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Does the Bush Administration Support the Troops? Yes, Like a Noose Supports a Hanging Man!

July 16th, 2007 | Add a Comment

On August 2, 2000, while accepting the Republican Party’s nomination as Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney told the U.S. military, “help is on the way.” Cheney used the occasion to savage the Clinton administration: “Rarely has so much been demanded of our armed forces and so little given them in return.” Yet, Cheney’s rebuke has proven to be vastly more applicable today than it has been for the past thirty years. When it comes to abuse and neglect of our military, President Clinton emerges as a rank amateur when compared with President George W. Bush and Vice President Cheney. It was the Bush administration that sent American soldiers to war in Iraq without adequate supplies of body armor, … Read entire article »

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Bringing the “Perps,” Bush and Cheney, to Justice

January 3rd, 2007 | Add a Comment

U.S. v. Bush By Elizabeth de la Vega Seven Stories Press, 2006, Pp. 256. $14.95 According to President Bush, Saddam Hussein was brought to “justice,” when, after being sentenced to die by a kangaroo court, he was taunted before his hanging by petulant Shiite’s from Bush’s puppet regime inside the Green Zone — Baghdad’s Alamo, where the quislings can cower and nominally rule on behalf of “democratic” Iraq. Granted, Saddam was evil and his horrendous crimes demanded justice. After all, he gassed Kurds, executed hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis and launched unprovoked invasions of Iran and Kuwait, in violation of international law. Yet, the indignities and blasphemies attending Saddam’s hanging seem certain to inflame the civil war raging outside the Green Zone … Read entire article »

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More Proof of Prewar Intelligence Manipulation by the Bush Administration

February 15th, 2006 | Add a Comment

Writing in the March/April 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs, Paul R. Pillar has launched a furious assault on the Bush administration for its manipulation of prewar intelligence about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and links to al Qaeda. Mr. Pillar should know, because he was the CIA’s National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia (NESA) from 2000 to 2005. Most damaging is his assertion: “The administration used intelligence not to inform decision-making, but to justify a decision already made.” That decision, of course, was to invade Iraq. And, as we know, plenty of evidence exists — especially as provided by Bush administration insider, former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill — to prove that the Bush administration … Read entire article »

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“Fixed” Intelligence from Feith’s “Gestapo Office,” the CIA and the Bush Administration’s Impeachable Lies about Iraq’s Prewar Links to al Qaeda

January 20th, 2006 | Add a Comment

Except in the cynical, zealous or spiritually clouded minds of his right wing devotees, it’s become a well-established (if under reported) fact that President George W. Bush is a serial liar, if not a congenital liar.1 For example, after The New York Times very belatedly leaked Mr. Bush’s unconstitutional order permitting the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens without obtaining the required court-approved warrants, Bush defended his directive as a “vital tool” in the war against terrorism. But, as liars commonly do, Bush seems to have forgotten that in April 2004 he told an audience in Buffalo, New York: “When we’re talking about chasing down terrorists, we’re talking about getting a court order before we do so.” He also … Read entire article »

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Preempting the Truth

September 15th, 2004 | Add a Comment

Originally published in The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Secrets and Lies: Operation “Iraqi Freedom” and After By Dilip Hiro Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and Why the Media Didn’t Tell You By Paul Waldman The Iraq War: A Military History By Williamson Murray and Maj. Gen. Robert H. Scales Jr.   At first, one might wonder why Williamson Murray and Maj. Gen. Robert H. Scales Jr. even wrote The Iraq War. After all, as they write, “The conflict with Iraq engaged an enemy who had virtually no military capabilities left after an air war of attrition lasting over 12 years.” Coalition forces not only had technologically superior weapons, but also engaged an enemy that had incompetent military leadership, soldiers unwilling to die for Saddam Hussein, and an air force that … Read entire article »

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