NEW BK: HUBRIS-Reveals -Bush Rage+Cheney's Bull+Rove Hiding Evidence+More!

[kpete]

September 06, 2006
HUBRIS: The Press Release

HUBRIS: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War starts arriving in bookstores today--though it may take a day or two to reach all the stores (given that the release date was pushed up). Below is a copy of the press release that is being sent out by Crown. It teases some of the revelations in the book. As for the boilerplate language hailing the book, the Crown PR team is repsonsible for this. But, of course, it's all true.

some excerpts:

* 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)(pp. 303-304)

* The CIA missed an obvious clue that showed that the infamous Niger documents--the basis for Bush's false statement in a State of the Union speech--were crude forgeries. The clue was a bizarre companion document detailing a supposed global alliance of rogue nations (including Iraq and Iran)--a notion so unlikely that one State Department intelligence analyst immediately labeled it a hoax. The CIA also blew the call on these documents partly because an officer misplaced the papers. (pp. 147-148, 162-164)(pp. 263-264, 297)

* CIA analysts, over the objections of other intelligence community analysts, rigged a post-invasion report to show that a trailer found in Iraq was a mobile bioweapons lab. (pp. 226-229)

* Karl Rove and his lawyer did not turn over a critical piece of evidence in the CIA leak case (a document covered by a subpoena from the special prosecutor) for nearly a year. (pp. 377-378, 401-402)

much, much, much more at:
http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2006/09/hubris_the_pres.php

[Greeby]

1. Jeebus, this guy is psychotic

:wow:

[cassiepriam]

24. Yes it has become quite clear he is insane. Totally. nt

[kpete]

2. another gem

* 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. (pp. 303-304)

http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2006/09/hubris_the_pr...

[rodeodance]

3. lots of dirty laundry to be aired yet.

[janx]

6. Yup.

I'd wager this book raises still more questions.

[Ganja Ninja]

7. Once Bush is gone his insanity will become the stuff of legends.

Not only from his time in the white house but before and after. He and his family will be gracing the front pages of our tabloids for years to come.

[Jawja]

13. Sort of like

Caligula ;)

[Imagevision]

33. Watch Bush rule after he becomes a lame duck prez after elections

We know we'll at least get the house if not both!! Bush without power? this should be interesting,

[janx]

4. IT's interesting that the MSM has conveniently left this part out

in its coverage of the book:

* Richard Armitage, the deputy secretary of state, was the original leaker in the CIA leak case. But as he was disclosing information to columnist Robert Novak, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and other top White House aides were engaged in a fierce campaign to discredit Joseph Wilson. Rove even told MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews that the Wilsons "were trying to screw the White House so the White House was going to screw them back." (pp. 263-264, 297)

[EFerrari]

9. So, what happened to Tweety's story that Rove called him and said

Wilson's wife was "fair game"? Did that happen a little later in the leaking or was Tweety lying to mislead Wilson?

[janx]

11. Good question.

I'm amazed that many on DU are so busy whining about ABC that they've failed to notice this thread.

This is it--or at least the beginning of it.

[EFerrari]

12. In a way, I'm not surprised. BushCo are a bunch of firestarters.

They set them faster than we can put them out. So far.

[janx]

14. It would be nice if people would not react as much as they

do.

[janx]

5. kick

[bbgrunt]

8. so whatever happened to Part 2 of the senate investigation?

[EFerrari]

10. What happens to all of them? This Congress couldn't find itself

-- if it wanted to. The See No Evil Congress. I guess none of them want to get any Anthrax in the mail.

[Canuckistanian]

25. it was split into sub-parts, then never scheduled for meetings

Part 2 is for all intents and purposes, dead.

[janx]

15. What were they smoking?

* Before the invasion, Bush and General Tommy Franks only briefly discussed how Iraq would be secured after the invasion-and did so in the most general terms. The one idea they discussed--appointing a "lord mayor" in each Iraqi city and town--was not even shared with the military officers in charge of drawing up the plans for a post-invasion Iraq. (pp. 195-196)

[peacetalksforall]

18. lord mayor? lord mayor? Just this morning I was wondering

how our country became inundated with British journalists, guest experts, think tankers, and government employees? Is the entire regime being directed by Britain? Are we doing the military thing for Britain? Are our kids dying for Britain?

I am really sick of right wing Britishers pompously guiding policy in this country. How could George or Franks come up with Lord Mayor on their own.

I've had it. For months I have been writing U.S./U.K. with Israel as the villians on the world scene. I was targeting the British who allow Blair to be in charge and who cooperate in these supposedly phony terror events. - IN PARTNERHSIP!

Are British leading us or not?

Somthing is sick on both sides of the Atlantic.

