American History 101: G. W. Bush, 1st Traitor President

[understandinglife]

Mr Bush, tonight the 16th day of July, 2005, I want you to know that I have begun the chapter in American History that will accurately describe you and what you did to America and humanity.

The headings of some of the sections of that chapter include:

Bush, The Traitor President

Bush, The Torture President

Bush, The War Criminal President

Bush, The non-President President

Bush, The Enemy of the Environment President

Bush, The anti-Science President

I'm sure, during your extended prison sentence, you will welcome a visitor and I'll be there, attempting to determine if you have any ability, what so ever, to tell the truth or to say "I apologize" - just once.

By the way, Mr Bush, a true patriot was memorialized today. His name is Andy Stephenson. He did more good with one smile than you have ever done in your entire life.

Just wanted to share that fact with you, Mr Bush.

Andy is dead. You still have a life.

Why don't you do something worthwhile and honest - just once. For starters, halt the illegal occupation of Iraq.

http://www.peacecandy.com/gwbush/remindus
REMIND US

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists their cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[Octafish]

1. Please sign me up for the first available copy.

And, as an editor of the galley, don't forget the chapter on:

Bush, Election Thief.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Thanks for this.....

Nominated.

:hi:

[BamaLefty]

3. That Bleeding Flag

in the video was scary. Honestly, that and saddening.

[mod mom]

4. How about "terrorist proliferation" president? nt

[wli]

5. The Terrorist President

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Who ever thought

Bu$h would be such an overachiever?

[understandinglife]

7. Larry Johnson: A secret known, A cover blown

A SECRET KNOWN, A COVER BLOWN
Larry C. Johnson

July 17, 2005

The misinformation being spread in the media about the Plame affair is alarming and damaging to the long-term security interests of the United States. Republicans' talking points are trying to savage Joe Wilson and, by implication, his wife, Valerie Plame, as liars. That is the truly big lie.

Plame was an undercover operations officer until outed in the press by Robert Novak. Novak's column was not an isolated attack. It was in fact part of a coordinated, orchestrated smear that we now know includes at least Karl Rove.

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At the end of the day, Wilson was right. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. It was the Bush administration that pushed that lie, and because of that lie Americans are dying. Shame on those who continue to slander Joe Wilson while giving Bush and his pack of liars a pass. That's the true outrage.

More at the link:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5509192.html

Documenting Bu$h as traitor, is not going to be difficult. Just as documenting the other sections of this chapter in basic American history are not going to be difficult.

And, I intend to write it so that anyone old enough to read a Harry Potter book will grok the full scope of Bush the Traitor, Bush the War Criminal, Bush the .........



http://www.newsparkproductions.org


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Can someone help me source exactly where in the 10 Commandments authorization for mass murder, torture and deception reside.

[understandinglife]

9. WaPo, July 17 2005: "Karl Rove had a secret."

In Plame Leaks, Long Shadows

Rove Knew of CIA Agent, Husband's Role in Criticizing Bush

By Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen

Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 17, 2005; Page A01

Karl Rove had a secret.

In public, he was masterminding President Bush's reelection and brushing off suggestions he had played any part in an unfolding drama: the unmasking of CIA operative Valerie Plame. In private, the senior White House adviser was meeting, on five occasions, with federal prosecutors to tell what he knew about the matter.

The story he would tell prosecutors did not seem to square with the White House's denial that it had played any role in one of the most famous leaks since Watergate. Rove told prosecutors he had discussed Plame in passing with at least two reporters, including the columnist who eventually revealed her name and role in a secret mission that would raise questions about Bush's case for war against Iraq. At the same time, other White House officials were whispering about Plame, too.

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As for the Bush administration, the investigation has exposed how an administration that publicly deplores leaking has engaged aggressively in the practice to advance its goals.

More at the link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/16/AR2005071601364_3.html

It is valuable to have these types of articles as references prior to when Mr Fitzgerald issues his indictments.

They essentially document the final moments when Mr Bush could actually act like a President committed to National Security, and, even more importantly, to the truth.

Who knows, maybe sometime between when I finish typing this and those indictments, Bu$h will do what Nixon never had the courage to do - come before the American people (and the world) and tell the truth.

For the sake of humanity, I would be delighted if Bush could match his penchant for dress-up macho and actually display some bona fide courage.

Since I'm not delusional, I'm not holding my breath.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[hiley]

18. won't be holding my breath either...

