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Wednesday December 03, 03 12:52 PM - Nixon is a kindergarten bully compared to Dubya. I was not alone in considering him a weak, but amiable slacker. Remember the “From Bozo to Churchill---George W.'s post-September 11 reinvention” book by Mark Crispin Miller, which describes how the country, out of shock coalesced with the resident of the white house. We were looking for something from 43 which he couldn’t provide, “Certainly the corporate media did all they could to reinforce the mass amnesia. Eager, as ever, to exploit the craze, and also to score brownie points (or still more brownie points) with our now-towering leader, they glorified him with a panting desperation that recalled the war-time cult of Stalin. We had the cable operations vying to outdo each other with slick, airless "profiles" of his brilliant leadership--shows that might as well have come straight from the White House. ("And he will not waver!" Andrew Card said at the end of one on CNN--10/20/01.) Prior to 9-11 I thought the analogy to “Tricky Dick” was most appropriate. Now, with all of the deception, the warmongering and correlated profiteering and dirty dealing, the brainwashing and Rove propaganda blitzkriegs facilitated by FOX, the utterly Nazi Gestapolike “Patriot Act--it is obvious that the ”Tricky Dick” analogy isn’t totally accurate. The vile GOP Nixon, tried but isn’t really in the same league as 43, but this mass-murderer’s repertoire of criminal activities, even though they distinctly pale in comparison to Dubya’s, are similar in concept. Back in the 1970s he and his henchman, Kissinger, were as far ahead of their counterparts in the Democratic Party, in terms of cunning connivance in perfidious treachery as Dubya is today—the technology just makes it easier for Dubya to excel. He can lie to more vapid people more rapidly, and can use current technological advances to monitor and intimidate the entire nation by the execution of a high-tech solution. Just how many atrocities have to occur before the Rove controlled US media levels with us? The slitting of the throats of 2 our best on November 23rd, 2003 was disgusting. In Mosul 2 US soldiers were killed in an ambush by Iraqi teenagers. First the US heroes were pummeled with concrete blocks. Television footage showed the US heroes splayed on the ground as their comrades struggled to secure the area. It reminded us of October 1993 in Somalia! The US soldiers are not equipped with adequate local intelligence and they are not capable of winning a guerilla war against these insurgents. In the history of the world the super-powers never have won these guerilla skirmishes as the US in Vietnam, and both Russia and the US in Afghanistan, can attest. These scenes are going to be repeated. Until recently Mosul has been a success story, unlike the Sunni Muslim area as close to Baghdad. It has now deteriorated so rapidly that no place is safe for the occupiers, and the sad status of previously disinterested teenagers attacking our youth is a revolting example of just how poorly the occupation was planned for. In Baghdad Brig, Gen, Kimmitt confirmed the Mosul deaths, but “We’re not going to get ghoulish about it” he said. Bush, in a break from trying to ruin the US economy by setting unattainably unreasonable records of deficits, by such huge ticket items as the Medicare and Energy bills, said, “These recent tragedies show clearly how well the “Operation Iraqi Freedom” project is advancing.” Red staters just better bow down in homage to Herr Führer because, “his boys in blue will find a way to silence you.” Clearly the current FBI Bulletin on protesters, which cites that Big Brother is monitoring anti-war protestors, is a step toward a Gestapolike police state being sanctioned in the US. Civil liberty groups and politicians said these clearly evil tactics would surely jeopardize people’s First Amendment rights. On the fateful day of December 1, 2003 the occupation continued to unravel. Right after Herr Commander-in-Chief, or is it Turkey-in-Chief had Turkey day with the troops, the guerilla war escalated, and the US press again covered it inadequately. A source in the theatre, albawaba.com, reports it this way, in the article, “Conflicting reports on Samarra death toll: Residents says at least eight civilians shot dead by US forces”. They are trying for a few sources here, “American troops killed 54 Iraqis after a forceful gunfight in the northern Iraqi town of Samarra on late Sunday, American official statements said. But residents said Monday that the casualty figure was much lower and that the dead were mostly civilians. According to them, just eight or nine people died. According to the British SKY News, eight civilians were reportedly killed in the crossfire after fighters tried to ambush occupation convoys in the area.” They wanted to be “Fair and Balanced” and had another go at it in this albawaba.com article, “Samarra carnage: US army claims to kill 46 ''attackers'' as residents say unarmed civilians also shot dead”, with the following text probably prepared by Rupert Murdoch himself, “The fourth infantry division repelled multiple ambush attacks," Lieutenant Colonel William MacDonald told reporters, adding that at least 18 Iraqis, five American troops and a civilian traveling with the convoys also were injured during the ambushes. According to MacDonald, many of the dead attackers were found wearing uniforms of the Fedayeen, a militia loyal to Saddam Hussein.” Roger Ailes, the FOX honcho who communicated with Dubya right 9-11 methods to attack the Democrats for the advantage of the GOP didn’t write this, “Locals provided different versions about the incident. According to them, occupation troops killed unarmed bystanders when they opened fire on all directions.” Let’s sum up and separate the facts from the propaganda. No one other than Lieutenant Colonel William MacDonald saw uniforms of the Fedayeen. The total of Iraqi “collateral damage” has to be determined by an impartial source. Guess what, the Iraqi Security Force, locals trained by the US, estimated the totals as being closer to 54 than the US propaganda number. What does FOX have to say about this? Sadly, for the dumbed-down red state portion of the population that will decide the 2004 presidential election, only this slanted misinformation matters. Their FOXNews.com pabulum, camouflaged as news, “Firefights Leave 54 Iraqis Dead, Five GIs Hurt” states, “In the deadliest reported firefights in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, U.S. forces