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Category Archives: Bush
War Crimes — No Question, Says General
Go read: TAGUBA ON TORTURE.
A general saying the White House is guilty of war crimes! Is impeachment still “off the table?”
Finally – But For The Wrong Reasons
Bush has FINALLY decided to go after Osama Bin Laden. But, of course, for all the wrong reasons. He has finally ordered the military to engage in an all-out effort to get Bin Laden, including raids in Pakistan. But he is doing it so his own legacy looks a little better, not to protect America.
If Bush and the Republicans had wanted to protect America he would have gone after Bin Laden from the start instead of retargeting most of the military on Iraq.
Actually, if he had wanted to protect America he would have listened to the Clinton people who were trying to get the incoming Bush administration interested in fighting al Queda. Instead they completely ignored the threat and let 9/11 happen.
See Get Osama Bin Laden before I leave office, orders George W Bush,
President George W Bush has enlisted British special forces in a final attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before he leaves the White House.
Defence and intelligence sources in Washington and London confirmed that a renewed hunt was on for the leader of the September 11 attacks. “If he [Bush] can say he has killed Saddam Hussein and captured Bin Laden, he can claim to have left the world a safer place,” said a US intelligence source.
. . . One US intelligence source compared the “growing number of clandestine reconnaissance missions” inside Pakistan with those conducted in Laos and Cambodia at the height of the Vietnam war.
Pat Buchanan Goes After Bush Idiocy
Bush Plays the Hitler Card. Read the whole thing, but here is an excerpt:
In that same speech to the Knesset, Bush dismissed the idea we could ever successfully negotiate with Hamas, Hezbollah or Iran:
“Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them that they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before.”
But did not Ronald Reagan’s negotiations with the Evil Empire, as he rebuilt America’s military might, bear fruit in a reversal of Moscow’s imperial policy and an end to the Cold War?
Richard Nixon went to China and toasted the greatest mass murderer of them all, Mao Zedong, when Maoists were conducting a nationwide purge: the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Yet, Nixon ended a quarter century of implacable U.S.-Chinese hostility. Was Nixon’s trip to China useless?
Three years after Nikita Khrushchev drowned the Hungarian revolution in blood, Ike had him up to Camp David. John Kennedy ended the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War, the Cuban missile crisis, by negotiating with that same Butcher of Budapest.
Were Ike, JFK and Nixon all deluded fools? For the dictators they negotiated with — Khrushchev and Mao — were far greater mass murderers and enemies of America than is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Bush’s father negotiated with Syria’s Hafez al-Assad, the Butcher of Hama, and made him an American ally in the Gulf War.
Was President Bush’s father a deluded fool?
And remember, McCain took Bush’s side of this.
Mission Accomplished Day
Today is Mission Accomplished Day. Great Job, Bushie!
I think maybe 70% of the public thinks Bush actually flew the plane and landed it on the carrier. (120% of FOX viewers, of course.)
Bush was a passenger. He didn’t fly the plane. He isn’t allowed to fly planes. Back in his National Guard days he had to stop flying when he refused to take a drug test, and then stopped showing up for duty entirely, even though there was a war going on.
Pentagon Pundit Scandal Broke the Law
Please read Pentagon Pundit Scandal Broke the Law | Center for Media and Democracy.
Note that “Pentagon” means the Republican Party appointees in the administration who run the Department of Defense, which resides in the Pentagon.
The Pentagon was conducting “information operations” targeting the American public. This program was blatantly illegal.
Note that almost NO news outlets involved are reporting on this story at all. What does that tell you?
On Bush and Moon
A very interesting piece here: News From Underground: Neil Bush is a Moonie. It begins,
The dark epic of Sun Myung Moon is almost totally unknown to most of us– amazingly, considering how much power Moon wields throughout the world, and, especially, in these United States, where he has the Çhristianists in one pocket, the Bush family in another, and the UN firmly in his sights. The Bush Republicans would be nowhere without him; but, of course, the only billionairewhose vast political influence we ever hear of is George Soros, whose funds for liberal causes represent a tiny fraction of the endless cash cascading from Moon’s global enterprises, which include weapons factories, the world’s largest sushi supplier, certain joint ventures with the Yakuza and other sources of enormous wealth.
Well worth a read.
Iraq
We/re waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool said to push on.
Meat Recall
The government was forced by an animal rights group to recall 143 million pounds of beef, after videos showed obviously sick animals being led to the slaughterhouse.
Because of Republican policies there had been fewer and fewer inspections of the slaughterhouse or meat.
USDA Orders Nation’s Largest Beef Recall: Financial News,
Authorities said the video showed workers kicking, shocking and otherwise abusing “downer” animals that were apparently too sick or injured to walk into the slaughterhouse. Some animals had water forced down their throats…
[. . .] Officials estimate that about 37 million pounds of the recalled beef went to school programs, but they believe most of the meat probably has already been eaten.
[. . .] Federal regulations call for keeping downed cattle out of the food supply because they may pose a higher risk of contamination from E. coli, salmonella or mad cow disease because they typically wallow in feces and their immune systems are often weak.
This is why I do not eat meat -because of the way animals are treated in corporate America.
And this is why the public needs to understand the harm that comes from unbridled corporatization of everything. We, the People are supposed to be in control, but we are instead being herded and harvested for our cash.
House Votes Contempt
When Clinton was President the Republican Congress issued more than 1000 subpoenas, and the Clinton administration complied with every single one.
Under the Republican Congress, President Bush was not issued even one subpoena. Not one. The Bush administration was allowed to get away with anything, anything it did. Impunity.
But then the Democrats took control of Congress and asked for some onformation. The Bush administration refused to provide it. So they issued a few subpoenas, and the Bush administration refused to comply. For months and months the Congress negotiated, and the Bush administration continued to stonewall and refuse to comply. Literally the definition of contempt.
So finally, finally the Congress has started to enforce the law: House finds White House officials in contempt of Congress,
The House voted Thursday to hold White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before a panel investigating the firing of several United States attorneys.
Bush On Social Security in SOTU
“I borrowed a ton of money from Social Security and gave it out as tax cuts to my buddies. Now I’m supposed to start paying that money back in a few years. It is crucial that we reform Social Security so it doesn’t pay for people’s retirements, and therefore won’t need the money I owe.”
Bush Lied
Here is something that blog readers know, but people outside the blogosphere have only had the smallest inkling of. We’ve been over many of the lies told countless times. We take it for granted, but the regular person on the street has not been exposed to this information at all. Has the TV ever once said Bush lied? No wonder there hasn’t been serious support for impeachment – politicians go ask regular people and they don’t know of Bush’s crimes.
Maybe they will now. Read the following, and follow the link to read more.
Study: False statements preceded war,
A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The study concluded that the statements “were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.”
The study was posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism.
How much lying?
The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both.