July 15, 2005
Rove-gate: Who Leaked
to the Leakers?
This isn't about Karl Rove
by Justin Raimondo
What if Karl Rove isn't guilty of knowingly leaking Valerie Plame's name as a covert CIA agent involved in nuclear proliferation issues? What if Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, is correct when he says that he's been assured by prosecutors that his client is not a target of the ongoing investigation into Plame-gate? I'm going to swim against the tide, here, and against the expectations of my readers, by suggesting that this investigation isn't about Rove – and, furthermore, that Rove is a victim, in an important sense, someone who was used and abused by the real culprits. And who are these mysterious culprits? We'll get to that in a moment, but first some background…

snip---

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6677

"How does it become a man to behave toward the American government
today?
I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. " :

Henry David Thoreau

[hiley]

19. UL thank you for your careful and precise documentation..

I will need a copy as soon as finished..

July 13, 2005
Iraq: The Phony 'Withdrawal'
It's all about permanent bases –
and the next war
by Justin Raimondo
Last September, conservative columnist Robert Novak predicted the Bush administration would soon start withdrawing from Iraq:

"Inside the Bush administration policymaking apparatus, there is strong feeling that U.S. troops must leave Iraq next year. This determination is not predicated on success in implanting Iraqi democracy and internal stability. Rather, the officials are saying: Ready or not, here we go."

Pat Buchanan, too – like Novak, a conservative opponent of this war – saw the battle for Fallujah and the siege of Najaf as turning points that signaled a U-turn on the road to Empire:

"The neoconservative dream was to create a pro-American, free-market democracy in Iraq to serve as a model and catalyst for Arab peoples and convert Iraq into a base camp of American Empire, flanking Iran and Syria. It was to bring to power an Iraqi DeGaulle named Ahmed Chalabi, who would recognize Israel, build a Mosul-to-Haifa oil pipeline and become the Simon Bolivar of the Middle East.

"That utopian vision has vanished. President Bush has rejoined the realist camp. We are not going deeper in. We are on the way out."

Now it appears their predictions have been confirmed. A leaked memo by British Defense Secretary John Reid detailing plans for an Anglo-American drawdown is making the rounds: the various news accounts, while stressing that the document is based on a number of contingencies, contain no strong denials from government officials on either side of the Atlantic. It's a matter not of if we begin withdrawing American troops, according to Pentagon officials, but when and how many.

snip---

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6639

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of
their thoughts."
--John Locke

[understandinglife]

26. Iraq: The Phony 'Withdrawal' -- Precisely. We are going to expose ...

... their colonial, air force base, real plan, now.

That is why folk need to focus on how expansive the development of bases like Tallil has been.

Bu$h and the criminal neoconsters could care less about anything other than oil and strategic positioning of killer drones and other aircraft.

The Iranians, among others, know that.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

38. Cooper names Rove and Libby on NBC's "Meet the Press"

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Cooper said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he spoke to Libby after first learning about Wilson's wife from Rove.

According to Cooper, Libby and Rove were among the government officials referred to in Cooper's subsequent Time story that said Wilson's wife was a CIA official and that she was involved in sending her husband on a trip to Africa.

Cooper's article was headlined, "A War on Wilson?"

On Sunday, Cooper also said there may have been other sources for that information. He declined to elaborate.

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From Top Cheney Aide Among Sources in CIA Story by Pete Yost

July 17, 2005

More at the link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050717/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_investigation;_ylt=AkZNT7UlzSza.nr..I4lik9I2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Mr Bush your house of treason is a monumental disgrace and disaster to America.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[merh]

40. Larry Johnson - Mr. Bush, Have You No Shame?

MR. BUSH, HAVE YOU NO SHAME?
BY
Larry C. Johnson

Whatever happened to the Texas cowboy who would fight to defend the honor of a woman being attacked by bullies? Whatever happened to the Commander-in-Chief responsible for protecting the lives of CIA officers? George Bush, unfortunately is missing in action. He is standing idly by while a legion of Republican operatives fan out on the airwaves in an unrelenting assault on the character and reputation of Valerie Wilson, a CIA intelligence officer. Valerie, who is still a full time employee of the CIA, is not allowed to defend herself against this attack.

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http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/07/mr_bush_have_yo.html

By the way, Mr Bush, a true patriot was memorialized today. His name is Andy Stephenson. He did more good with one smile than you have ever done in your entire life. :cry:

Thank you UL :hug: I proudly stand with you :patriot:

[understandinglife]

43. "Every American who cares about our national security ...."

