Wednesday, November 30, 2005
BUSH RAP
"Victory! Victory! No retreat!
Stay the course! Smoke 'em out!
Whip my horse! Bomb the enemy!
Kill the terrorists there
so we don't have to here!
No torture unless we have to!
No cut and run!
Stay the course!
Kill the enemy!
Stop the insurgents!
Listen to my generals!
Stand down when they stand up!
Democracy through force!
War is peace!
Freedom is slavery!
Love is Hate!
Victory! Victory! No retreat”
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
BUSH IN EL PASO
"Hello El Paso!
I'm here on a quick stop.
Can't stay long.
I fought the law and the law won.
Got to get back to the White House...or am I still on vacation at Crawford? Well, anyway, I'm here in El Paso to secure the border and spread more freedom.
Sure like your Mexican food. I like to think outside of the bun, too.
Well, time to get back on my big jet airplane...time keeps on slippin' into the future...Adios and keep grillin' those beans!"
I'm here on a quick stop.
Can't stay long.
I fought the law and the law won.
Got to get back to the White House...or am I still on vacation at Crawford? Well, anyway, I'm here in El Paso to secure the border and spread more freedom.
Sure like your Mexican food. I like to think outside of the bun, too.
Well, time to get back on my big jet airplane...time keeps on slippin' into the future...Adios and keep grillin' those beans!"
Monday, November 28, 2005
FOREKNOWLEDGE OF 9-11?
"9/11 ushered in an era of permanent war, rule-by-fear, illegal torture, and indefinite detentions-all justified by an attack that the Bush Administration claimed was a complete surprise. But as publisher of the critical Bush biography Fortunate Son, Sander Hicks had a unique position from which to cast a hard look at the official story around the attacks. With original research and interviews, his new book, The Big Wedding: 9/11, the Whistle-Blowers and the Cover-Up, provides a new level of proof that Bush's advisors had detailed foreknowledge of 9/11. The Big Wedding examines the CIA's controlling, client relationship with Pakistani intelligence, who had close, documented, under-reported links to the 9/11 terrorists. In Big Wedding, Hicks hits the road and in Florida, finds FBI whistle-blower Randy Glass, who documents how the FBI was warned by Pakistani intelligence three years before the attacks." "Michael Chertoff: Defender of Terror", Sander Hicks, Paranoia The Conspiracy Reader
"9-11 was indeed an inside job, and perpetrated by the greatest and most despicable international gangsters and mass-murderers that have ever taken over any nation in all of Mankind's torrid history." Theodore E. Lang
"9-11 was indeed an inside job, and perpetrated by the greatest and most despicable international gangsters and mass-murderers that have ever taken over any nation in all of Mankind's torrid history." Theodore E. Lang
Sunday, November 27, 2005
NOTABLE QUOTES
"A precipitous withdrawal from Iraq would be a victory for the terrorists, an invitation to further violence against free nations and a terrible blow to the future security of the US."
DicK Cheney, In a speech at the American Enterprise Insitute, Monday, November 21, 2005
"The first thing you do is bring the troops home. And you don’t listen to anyone who says: "We can’t do that now. We knocked their countries down and now must put them back up again. We knocked them down with our tax dollars, and with our tax dollars we must rebuild them — our sort of urban renewal."
"None of that! We go. They want us out of there — the longer we stay, the more they’re going to kill us, and the more they will be killed. And the more outrages they will perpetrate on us here at home. Get out. No more adventures. Forget about our friends in the Middle East who want us to attack Iran and Syria. Forget them. Tell them to get lost. Cut the Pentagon budget by 50 percent. That’ll give you enough money to properly educate the people so they will know their own history, and when a bunch of thugs come along proposing to fleece the taxpayer — they will recognize them, because they will know about them from past history."
Gore Vidal, columns, November 4-11, 2004, LAWEEKLY
"What’s the bottom line of what Bush is saying now? That we are now in Iraq and have to stay the course because … the terrorists want us there. As the White House transcript puts it, “Our goal is to defeat the terrorists and their allies at the heart of their power, so we will defeat the enemy in Iraq.” But-the terrorists we’re fighting now didn’t have any power in Iraq until our invasion." Christopher Dickey, "The Terrorist Temptation", Newsweek, November 17, 2005
"Time Magazine asked if it troubled him that he had been initiated into the Society when he was a young man. President Bush responded, "No qualms at all. I was honored." Inevitably some people, knowing the Skull and Bones reputation of blasphemy, were surprised that the President said he was "honored." Others, particularly Christians defended him saying, in effect, "Let's put this aside. He was forgiven of that when he accepted Christ." The disturbing fact, however, is that President Bush's statement came many years after he announced he had accepted Jesus as his Lord and Saviour."
"In 1924 Prescott Bush became manager of the United Steel Works of the Union Banking Corporation that was seized in October, 1942, by the U.S. government. Prescott was charged with "running Nazi-funded groups in the United States." He was involved in the use of slave-labor in Southern Poland, and Congressional investigators found that United Steel Works supplied 50.8 percent of the pig iron needed by the Nazi war machine.
Ten years later he was elected U.S. Senator from Connecticut."
"George (Senior), in the 1980s, was involved in arming Iran in its bloody war against our then ally Iraq. (The United States, I have also painfully learned, armed Saddam Hussein against Iraq,including providing him ingredients for chemical warfare. Among other reasons there was a great deal of money to be made arming both sides of such a war by companies that were financially supporting the election campaigns of the Reagan and Bush administrations.)"
"Prescott Bush was involved with Union Banking, while George W. (Junior), I discovered in my researches, was involved with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, partially owned by Osama bin Laden's ber-in-law Khalid bin Malfouz . Bank of Credit was called by the U.S. Senate "one of the largest criminal enterprises in history." Before September 11, 2001, Malfouz was identified as a major supporter of bin Laden's Jihad. George W. Bush's business relations with the bin Laden's go back to the 1970s, when Mr. Malfouz arranged a sweetheart loan of $25 million to bail out of the troubles of his failing oil business."
"Is the President's Soul in Jeopardy?", Lewis Alper, counterpunch, November 26-27, 2005
DicK Cheney, In a speech at the American Enterprise Insitute, Monday, November 21, 2005
"The first thing you do is bring the troops home. And you don’t listen to anyone who says: "We can’t do that now. We knocked their countries down and now must put them back up again. We knocked them down with our tax dollars, and with our tax dollars we must rebuild them — our sort of urban renewal."
"None of that! We go. They want us out of there — the longer we stay, the more they’re going to kill us, and the more they will be killed. And the more outrages they will perpetrate on us here at home. Get out. No more adventures. Forget about our friends in the Middle East who want us to attack Iran and Syria. Forget them. Tell them to get lost. Cut the Pentagon budget by 50 percent. That’ll give you enough money to properly educate the people so they will know their own history, and when a bunch of thugs come along proposing to fleece the taxpayer — they will recognize them, because they will know about them from past history."
