Hear no evil, read no evil, speak drivel

[JoFerret]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1192218,00.html

Bush's press conference shows just how ill-informed he is about Iraq

Sidney Blumenthal
Thursday April 15, 2004
The Guardian

On April 21 1961, President Kennedy held a press conference to answer questions on the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles that he had approved. "There's an old saying," he said, "that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan ... I am the responsible officer of the government and that is quite obvious."
On Wednesday, President Bush held only his third press conference and was asked three times whether he accepted responsibility for failing to act on warning before September 11. "I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet," he said. "I just haven't - you just put me under the spot here and maybe I'm not quick - as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one."

Bush's press conference was the culmination of his recent efforts to staunch the political wounds of his bleeding polls since the 9/11 commission began public hearings and violence spiralled in Iraq. Bush had tried to divert blame by declaring that the August 6 memo he was forced to declassify at the commission's insistence contained no "actionable intelligence", even though it specifically mentioned the World Trade Centre and Washington as targets.

Bush, in fact, does not read his President's Daily Briefs, but has them orally summarised every morning by the CIA director, George Tenet. President Clinton, by contrast, read them closely and alone, preventing any aides from interpreting what he wanted to know first-hand. He extensively marked up his PDBs, demanding action on this or that, which is almost certainly the likely reason the Bush administration withheld his memoranda from the 9/11 commission.

"I know he doesn't read," one former Bush national security council staffer told me. Several other former NSC staffers corroborated this. ....

The ultimate revelation was Bush's vision of a divinely inspired apocalyptic struggle in which he is the leader of a crusade bringing the Lord's "gift." "I also have this belief, strong belief that freedom is not this country's gift to the world. .... But religious war is not part of official US military doctrine.
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[GCP]

1. Link doesn't work

I'd love to read this if you could fix it.

[Wabbajack]

2. Here you go

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1192218,00.html

[Maeve]

3. Take out everything after "html"

That works.

[Merlin]

4. Isn't Bush's fundamentalism the way to beat him cleanly ?

As a fundamentalist, he must believe in the end of days struggle, ala Le Haye. That explains his abandonment of any real effort to bring peace to the I/P conflict. If he truly believes the end of days are at hand, then war in the ME is something to look forward to because it hastens the "Rapture". Shouldn't that scare the hell out of even the average Republican ?

(I know the fact that he doesn't read important documents should really scare them, but they don't either, so it's probably comforting to them.)

[bobthedrummer]

5. The voice inside his head isn't God, it's his handlers using Voice to

Skull technology that's been available since 1974. That explains his quip about waiting for something to pop into his head, communication breakdown-and the horrible time lag laden delivery!

The same company that holds US Patents on the voice inside the head tech was awarded DoD contracts to provide the new sonic weapons being used in Iraq, American Technology Corp. of San Diego.

The growing awareness of mind invasive technology in the mental health profession has sparked debate over diagnostic criteria for psychosis, since voices have been projected into minds since at least 1974 and so many reports involve government involvement.

On the Need for New Criteria of Diagnosis of Psychosis in the Light of Mind Invasive Technology by Carole Smith
http://www.adacomp.net/~mcherney/NewCrit-JPSS-CS2.htm

[bobthedrummer]

7. Mind control was referenced in the original language of HR2977

but the portion of language dealing with "exotic weapons" disappeared from HR3616, the revision that was passed as The Space Preservation Act of 2002. Dennis Kucinich introduced the proposed Act in 2001.
http://www.raven1.net/govptron.htm

In 2002, an investigative journalist won a court decision allowing him access to CIA operational files on mind control research, who's driving force was former Director Richard McGarrah Helms-Helms last days at CIA were spent destroying all known documents of MKULTRA, Helms missed some though.
http://www.rcfp.org/news/2002/0819kellyv.html

This isn't tinfoil at all anymore. It's important. Mind control is real-there are reputable activists for survivors
http://www.mindjustice.org/

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Excellent article! Points out the main differences between Clinton & Bush

"President Clinton, by contrast, read them closely and alone, preventing any aides from interpreting what he wanted to know first-hand. He extensively marked up his PDBs, demanding action on this or that, which is almost certainly the likely reason the Bush administration withheld his memoranda from the 9/11 commission.

"I know he doesn't read," one former Bush national security council staffer told me. Several other former NSC staffers corroborated this."

[bobthedrummer]

8. DU MKULTRA thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=636309

[mainer]

9. Bush DOESN'T READ!??

Best part of the article:



"Bush, in fact, does not read his President's Daily Briefs, but has them orally summarised every morning by the CIA director, George Tenet. President Clinton, by contrast, read them closely and alone, preventing any aides from interpreting what he wanted to know first-hand. He extensively marked up his PDBs, demanding action on this or that, which is almost certainly the likely reason the Bush administration withheld his memoranda from the 9/11 commission.

"I know he doesn't read," one former Bush national security council staffer told me. Several other former NSC staffers corroborated this. It seems highly unlikely that he read the national intelligence estimate on WMD before the Iraq war that consigned contrary evidence and caveats that undermined the case to footnotes and fine print. Nor is there any evidence that he read the state department's 17-volume report, The Future of Iraq, warning of nearly all the postwar pitfalls, that was shelved by the neocons in the Pentagon and Vice-President Cheney's office."

[bobthedrummer]

10. Apparently not.

[Miss Authoritiva]

11. Poor Bush: Forced into the presidency against his personal will

I don't understand why Bush ever sought the presidency in the first place. He seemed happiest when he was sitting in the owners' box at the Rangers games. This was probably the perfect job for him -- smile, wave, sign autographs.

If you hate to read, have trouble with public speaking and simple discourse, are averse to details, get bad headaches when you try to think things through, and have this fear that people are trying to trick you, why run for any public office?

Oh, I forgot: God made him do it. But God gave him a good benefits package, including a generous number of vacation days.

[yellowcanine]

12. JFK was "quicker on his feet" than * but when one is willing to take

responsibility rather than point fingers and make excuses it is easier to think of something to say. So maybe JFK had an unfair advantage over *, poor baby.

[teryang]

13. This is exactly how he was during the campaign

Did anybody expect anything different? I thought the death toll would be higher by now.