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U.S.
Leaks Report of No Weapons in Iraq
by CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special
Correspondent
September
18, 2004, Associated
Press
"In
the end, as a hurricane distracted Americans, as
terrorist car bombings and U.S. air strikes bloodied
Iraq, the findings of a Duelfer-led investigation
were quietly leaked in Washington. And after 16
months of trying, what his teams have found is less
than little." |
Intel
Officials Have Bleak View for Iraq
by KATHERINE PFLEGER SHRADER,
Associated Press Writer
September
16, 2004, Associated
Press
"The
National Intelligence Council presented President
Bush this summer with several pessimistic scenarios
regarding the security situation in Iraq , including
the possibility of a civil war there before the
end of 2005." |
Rumsfeld,
Military Leaders Faulted in Prison Abuse
by
Charles Aldinger and Will Dunham
August 24, 2004, Reuters
"Top
Pentagon officials and the military command in Iraq
contributed to an environment in which prisoners
were abused at Abu Ghraib prison, according to a
report released on Tuesday by high-level panel investigating
the military detentions." |
Pentagon's
mess hurting U.S. troops
by DAVID WOOD NEWHOUSE NEWS
SERVICE
July
23, 2004, Detroit
Free Press
"The
Pentagon's finances are in such a shambles that
no one knows precisely how much of the $450 billion
that the Defense Department spends each year goes
astray -- or what happens to the bills it pays or
the equipment it buys." |
Iraqis
inherit a country that's crumbling
by SETH BORENSTEIN FREE PRESS
WASHINGTON STAFF
June
30, 2004, Detroit
Free Press
"Despite
$13.7 billion in reconstruction spending so far,
the Iraq that the United States handed back Monday
is worse off than before the war in key ways, including
electrical output, the judicial system and overall
security, according to a new report by the General
Accounting Office." |
UN's
report on Iraq discusses possible coalition war
crimes
by MATTHEW SCHOFIELD FREE PRESS
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
June
5, 2004, Detroit Free
Press
"Coalition
forces involved in the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners
might be guilty of war crimes, the top UN official
for human rights said in a report released Friday." |
Occupation
Made World Less Safe, Pro-War Institute Says
by Kim Sengupta
May
25, 2004, The Independent
- UK
"The
US and British occupation of Iraq has accelerated
recruitment to the ranks of Osama bin Laden's terrorist
network and made the world a less safe place, according
to a leading London-based think-tank." |
Gen.
Zinni: 'They've Screwed Up'
May
21, 2004, CBSnews.com
"But
Zinni broke ranks with the administration over the
war in Iraq, and now, in his harshest criticism
yet, he says senior officials at the Pentagon are
guilty of dereliction of duty -- and that the time
has come for heads to roll. Correspondent Steve
Kroft reports." |
Brutal
interrogation in Iraq Five detainees' deaths probed
by Miles Moffeit Denver Post
Staff Writer
May
19, 2004, Denver
Post
"Brutal
interrogation techniques by U.S. military personnel
are being investigated in connection with the deaths
of at least five Iraqi prisoners in war-zone detention
camps, Pentagon documents obtained by The Denver
Post show." |
IRAQ
INTELLIGENCE: Defector lied to U.S. about weapons
by JONATHAN S. LANDAY FREE PRESS
WASHINGTON STAFF
May
18, 2004, Detroit
Free Press
"The
Bush administration helped rally public and congressional
support for an Iraq invasion by publicizing the
claims of an Iraqi defector, although a lie-detector
test indicated he was lying and U.S. intelligence
agencies had rejected him as unreliable months earlier."
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Memos
Reveal War Crimes Warnings
by Michael Isikoff, Newsweek
May
17, 2004, appearing
on truthout.org
"The
White House's top lawyer warned more than two years
ago that U.S. officials could be prosecuted for
'war crimes' as a result of new and unorthodox measures
used by the Bush administration in the war on terrorism,
according to an internal White House memo and interviews
with participants in the debate over the issue."
