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Wednesday, June 25, 2003 |
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Maybe we should not have humored them when they asked to live on reservations. Maybe we should have said, No, come join us. Be citizens along with the rest of us."
- - Ronald Reagan (in Moscow, when a student asked about US treatment of American Indians)
JUNE 24th IN HISTORY:
1876 -- Lakota, Cheyenne & Arapahoe tribes defeat U.S. Army at Little Big Horn, Montana. Resisting US government efforts to herd them onto "reservations" (internment camps), they liquidated General George Armstrong Custer & wiped out his troops. Euphemistically called "Custer's Last Stand".
http://www.ibiscom.com/custer.htm
1967 -- The first global telecast is made this day; Beatles on TV introduce "All You Need Is Love".
1968 -- Poor People's Campaign March, 50,000 strong, from Georgia to Washington D.C., concludes.
RHINO HERE:
No surprise to anyone paying attention that the shrub gang lies, & has no reservation about doing so to accomplish goals as small as trashing a critic, or as large as starting a war.
Today we surf the "shrub fib files".
First case - the destruction of Cynthia McKinney' s career by the spreading of lies that she publicly said shrub knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance. In a recent article, Greg Palast, author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" reports there is no record of her having made such a statement; & that the real motivation behind the smear campaign was her calling for investigations into:
- - the removal of 90,000 citizens (about half of them African-American) from the Florida voter rolls;
- - the Canadian Barick Company, for whom Papa Bush worked as advisor & lobbyist , for its behind-the-scenes involvement & financing of both sides of the Congo civil war where it owns gold mines;
- - Bush administration orders to the FBI & military intelligence to back off investigating the Saudis, the Bin Laden family & the World Assembly of Muslim youth, & connections to the Saudi royal family.
The Screwing of Cynthia McKinney
By Greg Palast, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16172
General Wesley Clark was Supreme NATO Commander during the Balkans actions. He stepped down from that position having had undisclosed disagreements with the shrub gang. Weekend before last, he dropped a proverbial bombshell on "NBC's Meet The Press" about the shrubies wanting him to lie about Saddam's involvement with the WTO attacks. Many people are lauding his outspoken courage and urging him to run for President.
Media Silent on Clark's 9/11 Comments:
Gen. says White House pushed Saddam link without evidence
FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) 6/21/03
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/clark-iraq.html
CIA director Stansfield Turner accuses the shrub gang of "overstretching the facts" on Iraqi WMD's
Ex-CIA Director Says Bush Administration Stretched Facts on Iraq
USA Today, 6/17/03
... "Turner's broadside adds the retired admiral's name to a list of former intelligence professionals concerned that the CIA and its intelligence reports were manipulated to justify the war... Turner suggested [CIA Director George] Tenet should tread cautiously because CIA directors 'can be made the fall guy' by administrations when policy judgments based on intelligence go wrong."...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-06-17-turner-usat_x.htm
Senior Democrat on the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin , accuses CIA of deliberately misleading UN inspectors to help clear the decks for war on Iraq.
Sen. Carl Levin: CIA Deliberately Misled UN Arms Inspectors
UK Independent
"...Mr Levin says that when the UN team under Hans Blix returned to Iraq last autumn, the CIA - contrary to what it claimed at the time - did not pass on its full list of 150 high or medium priority suspected weapons sites. This, in turn, enabled the US government to shut down the inspections quickly, opening the path for military action..."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=416520
Dennis Kucinich leads Congressional Dems in a subpoena to the president
Will Congressional Republicans Abet Bush's WMD Lies?
"A group of 36 House members led by Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) are preparing to submit a resolution of inquiry to the International Relations Committee requesting "documents or other materials in the President's [sic] possession that provide specific evidence" in 10 instances where members of the Bush regime claimed that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. .. It requires a majority vote both in the committee and on the House floor. Unfortunately, the resolution will probably be only a symbolic gesture. The GOP majority is expected to quash the resolution; they've already demonstrated numerous times that they're more interested in political domination than in the truth. But this resolution will force them to go on the record as aiding and abetting Bush's lies..."
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0325/mondo2.php
So all these revelations about the shrub gang lies seem to beg some questions. Today's RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE by Ira Chernus points toward some answers. It's a great read. Chernus is a
Professor Of Religious Studies at University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Outrage At Administration Lying Misses A Crucial Point
by Ira Chernus, CommonDreams.org, 6/10/03
Wow. The government knew all along there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. And they used that as an excuse to take us to war anyway. My generation, raised on the film Casablanca, would say "I'm shocked!-shocked!-George W., to discover lying going on in your administration." A younger generation would say, "Well, duh!!!" I mean, what did anyone expect? A government that would tell us only the truth?
The truth, revealed so unexpectedly in the mainstream press, also reveals a profound dilemma for the left. We run around excitedly exclaiming, "We told you so!" Then we expect to see the Bush war machine at least crippled, if not brought down entirely. When the Bushies seem to sail along virtually unscathed, we don't get it. We are outraged that they lied, and doubly outraged that so few Americans seem to care.
In our perplexed outrage, we are missing a crucial point. While we quite rightly try to digest mountains of facts that contain the truth, we also need to consider the peculiar fate of facts in this postmodern world. While we quite rightly drink in the words of a Noam Chomsky or a Howard Zinn (and we should be immensely thankful for them), we would do well to give equal time to a Fredric Jameson...
...Our outrage at the Bush administration's lies is an attack upon a symptom. Symptomatic relief is always welcome. But it doesn't make sense to deal with symptoms and ignore the underlying disease. If you want to cure the disease, you first have to understand it. A place to start is through Jameson's brilliant analysis. You can read FREDRIC JAMESON'S INTERPRETATION OF POSTMODERNISM at:
Jameson's Postmodernism
READ THIS ENTIRE ARTICLE AT:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0610-02.htm
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