

Cheryl Seal

Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:27

Back in 2002, the Bush administration was chagrined when the world's foremost voice

identification experts, a group in Swizterland called IDIAP analyzed several Bin Laden

tapes and concluded that a "CIA-verified" bin Laden tape was NOT Bin Laden, but

someone whose voice patterns resembled the terrorist's. Now again we have a Bin Laden

tape that arrives just when Bush needs a "terrorist diversion." And once again, we have

only the CIA "experts" verifying the authenticity. So why since 2002 hasn't the IDIAP

been called in to verify these always conveniently timed tapes? And why is no CIA

expert ever actually named?

And as further evidence of how closely the US media is colluding with Bush, journalists

who once queried the institute for their opinion on the authenticity of bin Laden tapes

are no longer doing so.


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Osama bin Laden-Diabolical Bogeyman or Government

Scapegoat

Web Page containing links to articles and streaming videos showing that

Osama bin Laden is clearly a government scapegoat.

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The Bin Laden Tapes: Fact or Fiction

by Jason Kernahan

05/10/04 "ICH" -- The audiotapes of Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein have

become an extremely important link between these figures and the outside world.

Through them they have been able to convey political rhetoric to their enemies and

followers alike, to issue threats, and even claim responsibility for terrorist acts perpetrated

by their followers.

So while their usefulness can hardly be questioned, how much do we really know about

the origins of these audiotapes, or their authenticity? Precious little time is dedicated to

such considerations. But as we will see, closer scrutiny will actually shake our certainty

in both departments and hopefully inspire a reevaluation of the standards by which we

judge similar evidence in the future.

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Bin Laden Tape' Warns of Attacks

Bush's Poll Numbers Are Low So a Terrorist Attack

is Necessary

Arabic TV station al-Jazeera has aired an audio tape, which CIA analysts say

is by al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

Loki Loc: Georgia

Great post! Very informative and well presented!

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Too early for such humor this early in the morning loki--Glad I wasn't sippen my coffee just then~~ :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Steve700

George Bush is not a liar to any further extent than any other politician. Now take Barack Obama; he is a pathological liar that can't open his mouth without fibbing. On top of that he is a "trained deceiver" --- yeah what else do you call it, when he was under the tutelage of Bill Ayers and is and the community organizer's playbook Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. (He used to teach that book too)

Beyond all that George Bush's motives were noble. He understood (although he never let us in on it) the savage and s*********t nature of Islam and had intended on taking over and converting the whole Middle East to democracy starting with Iraq that he hoped to turn into a thriving democracy that other Muslim countries would want to emulate. This was a long-term plan that ended with Obama. Iran was to be next. The big problem was he didn't understand Islam well enough and it's written in stone incompatibility with democracy. And then of course, they knew about bin Laden's plan to bring down the twin towers. And instead of putting a stop to it they let him do it and set the buildings with explosives to bring them down relatively safely. (As an excuse to get the American people behind the idea of going to war with Islam) Anyway that's what I believe and there's plenty of proof of it.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

:thumbup: :thumbup:

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

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DavidB

[quote=Steve700]George Bush is not a liar to any further extent than any other politician. Now take Barack Obama; he is a pathological liar that can't open his mouth without fibbing. On top of that he is a "trained deceiver" --- yeah what else do you call it, when he was under the tutelage of Bill Ayers and is and the community organizer's playbook Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. (He used to teach that book too)

Beyond all that George Bush's motives were noble. He understood (although he never let us in on it) the savage and s*********t nature of Islam and had intended on taking over and converting the whole Middle East to democracy starting with Iraq that he hoped to turn into a thriving democracy that other Muslim countries would want to emulate. This was a long-term plan that ended with Obama. Iran was to be next. The big problem was he didn't understand Islam well enough and it's written in stone incompatibility with democracy. And then of course, they knew about bin Laden's plan to bring down the twin towers. And instead of putting a stop to it they let him do it and set the buildings with explosives to bring them down relatively safely. (As an excuse to get the American people behind the idea of going to war with Islam) Anyway that's what I believe and there's plenty of proof of iT

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weneedrubio

Bunch of BS, he started with supposed quotes from the originator of the Delta Force, ironic since that man he died in 1984.

Tasine Loc: Southwest US

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What are you trying to convey? And why? Civilization is at death's door and we are still wallowing in lies from the distant past? Why?

CDM Loc: Florida

The intel for both Presidents comes from essentially the same intel source.

One president was attacked on his watch, one was not...

3000 Americans were k**led in that attack...

Having been attacked George Bush acted on intel given to him at the time. He made a decisions he though in the best interest of Americans at the time. Decisions have consequences...He has never avoided responsibility for his decisions. Not once...

Barack Obama has not been attacked on his watch. He was handed a win. He acts on intel given to him at the time. He makes few decisions. Not making decisions has consequences. He is consistent in blaming his predecessor, his administration and the baby sitter for his indecisiveness, his lack of courage and blatantly obvious confusion...

Both presidents, yes. But that's where the similarity ends...

George Bush is an American...OH, and if the s**t ever hits the fan...I want you in front of me at all times...

Tasine Loc: Southwest US

Ditto!!! Every word, DITTO!! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

JMHO Loc: Utah

Excellent, and very accurate statement. Thanks for putting that together...well said!

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

CDM wrote:
The intel for both Presidents comes from essentially the same intel source.

One president was attacked on his watch, one was not...

3000 Americans were k**led in that attack...

Having been attacked George Bush acted on intel given to him at the time. He made a decisions he though in the best interest of Americans at the time. Decisions have consequences...He has never avoided responsibility for his decisions. Not once...

Barack Obama has not been attacked on his watch. He was handed a win. He acts on intel given to him at the time. He makes few decisions. Not making decisions has consequences. He is consistent in blaming his predecessor, his administration and the baby sitter for his indecisiveness, his lack of courage and blatantly obvious confusion...

Both presidents, yes. But that's where the similarity ends...

George Bush is an American...OH, and if the s**t ever hits the fan...I want you in front of me at all times...


Ditto!!! Every word, DITTO!!

Excellent CDM, just excellent~~can't wait to see the replies, doubt there will be many.....Just not able to appreciate the t***h.. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

VladimirPee

The positive proof that the mobile trailers were not weapons labs wasn't verified until US Experts could physically examine then . They issued their report on May 27 2003

Loki Loc: Georgia

I'm already on my second pot. The first was to get my heart started. At my age, it sometimes takes a little doing.