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Pre-9/11
Files Show Warnings Were More Dire and Persistent
by DAVID JOHNSTON and JIM DWYER
April
18, 2004, The New York Times
"But
now, after three weeks of extraordinary public hearings
and a dozen detailed reports, the lengthy documentary
record makes clear that predictions of an attack
by Al Qaeda had been communicated directly to the
highest levels of the government."
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Human
Rights Abuses in Afghanistan,
by Brian Whitaker
April
4, 2004, The Guardian-UK
for educational use and discussion on Libertyforum
"Having
gone to war to combat terrorism and remove the oppressive
Taliban regime, the United States is now undermining
efforts to restore the rule of law and endangering
the lives of civilians, Human Rights Watch says." |
Pentagon
report on Afghanistan criticizes war strategy,
AFP
April 4, 2004
"A
retired army colonel commissioned by the Pentagon
to examine the war in Afghanistan concluded the
conflict created conditions that have given 'warlordism,
banditry and opium production a new lease on life.'"
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Poisoned?
Shocking report reveals local troops may be victims
of america's high-tech weapons,
by JUAN GONZALEZ DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
April
3, 2004, NY Daily News
"Four
soldiers from a New York Army National Guard company
serving in Iraq are contaminated with radiation
likely caused by dust from depleted uranium shells
fired by U.S. troops, a Daily News investigation
has found." |
The
New Pentagon Papers,
by Karen
Kwiatkowski
March
10, 2004, Salon
"The
new Pentagon papers A high-ranking military officer
reveals how Defense Department extremists suppressed
information and twisted the truth to drive the country
to war." |
No
proof found to link Al Qaeda with Hussein
by WARREN P. STROBEL, JONATHAN S. LANDAY AND
JOHN WALCOTT FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF
March
3, 2004, Detroit Free Press
"Nearly
a year after U.S. and British troops invaded Iraq,
no evidence has turned up to verify allegations
of Hussein's links with Al Qaeda, and key parts
of the Bush administration's case have either proven
false or seem increasingly doubtful."
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Avoiding
attacking suspected terrorist mastermind Abu Musab
Zarqawi blamed for more than 700 killings in Iraq
by Jim Miklaszewski Correspondent
NBC News
March
2, 2004, NBC News
"But
NBC News has learned that long before the war the
Bush administration had several chances to wipe
out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi
himself -- but never pulled the trigger."
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Questions
Regarding the 9/11 Commission Interview with President
Bush
from The Family Steering Committee
for the 9/11 Independent Commission
February 16, 2004
"The
Family Steering Committee believes that President
Bush should provide sworn public testimony to the
full ten-member panel of the National Commission
on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States."
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Washington
conceals US casualties in Iraq,
by David Walsh
February
4, 2004, World Socialist
Web Site
"The
Bush administration is deliberately concealing from
the American people the number and condition of
US military personnel who have been wounded in Iraq.
The efforts by those few politicians and media figures
who have pursued the issue make this clear."
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Iraq
May Be On Path To Civil War, CIA Officials Warn
by Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan
S. Landay
January
22, 2004, Knight
Ridder Newspapers
"CIA
officers in Iraq are warning that the country may
be on a path to civil war, current and former U.S.
