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Saturday January 03, 04 07:58 AM - W lies and the losers die. Recently I read the June 27th, 2003 article, “I Never Promised You A Ruse Garden” A Letter From Michael Moore To George W. Bush. It gives me courage that one of the most influential, articulate US liberal thinkers agrees with that of the common folk. After grousing about W dressing up for his “Mission Accomplished” photo-op, and assuming that the “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances”, highest rank was that of Lieutenant, Mr. Moore wrote, “So, Lieutenant, I was wondering, would you do me a favor? Could you PLEASE do better than a ROSE BUSH? I saw the guy on TV yesterday that your boys found, the Iraqi who said he had "planted" some nuclear plans in his "back yard" in Baghdad -- 12 years ago -- "under a rose bush." Woo boy. That's a good one. Do you really think we are as dumb as we look? I know our fascination with "American Idol" and Scott Peterson may make us Americans look a little light in the head, but when it comes to lying to us to lead us into war, we really do demand a bit more of an EFFORT and a FOLLOW-THROUGH. You see, George, it's not the lying and the doctoring of intelligence that has me all upset. It's that you've had control of Iraq for over two months now -- and you couldn't even find the time to plant just a few nukes or vats of nerve gas and at least make it LOOK like you weren't lying to us. You see, by not faking some evidence of weapons of mass destruction, it shows that you thought no one would mind if it turned out you made everything up. A different kind of president, who believes that the American public would be outraged if they ever found out the truth, would go to great lengths to cover up his subterfuge.” Back on October 6h 2003, an article, “You can’t stop ripping of the US--all we ask is that you please protect our troops”, makes the point that, ““We all have our dark side to say the least, but dealing in death is the nature of the beast”! Who, except for the aging ex-hippies, knows that song lyric? Pink Floyd’s “Dogs of War” being unleashed by their silent transfers in marbled halls. Well Dubya, the Flim-Flam man--merchant of death, uses it as his credo. Once the wolfish Dubya acquired his first taste of blood, it became an irresistible appetite. He has slowly understood that you can good profits in ripping off US suckers, but you get your biggest bonanzas by raping and pillaging oil rich countries. That a host of our fine US boys and girls die in combat is a shame, but getting the cream off the top will require some sacrifice. Besides, we must show our enemies that the US won’t run away from a confrontation at the first little problem. The PNAC boys say we must be tough and stay no matter what the cost.” Whoever wrote this tripe, a b. connors--what a nom de plume, is a nobody who can write whatever mess he wants, unlike an established personage such as Michael Moore. This nondescript guy furthered Mr. Moore’s theme with a scathing attack at the duplicity of W as exhibited in the “Operation Iraqi Freedom”, “What was his tremendous photo-op on the USS Lincoln, with “Mission Accomplished” behind him other than a chance for him to act as the mighty, Commander-in-Chief? For the love of all that is good and decent in the world, Bush who proudly struts around as being concerned for the military, is going to look out for our youth in the Armed Services, isn’t he? His words don’t match his actions. I can hear the GOP operatives saying, “We have to spend a lot of money to make sure our troops have the best of everything to fight the “everlasting war against terrorism.” It would be one thing if that was true, but it is not. Since our dear troops aren’t in the top 1%, Dubya isn’t going waste his blood soaked booty, on adequate military equipment and processes on them. So what if through his idiotic actions Dubya has forced their lives to be on the line. For Dubya you either have the secret membership card, a big, fat wallet, or you are cannon fodder. In general, the "support our troops" crowd draws the line when that support might actually cost something. The usually conservative Army Times has run blistering editorials on this subject. Its June 30 blast, titled "Nothing but Lip Service," begins: "In recent months, President Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress have missed no opportunity to heap richly deserved praise on the military. But talk is cheap — and getting cheaper by the day, judging from the nickel-and-dime treatment the troops are getting lately." There's also another element in the Iraq logistical snafu: privatization. The U.S. military has shifted many tasks traditionally performed by soldiers into the hands of such private contractors as Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary. The Iraq war and its aftermath gave this privatized system its first major test in combat — and the system failed. According to the Newhouse News Service, "U.S. troops in Iraq suffered through months of unnecessarily poor living conditions because some civilian contractors hired by the Army for logistics support failed to show up." Not surprisingly, civilian contractors — and their insurance companies — get spooked by war zones. In Iraq, reports The Baltimore Sun, "the Bush administration continues to use American corporations to perform work that United Nations agencies and nonprofit aid groups can do more cheaply." Both articles are disgusted with the laziness of W’s and Rove’s lies, sort of like Al Franken in his book “Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”. Let’s tally it up. Three progressive thinkers are appalled at the international policies of W, particularly in Iraq. Anything that a GOP president would these liberals would hate, so can we get an objective source? How about people in the hell that W has made? This holiday season I didn’t hear about any catastrophes in Iraq. I guess W is winning the war and all of those dolts who are on him about the “Mission Accomplished” fiasco will soon be eating crow. WRONG! An article by Al-Bawaba.comwww.albawaba.com of January 02, 2004, “One US soldier killed as Iraqi foreign fighter smuggler captured”, suggests that we are still losing US soldiers in Iraq, particularly in the Baghdad area. This quote, “U.S. military helicopter crashed west of Baghdad on Friday, killing one soldier and injuring another, the U.S. military said. The crash of the OH-58 Kiowa helicopter near the town of Fallujah was under investigation, the military said, according to The AP.” Everywhere else in Iraq they are greeting us as liberators. WRONG! Another article by Al-Bawaba.comwww.albawaba.com of December 31, 2003, “US soldier dies, blast kills Iraqi boy as police shoot dead two protesters in Kirkuk“, might be more troubling in that in this area, the Iraqi Kurdish are trying to separate from the rest of Iraq. This quote, “Hundreds of Arabs and Turkmen began protesting Wednesday morning to demand that Kirkuk remain under a central Iraqi government and not be incorporated into any proposed Kurdish federation. "Kirkuk is an Iraqi city!" protesters shouted. "Down with federalism." Some Kurds in Kirkuk have been calling for the city to become part of an autonomous Kurdistan.” This is a situation that intelligence agencies feared would happen. Having an autonomous Kurdish in Iraq would tend to destabilize the entire region. The odds are that Turkey will have to massacre Iraqi Kurds, as they have done throughout the earlier Bush administration, because they can’t allow the Kurdish segment in Turkey to dream of autonomy. Add the Kurdish problem with the Sunni problem, and you have a volatile mess. The Iraqi SCIRI is currently coalescing with their Iranian brethren, and this tinderbox of a country, is ready to explode. Back in the first Bush Iraq War, 41 didn’t go after Hussein because his advisors, who are now the PNAC crew, knew that the entire Middle East could destabilize without a violent thug, Hussein, to keep Iraq stable. Why then would the PNAC boys go ahead with this policy now? As Mr. Moore and Mr. Franken suggest, they realize that the US is their toy. The red staters are too ignorant to pay attention to international affairs, and since the GOP controls Congress, 43 can’t get impeached. In England, Dr. Wright, the Bishop of Durham said he did not think Blair and President George W. Bush had the credibility to deal with the problems in Iraq. "For Bush and Blair to go into Iraq together was like a bunch of white vigilantes going into Brixton to stop drug-dealing," he told the Independent. On his part, former English Foreign Secretary Cook warned the British leader he might never win back public trust after the Iraq war. Blair had tried to turn that "innocuous" finding into a threat when everyone in the UK could see Saddam had not had weapons of mass destruction, Cook argued. "It really is time that the Prime Minister accepted that himself," Cook told BBC Radio 4's Today program. "It is undignified for the Prime Minister to continue to insist he was right when everyone can see he was wrong," he added. Foreign leaders, the Bishop of English Durham religious spokesperson, and US liberal thinkers agree that 43 has lied. In England, the hatred for Blair is palpable. In the good old US of A our red staters doze. This aforementioned, b. connors bloke, ends up with, “You red staters, none of you are the Binkys and Chips in his blue-blooded secret club. If you vote for him you are voting against your own self-interests. Frankly, if the US wasn’t the chief world power, Dubya wouldn’t be considering how he can get re-elected. He would be fighting off charges of being a mass murdered as Blair currently is.” Alf landon04 Discussion Monday December 15, 03 11:56 AM - What is the advantage of capturing Hussein? With the capture of Hussein we have reached the point that 43’s poppy, 41, didn’t want to reach, just 12 years ago. Now, the entire Middle East might become destabilized. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, was then General Powell, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Vice-resident Cheney was Secretary of Defense. They, as well as, Commander in Chief, Central Command, General Schwarzkopf knew this, and advised Junior’s Poppy not to take out Hussein. Now, we are left to imagine that no one can remember this. Why can Herr Rove think this poorly of the red staters? He must think that have “expletive deleted” for brains, like their role model, the disinterested W. Prior to the war one of the interchangeable FOX rabid, right-wing, stooges was interviewing “Stormin Norman”. He didn’t get many other invitations on FOX because he told the truth. He said that Hussein might or might not have WMD, but he hadn’t used them since 1991. He said to allow the UN inspections to continue. He said that regime change was not recommended back in 1991, and would not be now either, because Iraq needed a strongman to keep the disparate ethnic groups together. It was a shame that Hussein was ruthless, but the US certainly didn’t attack other countries with a criminal despot in charge, and shouldn’t do so with Iraq either. The biggest fear with “regime change” in Iraq is that the entire Middle East might become destabilized. Every one of the PNAC boys knows that things might rapidly deteriorate. None of the neo-con clique is stupid, only corrupt. Last March 21st, Gwynne Dyer’s article, “Aftermath: SCIRI” spells out that getting another government working in Iraq, won’t be easy. “The biggest problem facing an American occupation regime in Iraq is the fact that the Sunni Arab minority, only 17 percent of the population, has dominated the government and the army for generations. The Shia Arabs have been largely excluded from power and are relatively poor, but they are almost two-thirds of the population and in a democratic Iraq they would automatically dominate the government. The problem is that their sympathies lie with their fellow Shias in Iran, and a pro-Iranian government in Baghdad is not exactly what the U.S. had in mind as an outcome to this war.” Rummy is on record as saying, “"A vocal minority clamoring to transform Iraq in Iran's image will not be permitted to do so," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said.”We will not allow the Iraqi people's democratic transition to be hijacked for - by those who might wish to install another form of dictatorship." Some of the Shiites, long repressed under Saddam's Sunni-dominated regime, would like to see an Islamic theocracy like that in neighboring Iran. But in an interview on Thursday, Rumsfeld said the United States would not allow that. "That isn't going to happen," he said. Rummy doesn’t want the Shiites in control. Is that is being accomplished? Currently, the transition of power in “Operation Iraqi Freedom” is running into snags. The process first ran into trouble last week when objections to the plan by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani, Iraq's most senior Shiite cleric, were made known through al-Hakim, who heads a key Shiite political organization, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). Al-Hakim said al-Sistani informed him of his "deep concern" about the plan during a meeting last week at the cleric's home in the holy city of Najaf. Jalal Talabani, a Kurdish leader and council member, also met al-Sistani last week and repeated the cleric's main objection -- that electing the legislature through caucuses lacks sufficient popular participation. Al-Sistani has consistently refused to meet Bremer, most likely because such an encounter would likely tempt rival clerics to accuse him of "collaboration" with foreign occupiers. He has been communicating with the U.S.-led coalition through intermediaries. "The timeline and the process will remain," said the coalition official, who is closely involved in the political process. "The details can be worked out, but we are not going to have another shift." Al-Sistani has clout among Shiites, and his remarks should deepen the worries of the U.S.-led occupation authorities, who already had to ditch an earlier political blueprint for Iraq when al-Sistani insisted that only elected delegates can draft a new constitution. What does his “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances” boss have to say about this? US President George W. Bush has acknowledged that the grievances voiced by Sistani constituted an “overarching flaw” in the blueprint for a transition of power. This is bad that the US unelected president doesn’t agree with his current Secretary of Defense. It is much worse than that if you believe recent history. Going to back to the 1991 Iraq war you must realize that thousands of Iraqi Shia fled across the frontier into Iran, where the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq took responsibility for their lives. Gwynne Dyer predicts, “SCIRI's leaders are moving back into Iraq right now. Two years from now, they will either be ruling Iraq or struggling to break away from it (and take most of the oil with them).” With W’s regime, where PNAC, the US hegemony crew rules, these types of arguments get settled by what Cheney and Rumsfeld dictate to puppet-boy 43. You would wonder why Poppy didn’t clue in his lazy son, wouldn’t you? 41 realized that Carlyle would make out as a result of another Iraq war. They would make out even more if the US got stuck in a quagmire, and destabilized the entire Middle East. With these Bush ghouls, money is thicker than blood. So, capturing Hussein is not a big deal for the US cause, or for the unfortunate Iraqis, because the formation of the democratic government in Iraq isn’t progressing smoothly. What does an Iraqi based paper have to say about this capture? It isn’t going to slow down the insurgency, as an albawaba.com article, “One day after Saddam capture: Two car bombs hit Baghdad area”, attests. Also, from albawaba.com, the article, “Following Saddam capture: Hamas, Islamic Jihad say Iraqi resistance against occupation to continue, US to pay 'price’”, is not promising. Dubya has to be annoyed that Rummy’s soldiers didn’t follow orders and lob a few grenades into Hussein’s rat hole. Now Hussein will chirp like a songbird to try and win his legal case. He will implicate, 41, Rumsfeld and Cheney. They all have had extensive business dealings with him. Is Hussein’s capture going to help W? Already, according to an albawaba.com article, “Saddam tells interrogators: “U.S. dreamed'' about Iraq WMD to have reason for war”, whose title tells the story--the answer is Hussein will bring everyone he has to down with him. There really is no honor among thieves. You would have thought that Cheney and his young ward, 43, would know that. Did you know that Iraq desperately tried to make any concessions so that this war could be averted? Please read, “Iraq Said to Have Tried to Reach Last-Minute Deal to Avert War” of November 6, 2003 The article names a Mr. Maloof, a Mr. Hage, Mr. Obeidi and Mr. Habbush as contacts for a determined Iraq bid to stop the US from attacking Iraq, and describes, “In one note to Mr. Perle in mid-March, Mr. Maloof relayed a message from Mr. Hage that Mr. Obeidi and Mr. Habbush "were prepared to meet with you in Beirut, and as soon as possible, concerning `unconditional terms.' “The message from Mr. Hage said, "Such a meeting has Saddam Hussein's clearance." No meetings took place, and the invasion began on March 20. Mr. Hage wonders what might have happened if the Americans had pursued the back channel to Baghdad. "At least they could have talked to them," he said. There were other attempts by Iraq to avert the war, but they failed. Hussein will gladly enlighten the world about how the PNAC boys turned down all of those deals that Iraq offered the US before the Iraq war that made the war not only unnecessary, but also disadvantageous to the US, except for the top 1% “Ranger” and “Pioneer” buddies. They all made out on all of the war profiteering. b. connors Discussion Thursday December 11, 03 01:07 PM - Bloody "expetive deleted" Dubya'sdeath to all money grab! Dubya’s “Apocalypse Now” auditory hallucinations! Two quotes I’d like to present are: “I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator,” said Adolf Hitler. Herr Führer believed in a master race and assumed it was his right to obliterate the world for them. “God told me to strike at Al Qa’ida and I struck them. And then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did. With the might of God on our side we will triumph,” said George Bush. Dubya’s crusade, his “everlasting war against terrorism”, or can it be stated as the PNAC boys like, “US hegemony”, matches Hitler’s for its cruelty and the clear insanity of the plan. We know how Hitler worked out. There are indications that Dubya’s folly will match Hitler’s fiendish example. Dubya’s apocalyptic future world, that of an foreboding imminent disaster can only occur if the world doesn’t reign him in, which it will! If he doesn’t sufficiently terrify enough of our dozing red staters in the upcoming election, then the Democratic President will have a few rough years mending the relationships with our international allies that Dubya’s boys ruined. Let’s pray that enough people wake up and he gets booted out after one term, because these GOP warmongers historically never quit until they are forced to. Two quotes about how the war is progressing I’d like to present are: In Rumsfeld’s meaning of slog memo, the defense secretary takes a long-term view of the counter-terrorist effort and wonders whether terrorists are being recruited in religious schools [madrassas] faster than US troops can kill or capture them. This quote, “Today, we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror,” Mr. Rumsfeld concludes, demanding more original thinking. “My impression is that we have not yet made truly bold moves,” he writes, and asks whether a private foundation could be set up to “entice” madrassas to a more moderate course. Turkey-boy Bush, the commander-in-chief at the Iraq Thanksgiving photo-op said, “You are defending the American people from danger and we are grateful. You are defeating the terrorists here in Iraq.” The insurgents in the country are “testing our will. They hope we will run,” he said. But, he said, “we did not charge hundreds of miles into the heart of Iraq, pay a bitter cost of casualties, defeat a ruthless dictator and liberate 25 million people only to retreat before a band of thugs and assassins.” So, Rumsfeld takes the long view and wonders if the US can kill an entire generation of Islamic extremist terrorists, who are being recruited in religious schools [madrassas]. That surely is an apocalyptic view of the future. Dubya, the “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances”, doesn’t even have the intellectual curiosity of his Defense Secretary, who really should be focused on “Shock and Awe” solely, not quasi-political, demographical considerations. You would think the illegal resident of the white house would have that information researched for him, wouldn’t you? He probably has, but remember he couldn’t understand that the briefing which stated, “bin Laden had wanted to conduct attacks in the United States for years and that (his) group apparently maintained a support base here”, was a threat to Homeland Security. One item that doesn’t need research, as it is an historical fact, is that the US won’t conquer a guerilla insurgency. No super-power in the brief history of mankind has. I wonder if Dubya knows this? I’m sure that our dear military youth does, as well as the adversary, Islamic extremist terrorists. The article “U.S. Faces Defeat By Guerrillas” by Michael Keane of November 19, 2003, spells out clearly the futility of this occupation. The set of quotes, “The widely reported results of a top-secret CIA study indicated that Iraqis are losing faith in the U.S.-led occupation forces, resulting in increasing support for the resistance. ….. Also last week, after summoning to Washington the civilian administrator, L. Paul Bremer III, the Bush administration announced that it would transfer power to a provisional Iraqi government by next June. Following on the heels of a string of guerrilla attacks and the disturbing results of the CIA study, it is a move that appears to be taken out of desperation. It took Afghan guerrillas almost 10 years to force the withdrawal of Soviet troops. The Iraqi guerrillas could plausibly achieve the same result against the United States before the end of 2004……. Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, dismissive remark regarding the guerrillas reveals the contempt that conventional forces typically feel for them. For example, when American commanders characterize the guerrillas as “cowardly,” it only betrays the coalition’s frustration in dealing with the raiders’ hit-and-run tactics. The belief that guerrilla warfare is unsophisticated or inferior is as wrong as it is widespread. As Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Samuel B. Griffith II noted, “This generalization is dangerously misleading and true only in the technological sense. If one considers the picture as a whole, a paradox is immediately apparent, and the primitive form is understood to be in fact more sophisticated than nuclear war or atomic war or war as it was waged by conventional armies, navies and air forces.” Sanchez’s comment that the guerrilla attacks are “insignificant” is evocative of an exchange between an American officer and a North Vietnamese colonel just before the fall of Saigon in 1975. “You know you never defeated us on the battlefield,” the American said. The North Vietnamese colonel pondered this remark a moment. “That may be so,” he replied, “but it is also irrelevant.” “ Calm, rational, detailed thought, the antithesis of how our disinterested dunce works, clearly shows that this will get worse. Recently both the CIA report and Bremer predicts an awful future for the occupiers, and the occupied. That the bozos don’t have even a glimmer of and end-game in sight is disgusting. Rumsfeld and Dubya disagree with how this can end, and it makes you wonder if the PNAC boys have bothered to explain to the fool how this will probably end very poorly. The Pentagon warned that it would not allow an Iranian-style theocracy to be installed as the new government in Iraq. “A vocal minority clamoring to transform Iraq in Iran’s image will not be permitted to do so,” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said. “We will not allow the Iraqi people’s democratic transition to be hijacked for - by those who might wish to install another form of dictatorship.” Rumsfeld’s comments indicated that while the United States has said that it wants self-determination for Iraqis, it does not intend to follow a completely hands-off policy. US President George W. Bush, just during the first week of December 2003 has acknowledged that the grievances voiced by Sistani constituted an “overarching flaw” in the blueprint for a transition of power. The Sistani Dubya is referring to is Shiite leader Grand Ayatollah. Ali Sistani announced his rejection of the coalition’s blueprint for the handover of sovereignty by June next year. This plan for a quick transition of power for Iraq is getting scuttled by the Iraqis themselves. Iraq’s interim leadership has been meeting for talks with US overseer Paul Bremer, but reached no decision over Shiite demands for immediate elections, amid continuing divisions over the coalition’s blueprint for a rapid transfer of sovereignty to an unelected caretaker administration. “We did not reach clear results … The door is still open and the discussions are ongoing,” Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, the current president of the Governing Council, told a Baghdad press conference after one of the meetings. His Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution (SCIRI) backs the demands of the Shiite religious hierarchy. This delay is whether the SCIRI, which has roots in Iran, will have a part proportionate to its percentage, a clear majority, of the entire Iraq population. The prevailing theory is that the Shiites of Iran will, as in the previous 1991 Iraq war, unite with their Iraqi brethren. In 1991, the Shia in the south of Iraq were massacred and utterly crushed. Thousands of Iraqi Shia fled across the frontier into Iran, where the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution (SCIRI) took responsibility for their lives. By a year or so, southern and central Iraq will effectively be in the control of the Iran SCIRI group, of militant Shiites. That is the future Rumsfeld doesn’t want to happen, but Dubya is oblivious to. Dubya doesn’t know any of this as he is just a pawn to the demands of his PNAC masters. Why else would they have the fool do his “Mission Accomplished” routine? He follows their demand and ignorantly declared that all major military operations were over and the US won. The world knew this to be a lie. “Shock and Awe” is easy against a country that didn’t send a single airplane up against the US forces. The occupation, with the inevitable loss against guerilla warfare, will be “Mission Failure”. The PNAC boys were playing a private joke on Dubya and Rove, just as Rummy did when his “meaning of slog memo” leaked! It was no coincidence it leaked after he was told to report to Rice. He was ticked off and he knew Dubya couldn’t do anything to him! These PNAC people are not human, and Dubya’s lack of intellectual curiosity has him believing what his closest advisors, those who are telling him stories so that they can rape the world, tell him! That they want all of the blood soaked booty for themselves is obvious in how they shafted the countries who they consider as being against us in the “everlasting war against terrorism, and disallowed them to bid for the Iraq contracts. They are immature, arrogant, “expletive deleted”. Dubya was so proud to tell FOX Brit Hume, in an interview immediately before Dubya’s latest speech to the UN, that he didn’t read the papers. This was a Rove plan. He wanted his red staters to follow suit, as they have done so eagerly up to now. The PNAC boys have no end game. They will just allow situations for “Apocalypse Now” to grow. They are all old dying men and they want the entire world to go with them. b. connors 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 Discussion Monday December 01, 03 12:46 PM - They stole the memo, leaked it, then lied about it. Recently I saw an article which examined the GOP pattern of labeling potential foes “evil” such as “Axis of Evil” whose parent was “Evil Empire”. The author considered that this was an immature act by the GOP aimed at an audience, which they considered to be at the 3rd grade level. It reminded this author of his son’s favorite cartoon, Sponge Bob, in which the good guy, Mermaid Man is always yelling Evil. This scam of late November 2003, which will has already lost its ranking of being the latest--the GOP stealing a computer file or scrap paper of a Democratic staff member, was as per usual, cunningly evil. This aide, of Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, reminds of the phrase, “every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints.” The GOP was trying to accuse the Democrats of playing politics with the Iraq war. In an objective analysis of this, since the GOP stole an unfinished work product of an underpaid, and very junior, aide, Rove’s boys committed the only crime. I can’t have “Sympathy for the Devil” Dubya, while so many innocent lives are being wasted! The crime of theft, in this escapade that became public on November 6th, 2003, has been forgotten. The entire incident has as Rove noticed that this particular skirmish with the red staters’ apathy wasn’t playing out at all, negatively or positively, for the GOP. Rove knows all about lazy people, look at Dubya. Sometimes they are just too zoned-out for perfectly adequate scams to gain any momentum. The GOP, back in November was pretending to be incensed by this document. It was a memo that stated an obvious concern for securing information from a stonewalling GOP. The “Liar, liar pants on fire” GOP was yammering about the politicization of the pre-war Iraq intelligence. Was that memo any more damning than Rummy’s recent “The meaning of Slog” memo? I have two associates who work in the White House. There are two cafeterias there. One of my chums, a working drone as I am, goes to a cheaply decorated, but vastly over-priced eating area—-really just vending machines, called the “Bee Hive”. The other person, an arrogant yuppie, eats at a snazzy, moderate priced establishment for Senior Executives only, the “Queen Bee”. I know for a certain fact that each of those places has hidden bugs. Another of my buddies uses voice translation hybrid software to put these illegally bugged conversations into databases. In both places slogans are placed. One week it will be “Mission Accomplished”, another it will be “Huge Progress in the Iraq Occupation”, another it will be “Victory in Afghanistan”. Last year a few of them were “Hussein instead of bin laden” and “Hussein’s WMD are an imminent threat”. The practiced GOP operatives experiment with these signs, and use brainwashing techniques or the unwitting Government drones. When they have, for example, “Mission Accomplished” up, they placed subliminal messages into the music playing for the patrons. As some western ballad about somebody doing someone wrong and the whistling train hummed a sad song, in the background noise, the phrase “Dubya is good” was audible, but just barely so. The software isn’t bug free but my buddy provides the results to guess whom? Karl Rove sees the reports and uses this anecdotal data to guide his cunning capers. Yes, the willing drones of the Queen Bee in the “Bee Hive”, the people who fit the profile of the red stater as well as can be hoped for, believe big brother mini-me by a 90% ratio. The college educated Senior Executives see through the tissue of lies, by a 90% ratio, but keep quiet because maintaining the status quo suits their purposes. This will result in the US never getting the “Mission Accomplished” sign in Dubya’s “everlasting war against terrorism”. Forget the fact that Dubya has backed off of claiming he won the Iraq war, as the overall anti-terrorism policy is abysmally failing Dubya won’t have to find someone else to take the blame f Rove remembered how in the 1960s that scantily clad girls draping themselves onto Mustangs sold cars. Worse, at movie theatres and TV sets “Drink Coke” messages were rampant, until the government realized that these campaigns were unethical. I remember back in the 2000 campaign, Rove had the ad with Bush mumbling about something and in the background was a sign that should have said, “Democrats are bureaucrats.” Well, 43’s big, fat, empty head blocked out parts of the sign so that only the words, “Democrats are rats.” could be seen. You’d think that Rove would be embarrassed by the clumsiness of that. You’d be wrong because that ad was clearly aimed at a drooling dolt and that is what Rove considers his bread and butter, red staters to be. This politicization of the Iraq war started during the 2002 mid-term election. No ethical president, and that includes JFK and Dubya’s Poppy, would ever start a war during an election period. Dubya dances to Rove’s orders, and Rove has never seen an ethical barrier that he wouldn’t exploit. Two articles, “Counting Votes While the Bombs Drop” of May 7, 2003 by James C. Moore of the Los Angeles Times and “Bush's Political Future Hinges on Quick War” by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post Staff of March 15, 2003, illustrate this hypocritical, Herr big brother 43 tactic. Dubya attacked Max Cleland, as well as other Democrats, during the 2002 mid-term election. Even John McCain, who Herr Rove, smeared in the Republican primaries, couldn’t stomach what Dubya did to Cleland. Rove follows the Atwater, “winner takes all, don’t take any captives” GOP negative campaigning to the extreme philosophy. That also includes, dish it out and never take it. Now, they the nerve to complain about the politicization of the pre-war Iraq intelligence. Every intelligence agency within the US, including the CIA, told Dubya’s team the truth about Iraq. That is why Dubya, through his PNAC thug, Cheney’s advice, doctored up intelligence. Cheney depended on an operative, Douglas J. Feith, to phony up reality. Back in the period of the run-up to 43 pushing us into Iraq war part 2 there were articles in the progressive media such as, “The Pentagon Muzzles the CIA” by Robert Dreyfuss of December 16, 2002. A quote follows, “Even as it prepares for war against Iraq, the Pentagon is already engaged on a second front: its war against the Central Intelligence Agency. The Pentagon is bringing relentless pressure to bear on the agency to produce intelligence reports more supportive of war with Iraq, according to former