I point the reader to one final piece of evidence in the Senate's own flawed report. The U.S. Ambassador to Niger at the time and the Deputy CINC of the European Command (General Fulford) both reached the same conclusion that Joe Wilson did -- THERE WAS NO SUBSTANCE TO THE CLAIM THAT IRAQ WAS TRYING TO BUY YELLOW CAKE FROM NIGER.

Every American who cares about our national security and the health of our intelligence services should be outraged over the current campaign being directed by the Republican National Committee to continue to smear the reputation and motives of Valerie Plame, an active employee of the CIA, who is not permitted to answer her critics and must sit quietly by while a group of bullies and cowards like Congressman Peter King, RNC Chairman Mehlman, Cliff May, and Victoria Toensing, among others, spread falsehoods about her status and actions. This is wrong and should not stand.

From MR. BUSH, HAVE YOU NO SHAME? by Larry C. Johnson

Link:
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/07/mr_bush_have_yo.html

Well, we have definitive evidence that Ambassador and Mrs Wilson are patriots.

We also have definitive evidence that Bush and Cheney are harboring traitors in the White House. What that makes Bush and Cheney is treasonous criminals of the first order.

We have the facts. My fellow Americans its time millions and millions of us demand the resignation of all these individuals and their prosecution before a court of their peers.

Thank you, merh, for bringing this important article to our attention and for all you did to help Andy.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[merh]

46. It is I that should be thanking you!

:hug:

:blush: Thanks! :hug:

[understandinglife]

44. Relevant research references on the "Niger Document" by Pat Lang

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Among the various items brought to mind by present history is the question of the Niger Document. This was the paper which turned up in the hands of Italian intelligence which purports to establish Saddam's drive to buy semi-refined Uranium ore in Niger. This document seems to be well established as a forgery planted on the Italians. Was the US government involved? I know of nothing at this point that would demonstrate that.

The newsmedia have worked on this story for years now and several have well documented the result. A major TV news magazine hired me last year to help them look for those who knew the truth in this matter. They succeeded. A national wire service did the same thing without my help and has the result. The same is true of two other national news publications.

It is very clear now that this document was forged by a couple of the shadowy ex-government characters who dwell in the environs of Washington and was planted in Italy on the basis of the personal contacts of one of them with the intention of influencing the debate over Iraq in this country. How do I know that? Well, I just do in the way that intelligence officers learn things. Good sources, multiple sources, first person accounts, probabilities, that is how one learns things. Could I swear to it in court? No. Intelligence conclusions are not things that can be sworn to in court.

From Niger Mischief by Pat Lang

Posted at No Quarter:
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/07/niger_mischief.html

July 17, 2005

Additional references on "Niger Mischief":
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2005/7/17/133522/208
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/17/135257/633

These materials will be referenced in American History 101: G. W. Bush, First Traitor President, but I thought it useful for everyone to have this reference available today as its own OP to ensure it is widely seen.

http://www.peacecandy.com/gwbush/remindus
REMIND US

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists their cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[hiley]

8. understandinglife

thank you no one could have said this better...
Solidarity in truth and bringing about peace and understanding,
Hiley

In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe.

We are as we behave -
with a very small margin of credit for
our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the
trouble.

~Geoffrey L. Rudd, The British Vegetarian, September/October
1962

[BamaBecky]

10. Excellent!

there was another long long list the other day of all of the scandles....that will be of great help as you write this chapter..

I just wish I could give you the link....can't find it now!

Bama

:applause:

[understandinglife]

12. Indeed, it is an outstanding compiliation by DUer proiowadem

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4110498

I certainly intend to cite it and acknowledge how amazing a resource it is.

Thank you for your supportive comments!


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[BamaBecky]

36. You UL...are the one to be thanked! You are amazing!...n/t

[Tim4319]

11. "Bush-Is-A-Dick Arnold" say it fast! similar to Benedict Arnold!

[EFerrari]

13. Andy's smile had more truth and life in it than the whole Cabal

could fake in two terms.

BRING THEM HOME, YOU CHICKEN HAWK PROFITEERS.

Or, we will, we promise you.

[tandot]

14. Well...but he didn't receive a blow job...didn't he???

Who cares about unjustified wars...dead American soldiers...dead Iraqi civilians...who cares they all died because of a bunch of lies???