officials said yesterday, starkly contradicting
the upbeat assessment President Bush gave in his
State of the Union address." |
New
Army war college report blasts Bush on war on terrorism,
from Associated Press
January
11, 2004, Billings
Gazette
"A
scathing new report published by the Army War College
broadly criticizes the Bush administration's handling
of the war on terrorism, accusing it of taking a
detour into an 'unnecessary' war in Iraq and pursuing
an 'unrealistic' quest against terrorism that may
lead to U.S. wars with states that pose no serious
threat." |
Iraq's
Arsenal Was Only on Paper - Since Gulf War, Nonconventional
Weapons Never Got Past the Planning Stage,
by Barton Gellman, Washington Post Staff Writer
January
7, 2004, Washington Post
"Tamimi's
covert work, which he recounted publicly for the
first time in five hours of interviews, offers fresh
perspective on the question that led the nation
to war. Iraq flouted a legal duty to report the
designs. The weapons they depicted, however, did
not exist. After years of development -- against
significant obstacles -- they might have taken form
as nine-ton missiles. In March they fit in Tamimi's
pocket, on two digital compact discs." |
North
Korea - Basic Facts Good People Should Know,
by Gary Leupp
January
5, 2004, from rense.com
"Colin
Powell's State Department has been working with
China, Russia, Japan and South Korea to negotiate
the dissolution of North Korea's nuclear weapons
program. But on December 12, Vice President Cheney
appeared to want to sabotage that effort, telling
those attending a high-level meeting in Washington
that he wants to defeat Pyongyang, not talk with
it." |
Bush
Sells Out Another Democracy - Hypocrisy On Taiwan,
by Davd Lindorff
January
4, 2004, appearing on rense.com
"When
it comes to rampant hypocrisy, it doesn't get much
worse than the Bush Administration's recent sell-out
of the people of Taiwan. At the same time that the
Bush Administration is claiming to be a champion
of democracy and democratization in Iraq and the
Middle East, the president has slapped down a country
that has been making historic strides away from
a millenium's-old totalitarian culture and polity
and creating a vibrant democracy: the Republic of
China on the island of Taiwan." |
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A
Time For Truth On DU,
by Steven Rosenfeld-senior editor for TomPaine.com
December
21, 2003, TomPaine.com
"The
health impacts of depleted uranium (DU)
munitions on soldiers who served in the Iraq and
the Persian Gulf Wars will be studied by Congress'
General Accounting Office, according to two congressmen
who have requested a new investigation into whether
the Pentagon has ignored the medical consequences
of the armaments."
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BUSH
DECISION TO INVADE IRAQ A FULL YEAR BEFORE WAR BRINGS
CLAIMS OF MILITARY POWER AS "LAST CHOICE" INTO QUESTION
, from Daily Mislead
December
19, 2003
"Vice
President Dick Cheney admitted the weekend after
the September 11th terrorist attacks that there
was no evidence of Iraq's involvement in September
2001." |
Risky
Business,
by Naomi Klein
December
18, 2003, The Nation
"This
is ReBuilding Iraq 2, a gathering of 400 businesspeople
itching to get a piece of the Iraqi reconstruction
action. They are here to meet the people doling
out the cash, in particular the $18.6 billion in
contracts to be awarded in the next two months to
companies from 'coalition partner' countries."
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Missing
The Warnings
by The Center for American Progress, a nonpartisan
research and educational institute based in Washington,
D.C.
December 18, 2003, appearing on tompaine.com
"A
storm is brewing over reports that the White House
ignored intelligence that could have prevented
9/11. CBS Evening News reported on Dec. 17, 'For
the first time, the chairman of the independent
commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks
is saying publicly that 9/11 could have and should
have been prevented.'"
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Court:
Terror Suspects Must Get Lawyers,
by DAVID KRAVETS, Associated Press
Writer
December
18, 2003, AP
Story
"A
federal appeals court ruled Thursday for the first
time that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay Naval
Base in Cuba should have access to lawyers and
the American court system. The
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (news - web
sites)' 2-1 decision was a rebuke to the Bush
Administration."
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9/11
Chair: Attack Was Preventable
December
17, 2003, from CBS News-New
York
"For
the first time, the chairman of the independent
commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks
is saying publicly that 9/11 could have and should
have been prevented, reports CBS News Correspondent
Randall Pinkston."
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Possible
Deal Aborted? Claim: U.S. Government Spurned Peace
Talks Before the War With Iraq by
Brian Ross and Chris Vlasto
November
5, 2003. ABC NEWS
"A
possible negotiated peace deal was laid out in
a heavily guarded compound in Baghdad in the days
before the war, ABCNEWS has been told, but a top
former Pentagon adviser says he was ordered not
to pursue the deal. Imad Hage, a prominent businessman
and an emerging political leader in Lebanon, said
the U.S. missed a chance to avert war with Iraq."