Gore Vidal, columns, November 4-11, 2004, LAWEEKLY
"What’s the bottom line of what Bush is saying now? That we are now in Iraq and have to stay the course because … the terrorists want us there. As the White House transcript puts it, “Our goal is to defeat the terrorists and their allies at the heart of their power, so we will defeat the enemy in Iraq.” But-the terrorists we’re fighting now didn’t have any power in Iraq until our invasion." Christopher Dickey, "The Terrorist Temptation", Newsweek, November 17, 2005
"Time Magazine asked if it troubled him that he had been initiated into the Society when he was a young man. President Bush responded, "No qualms at all. I was honored." Inevitably some people, knowing the Skull and Bones reputation of blasphemy, were surprised that the President said he was "honored." Others, particularly Christians defended him saying, in effect, "Let's put this aside. He was forgiven of that when he accepted Christ." The disturbing fact, however, is that President Bush's statement came many years after he announced he had accepted Jesus as his Lord and Saviour."
"In 1924 Prescott Bush became manager of the United Steel Works of the Union Banking Corporation that was seized in October, 1942, by the U.S. government. Prescott was charged with "running Nazi-funded groups in the United States." He was involved in the use of slave-labor in Southern Poland, and Congressional investigators found that United Steel Works supplied 50.8 percent of the pig iron needed by the Nazi war machine.
Ten years later he was elected U.S. Senator from Connecticut."
"George (Senior), in the 1980s, was involved in arming Iran in its bloody war against our then ally Iraq. (The United States, I have also painfully learned, armed Saddam Hussein against Iraq,including providing him ingredients for chemical warfare. Among other reasons there was a great deal of money to be made arming both sides of such a war by companies that were financially supporting the election campaigns of the Reagan and Bush administrations.)"
"Prescott Bush was involved with Union Banking, while George W. (Junior), I discovered in my researches, was involved with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, partially owned by Osama bin Laden's ber-in-law Khalid bin Malfouz . Bank of Credit was called by the U.S. Senate "one of the largest criminal enterprises in history." Before September 11, 2001, Malfouz was identified as a major supporter of bin Laden's Jihad. George W. Bush's business relations with the bin Laden's go back to the 1970s, when Mr. Malfouz arranged a sweetheart loan of $25 million to bail out of the troubles of his failing oil business."
"Is the President's Soul in Jeopardy?", Lewis Alper, counterpunch, November 26-27, 2005
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
**C* OFF!
It has been revealed that for the past five years John Cheney has been telling the American people the very same thing that he told Senator Patrick Leahy.
It is a sad and shocking
revelation,
but it is one that all citizens need to face… or rather avoid.
It is a sad and shocking
revelation,
but it is one that all citizens need to face… or rather avoid.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
NOTABLE NEWS
Teen's Mannequin Love-In
"A teenager has been charged with indecent exposure after he was caught trying to have sex with a female mannequin on display at an arts centre" in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
"Security guards found Michael Plentyhorse, 18, sprawled with the dummy on the floor with his trousers and pants down."
"Police spokesman Loren McManus said: "There was inappropriate activity between him and the mannequin."
"If convicted, Plentyhorse may be registered as a sex offender."
[SKYNEWS, November 21, 2005]
THE NEW BUDDHA
"Thousands of pilgrims are pouring into the dense jungle of southern Nepal to worship a 15-year-old boy who has been hailed as a new Buddha."
"Devotees claim that Ram Bomjon, who is silently meditating beneath a tree, has not eaten or drunk anything since he sat down at his chosen spot six months ago."
"Ram Bomjon maintains his vigil in the shade of his pipal tree."
"Witnesses say they have seen light emanating from the teenager's forehead."
"It looks a bit like when you shine a torch through your hand," said Tek Bahadur Lama, a member of the committee responsible for dealing with the growing number of visitors from India and elsewhere in Nepal."
[news.telegraph, November 22, 2005]
"A teenager has been charged with indecent exposure after he was caught trying to have sex with a female mannequin on display at an arts centre" in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
"Security guards found Michael Plentyhorse, 18, sprawled with the dummy on the floor with his trousers and pants down."
"Police spokesman Loren McManus said: "There was inappropriate activity between him and the mannequin."
"If convicted, Plentyhorse may be registered as a sex offender."
[SKYNEWS, November 21, 2005]
THE NEW BUDDHA
"Thousands of pilgrims are pouring into the dense jungle of southern Nepal to worship a 15-year-old boy who has been hailed as a new Buddha."
"Devotees claim that Ram Bomjon, who is silently meditating beneath a tree, has not eaten or drunk anything since he sat down at his chosen spot six months ago."
"Ram Bomjon maintains his vigil in the shade of his pipal tree."
"Witnesses say they have seen light emanating from the teenager's forehead."
"It looks a bit like when you shine a torch through your hand," said Tek Bahadur Lama, a member of the committee responsible for dealing with the growing number of visitors from India and elsewhere in Nepal."
[news.telegraph, November 22, 2005]
Monday, November 21, 2005
THE REPREHENSIBLE ORAL CAVITY OF DICK
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." (Dick Cheney, August 26, 2002)
"And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." (Dick Cheney, March 16, 2003)
The oral cavity of Dick Cheney is different today.
Dick has to say so many things out of the two sides of his mouth that it writhes on boths sides now instead of just one.
Dick's oral cavity has expanded.
Dick's defense about the Iraq war is expanding.
But Dick is dodging the ball.
The Downing Street Memo proves that Cheney and Bush wanted to find Intel that would open the doors for their pre-emptive war.
The oral cavity of Dick will continue to open wider and wider, and the American people will continue to recognize "corrupt and shameless" words which attempt to REVISE the facts about how he and the Bush cabal fashioned and interpreted Intel to make the attack and occupation of Iraq acceptable and believable.
"And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." (Dick Cheney, March 16, 2003)
The oral cavity of Dick Cheney is different today.
Dick has to say so many things out of the two sides of his mouth that it writhes on boths sides now instead of just one.
Dick's oral cavity has expanded.
Dick's defense about the Iraq war is expanding.
But Dick is dodging the ball.
The Downing Street Memo proves that Cheney and Bush wanted to find Intel that would open the doors for their pre-emptive war.
The oral cavity of Dick will continue to open wider and wider, and the American people will continue to recognize "corrupt and shameless" words which attempt to REVISE the facts about how he and the Bush cabal fashioned and interpreted Intel to make the attack and occupation of Iraq acceptable and believable.
