George W. Bush Lied About WMD and MUST Be Impeached!!

[Clara T]

And tried in the appropriate international arena for War Crimes. It is incumbent upon any and every member in Congress to move forward in a way that would begin impeachment proceedings.

While I do not subscribe to the view that George W. Bush and his administration is the only cancer that must be lanced from the body politic of America (the current American political and economic crisis has deep historical roots) it is certainly the most pressing need facing this country and the world. In that spirit I do subscribe to the point of view that any political representative from either party that is in compliance with the obvious and well documented criminality of the Bush administration is in violation of their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution and represent the people and therefore must also be removed from office.

The Evidence:

George W Bush, March 2002: "F___ Saddam. we're taking him out."

How did the U.S. end up taking on Saddam? The inside story of how Iraq jumped to the top of Bush's agenda -- and why the outcome there may foreshadow a different world order

"F___ Saddam. we're taking him out." Those were the words of President George W. Bush, who had poked his head into the office of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.

It was March 2002, and Rice was meeting with three U.S. Senators, discussing how to deal with Iraq through the United Nations, or perhaps in a coalition with America's Middle East allies. Bush wasn't interested. He waved his hand dismissively, recalls a participant, and neatly summed up his Iraq policy in that short phrase.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/24/timep.saddam.tm/



Downing Street Memo for Dummies

What exactly does the memo say, in American English, please? Some guy named "C" (Richard Dearlove, the head of Britain's spy agency MI6) reported on his recent visit to America. "C" said George Bush "wanted to remove Saddam Hussein through military action" and that "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." This is a fancy way to say they were cooking intelligence, which, in even plainer language, means lying.

Anything else, or was that it? There were other damning statements, too, like the fact that the evidence was "thin," and that "Saddam was not threatening his neighbours and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran." (Opponents of the war were saying this at the time, too, but no one was listening...if only they'd had this "C" fellow at those peace rallies!) There was also talk about whether the war was legal, but those at the meeting agreed this fine point didn't bother the Americans.

Surely that's all there is...right? 'Fraid not. The memo also talks about the need for creating political cover by giving Saddam a UN ultimatum which they (mistakenly) thought he would ignore. It was Tony Blair who raised this point, not surprisingly. There was further discussion about goading Saddam into taking military action (perhaps even using those WMDs they couldn't otherwise prove existed!) by increasing bombing in the no fly zones. Plus "C" reports there was little planning taking place for the aftermath of war.

http://whatdoiknow.typepad.com/what_do_i_know/2005/06/downing_street_.html



Ministers were told of need for Gulf war ‘excuse’

Ministers were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-
led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1650822,00.html

RAF bombing raids tried to goad Saddam into war

The RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war ... By the end of August the raids had become a full air offensive.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1632566,00.html



The Smoking Bullet in the Smoking Gun

They dropped precision-guided munitions on Saddam Hussein's major western air-defense facility, clearing the path for Special Forces helicopters that lay in wait in Jordan. Earlier attacks had been carried out against Iraqi command and control centers, radar detection systems, Revolutionary Guard units, communication centers and mobile air-defense systems. The Pentagon's goal was clear: Destroy Iraq's ability to resist. This was war. ... This was September 2002--a month before Congress had voted to give President Bush the authority he used to invade Iraq, two months before the United Nations brought the matter to a vote and more than six months before "shock and awe" officially began.

http://www.democracynow.org/static/Smoking%20Bullet.shtml

Blair-Bush deal before Iraq war revealed in secret memo

A memo of a two-hour meeting between the two leaders at the White House on January 31 2003 - nearly two months before the invasion - reveals that Mr Bush made it clear the US intended to invade whether or not there was a second resolution and even if UN inspectors found no evidence of a banned Iraqi weapons programme.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1650822,00.html

[babylonsister]

1. I know this is good from you, my friend. Bookmarked!nt

[BeFree]

3. Not only that...

...his crew stole both of his (s)elections!

The only way out is over * impeached ass!

[soldier101]

5. Lie

Note every lie he made and make him accountable.

