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  • Blinded By Democracy
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Blinded By Democracy Georgie Anne Geyer February 01, 2006 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s frank words after the gigantic Hamas electoral victory in Gaza last weekend should be engraved in bronze in a prominently displayed plaque in the lobby of the State Department. No, I take that back. Identical plaques should be hung in the lobby of the Pentagon, over the secretary of Defense’s desk, at the entrance to the Oval Office in the White House and in the vice (…)

  • Bin Laden’s Wasted Warning
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bin Laden’s Wasted Warning By Margaret Kimberley February 2, 2006
    The most recent message from Osama bin Laden spoke directly to us, the American people. Most Americans either hate or fear bin Laden and with good reason. Like all New Yorkers, I take a very personal interest when bin Laden issues a threat. I think the next attack may have my name on it. Even if fate spares me, I dread living through a repeat of September 11, 2001.
    I have another reason for being interested. If Osama is (…)

  • Gallup: More Than Half Of Americans Feel Bush Deliberately Misled Country On Iraq WMD
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Gallup: More Than Half Of Americans Feel Bush Deliberately Misled Country On Iraq WMD By E&P Staff Published: February 03, 2006 1:40 PM ET A new Gallup Poll, conducted in late January, reveals that just 39% of Americans approve of the way President Bush is handling Iraq, with 58% disapproving.
    Over half (53%) now say the administration "deliberately misled the American public about whether Iraq has weapons of mass destruction," with 46% disagreeing. Gallup notes that this finding is (…)

  • Bush "Plotted To Lure Saddam Into War With Fake UN Plane"
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush "Plotted To Lure Saddam Into War With Fake UN Plane" By Andy McSmith Published: 03 February 2006
    George Bush considered provoking a war with Saddam Hussein’s regime by flying a United States spyplane over Iraq bearing UN colours, enticing the Iraqis to take a shot at it, according to a leaked memo of a meeting between the US President and Tony Blair.
    The two leaders were worried by the lack of hard evidence that Saddam Hussein had broken UN resolutions, though privately they were (…)

  • US Official Admits He Smuggled $2m Of Aid Meant For Iraq
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    US Official Admits He Smuggled $2m Of Aid Meant For Iraq By Rupert Cornwell in Washington Published: 03 February 2006
    In the first US corruption conviction relating to the occupation of Iraq, a former official pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing more than $2m (£1.13m) of reconstruction funds and taking more than $1m worth of contract kickbacks under a deal with an American businessman.
    Robert Stein, 50, a contractor working for the now disbanded Coalition Provisional Authority, had a (…)

  • BUSH TO PLUNGE MIDDLE EAT INTO FURTHER CHAOS
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Many folks including myself have regarded the Chaos taking place in Iraq as a quagmire. In restrospect I was mistaken. The plan , from day One, was to plunge Iraq and eventually Iran and Syria into a seething bloody mess. This is why there was no plan put in place to rebuild the country after Saddam was toppled. This is why Rumsfeld ignored the entreaties of the Joints Chief of Staff to deploy 400,000 to 500,000 troops to occupy the country after the war ended. Of course , owing to the (…)

  • Fitzgerald Court Papers: Bush Was Briefed On Joe Wilson
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Fitzgerald Court Papers: Bush Was Briefed On Joe Wilson Murray Waas 02.03.2006 The special prosecutor in the CIA leak case, Patrick Fitzgerald, has indicated in correspondence unsealed in federal court in recent days that President Bush might have been briefed regarding former ambassador Joseph Wilson’s February 2002 CIA-sponsored mission to Niger during a regular morning intelligence briefing.
    The information provided to Bush occurred in the form of one of the "President’s Daily (…)

  • Iraq, Niger, And The CIA
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq, Niger, And The CIA By Murray Waas, Special To National Journal © National Journal Group Inc. Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006 Vice President Cheney and his then-Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were personally informed in June 2003 that the CIA no longer considered credible the allegations that Saddam Hussein had attempted to procure uranium from the African nation of Niger, according to government records and interviews with current and former officials. The new CIA assessment came (…)

  • Bush Just Has To Face It: He Is Wrong And Chirac Is Right
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    :// Bush Just Has To Face It: He Is Wrong And Chirac Is Right The Crises Over Hamas And Iran Underline The Collapse Of The Neocon Mission And The End Of A One-Superpower World Jonathan Steele, The Guardian Friday February 3, 2006 George Bush’s presidency still has three years to run, but this week’s state of the union address had an unmistakably ebb-tide air. Its tone - "chastened, deferential, modest" in the words of the Los Angeles Times - suggested that the president felt the waves of (…)

  • From Damascus to Megiddo: Bush’s Dream
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The whole Iran mess has been discussed to death, but in the end it appears very likely that the dazed and gullible American public, through media distortion and pure political propaganda, are being set up for the Bushwhacko’s ARMAGEDDON scenario.
    They haven’t got it all figured out yet, but generally devoutly hope that when Iran is taken to the woodshed (read UN), they will respond by disobeying the I.A.E.A. and proceeding with uranium enrichment big time. There can be no doubt that the (…)