Everyman
2003-07-17 14:40:51 UTC
Fred,
You can't stop Zionist internet agents from spreading their racist violence
doctrines by telling them to "seek help." Wolfowitz, Perle, Kissinger,
Rumsfeld and the billionaires and trillionaires who hold them on retainer
are
not going to seek help because sane Fred G_____ recommends it to them.
They did 9-11 to get the wars they wanted and to get your gentile sons
and daughters to do the killing and dying for them. They control this
country psychologically and their shills on the internet are part of
the coverup and selling program.
You can't tell them to "seek help" and expect it to do any good. You
must work for the awakening of the good quiet people to rise up and
pull these murdering lyers down on obstruction of justice charges.
Meanwhile, here is something to clear your head of Zionist smoke:
--------------------
Articles:
TOO LITTLE TOO LATE
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB105821991056891800,00.html
An unusual manifesto is circulating through the e-mail boxes of
prominent Washingtonians from an ad hoc group calling itself the
"Committee for the Republic." Its five sponsors include conservative
C. Boyden Gray, a White House lawyer in the first Bush administration;
Chas. W. Freeman, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia; and Stephen
Cohen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
===========
Senate Republicans on Wednesday defeated calls by Democrats for an
independent commission to examine intelligence President Bush used to
justify the Iraq invasion, and to force him to disclose costs and
plans to stabilize postwar Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/h7a1
==============
Who's Who on the 9/11 "Independent" Commission
by Michel Chossudovsky
GO HERE FOR FULL STORY AND LINKS:
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO307B.html
(Cont'd) Lee H. Hamilton Vice Chair
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO307B.html
"Representation" on the Commission:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO307B.html
===================
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,465137,00.html
Inside the Bush Administration's feud with the diplomat who poured
cold water on the Iraq-uranium connection. ... Former Ambassador
Joseph C. Wilson raised the Administration's ire with an op-ed piece
in The New York Times on July 6 charging that the Administration had
"twisted" intelligence to "exaggerate" the Iraqi threat.
================
Climate of Fear: Sexual Violence and Abduction of Women and Girls in
Baghdad," Full Report available:
In HTML format
http://hrw.org/reports/2003/iraq0703/
==============
Rumsfeld Operated His Own Spy Ring
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=42254;title=APFN
==============
http://www.hereinreality.com/carlyle.html
How will President George W. Bush personally make millions (if not
billions) from the War on Terror and Iraq? The old fashioned way.
He'll inherit it.
Meet The Carlyle Group
Former World Leaders and Washington Insiders Making Billions in the
War on Terrorism ....
It is hard to imagine an address closer to the heart of American
power. The offices of the Carlyle Group are on Pennsylvania Avenue in
Washington DC, midway between the White House and the Capitol
building, and within a stone's throw of the headquarters of the FBI
and numerous government departments. The address reflects Carlyle's
position at the very center of the Washington establishment, but amid
the frenetic politicking that has occupied the higher reaches of that
world in recent weeks, few have paid it much attention. Elsewhere, few
have even heard of it...
But since the start of the "war on terrorism", the firm - unofficially
valued at $13.5bn - has taken on an added significance. Carlyle has
become the thread which indirectly links American military policy in
Afghanistan to the personal financial fortunes of its celebrity
employees, not least the current president's father. And, until
earlier this month, Carlyle provided another curious link to the
Afghan crisis: among the firm's multi-million-dollar investors were
members of the family of Osama bin Laden More...
==================
Iraq: Insecurity Driving Women Indoors
http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/07/iraq071603.htm
The insecurity plaguing Baghdad and other Iraqi cities has a distinct
and debilitating impact on the daily lives of women and girls,
preventing them from participating in public life at a crucial time in
their country's history, Human Rights Watch said in a report released
today.
==================
Challenge: Anyone who is willing to argue the evidence against my
claim of solid incontrovertable proof that the attack on the Pentagon
was an inside-job black-op mass-murder frameup by "neo-conservative"
zionist operatives in the Defense Department -- I will debate you in
a special thread on these newsgroups -- I only ask that you be willing
to share your evidence and argue the merits of your case yourself from
the evidence. Right now exactly no one is making any new counter
arguments to replace the once refuted by the "small-killer-jet"
evidence. -- Dick Eastman
review the evidence for the small-killer jet here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/9-11-demonstrative-evidence-of-frameup/message
s
and here:
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/77_deastman1.htm
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/77_deastman2.htm
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/77_deastman3.htm
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DO YOU REMEMBER THIS: "THEY HATE US BECAUSE OF OUR FREEDOMS" ?
911 : nearly two years and two wars later ...............
by "Ethic"
( sorry for my poor English language )
It was to be ** The largest criminal investigation in the history of
the nation **
On September 11, 2001, when most were too numb to contemplate much of
anything, Newsweek told us what
to expect.
"As a small army of fire fighters struggled to put out the flames at
the World Trade Center in New York and at the Pentagonin Washington,"
Peg Tyre wrote : "federal law enforcement
agencies had already begun marshaling agents, readying them for what
promises to be the largest criminal investigation in the history of
the nation."