[newyawker99]

25. Hi soldier101!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Disturbed]

2. GW Bush broke the FISA Law many times.

GW Bush must be Impeached.

VP Cheney may be guilty of Obstruction of Justice and Perjury. Impeachment is a trail. Put VP Cheney on trial.



Rumsfailed Admitted to Violating Geneva Convention

Rumsfailed admitted in public on TV that when CIA Director Tenet requested that an Iraqi prisoner be sent to a secret Afghan/US Prison that Rumsfailed did so. After four months a DOD Attorney stated that this was an illegal act. Rumsfailed then ordered that this prisoner be sent back to Abu Graihib but the prisoner was purposefully not listed at that location, also an illegal act. Rumsfeld also admitted to signing orders for tougher interogation methods which violated the Geneva Conventions.

Rumfailed has commited at least three violations of the Geneva Convention thereby also violations of The Constitution of the USA. Recently it has been found out that even more detainees were "ghost detainees". The fact that Rumsfailed and Tenet have not been charged speaks volumes. If Congress wishes to garner any respect they should move forward with Rep. Rangle's Impeachment Declaration of Rumsfailed and also prosecute Ex. CIA Tenet.

The US, Govt., Congress, and the Justice Dept no longer abide by the Geneva Convention or the Constitution of the USA.

[Clara T]

6. Broke International Law to Win Votes on Iraq Invasion

Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war

Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key Security Council members


The United States is conducting a secret 'dirty tricks' campaign against UN Security Council delegations in New York as part of its battle to win votes in favour of war against Iraq.

Details of the aggressive surveillance operation, which involves interception of the home and office telephones and the emails of UN delegates in New York, are revealed in a document leaked to The Observer.

The disclosures were made in a memorandum written by a top official at the National Security Agency - the US body which intercepts communications around the world - and circulated to both senior agents in his organisation and to a friendly foreign intelligence agency asking for its input.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905936,00.html

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. You should check out Doug Wallace of Reno, NV--He filed suit against

BushCo and the PNAC. Doug is a retired attorney, and spent several years getting this lawsuit in place, and then filed it on Jan. 14, 2005.

http://www.wallacevbushlawsuit.com/

Law suit against the current American administration alleging that the Government has exceeded its constitutional authority by implementing a scheme for global dominance called "Project for the New American Century."

A lawsuit was filed on January 14, 2005, in the U.S. District Court in Reno, Nevada against President Bush and Vice President Cheney. The lawsuit alleges that both defendants have acted outside the scope of their job description in waging a war against Iraq. The complaint alleges that both defendants and others working within the White House and Defense Department have covertly implemented a white paper called “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” as presented by the Project for the New American Century or PNAC in September, 2000 two months before the murky elections of that year. Among the persons signing the paper were Richard Cheney and Jeb Bush. While the paper was published on the internet, implementation of it by the White House has been in secret. Comments and further detail, see Founders Freedom blog. http://foundersfreedomdefensefund.blogspot.com/

More at link...

[Clara T]

7. Bush on the Start of the Iraq War: "I Feel Good!"

Bush on the Start of the
Iraq War: "I feel good!"

Minutes before President Bush's solemn announcement that the US military were in action against Iraq he vigorously pumped his fist and declared: "I feel good".

Two F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighters dropped two 2,000lb bunker buster bombs on targets.

At 10.15pm (3.15am GMT) Bush addressed the nation. He said: "On my orders, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein's ability to wage war."

His earlier "I feel good" statement, a phrase hijacked from soul legend James Brown, angered some US officials.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12761184&method=full&siteid=50143

[Disturbed]

8. Yeah, shrub felt good.

He became the War Prez. He got to be a Mass Murderer. Sending all those Texans to death was a thrill but the prospect kiling thousands, plus Saddam, gave him a rush. This man is Sociopath and enjoys dealing death. Ever notice how he smiles when the subject of death comes up?