CIA officials. Key officials of the Department of Defense are also producing their own unverified intelligence reports to justify war. Much of the questionable information comes from Iraqi exiles long regarded with suspicion by CIA professionals. A parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation, in the office of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Feith, collects the information from the exiles and scours other raw intelligence for useful tidbits to make the case for preemptive war. These morsels sometimes go directly to the president.” Recently, Dana Priest of the Washington Post’s article, “Politicized Memo Incites Row”, of November 6, 2003, had this hook, “A barely contained partisan squabble over assessing blame for the apparent failure to find chemical and biological weapons in Iraq broke into the open yesterday when Republican senators said they had a memorandum indicating their Democratic colleagues were preparing a campaign to disparage a Senate committee report on the quality of prewar intelligence before it is even completed.” Rockefeller, in a released statement, said the memo "was likely taken from a waste basket or through unauthorized computer access." "Exploring or asserting the rights of the minority under the intelligence committee rules in no way amounts to politicizing intelligence," he said. "The American people deserve a full accounting of why we sent our sons and daughters into war." The article concludes, “The committee has combed through thousands of pages of documents and interviewed more than one hundred intelligence analysts, operatives and scientists. It is preparing a report that is said to be harshly critical of the CIA and other intelligence agencies for their lack of substantive information and analysis on Iraq.” That is a namby-pamby lie. The Democrats can’t speak truthfully, or the GOP will not even allow them to attend meetings. The truth is this. Remember the just mentioned Douglas J. Feith? He had another role in the Iraq war, as did other PNAC thugs, such as Richard Perle. Did you ever hear of Richard Perle? He is renowned as a war profiteer, and is making out like a bandit in this Iraq debacle. In an article of November 6, 2003, “Diplomacy: Iraq Said to Have Tried to Reach Last-Minute Deal to Avert War”, this quote mentions Feith again, “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.” The article continues, “The overtures, after a decade of evasions and deceptions by Iraq, were ultimately rebuffed. But the messages raised enough interest that in early March, Richard N. Perle, an influential adviser to top Pentagon officials, met in London with the Lebanese-American businessman, Imad Hage. According to both men, Mr. Hage laid out the Iraqis' position to Mr. Perle, and he pressed the Iraqi request for a direct meeting with Mr. Perle or another representative of the United States.” Iraq offered free UN access to view the bogus WMD and also would give the US anything they asked for just to end the war before it started. Iraq offered to hand over Abdul Rahman Yasin, who has been indicted in United States in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Mr. Yasin fled to Iraq after the bombing, and the United States put up a $25 million reward for his capture. It goes like this. They lie, they plant evidence against their enemies, and they hit their enemies, be they Iraq or Democrats in Congress, with attacks of “Shock and Awe”. They never try for the surgical strike when they can intimidate their present enemy and future adversaries cower. It comes down to the dumb don’t need to be treated with finesse. You know who you are. You FOX viewing, never reading a newspaper, disinterested, red stater, become completely involved or don‘t vote. You can’t be in it halfway. Dubya’s, “you are either for us or against us“, can be modified to, “if you are in for a penny, you are in it all the way“. The alert are not going to be swayed by just another GOP lie, by another of the never-ending list of connected GOP thugs. The rest of the GOP group, follow the orders of Rove, and who could have a bigger “credibility gap” than the political advisor to a lazy frat boy whose Poppy’s US Supreme Court gave the dunce the 2000 election? Why would anyone believe a word that Dubya, the man who disowned the "Mission Accomplished" sign, as well as the “16 words”, before his own crowd of advisors explained to him that even the dimmest of dim-bulbs couldn’t believe his transparent lies. The red staters are condescended to and are told what to believe. They want it easy so they’ll sheepishly go along with any Dubya drawled inane remark, as long as he remains staunchly for NRA, NASCAR, bible-thumping, racist, warmongering policies. How can they lie so boldly! They realize the red staters are their stooges and the rest of the world--well the GOP might as well yell “expletive deleted” at them. Anyone who is actively concerned for their own self-interest, won’t vote for the GOP and their policies which benefit only the “Rangers” and “Pioneers”. “The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one." No one other than Adolph Hitler said that phrase. 43's team understands it well! For sheer audacity, what about the boob, who dared dress up in a Top Gun outfit for an unnecessary jet flight to a US aircraft carrier on May 1 2003 to declare victory over Iraq? The USS Abraham Lincoln emblazoned the sign "Mission Accomplished". As events have sadly developed the sign should have been "Mission Failure". b. connors Discussion Tuesday November 25, 03 02:34 PM - Hollywood would throw this out as Hitler has played this bef Just how many atrocities have to occur before the US media levels with us? The slitting of the throats of 2 our best on November 23rd, 2003 is 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. The GOP is illegally 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. They also are intimidating union members, a traditional Democratic strong hold. In this marked FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE of November 24, 2003, “The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) is calling for a Congressional investigation into "a massive police state," created in part with federal funds, to intimidate union members and others critical of the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and limit their rights during FTAA meetings in Miami last week. "Last week, the fundamental rights of thousands of Americans … were blatantly violated, sometimes violently, by the Miami police, who systematically repressed our Constitutional right to free assembly with massive force, riot gear and armaments," said Leo W. Gerard, USWA international president, in a letter to Congressional leaders……. "To do less would be to endorse homeland repression in the guise of homeland security," Gerard’s letter concluded.” Florida’s police force had practice intimidating Democratic voters in the 2000 election. They just wanted to keep in practice for the 2004 election, if Ashcroft allows it to occur! Just to make sure that Herr Mini-me, big brother 43, keeps in power the GOP is re-running the ads they used in the test phase of their plot to control the US, the 2002 mid-term elections. Those are the ads in which Dubya states that anyone who doesn’t agree with him totally is an evil degenerate in league with bin laden. Max Cleland, a celebrated Vietnam War hero, is still livid over a now-infamous TV commercial that Republican challenger Saxby Chambliss ran against him in the 2002 mid-term elections. By the way, the man who would “return honor and dignity to the white house”, picked a man who lost 3 limbs defending the US to attack with this filth. It opened with pictures of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and then attacked Cleland for voting against President Bush's Homeland Security bill. It didn't mention that Cleland supported a Democratic bill that wasn't radically different. "That was the biggest lie in America -- to put me up there with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein and say I voted against homeland security!" Cleland says, his voice rising in anger. Now Cleland, who is a member of the independent commission set up to investigate the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks has accused the Bush administration of deliberately delaying publication of an earlier congressional inquiry into the attacks. Cleland said the administration feared publication might undermine the administration's case for the Iraq 2 war, which was based in part on the allegation that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had supported Osama bin Laden _ and the attendant possibility that Iraq might supply al-Qaida with weapons of mass destruction. Cleland said, "The administration sold the connection (between Iraq and al-Qaida) to scare the pants off the American people and justify the war. There's no connection, and that's been confirmed by some of bin Laden's terrorist followers ... What you've seen here is the manipulation of intelligence for political ends." This propaganda blitzkrieg worked so well for Herr Rove in 2002 that it had to be used again, but the piece needed to be spiffed up in its minor details just so the red staters would not think that they are held in so little regard that they can accept misinformation that isn’t even updated to match current events. The strategy is designed to portray Democrats as weak on defense and to suggest that President Bill Clinton could have been tougher on terrorism, GOP officials said. Democrats called it an attack on their patriotism and noted past pledges by Bush not to politicize the war on terrorism. The party unveiled the theme in Bush's first ad of the campaign, which is to begin running in Iowa November 23rd 2003. Over funereal music, the ad opens with a clip from Bush's State of the Union address in January in which he raised the specter of a chemical or biological attack on U.S. soil. Then, the screen fades to stark lettering: "Some are now attacking the President for attacking the terrorists," the type says. "Some call for us to retreat, putting our national security in the hands of others." The word "terrorists" turns red. Then viewers are urged to call Congress and "tell them to support the President's policy of preemptive self-defense." Bush has developed his preemption doctrine, a policy of attacking potential enemies before they can hit the United States, since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It doesn’t seem much different than the 2002 mid-term election propaganda that FOX blared constantly. I didn’t see it anywhere in the US media that protestors in Trafalgar Square in London toppled an effigy of Dubya. My, don’t they love the “Toxic Cowboy” in England? Maybe even more than in another staunch US ally, Australia, where just in the summer of 2003, Bush was cursed during a visit to their parliament. Makes you feel goose-bumpy with all of these pure moments of unadulterated love. Pretty soon in a lie coming to you Bush will say he has won “the everlasting war against terrorism” particularly in Afghanistan. Sounds good, but if Dubya says it, it must be a total falsehood. The recent Afghan News Network News Story, “US says Taleban still a threat” states, “Members of the Bush administration are worried that the Taleban is winning more support in parts of Afghanistan. …. The US strategy is to win more popular support for the government of Hamid Kharzai by accelerating the re-building of the country. … But critics wonder whether the Bush administration has simply become too distracted by dealing with the parallel crisis in Iraq.” Okay, so “Washington's envoy