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Thursday, March 31, 2005 |
"Mr. President:
With this letter, we transmit the report of the Commission on the Intelligence
Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. Our
unanimous report is based on a lengthy investigation, during which we interviewed
hundreds of experts from inside and outside the Intelligence Community and reviewed thousands of documents. Our report offers 74 recommendations for improving the U.S. Intelligence Community (all but a few of which we believe can be implemented without statutory change). But among these recommendations a few points merit special emphasis.
We conclude that the Intelligence Community was dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. This was a major intelligence failure. Its principal causes were the Intelligence Community's inability to collect good information about Iraq's WMD programs, serious errors in analyzing what information it could gather, and a failure to make clear just how much of its analysis was based on assumptions, rather than good evidence. On a matter of this importance, we simply cannot afford failures of this magnitude."
In fact, it was not a failure but a deliberate attempt to cheat the American people, the Congress and the world. This report is a whitewash. Those responsible for this catastrophe are the complete Bush administration and the Pentagon.
Download the report.
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Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: "A landmark study released today reveals that approximately 60 percent of the ecosystem services that support life on Earth - such as fresh water, capture fisheries, air and water regulation, and the regulation of regional climate, natural hazards and pests - are being degraded or used unsustainably. Scientists warn that the harmful consequences of this degradation could grow significantly worse in the next 50 years."
Neocons as parasites: "The neocons believe in what they think is a noble truth, power of the few, the select few. These are godless people who want power, nothing more. They do not have a country or an allegiance, they have an agenda. These people might hold American passports, but they are not Americans because they do not believe in the Constitution. They believe in the power of the few, not a government for or by the people. They are a few and their agenda is global."
AlterNet: "Tony Johnson died in a gun battle near Baghdad International Airport. But Johnson was not a soldier; he was a truck driver for Halliburton. His family claims he died because the company decided to endanger his life in its pursuit of profit."
Reuters: "The Carlyle Group has completed the world's largest corporate buyout capital-raising at $10 billion to finance mega-sized deals on both sides of the Atlantic, the private equity firm said on Tuesday."
Watch the video about Carlyle (original site).
SMH: "Australians are as just as concerned about United States foreign policy as Islamic extremism and regard the US as more dangerous than a rising China, according to a new poll."
The world has reason for concern, because the neocons see war and torture as a legal instrument to increase their power.
Guardian: "The highest-ranking US general in Iraq authorised the use of interrogation techniques that included sleep manipulation, stress positions and the use of dogs to 'exploit Arab fears' of them, it emerged today."
So gen. Sanchez, next to being a war criminal, is also clearly guilty of perjury.
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