[Clara T]

9. Bush Lied

British officers knew on eve of war that Iraq had no WMDs
FRASER NELSON and JASON BEATTIE

Key points
• UK intelligence learned just before war that Iraq had not assembled chemical weapons
• Mossad "knew 45-minute claim was an old wives’ tale" - but did not tell UK or US
• US Secretary of State "does not know" if he would have recommended invasion if he had been told Iraq had no WMDs
• Former civil service chief to lead investigation into whether British intelligence on Iraq was accurate
• Lib Dems boycott inquiry because of tight terms of reference

Key quote "Intelligence indicating that chemical weapons remained disassembled and that Saddam had not yet ordered their assembly was highlighted."

Story in full BRITISH intelligence officers learned on the eve of the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein had not assembled his chemical weapons and it was highly doubtful if he could deploy any within 45 minutes.

The Foreign Office yesterday admitted that the joint intelligence committee (JIC) warned in March last year that "the intelligence on the timing of when Iraq might use chemical and biological weapons was sparse".

This disclosure came as a senior Israeli politician claimed that Mossad, its intelligence agency, knew before the war that the 45-minute claim was "an old wives’ tale" - but decided against telling Britain or the United States.
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=518&id=136082004

If we do not speak, who will?

[savemefromdumbya]

10. Who is going to follow this through

all efforts seem to die on the vine?

[Clara T]

11. SO HERE IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO

SO HERE IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO

The Bush administration and their friends in the media want this story to go away. More than want it to go away, they are in a panic, and will do everything they can to stop it. They will use every dirty trick, every paid shill, every presstitute that they can. Already there is a report that the Michael Jackson jury is "expected" to reach a verdict just before the Conyers hearings.

So, I want YOU to copy this article off, post it everywhere. This article is placed in the public domain. Mail it to your friends. Then send it to your local media and your Congresscritters and have everyone you know do the same. Get on the phones. Flood their offices.

The term is "Viral Marketing" where you get the people who need a product to market it for you. Well, this nation NEEDS this "product". It needs to know that this war was started with lies. INTENTIONAL lies. And they need to know there is something they can do about it, and that is to start pounding on the doors of power.

Because when a flood of such messages reaches the Congress and the media, what they will hear is that there is no more time. Either they will deal with these lies and the liars, in full, or they will lose all credibility as a government and as media.

A government that lies to the people cannot be the legal government of this land. Make sure that they understand that YOU understand that the Constitution does not allow the government to lie to the people. Calling themselves the government does not make it so if they act unconstitutionally and illegally. The Constitution is the original "Contract with America" and a government that lies stands in clear breach of that contract.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/lieofthecentury.html

Congressional Contacts:
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
-- "The Declaration of Independence"

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is
for good men to do nothing" .
--Edmund Burke

[Mnemosyne]

18. You have got it Clara. I have fresh ink coming this week, been

busy and had run out. :evilgrin:

I agree, it is the only way to spread the word on what must be done.

There are war crimes for which the entire administration needs to be held accountable. Let it begin with impeachment!

[savemefromdumbya]

23. Circulated

Done

[Octafish]

12. America can't wait! Impeach Bush now!

Bush is worse than Nixon.



Nixon was a crook.



Bush is a traitor.

Reminds me of someone...



Same party.

Excellent post, Clara T. The sooner the little turd from Crawford is gone from office, the sooner we can start rebuilding America and making this a better world.

Consider, at one time America's enemies did all they could to destroy America.

Bush has done more in five years to accomplish that, than all this nation's previous enemies.

That alone makes him the worst "president" ever.

This is what makes him a traitor:

Suffocating the CIA Agent Outing Scandal

By Mark Engler

EXCERPT...

But why would the White House make the information about Wilson’s wife part of their smear campaign? One implication is that, by revealing Plame’s identity, they were trying to suggest that Wilson was not really qualified to investigate the Niger question and that he was only selected because of his personal relationship with someone at the CIA. Another explanation is that the senior officials were motivated by spite alone—that they were looking for any way possible to hurt Wilson and they knew that damaging his wife’s career would accomplish this.

