Shrub's top 40 lies about war and terrorism (good handout/flyer material)

[JohnyCanuck]

The Bush administration's Top 40 Lies about war and terrorism

1) The administration was not bent on war with Iraq from 9/11 onward.

Throughout the year leading up to war, the White House publicly maintained that the U.S. took weapons inspections seriously, that diplomacy would get its chance, that Saddam had the opportunity to prevent a U.S. invasion. The most pungent and concise evidence to the contrary comes from the president's own mouth. According to Time's March 31 road-to-war story, Bush popped in on national security adviser Condi Rice one day in March 2002, interrupting a meeting on UN sanctions against Iraq. Getting a whiff of the subject matter, W peremptorily waved his hand and told her, "Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out." Clare Short, Tony Blair's former secretary for international development, recently lent further credence to the anecdote. She told the London Guardian that Bush and Blair made a secret pact a few months afterward, in the summer of 2002, to invade Iraq in either February or March of this year.

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The Bush administration's foreign policy plan was not based on September 11, or terrorism; those events only brought to the forefront a radical plan for U.S. control of the post-Cold War world that had been taking shape since the closing days of the first Bush presidency. Back then a small claque of planners, led by Wolfowitz, generated a draft document known as Defense Planning Guidance, which envisioned a U.S. that took advantage of its lone-superpower status to consolidate American control of the world both militarily and economically, to the point where no other nation could ever reasonably hope to challenge the U.S. Toward that end it envisioned what we now call "preemptive" wars waged to reset the geopolitical table.

After a copy of DPG was leaked to the New York Times, subsequent drafts were rendered a little less frank, but the basic idea never changed. In 1997 Wolfowitz and his true believers--Richard Perle, William Kristol, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld--formed an organization called Project for the New American Century to carry their cause forward. And though they all flocked around the Bush administration from the start, W never really embraced their plan until the events of September 11 left him casting around for a foreign policy plan.

http://citypages.com/databank/24/1182/article11417.asp


Print out single page abridged version of the Top 40 list.
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[Maat]

1. Thanks for the post!

I bookmarked the site.

[JohnyCanuck]

7. You're welcome n/t

[babylonsister]

2. Nominated to scream to the world how wrong this clown is! nt

[kevinmc]

3. Nice Job n/t

[splat@14]

4. Good stuff, bookmarked the sites - thanks!

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Beelzibush is

The COWARDLY LYIN'...

Imminent Bullshit, every time he opens his lyin' mouth!

[Nothing Without Hope]

6. And here's a graphic for Bush's awful impact on the economy:

(image may take a few extra seconds to load but it's worth it)

http://www.allhatnocattle.net.nyud.net:8090/bush_deficit_graphic.gif

Found at AllHatNoCattle.net and based on data from the Congressional Budget Office. I'd like to see a larger version that would be better to print out - if anyone knows where one is, I hope you post the site here.

I like the image in the opening post, but I question whether the ttitle and the image won't turn off people who might otherwise read it and maybe begin to question what they've been told by the Bush administation. The handouts aren't for those of us who already despise Bush for what he is, they're for people who need to finally hear from a source other than the corporate media they normallly use. My concern is that if it's too obviously inflammatory at the first glance - as I think this one is - they may assume it's partisan propaganda and not read it at all.

[K8-EEE]

8. Idiot BushCo Apologist On Another Board Has These Comments:

1) If you can find a quote of Bush saying Saddam was responsible for 9/11 please show it to me. I have yet to see one.

2) I can also show journalistic work that links Saddam’s regime and Bin Laden not planning 9/11 but being friends (for lack of a better term).

3) Bush said in his SOU speech that British intel shows Saddam trying to buy uranium from Niger, a claim they still stick by. Also the Congressional panel that probed Joe Wilson’s claims has already blown him out of the water. They also said his findings proved Britian’s case more than disproved it.

4) The mention of Isreal being terrorists is absurd and really speaks to the publication.

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Is it EVEN WORTH looking all this shit up to give him the links???

[Just Me]

9. Excellent fact sheet. Thanks!!! n/t

[paineinthearse]

10. Nominated and bookmarked nt

[blue4barb]

11. Thanks. Just printed a copy for my file. Talking points galore.