He DIDN'T receive a blow job!!! That is all that matters! Treason? Who cares? No BLOW JOB!!! Bush could rape little children and all those Bush supporters would still defend him. Well...he didn't get a blow job...he just raped little children! So, Bush is not as bad as Clinton. Get it???

This is making me sick. To think that there are people out there supporting that bullshit...

FREEPERS...GO TO HELL...YOUR LEADER IS ALREADY WAITING FOR YOU...

[Time for change]

15. Have you considered a section on

Bush, the hypocrite President? Or would that be kind of duplicative of some of the other sections?

[understandinglife]

23. Yes, I think Bush's hypocrisy permeates every aspect of his life, not just

... his occupancy of the White House.

We know that from the early days - including his being AWOL while those whose parents were not white, rich and connected were being shredded and killed in Vietnam.

But, I agree, that hypocrisy, particularly regarding his affiliation with the dominionists and other fanatical religious sects needs to be woven into the accounting of his failed and criminal actions.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[EFerrari]

16. kick for sanity

[Independent_Liberal]

17. Kick!

[Swamp Rat]

20. AMEN!

Please do not forget the chapter on the Bush Crime Family (see Octafish above :) ). I have yet to see a high school history textbook that addresses the subject of 20th Century American robber barons, for example.

[understandinglife]

25. We will write that section, here, my friend. For sure.

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[hiley]

30. But of course, never forget HUGE chapter on the

Bush Crime Family.
and
The Children of the world too..


The Blood of Children Stains our Flag
A Readers Commentary
04/04/03
by M. A. Luttrell Sr.
The NetArchitect

How will they write the History of the Destruction of the Children of a foreign land?

snip--

I have seen the images of Innocents slain.
Images which the mainstream media refuse to publish for fear of an uprising so great in America, that the current American regime would fall in a day. Slain by faceless bombs with things written on them that even WE dare not repeat, right here in the Land of the Free, for fear of being thought a traitor, a madman, or politically incorrect. Children slaughtered by grown men and women in the name of "liberation"?
Will our children be so brave I wonder?
Will they defend Our Homes if we are invaded?
And will they defend our homes from an invasion from within our own country, by flak-jacketed, jackbooted thugs?


snip--

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2565.htm
http://www.ericblumrich.com/liberation.html

I posted this the other day but feel it fits here as well.
Hiley

[Swamp Rat]

34. I just watched the Eric Blumrich "Liberation" flash

Very good. Thank you. :hug:

[hiley]

37. Moving wasn't it..

Wish it was on the idiot box 24/7 !
Solidarity,
Hiley

[The Traveler]

21. Damn well said! (n/t)

[MisterP]

22. Bomb Torture Kill

[understandinglife]

24. Additional references and a statement of my intent.

The truth requires no spin: Amb. Wilson vindicated by the ISG
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4114608

Media Matters: Karl Rove Controversy Coverage
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4114466&mesg_id=4114466

Falls Church News-Press: "Karl Rove's Treachery"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4110278

Minneapolis Star Tribune: "... the indictment which should matter most."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4097268

Each of these, and numerous other posts here at DU contain extensive reference materials.

My plan is to use this thread, initially, to begin establishing the key references for each section. As those references are expanded, I will start additional threads. My goal is to then begin assembling text that most any child, age 8 or older, can grok.

Once a draft version is sufficiently complete for broader distribution, I will solicit support to accomplish that goal.

Should the eventual "chapter" be perceived of monetary value, I will find a way to "publish and sell" and all proceeds will be donated to DU in honor of Andy Stephenson.

I have no intention of ever accepting even one penny from this endeavor.


Your comments, information and guidance are welcome.


Peace.

www.missionaccomplished.us

[fooj]

27. Honor Andy by honoring TRUTH. You are a genius, UL!

Wow. You weren't kidding when you said that you'd be busy this weekend. UL, this is exactly what needs to be done and you, my friend, will record it with utmost detail and accuracy.

You know that you have made our friend Andy very happy. You are a champion for truth, UL. Andy admired you so. He would be speechless (a feat in itself) and so humbled by your recognition. I think that it is a beautiful way to say "Thank You"...

Whatever you need...you can count on me.