[ http://www.msnbc.com/news/627334.asp?0sp=w12b7&cp1=1 ]
Nearly two years (and two wars) later, however, this huge
investigation hasn't panned out. Attempts to uncover intelligence
failures have been routinely thwarted; Halliburton has accomplished
more in Afghanistan
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=2471 ]
and Iraq [ http://money.cnn.com/2003/04/11/news/companies/war_halliburton
] than Bush's " DEAD or ALIVE " doctrine; and sadly, the CIA's
"spectacular attack" pertains not only to the trauma of 9/11, but to
subsequent assaults on Americans' faith and trust.
Regardless how anyone frames it, the White House duped us. From "THEY
HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOMS" to "SOLID
EVIDENCE" of Al-Qaeda/Iraq connections, the Administration skirted
some issues and manipulated information on others.
In short, Bush Inc. lied and pressured others to do the same. The
game plan succeeded, however, as polls repeatedly indicated that more
than half of all U.S. citizens were consistently conned
into believing Iraq was an immediate threat and that Saddam was
involved in the Sept. 11 attacks.
More :
http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/03/07/01.html
The Attack Has Been Spectacular by Maureen Farrell Maureen Farrell is
a writer and media consultant who specializes in helping other writers
get television and radio exposure.
© Copyright 2003, Maureen Farrell
FAIR USE NOTICE : This post contains copyrighted material the use
of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright
owner. I am making such material available in an effort to advance
understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic,
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constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided
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Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107
______________________________________________________
Nearly two years and two wars later, the Bush Gang is promoting
its reconstruction efforts, what means getting business oppotunities
to the Bush Gang' friends such as : Unocal; CentGas; Betchel and
Donald Rumsfield; Halliburton, George Schulz and Dick Cheney;
Chevron and Condoleeza Rice; pharmaceutical companies and
Ayatollah John Ashcroft; Boots & Coots; KBR; DynCorp;
Carlyle Group; Georges Bush Senior and the G. W. Bush' Gang
who both get great returns ( % ) from every market
(even % over armaments ! ) Isn't it great ?
* Ethic *
( sorry for my poor English language )
=======================
It was President Bush, that paragon of accountability, who first
pointed the finger at the director of central intelligence (DCI) and
complained, in effect: "He made me say it." It was left to the
national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, to put in the stiletto
and twist it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999258,00.html
===============
Muslim, Zionist: Is There a Federal Double Standard?
http://www.arabia.com/newsfeed/article/english/0,14183,407055,00.html
==============
Waxman Letter: 'Punish Those Who Misled'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703A.shtml
Cheney Under Pressure to Quit Over False War Evidence
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703B.shtml
Iraq Pressure on Bush Mounts as U.S. Soldier Killed
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703C.shtml
Tour of Duty or Deplorable Deployment?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703D.shtml
Bush Faced Dwindling Data on Iraq Nuclear Bid
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703E.shtml
Showdown Nears Over Terrorism Detentions
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703F.shtml
Three Essential Errors Committed in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703G.shtml
CIA: Assessment of Syria's WMD Exaggerated
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703H.shtml
Grassroots Uprising Fights to Protect Rights and Freedoms
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703I.shtml
====================
Wolfowitz committee instructed White House to use Iraq/uranium
reference in State of the Union speech --by Jason Leopold "A Pentagon
committee led by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense,
advised George W. Bush to include a reference in his January State of
the Union address about Iraq trying to purchase 500 tons of uranium
from Niger to bolster the case for war in Iraq, despite the fact that
the CIA warned Wolfowitz's committee that the information was
unreliable, according to a CIA intelligence official and four members
of the Senate's intelligence committee who have been investigating the
issue."
--------------------------
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999737,00.html
According to former Bush officials, all defence and intelligence
sources, senior administration figures created a shadow agency of
Pentagon analysts staffed mainly by ideological amateurs to compete
with the CIA and its military counterpart, the Defence Intelligence
Agency.
The agency, called the Office of Special Plans (OSP), was set up by
the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to second-guess CIA
information and operated under the patronage of hardline conservatives
in the top rungs of the administration, the Pentagon and at the White
House, including Vice-President Dick Cheney.
The ideologically driven network functioned like a shadow government,
much of it off the official payroll and beyond congressional
oversight. But it proved powerful enough to prevail in a struggle with
the State Department and the CIA by establishing a justification for
war.
Mr Tenet has officially taken responsibility for the president's
unsubstantiated claim in January that Saddam Hussein's regime had been
trying to buy uranium in Africa, but he also said his agency was under
pressure to justify a war that the administration had already decided
on.
==================
NEO-CONS HAVE DONE US A FAVOR... AND DON'T EVEN KNOW IT
Well, let me put it this way. Those deceiving, nation-wrecking
sonsabitches didn't mean to do us any favors, but it turned out that
way. And there isn't a damn thing they can do about it.
http://www.etherzone.com/2003/moor071703.shtml
====================
Peaceful Warrior
Chris Strohm is a freelance reporter and volunteer with the DC
Independent Media Center. Ingrid Drake is a correspondent for Pacifica
Radio's Peacewatch program.
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/8341
As the U.S. occupation of Iraq extends with no end in sight, and the
death toll for both U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians continues to
mount, more voices of dissent from military personnel and families are
surfacing every day.