to Afghanistan has called for new efforts to combat the Taleban and al-Qaeda there.”, but the people in Afghanistan are making great strides in achieving a democracy. Sounds good, but if Dubya says it, it must be a total falsehood. Another recent Afghan News Network News Story, "US Concerns Aired in Over Parts of Draft Afghan Constitution" states, “U.S. officials and experts testifying before a congressional panel have expressed concern about parts of the draft constitution for Afghanistan. Witnesses said progress is being made in Afghanistan, but changes may be necessary in the draft to make sure the rights of all Afghan citizens are protected.” While avoiding direct mention of Shariah, Islamic holy law, the draft states that "in Afghanistan, no law can be contrary to the sacred religion of Islam and the values of this Constitution." This could not be a surprise to Dubya’s crack team, but now, at this late juncture it is emerging as a problem. Most of the Muslim countries have this adherence to religious precepts in their government, not just Afghanistan. Well, Dubya will say, we learn and that will not be a problem in Iraq. WRONG! The article of Haroon Siddiqui “What Iraq will get isn't self-rule” states, “On the political front, Bremer's job had been to slow down self-rule, lest the dreaded majority Shiites take over. ....That triggered Plan B — a 15-member governing council, genuinely representative of Iraq's religious, ethnic and tribal interests, but bereft of power....The council does not know what its job is, replied Massoud Barzani, the seasoned Kurdish leader.... There is no coherent plan yet whether a constitutional assembly would be elected, as the Shiites want, or nominated.” The fact is that the entire rational world has realized this since this bogus war began, “Notwithstanding Bush's lectures on democracy, only the naïve would continue to believe that America wants anything other than a satellite state. The only change toward that overall goal is the gradual reduction of the American footprint in Iraq, with an increase in remote control from Washington.” Doesn’t it make you feel like a piece of dirt that our non-elected resident of the US white house is considered to be a war profiteering fool by the world, and we have to vote him out, or he might be in place for four more years of vile GOP treachery! The GOP operatives can easily say that the US is a democracy, not ruled by a tyrant, as a Nazi government requires. That is true but some of the developments since 9-11 are too evil to be brushed off as being merely “Orwellian”. If the GOP could have its way, Iraq would be nearer to a democracy than the US. He has already, with his Dad’s US Supreme Court Justices, thrown out the 2000 election results. Maybe he can get Ashcroft or Olsen to mumble something about elections can’t be held during “the everlasting war against terrorism” and throw out the 2004 election. When the dust settles on this they can work on changing the US Constitution and allow Dubya to be named resident for life of the white house. Remember Dubya saying that a Democracy is hard and he’d prefer being a tyrant. A man who lost the popular vote, the electoral vote, the state of Florida, has the hubris to talk about being named the tyrant of the US. The better label is Dubya‘s self-proclaimed “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances”. This isn’t so far fetched. He got the US to say bin laden, then he switched them to Hussein. He tells them about the progress in the US occupation of Iraq even though the world realizes it is a criminal tragedy. Give the red staters a few months, a few elevation of the threat level, and a few beers and they will be terrified and numbed enough to believe anything. They believe Dubya won in 2000 don’t they? They can believe that they can believe anything! Most chilling are these two quotes: "I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator," said Adolf Hitler. "God told me to strike at Al Qa'ida and I struck them. And then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did. With the might of God on our side we will triumph," said George Bush. We know how Hitler worked out. Take your pick. Auditory hallucinations have a very limited realm of possible causes. Dubya could simply being lying again to cover-up some illegal offshore deal, he might be insane, he could be a dry drunk, he could be undergoing some post-traumatic stress syndrome, or there could be a physical cause. He has never done anything traumatic, and he rarely works even now as president, so it can’t be a post-traumatic stress syndrome. His family, going back to Prescott Bush, had strong ties to illegal activities using foreign cut-outs. 41 and 43 are in bed with the Saudis and 43 has bin laden’s brother-in-law as a benefactor. I went to Sunday school and I remember that “love one another” and “thou shalt not kill” were part of the 10 Commandments. How can starting a war against Islam--which really failed in the Middle Ages, be considered an edict from God by a sane person? Now, I heard John Wayne mumble “you’re for us or against us” in many of his macho movies. Maybe Dubya just got those lines scrambled and he is just stupid. Just being stupid really looks to be the most favorable analysis so far. Does anyone know if he has 666 branded somewhere upon his body? He might simply be the Anti-Christ! In the name that is all that is good and decent in world, how did the lazy privileged AWOL flyboy, bumble his way to the highest pinnacle of the world. Why doesn’t the “Peter Principle” apply to the ultra-connected Bush family? The US isn’t a democracy though if the GOP cuts the Democrats from participating in legislation and guides all of the profits to the “Rangers” and “Pioneers”. That, dear “red stater”, is the definition of an oligarchy! A lazy fool, who after he was finally able to give up alcohol and drugs and has a marked improvement in his life is good. His reactions after that were all bad. It is guessed that his recovery occurred because of his newfound devotion to God. That he consequentially developed a Messianic view of his role in the world is worse than stupid, it has a component of emotional illness in it. His miraculous recovery, only in Dubya’s eyes, from a profligate youth to a loser in every business venture he ever undertook—I don’t see much recovery at all, has reformed the world into his personal torture device for those who are not with us. Hollywood would throw this script out as Hitler played it before. b. connors Discussion Thursday November 20, 03 12:57 PM - Dubya is a Nazi! The passivity of the brainwashed red staters is responsible for Dubya’s atrocities. Their doltish acceptance of the weakest Herr Rove generated lies, about everything in both domestic and foreign policies, has facilitated the burgeoning worldwide “Eve of Destruction”. From Steppenwolf’s “The Ostrich”, “Just pretend that all is grand and everything will turn out fine” is the mantra of the disinterested red staters. Let’s hope that the hatred that Bush will encounter during his trip to suck up to Tony Blair can somehow seep into the consciousness of our weakest links, those who are foolish enough to throw away their vote for Dubya. This is what has already occurred in Dubya’s excellent adventure. One protester used a bullhorn to bark a stream of anti-Bush and anti-Tony Blair invective at Parliament Square Tuesday afternoon, comparing the two leaders to Hitler. "How can you be bombing babies, Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair? It is not Christian, it is blasphemy!" Those wacky Limeys, how can they compare Dubya to Hitler? Simple! The following represent some of the key ideas (tenets) or beliefs of the Nazi Party: A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one. - Adolph Hitler I am not concerned with both sides. I see only those who are for National Socialism, and those who are against it, and I know how to deal with the latter. - Hermann Goering It is silly to claim that National Socialism governs by a dictatorship. The government of the Führer in Germany is the most genuine and the purest democracy in the world. - Dr. Frick Everything that man is, he owes to the State.... All value which man has, all spiritual reality, he only has through the State. – Hegel The National Socialists believe in Hitler, who embodies their will.... Only what Adolf Hitler, our Führer, allows, or does not allow, is our conscience. - Robert Ley We National Socialists believe that in political affairs Adolf Hitler is infallible. - Hermann Goering It is only on one or two exceptional points that Christ and Hitler stand comparison, for Hitler is far too big a man to be compared with one so petty. - Julius Streicher The concept of the Reich is based on the idea that the whole civilized world must be united under a single power. The Reich incorporates a higher moral principle which directs the fate of the world, bringing order and justice. The Reich must direct the life of nations, individuals and states. The Reich signifies a mission. - German primer published in 1936. The races of mankind are markedly different in the nature and also in the extent of their gifts, and the Germanic races belong to the most gifted group, the group usually termed “Aryan”. - Houston Stewart Chamberlai Suppose the above quotes were cited to our red staters, excluding the authors, and the identifying remarks? As far as the unmotivated, “broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts”, would know each and everyone would be applicable to, Herr Führer, big brother 43. The top 1% group could easily be substituted for “Aryan”! The article in News From Babylon “Hitler's Ghost - Nazi Influence in America” carefully examines the influence of this awful tyrant’s regime on this current GOP awful tyrant’s regime. The article describes how Hitler’s tactics and philosophies are in the offices of Senator Trent Lott and on the House side in the offices of Representative Tom Delay, an avowed Christian Zionist, who advocates the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians by Israel and is a proponent of the Security Fence, while at the same time admonishing those who will listen to him to "stand unashamedly for Jesus Christ". In the Pentagon, Hitler's ideology, has a friend in the form of US Marine Corps Lieutenant General William Boykin who believes that "God supports the US military because we're a Christian nation, because our foundation and our roots are Judeo-Christian. That's what the Aryan Nation says too. They proclaim that they have God's support. Like all God-fearing Nazi's, they hope "To ordain, establish, and pledge our fidelity to our Aryan Racial Nation, under the Law of God, the uniting of our individual strength as a united lawful power, for the preservation and total independence from all alien influence and control over our Faith, Children, and Destiny. " Most chilling are these two quotes: "I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator," said Adolf Hitler. "God told me to strike at Al Qa'ida and I struck them. And then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did. With the might of God on our side we will triumph," said George Bush. Or was that Hitler talking to Bush?” Remember Mrs. Reagan had an astrologer guide Ronnie. GOP presidents have a history of stupidity and insanity. The trouble is you can’t tell if they are more insipid than they are crazy! Unfortunately the world pays for their incompetence. The article from News From Babylon, “U.S.'s 'Iron Hammer' Code Name 1st Used by Nazis” is strikingly ironic. The quote, “ Eisenhammer," the German for "iron hammer," was a Luftwaffe code name for a plan to destroy