Peace.:patriot:

[understandinglife]

29. Thank you, fooj. Most appreciated and please plan on reading and ..

... offering edits and comments as we build this history lesson for the young -- as to attempt to instill the need to never repeat the horrors, the death, the hatred and the destruction of civilization that are the only legacy of Bu$h and the neoconsters.

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[Just Me]

41. A noble endeavor that will receive my full support.

:patriot:

[hootinholler]

45. So I started a new thread...

In which I also posted and outline and an invitation to help me enhance it.

There may be some relevant bits in it ;)

-Hoot

[understandinglife]

28. The World Speaks on Iraq

The World Speaks on Iraq

by Richard Falk

July 15, 2005

The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) held its final session in Istanbul June 24-27 - the last and most elaborate of sixteen condemnations of the Iraq War held all over the world in the last two years in Barcelona, Tokyo, Brussels, Seoul, New York, London, Mumbai and other cities. The Istanbul session used the verdicts and some of the testimony from the earlier sessions; this cumulative nature of the sessions built interest among peace activists, resulting in this final session having by far the strongest international flavor. This cumulative process, described by organizers as "the tribunal movement," is unique in history: Never before has a war aroused this level of protest on a global scale - first to prevent it (the huge February 15, 2003, demonstrations in eighty countries) and then to condemn its inception and conduct. The WTI is one expression of the opposition of global civil society to the Iraq War, an initiative best understood as a contribution to "moral globalization."

The WTI generated intense interest in Turkey, Europe, the Arab world and on the Internet but was ignored by the American mainstream media. Here in Istanbul, the WTI was treated for days as the number-one news story. There are several explanations for this, starting with near-unanimous opposition to the Iraq War in Turkey. More relevant were the vivid connections between Turkey and the war - physical proximity, an array of adverse effects and, more dramatic, a contradictory government posture: the refusal of the Turkish Parliament in 2003 to give in to US pressure to authorize an invasion of Iraq from Turkish territory, while the Prime Minister allowed the continuing use of the huge US air base at Incirlik for strategic operations during and after the war.

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After compromise and debate, the jury reached a unanimous verdict that combined findings with recommendations for action. Its core conclusion condemned the Iraq War as a war of aggression in violation of the UN Charter and international law, and determined that those responsible for planning and waging it should be held criminally responsible. George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Paul Wolfowitz were listed in the jury verdict by name. Less predictably, the UN was faulted for failing to fulfill its responsibilities to protect member states against aggression. One recommendation supported the rights of the Iraqi people to resist an illegal occupation, as authorized by international law. Further recommendations specified that US media be held responsible for contributing to the war of aggression, that American and British products associated with corporations doing business in Iraq - like Halliburton, British Petroleum, and Bechtel - be boycotted, and that peace movement activists around the world urge the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Iraq. The verdict was framed as a moral and political assessment of the Iraq War, and relied on the guidelines of international law to lend legal weight to its essentially political and moral conclusions. The jury's view of international law accords with a nearly unanimous consensus of international law experts outside the United States and Britain.

Arundhati Roy imparted the prevailing spirit of civic dedication and moral leadership in a press statement at the end of the final session. Her words summarize the experience for many of us: the WTI "places its faith in the consciences of millions of people across the world who do not wish to stand by and watch while the people of Iraq are being slaughtered, subjugated and humiliated."

More at the link:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071505G.shtml

And, from the Seattle PI

War in Iraq Violates International Law

by Tom Krebsbach

July 15, 2005

More than two grueling years have passed since US and coalition forces stormed into the sovereign nation of Iraq. Still there has been little discussion in this country about the legal standing of the invasion.

Perhaps that is because most Americans are reluctant to admit this inconvenient but certain fact: The United States/United Kingdom invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a war of aggression, a crime against the peace as defined by the Nuremberg Principles.

Various legal experts employed by the coalition governments will dispute this. But their arguments are incredibly weak and are not taken seriously by an overwhelming majority of scholars of international law in the world. These independent legal scholars, such people as Sean Murphy of George Washington University, Mary Ellen O'Connell of Ohio State University and Philippe Sands of University College London, all hold that the invasion was a blatant violation of international law.

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In an effort to regain our lost integrity, it is time we hold accountable, through impeachment and prosecution, the leaders who planned and launched this disastrous and criminal war.

