Reid on Bolton
Jun 17 at 2:02pm by Jagwire X
Yesterday Harry Reid (D-NV) had some comments to say about the Bolton nomination. He continues to raise many valid questions that the Bush administration continues to not answer. Personally I am not inclined to trust an administration that finds it so difficult to tell the truth. It’s almost as if they are hiding something…
Reid Floor Statement on Bolton Nomination
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Conyers on Downing Street Memo
Jun 17 at 2:02pm by Jagwire X
An excerpt from the Downing Street Memo:
C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime’’s record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.
Yesterday John Conyers (D-MI) held an informal hearing regarding the Downing Street Memo. In case you haven’t heard of it the Downing Street Memo reveals that the highest British officials, including the prime minister, were aware that the Bush administration had the intelligence and facts “fixed around the policy”. Usually the policy is based on the facts. This is a very important, as it indicates that there was a pre-existing desire to go to war and the intelligence was manipulated or created to support that desire. The Bush administration, in other words, deceived Congress and people of the United States into going to war with Iraq.
In case you are interested, deceiving Congress is a felony and the president in the March 19, 2002 Congressional Record, submitted to Congress his case for war. If that case for war is knowingly false, the president has committed a felony and that is an impeachable offense for which he should be prosecuted.
Link to the Downing Street Memo
Link to Conyers “Hearing on the Downing Street Memo” (C-SPAN) - note the hearing is about 2 hours long.
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Source of new U.S. “terror” alert is years old
Aug 3 at 8:08am by Jagwire X
This week, the Bush administration raised the “terror” level to high and warned of possible attacks soon, naming the New York Stock Exchange, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund as potential targets in the New York and Washington areas.
However it appears that much of the information obtained from al Qaeda that led the Bush administration to raise “terror” alerts in Washington and New York is at least three years old.
So what does that mean? I”d say it means the Bush administration is using more scare tactics to manipulate and control the public mind. This would be one of the characteristics of fascism - Obsession with National Security: Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
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Selection from the 9/11 report
Jul 23 at 10:10am by Anonymous
From page 362:
“But the enemy is not just “terrorism,” some generic evil. This vagueness blurs the strategy.The catastrophic threat at this moment in history is more specific. It is the threat posed by Islamist terrorism—especially the al Qaeda network, its affiliates, and its ideology.
As we mentioned in chapter 2, Usama Bin Ladin and other Islamist terrorist leaders draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within one stream of Islam (a minority tradition), from at least Ibn Taimiyyah, through the founders of Wahhabism, through the Muslim Brotherhood, to Sayyid Qutb. That stream is motivated by religion and does not distinguish politics from religion, thus distorting both. It is further fed by grievances stressed by Bin Ladin and widely felt throughout the Muslim world—against the U.S. military presence in the Middle East, policies perceived as anti-Arab and anti-Muslim, and support of Israel.”
The slight against “evil” as a useful term is of course a slight against Bush’’s useless rhetoric, but in a footnote, they specifically reference a Feb 2003 document, the “National Strategy for Combating Terrorism“, which begins rather melodramatically:
“The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Pennsylvania were acts of war against the United States of America and its allies, and against the very idea of civilized society. No cause justifies terrorism. The world must respond and fight this evil that is intent on threatening and destroying our basic freedoms and our way of life.”
So, bravo to the commission for trying to quell the insipid use of rhetoric that helps no one understand anything.
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