Saturday, November 19, 2005
HUGO CHAVEZ IS A STREET DOG
If Vicente Fox is a puppy of the U.S. empire, then Hugo Chavez is a big and mean street dog.
It is understandable that Chavez does not want the United States to divide and conquer Venezuela's oil industry.
But Chavez, like Cuba's Castro and Iran's current leader, needs to parse his words more carefully: Bush is not always going to be President of the United States, but since he is it is not wise for other leaders and dictators to irritate the hornets within the burning Bush.
And maybe this is exactly what Syria, Cuba, Iran and Venezuela wish.
They want to combine forces against the mad wasps inside the burning Bush.
Look out.
The fire is going to burn for three more years.
George W. Bush does not like to lose or be considered a loser.
This makes things even more dangerous.
Chill out fellows.
Maybe smoke some of that African bush…
And don’t forget to inhale it.
It is understandable that Chavez does not want the United States to divide and conquer Venezuela's oil industry.
But Chavez, like Cuba's Castro and Iran's current leader, needs to parse his words more carefully: Bush is not always going to be President of the United States, but since he is it is not wise for other leaders and dictators to irritate the hornets within the burning Bush.
And maybe this is exactly what Syria, Cuba, Iran and Venezuela wish.
They want to combine forces against the mad wasps inside the burning Bush.
Look out.
The fire is going to burn for three more years.
George W. Bush does not like to lose or be considered a loser.
This makes things even more dangerous.
Chill out fellows.
Maybe smoke some of that African bush…
And don’t forget to inhale it.
Thursday, November 17, 2005
INVERTEBRATES
"Of the million or more animal species in the world, more than 98% are invertebrates. Invertebrates don't have an internal skeleton made of bone. Many invertebrates have a fluid-filled, hydrostatic skeleton, like the jelly fish or worm. Others have a hard outer shell, like insects and crustaceans. There are many types of invertebrates. The most common invertebrates include the protozoa, annelids, echinoderms, mollusks and arthropods." [www.kidport.com]
Dick Cheney and George W. Bush are not spineless worms or spiders.
But both men are becoming more and more like jittery jellyfish.
Both know that the tide against them is rising.
Each is in his attack mode against those who are voicing resistance to their military blunder and human hubris.
We don't need to call George or Dick liars.
But they and their henchmen (and women) hyped and manipulated the Intel.
It isn't that Bush and Cheney don't want THEIR history to be re-written.
They don't want any history to be written about their false, iniquitous, unpardonable, hellish war.
They misled by selecting scary sound bites based on inaccurate Intel which they manipulated so as to woo, cajole, and convince the American people and Congress that to bomb Iraq and its people was the right thing to do.
It was the WRONG thing to do.
But Dick and George don’t want to see the truth in the shattered mirror before them.
The floor is creaking and the foundation is beginning to crack.
This administration only increases its guilt and wrongdoing by slamming those who now oppose their blunders.
It is not just liberals.
It is not just liberal Democrats.
It is not just radical liberals or radical Democrats.
It is the common fury and frustration of Americans who will produce louder and louder sounds of protest in the coming days.
This administration refuses to face its wrongdoings. The saddest part Dick Cheney is that this nation and the world were subjected to your pernicious falsehoods.
And neither the mind’s memory nor the body’s backbone is being lost.
In fact, the memory of these fabricated reasons for this unnecessary Pre-emptive war is making millions and millions of backbones stronger and more willing to call to a halt your Invertebrate warmongering.
Dick Cheney and George W. Bush are not spineless worms or spiders.
But both men are becoming more and more like jittery jellyfish.
Both know that the tide against them is rising.
Each is in his attack mode against those who are voicing resistance to their military blunder and human hubris.
We don't need to call George or Dick liars.
But they and their henchmen (and women) hyped and manipulated the Intel.
It isn't that Bush and Cheney don't want THEIR history to be re-written.
They don't want any history to be written about their false, iniquitous, unpardonable, hellish war.
They misled by selecting scary sound bites based on inaccurate Intel which they manipulated so as to woo, cajole, and convince the American people and Congress that to bomb Iraq and its people was the right thing to do.
It was the WRONG thing to do.
But Dick and George don’t want to see the truth in the shattered mirror before them.
The floor is creaking and the foundation is beginning to crack.
This administration only increases its guilt and wrongdoing by slamming those who now oppose their blunders.
It is not just liberals.
It is not just liberal Democrats.
It is not just radical liberals or radical Democrats.
It is the common fury and frustration of Americans who will produce louder and louder sounds of protest in the coming days.
This administration refuses to face its wrongdoings. The saddest part Dick Cheney is that this nation and the world were subjected to your pernicious falsehoods.
And neither the mind’s memory nor the body’s backbone is being lost.
In fact, the memory of these fabricated reasons for this unnecessary Pre-emptive war is making millions and millions of backbones stronger and more willing to call to a halt your Invertebrate warmongering.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
WHITE HOUSE ETHICS TRAINING
"Welcome to your first day of Ethics Training.
When you leave today you will feel more ethical.
You will speak and act more ethically.
The President has the greatest confidence that there will be no more ethics' issues.
Our leader believes that sins, even if any were committed, are a thing of the past.
This administration has three more years to...as the President has said...get the job done. As time passes, you will know more about just what this job is. But right now your commander-in-chief wants you to concentrate on your etiquette...I mean your ethics training. Are there any questions?
OK. Let's begin.
Find a hoola-hoop and a party hat.
It's time to twist to some Chubby Checker!"
When you leave today you will feel more ethical.
You will speak and act more ethically.
The President has the greatest confidence that there will be no more ethics' issues.
Our leader believes that sins, even if any were committed, are a thing of the past.
This administration has three more years to...as the President has said...get the job done. As time passes, you will know more about just what this job is. But right now your commander-in-chief wants you to concentrate on your etiquette...I mean your ethics training. Are there any questions?
OK. Let's begin.
Find a hoola-hoop and a party hat.
It's time to twist to some Chubby Checker!"
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
ODE ON IRAQ
Let Sir Bush
Make the Sign
Of the Cross
For his Iraq war that
Was a double-cross!
Let that big smiling Dick
Inspect his oil-stick!
Get Rumsfeld to go to war
With his crooked arms swinging across
Bloody Radioactive Grass!
Make certain that
Miss Condi Rice
Knows a mushroom
Cloud from her ass!
BUSH PUPPIES
1. Karl Rove
2. Dick Cheney
3. Donald Rumsfeld
4. Condoleeza Rice
5. Ann Coulter
6. Sean Hannity
7. Pat Robertson
8. Bill Bennett
9. Tony Blair
10. Vicente Fox
Monday, November 14, 2005
STOP MANIPULATING HISTORY
You've repeated the same cliche-like admonitions twice in three days.