A third possibility is that the officials believed that going after a CIA agent might send an especially powerful signal to an important target audience: disgruntled intelligence officers. It is well known that many intelligence analysts are furious about how unverified reports about Saddam’s weapons were “stove-piped” to top administration officials in violation of accepted vetting procedures and then presented to the public as established facts.

After the Wilson op-ed, it is plausible that White House political operatives felt they needed to deliver a message to others with inside information about faulty intelligence.

Supporting this view, retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern contends that the senior officials’ “objective was to create strong disincentive for those who might be tempted to follow the courageous example set by Joseph Wilson in citing the president’s own words to show that our country went to war on a lie.”

SNIP...

Plame, in fact, worked undercover with a network that monitored the international transfer of illegal weaponry. According to retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern, Plame’s outing will “burn her entire network of agents reporting on weapons of mass destruction, put those agents in serious jeopardy and destroy her ability at the peak of her career to address this top-priority issue.”

CONTINUED...

http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Feb2004/engler0204.html

[Clara T]

13. The Intent to Deceive- Impeachable Offense

President McKinley told the American people that the USS Maine had been sunk in Havana Harbor by a Spanish mine. The American people, outraged by this apparent unprovoked attack, supported the Spanish American War. The Captain of the USS Maine had insisted the ship was sunk by a coal bin explosion, investigations after the war proved that such had indeed been the case. There had been no mine.



Hitler used this principle of lying to his own people to initiate an invasion. He told the people of Germany that Poland had attacked first and staged fake attacks against German targets. The Germans, convinced they were being threatened, followed Hitler into Poland and into World War 2.

Did the government of the United States lie to the American people, more to the point, did President Bush and his Neocon associates lie to Congress, to initiate a war of conquest in Iraq?

This question has been given currency by a memo leaked from inside the British Government which clearly indicates a decision to go to war followed by the "fixing" of information around that policy. This is, as they say, a smoking gun.



Another piece of evidence consists of documents which President Bush referenced as in his 2003 State of the Union Speech. According to Bush, these documents proved that Iraq was buying tons of uranium oxide, called "Yellow Cake" from Niger. Since Israel had bombed Iraq's nuclear power plant years before, it was claimed that the only reason Saddam would have for buying uranium oxide was to build bombs. This hoax fell apart fast when it was pointed out that Iraq has a great deal of uranium ore inside their own borders and no need to import any from Niger or anywhere else. The I.A.E.A. then blew the cover off the fraud by announcing that the documents Bush had used were not only forgeries, but too obvious to believe that anyone in the Bush administration did not know they were forgeries! The forged documents were reported as being "discovered" in Italy by SISMI, the Italian Security Service. Shortly before the "discovery" the head of SISMI had been paid a visit by Michael Ledeen, Manucher Ghorbanifar, and two officials from OSP, one of whom was Larry Franklin, the Israeli spy operating inside the OSP.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/lieofthecentury.html

U.S.C. TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 47 § 1001.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, WHOEVER, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully—
(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by ANY trick, scheme, or device a material fact;
(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or
(3) makes or USES any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry; shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to a party to a judicial proceeding, or that party's counsel, for statements, representations, writings or documents submitted by such party or counsel to a judge or magistrate in that proceeding.
(c) With respect to any matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch, subsection (a) shall apply only to—
(1) administrative matters, including a claim for payment, a matter related to the procurement of property or services, personnel or employment practices, or support services, or a document required by law, rule, or regulation to be submitted to the Congress or any office or officer within the legislative branch; or
(2) any investigation or review, conducted pursuant to the authority of any committee, subcommittee, commission or office of the Congress, consistent with applicable rules of the House or Senate.

[Octafish]

15. The Joint Chiefs so wanted war over Cuba they planned to attack Americans.

Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer had no respect for President John F. Kennedy, who had said "No" to the Joint Chiefs' war plans for the Bay of Pigs, Laos and Vietnam.

