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  • 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 (…)

  • The End Of The Internet
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The End Of The Internet By Jeff Chester [Posted Online on February 1, 2006]
    The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.
    Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • The NSA spying is illegal!
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Members of Congress:
    We are scholars of constitutional law and former government officials. We write in our individual capacities as citizens concerned by the Bush Administration’s National Security Agency domestic spying program, as reported in the New York Times, and in particular to respond to the Justice Department’s December 22, 2005 letter to the majority and minority leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees setting forth the administration’s defense of the (…)

  • SOTU 2006 REVISITED
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    SOTU 2006 REVISITED
    By Peter Fredson
    February 3, 2006
    I have looked at over 100 blogs on the SOTU 2006 of Bush, all varieties. The Right-Wing responses made me rub my eyes in disbelief of the huge gap between their assessment and mine. “Noble solutions”, “Brilliant Recovery”, “Visionary”, “Strong and Determined”, “Regaining Initiative”, and “Great Speech” were some of the adulatory sycophant applause.
    "Bush’s Great Leadership Ability made headlines.
    I decided to get another look (…)

  • 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 (…)