Your message is ringing hollow with the American people and the world.
The game is up.
You can run but you can't hide.
Like the Wizard of Oz, your true face is now being seen.
The data and information and evidence are going to continue to rise from the abyss in which you and your conmen (and women) hide.
Your Office of Special Plans and WHIG reveal your true lies.
People such as Paul O'Neill, Richard Clarke, Joseph Wilson and others also reveal your true colors.
But your chameleon colors will all change to black when the plethora of misinformation and obfuscation all come to light.
The sad tragedy is that you know what the truth is.
The sad truth is that you know what you did.
The sad reality is that you don’t care.
"The CIA was totally undercut since the day Bush occupied the White House (when) he set up a thing called the WHIG (the White House Iraq Group). Basically it was (also) called the Office of Special Plans and this was a group made up of individuals controlled by Mr. Cheney; (they were) Paul Wolfowitz, Michael Leanen, Richard Perle, John Hannah, people like that".
"They were basically involved in creating or gathering intelligence which that they thought was important, as far as proving the case for the war in Iraq. What we know now is that this Office of Special Plans or this WHIG, never really gathered any intelligence at all about the war in Iraq, (but rather); they MANUFACTURED the evidence for the purpose of taking American boys to their deaths, based on a lie."
"Folks, the evidence in. It is the Office of Special Plans. It was a surreptitious conspiracy to take the American people to war for financial and political reasons."
"George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, with deliberation and intent, took this country to war in Iraq based on false premises, inflated intelligence and bald-faced scare tactics. They used September 11 against their own people to get what they wanted. That is the heart of this matter."
"The Office of Special Plans, or OSP, was created by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld specifically to second-guess and reinterpret intelligence data to justify war in Iraq."
"The OSP was on no government payroll and suffered no Congressional oversight. Their tainted information and interpretations overtopped the Iraq data being provided by the State Department and CIA. The OSP was able to accomplish this thanks to devoted patronage from high-ranking members of the administration, most prominently Vice-President Cheney."
"The highest levels of the OSP were staffed by heavy-hitters like Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith and William Luti, a former Navy officer who worked for Cheney before joining the Pentagon. When the OSP wanted to intimidate analysts into shaping conclusions to fit the already-made war decision, Cheney went to CIA headquarters on unprecedented visits."
Your message is ringing hollow with the American people and the world.
The game is up.
You can run but you can't hide.
Like the Wizard of Oz, your true face is now being seen.
The data and information and evidence are going to continue to rise from the abyss in which you and your conmen (and women) hide.
Your Office of Special Plans and WHIG reveal your true lies.
People such as Paul O'Neill, Richard Clarke, Joseph Wilson and others also reveal your true colors.
But your chameleon colors will all change to black when the plethora of misinformation and obfuscation all come to light.
The sad tragedy is that you know what the truth is.
The sad truth is that you know what you did.
The sad reality is that you don’t care.
"The CIA was totally undercut since the day Bush occupied the White House (when) he set up a thing called the WHIG (the White House Iraq Group). Basically it was (also) called the Office of Special Plans and this was a group made up of individuals controlled by Mr. Cheney; (they were) Paul Wolfowitz, Michael Leanen, Richard Perle, John Hannah, people like that".
"They were basically involved in creating or gathering intelligence which that they thought was important, as far as proving the case for the war in Iraq. What we know now is that this Office of Special Plans or this WHIG, never really gathered any intelligence at all about the war in Iraq, (but rather); they MANUFACTURED the evidence for the purpose of taking American boys to their deaths, based on a lie."
"Folks, the evidence in. It is the Office of Special Plans. It was a surreptitious conspiracy to take the American people to war for financial and political reasons."
"George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, with deliberation and intent, took this country to war in Iraq based on false premises, inflated intelligence and bald-faced scare tactics. They used September 11 against their own people to get what they wanted. That is the heart of this matter."
"The Office of Special Plans, or OSP, was created by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld specifically to second-guess and reinterpret intelligence data to justify war in Iraq."
"The OSP was on no government payroll and suffered no Congressional oversight. Their tainted information and interpretations overtopped the Iraq data being provided by the State Department and CIA. The OSP was able to accomplish this thanks to devoted patronage from high-ranking members of the administration, most prominently Vice-President Cheney."
"The highest levels of the OSP were staffed by heavy-hitters like Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith and William Luti, a former Navy officer who worked for Cheney before joining the Pentagon. When the OSP wanted to intimidate analysts into shaping conclusions to fit the already-made war decision, Cheney went to CIA headquarters on unprecedented visits."
THE REAL MAD FLU: S1873
MOUNTAIN VIEWS: FORCED INOCULATIONS BEGINNING OF BUSH'S BAD BIRD FLU PLAN
By John Hanchette
"Last week's column warned of imminent federal legislation that would toss powerful pharmaceutical companies billions of dollars and complete protection from liability suits in case untested and experimental bird flu vaccines damage American recipients. It drew heavy response."
"The bill (S. 1873) -- a big congressional wet kiss to the drug industry -- is dressed up in a noble-sounding title: "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act."
"In essence, however, it would force Americans to receive inoculations against a disease that has yet to kill one of them, while removing their constitutional right to seek redress in our courts in case of injury or death from the shots because of company negligence. The proposal, now moving its way through the Senate, would also ban citizens from using the Freedom of Information Act and other popular informational laws to discover whether the new vaccine (when it is finally produced) was effective and safe, and even whether anyone had suffered adverse reactions to it."
John Hanchette, a professor of journalism at St. Bonaventure University, is a former editor of the Niagara Gazette and a Pulitzer Prize-winning national correspondent. He was a founding editor of USA Today and was recently named by Gannett as one of the Top 10 reporters of the past 25 years. He can be contacted via e-mail at Hanchette6@aol.com.
[Niagara Falls Reporter www.niagarafallsreporter.com Nov. 1 2005]
By John Hanchette
"Last week's column warned of imminent federal legislation that would toss powerful pharmaceutical companies billions of dollars and complete protection from liability suits in case untested and experimental bird flu vaccines damage American recipients. It drew heavy response."
"The bill (S. 1873) -- a big congressional wet kiss to the drug industry -- is dressed up in a noble-sounding title: "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act."
"In essence, however, it would force Americans to receive inoculations against a disease that has yet to kill one of them, while removing their constitutional right to seek redress in our courts in case of injury or death from the shots because of company negligence. The proposal, now moving its way through the Senate, would also ban citizens from using the Freedom of Information Act and other popular informational laws to discover whether the new vaccine (when it is finally produced) was effective and safe, and even whether anyone had suffered adverse reactions to it."