Operation NORTHWOODS:

Pentagon Proposed Pretexts for Cuba Invasion in 1962

April 30, 2001

In his new exposé of the National Security Agency entitled Body of Secrets, author James Bamford highlights a set of proposals on Cuba by the Joint Chiefs of Staff codenamed OPERATION NORTHWOODS. This document, titled “Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba” was provided by the JCS to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962, as the key component of Northwoods. Written in response to a request from the Chief of the Cuba Project, Col. Edward Lansdale, the Top Secret memorandum describes U.S. plans to covertly engineer various pretexts that would justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba. These proposals - part of a secret anti-Castro program known as Operation Mongoose - included staging the assassinations of Cubans living in the United States, developing a fake “Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington,” including “sink a boatload of Cuban refugees (real or simulated),” faking a Cuban airforce attack on a civilian jetliner, and concocting a “Remember the Maine” incident by blowing up a U.S. ship in Cuban waters and then blaming the incident on Cuban sabotage. Bamford himself writes that Operation Northwoods “may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government.”

SOURCE with link to PDF of actual Op NORTHWOOD plans:

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/

Gee. No wonder Kennedy fired Lemnitzer a short while after this plan was submitted.

Wanting to protect Americans from harm at the hands of their own "protectors" is the Liberal thing to do.

Don't believe me?

Consider George W Bush sat on his hands after the CIA briefed him "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

Then consider that George Bush sat on his ass after being informed "America is under attack."

That's pure conservative.

Truly enjoy your posts, Clara T. Again, Bookmarked and Recommended.

[threadkillaz]

14. Get ready for Round Two - Iran

March 5: Is Iran after nuclear weapons and, if so, what can we do to stop it?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,186632,00.html


The media does the heavy lifting.

[upi402]

16. a rock solid

post. yet again.
:kick:
thanks so much for your service. i'm really really grateful.
and i do the footwork (used to be able to do more).
keep up the solid work Clara T.

[Mnemosyne]

17. ClaraT, you are so precisely right. And you state the case

in a way that most any thinking person should easily comprehend. I wish we had a President with your ability to see truth and humanity, How much nicer this country would be. :hug:

Great graphics too. :)

Thank you! :hi:

[Clara T]

20. The Niger Documents- Bush Lied and Must Be Impeached

Cryptome published the five La Repubblica images on July 18:
http://cryptome.org/niger-docs-lr.htm

NBC News obtained the eight images from La Repubblica and provided them to Cryptome today.





CONFIDENTIAL
URGENT

REPUBLIC OF NIGER

FRATERNITY-WORK-PROGRESS

NIAMEY, 07/27/2000

MR PRESIDENT,

IT'S MY HONOR TO REFER TO THE AGREEMENT # 3*1-NI 2000,
REGARDING THE SUPPLY OF URANIUM, SIGNED IN NIAMEY ON THE 6TH
OF JULY 2000 BETWEEN THE GOVERMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NIGER
AND THE GOVERMENT OF IRAQ BY THEIR RESPECTIVE REPRESENTATIVES
OFFICIAL DELEGATES.

ABOVE MENTIONED SUPPLY EQUIVALENT TO 500 TONS OF PURE URANIUM
PER YEAR, WILL BE DELIVERED IN TWO PHASES.

HAVING SEEN AND INSPECTED THE SAID DEAL. I APPROVE IN ALL
AND EACH OF ITS INVOLVED PARTIES IN REGARD TO THE POWERS

INVESTED IN ME BY THE CONSTITUTION OF THE 12TH OF MAY 1966.





CONFIDENTIAL
URGENT

ACCORDINGLY, I PRAISE YOU TO CONSIDER
THIS LETTER AS BEING THE FORMAL TOOL OF APPROVAL
OF THIS AGREEMENT BY THE GOVERMENT OF THE REPUBLIC
OF NIGER THAT BECOMES BY THIS RIGHTFULLY ENGAGED.

