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The Bush Regime's Lies, Loans & Leaks
Emily W. Blair
Al-Jazeerah, 10/31/03
The corrupt Bush Regime should be under investigation by Congress for spreading massive Lies, war-profiteering for their cronies (i.e. no Loans-- but instead they continue to swindle the American people using their "bait-and-switch" scam), and, criminal Leaks.
Massive Lies, Deceptions, Falsehoods
The Bushies have lied to us, deceived us, and perpetrated falsehoods regarding the threat posed by Iraq. There were no WMDs ... and those responsible for coercing and pressuring the CIA including Cheney, Bolton, Feith, Rumseld, Wolfowitz, Perle should be fired. Rice also is a liar and abdicated her responsibility and should be dismissed. Finally, Bush should be under investigation for his regime's Crimes Against Humanity, and leading our country into war based upon lies-- illegal under the U.S. Constitution.
Read "Annals of National Security - The Stovepipe" by Seymour M. Hersh on http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031027fa_fact : - Excerpt -
"Part of the answer lies in decisions made early in the Bush Administration, before the events of September 11, 2001. In interviews with present and former intelligence officials, I was told that some senior Administration people, soon after coming to power, had bypassed the government’s customary procedures for vetting intelligence.
The President’s response raises the question of what, if anything, the Administration learned from the failure, so far, to find significant quantities of W.M.D.s in Iraq. Any President depends heavily on his staff for the vetting of intelligence and a reasonable summary and analysis of the world’s day-to-day events. The ultimate authority in the White House for such issues lies with the President’s national-security adviser—in this case,Condoleezza Rice. The former White House official told me, “Maybe the Secretary of Defense and his people are short-circuiting the process, and creating a separate channel to the Vice-President. Still, at the end of the day all the policies have to be hashed out in the interagency process, led by the national-security adviser.” What happened instead, he said, “was a real abdication of responsibility by Condi.”"
Hersh's report outlines a serious of egregious and corrupt actions by the neo-cons in the Bush Regime, who chose to bypass proper procedures and cherry-picked fabricated information (that was not vetted) in order to wage their dirty war. They lusted for war and consequently created fantasies of "mushroom clouds" from "smoking guns" ... but instead there were no "mushroom clouds", no "smoking guns", no WMDs ... zip, zero, nada!
1) Where is Osama bin Laden, whom Bush promised to "get 'em Dead or Alive?"
2) Where is Saddam Hussein?
3) Where are all of those massive WMDs that the UN Inspectors weren't allowed to search for-- and in the aftermath of Bush's fiasco in Iraq, lackey-David Kay (with ties to the arms industry) is awarded over 5 times the number of inspectors (over 1200 - Hans Blix only had 120-220 & 5 months), 5 months squandered thus far & awarded another 6-9 months, and will have spent nearly $1 billion to "find" (or plant?) WMDs to save Bush's mess.
War-Profiteering, So No Loans-- Just Scam American Taxpayers
The Bushies treat their "rubber-stamp" Congress just as they treat "Old Europe": with contempt and like slaves who better genuflect or accept the punishment doled out by Emperor Bush and his gang of thugs. When Senators attempted to question Bush regarding his regime's planning and disbursement of the $20.3 billion (reconstruction costs out of the $87 billion request), Emperor Bush slams his hand on the table and shouts "'It's not negotiable, and I don't want to debate it." ... [Source: "$87 Billion, Final Offer" on http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56389-2003Oct20.html ]
Meanwhile, we've lost 390 American (337) & British (53) Soldiers, 17 Journalists, and slaughtered between 7757 & 9565 innocent Iraqi civilians [Source: http://www.antiwar.com/ewens/casualties.html ] ... and spent over $80.6 billion, thus far at $1 billion per week ... with Congress approving an additional $87 billion, making the tab for this insane war-turned-guerrilla-quagmire over $166 billion, and no end in sight, since the World Bank has confirmed that billions more ($55B) is required to re-build Iraq.
