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  • Repackaging the occupation
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The chasm separating the Bush administration’s version of events in Iraq and the actual reality of the occupation has, it appears, become so absurdly wide that even Republican supporters of the illegal war and occupation have begun to question the Bush administration’s inability to publicly face the disastrous truth. Conservative Republican Senator Chuck Hagel recently commented about the war, "It’s like they’re just making it up as they go along," adding that the White House is "completely (…)

  • FLASHBACK: PLAMEGATE 2003: Naming of agent ’was aimed at discrediting CIA’
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Edward Alden in Washington Financial Times October 25 2003
    The Bush administration’s exposure of a clandestine Central Intelligence Agency operative was part of a campaign aimed at discrediting US intelligence agencies for not supporting White House claims that Saddam Hussein was reconstituting Iraq’s nuclear weapons programme, former agency officials said yesterday.
    In a rare hearing called by Senate Democratic leaders, the officials said the White House engaged in pressure and (…)

  • FLIP FLOPS AT THE WHITE HOUSE
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHITE HOUSE FLIP FLOPS
    By Peter Fredson
    July 19, 2005
    Amidst the world news reports yesterday was a minor item regarding White House flip flops. This is not the usual political flip-flopping of George Bush, as that is no longer newsworthy.
    No, this is about nine women of the Northwestern Wildcats Lacrosse sports team who were invited to a photo-op with President Bush. It was a formal occasion. They were beautifully dressed in colorful skirts, dresses and pearls but they wore (…)

  • When News Isn’t News
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I hope this is not too Inside Baseball for you, but I am truly hacked with what the bloggers call the MSM, or “mainstream media.” The New York Times and The Washington Post have both gone way out of their way to deny that the Downing Street Memos (it’s now plural) are news.
    Let me tell you something. Like many of you, during the entire lead-up to the war with Iraq, I thought the whole thing was a terrible idea. I bring this up not to prove how smart we are, but to emphasize that I followed (…)

  • Ordinary Fascism
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Lord Chancellor told BBC News under new laws people “attacking the values of the West” and “glorifying the acts of suicide bombers” would be imprisoned for “long periods” and “deported wherever possible”, but no law could stop terrorism altogether.
    We always obeyed the law. Isn’t that what you do in America? Even if you don’t agree with a law personally, you still obey it. Otherwise life would be chaos. - Gertrude Scholtz-Klink, chief of the Women’s Bureau under Hitler explaining the (…)

  • Corruption: Falling away from or not returning to the first principle
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “I am a philanthropist by character,” wrote Washington to the Marquis de Lafayette, “and a citizen of the great republic humanity at large.” Washington to Lafayette, August 15th, 1786.
    Principle - the basic truth on which all truths depend, in a republic is virtue. Returning to principles has always been the saving grace of republics, but what kind of republic are we talking about. As an American author who loves France for many reasons, I question why there is not much respect for our (…)

  • Report of covert aid to Iraqi candidates
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    New Yorker article says U.S. followed secret plan, despite Congress’ objections
    by Douglas Jehl, David E. Sanger, New York Times
    Washington — In the months before the Iraqi elections in January, President Bush approved a plan to provide covert support to certain Iraqi candidates and political parties but rescinded the proposal because of congressional opposition, current and former government officials said Saturday.
    In a statement issued in response to questions about a report in the (…)

  • Reporter: Top Cheney Aide Among Sources
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By PETE YOST
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney’s top aide was among the sources for a Time magazine reporter’s story about the identity of a CIA officer, the reporter said Sunday.
    Until last week, the White House had insisted for nearly two years that vice presidential chief of staff Lewis Libby and presidential adviser Karl Rove were not involved in the leaks of CIA officer Valerie Plame’s identity.
    The White House refused last week to repeat those assertions when it was (…)

  • White House in panic over spy scandal
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush is on the rack over a revelation that his close aide Karl Rove exposed a CIA agent
    by Paul Harris in Washington
    It was a question the White House press corps once believed unthinkable. Has President George W Bush lost confidence in his political guru, Karl Rove? If simply posing the question was a surprise last week, the answer - or, more accurately, the lack of one - was an even greater shock.
    When Bush faced reporters at the White House last Wednesday, he dodged questions on (…)

  • Editorial: Dump Rove / The investigation moves closer to the president
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Editorial: Dump Rove / The investigation moves closer to the president
    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    As the Valerie Plame case becomes increasingly the Karl Rove case, and as the rising water of it begins to lap closer to President Bush, there are several truths about this matter that are worth keeping in mind.
    1. In the very beginning Mr. Bush said that it was unlikely that the leaker would ever be found. There is every reason to believe that he would then have taken steps to make that (…)