Soviet generating plants in the Moscow and Gorky areas in 1943.... "Operation Iron Hammer" this week launched the 1st Armored Division's 3rd Brigade into the roughest parts of Baghdad to ferret out the attackers who have killed scores of U.S. troops since Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was ousted in April.” Yeah, the protestors in England now comparing him to Hitler are right. The GOP believes in conservation; consequentially as they have obviously spent time researching Nazi tactics, this phrase struck a chord with Herr Rove. Remember, they switched “Evil Empire” to “Axis of Evil” as their crack, or is it crackpot, psychological operations unit must believe these old terms appeal to red staters on some subliminal level. Other highlights of Herr big brother 43 excellent adventure with the Limeys also are being ignored by FOX. In the article “A day of pomp, pageantry and protests as the President proclaims his mission to the world”, this quote shows some of the milder antipathy exhibited towards mini-me, “The dramatic silence following the 41-gun salute that marked the President's arrival at the Royal Pavilion was broken by a lone heckler addressing himself to the crowd on a loudspeaker. "If you think that Blair's a poodle, shout 'woof, woof'. If you think Bush is a moron shout 'retard'," he chanted, before the heavy security presence silenced him.” The Guardian article, “'He is just a foolish cowboy” contains this quote which fairly oozes hatred, “Mr Bush must therefore be desperate to prevent the cameras from capturing the true image of his visit, and that means doing everything he can to keep the protesters as far away from him as possible. It is no great surprise to find that the Blair government has no choice but to go along with this. It must go along with it no matter what the consequences for the concept Mr Bush and Mr Blair ostensibly went to war for: democracy." A Gulf Times Editorial, should provide some enlightenment for our red staters, "With a tough re-election battle ahead of him, Mr Bush may recall that film of Ronald Reagan with the Queen worked wonders for that president's re-election prospects. The appearance of a royal endorsement from Queen Elizabeth is just what Mr Bush needs to counter criticism of his Iraq policy, many say. Whether the British will like their heritage being used as a re-election gimmick is doubtful. There will certainly be many thousands on the streets using the event to try to send a very different message across the Atlantic." The Dubya propaganda machine is all-encompassing for our slackers. In an article, ”How to Change the News on Iraq”, which should be quoted continually, E. J. Dionne cites this research,” The audience for Fox News, as the poll found, is significantly more Republican than the rest of the nation. And sure enough, Fox viewers' attitudes closely match those of Republicans, 55 percent of whom also see the media as portraying the reality in Iraq too negatively. On the other hand, CNN viewers -- and, as it happens, newspaper readers -- held views on reporting from Iraq similar to those of Americans as a whole.” The red staters are too lazy to become adequately informed! They are allowing Rove to spoon feed them GOP propaganda! That is disgusting! Deep in their subconscious those who identify with the disengaged “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances” realize he has a nasty side. All lazy, one-toothed red-necked goobers do and that is that is the essence of his “moral clarity”. It is a vindictive nature who labels the world as being for or against us, and preemptively attacks defenseless countries. Contributing to the docility of the timid sheep is old-fashioned fear of the GOP. “Don’t criticize the fatherland--Those who shape your destiny—They’ll send out their boys in blue-- You’ll lose your mind, your soul and all the friends you knew--They’ll find a way to silence you—” “Tricky Dick” had his lists and Dubya has the Patriot Act. Maybe Dubya isn’t a Nazi, but without announcement he has changed the US from a democracy to an oligarchy. The GOP is excluding the Democrats from the process of legislation and consequentially due to this illegal subversion of our government, they are giving every last thing to the top 1%! Every bill since 9-11 has been steamrolled through the Congress with no debate being allowed by the minority Democrats. One of the latest bills is detailed in the article “The Senate Tries an Odd Experiment” notes that “But a full-blown debate is desperately needed on President Bush's $87 billion request for the Iraq struggle. Democrats are already complaining it may not occur. Initial committee hearings are being tightly gaveled by the majority Republicans, with a member's question time limited to as little as eight minutes as administration officials testify. One senator was blithely autographing glossy photos of himself during the appropriations hearing on Iraq. We can only hope that he was listening with one ear to the proceedings, and maybe even aching for a gripping clash any day or night now in the debating chamber.“ b. connors Related articles How to Change the News on Iraq The Senate Tries an Odd Experiment Hitler's Ghost - Nazi Influence in America Senate OKs $28B For Homeland Sec. Tax Law Omits Child Credit in Low-Income Brackets A day of pomp, pageantry and protests as the President proclaims his mission to the world U.S.'s 'Iron Hammer' Code Name 1st Used by Nazis 'He is just a foolish cowboy Songs The Ostrich Eve of Destruction Discussion Tuesday November 18, 03 12:36 PM - Brainwashing the red staters. The GOP has transformed the US into an oligarchy. That is a government by the few in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes. The Democrats have tried to explain this, but the media and the red staters are not paying attention. When enough red staters can stick their heads into the sand, and blankly smile and say, ”Dubya is good” then they have been brainwashed. They have identified with their aggressor, Dubya, the man who “would return honor and dignity to the white house, but in reality has succeeded in terrorizing and hypnotizing his own citizens into a state of stupor. He has turned a once proud populace into timid sheep afraid to ask questions for fear that Dubya will cause something horrible to happen to them personally. That is what the outing of Mr. Wilson’s wife, a covert spy, was all about and it accomplished its evil goal. He has held reality hostage from the weary populace, as he practices misdirection so extreme that even Houdini could not match his duplicity. This latest scam of lauding progress in the evil Iraq occupation as our boys and girls die in huge numbers, and the “collateral damage” statistics sky rocket, is too diabolical for a decent human to comprehend. His “BIG LIE” is so huge it is numbing the common people, who are just in need of some respite from these almost daily attacks on their connection to external reality. Way back in the day, Emile Durkheim coined the term “anomie”, a sense of normlessness. Herr Rove must have read a comic book version of it. He watered it down into lie big and all of the time to get them so confused that they won’t know up from down. Herr mini-me Furher would buy anything if he didn’t have to expend any energy. Rove sold it to the lazy, frat-boy Dubya, with its value being apparent every day. Painful tragedy after tragedy in Iraq occurs and Dubya’s poll number stay at the tipping point, which with magnitude of this war crime is astonishing. With each day of horror in Iraq more of his PNAC buddies sock away bundles of blood-soaked booty. There are numerous sites that describe brainwashing. The one I picked, URL: http://www.rickross.com, had this quote, "Little by little we were taught all these things. We grew into them.", by Adolph Eichman, a Nazi war criminal and a source of inspiration for Herr Rove. Some of the sub-topics are: “There's a Sucker Born in Every Medial Prefrontal Cortex”, “Brainwashing and thought control in the news but far from new”, “The Process of Brainwashing, Psychological Coercion, and Thought Reform”, “Expert helping make sense of madness fueling terrorists” and “Thought Reform Programs and the Production of Psychiatric Casualties”. They all touch on aspects that the truly evil GOP is presently perpetrating. Someday some of the people will wake up and realize that what they had in 1999 has disappeared, and that the top 1% has gotten even more. When that happens there are only a few possible courses of action that can be followed. The person can become homicidal, or suicidal, the person can become addicted to a variety of self-destructive activities, they can become permanently impaired--or the person can go through one of these phases temporarily and right the destructive pattern. THANK YOU HERR FURHER, BIG BROTHER 43 for destroying the US more thoroughly than even “Tricky Dick” could back in his Vietnam war, Watergate days of ignominy! Meet the red staters where they exist. They are uneducated, bible thumping, NRA and NASCAR loving under-employed, rural, males. When Dubya puts on his phony southern drawl, which he manages to lose when it doesn’t suit his purposes, he is one of them. His pledge of being “the leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances” is diabolical in its duplicity. With jargon like that he is the epitome of the common man, their ideal. He could rape and pillage the world and still get every red state vote because when Ma and Pa get a belly full of corn mash and get to jawing on the state of the world, Dubya, is their man. They like clear talking and simplistic reasoning, “moral clarity”. Dubya is the red state “Marlboro Man”, the independent person who pledged to look out for them the best he can. The latest energy bill is a perfect example of how the GOP is eliminating the Democrats from even participating in the development of legislation, and giving all of the money to their chums--in other words acting in an oligarchic manner. It is so mind boggling I’d like to quote other sources of objective reality. From the article “Congressional negotiators near deal on energy bill--Senate Democrats threaten filibuster” by Ted Barrett of the CNN Washington Bureau on November 14, 2003, “ Minutes after top Republicans announced they had finally reached a deal Friday on a long-stalled comprehensive energy bill, Senate Democrats said they had the votes to filibuster the measure and would do so when it reaches the floor as early as next week. …. …..Democrats have had little involvement in the negotiations, which were kick-started after the August power blackout in the Northeast and Midwest……. …..Democrats complain the legislation, and its estimated $16 billion in tax breaks for the energy industry, is in large measure a payback for the political contributions industry executives have bestowed on Republicans.” Kenny Boy isn’t in jail, but I’d have to hope that he doesn’t make out like a bandit with this. With all of the GOP offshore scams though, who could know for sure? This is precisely what the GOP has been doing since Dubya’s unethical campaign, won both the House and Senate for the GOP. Why do I say unethical campaign? It was centered on Rove’s politically motivated Iraq war—which was precisely timed to gain maximum benefit for the GOP in the 2002 mid-term election. Please read, “Counting Votes While the Bombs Drop” of May 7, 2003 by James C. Moore of the Los Angeles Times for details regarding the hypocrisy concerning the timing of this war. Recently Global Free Press has put up 2 articles by, John Kaminski. One is, “When The Big Lie prevails, crime pays” which articulates valid ideas, “Two