PLEASE ACCEPT, MR. THE PRESIDENT, THE CERTAINTY
OF MY HIGHEST REGARDS

SIGNATURE

SEAL OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NIGER





ANNEX 1

THE DIRECTION OF JUDICIAL AFFAIRS OF THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN
AFFAIRS IN THE PERSON OF HIS EXCELLENCY MR. THE MINISTER AND
THE (TIER ?) OF THE MINISTER OF MINES IN THE PERSON OF MR THE MINISTER IN
CHARGE, UNITED IN ASSEMBLY STATED THE FOLLOWING:

- THE STATE COURT, CALLED UPON TO GIVE HIS ADVICE ACCORDING TO
THE 20TH ARTICLE OF ORDONNANCE # 74-19 OF THE 5TH OF JULY 2000, REGARDING
CREATION, COMPOSITION, ATTRIBUTION AND WORKINGS OF THE STATE
COURT, MET IN THE CHAMBER OF THE COUNCIL IN THE PALACE OF THE SAID
COURT ON WEDNESDAY JULY 7, 2000, AT NINE O'CLOCK;

-READ THE LETTER # 488/MJ/SO OF THE 3RD OF JULY 2000 OF MR. THE MINISTER
OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND COOPERATION:

DEMANDING TO SOLICITATE A FAVORABLE ADVICE TO THE STATE COURT
ON THE POINTS TO BE KNOWN:

-ON ONE PART, IF THE PROTOCOL OF THE DEAL BETWEEN THE GOVERMENT OF
THE REPUBLIC OF NIGER AND THE GOVERMENT OF IRAQ, RELATED TO THE
SALE OF PURE URANIUM, SIGNED ON THE 6TH OF JULY 2000 IN NIAMEY CONFORMS
TO THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE REPUBLIC OF NIGER, AND IF IT CONSTITUTES
FOR THE REPUBLIC A VALID AND INCUBENT ENGAGEMENT;

-IN OTHER MATTERS, IF IT HAS BEEN RIGHTFULLY SIGNED AND APPROVED BY THE
GOVERMENT OF IRAQ IN COMPLIANCE TO ALL ADMINISTRATIVE
NORMS THAT ARE APPLICABLE AND CONSTITUING FOR HER A

Colin Powell's speech to the UN was itself one misstatement after another. Powell claimed that Iraq had purchased special aluminum tubes whose only possible use was in uranium enrichment centrifuges. Both CIA and Powell's own State Department confirmed that the tubes were parts for missiles Saddam was legally allowed to have. Following the invasion, no centrifuges, aluminum or otherwise were found.

Powell also claimed to the United Nations that the photo on the left showed "Decontamination Vehicles". But when United Nations inspectors visited the site after the invasion, they located the vehicles and discovered they were just firefighting equipment.

Powell claimed the Iraqis had illegal rockets and launchers hidden in the palm trees of Western Iraq. None were ever found.



http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/lieofthecentury.html

Thank you for your kind words. In solidarity in the hopes of better days. We can make it Happen.

[Mnemosyne]

24. Is it safe to actually believe Impeachment may happen now Clara?

In Solidarity!

[Clara T]

26. We Can Not Only Hope But We Can Put The Message Out

Everywhere we live. Every day in big and small ways. Put into the atmosphere and in the public viewage so it beomes a common thought and sight.

Straight Talk From George Galloway



“I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.

Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.

If the world had listened to Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you demanded, if the world had listened to President Chirac who you want to paint as some kind of corrupt traitor, if the world had listened to me and the anti-war movement in Britain, we would not be in the disaster that we are in today. Senator, this is the mother of all smokescreens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported, from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth.

Have a look at the real Oil-for-Food scandal. Have a look at the 14 months you were in charge of Baghdad, the first 14 months when $8.8 billion of Iraq's wealth went missing on your watch. Have a look at Haliburton and other American corporations that stole not only Iraq's money, but the money of the American taxpayer.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/galloway.html

[f-bush]

19. Thank you so much!

Fucking shrub should be dressed in orange and cooling his heels with old Randy. He has got to be the most crooked president we've ever had. And we should have seen it coming. After all, he stole an election to be president. What kind of precident does that set!

To me, the willingness to vote for articles of impeachment should be the litmus test of every candidate for the US House in November 2006!

