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[Just Observing] Downing St Minutes...every day...: We have watched our government use the attacks of September 11 to terrorize the American people into supporting the invasion of Iraq, we wrapped ourselves in plastic sheeting and duct tape while handling our mail with oven mitts so as not to be infected with the anthrax we were told was in the hands of Saddam Hussein, we were told that they knew the weapons were there, that they knew where the weapons were, we were told by Bush himself his January 2003 State of the Union address that the 26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, one million pounds of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent, 30,000 munitions to deliver the stuff, mobile biological weapons labs and uranium from Niger for use in a robust nuclear weapons program were waiting in Iraq to be given to terrorists for use against us, and that this was the main reason, the central reason, the absolute fact which required immediate action.
[Freedom's Gate] Drowning Out the Real Issues: Often this tactic involves efforts to delegitimize the entire news media based on the mistakes or sloppy reporting of a few. We saw this with the discrediting of CBS's story on irregularities in President Bush's Texas Air National Guard service in the 1970s. Although the CBS "scoop" was based on faked documents, the administration's response and backlash from both conservative and mainstream media essentially relieved Bush of having to deal with the story.
[Conservative Revolutionary American Party] After Downing Street: We have watched our government use the attacks of September 11 to terrorize the American people into supporting the invasion of Iraq, we wrapped ourselves in plastic sheeting and duct tape while handling our mail with oven mitts so as not to be infected with the anthrax we were told was in the hands of Saddam Hussein, we were told that they knew the weapons were there, that they knew where the weapons were, we were told by Bush himself his January 2003 State of the Union address that the 26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, one million pounds of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent, 30,000 munitions to deliver the stuff, mobile biological weapons labs and uranium from Niger for use in a robust nuclear weapons program were waiting in Iraq to be given to terrorists for use against us, and that this was the main reason, the central reason, the absolute fact which required immediate action.
[FloridaBlues] The sacred and the profane: We had potential for this in theUnited States with former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who traveled to Africa with [U2's] Bono. O'Neill saw for himself and was transformed. I'd like to invite [current U.S. Secretary of the Treasury] John Snowto ride in a 4x4 and visit Africa, to see these AIDS orphans.
[Progressive Pulpit] After Downing Street: We have watched our government use the attacks of September 11 to terrorize the American people into supporting the invasion of Iraq, we wrapped ourselves in plastic sheeting and duct tape while handling our mail with oven mitts so as not to be infected with the anthrax we were told was in the hands of Saddam Hussein, we were told that they knew the weapons were there, that they knew where the weapons were, we were told by Bush himself his January 2003 State of the Union address that the 26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, one million pounds of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent, 30,000 munitions to deliver the stuff, mobile biological weapons labs and uranium from Niger for use in a robust nuclear weapons program were waiting in Iraq to be given to terrorists for use against us, and that this was the main reason, the central reason, the absolute fact which required immediate action.
[Proof Through the Night] Deep Thought: This rosy view is demonstrably absurd, and Billmon demonstrates. We have whistleblowers - "Richard Clarke and Sibel Edmonds and Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter -- and even Paul O'Neill" - and anonymous sources leaking what should be devastating information, and regular folks who do right. And while we may wish that the media covered these stories better and more often, it is good to remember that most of the press wasn't all that brave in 1973, either.
[The Museum of Left Wing Lunacy] Is Bush Going Down?: No doubt they are completely trapped by the evidence and can only hope and pray the Memo just goes away. But ever true to form, McClellan, Bush, Cheney and the whole lot of them would be strewing carnage across the landscape on this issue if they could get away with it. Just ask CBS, Newsweek, Amnesty International, Paul O’Neill, Richard Clarke, John McCain or John Kerry.
[Newshounds.us] News Hounds: We watch FOX so you don't have to.: Now that it's been revealed that Newsweek was right after all about US soldiers desecrating the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, suddenly FOX News tells us that Laura Bush, the Bush Administration's go-to gal for damage control, knew all along Newsweek was not solely responsible for the riots in Afghanistan following the publication of its now-retracted story. Funny how FOX waits until now - just when the White House is saying the incidents should not be blown up out of proportion - to report Laura's insights into Afghani and Middle East politics.
[Wizbangblog.com] Wizbang: I notice at the official website the filmmakers have dropped the Iraq indictment for WMDs from the synopsis, but they haven't re-edited the film to remove the indictment of Iraq from the film itself. If only the Bush administration had simply bought the rights to a screening of the film and televised it both before the war and during his campaign, we wouldn't be having the liberals, leftists and their facilitators in the MSM constantly whining about 'Bush lied.' If one chose to ignore the warnings of the film (developed before 9/11 but not released til 2002,) at least the fault would lie with Bush-bashing The Nation, not Bush. How delicious that the best evidence for the invasion of Iraq was made by the hardest left magazine in the US!
[Aaronsw.com] Shorter Paul O’Neill (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog): Fmr. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill was on 60 Minutes tonight, along with the author of a new book which pieces together numerous interviews with high-level administration officials. Here are some of the most interesting things:
[Captainsquartersblog.com] Captain's Quarters: The cheerless creatures who rule the Islamic republic of Iran have developed a particularly wicked use of torture. Not only do they use the full panoply of physical and psychological horrors on their captives, but they then send the victims back into their homes and neighborhoods for brief periods of “parole” or “medical leave,” so that their friends and families can see with their own eyes the brutal effects of the torture. The clear intent of this practice is to intimidate the population at large, to break the will of would-be dissenters and opponents, and to maximize the effects of the victims themselves, for the brief respite from the pain of the prisons is mercilessly accompanied by the certainty that the agony will soon resume.
[Retrovsmetro.org] Retro vs. Metro : Blog : Flip-Flopper or Pathological Liar?: Remember that awkward pause at Bush's press conference on April 13th, when he was asked "After 9/11, what would your biggest mistake be, would you say, and what lessons have you learned from it?" and Bush had that completely blank no-synapses-firing look on his face before he said, " I wish you would have given me this written question ahead of time, so I could plan for it." (Sheesh, like, he's completely unclear on the concept of "press conference.") But I digress. Immersed in his own inimitable testosterone-fueled Texas-brand of braggadocio, Bush finds it impossible to admit when he is wrong. At the White House correspondents dinner in May, a pompous Bush joked, "I was going to start off tonight by telling some self-deprecating jokes, but then I couldn't think of any mistakes I've made to be self-deprecating about." How much more dangerous is Bush's haughty hubris, compared to having a thoughtful leader who is open to admitting mistakes?
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