years after 9/11, the lies that almost immediately were put in place are still in place, unsubstantiated fictions of how a Muslim terror group that has never been able to be tracked down concocted a colossal conspiracy to crash airliners into American landmarks because, as our president said, "they hate our freedoms". The leaders of the Western world, who have been revealed as consistent liars on virtually all other matters, have managed to get away with their lies about 9/11, waxing reverential and righteous in the staggering silence that has comatized America. But the stark fact remains — the claims that Osama bin Laden bombed the World Trade Center have never been proven. And the people who clamor for his hanging stole the 2000 election by preventing tens of thousands from voting, rigged the entire U.S. election system by using secret computer software, stole billions from people in California by manipulating energy markets, used nuclear weapons on Afghanistan and Iraq, continue to go to war over what are later learned to be complete fabrications, continue to cynically kill their own soldiers with various poisons, and have completely changed the character of their country by imprisoning and killing people without trial and passing sham laws that destroyed the U.S. Constitution. These are the criminals the American people continue to believe when they say that Muslim terrorists perpetrated the attacks of 9/11. Why does everybody refuse to see?” The other article by John Kaminski, by its title alone “Arrest the president now! Enough 9/11 evidence exists to hang Bush, imprison thousands”, is self-explanatory. Even in Tony Blair’s England, where Dubya is currently visiting, he is hated. Even his one ally’s people loathe the “Toxic Cowboy” for his preemptive warmongering. When will this filter into our dim red staters’ consciousness? The first selected resident of the US white house will get his fair share of abuse in England, because the view of this informed countries’ populace is summarized in the Global Free Press article, “Livingstone (Mayor of London) says Bush is “greatest threat to life on planet””. How can the red staters not understand this? Eventually the ostriches will yearn for the light of day, and truth’s clarity. When they do the awakening will be painful. b. connors Discussion Sunday November 16, 03 01:29 PM - Brainwashing the red staters. One of the techniques used to break down a captive’s emotional stability is to continually lie. In the day, Simon and Garfunkle had a song in which the lyric, “The pattern never alters until the rat dies” applies to the Dubya administration‘s technique of brainwashing his own citizens, particularly the red staters. They are the group who would be most susceptible to this procedure, as they identify with the aggressor, big brother 43, their soul mate, the “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances”. How many red staters remember that, just in the end of September 2003, Dubya made no concessions to the UN, as he pretended to ask for their help? In this UN speech Dubya flipped them off regarding the core issue, the thorny problem of a timetable for the handover of power from the occupation forces to a sovereign Iraqi government. "This process must unfold according to the needs of Iraqis, neither hurried nor delayed by the voices of other parties," Mr. Bush said, giving a diplomatic jab to both the French and the Germans. Herr big brother 43 made it clear that even though the United States is trying to secure military assistance and troops from other countries for Iraq, the US will be done Dubya’s way. US forces in Iraq will not be placed under UN command. The Iraqi economy will not be run by UN bureaucrats. The US will decide when the Iraqis can elect its own government, and this government must match the US requirements. “Operation Iraqi Freedom” really means that they will become a democracy that suits the US design, even if it is not what the people of Iraq want. Doesn’t seem to be fair does it? Every sentient being realized that this was a scam by the little Furher, but since Rove controls FOX, the GOP controls the 2004 election. What is happening now, just a month and a half later? Herr Furher’s Iraqi Viceroy Bremer has been pulled into Washington for meetings with Dubya. The latest United Nations Security Council resolution on Iraq calls on the IGC to provide the Security Council by Dec. 15 with a timetable and a plan for drafting a constitution for Iraq and for holding elections. “UN Resolution 1511 calls for the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) to accelerate the process of setting up a constitutional track,” said Dan Senor, the spokesman for Bremer, who accompanied him to Washington. “As that deadline approaches we are intensifying consultations with the IGC and within our own government about the best path forward.” Bush apparently is taking the stance the UN has always required and the stance the Democrats in Congress insisted upon. The Democrats were lied to by Dubya at the time of US Congressional Iraq resolution, but that is par for the Dubya course. The psychotic part of this is that Dubya and his PNAC boys won’t admit that they changed their policy, because doing so would cost the GOP votes. Our soldiers die, Iraqis “collateral damage” statistics sky rocket, but Dubya, the liar, who return “honor and dignity to the white house” skates his way through a pretense of being a decent man, sacrificing truth for a few red state votes. I’ll briefly describe some of additional organizations and vile characters currently in use by the GOP, or is it easier just to refer to them as current day Nazis? A full rendering can’t be attempted due to the limits of computer technology, as even the hugest super computer would not possess enough memory to contain it all. Remember the Orwellian Office of Disinformation, which was purportedly disbanded? How do we know it was? All we have is Dubya’s word for it, and who could trust him? I can predict the future and before long the GOP will lose its monopoly of the media as well as the government. On that fine day Dubya will be brought before a Congressional Investigation and he’ll mumble that before it was disbanded that it provided too much bad data and he wasn’t in the loop, and that apparatus did the loose cannon, Ollie North routine. He’ll put on his phony southern drawl and tell untruths about the Office of Disinformation being the entity to blame for our current mess, not him. It was allegedly developed to confuse foreign powers, but Dubya isn’t up on the finer distinctions such as that. Maybe the Office of Disinformation has been dispersed, but someone is still trying to distort reality. On November 12, 2003 the CIA report regarding how poorly the occupation of Iraq is progressing was brought to the public’s attention despite the efforts of the administration to cover-up. The CIA and the White House refused even to confirm the existence of the report, which was first disclosed by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Reminds me of the Pentagon Papers being suppressed by “Tricky Dick”. Who knows what else they have covered up? Why would they subvert the report from being known to the public? Dubya has told us everything is going swell, hasn’t he? “It says that this is an insurgency, and that it is gaining strength because Iraqis have no confidence that there is anyone on the horizon who is going to stick around in Iraq as a real alternative to the former regime,” one American official said. Among other concerns raised by the C.I.A. report, the officials said, was the danger that Iraqi Shiite Muslims, who represent a majority of the country’s population, could soon join minority Sunni Muslims in carrying out armed attacks against American forces. The report also described what it portrayed as major obstacles to efforts by the United States and American-led Iraqi forces to halt a small but steady infiltration of foreign fighters from Syria and Iran. This was first predicted by all of the accredited intelligence agencies prior to the war. This will just get worse. Way back on March 21, 2003 Gwynne Dyer’s article “Aftermath: SCIRI” gives us some recent history, “Bush 41 incited both the Kurds of northern Iraq and the Shia of the south to revolt against Saddam Hussein at the end of the 1991 Gulf War. But both groups felt betrayed when U.S. forces did not support them. The Kurds managed to hold on to most of the traditional Kurdish areas in the north and have been free from Saddam’s control for the past dozen years. But the Shia in the south were massacred and utterly crushed. Thousands of Iraqi Shia fled across the frontier into Iran, where the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution (SCIRI) in Iraq took responsibility for their lives.” This article stated then that, “SCIRI’s leaders are moving back into Iraq right now. Two years from now, they will either be ruling Iraq or struggling to break away from it (and take most of the oil with them).” Remember that Rummy said the US wouldn’t accept a democracy in which the Iraq Shiite, the group which comprises almost 80% of the Iraq population, gains control? Guess what is happening with the new plan to speed up the process of Iraq becoming a sovereign nation? The IGC’s performance was a main theme of the discussions at the White House, several officials said. Among the options considered in the White House meetings, officials said, was whether to hold national elections to select delegates to a constitutional convention, a step favored by the Shiite majority in Iraq but viewed with misgivings by other religious and ethnic groups. All of this speed to give Iraq a role in its own security and forming a government it could sustain has come abruptly with no transition. Why? The “moral clarity” guy couldn’t have an ulterior motive, could he? Heading into an election year, Mr. Bush also has his own domestic political considerations. Reflecting the impatience even within the president’s own party at the pace of progress in creating a viable Iraqi government, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, told reporters on Tuesday that the members of the IGC “aren’t doing their job.” At a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery Bush said the United States was “a nation at war” and cast the loss of life in Iraq and in the struggle against terrorism as painfully necessary to protect the country and what it stands for. He mumbled, while staring impatiently at the teleprompter, “Young Americans have died in liberating Iraq and Afghanistan. “The loss is terrible. It is borne especially by the families left behind. But in their hurt and in their loneliness, I want these families to know your loved one served in a good and just cause.” Remember that all of this started because of lies Dubya told the US. These lies didn’t work with the world and the UN, but our disinterested populace bought them hook line and sinker. Douglas Feith, a protégé of Richard Perle, the former chairman of Rumsfeld’s Defense Policy Board (DPB) who stands at the center of the neo-conservative foreign policy network in Washington, was in charge of another purportedly defunct GOP atrocity, the Office of Special Plans (OSP). Feith is alleged to have collected - often with the help of the neo-conservatives’ favorite Iraqi exile, Ahmed Chalabi - and “cooked” the most alarmist pre-war intelligence against Saddam Hussein and then “stovepiped” it to the White House via Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney, unvetted by the intelligence agencies. This abomination became so important during the run-up to the Iraq war when every credible intelligence agency discarded everything these exiled liars for pay said. By the way, Ahmed Chalabi is now on the Iraq Governing Council and he is renowned for disagreeing with his US cronies in effort to consolidate his power in Iraq. For thugs, turn around is fair play, and Ahmed Chalabi, as well as the PNAC boys never saw an ethical dilemma they wouldn’t exploit. The saddest truth is that this was not necessary. 