More at the link:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/232622_ourplace15.html

Additional references on the WTI:

World Tribunal on Iraq: " ...in particular their reporter Judith Miller
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4028517

World Tribunal on Iraq: "We the people of conscience decided to stand up."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3962658

"Recommend that people throughout the world launch actions against US & UK"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3957704

Barnett: The War And Occupation In Iraq Are Illegal
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3885693

"War critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3931759

And, just to be clear that many folk inside the beltway are complicit and derelict in their Constitutional and ethical duties:

Scahill: "That gun is probably too hot for either party to touch."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3948518

Media Lens: "... corporate journalists really do have the blood of ...."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3999620

And, just to be clear that honorable folk did do their job and Bu$h and the neoconsters suppressed, for purely political purposes their findings:

DSB, Sep 2004: Muslims do not hate our freedom ... they hate our policies.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3982913

In fact, suppression of the DSB report is one of the most obvious examples of why BU$H IS A TRAITOR.


We will have no difficulty constructing an American History Lesson that even an 8 year old will understand. And, we will do just that.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[fooj]

31. Something of interest...

>This article is based on an upcoming New Yorker article by
>Seymour Hersh that raises a question about the admin ordering
>covert operations for the purpose of influencing the Iraq
>elections last January
>
>
>Plan Called for Covert Aid in Iraq Vote
>
>By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID E. SANGER
>Published: July 17, 2005
>
><snip>
>
>The article, by Seymour M. Hersh, reports that the
>administration proceeded with the covert plan over the
>Congressional objections. Several senior Bush administration
>officials disputed that, although they recalled renewed
>discussions within the administration last fall about how the
>United States might counter what was seen as extensive Iranian
>support to pro-Iranian Shiite parties.
>
>Any clandestine American effort to influence the Iraqi
>elections, or to provide particular support to candidates or
>parties seen as amenable to working with the United States,
>would have run counter to the Bush administration's assertions
>that the vote would be free and unfettered.
>
>Mr. Bush, in his public statements, has insisted that the
>United States will help promote conditions for democracy in
>the region but will live with whatever governments emerge in
>free elections.
>
>The article cites unidentified former military and
>intelligence officials who said the administration went ahead
>with covert election activities in Iraq that "were conducted
>by retired C.I.A. officers and other non-government personnel,
>and used funds that were not necessarily appropriated by
>Congress." But it does not provide details and says, "the
>methods and the scope of the covert effort have been hard to
>discern."
>
><snip>
>
>http://nytimes.com/2005/07/17/politics/17elect.html

This link was originally posted by housewolf/7-16-05
>
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>TRUTH IS OUR MOST POWERFUL WEAPON. I am so proud of what you
>are planning to do, UL. You are truly an inspiration.
>
>Peace.
>
>Respectfully,
>Keystone Fooj
:patriot:

[understandinglife]

33. Thank you. Will track this closely. More lies; more death. The Bu$h legacy

unabated.


Peace.

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[understandinglife]

32. Doctorow: "I fault this president for not knowing what death is."

The Unfeeling President

by E.L. Doctorow

September 9, 2004 in the Easthampton Star

I fault this president for not knowing what death is. He does not suffer the death of our 21-year-olds who wanted to be what they could be. On the eve of D-Day in 1944 General Eisenhower prayed to God for the lives of the young soldiers he knew were going to die. He knew what death was. Even in a justifiable war, a war not of choice but of necessity, a war of survival, the cost was almost more than Eisenhower could bear.

But this president does not know what death is. He hasn't the mind for it. You see him joking with the press, peering under the table for the weapons of mass destruction he can't seem to find, you see him at rallies strutting up to the stage in shirt sleeves to the roar of the carefully screened crowd, smiling and waving, triumphal, a he-man.

He does not mourn. He doesn't understand why he should mourn. He is satisfied during the course of a speech written for him to look solemn for a moment and speak of the brave young Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

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The president we get is the country we get. With each president the nation is conformed spiritually. He is the artificer of our malleable national soul. He proposes not only the laws but the kinds of lawlessness that govern our lives and invoke our responses. The people he appoints are cast in his image. The trouble they get into and get us into, is his characteristic trouble.

Finally, the media amplify his character into our moral weather report. He becomes the face of our sky, the conditions that prevail. How can we sustain ourselves as the United States of America given the stupid and ineffective warmaking, the constitutionally insensitive lawgiving, and the monarchal economics of this president? He cannot mourn but is a figure of such moral vacancy as to make us mourn for ourselves.

E. L. Doctorow is an American novelist. His works are noted for their mingling of American history and literary imagination through the interaction of fictional and real-life characters.