John Hanchette, a professor of journalism at St. Bonaventure University, is a former editor of the Niagara Gazette and a Pulitzer Prize-winning national correspondent. He was a founding editor of USA Today and was recently named by Gannett as one of the Top 10 reporters of the past 25 years. He can be contacted via e-mail at Hanchette6@aol.com.
[Niagara Falls Reporter www.niagarafallsreporter.com Nov. 1 2005]
Saturday, November 12, 2005
NO MORE LIES!
You are wrong again Mr. President.
Your critics do not wish to rewrite history.
They wish to get the history right.
AND SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT!
It is this history that you, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice and others do not want to hear or have revealed.
You want to forget about this nightmare.
But the wolf's clothing has been removed from the sheep.
And the fleece is as white as snow.
The truth is as black as the night.
You want the etiology and history of your PreEmptive War to be silenced.
But history makes a lot of noise when liars lie, especially when the lies are large.
No more pretzels and…no more lies!
Your critics do not wish to rewrite history.
They wish to get the history right.
AND SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT!
It is this history that you, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice and others do not want to hear or have revealed.
You want to forget about this nightmare.
But the wolf's clothing has been removed from the sheep.
And the fleece is as white as snow.
The truth is as black as the night.
You want the etiology and history of your PreEmptive War to be silenced.
But history makes a lot of noise when liars lie, especially when the lies are large.
No more pretzels and…no more lies!
Friday, November 11, 2005
ANOTHER SPEECH
"Bush exploited the worldwide horror felt over the 9/11 attacks to justify the Iraq invasion. His outrageous claim, repeated over and over before and after he dragged the nation into an unnecessary war, was never supported by a single piece of credible evidence. The Bush defense of what is arguably the biggest lie ever put over on the American people is that everyone had gotten the intelligence wrong. Not so at the highest level of US intelligence, as DITSUM No. 044-02 so clearly shows. How could the President not have known?"
"Lying with Intelligence", Robert Scheer, The Nation, 11-08-05
Good Mourning.
I am here on this day of remembrance to give thanks to the many who have sacrificed for the good of this nation.
Today, as yesterday, we must remain vigilant and be prepared to do everything we can to preserve the values of democracy and protect the freedom and liberty which have been endowed to us.
My critics want you to believe that my Shock and Awe invasion of Iraq was based upon manipulated intelligence.
No, it was based on the best available (twisted) intel that my neocon handlers could provide.
I bombed Iraq because the Intel (and God) told me that Saddam had to be removed.
This administration and others believed that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction (but no mushrooms).
Now, the United States is fighting a war against terrorists (who weren't in Iraq before I bombed it) who want to prevent Iraq from becoming free and democratic.
We must not cave in to those who want the U.S. to cut and run (away from a Vietnam-like debacle).
The greater Middle East is watching (in horror) what the United States is going to do in Iraq. The world is watching (in horror) what I do as your leader. We must not fail now to secure Iraq and remove the insurgents and terrorists (which I created).
As your leader, I will not relent to the peaceniks and Christians who are weak and cynical. This war on terror will be won.
I will continue to keep rolling! I will continue to smoke the devils out!
Thank you and God Bless America!
"Lying with Intelligence", Robert Scheer, The Nation, 11-08-05
Good Mourning.
I am here on this day of remembrance to give thanks to the many who have sacrificed for the good of this nation.
Today, as yesterday, we must remain vigilant and be prepared to do everything we can to preserve the values of democracy and protect the freedom and liberty which have been endowed to us.
My critics want you to believe that my Shock and Awe invasion of Iraq was based upon manipulated intelligence.
No, it was based on the best available (twisted) intel that my neocon handlers could provide.
I bombed Iraq because the Intel (and God) told me that Saddam had to be removed.
This administration and others believed that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction (but no mushrooms).
Now, the United States is fighting a war against terrorists (who weren't in Iraq before I bombed it) who want to prevent Iraq from becoming free and democratic.
We must not cave in to those who want the U.S. to cut and run (away from a Vietnam-like debacle).
The greater Middle East is watching (in horror) what the United States is going to do in Iraq. The world is watching (in horror) what I do as your leader. We must not fail now to secure Iraq and remove the insurgents and terrorists (which I created).
As your leader, I will not relent to the peaceniks and Christians who are weak and cynical. This war on terror will be won.
I will continue to keep rolling! I will continue to smoke the devils out!
Thank you and God Bless America!
Thursday, November 10, 2005
PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES WILL GET SPECIAL PROTECTION
Americans deserve Protection from a Pandemic Flu Outbreak
"Congress needs to act to protect Americans from the dangers of a pandemic flu outbreak – and the best way to protect Americans from the flu is to produce safe vaccines."
"But the Bush Administration and Members of Congress are using fear of a flu outbreak as an excuse to slip in huge giveaways to the pharmaceutical industry. Proposals being considered would limit the ability of individuals to hold drug companies accountable if they give people unhealthy or deadly vaccines or drugs, even if they commit gross negligence."
"The bill doesn’t just give immunity to a flu vaccine. The legislation would allow the government to add drugs made by their favorite corporations to a list of those that would be protected. You name it, they could add it to the list."
"Even if it’s not related at all, the drugmaker could receive immunity anyway, if the Secretary of Health and Human Services says so. One person would be given the power to give immunity from all liability to any drug company for any drug!"
"What does that mean for ordinary Americans? It means no remedy if you or your loved ones are injured or killed by a bad dose of vaccine -- or by any dangerous drug that’s on the immunity list!"
"For instance, if a drug maker marketed a drug or vaccine that was approved for adults, but caused serious medical problems and even death when used by children, as was the case with heartburn medicine Propulsid, the parents of an injured child would have no way to hold the drug maker accountable.
And if a contaminated batch of an anti-viral treatment caused massive illness and even death, families would be unable to get any remedy."
"Unfortunately, there have been a number of cases where drug companies placed dangerous drugs on the market, putting their bottom line before the health and safety of the public."
"In the most recent example, the vaccine manufacturer Merck continued to market its pain relief drug Vioxx, even as internal company documents showed that corporate officials were aware of the serious problems with the drug. Before Merck pulled Vioxx from the market, as many as 55,000 Americans were killed by heart attacks and strokes caused by the drug, according to congressional testimony by David Graham a scientist with the Food and Drug Administration."
"Tell Congress to put our families' health and safety before pharmaceutical company profits. If they are really interested in protecting the public's safety, they will stand up for safe vaccines, not special protections for the pharmaceutical industry. Tell Congress, no special protections for the pharmaceutical industry!" (From www.peopleoverprofits.org)
"Congress needs to act to protect Americans from the dangers of a pandemic flu outbreak – and the best way to protect Americans from the flu is to produce safe vaccines."