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. They even offered to hand over a man accused of being involved in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 who was being held in Baghdad. The Iraqis pledged to hold elections. The messages from Baghdad, first relayed in February to an analyst in the office of the afore-mentioned Feith 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. The messages raised enough interest that in early March, that the afore-mentioned Perle, met in London with the Lebanese-American businessman, Imad Hage, but nothing came of it as the it would have interfered with the PNAC boys’ plan of US hegemony. It wasn’t the only Iraq attempt at averting the war either, but the PNAC boys rebuffed them all. This is typical GOP smoke and mirrors a classic misdirection of the magnitude that Houdini would envy. George W. Bush is a sociopath, a person who has no conscience. It is clearly evident that this is true as more than 50 times Rumsfeld, his authorized expert of WMD, approved missions likely to vaporize at least 30 innocent people. These plans mutilated at least 1,500 people by unstoppable high-tech weaponry crashing down on them without warning, without the slightest chance of escape. Reports today estimate the count as being over 30,000 innocent Iraqis casualties. He is also a serial liar, a privileged frat boy, whose vaunted “moral clarity” leads to his self proclaimed “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances” moniker, as well as being a puppet dangling at the whims of his PNAC masters. Some veterans of Bush 41 think that the neocons, the ghouls in PNAC, packaged their rabid desire for US hegemony so well that it appealed to Bush 43's born-again sense of divine mission and to his desire to achieve immortality by transforming the Middle East. Maybe they are right ... or maybe Dubya was so lazy that the first ideas that were thrust on him by Cheney he accepted, rather than have to think for himself. In Mosul Iraq on the 15th of November seventeen soldiers died when guerrillas downed two U.S. helicopters just hours after a faster timetable for self-rule was unveiled which Washington hoped would pacify Iraqi resentment. This is the pattern of manipulation used in the psychological experiment. Dubya’s PNAC boys offer the rats, in this case disinterested US red staters, optimistic news. Remember Dubya’s latest trend of positive spin on Iraq tragedies, what is that other than positive reinforcement? They also use negative reinforcement in this Pavlovian testing. The red staters mouths drool with hope when Dubya tells them all is well. If that doesn’t work his Machievalian oriented political master, Herr Rove, figures out a way to jolt them with an electric shock of negative stimuli. How very evil the current GOP are as they are happily performing psychological experiments against his own people to assure himself of their vote! Our brainwashed red staters are supporting their silly soul mate. They can identify with his lack of intellectual curiosity. His Iraq occupation, which the rest of the world realizes to be a “Mission Failure“ has hoodwinked too many of them. Their Commander-in-Chief, the successful AWOL fly-boy, told them that all major combat operations were over, and he wouldn’t lie, would he? If they think he can lie to him about one thing, then they will start doubting more of his statements. They want it easy and becoming aware of the truth that would cause them too much emotional stress and intellectual effort. b. connors Discussion Tuesday November 11, 03 02:17 AM - I’m begging you red staters to know the facts. Disqualify yourself from the responsibilities of a democracy, a government by the people in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system, if you can’t hold up your part of the bargain. You “expletive deleted” people—you know who you are, either read a newspaper or exclude yourself from taking opinion polls and voting. Put a label on your shirt that takes you off the hook from discharging your greatest responsibility, your hugest right that of voting. “Some people think I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one”. Think about how quickly and totally 43 get off course. He attacked the country, Iraq, with the least ability to contribute to the bin laden led Islamic extremist attack against the US. If we had continued to elicit the cooperation of the world, in which the US received a tremendous amount of support directly after 9-11, how would this stand now? Maybe instead of losing the Iraq war, we could be working in cooperation with our former allies, including some Islamic ones. This Iraq front, an unnecessary battle, is progressing atrociously-—as Rummy mentioned in his “slog” memo, which also admitted that the US couldn’t kill enough Islamic terrorists to put a dent in the number of new ones that can be turned out. Suppose instead of attacking a defenseless country we had tried to attack the reasons that Muslim youth are forced, out of desperation of their plight, to become terrorists. Could it have been better for the US and the world if we tried a different tactic? Say we worked together to improve the economic opportunities of these Muslim youth and tried to put an end to the extremist Islamic schools which have been brainwashing children, who possess no economic future, to become jihadists? We’ll never know, and with the shaping of the discussion in the US by right-wing Christian extremists and PNAC “expletive deleted”, the theory will never be broached. This unwillingness to become informed of our red state voters has been too obvious by the fact that Dubya is not being lined up for impeachment, and is still very much in the hunt to win re-election. The article, “How to Change the News on Iraq”, by E. J. Dionne Jr. on October 25th, 2003, notes that “The audience for Fox News, as the poll found, is significantly more Republican than the rest of the nation. And sure enough, Fox viewers' attitudes closely match those of Republicans, 55 percent of whom also see the media as portraying the reality in Iraq too negatively. On the other hand, CNN viewers -- and, as it happens, newspaper readers -- held views on reporting from Iraq similar to those of Americans as a whole.” This cynical GOP manipulation of our intellectually detached US populace is sickening. Yes, a middle-class hero is something to be and it is a noble goal, but our vast red state population, just as Dubya, don’t read newspapers, or even think! Whatever Rove prepared drivel that FOX and Limbaugh et al spew, this vast segment of our unwitting populace accepts. That is dangerous, and the world deserves a better effort from these righteous, disinterested folk--bible thumpers just as Dubya their role model is. He also admitted on Brit Hume’s FOX show, just before his recent UN pitch, that he doesn’t read the papers either. He depends on his information from his yes-men and PNAC masters. Brit Hume must have slipped that question after Rove had prepared his pupil, because Herr mini-me 43 had that deer caught in the headlight look he gets whenever his tele-prompter doesn’t work. It is hard being the lead-man. This self-proclaimed “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances”, this GOP Fuehrer, is too much a lazy frat boy to actually develop his own ideas. You remember Ken Adelman don’t you? He was the PNAC “expletive deleted” who had the diabolic phrase “mushroom cloud over an American city” patented. What a compilation of hokum about a country that doesn’t appear to have any WMD after all of this time. On November 9th 2003, on the Hardball show Ken Adelman was quoted as saying that Ansar Al-Islam is Iraq's Al-Qaeda Connection, under the control of Hussein. A few months ago on Meet the Press Cheney said the same tripe. The day after Cheney’s lie on Meet the Press Dubya had to contradict his vp. Adelman tried it on November 9th 2003 just to see what Chris Matthews would do. He let it slide and his non-insane guest, Eric Margolis stated that it was active in Iraqi Kurdistan, one of the areas in which Hussein had no control. While Eric Margolis was speaking the camera was trained on Adelman who had an evil smirk on his face, which said, “I just said it and because I did the good people will believe me”. You know—it is the expression that Dubya and his PNAC advisors get whenever they are caught in a lie. Matthews isn’t a right-wing extremist, but he didn’t go out of his way batting Adelman down. That is the problem. Tim Russert isn’t a right-wing extremist either, but Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell and Rice have all gone on his show and lied to the American public without being called on it immediately and forcefully. On FOX it is different. They aggressively attack people who disagree with the GOP. Tony Snow of FOX NEWS had the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Service Committee, Michigan Senator Carl Levin on. Snow was openly arrogant and antagonist to Levin regarding the Iraq occupation. To Levin’s remark, “We have these jihadists flowing into Iraq now, because now this is a war against the West, which it should not be and cannot be. This has got to be a war against terrorism, and that means that it's got to be universal. It's got to be the world that's involved, not just a few Western nations, because that plays right into the hands of the terrorists who say, "This is a Western effort against an Islamic state."”, Snow responded, “There — as I mentioned before, there are 30 nations. They are not all Western nations. They are scattered across the globe. They've been contributing.” Snow’s remark was plainly directed at people too uninformed to realize that the US and England have more than 98% of the troops in Iraq. The Democrats know the score. Too much of our populace doesn’t get any information other than that what is hand fed them through Herr Rove’s propaganda outlets. Levin knew Snow would abuse him, but he had to try to counter the misinformation. Did you know that never in the history of the world has the superpower conquered the insurgents? The pertinent research is that Russia lost in Afghanistan, as we currently are now with the recent Taliban resurgence, the US lost in Vietnam, and in the near future we will lose in Iraq. Our military might, our “Shock and Awe” weapons, doesn’t work against guerilla warfare tactics. You can’t argue with history--it is just cold, hard facts, and the US populace hasn’t been provided with this knowledge. Dubya is a liar, and recently Republicans such as McCain and Lugar have stated that the administration hasn’t leveled with the US about this war’s cost in money and blood. The PNAC boys have advised their puppet leader to stress the positive aspect of this tragedy. As US soldiers are attacked and killed they have been saying that it is because the US is doing so well. As Senator Daschele has said, “We can’t take more of this progress”. Cheney and Ari Fleischer, “Be careful, very careful of what you say”. As Steppenwolf has said, “We’ll send out our boys in blue—We’ll find a way to silence you”. Do you doubt it? Big Brother’s Nazi storm troopers, in the guise of the Patriot Act, are already in place. b. connors Discussion

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