One of the most poignant so far comes from a young Marine who gave an
interview with Pacifica Radio's Peacewatch program the night before he
was deployed to Iraq. He discussed his strong commitment to peace, and
said the Bush administration was violating constitutional principles
and misleading the country into an unjust war.
He was killed in late June, fighting a war he didn't believe in.
Because the interview was given under the condition of anonymity, and
out of respect for the current wishes of his family, the Marine will
be identified in this story only as John (not his real name). John's
friends describe him as a passionate, intense person with an
insatiable appetite for knowledge and a commitment to peace. He
studied philosophy and peace with an emphasis on Middle Eastern
affairs, particularly Iraq and Israel.
His friends say he went into the military under the Clinton
administration to gain credibility, so that perhaps someday his
beliefs on how to build a lasting peace in the Middle East would be
taken seriously. In the months before his deployment, he helped
organize anti-war campaigns, mainly working behind the scenes.
In his interview with Pacifica, John expressed outrage that a
legitimate public debate on the war had not occurred. Many
alternatives to combat were available, he explained, such as using
money being spent for war to finance a grassroots Iraqi democracy
movement that would rival the Baath regime, or promoting democracy
throughout the Middle East to show people alternative forms of
government.
"It is almost unimaginable to expect that this war is going to create
a better peace for anybody with the exception of a very small
percentage of people," he said.
He accused the administration of not talking honestly with the
American public about potential consequences of a U.S. war on Iraq,
such as the potential for urban combat, the psyche of the Iraqi
people, the impact on the United Nations and the fate of the Middle
East.
"This could have repercussions in terms of the war on terrorism," he
said. "It could have repercussions on international diplomacy. It
could have repercussions on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It could
have repercussions in terms of our ability to get anything else done
in the United Nations. And even if... everything goes the way it's
supposed to go, what does that mean for the world order? It says that
we basically can do whatever we want to do whenever we want to do it
because we are the world's sole superpower."
But even as he expressed doubts about the Bush administration's
decision, he spoke eloquently about his patriotism, and looked to the
highest ideals of the country for inspiration:
"I believe in the United States. I believe in the Constitution. I
think it's perhaps one of the greatest documents ever written. I
believe in the idea that we the people are sovereign and we determine
our own destiny. We have a democracy and the Bill of Rights and
freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and due
process. Until the world is such a place that we can really live
without the military, individual Americans have to step up and they
have to serve."
The Bush administration, he claimed, had not made a credible case for
war with Iraq, and was violating constitutional principles by sending
troops into combat. He spoke of the Declaration of Independence, and
how its writers vowed to be free of England, where their lives were
ruled and determined by one man. "The constant rhetoric of the
administration is that there's going to be one person who decides when
we go to war," he said, "and that is such a blatant violation of every
constitutional principle that our founding fathers came up with."
"But even beyond that, it's 'we the people' that this nation is
about," he continued. "It isn't about politics or personal agendas or
political agendas or economic agendas. And I believe that this war is
not the right thing for America because it hasn't yet been proven
conclusively that there is a threat to 'we the people' -- and I think
that is the sole determining factor as to whether or not this nation
should ever go to war."
With chilling foresight, John predicted that much could go wrong in a
war with Iraq, saying the outcomes outlined by the administration were
based on highly optimistic and rosy scenarios. He said it was unlikely
that Iraqis would cheer the arrival of a U.S. occupying force, and
that long-term urban combat could be a likely outcome.
Yet he went to Iraq, believing it to be his duty. And continued, even
in the midst of combat, to exercise his belief in nonviolent
resolution. One of his commanders wrote a letter after his death
explaining a situation in which John negotiated a peaceful settlement
to a potentially deadly situation. A group of Baath Party officials
were found inside a house. Because he spoke Arabic, John entered the
house and talked with the officials until he
negotiated a surrender. His actions potentially saved the lives of
both U.S.
soldiers and Iraqis.
In letters home, John described the peace movement as "awesome," and
said he hoped it would grow larger, never relent against the Bush
administration, and help bring an end to the war.
Around June 20, those letters stopped.
As of July 14, 32 American soldiers have died from hostile action
since Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq on May
1, according to the Pentagon. Forty-three other service members have
died in incidents unrelated to hostilities.
Nancy Lessin, co-founder of Military Families Speak Out, says more
people are becoming outraged now that the war against Iraq has turned
into a highly risky occupation.
"Too many U.S. military personnel and way too many innocent Iraqis
have been killed," she says. "And what we predicted to be true has
come true, that there are no weapons of mass destruction. Everything
we said was going to happen is coming to pass, and one of the most
frightening aspects of this is that the people of this country haven't
completely risen up in opposition to what's going on."
Her words are echoed, and answered, by John's. Before he was deployed,
John wrote a final letter as part of his will.
"That I have died means I have failed to achieve the one thing in life
I truly longed to give the world -- peace," the letter reads. "The
plight of human suffering consumed me and I dedicated much to trying
to find the ideas that might lead humankind toward alleviating it for
all. It was a quest which was inextricably intertwined with my quest
for freedom. If you know anything about me you know that. Understand
it and come to understand how the suffering of others tormented my
soul. Then seek to honor my memory by trying to achieve what I could
not."
Andrew Korfhage provided additional reporting for this article.
