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Tuesday, July 15, 2003 |
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The decision to go ahead with the operation was mine. The buck stops here with me."
- - John Poindexter (referring to the Iran Contra Affair)
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_03.htm
KNOW YOUR HISTORY - JULY 15th
1987 -- John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings. Navy Vice Admiral John M. Poindexter was appointed as President Reagan's national security adviser on December 4, 1985. Poindexter's White House career ended November 25, 1986, when he was forced to resign in the wake of the public disclosure of the Iran/contra diversion; the illegal selling of HAWK missiles to Iran & using the profits to fund the right wing Contras to overthrow the government of Nicaragua. Poindexter was tried & convicted in April 1990 of 5 felonies. The shrub gang has recently enlisted him to run their "Total Awareness Program."
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,70992,00.html
RHINO HERE:
Interesting to watch the Republican apologists scrambling to rationalize their president select's now well publicized lies in his state of the union message. How do Rush & his ilk sleep, having ranted & raved about "what shall we tell the children of America about truth when the president lies?" On Monday Rush could be heard saying, "He didn't lie. All he said was that the Brits had intelligence saying..." blah blah blah!
Hey, Rush! If you're reading this, while you're rationalizing for shrub & connie & colin et al, make sure you cover all the lies they've been telling, if you can keep up with them. That's the problem with lying. You have to keep telling more & more lies to protect the first lie until you've told so many you can't keep track of them all. Rhino say, "The truth is so much easier to remember!"
20 LIES ABOUT THE WAR
Falsehoods ranging from exaggeration to plain untruth were used to make the case for war. More lies are being used in the aftermath.
By Glen Rangwala and Raymond Whitaker, The UK Independent, 7/13/03
1 Iraq was responsible for the 11 September attacks
2 Iraq and al-Qa'ida were working together
3 Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa for a "reconstituted" nuclear weapons programme
4 Iraq was trying to import aluminium tubes to develop nuclear weapons
5 Iraq still had vast stocks of chemical and biological weapons from the first Gulf War
6 Iraq retained up to 20 missiles which could carry chemical or biological warheads, with a range which would threaten British forces in Cyprus
7 Saddam Hussein had the wherewithal to develop smallpox
8 US and British claims were supported by the inspectors
9 Previous weapons inspections had failed
10 Iraq was obstructing the inspectors
11 Iraq could deploy its weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes
12 The "dodgy dossier".
13 War would be easy
14 Umm Qasr
15 Basra rebellion
16 The "rescue" of Private Jessica Lynch
17 Troops would face chemical and biological weapons
18 Interrogation of scientists would yield the location of WMD
19 Iraq's oil money would go to Iraqis
20 WMD were found
READ DETAILS ON EACH LIE AT:
http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=424008&;host=3&dir=62
Below is a clearly written essay from the nation's oldest newspaper; The New Hampshire Gazette in which the writer, William Marvel, prophetically states: "Republican damage control will now consist of finding a scapegoat. He will have to be someone like Oliver North, who is willing to take the fall for his superiors in return for certain considerations." Mr. Marvel, meet Mr. Tenet. (Here's a link to Tenet's damage control)
STATEMENT BY GEORGE J. TENET, DIRECTOR OF C>I>A>, 7/11/03
http://www.odci.gov/cia/public_affairs/press_release/2003/pr07112003.html
The Family Value of Lying
by William Marvel. The New Hampshire Gazette, 6/20/03
More than anything else, the growing scandal over Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction highlights the profound hypocrisy that seems to be required of the Republican faithful these days. In order to continue supporting George Bush and his Wolfowitz pack of co-conspirators, Republican Party animals must ignore the furor they raised, only five years ago, over a president who (like many Republican and Democratic presidents before him) had engaged in an extramarital affair. Those who impeached Bill Clinton for disguising a private transgression now expect the rest of us to forgive George Bush for lying to the entire world about matters of grave national and international importance.
As the self-professed "family values" president, George Bush ought to be able to tell me how I should explain his dishonesty to my stepson, who has begun to demonstrate a willingness to sneak and lie as a means of achieving his desired goals in the face of parental refusal. Most teenagers encounter such temptations, and if they are not discovered in time and dealt with expeditiously they can become habitual, evidently even into adulthood. It becomes more difficult to illustrate the evils of such a habit, however, when the man who considers himself President of the United States so casually and continually deceives the American public and still wins his original aims, even after his lies have been revealed.
Republican damage control will now consist of finding a scapegoat. He will have to be someone like Oliver North, who is willing to take the fall for his superiors in return for certain considerations. ...
TO READ IT ALL, CLICK THE LINK & SCROLL DOWN:
http://www.nhgazette.com/
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National House of Waffles
By MAUREEN DOWD, NY Times, 7/13/03
More and more, with Bush administration pronouncements about the Iraq war, it depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is. W. built his political identity on the idea that he was not Bill Clinton. He didn't parse words or prevaricate. He was the Texas straight shooter. So why is he now presiding over a completely Clintonian environment, turning the White House into a Waffle House, where truth is camouflaged by word games and responsibility is obscured by shell games?
The president and Condi Rice can shuffle the shells and blame George Tenet, but it smells of mendacity. Mr. Clinton indulged in casuistry to hide personal weakness. The Bush team indulges in casuistry to perpetuate its image of political steel. Dissembling over peccadillos is pathetic. Dissembling over pre-emptive strikes is pathological, given over 200 Americans dead and 1,000 wounded in Iraq, and untold numbers of dead Iraqis. Our troops are in "a shooting gallery," as Teddy Kennedy put it, and our spy agencies warn that we are on the cusp of a new round of attacks by Saddam snipers.
Why does it always come to this in Washington? The people who ascend to power on the promise of doing things differently end up making the same unforced errors their predecessors did. Out of office, the Bush crowd mocked the Clinton propensity for stonewalling; in office, they have stonewalled the 9/11 families on the events that preceded the attacks, and the American public on how and why they maneuvered the nation into the Iraqi war...."
READ IT ALL AT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/opinion/13DOWD.html?th
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