This just makes me ill. Seems small, but it is a grand atrocity to me.

Has any mayor in this country been called a LORD mayor since our Constitution was signed? Or even before?

P-NACO-Fascists and the ridiculous excuse of a President make me ill along with all those who prop them up and do their thieving and killing for them.

[Laha]

26. Lord mayor

Sounds more to me like B*sh has got his head so far up his ass he just views his powers as that of unquestionable royalty, with the little people being happy to bow down and do the bidding of 'god's chosen leaders.'

The little poochy Blair doesn't look like he's going to be sitting in the head seat of his country much longer, I don't think you have much to worry about the arrogant fools in the White House taking orders from the British.

[janx]

16. kick

[Gold Metal Flake]

17. K&R

:kick:

[DesertRat]

19. Can't wait to read this book. k & r

[DemReadingDU]

20. WOW!

more wow!


K&R


another book for my reading list!

[Kajsa]

21. This is a real gem- Mooo--

* 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.

Good God, these people are idiots!

[Gregorian]

22. It's just as we all suspected.

Incredible. Our guts told us all of this. The facts were buried and withheld. Now we're seeing the facts, and they fit with our gut feeling.



Raving lunatics in the White House. President Rude Child and Copresident Undead Dick.

[Olney Blue]

28. "Raving lunatics in the WH, President Rude Child, and Copresident Undead

Dick"

You nailed it. :toast:

[Gregorian]

30. :)

I have my moments.

[magellan]

23. The CIA missed an obvious clue?

* The CIA missed an obvious clue that showed that the infamous Niger documents--the basis for Bush's false statement in a State of the Union speech--were crude forgeries. The clue was a bizarre companion document detailing a supposed global alliance of rogue nations (including Iraq and Iran)--a notion so unlikely that one State Department intelligence analyst immediately labeled it a hoax. The CIA also blew the call on these documents partly because an officer misplaced the papers. (pp. 147-148, 162-164)(pp. 263-264, 297)

Really? Missed it, did they? How about the CIA ignored all evidence to the contrary under orders from the WH, even after learning the Niger documents were forgeries?

[Tellurian]

27. So, it's fair to assume,

There are Bush loyalists within the CiA willing to do their bidding.
Bush and Cheney didn't did pay attention to anyone raising questions about the Niger forgeries
because, THEY ORDERED THE DOCUMENTS be created THEMSELVES.

[magellan]

31. There were

And there are even more now, since the purge.

All the evidence points to Bush** neocon loyalists within the CIA being behind the forgeries, either in ordering them or creating and planting them themselves.

But even in the unlikelihood that that's false, there's no getting around the fact that significant players within the intelligence community were warning BushCo the documents were forgeries; warnings BushCo intentionally ignored so they could terrorize the sheeple with the word "nuclear".

Once that was accomplished, there was no putting the genie back in the bottle. They had created the environment of fear they needed to get them into Iraq.

[Tellurian]

32. I inadvertently ordered

a CD called: "The Siege of Western Civilization" - The author, Herb Meyer served as Special Assistant to the Director of the CiA during the Reagan Administration and was Vice Chairman of the CiA's Nat'l Intel Council. The CD he's hawking is truly frightening. A totally unexpected message, dissing the environment as inconsequential asking the viewer to focus on the cultural aspects of our society because the environment is garnering too much attention and is really of secondary importance. He requests the viewer focus on prioritizing ethnic cleansing... flat out. I couldn't believe what I was seeing/hearing.

I accidentally ordered it, thinking it was something to do with preservation when in fact it was a clear message describing who the enemy IS (Muslims/Arabs) and why they should be barred from crossing racial barriers and why they should be deported or worse incarcerated.

Here is his website to order the CD:

http://www.siegeofwesternciv.com

[magellan]

34. Good god

From the website, about the CD:

“Our cultural environment is Western Civilization. This is who we are. And today, Western Civilization is under siege. We are under attack from Radical Islam – that’s the War on Terrorism. We are under attack from those within the US itself who seek to destroy our traditional culture and our moral values – from those who believe the State is more important than the family or the individual. And we ourselves are acting in a way that will leave our children with a bleak economic future.

We need to understand these threats, now, so we can set in place the right policies to lift this siege we are under – to save our country and by doing so to rescue Western Civilization itself.”

I can see why you might have thought this was about something else! Hint for anyone else reading this: the bolded part above isn't about the misguided policies of the Bush** administration!!

Sigh. Yet another RW crank who thinks the 1950s epitomizes US culture and tradition, and doesn't get that it's the very people and agenda he supports that have ruined this country.

[Chiyo-chichi]

29. Can't wait to read this book.