Bush "angrily thrust his middle finger inches in front of the face of,,,"

[rodeodance]

http://tailrank.com/posts/562949953917866/Inside_Story_of_Spin__A_Lot_of_Dirt

> Inside Story of Spin: A Lot of Dirt
> by BooMan
> Wed Sep 6th, 2006 at 03:08:42 PM EST
>
> David Corn is promoting his new book hard. But it looks like a
> must read. Below the fold I have put the highlights he sent me. It
> reads like articles of impeachment. In fact, it's impossible to
> read them without concluding that impeachment is the only possible
> remedy for these sins. Here's a minor one, just as a teaser:
>
> When told that reporter Helen Thomas was questioning the need to
> oust Saddam by force, Bush snapped: "Did you tell her I intend to
> kick his sorry mother fucking ass all over the Mideast?" In a
> meeting with congressional leaders, the President angrily thrust
> his middle finger inches in front of the face of Senator Tom
> Daschle to illustrate Saddam's attitude toward the United States.
> (pp. 1-3, 116-117)
>
> HUBRIS
> The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
> by Michael Isikoff and David Corn
>
> What was really behind the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq? As George W.
> Bush steered the nation to war, who spoke the truth and who tried
> to hide it? HUBRIS: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the
> Selling of the Iraq War (Crown, September 8, 2006) takes us behind
> the scenes at the Bush White House, the CIA, the Pentagon, the
> State Department, and Congress to answer all the vital questions
> about how the Bush administration came to invade Iraq. HUBRIS, a
> gripping narrative, is filled with new revelations. The book
> disclosures include:
>
> * President Bush was driven by a visceral hatred of Saddam
> Hussein, which he privately demonstrated in expletive-laden
> tirades against the Iraqi dictator. In May 2002--months before he
> asked Congress for authority to attack Saddam-Bush bluntly
> revealed his ultimate game plan in a candid moment with two aides.
> When told that reporter Helen Thomas was questioning the need to
> oust Saddam by force, Bush snapped: "Did you tell her I intend to
> kick his sorry mother fucking ass all over the Mideast?" In a
> meeting with congressional leaders, the President angrily thrust
> his middle finger inches in front of the face of Senator Tom
> Daschle to illustrate Saddam's attitude toward the United States.
> (pp. 1-3, 116-117)
>
> * As part of an aggressive prewar covert action program--codenamed
> Anabasis (after an ancient text about a botched invasion of
> Babylon)--the CIA was authorized by the White House in the winter
> of 2002 to blow up targets in Iraq and engage in "direct action"
> (an agency euphemism for assassination) to weaken Saddam's regime
> and to prepare for his ouster by the U.S. military. For Anabasis,
> the agency smuggled Iraqi exiles to a top-secret site in the
> Nevada desert and trained them in sabotage and explosives. The
> Iraqi force, known as the Scorpions, was being trained to seize an
> isolated Iraqi military post-in order to create a provocation that
> could trigger a war with Iraq. (pp. 6-12, 153-156)......
>

[NYCGirl]

1. Here's all that and more on David Corn's website:

http://www.davidcorn.com/

* When Bush was first briefed that no WMDs had been found in Iraq, he was totally unfazed and asked few questions. "I'm not sure I've spoken to anyone at that level who seemed less inquisitive," the briefer told the authors.

* Colin Powell remains intensely bitter and angry about his UN Security Council Speech, during which he presented the case for war. After it became clear that much of his speech was wrong, he refused to have anything to do with CIA director George Tenet. "It's annoying to me," Powell told the authors. "Everybody focuses on my presentation....Well the same goddamn case was presented to the U.S. Senate and the Congress and they voted for resolution....Why aren't they outraged....The same case was presented to the President. Why isn'' the President outraged? It's always, 'Gee, Powell, you made this speech to the UN.'"

* After the invasion, Dick Cheney's aides desperately sifted through raw intelligence nuggets in search of any evidence that would justify the war. On one occasion they sent the WMD hunters in Iraq a satellite photo that they suspected showed a hiding place for WMDs. But it was only an overhead photo of a watering hole for cows.

* A critical memo in the CIA leak case was based on notes of a State Department official that were (as this official told the authors) inaccurate. This memo reported that former ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA employee who played a key role in sending him on his trip to Niger. Yet the State Department official now acknowledges his notes did not describe Valerie Wilson's role accurately.

* At the time of her outing, Valerie Wilson was an undercover officer in the CIA whose mission had been to gather intelligence about WMDs in Iraq. She was the operations manager of the Joint Task Force on Iraq, a unit in the clandestine service of the CIA. This unit desperately tried to obtain evidence to back up the Bush administration's assertions about Saddam's WMDs, yet it found no such evidence.

[hippiechick]

2. Anabasis ...

..." an aggressive prewar covert action program--codenamed Anabasis (after an ancient text about a botched invasion of Babylon)-- " (emphasis added) Gee, that should have been a HINT about how well this was going to go, huh ??


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[glitch]

3. More money to be made in botched invasions.They're evil, not stupid.nt