"But the Bush Administration and Members of Congress are using fear of a flu outbreak as an excuse to slip in huge giveaways to the pharmaceutical industry. Proposals being considered would limit the ability of individuals to hold drug companies accountable if they give people unhealthy or deadly vaccines or drugs, even if they commit gross negligence."
"The bill doesn’t just give immunity to a flu vaccine. The legislation would allow the government to add drugs made by their favorite corporations to a list of those that would be protected. You name it, they could add it to the list."
"Even if it’s not related at all, the drugmaker could receive immunity anyway, if the Secretary of Health and Human Services says so. One person would be given the power to give immunity from all liability to any drug company for any drug!"
"What does that mean for ordinary Americans? It means no remedy if you or your loved ones are injured or killed by a bad dose of vaccine -- or by any dangerous drug that’s on the immunity list!"
"For instance, if a drug maker marketed a drug or vaccine that was approved for adults, but caused serious medical problems and even death when used by children, as was the case with heartburn medicine Propulsid, the parents of an injured child would have no way to hold the drug maker accountable.
And if a contaminated batch of an anti-viral treatment caused massive illness and even death, families would be unable to get any remedy."
"Unfortunately, there have been a number of cases where drug companies placed dangerous drugs on the market, putting their bottom line before the health and safety of the public."
"In the most recent example, the vaccine manufacturer Merck continued to market its pain relief drug Vioxx, even as internal company documents showed that corporate officials were aware of the serious problems with the drug. Before Merck pulled Vioxx from the market, as many as 55,000 Americans were killed by heart attacks and strokes caused by the drug, according to congressional testimony by David Graham a scientist with the Food and Drug Administration."
"Tell Congress to put our families' health and safety before pharmaceutical company profits. If they are really interested in protecting the public's safety, they will stand up for safe vaccines, not special protections for the pharmaceutical industry. Tell Congress, no special protections for the pharmaceutical industry!" (From www.peopleoverprofits.org)
BUSH DICK AND TORTURE
"Our country is at war and our government has the obligation to protect the American people. Anything we do to that end, in that effort, any activity we conduct, is within the law." George W. Bush
"Yep, we gotta do whatever it takes to protect the people, my people, the American people.
Dick is big on this torture thing.
This is a different war.
That Geneva Convention is for them old wars.
Now we have murderers and terrorists who want to see Americans die.
Torture is in the eye of the beholder, and I behold evildoers who want to stop peace and democracy from developing in Iraq.
We will stop the insurgents, and we will not torture ourselves on this matter about torture.
If it takes torture to defeat the terrorists and insurgents, then torture it will be.
Dick, you can take your foot out of my mouth now."
"Yep, we gotta do whatever it takes to protect the people, my people, the American people.
Dick is big on this torture thing.
This is a different war.
That Geneva Convention is for them old wars.
Now we have murderers and terrorists who want to see Americans die.
Torture is in the eye of the beholder, and I behold evildoers who want to stop peace and democracy from developing in Iraq.
We will stop the insurgents, and we will not torture ourselves on this matter about torture.
If it takes torture to defeat the terrorists and insurgents, then torture it will be.
Dick, you can take your foot out of my mouth now."
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
NOTABLE QUOTES #4
"According to the Treasury Department, from 1776-2000, the first 224 years of U.S. history, 42 U.S. presidents borrowed a combined $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and financial institutions, but in the past four years alone, the Bush administration borrowed $1.05 trillion."
"The seriousness of this rapid and increasing financial vulnerability of our country can hardly be overstated," said Rep. John Tanner (D-Tenn.), a leader of the Blue Dog Coalition and member of the House Ways and Means Committee."
"No American political leadership has ever willfully and deliberately mortgaged our country to foreign interests in the manner we have witnessed over the past four years," said Tanner. "If this recklessness is not stopped, I truly believe our economic freedom as American citizens is in great jeopardy."
Melanie Hunter, CNSNews.com, Senior Editor, November 4, 2005
"Seventy-two percent of the public believe oil companies gouged gas prices in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, according to an ABC News poll. Four out of five Americans support a tax on windfall profits to benefit alternative energy sources, the Civil Society Institute recently found. "The polling numbers are so bad for Washington Republicans that there are only two groups less popular than they are right now," the Cato Institute's Jerry Taylor recently told CNBC's Lawrence Kudlow, "Oil companies and mass murderers."
Ari Berman, "Oil Tycoons Grilled on Windfall Profits", The Nation, November 9, 2005
"These days, Americans suspected of no wrongdoing can suddenly find themselves caught up in FBI surveillance operations."
"It's as easy as saying "national security letter."
"Using this little-noticed but potent tool, the FBI can demand, for example, that an Internet provider, bank or phone company turn over records of who you call and e-mail, which websites you visit, how much you spend, where you work, fly and vacation, and much more. No judge has to approve the demand, a common check required on more typical subpoenas.
You'd never learn about the secret intrusion, either. It's all classified." USA Today, November 9, 2005
"The seriousness of this rapid and increasing financial vulnerability of our country can hardly be overstated," said Rep. John Tanner (D-Tenn.), a leader of the Blue Dog Coalition and member of the House Ways and Means Committee."
"No American political leadership has ever willfully and deliberately mortgaged our country to foreign interests in the manner we have witnessed over the past four years," said Tanner. "If this recklessness is not stopped, I truly believe our economic freedom as American citizens is in great jeopardy."
Melanie Hunter, CNSNews.com, Senior Editor, November 4, 2005
"Seventy-two percent of the public believe oil companies gouged gas prices in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, according to an ABC News poll. Four out of five Americans support a tax on windfall profits to benefit alternative energy sources, the Civil Society Institute recently found. "The polling numbers are so bad for Washington Republicans that there are only two groups less popular than they are right now," the Cato Institute's Jerry Taylor recently told CNBC's Lawrence Kudlow, "Oil companies and mass murderers."
Ari Berman, "Oil Tycoons Grilled on Windfall Profits", The Nation, November 9, 2005
"These days, Americans suspected of no wrongdoing can suddenly find themselves caught up in FBI surveillance operations."
"It's as easy as saying "national security letter."
"Using this little-noticed but potent tool, the FBI can demand, for example, that an Internet provider, bank or phone company turn over records of who you call and e-mail, which websites you visit, how much you spend, where you work, fly and vacation, and much more. No judge has to approve the demand, a common check required on more typical subpoenas.
You'd never learn about the secret intrusion, either. It's all classified." USA Today, November 9, 2005
Sunday, November 06, 2005
NOTABLE QUOTES #3
"Topless women holding a protest may be ho-hum in San Francisco, but at the state Capitol, police say such a display could corrupt children, prompt drivers to veer off the road and cause sex offenders to run amok."