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Spending
$87 Billion to Defend and Rebuild Iraq
Do the Numbers Add Up?,
by Mary Boyle
October
21, 2003, Common
Cause |
US
Soldiers Bulldoze Iraqi Farmers' Crops, Orchards,
by Patrick Cockburn in Dhuluaya
October
11, 2003, An Independent/UK
article also
appearing on rense.com
"US
soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from
loudspeakers, have uprooted ancient groves of date
palms as well as orange and lemon trees in central
Iraq as part of a new policy of collective punishment
of farmers who do not give information about guerrillas
attacking US troops." |
Washington
Insiders' New Firm Consults on Contracts in Iraq
by DOUGLAS JEHL, The New York Times
September
30, 2003, Yahoo
News
"A
group of businessmen linked by their close ties
to President Bush, his family and his administration
have set up a consulting firm to advise companies
that want to do business in Iraq, including those
seeking pieces of taxpayer-financed reconstruction
projects." |
Where
was George?, by
Eric Alterman
September
18, 2003, The Nation October 6, 2003 issue
"September
11 is often said to be the defining moment in the
Bush presidency, even of modern history. How strange,
therefore, that Bush's behavior that moming-along
with that of his Administration-is almost never
examined in any detail." |
America's
Hidden Military Casualties In Iraq,
by Jason Burke in London and Paul
Harris in New York
9-14-3,
The
Observer - UK
"The
true scale of American casualties in Iraq is revealed
today by new figures obtained by The Observer, which
show that more than 6,000 American servicemen have
been evacuated for medical reasons since the beginning
of the war, including more than 1,500 American soldiers
who have been wounded, many seriously." |
Don't
Say We Were Not Warned About This,
by Robert Fisk
9-5-3,
The Independent -
UK
"How
arrogant was the path to war. As President Bush
now desperately tries to cajole the old UN donkey
to rescue him from Iraq - he who warned us that
the UN was in danger of turning into a League of
Nations "talking shop" if it declined him legitimacy
for his invasion - we are supposed to believe that
no one in Washington could have guessed the future."
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The
China Syndrome,
by Paul Krugman
September
5, 2003, The
New York Times
"A
funny thing happened this week: the Bush administration,
with its aggressive unilateralism, and its contempt
for diplomacy and international institutions, suddenly
staked its fortunes on the kindness of foreigners."
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MAD
MEN ACROSS THE DESERT WALKING DEAD,
by Novakeo
September 2, 2003 issue of Ether Zone
"Dead
men walking, that is what our troops in Iraq have
become not to mention the Iraqi natives. Slow poison
death in the heat of the Iraqi desert, where dust
particles are in the plenty which just happens to
be radioactive courtesy of the United States and
British governments." |
Now
We Are The Iraq Extremists,
by John Pilger
8-22-03 , The
Daily Mirror - UK
"The
"liberation" of Iraq is a cruel joke on a stricken
people. The Americans and British, partners in a
great recognised crime, have brought down on the
Middle East, and much of the rest of the world,
the prospect of terrorism and suffering on a scale
that al-Qaeda could only imagine." |
We're
losing the war in Afghanistan, too,
by John Sifton
August
21, 2003, Salon
"A human rights worker reports from the other
front in the U.S. war on terror, where warlords
rule supreme, music is once again banned, journalists
hide from gunmen, and even the streets of Kabul
are filled with fear." |
Civilian
War Deaths in Iraq
To:
Mr. Jude Wanniski
From: Dr. Mohammed Al-Obaidi, General coordinator
of the Iraqi Freedom Party
August 21, 2003
"After
more than five weeks of intensive and thorough investigations
carried out by hundreds of our party's cadre, which
included all villages, towns, cities and some of
the desert areas etc. affected by the aggression
(with exception of the Kurdish area), and also by
interviewing hundreds of undertakers, hospitals
officials and ordinary people in these places, the
figure of civilians killed since the beginning of
the invasion came to 37,137. This figure does not
include militia, paramilitary or Saddam's Fiday'een." |
Life
and Death on the Front Lines: The Things That Keep
Us Here
by CAOIMHE BUTTERLY in Baghdad
August
20, 2003, from Counterpunch
"The
car that carried Anwar's family into a line of fire
that pumped more than twenty bullets through the