More at the link:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0920-13.htm

E.L.Doctorow wrote this in September of 2004. The suppressed DSB report was available in September 2004. The report on Iraqi WMD was available in September 2004.

So much truth was available in September 2004. So much of the American press willing suppressed that truth.

Even then Rove knew he had to collaborate with folk throughout the Nation to prevent Senator Kerry from wining. He knew, as did Bu$h that under no circumstance could the morning of November 3, 2005 arrive with Kerry as President-elect because that would mean that Bu$h, Rove and many others would already be standing trial.

Guess what Bu$h; guess what Rove -- all you did was extend your murderous rap sheet but the inevitable fate you face is prosecution.

We The People .... will not rest until that happens.

Count on it.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

35. Joe Klein: "illuminates a signature disgrace of the Bush presidency"

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It was, in fact, a story that had everything to do with politics and not much to do with national security -- a story that illuminates a signature disgrace of the Bush presidency: its tendency to treat the war in Iraq as an issue to be spun, rather than a life-and-death struggle to be won. In this case the White House was trying to "knock down" a former ambassador, Joseph Wilson, who had disputed the claim -- made by President Bush in his State of the Union address--that Iraq attempted to buy uranium in Niger. The Administration had built its case for war on the probability that Saddam Hussein had "reconstituted," in Vice President Dick Cheney's felicitous and inaccurate phrase, his nuclear-weapons program.

Eventually, the White House was forced to retract the Niger claim. There had been no uranium deal. But there was collateral damage: in the course of trying to "knock down" Wilson's story, White House sources implied that the ambassador had been sent to Niger by his wife, a CIA operative. In fact, Valerie Plame had worked undercover -- and it is a crime to knowingly reveal the name of a covert officer.

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There are, after all, oaths more important than those between reporters and sources. One is the oath between the Commander in Chief and his people. I mean, Mr. President, you are going to protect us on this, right?

From Stop Trying to Spin the Iraq War by Joe Klein

July 17, 2005

More at the link:
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/klein/article/0,9565,1083876,00.html

Mr Bush has broken his oath to protect us by intentionally starting an illegal war of aggression.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[Radical Activist]

39. James Buchanan was a traitor first. Then Reagan.

Buchanan helped the South and Reagan aided Iran.

[GetTheRightVote]

42. It is about time the truth come out in written form for enlighting public

:kick:

[understandinglife]

47. Greenstock is blocked by No 10 - not for long.....

No 10 blocks envoy's book on Iraq

Martin Bright and Peter Beaumont

Sunday July 17, 2005
The Observer

A controversial fly-on-the wall account of the Iraq war by one of Britain's most senior former diplomats has been blocked by Downing Street and the Foreign Office.

Publication of The Costs of War by Sir Jeremy Greenstock, UK ambassador to the UN during the build-up to the 2003 war and the Prime Minister's special envoy to Iraq in its aftermath, has been halted. In an extract seen by The Observer, Greenstock describes the American decision to go to war as 'politically illegitimate' and says that UN negotiations 'never rose over the level of awkward diversion for the US administration'. Although he admits that 'honourable decisions' were made to remove the threat of Saddam, the opportunities of the post-conflict period were 'dissipated in poor policy analysis and narrow-minded execution'.

Regarded as a career diplomat of impeccable integrity, during his time in post-invasion Iraq, Greenstock became disillusioned with the Coalition Provisional Authority, led by Paul Bremer. Their relationship had deteriorated by the time Greenstock returned to Britain.

The decision to block the book until Greenstock removes substantial passages will be interpreted as an attempt by ministers to avoid further embarrassing disclosures over the conduct of the war and its aftermath from a highly credible source.

Officials who have seen the book are understood to have been 'deeply shocked' over the way in which Greenstock has quoted widely from 'privileged' private conversations with Tony Blair, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and from the private deliberations of the UN Security Council.

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More at the link:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1530311,00.html

[understandinglife]

48. Robert Parry: "Bush Family Tradition: Ducking Scandal"

Bush Family Tradition: Ducking Scandal

by Robert Parry

July 15, 2005

If there is one trait that has followed the Bush family through generations of privilege, it is the ability to escape scandal – a skill that will be put to the test again over the leaking of the identity of an undercover CIA officer, apparently to get back at her husband for criticizing George W. Bush’s case for invading Iraq.