"The California Highway Patrol has warned members of an organization called Breasts Not Bombs that if they dare to take their shirts off during a protest scheduled at the Capitol on Monday, they will be arrested and possibly forced to register with the state as sex offenders."
"If Topless, They'll Be Busted", Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times, November 5, 2005
"I understand the preoccupation with polls," he said. "The way you build credibility with the American people is to set a clear agenda ... and get the job done. And the agenda I am working now is important to the American people." George W. Bush
"The Senate Intelligence Committee is fine-tuning the details of a bill that will allow the FBI to secretly procure any of your personal records without "probable cause" or a court order giving them "unchecked authority to pry into personal and business matters"? (New York Times, "Republicans seek to widen FBI Powers, 10-19-05)
"On June 29, President Bush put "a broad swath of the FBI"
under his direct control by creating the National Security Service (aka; the "New SS")? This is the first time we've had a "secret police" in our 200 year history. It will be run exclusively by the president and beyond the range of congressional oversight."
"Within 2 years every American license and passport will be made according to federal uniform standards including microchips (with biometric information) that will allow the government to trace every movement of its citizens"
"The cloak of disinformation and diversion has successfully obscured the perils of our present course. Freedom is no longer guaranteed in Bush's America nor is liberty everyman's birthright. The rickety scaffolding that supports the rule of law has been replaced by the unbridled authority of the supreme presidency. The country is slipping inexorably towards the Orwellian nightmare; the National Security State."
"America Drifts Rapidly Towards A Police State", Mike Whitney, ZMag.org, 11-5-05
"The California Highway Patrol has warned members of an organization called Breasts Not Bombs that if they dare to take their shirts off during a protest scheduled at the Capitol on Monday, they will be arrested and possibly forced to register with the state as sex offenders."
"If Topless, They'll Be Busted", Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times, November 5, 2005
"I understand the preoccupation with polls," he said. "The way you build credibility with the American people is to set a clear agenda ... and get the job done. And the agenda I am working now is important to the American people." George W. Bush
"The Senate Intelligence Committee is fine-tuning the details of a bill that will allow the FBI to secretly procure any of your personal records without "probable cause" or a court order giving them "unchecked authority to pry into personal and business matters"? (New York Times, "Republicans seek to widen FBI Powers, 10-19-05)
"On June 29, President Bush put "a broad swath of the FBI"
under his direct control by creating the National Security Service (aka; the "New SS")? This is the first time we've had a "secret police" in our 200 year history. It will be run exclusively by the president and beyond the range of congressional oversight."
"Within 2 years every American license and passport will be made according to federal uniform standards including microchips (with biometric information) that will allow the government to trace every movement of its citizens"
"The cloak of disinformation and diversion has successfully obscured the perils of our present course. Freedom is no longer guaranteed in Bush's America nor is liberty everyman's birthright. The rickety scaffolding that supports the rule of law has been replaced by the unbridled authority of the supreme presidency. The country is slipping inexorably towards the Orwellian nightmare; the National Security State."
"America Drifts Rapidly Towards A Police State", Mike Whitney, ZMag.org, 11-5-05
Friday, November 04, 2005
MORE NOTABLE QUOTATIONS
"This administration seeks for Congress to grant it the power to use America's military to enforce domestic order and impose martial law. President Bush stated, "I think the president ought to have all options on the table, all assets on the table to be able to deal with something this significant." That ought to bother us deeply; so deeply that we take decisive action and let our elected officials know that this proposed action is a step too far."
"The Militarization of Health Care: Bird Flu and the Posse Comitatus Act", Jill S. Farrell, Counterpunch, November 5/6, 2005
"When a GOP strategist suggested last weekend that the President fire Rove, Bush exploded."
"'You go to hell,' he screamed at the strategist. 'You can leave and you can take the rest of these lily-livered motherfuckers with you!' The President then stormed out of the room and refused to meet further with any other party leaders or strategists."
"Bush's escalating temper tantrums and his intransigence on political issues increase Republican worries about the long term effects on both his presidency and the party's prospects in upcoming elections."
"'Right now, George W. Bush is the Republican Party's chief liability,' says a GOP strategist who has advised Presidential campaigns for 30 years. 'The entire political future of the party and perhaps the nation now rests on the shoulders of a President that no one - Democrat or Republican - believes in or trusts.'"
"GOP Leaders to Bush: Your Presidency is Effectively Over", Doug Thompson,Capitol Hill Blue, Novermber 4, 2005
"Cheney's office is the Pandora's Box of the Bush administration campaign to invade Iraq. Most of the planning as to both the waging and selling of the war occurred under his direction, along with that of Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz at the Pentagon. It was Cheney who played the point in beating up the CIA for its unhelpful analysis of the non-threat posed by Saddam, and Cheney along with his Defense Department pals who effectively circumvented the CIA by setting up the Office of Special Plans at the Pentagon to funnel the administration the kind of intelligence it wanted, largely courtesy of their longtime double-dealing stooge, Ahmed Chalabi."
"The CIA leak investigation: Bigger fish, deeper water", Steve Perry, The City Pages, 11-2-o5
"In President Bush's first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security--including vital decisions about postwar Iraq--were made by a secretive, little-known cabal. It was made up of a very small group of people led by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.... I believe that the decisions of this cabal were sometimes made with the full and witting support of the president and sometimes with something less...."
"The administration's performance during its first four years would have been even worse without Powell's damage control. At least once a week, it seemed, Powell trooped over to the Oval Office and cleaned all the dog poop off the carpet...."
"Today, we have a president whose approval rating is 38 percent and a vice president who speaks only to Rush Limbaugh and assembled military forces. We have a secretary of Defense presiding over the death-by-a-thousand-cuts of our overstretched armed forces (no surprise to ignored dissenters such as former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki or former Army Secretary Thomas White). It's a disaster. Given the choice, I'd choose a frustrating bureaucracy over an efficient cabal every time."
"The White House Cabal", Lawrence Wilkerson,
L.A. Times 10-25-05
"Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was a Jewish-German émigré from the Nazi regime who eventually landed at the University of Chicago where he developed a following that has achieved enormous prominence in American politics. Among his students were Paul Wolfowitz who has openly acknowledged that he is a follower of Straus as has the godfather of neconservatism, Irving Kristol. Irving Kristol begat William Kristol, the director of operation for the DC neocons, editor of the Weekly Standard and "chairman" of the Project for the New American Century, which laid out the plans for the Iraq War. (PNAC also opined in 2000 that a Pearl Harbor-like event would be necessary to take the country to war, and one year later, presto, we had the strange and still mysterious attack o September 11.) For his part Paul Wolfowitz begat Libby, in the intellectual sense, when he taught Libby at Yale. Others stars in the necon firmament are Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and lesser figures like Abram Shulsky, director of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, created by Donald Rumsfeld. Shulsky, also a student of Strauss, was responsible for fabricating the lies masquerading as intelligence that were designed to get the U.S. into the war on Iraq. While the neocons have a passion for the Likud party and Zionism, they also count among their number not a few pre-Vatican II Catholics and an assortment of cranks like Newt Gingrich and John Bolton and crypto fascists like Jeanne Kirkpatrick."