=================
OPINION POLLSTER WHO SAID BUSH HAD 80 PERCETN APPROVAL A FEW MONTHS
BACK, NOW SAYS MAJORITY OF IRAQIS WANT US TROOPS TO STAY -- WHAT
THIS MEANS OF COURSE IS THAT WOLFOWITZ-PERLE-RUMSFELD-KISSINGER ARE
NOW SHIFTING BLAME FOR THE DEADLY AND CRIMINAL OCCUPATION TO "THE WILL
OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE" -- DO YOU SUPPOSE ARMED SOLDIERS WENT HOUSE
TO HOUSE PROTECTING THE POLLSTERS AS THEY DID THEIR WORK?
=====================
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0717/p01s02-woeu.html
WASHINGTON AND LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks to a
joint
session of Congress Thursday as he receives the Congressional Gold
Medal - a
double honor last bestowed on Winston Churchill.
======================
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0717/p01s02-woeu.html
WASHINGTON AND LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks to a
joint
session of Congress Thursday as he receives the Congressional Gold
Medal - a
double honor last bestowed on Winston Churchill.
============
CALCUTTA Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's refusal to send
peacekeeping troops to Iraq should warn President George W. Bush of
the problems that American unilateralism can create for traditionally
non-aligned Asian nations. ..........Vajpayee cannot forget that a
coalition of nationalist, left and Muslim groups, led by the Congress
party, hounded former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar out of office for
allowing U.S. warplanes to land and refuel at Indian airports during
the first Gulf war.
http://www.iht.com/articles/102968.html
=================
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3284-748050,00.html
It is a prospect to make any sensible person weep: Washington later
today, Tokyo tomorrow evening, Seoul and Beijing on Sunday, Shanghai
and Hong Kong on Tuesday, London on Thursday. Seven cities in eight
days sounds like the itinerary of a deranged tourist, or a CEO who
cannot wait to make use of his new executive jet, but it is actually
the Prime Minister's schedule for the coming week.
=================
The U.S. military's new commander in Iraq acknowledged for the first
time yesterday that American troops are engaged in a "classical
guerrilla-type" war against remnants of former Iraqi president Saddam
Hussein's Baath Party and said Baathist attacks are growing in
organization and sophistication.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2830-2003Jul16.html?nav=hptop
_tb
===================
Blair waters down claim linking Iraq to Niger uranium
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=425057
======================
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=425053
£131,000 a year - more than any cabinet minister - the Government said
last night -- The bill for ministers' special advisers and spin
doctors has trebled since Labour came to power and now costs the
taxpayer £5.4m a year. The soaring bill has angered MPs who have
questioned the need for so many special advisers, particularly in
Downing Street, where there are 26.
=======================
UK Cost Of Occupation: £5m A Day - Human Life Cost Extra
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999719,00.html
========================
George W. Bush once again showed himself to be
unfit to be President of the United States when
answering questions with the United Nations Secretary
General Kofi Annan at a photo opportunity at the
Oval Office on Monday, July 14.?
In reply to a question related to the now discredited
claim that Iraq tried to buy Uranium yellowcake from
Niger, George W. sidetracked with a startling, new
explanation of why Saddam Hussein was removed
from power.
He said, "And we gave him [Saddam Hussein ] a chance
to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in.
And, therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided
to remove him from power, along with other nations, so
as to make sure he was not a threat to the United States
and our friends and allies in the region."
The statement is posted at the official White House web site -
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030714-3.html
This is such an extraordinary perversion of the truth, I am
left flabbergasted, and hardly able to think through what it
actually means that the most powerful nation in the world
is led by a man who so totally twists the facts. For starters,
perhaps George W. Bush was not telling a lie so much
as once again demonstrating an inability to distinguish fact
from fiction, even with regard to actions that he commands.
As I remember it the UN inspectors were in Iraq and the
Iraqi government was providing them with unfettered access
to facilities, even allowing them to dismantle Iraqi missiles,
when they were instructed by the UN Secretary-General
to leave Iraq, just prior to the US-UK invasion.
Here is the full text of the White House reported question and
answer exchange, which ended with the faux pas that must have
made Kofi Annan, for one, wince, without daring to correct
(So what does that say about Kofi Annan? Was boy George
unconsciously daring him to put him right?):
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, Dana, one last question.
Q Mr. President, back on the question of Iraq, and that
specific line that has been in question --
THE PRESIDENT: Can you cite the line? (Laughter.)
Q I could, if you gave me some time.
THE PRESIDENT: When I gave the speech, the line was
relevant.
Q So even though there has been some question about
the intelligence -- the intelligence community knowing
beforehand that perhaps it wasn't, you still believe that
when you gave it --
THE PRESIDENT: Well, the speech that I gave was
cleared by the CIA. And, look, the thing that's important
to realize is that we're constantly gathering data. Subsequent
to the speech, the CIA had some doubts. But when I gave
the -- when they talked about the speech and when they
looked at the speech, it was cleared. Otherwise, I wouldn't
have put it in the speech. I'm not interested in talking about
intelligence unless it's cleared by the CIA. And as Director
Tenet said, it was cleared by the CIA.