The criminal investigation into who revealed Valerie Plame’s identity – and endangered clandestine operatives working with her – has been building for two years. But it is finally reaching critical mass with the disclosure that Bush’s political guru Karl Rove discussed Plame’s CIA work with Time correspondent Matthew Cooper in July 2003.

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The “talking point” memo also is a classic example of how the neoconservatives have used rhetorical games since the early 1980s when they rose to power under Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

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That protective bubble has grown thicker over the decades with the emergence of a strong conservative news media that can be counted on to defend George W. Bush’s interests regardless of the merits of his position.

Much more at the link:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/071405.html

Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His new book, Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, can be ordered at secrecyandprivilege.com. It's also available at Amazon.com, as is his 1999 book, Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth.'

Mr Parry concludes with "Still, whether George W. Bush can match his father and grandfather in turning aside scandal is yet to be decided."

It is our responsibility how it is decided.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

49. Schanberg: "It's all about the war in Iraq. And the lies .... "

War, Lies, and E-Mail

While press presses Rove, prosecutors scoop reporters, take notes

by Sydney H. Schanberg
July 19th, 2005 11:36 AM

It's all about the war in Iraq. And the lies that rallied this nation into the war. And tangentially, it's also about a press corps that apparently puts its confidential information conveniently in e-mails, only to have it scooped up later by prosecutors who want to do God-knows-what with these files. As a gray-beard journalist, I can tell you we were taught to communicate such stuff to an editor only in person and behind closed doors. And only to an editor you trusted to look after your dog should you be sent to jail for civil disobedience.

But this is now. The drunken fire drill we see today in Washington has to do with a presidency that misled this nation into war with lies and distortions about a purported clear and present danger from Iraq. For more than three years, the falsehoods have shadowed the Bush administration, creating a credibility gap that in its gravity hasn't been seen since Vietnam.

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The press, too, needs to think about how to explain its process to the public. This could begin by inserting high up in every story a fat paragraph or two listing all the things that the reporter still doesn't know and describing in detail the White House lockdown and other secrecy shrouds that have made us half blind. That might establish a bond with the reader. Candor breeds credibility.

It would also be refreshing if, in every story about the leak, there were some clear mention of the war that continues in Iraq and how it was brought into being.

More at the link:
http://www.villagevoice.com/generic/show_print.php?id=66006&page=schanberg&issue=0529&printcde=MzM2NTQxODUzNw==&refpage=L25ld3MvaW5kZXgucGhwP2lzc3VlPTA1MjkmcGFnZT1zY2hhbmJlcmcmaWQ9NjYwMDY=

Yes, the history of Bu$h's house of traitors and treachery will necessarily include the vast collaboration a corrupt corporate press provided to the perpetrators of aggressive war, illegal occupation, torture, dismantling of civil liberties and uncountable LIES.


Peace.

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[linazelle]

50. .

[understandinglife]

51. Christison: "Time is running out for those of us who do not want more U.S.

... or more killings, more maimings, more empire-building, more occupations, more global injustice, more flouting of human rights, more fake democracy, more wealth for a few, more poverty for many, more weapons and profits for weapons-makers, more lies from the media, more ignorance among consumers of the media. And finally, time is also running out for those of us who do not want more power concentrated in an "establishment" whose organization few of us can even describe, although it has made servants of almost all of us.

In short, the black, red, and blue button a friend gave us a while back has it right. It says, "The REVOLUTION begins now."

Let's make it peaceful, but let's make it happen.

From First Stop Syria; Next Stop Iran

Bush's Itinerary

by BILL CHRISTISON

July 19, 2005

And, Mr Christison provides impetus to act, now.

The real question, therefore, is whether those in the U.S. who already oppose Bush's imperial policy can mobilize enough political opposition fast enough to prevent the administration, while it remains in office, from carrying out the scenario outlined above. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al. are betting that we cannot.

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In addition, political controversies in both the U.S. and Israel might even encourage either government to see the present time as propitious for a military distraction in Iran or Syria. The distraction might appear to be useful in papering over embarrassing political situations and generating more support for Bush and Sharon.

Bill Christison was a senior official of the CIA. He served as a National Intelligence Officer and as Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis. He is a contributor to Imperial Crusades, CounterPunch's new history of the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan.

More at the link:
http://www.counterpunch.org/

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - No recess; no vacation. Let's start supporting the troops; let's start defending our Nation from those who are destroying it, from within.