Bush has immorally awarded massive no-bid, no-cap, no-audit contracts to his corrupt war-profiteers and robber-barons including Halliburton, Bechtel, Carlyle Group, Shell Oil, Embezzler Ahmad Chalabi, Joe Allbaugh and others. [Sources: http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16901 , http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/updates/081203.html , http://www.newbridgestrategies.com/index.asp ]
The Bushies neo-fascist propaganda machine brags about re-building the Iraqi infrastructure, schools, hospitals and other services. The only problem with this "bait-and-switch" scam (their "war on terror" has CREATED more terror-- and enriched them while impoverishing the rest of us and placing us in greater danger) "picture" is:
1) Bush & Cheney corporate rapists are plundering & looting American taxpayers and Iraq, by over-charging on a massive scale & no audits or controls keep the price-gouging from occurring.
2) Bush & Cheney are denying any improvements to Americans, who must suffer under crumbling infrastructure, lack of funding for education, health care, and other badly needed services.
3) Bush & Cheney have amassed the largest deficit (Big Spending Republicans on Welfare-for-the-Rich) of $560 billion-- and simultaneously awarded their campaign contributors gluttonous tax cuts, tax loopholes & boondoggles, unseen since the halcyon days of Herbert Hoover's "corporate-take-all" rape of this nation.
Criminal Leaks
The corrupt Bush Regime have used illegal means to intimidate whistle-blowers able to expose their massive lies and crimes. Arrogant Bush himself, smirks that no one will find out who the felon in the White House is, who exposed an under-cover CIA Operative's identity to Robert Novak (Karl Rove's Lackey) and other reporters, in retaliation for her husband's (ex-Ambassador Joseph P. Wilson) disclosure that the Bushies lied about phony uranium sales by Niger to Iraq-- a bogus lie told to frighten the American people.
Instead of appointing an independent special counsel, the Bushies let their attack-dog and loon, John (Robespierre) Ashcroft assist the 3 stooges (Cheney, Rice & Rove) in covering-up the White House crimes.
"We the People" should call upon Congress to be accountable for the following:
1) Bush has threatened to veto Congress if they dare to convert a small proportion of the monies into loans ($10 billion in loans out of the $87 billion) swindled and stolen from the average American taxpayers, to enrich Bush's corporate thugs-- [Source: "Bush Admin. Threatens to Veto Iraq Aid" on http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=703&e=8&u=/
ap/20031021/ap_on_go_co/congress_iraq ]
Shouldn't all Congressmen and women who are simply puppets of the Bush Regime be "recalled" in 2004?
2) Bush refuses to repeal some of the immoral (and possibly illegal) monies stolen from the average American taxpayer and awarded to the richest-of-the-rich, corporations and wealthiest oligarchy, in the form of "tax cuts", "tax loopholes" and boondoggles.
Apparently the richest amongst us aren't required to make any sacrifice-- only the poor, lower-income, middle-class and fixed-income retirees, will be asked to spill the blood of their children and pay-off Bushies' obscene debts.
Shouldn't all Congressmen and women who do not call for repealing these tax "welfare-for-the-rich" gifts and confiscating war-profits, be "recalled" in 2004?
3) Shouldn't an investigation into the crimes committed by the Bush Regime's thugs be called for by Congress? Why hasn't Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice, Bolton, Feith, Rove and the other White House criminals, incompetents and goons been asked to resign (and possibly charged with crimes)?
Shouldn't all Congressmen and women who refuse to condemn the illegal and immoral acts committed by the Bush Regime be "recalled" in 2004?
Our nation deserves men and women loyal to the United States of America-- instead we've got a corrupt cabal only loyal to their own selfish, greedy interests ... and who punish anyone who doesn't worship at the altar of Emperor Bush, their symbol of the Global Corporate Empire in their insane doctrine according to the Project for the New American Century (PNAC).
All men and women of conscience, irrespective of their political persuasions, should be asking themselves these questions, for the sake of our nation ... for the sake of our honour and integrity ... and for the sake of their private souls.
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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