The larger point is, and the fundamental question is, did
Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the
answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow
the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in. And,
therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to
remove him from power, along with other nations, so as
to make sure he was not a threat to the United States
and our friends and allies in the region. I firmly believe
the decisions we made will make America more secure
and the world more peaceful.
You can't stop Zionist internet agents from spreading their racist violence
doctrines by telling them to "seek help." Wolfowitz, Perle, Kissinger,
Rumsfeld and the billionaires and trillionaires who hold them on retainer
are
not going to seek help because sane Fred G_____ recommends it to them.
They did 9-11 to get the wars they wanted and to get your gentile sons
and daughters to do the killing and dying for them. They control this
country psychologically and their shills on the internet are part of
the coverup and selling program.
You can't tell them to "seek help" and expect it to do any good. You
must work for the awakening of the good quiet people to rise up and
pull these murdering lyers down on obstruction of justice charges.
Meanwhile, here is something to clear your head of Zionist smoke:
--------------------
Articles:
TOO LITTLE TOO LATE
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB105821991056891800,00.html
An unusual manifesto is circulating through the e-mail boxes of
prominent Washingtonians from an ad hoc group calling itself the
"Committee for the Republic." Its five sponsors include conservative
C. Boyden Gray, a White House lawyer in the first Bush administration;
Chas. W. Freeman, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia; and Stephen
Cohen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
===========
Senate Republicans on Wednesday defeated calls by Democrats for an
independent commission to examine intelligence President Bush used to
justify the Iraq invasion, and to force him to disclose costs and
plans to stabilize postwar Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/h7a1
==============
Who's Who on the 9/11 "Independent" Commission
by Michel Chossudovsky
GO HERE FOR FULL STORY AND LINKS:
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO307B.html
(Cont'd) Lee H. Hamilton Vice Chair
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO307B.html
"Representation" on the Commission:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO307B.html
===================
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,465137,00.html
Inside the Bush Administration's feud with the diplomat who poured
cold water on the Iraq-uranium connection. ... Former Ambassador
Joseph C. Wilson raised the Administration's ire with an op-ed piece
in The New York Times on July 6 charging that the Administration had
"twisted" intelligence to "exaggerate" the Iraqi threat.
================
Climate of Fear: Sexual Violence and Abduction of Women and Girls in
Baghdad," Full Report available:
In HTML format
http://hrw.org/reports/2003/iraq0703/
==============
Rumsfeld Operated His Own Spy Ring
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=42254;title=APFN
==============
http://www.hereinreality.com/carlyle.html
How will President George W. Bush personally make millions (if not
billions) from the War on Terror and Iraq? The old fashioned way.
He'll inherit it.
Meet The Carlyle Group
Former World Leaders and Washington Insiders Making Billions in the
War on Terrorism ....
It is hard to imagine an address closer to the heart of American
power. The offices of the Carlyle Group are on Pennsylvania Avenue in
Washington DC, midway between the White House and the Capitol
building, and within a stone's throw of the headquarters of the FBI
and numerous government departments. The address reflects Carlyle's
position at the very center of the Washington establishment, but amid
the frenetic politicking that has occupied the higher reaches of that
world in recent weeks, few have paid it much attention. Elsewhere, few
have even heard of it...
But since the start of the "war on terrorism", the firm - unofficially
valued at $13.5bn - has taken on an added significance. Carlyle has
become the thread which indirectly links American military policy in
Afghanistan to the personal financial fortunes of its celebrity
employees, not least the current president's father. And, until
earlier this month, Carlyle provided another curious link to the
Afghan crisis: among the firm's multi-million-dollar investors were
members of the family of Osama bin Laden More...
==================
Iraq: Insecurity Driving Women Indoors
http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/07/iraq071603.htm
The insecurity plaguing Baghdad and other Iraqi cities has a distinct
and debilitating impact on the daily lives of women and girls,
preventing them from participating in public life at a crucial time in
their country's history, Human Rights Watch said in a report released
today.
==================
Challenge: Anyone who is willing to argue the evidence against my
claim of solid incontrovertable proof that the attack on the Pentagon
was an inside-job black-op mass-murder frameup by "neo-conservative"
zionist operatives in the Defense Department -- I will debate you in
a special thread on these newsgroups -- I only ask that you be willing
to share your evidence and argue the merits of your case yourself from
the evidence. Right now exactly no one is making any new counter
arguments to replace the once refuted by the "small-killer-jet"
evidence. -- Dick Eastman
review the evidence for the small-killer jet here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/9-11-demonstrative-evidence-of-frameup/message
s
and here:
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/77_deastman1.htm
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/77_deastman2.htm
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/77_deastman3.htm
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DO YOU REMEMBER THIS: "THEY HATE US BECAUSE OF OUR FREEDOMS" ?
911 : nearly two years and two wars later ...............
by "Ethic"
( sorry for my poor English language )
It was to be ** The largest criminal investigation in the history of
the nation **
On September 11, 2001, when most were too numb to contemplate much of
anything, Newsweek told us what
to expect.
"As a small army of fire fighters struggled to put out the flames at
the World Trade Center in New York and at the Pentagonin Washington,"
Peg Tyre wrote : "federal law enforcement
agencies had already begun marshaling agents, readying them for what
promises to be the largest criminal investigation in the history of
the nation."
