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Tuesday, March 11, 2003 |
QUOTE OF THE DAY
The political costs we're going to be paying for this, whether in Turkey or in Pakistan, probably in much of the Middle East, already in a great deal of Europe, throughout the world in fact, are going to be so high that, unless there is an imminent threat -- I repeat the word "imminent," which we're not using actually -- I think we can afford to let this process go forward.... And how we conduct this problem, how we deal with it is essential to the effective exercise of America's global leadership. We are literally undercutting it right now.
- - Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
RHINO HERE:
Usually I'm a pretty positive fellow. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt. I think it comes from a place of truly believing that most people are nice folks and really do want the best for all their relations and friends. But they say one rotten banana spoils the bunch. In my opinion, shrub is that dark slimy banana that's messing things up for the bunch. Why? You say? Cause the man lies, pure & simple.
But can we blame him? After all his papa must have been lying to shrub most of the time he was growing up, papa being a spy and all, lying was just an occupational necessity. Nowadays shrub has all he can muster just to get his words out right. Seems there's enough blame to go around to all the chicken-haws writing shrubs lines.
Today I offer 2 well researched presentations of the lies of shrub & company, one list of details concerning the myths on the case for war on Iraq, and then an article reporting that Papa Bush is telling the young shrub he should reconsider turning his back on the U.N.
Then comes an interesting theory brought by a documentary film maker who claims that shrub is pulling a Peter Popoff, meaning he's getting lines fed to him via a small speaker embedded in his ear. Far fetched you say? You be the judge next speech. Lastly THE BOTTOM LINE is an informative quiz;
"War on Iraq IQ Test - Do you know enough to justify going to war with Iraq?"
Happy Tuesday!
Bush Lies - The BushWatch Collection
BushWatch writes, "Bush lies so often and in so many different ways that I've never had the patience to keep a list of them. However, when I write something and include the generalization that Bush lies, some readers will write in and say, 'Oh, yeh? What did he lie about? I don't believe it.' What follows is an informal listing of just some of the lies he typically tells, starting from 2/01. Now, of course, we all know that Gore lies, Lott lies, Cheney lies, etc. But the difference between those liars and Bush is the Resident tells us that he is telling the truth when he is lying. Hence, he will tell us what he is going to do, like get his proposed tax cut from the surplus, then try to get his proposed tax cut from military and medicare funds, instead. Or, once he has actually begun a program, tell us lies about how or why the program has begun. Or tell a closed-door Dem meeting something and then swear up and down the next day that he didn't say it... Or, or...you get the idea."
http://www.bushwatch.net/bushlies.htm
Caught on Film: The Bush Credibility Gap
Democrats on the U.S. House Appropriations Committee have produced a web page titled:
"Caught on Film: The Bush Credibility Gap," which contrasts statements by George W. Bush at various photo ops around the country with his actual deeds.
http://www.house.gov/appropriations_democrats/caughtonfilm.htm
13 MYTHS ABOUT THE CASE FOR WAR IN IRAQ CONTENTS:
Myth 1: Removing Saddam Will Punish 9/11 Perpetrators
Myth 2: Powell Presented Strong Evidence at UN
Myth 3: Saddam May Soon Threaten US
Myth 4: Experts 'Discover' Prohibited Missile
Myth 5: Bin Laden Tape Proves Iraq Connection
Myth 6: Iraq Still Has Large Nuclear Program
Myth 7: If US Pulls Out Now, It Looks Bad
Myth 8: A Cheap, Easy War
Myth 9: Wartime Press is Free and Unbiased
Myth 10: Goal is to Free Iraqis, Not to Grab Oil
Myth 11: War Solves the Energy Crisis
Myth 12: UN Commitments Don't Really Matter
Myth 13: Protesting a War is Unpatriotic
Papa Bush Publicly Warns Dubya About Going Against World Opinion!
Just when we thought things couldn't get any weirder... According to The Times Online, George Herbert Walker Bush publicly warned his resident son in a speech at Tufts University, that "hopes of peace in the Middle East would be ruined if a war with Iraq were not backed by international unity" In what the Times termed an "ominous warning for his son," Sr said that he would have been able to achieve nothing if he had jeopardised future relations by ignoring the UN!
Reading is believing! Does George Dubya's father know that his son is completely out of control??? A must read!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-605441,00.html
Bush The Articulate - Hearing Voices
By Jay Weidner, 3/09/03
... I watched as he immediately corrected a word that he had just mis-spoken. I have encountered this before during film shoots using the earpiece prompt. This is done because the speaker has gone slightly ahead of the earpiece prompt. He makes the mistake and then hears the correct word in his ear. He then corrects himself and goes on like nothing happened.
Watch the next speech. Notice how he pauses between sentences. His eyes veer robotically left and right. He then begins his next sentence. It is clear to me that these pauses are placed into the speeches on purpose so that the earpiece voice prompter does not get too far ahead of the President. Our beloved President has become an articulate spokesman for the ruinous destruction of our country. Isn't showbiz grand?
THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IS POSTED AT:
http://www.rense.com/general35/voices.htm
THE BOTTOM LINE today is an informative quiz created by Charles Sheketoff, Executive Director of the Oregon Center for Public Policy in Silverton, Oregon, a non-profit research institute that uses research and analysis to advance policies and practices that improve the economic and social prospects of low- and moderate income Oregonians, the majority of Oregonians.
http://www.ocpp.org/
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Take the War on Iraq IQ Test
Do you know enough to justify going to war with Iraq?
1. Q: What percentage of the world's population does the U.S. have? A: 6%
2. Q: What percentage of the world's wealth does the U.S. have? A: 50%
3. Q: Which country has the largest oil reserves? A: Saudi Arabia
4. Q: Which country has the second largest oil reserves? A: Iraq
5. Q: How much is spent on military budgets a year worldwide? A: $900+ billion
6. Q: How much of this is spent by the U.S.? A:50%
7. Q: What percent of US military spending would ensure the essentials of life to everyone in the world, according the the UN? A: 10% (that's about$40 billion, the amount of funding initially requested to fund our retaliatory attack on Afghanistan).
8. Q: How many people have died in wars since World War II? A: 86 million
9. Q: How long has Iraq had chemical and biological weapons? A: Since the early 1980's.
10. Q: Did Iraq develop these chemical & biological weapons on their own? A: No, the materials and technology were supplied by the US government, along with Britain and private corporations.
11. Q: Did the US government condemn the Iraqi use of gas warfare against Iran? A: No
12. Q: How many people did Saddam Hussein kill using gas in the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988? A: 5,000
13. Q: How many western countries condemned this action at the time? A:0
14. Q: How many gallons of agent Orange did America use in Vietnam? A: 17million.
15. Q: Are there any proven links between Iraq and September 11th terrorist attack? A: No
16. Q: What is the estimated number of civilian casualties in the Gulf War? A: 35,000
17. Q: How many casualties did the Iraqi military inflict on the western forces during the Gulf War ? A: 0
18. Q: How many retreating Iraqi soldiers were buried alive by U.S. tanks with ploughs mounted on the front? A: 6,000
19. Q: How many tons of depleted uranium were left in Iraq and Kuwait after the Gulf War? A: 40 tons
20. Q: What according to the UN was the increase in cancer rates in Iraq between 1991 and 1994? A: 700%
21. Q: How much of Iraq's military capacity did America claim it had destroyed in 1991? A: 80%
22. Q: Is there any proof that Iraq plans to use its weapons for anything other than deterrence and self defense? A: No
23. Q: Does Iraq present more of a threat to world peace now than 10 years ago? A: No
24. Q: How many civilian deaths has the Pentagon predicted in the event of an attack on Iraq in 2002/3? A: 10,000
25. Q: What percentage of these will be children? A:Over 50%
26. Q: How many years has the U.S. engaged in air strikes on Iraq? A: 11years
27. Q: Was the U.S and the UK at war with Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999? A: No
28. Q: How many pounds of explosives were dropped on Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999? A: 20 million
29. Q: How many years ago was UN Resolution 661 introduced, imposing strict sanctions on Iraq's imports and exports? A: 12 years
30. Q: What was the child death rate in Iraq in 1989 (per 1,000 births)? A: 38
31. Q: What was the estimated child death rate in Iraq in 1999 (per 1,000 births)? A: 131 (that's an increase of345%)
32. Q: How many Iraqis are estimated to have died by October 1999 as a result of UN sanctions? A: 1.5 million
33. Q: How many Iraqi children are estimated to have died due to sanctions since 1997? A: 750,000
34. Q: Did Saddam order the inspectors out of Iraq? A:No
35. Q: How many inspections were there in November and December 1998? A:300
36. Q: How many of these inspections had problems? A:5
37. Q: Were the weapons inspectors allowed entry to the Ba'ath Party HQ? A: Yes
38. Q: Who said that by December 1998, "Iraq had in fact, been disarmed to a level unprecedented in modern history." A: Scott Ritter, UNSCOM chief.
39. Q: In 1998 how much of Iraq's post 1991 capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction did the UN weapons inspectors claim to have discovered and dismantled? A: 90%
40. Q: Is Iraq willing to allow the weapons inspectors back in? A:Yes
41. Q: How many UN resolutions did Israel violate by 1992? A: Over65
42. Q: How many UN resolutions on Israel did America veto between 1972 and 1990? A: 30+
43. Q: How many countries are known to have nuclear weapons? A: 8
44. Q:How many nuclear warheads has Iraq got? A: 0
45. Q: How many nuclear warheads has US got? A: over 10,000
46. Q: Which is the only country to use nuclear weapons? A: the US
47. Q: How many nuclear warheads does Israel have? A: Over 400
48. Q: Who said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"? A: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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