windshield and chassis into the warm living flesh,
vital organs and skulls of her husband and children
remains outside." |
IRAQ'S
NUCLEAR FILE : Inside the Prewar Debate Depiction
of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence,
by Barton Gellman and Walter Pincus,
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday,
August 10, 2003; Page A01
"But
the danger of a nuclear-armed Saddam Hussein, more
potent as an argument for war, began with weaker
evidence and grew weaker still in the three months
before war." |
US
admits it used napalm bombs in Iraq,
by Andrew Buncombe in Washington
10 August 2003, Independent.co.uk
"We
napalmed both those [bridge] approaches," said Colonel
James Alles, commander of Marine Air Group 11. "Unfortunately
there were people there ... you could see them in
the [cockpit] video. They were Iraqi soldiers. It's
no great way to die. The generals love napalm. It
has a big psychological effect." |
Pentagon
Office Home to Neo-Con Network Analysis,
by Jim Lobe
August
7, 2003, Ipsnews.net
"An
ad hoc office under U.S. Undersecretary of Defence
for Policy Douglas Feith appears to have acted as
the key base for an informal network of mostly neo-conservative
political appointees that circumvented normal inter-agency
channels to lead the push for war against Iraq." |
Whistleblower
on Niger uranium claim accuses White House of launching
'dirty-tricks campaign',
by Kim Sengupta
August
4, 2003, The Independent
UK
"The
former American diplomat who exposed false claims
that Iraq was trying to purchase uranium from Niger
has accused members of the Bush administration of
a dirty tricks campaign against him."
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Gore
Vidal Delivers Chilling Predictions of Despotism
A Wry Scourge On The Attack,
by Arthur Jones
8-1-03 , National Catholic Reporter
NCRONLINE.ORG and appearing on rense.com
"Yes,
it is -- was -- about oil and, of course, giving
the Cheney-Bush junta's friends like Halliburton
vast contracts to rebuild what we have carefully
knocked down." |
The
human cost of the 'war on terror',
by John Pilger
July 31, 2003
"Every
day now, in the United States, the all-pervasive
media tell Americans that their bloodletting in
Iraq is well under way, although the true scale
of the attacks is almost certainly concealed."
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Who
Profits from Erasing Iraq's Debt?,
by Heather Wokusch
Published on Monday, July 28,
2003, by CommonDreams
"At
stake is more than $184 billion of pending contracts
and debts against Iraq, many of which transpired
before the 1991 invasion of Kuwait. In other words,
even deals inked when Saddam Hussein was considered
a US ally could now be considered odious debt."
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Tenet:
Wolfowitz Did It, by JASON LEOPOLD
July
19, 2003, Counterpunch
"...the
Office of Special Plans, using Iraqi defectors from
the Iraqi National Congress as their main source,
rewrote some of the CIA's intelligence to say, undeniably,
that Iraq was hiding some of the world's most lethal
weapons. Once the intelligence was rewritten, it
was delivered to the office of National Security
Adviser Condoleeza Rice, where it found its way
into various public speeches given by Vice President
Dick Cheney, Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
and Bush, the Senators said." |
Nothing
Left To Lie About
With BushCo reaming the nation on just about every
possible front, is implosion imminent?,
by Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
July
16, 2003, SF
Gate
"And
the lies, the flagrant GOP bitch slappings of the
American public, the maniacal jabs straight in eye
of truth with the icepick of utter BS, have just
reached some sort of critical mass, some sort of
saturation point of absurdity and pain and ridiculousness
and you just have to stand up and applaud."
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Pattern
of Corruption, by Paul Krugman
Tuesday, July 15, 2003,
The
New York Times
"So the Iraq hawks set out to corrupt the process
of intelligence assessment. On one side, nobody
was held accountable for the failure to predict
or prevent 9/11; on the other side, top intelligence
officials were expected to support the case for
an Iraq war." |
20
Lies About the War, by
by Glen Rangwala and Raymond Whitaker
Published
on Sunday, July 13, 2003, by the lndependent/UK
"Falsehoods
Ranging from Exaggeration to Plain Untruth Were
Used to Make the Case for War. More Lies are Being
Used in the Aftermath."