[ http://www.msnbc.com/news/627334.asp?0sp=w12b7&cp1=1 ]
Nearly two years (and two wars) later, however, this huge
investigation hasn't panned out. Attempts to uncover intelligence
failures have been routinely thwarted; Halliburton has accomplished
more in Afghanistan
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=2471 ]
and Iraq [ http://money.cnn.com/2003/04/11/news/companies/war_halliburton
] than Bush's " DEAD or ALIVE " doctrine; and sadly, the CIA's
"spectacular attack" pertains not only to the trauma of 9/11, but to
subsequent assaults on Americans' faith and trust.
Regardless how anyone frames it, the White House duped us. From "THEY
HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOMS" to "SOLID
EVIDENCE" of Al-Qaeda/Iraq connections, the Administration skirted
some issues and manipulated information on others.
In short, Bush Inc. lied and pressured others to do the same. The
game plan succeeded, however, as polls repeatedly indicated that more
than half of all U.S. citizens were consistently conned
into believing Iraq was an immediate threat and that Saddam was
involved in the Sept. 11 attacks.
More :
http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/03/07/01.html
The Attack Has Been Spectacular by Maureen Farrell Maureen Farrell is
a writer and media consultant who specializes in helping other writers
get television and radio exposure.
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Nearly two years and two wars later, the Bush Gang is promoting
its reconstruction efforts, what means getting business oppotunities
to the Bush Gang' friends such as : Unocal; CentGas; Betchel and
Donald Rumsfield; Halliburton, George Schulz and Dick Cheney;
Chevron and Condoleeza Rice; pharmaceutical companies and
Ayatollah John Ashcroft; Boots & Coots; KBR; DynCorp;
Carlyle Group; Georges Bush Senior and the G. W. Bush' Gang
who both get great returns ( % ) from every market
(even % over armaments ! ) Isn't it great ?
* Ethic *
( sorry for my poor English language )
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It was President Bush, that paragon of accountability, who first
pointed the finger at the director of central intelligence (DCI) and
complained, in effect: "He made me say it." It was left to the
national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, to put in the stiletto
and twist it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999258,00.html
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Muslim, Zionist: Is There a Federal Double Standard?
http://www.arabia.com/newsfeed/article/english/0,14183,407055,00.html
==============
Waxman Letter: 'Punish Those Who Misled'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703A.shtml
Cheney Under Pressure to Quit Over False War Evidence
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703B.shtml
Iraq Pressure on Bush Mounts as U.S. Soldier Killed
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703C.shtml
Tour of Duty or Deplorable Deployment?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703D.shtml
Bush Faced Dwindling Data on Iraq Nuclear Bid
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703E.shtml
Showdown Nears Over Terrorism Detentions
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703F.shtml
Three Essential Errors Committed in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703G.shtml
CIA: Assessment of Syria's WMD Exaggerated
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703H.shtml
Grassroots Uprising Fights to Protect Rights and Freedoms
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071703I.shtml
====================
Wolfowitz committee instructed White House to use Iraq/uranium
reference in State of the Union speech --by Jason Leopold "A Pentagon
committee led by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense,
advised George W. Bush to include a reference in his January State of
the Union address about Iraq trying to purchase 500 tons of uranium
from Niger to bolster the case for war in Iraq, despite the fact that
the CIA warned Wolfowitz's committee that the information was
unreliable, according to a CIA intelligence official and four members
of the Senate's intelligence committee who have been investigating the
issue."
--------------------------
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999737,00.html
According to former Bush officials, all defence and intelligence
sources, senior administration figures created a shadow agency of
Pentagon analysts staffed mainly by ideological amateurs to compete
with the CIA and its military counterpart, the Defence Intelligence
Agency.
The agency, called the Office of Special Plans (OSP), was set up by
the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to second-guess CIA
information and operated under the patronage of hardline conservatives
in the top rungs of the administration, the Pentagon and at the White
House, including Vice-President Dick Cheney.
The ideologically driven network functioned like a shadow government,
much of it off the official payroll and beyond congressional
oversight. But it proved powerful enough to prevail in a struggle with
the State Department and the CIA by establishing a justification for
war.
Mr Tenet has officially taken responsibility for the president's
unsubstantiated claim in January that Saddam Hussein's regime had been
trying to buy uranium in Africa, but he also said his agency was under
pressure to justify a war that the administration had already decided
on.
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NEO-CONS HAVE DONE US A FAVOR... AND DON'T EVEN KNOW IT
Well, let me put it this way. Those deceiving, nation-wrecking
sonsabitches didn't mean to do us any favors, but it turned out that
way. And there isn't a damn thing they can do about it.
http://www.etherzone.com/2003/moor071703.shtml
====================
Peaceful Warrior
Chris Strohm is a freelance reporter and volunteer with the DC
Independent Media Center. Ingrid Drake is a correspondent for Pacifica
Radio's Peacewatch program.
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/8341
As the U.S. occupation of Iraq extends with no end in sight, and the
death toll for both U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians continues to
mount, more voices of dissent from military personnel and families are
surfacing every day.
One of the most poignant so far comes from a young Marine who gave an
interview with Pacifica Radio's Peacewatch program the night before he
was deployed to Iraq. He discussed his strong commitment to peace, and
said the Bush administration was violating constitutional principles
and misleading the country into an unjust war.