[Clara T]

21. Psycopath Chickenawk Paul Wolfowitz Said It Openly

Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil

George Wright
Wednesday June 4, 2003

Oil was the main reason for military action against Iraq, a leading White House hawk has claimed, confirming the worst fears of those opposed to the US-led war.

The US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz - who has already undermined Tony Blair's position over weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by describing them as a "bureaucratic" excuse for war - has now gone further by claiming the real motive was that Iraq is "swimming" in oil.

The latest comments were made by Mr Wolfowitz in an address to delegates at an Asian security summit in Singapore at the weekend, and reported today by German newspapers Der Tagesspiegel and Die Welt.

Asked why a nuclear power such as North Korea was being treated differently from Iraq, where hardly any weapons of mass destruction had been found, the deputy defence minister said: "Let's look at it simply. The most important difference between North Korea and Iraq is that economically, we just had no choice in Iraq. The country swims on a sea of oil."

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/aboutoil.htm

[Clara T]

28. War Crimes Act of 1996

1996,War,Crimes,Act,Bush
Could the "1996 War Crimes Act" Be Bush's Achilles' Heel?



by Charles Coughlin

Could the "1996 War Crimes Act" Be Bush's Achilles' Heel?

Former Congresswoman Kathleen Holtzman, who served in Congress during the Nixon impeachment, had some very interesting things to say about an obscure federal law, which has no statute of limitations and which was specifically designed to make politicians answerable for war crimes including torture. It's entirely possible that the Republicans in 1996 put this law into effect in an attempt to ensnare Bill Clinton. Back in the mid-90s the Republicans still had a sense of morality and it was inconceivable that a future Republican president would condone torture.

A transcript of the Holtzman interview quotes her as saying "Well, I think we need justice in this world. We need to make sure that people who commit horrendous crimes are held accountable... And it seems to me that with the terrible scandal, Abu Ghraib, that... we can’t, as they tried in Watergate to do, cut off the investigation at the small fry, at the lowest level. You have to look, and the international law precedence and American law requires it, you look up the chain of command. What I discovered by accident was that -- this is not a concern that I have alone -- President Bush's White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales, himself, who is now the Attorney General of the United States, wrote a memo in January 2002 to President Bush saying one of the reasons we need to opt out of the Geneva Conventions wasn't just because they didn't like the Geneva Conventions because they don't like treaties, but he said, we have to worry about prosecutions under the U.S. War Crimes Act of 1996. That, it turns out, is a federal statute that applies to any U.S. national, military or civilian, high or low, who violates the Geneva Conventions in certain ways. In other words, (it applies to anyone) who engages in murder, torture, or inhuman treatment. And it's not just those who engage in it, it's those who order it or those who, knowing about it, fail to take steps to stop it. That means higher-ups."

Ironically, the efforts by Gonzales and Bush to avoid prosecution under the 1996 War Crimes Act may lead to their downfall. By trying to redefine what "torture" is, Gonzales has created a document trail that will come back to haunt him. The rest of the civilized world still has the same definition of torture that all sane people have.

A little more ominous for Bush is the fact that the 1996 Act has no statute of limitations and has a death penalty if prisoners die while being tortured, which applies all the way up the chain of command. For those who didn't follow the more grisly details of the Abu Ghraib scandal, a 2004 news article mentions 37 cases of prisoners dying while in US custody. Several of those deaths appear to have legitimate explanations, but the rest don't. One torture death involves "An Iraqi whose corpse was photographed with grinning U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib (and who) died under CIA interrogation while suspended by his wrists... The prisoner died in a position known as 'Palestinian hanging.' "

Another notorious death involved an Iraqi general. One news story reports "a former Iraqi general, Abid Hamad Mahawish.... died in western Iraq in November several days after being interviewed by C.I.A. personnel. His death occurred after other American interrogators from other agencies questioned him as well, United States officials said."

http://usa.altermedia.info/usa/1996_War_Crimes_Act_Bush.html

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22. If Dems win back the house & Senate? Bush may be impeached

rather then risking further deterioration of the world -- Gonazalez won't be so smug about doing his job by his personal boss!!