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Why
the CEO in Chief Needs an Audit, by Richard
Cohen
Thursday, July 10, 2003; Page A23, The Washington
Post
"It therefore should come as no surprise that
George W. Bush, a Harvard MBA after all, is doing
what other CEOs do when they get into trouble. In
his case, he's "restated" his reasons for going
to war." |
Denial
and Deception,
by Paul Krugman
Tuesday,
June 24, 2003 The New York Times
"There is no longer any serious doubt that
Bush administration officials deceived us into war.
The key question now is why so many influential
people are in denial, unwilling to admit the obvious."
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THE
SELLING OF THE IRAQ WAR
The First Casualty, by John B. Judis & Spencer
Ackerman
Post
date: 06.19.03 Issue date: 06.30.03, The
New Republic
"The
United States may have been justified in going to
war in Iraq--there were, after all, other rationales
for doing so--but it was not justified in doing
so on the national security grounds that President
Bush put forth throughout last fall and winter.
He deceived Americans about what was known of the
threat from Iraq and deprived Congress of its ability
to make an informed decision about whether or not
to take the country to war."
An extremely long article but one of the best
we found on the this topic. |
Former
Bush Intelligence Insider Assails Counterterrorism
Tactics:
Beers says enemy is underestimated,
by Laura Blumenfeld
June 16, 2003, The
Boston Globe |
White
House in Denial,
by Nicholas D. Kristof
June 13, 2003, The
New York Times
"...Mr. Tenet and the intelligence agencies
were under intense pressure to come up with evidence
against Iraq. Ambiguities were lost, and doubters
were discouraged from speaking up." |
Clip
'n Save Guide To WMD Lying,
by Lunaville.com
Posted: June 11, 2003, on
Rense.com
Just as the title suggest: All of the quotes from
the Administration exposing their lies. Now Bush
is trying to pin the blame on the CIA. Here's the
ammo you need not to let him. |
Missing
Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Is Lying About The
Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?, by John
Dean
June 6, 2003, Findlaw
"Presidential
statements, particularly on matters of national
security, are held to an expectation of the highest
standard of truthfulness. A president cannot stretch,
twist or distort facts and get away with it."
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We
Used to Impeach Liars,
by William Rivers Pitt
Posted: June 4, 2003, on
Rense.com
"...the threats surrounding weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq were wildly overblown by the
Bush administration for purely political reasons."
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Is
There Anything Left That Matters? by
Joan Chittister, OSB
Thursday,
May 29, 2003, National Catholic Reporter.
"Finally,
they told us that we were invading Iraq to destroy
their weapons of mass destruction. Now they say
those weapons probably don't exist. Maybe never
existed. Apparently that doesn't matter either.
Except
that it does matter." |
Amnesty:
'War on Terror' Has Made World Worse,
by Gideon Long
May 28, 2003,
Reuters
"Washington's
"war on terror" has made the world more dangerous
by curbing human rights, undermining international
law and shielding governments from scrutiny, Amnesty
International said on Wednesday." |
Bush
May Invoke 9/11 Executive Privilege and Secrecy,
by
Tom Flocco
May 3, 2003,
TomFlocco.com
"Proof
of prior knowledge of the September 11 attacks is
continuing to trickle out of the purportedly ³leak-proof²
White House, as more corroborative chickens of 9/11
are coming home to roost..." |
The
`Ignoble Liars' Behind Bush's Deadly Iraq War,
by Jeffrey Steinberg
April 18, 2003 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
"Cheney asserted that Saddam Hussein was
actively pursuing the acquisition of nuclear weapons,
when, days earlier, International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) chief weapons inspector Mohammed El-Baradei
had testified before the UN Security Council that
the allegations were based on documents determined
to be forgeries." |
My
government went to Afghanistan and all I got was
this stupid pipeline, by
Ted Rall
©2002,
Citypaper.net
"As
the Pentagon was laying out targets, the State Department
was mapping pipelines." |
Population
Control Politics
July 23, 2002, From The New
York Times
"There
is a mind-bending illogic behind the Bush administration's
decision yesterday to withhold $34 million from
the United Nations Population Fund, which is working
in China despite continued practices there of coerced
abortion and sterilization."