He was killed in late June, fighting a war he didn't believe in.
Because the interview was given under the condition of anonymity, and
out of respect for the current wishes of his family, the Marine will
be identified in this story only as John (not his real name). John's
friends describe him as a passionate, intense person with an
insatiable appetite for knowledge and a commitment to peace. He
studied philosophy and peace with an emphasis on Middle Eastern
affairs, particularly Iraq and Israel.
His friends say he went into the military under the Clinton
administration to gain credibility, so that perhaps someday his
beliefs on how to build a lasting peace in the Middle East would be
taken seriously. In the months before his deployment, he helped
organize anti-war campaigns, mainly working behind the scenes.
In his interview with Pacifica, John expressed outrage that a
legitimate public debate on the war had not occurred. Many
alternatives to combat were available, he explained, such as using
money being spent for war to finance a grassroots Iraqi democracy
movement that would rival the Baath regime, or promoting democracy
throughout the Middle East to show people alternative forms of
government.
"It is almost unimaginable to expect that this war is going to create
a better peace for anybody with the exception of a very small
percentage of people," he said.
He accused the administration of not talking honestly with the
American public about potential consequences of a U.S. war on Iraq,
such as the potential for urban combat, the psyche of the Iraqi
people, the impact on the United Nations and the fate of the Middle
East.
"This could have repercussions in terms of the war on terrorism," he
said. "It could have repercussions on international diplomacy. It
could have repercussions on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It could
have repercussions in terms of our ability to get anything else done
in the United Nations. And even if... everything goes the way it's
supposed to go, what does that mean for the world order? It says that
we basically can do whatever we want to do whenever we want to do it
because we are the world's sole superpower."
But even as he expressed doubts about the Bush administration's
decision, he spoke eloquently about his patriotism, and looked to the
highest ideals of the country for inspiration:
"I believe in the United States. I believe in the Constitution. I
think it's perhaps one of the greatest documents ever written. I
believe in the idea that we the people are sovereign and we determine
our own destiny. We have a democracy and the Bill of Rights and
freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and due
process. Until the world is such a place that we can really live
without the military, individual Americans have to step up and they
have to serve."
The Bush administration, he claimed, had not made a credible case for
war with Iraq, and was violating constitutional principles by sending
troops into combat. He spoke of the Declaration of Independence, and
how its writers vowed to be free of England, where their lives were
ruled and determined by one man. "The constant rhetoric of the
administration is that there's going to be one person who decides when
we go to war," he said, "and that is such a blatant violation of every
constitutional principle that our founding fathers came up with."
"But even beyond that, it's 'we the people' that this nation is
about," he continued. "It isn't about politics or personal agendas or
political agendas or economic agendas. And I believe that this war is
not the right thing for America because it hasn't yet been proven
conclusively that there is a threat to 'we the people' -- and I think
that is the sole determining factor as to whether or not this nation
should ever go to war."
With chilling foresight, John predicted that much could go wrong in a
war with Iraq, saying the outcomes outlined by the administration were
based on highly optimistic and rosy scenarios. He said it was unlikely
that Iraqis would cheer the arrival of a U.S. occupying force, and
that long-term urban combat could be a likely outcome.
Yet he went to Iraq, believing it to be his duty. And continued, even
in the midst of combat, to exercise his belief in nonviolent
resolution. One of his commanders wrote a letter after his death
explaining a situation in which John negotiated a peaceful settlement
to a potentially deadly situation. A group of Baath Party officials
were found inside a house. Because he spoke Arabic, John entered the
house and talked with the officials until he
negotiated a surrender. His actions potentially saved the lives of
both U.S.
soldiers and Iraqis.
In letters home, John described the peace movement as "awesome," and
said he hoped it would grow larger, never relent against the Bush
administration, and help bring an end to the war.
Around June 20, those letters stopped.
As of July 14, 32 American soldiers have died from hostile action
since Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq on May
1, according to the Pentagon. Forty-three other service members have
died in incidents unrelated to hostilities.
Nancy Lessin, co-founder of Military Families Speak Out, says more
people are becoming outraged now that the war against Iraq has turned
into a highly risky occupation.
"Too many U.S. military personnel and way too many innocent Iraqis
have been killed," she says. "And what we predicted to be true has
come true, that there are no weapons of mass destruction. Everything
we said was going to happen is coming to pass, and one of the most
frightening aspects of this is that the people of this country haven't
completely risen up in opposition to what's going on."
Her words are echoed, and answered, by John's. Before he was deployed,
John wrote a final letter as part of his will.
"That I have died means I have failed to achieve the one thing in life
I truly longed to give the world -- peace," the letter reads. "The
plight of human suffering consumed me and I dedicated much to trying
to find the ideas that might lead humankind toward alleviating it for
all. It was a quest which was inextricably intertwined with my quest
for freedom. If you know anything about me you know that. Understand
it and come to understand how the suffering of others tormented my
soul. Then seek to honor my memory by trying to achieve what I could
not."
Andrew Korfhage provided additional reporting for this article.