[Clara T]

27. Bush Must Be Impeached

Any Dem that isn't pressing for the impeachment of Bush-Cheney et al is part of the problem. It is way too late in the game for pussy footing and political fence straddling. Way too late.

WHAT THE HECK IS THIS STUFF?



The above image is a scan of a piece of Trinitite. This is desert sand that was underneath the explosion of the world's first Atomic bomb in New Mexico as part of project TRINITY, hence the name Trinitite. The heat from that blast melted the sand into a green glass, not unlike the Fulgurites that result when lightning hits sandy soil.

Now, imagine an entire nation looking like the above sample, melted into green glass. Buried in the green glass are the charred remains of the people of that nation. It's not an idle fantasy. The US spent $5 trillion dollars (1950s dollars) building a nuclear deterrent capability that can actually do that; melt any nation and it's people into a giant slab of green glass. The USSR knew it, the world knows it, Saddam knew it. The government of Iran knows it.

Even if Iraq had possessed weapons of mass destruction (which we now know they did not), and even if Iraq had the long range ICBMs to reach across the Atlantic with (which we know they did not), Iraq would still not have been a threat to the US because any attack with a weapon of mass destruction would be national suicide.

Those that insist that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were a threat that justified invasion are in essence claiming that the US Government took $5 trillion of your money (over $17,000 from each of you alive today) in a gigantic swindle, because the $5 trillion nuclear deterrent isn't a deterrent after all, that it doesn't work, that nobody is really afraid of it, because they all know it was just a hoax to soak the American taxpayer for another several thousand dollars. Was it all a hoax, Mr. Bush? Did the American people foot a $5 trillion bill in 1950s dollars for a deterrent system that isn't really a deterrent?

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/trinitite.html



This man is insane, truly pathological. AND has his fingers on the button. He MUST be removed along with the rest of the neoconsters.

[Clara T]

29. Memo Extracts

Memo extracts

President Bush to Tony Blair: "The US was thinking of flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours. If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach"

Bush: "It was also possible that a defector could be brought out who would give a public presentation about Saddam's WMD, and there was also a small possibility that Saddam would be assassinated."

Blair: "A second Security Council Resolution resolution would provide an insurance policy against the unexpected and international cover, including with the Arabs."

Bush: "The US would put its full weight behind efforts to get another resolution and would 'twist arms' and 'even threaten'. But he had to say that if ultimately we failed, military action would follow anyway.''

Blair responds that he is: "solidly with the President and ready to do whatever it took to disarm Saddam."

Bush told Blair he: "thought it unlikely that there would be internecine warfare between the different religious and ethnic groups."


http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WMDlies.html

[Clara T]

30. Bush Lied

President's Radio Address

The Iraqi regime has actively and secretly attempted to obtain equipment needed to produce chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Firsthand witnesses have informed us that Iraq has at least seven mobile factories for the production of biological agents -- equipment mounted on trucks and rails to evade discovery.

The Iraqi regime has acquired and tested the means to deliver weapons of mass destruction. It has never accounted for thousands of bombs and shells capable of delivering chemical weapons. It is actively pursuing components for prohibited ballistic missiles. And we have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have.

One of the greatest dangers we face is that weapons of mass destruction might be passed to terrorists who would not hesitate to use those weapons. Saddam Hussein has longstanding, direct and continuing ties to terrorist networks. Senior members of Iraqi intelligence and al Qaeda have met at least eight times since the early 1990s. Iraq has sent bomb-making and document forgery experts to work with al Qaeda. Iraq has also provided al Qaeda with chemical and biological weapons training. And an al Qaeda operative was sent to Iraq several times in the late 1990s for help in acquiring poisons and gases.

We also know that Iraq is harboring a terrorist network headed by a senior al Qaeda terrorist planner. This network runs a poison and explosive training camp in northeast Iraq, and many of its leaders are known to be in Baghdad.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030208.html