killed at least 54 Iraqis and captured eight others while fending off simultaneous convoy ambushes Sunday in the northern city of Samarra. At least five U.S. soldiers, 18 Iraqi attackers and a civilian were injured.” They are so dissimilar that the FOX coverage and albawaba.com reporting don’t even seem to be dealing with the same incident. I’m surprised that FOX didn’t feature Private Lynch in a star role. Even though she hasn’t regained her physical and intellectual strength, we need heroes, even if their exploits are somewhat fictional. As far as the “everlasting war against terrorism” is concerned, the fact is this. To the pool of extremist Islamic recruits the concepts that the US infidels hate Islam and are occupiers, is driven forcefully into their every waking moment. Bin laden and his ilk can cheery-pick the cream of the crop of recruits as a result of this ill conceived and insanely planned occupation. Just realize that the Iraq war didn’t have to happen. In an article of November 6, 2003, “Diplomacy: Iraq Said to Have Tried to Reach Last-Minute Deal to Avert War”, this quote, “As American soldiers massed on the Iraqi border in March and diplomats argued about war, an influential adviser to the Pentagon received a secret message from a Lebanese-American businessman: Saddam Hussein wanted to make a deal. Iraqi officials, including the chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, had told the businessman that they wanted Washington to know that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction, and they offered to allow American troops and experts to conduct a search. The businessman said in an interview that the Iraqis also offered to hand over a man accused of being involved in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 who was being held in Baghdad. At one point, he said, the Iraqis pledged to hold elections. The messages from Baghdad, first relayed in February to an analyst in the office of Douglas J. Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy and planning, were part of an attempt by Iraqi intelligence officers to open last-ditch negotiations with the Bush administration through a clandestine communications channel, according to people involved.” It is a shame they went to Feith, but who they went to didn’t really matter. Once the “Dogs of War”, the PNAC boys, smelt the scent of destruction and blood soaked booty, they couldn’t be denied. The Boob, Herr Führer 43, just couldn’t spell. He really wanted to attack another of the “Axis of Evil” threats Iraq, but 3 out of 4 letters, and being on the same continent, is pretty good for the “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances”. Richard Cohen in his “The Iran Challenge”, writes, “As far as we know, Iraq has not been a prime sponsor of terrorism under Saddam Hussein in the recent past; Iran was -- and is. As far as we know, Iraq did not have a functioning nuclear weapons program. Iran does. So who did we go to war against? Iraq. Maybe someone in the White House can't spell. Whatever the explanation, the decision to make war on Iraq has cost the United States plenty when it comes to dealing with Iran. In the past month the Bush administration has been repeatedly rebuffed by our European allies -- Germany, France and even Britain -- over how to deal with Iran's not-so-secret nuclear weapons program. The United States wanted to use the stick; the Europeans prefer the carrot. Iran is now chomping away like Bugs Bunny.” Red staters, he pushed us into a war no one wanted or needed. Now the other small fries on the block don’t want to play with the bully. Can you get that? You middle-aged Red staters, you remember how Nixon almost suppressed the Pentagon Papers. Well, your current boy trumped that easily. Dubya’s Central Intelligence Agency came up with this analysis, “The insurgency in Iraq is growing in intensity and expanding in geography. It will get much worse, according to a bleak assessment”…..” More than the terrorism of Baathist "remnants" and "bitter-enders," or even "the 200 or so foreign terrorists" that the administration has been harping about dismissively amid its happy talk of progress in Iraq, the CIA says a full-scale insurgency is underway, with a majority of Iraqis opposing the occupation.”, according to Haroon Siddiqui’s, “What Iraq will get isn't self-rule” November 18th 2003. Sounds like Dubya would not want to divulge this. Well, they didn’t and Dubya’s chums would not speak about it. The Philadelphia Inquirer exposed the story and frankly, it like all the stories that are negative to this dunce’ regime, has been unreported. Douglas Jehl’s article, “C.I.A. Report Suggests Iraqis Are Losing Faith in U.S. Efforts”, spells out the cover-up thusly, “The officials said that the report, dated Nov. 10, had been explicitly endorsed by L. Paul Bremer III, the top American official in Iraq, and that the warnings it spelled out had been a factor behind Mr. Bremer's abrupt return to Washington for consultations this week. The C.I.A. and the White House refused even to confirm the existence of the report, which was first disclosed by The Philadelphia Inquirer. But government officials outside those agencies said its conclusions were among the darkest intelligence assessments distributed since the American-led invasion of Iraq in March.” It is a shame that the US media is so corrupt and that the red staters are so complacent and in “Shock and Awe” and sheepishly follow the butt ahead off the abyss. Those who believe Dubya’s shtick please wake up. Those of us who can understand the pattern must try to let truth see the light of day. The aging red staters remember these milder ploys from Nixon. Now Dubya’s high-tech lies and complete control of the media is unprecedented in its scope. Back in the day Nixon had his phony “Checkers” speech and his “Watergate plumbers”, which were trite exercises in comparison to Herr Rove providing copy to FOX and the Washington Times and the “Patriot Act”, but the analogies are clear. Nixon won re-election by terrifying enough dolts that the “domino theory” would soon have Communist invaders in every US town. Those who tried to talk rationally were silenced, sometimes violently, as was the case with Martha Mitchell and his abruptly ending plane trip. Currently, the GOP is intimidating decent US citizens who don’t like the age old GOP tradition of warmongering for profits for “Pioneer” and “Ranger” big-time contributors only. We have to win 2004 or this scourge will continue. b. connors

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