=================
OPINION POLLSTER WHO SAID BUSH HAD 80 PERCETN APPROVAL A FEW MONTHS
BACK, NOW SAYS MAJORITY OF IRAQIS WANT US TROOPS TO STAY -- WHAT
THIS MEANS OF COURSE IS THAT WOLFOWITZ-PERLE-RUMSFELD-KISSINGER ARE
NOW SHIFTING BLAME FOR THE DEADLY AND CRIMINAL OCCUPATION TO "THE WILL
OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE" -- DO YOU SUPPOSE ARMED SOLDIERS WENT HOUSE
TO HOUSE PROTECTING THE POLLSTERS AS THEY DID THEIR WORK?
=====================
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0717/p01s02-woeu.html
WASHINGTON AND LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks to a
joint
session of Congress Thursday as he receives the Congressional Gold
Medal - a
double honor last bestowed on Winston Churchill.
======================
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0717/p01s02-woeu.html
WASHINGTON AND LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks to a
joint
session of Congress Thursday as he receives the Congressional Gold
Medal - a
double honor last bestowed on Winston Churchill.
============
CALCUTTA Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's refusal to send
peacekeeping troops to Iraq should warn President George W. Bush of
the problems that American unilateralism can create for traditionally
non-aligned Asian nations. ..........Vajpayee cannot forget that a
coalition of nationalist, left and Muslim groups, led by the Congress
party, hounded former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar out of office for
allowing U.S. warplanes to land and refuel at Indian airports during
the first Gulf war.
http://www.iht.com/articles/102968.html
=================
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3284-748050,00.html
It is a prospect to make any sensible person weep: Washington later
today, Tokyo tomorrow evening, Seoul and Beijing on Sunday, Shanghai
and Hong Kong on Tuesday, London on Thursday. Seven cities in eight
days sounds like the itinerary of a deranged tourist, or a CEO who
cannot wait to make use of his new executive jet, but it is actually
the Prime Minister's schedule for the coming week.
=================
The U.S. military's new commander in Iraq acknowledged for the first
time yesterday that American troops are engaged in a "classical
guerrilla-type" war against remnants of former Iraqi president Saddam
Hussein's Baath Party and said Baathist attacks are growing in
organization and sophistication.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2830-2003Jul16.html?nav=hptop
_tb
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Blair waters down claim linking Iraq to Niger uranium
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=425057
======================
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=425053
£131,000 a year - more than any cabinet minister - the Government said
last night -- The bill for ministers' special advisers and spin
doctors has trebled since Labour came to power and now costs the
taxpayer £5.4m a year. The soaring bill has angered MPs who have
questioned the need for so many special advisers, particularly in
Downing Street, where there are 26.
=======================
UK Cost Of Occupation: £5m A Day - Human Life Cost Extra
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999719,00.html
========================
George W. Bush once again showed himself to be
unfit to be President of the United States when
answering questions with the United Nations Secretary
General Kofi Annan at a photo opportunity at the
Oval Office on Monday, July 14.?
In reply to a question related to the now discredited
claim that Iraq tried to buy Uranium yellowcake from
Niger, George W. sidetracked with a startling, new
explanation of why Saddam Hussein was removed
from power.
He said, "And we gave him [Saddam Hussein ] a chance
to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in.
And, therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided
to remove him from power, along with other nations, so
as to make sure he was not a threat to the United States
and our friends and allies in the region."
The statement is posted at the official White House web site -
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030714-3.html
This is such an extraordinary perversion of the truth, I am
left flabbergasted, and hardly able to think through what it
actually means that the most powerful nation in the world
is led by a man who so totally twists the facts. For starters,
perhaps George W. Bush was not telling a lie so much
as once again demonstrating an inability to distinguish fact
from fiction, even with regard to actions that he commands.
As I remember it the UN inspectors were in Iraq and the
Iraqi government was providing them with unfettered access
to facilities, even allowing them to dismantle Iraqi missiles,
when they were instructed by the UN Secretary-General
to leave Iraq, just prior to the US-UK invasion.
Here is the full text of the White House reported question and
answer exchange, which ended with the faux pas that must have
made Kofi Annan, for one, wince, without daring to correct
(So what does that say about Kofi Annan? Was boy George
unconsciously daring him to put him right?):
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, Dana, one last question.
Q Mr. President, back on the question of Iraq, and that
specific line that has been in question --
THE PRESIDENT: Can you cite the line? (Laughter.)
Q I could, if you gave me some time.
THE PRESIDENT: When I gave the speech, the line was
relevant.
Q So even though there has been some question about
the intelligence -- the intelligence community knowing
beforehand that perhaps it wasn't, you still believe that
when you gave it --
THE PRESIDENT: Well, the speech that I gave was
cleared by the CIA. And, look, the thing that's important
to realize is that we're constantly gathering data. Subsequent
to the speech, the CIA had some doubts. But when I gave
the -- when they talked about the speech and when they
looked at the speech, it was cleared. Otherwise, I wouldn't
have put it in the speech. I'm not interested in talking about
intelligence unless it's cleared by the CIA. And as Director
Tenet said, it was cleared by the CIA.
The larger point is, and the fundamental question is, did
Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the
answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow
the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in. And,
therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to
remove him from power, along with other nations, so as
to make sure he was not a threat to the United States
and our friends and allies in the region. I firmly believe
the decisions we made will make America more secure
and the world more peaceful.