Interesting article in Moscow Times

[phoebe]

Global Eye -- Cheap Thrills
By Chris Floyd

Just how cheap and easy are the muckity-mucks of the Bushist Party? How much scratch does it take for a high official of the Regime to overrule his own intelligence officers and support the Potomac Empire's propaganda line? What's the going rate for selling out the United States Constitution and throwing in with the fomenters of aggressive war?

$20,500.

That's what the Busha Nostra paid Thomas Rider, director of the Department of Energy's intelligence agency in "bonuses" for services rendered in the mendacious maneuvering toward war, Paul Sperry of the archconservative WorldNet Daily reports.

Rider was named acting head of DOE's intelligence service shortly before the Regime rolled out what White House chief of staff Andrew Card called, with admirable candor, the Bushist's "new product:" a "pre-emptive" war against Iraq. The PR campaign kicked off in September 2002 -- because "from a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August," Card helpfully explained to The New York Times.

One key to the kick-off was a gathering of intelligence brass from throughout the government to put together a "National Intelligence Estimate" on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. (They were still talking about "weapons," not "programs" or "materials" back in those innocent days of yore.) The report was slapped together at top speed: Congress was due to vote in October on Bush's demand for a blank check to kill thousands of swarthy Arabs whenever he took the notion, so the NIE had to be ready soon -- and it had to be really, really scary.

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http://www.tmtmetropolis.ru/metropolis/stories/2003/08/22/120.html

[ScrewyRabbit]

1. I love Chris Floyd's writing

He's always on the money, and he's funny, too!

[newyawker99]

2. Hi ScrewyRabbit!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[G_j]

3. yep very well

written. He conveys the dark absurdities of it all quite well.

...welcome to DU :toast:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

4. great article..gotta give it a "slapping the donkey "kick

[KoKo]

5. He says the source is "World Net Daily" too! Has anyone seen this

reported elsewhere?

Thanks for posting it.