"The Philosophy of Mendacity", John Walsh, www.counterpunch.com, November 2, 2005
"The Militarization of Health Care: Bird Flu and the Posse Comitatus Act", Jill S. Farrell, Counterpunch, November 5/6, 2005
"When a GOP strategist suggested last weekend that the President fire Rove, Bush exploded."
"'You go to hell,' he screamed at the strategist. 'You can leave and you can take the rest of these lily-livered motherfuckers with you!' The President then stormed out of the room and refused to meet further with any other party leaders or strategists."
"Bush's escalating temper tantrums and his intransigence on political issues increase Republican worries about the long term effects on both his presidency and the party's prospects in upcoming elections."
"'Right now, George W. Bush is the Republican Party's chief liability,' says a GOP strategist who has advised Presidential campaigns for 30 years. 'The entire political future of the party and perhaps the nation now rests on the shoulders of a President that no one - Democrat or Republican - believes in or trusts.'"
"GOP Leaders to Bush: Your Presidency is Effectively Over", Doug Thompson,Capitol Hill Blue, Novermber 4, 2005
"Cheney's office is the Pandora's Box of the Bush administration campaign to invade Iraq. Most of the planning as to both the waging and selling of the war occurred under his direction, along with that of Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz at the Pentagon. It was Cheney who played the point in beating up the CIA for its unhelpful analysis of the non-threat posed by Saddam, and Cheney along with his Defense Department pals who effectively circumvented the CIA by setting up the Office of Special Plans at the Pentagon to funnel the administration the kind of intelligence it wanted, largely courtesy of their longtime double-dealing stooge, Ahmed Chalabi."
"The CIA leak investigation: Bigger fish, deeper water", Steve Perry, The City Pages, 11-2-o5
"In President Bush's first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security--including vital decisions about postwar Iraq--were made by a secretive, little-known cabal. It was made up of a very small group of people led by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.... I believe that the decisions of this cabal were sometimes made with the full and witting support of the president and sometimes with something less...."
"The administration's performance during its first four years would have been even worse without Powell's damage control. At least once a week, it seemed, Powell trooped over to the Oval Office and cleaned all the dog poop off the carpet...."
"Today, we have a president whose approval rating is 38 percent and a vice president who speaks only to Rush Limbaugh and assembled military forces. We have a secretary of Defense presiding over the death-by-a-thousand-cuts of our overstretched armed forces (no surprise to ignored dissenters such as former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki or former Army Secretary Thomas White). It's a disaster. Given the choice, I'd choose a frustrating bureaucracy over an efficient cabal every time."
"The White House Cabal", Lawrence Wilkerson,
L.A. Times 10-25-05
"Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was a Jewish-German émigré from the Nazi regime who eventually landed at the University of Chicago where he developed a following that has achieved enormous prominence in American politics. Among his students were Paul Wolfowitz who has openly acknowledged that he is a follower of Straus as has the godfather of neconservatism, Irving Kristol. Irving Kristol begat William Kristol, the director of operation for the DC neocons, editor of the Weekly Standard and "chairman" of the Project for the New American Century, which laid out the plans for the Iraq War. (PNAC also opined in 2000 that a Pearl Harbor-like event would be necessary to take the country to war, and one year later, presto, we had the strange and still mysterious attack o September 11.) For his part Paul Wolfowitz begat Libby, in the intellectual sense, when he taught Libby at Yale. Others stars in the necon firmament are Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and lesser figures like Abram Shulsky, director of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, created by Donald Rumsfeld. Shulsky, also a student of Strauss, was responsible for fabricating the lies masquerading as intelligence that were designed to get the U.S. into the war on Iraq. While the neocons have a passion for the Likud party and Zionism, they also count among their number not a few pre-Vatican II Catholics and an assortment of cranks like Newt Gingrich and John Bolton and crypto fascists like Jeanne Kirkpatrick."
"The Philosophy of Mendacity", John Walsh, www.counterpunch.com, November 2, 2005
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
BUSH'S BILLIONS FOR BIRDS
“I'm Gonna attack this bird flu before it attacks us.
It's better to kill these flu birds in their backyards so that we are safe in ours.
Katrina and the Iraq insurgency were unexpected.
I will be ready for this foul flu epidemic.
We will have a virus patrol on watch. We will have this flu under our control.
I am asking for billions of dollars to create vaccines (that Rummy and my other Pharma friends will greatly profit from…huh, huh).
We can get the money from my new tax code changes.
(Don't worry, rich friends, I still care about your nest eggs!}
We will get this bird flu before it gets us.
Bring 'em (those birds) on!
Smoke 'em out of their caves...I mean their nests!
Time for some pretzels and refreshments!”
It's better to kill these flu birds in their backyards so that we are safe in ours.
Katrina and the Iraq insurgency were unexpected.
I will be ready for this foul flu epidemic.
We will have a virus patrol on watch. We will have this flu under our control.
I am asking for billions of dollars to create vaccines (that Rummy and my other Pharma friends will greatly profit from…huh, huh).
We can get the money from my new tax code changes.
(Don't worry, rich friends, I still care about your nest eggs!}
We will get this bird flu before it gets us.
Bring 'em (those birds) on!
Smoke 'em out of their caves...I mean their nests!
Time for some pretzels and refreshments!”
RULE 21
Frist called it a stunt.
It was not a stunt.
"The White House owes the American people an explanation", Senator Dianne Feinstein told Larry King last night.
You are right Ms. Feinstein.
We need an explanation.
Harry Reid did what he had to do, because the Republicans don't want to touch the hot iron of lies and deception which Bush and friends concocted to invade and occupy Iraq.
I do not want to wait for historians to unveil the lies.
I want an inquiry and investigation...
outside of the political arena of both Democrats and Republicans(I dream).
But let ‘em (the heads) roll!
It was not a stunt.
"The White House owes the American people an explanation", Senator Dianne Feinstein told Larry King last night.
You are right Ms. Feinstein.
We need an explanation.
Harry Reid did what he had to do, because the Republicans don't want to touch the hot iron of lies and deception which Bush and friends concocted to invade and occupy Iraq.
I do not want to wait for historians to unveil the lies.
I want an inquiry and investigation...
outside of the political arena of both Democrats and Republicans(I dream).
But let ‘em (the heads) roll!
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