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911
Top 500 Questions New - Updated,
by Nico Haupt,
5-8-2 -
Rense.com |
Guilty
for 9-11
Section 3: Bush in the Open,
by Illarion Bykov and Jared Israel
Posted: January 18, 2002, from
the Emperor's Clothes
"...this stand-down of the air protection systems
could not have occurred absent the involvement of
top officials. We have named George Walker Bush,
Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard B. Myers."
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IMF
Warns US Budget Gaps Endanger World Economy,
by Joseph Rebello
Dow Jones Newswires
January
8, 2004, on rense.com
"In
a report on U.S. budget outlook, IMF researchers
described the state of government finances as 'perilous"
in the long run and urged Congress and the White
House to take steps to quickly rein in the deficits.
Although federal tax cuts and spending increases
since 2001 bolstered the global economy in the short
run, the report said "large U.S. fiscal deficits
also pose significant risks for the rest of the
world.'" |
Rubin
Gets Shrill,
by Paul Krugman
January
6, 2004, New York
Times
"In
a paper presented over the weekend at the meeting
of the American Economic Association, Mr. Rubin
and his co-authors - Peter Orszag of the Brookings
Institution and Allan Sinai of Decision Economics
- argue along lines that will be familiar to regular
readers of this column. The United States, they
point out, is currently running very large budget
and trade deficits. Official projections that this
deficit will decline over time aren't based on 'credible
assumptions.' Realistic projections show a huge
buildup of debt over the next decade, which will
accelerate once the baby boomers retire in large
numbers." |
Don't
Look Down,
by Paul Krugman
October
14, 2003, New York Times
"And
there's one thing I can't help noticing: a third
world country with America's recent numbers - its
huge budget and trade deficits, its growing reliance
on short-term borrowing from the rest of the world
- would definitely be on the watch list."
|
The
Tax-Cut Con,
by Paul Krugman
September
14, 2003,
New York Times
"All
politicians say they're for public education; almost
all of them also say they support a strong national
defense, maintaining Social Security and, if anything,
expanding the coverage of Medicare. When the "guy
on the news" asks whether we can afford a tax cut,
he's asking whether, after yet another tax cut goes
through, there will be enough money to pay for those
things. And the answer is no."
|
Twilight
Zone Economics,
by PAUL
KRUGMAN
August 15, 2003, From The New
York Times
"But
while the growth and new claims numbers were good
news, they didn't tell us that the economy is improving.
All they said is that things are getting worse more
slowly." |
A
Real Look At GDP And The War Economy
Safe Money Report.com
August 5, 2003, From Rense.com
"Defense
spending contributed more than three-quarters of
the 2.4% growth rate. Without defense spending,
the economy barely grew at all." |
Let
Them Eat Cake¹ Economics: Bush is a regular guy
who doesn¹t care a whole lot about regular people.
The first is a political asset. The second is his
greatest vulnerability,
by Jonathan Alter
July 28, 2003, Newsweek
"But
God forbid he admits that his huge tax cuts are
in any way relevant. That would risk saying something
inconvenient and true." |
Passing
It Along, by Paul Krugman
July
18, 2003, New
York Times
"It
has been obvious all along, if you were willing
to see it, that the administration's claims to fiscal
responsibility have rested on thoroughly cooked
books." |
Weakest
Link
Why Bush will be vulnerable on the economy in 2004
7.10.03, From The American Prospect Online
"Well,
this writer thinks the administration is whistling
past the graveyard. Here's why the economy is likely
to rain on George Bush's 2004 election parade: For
starters, the unemployment numbers are truly awful.
Since Bush took office the economy has shed almost
2.5 million jobs, the worst performance since the
administration of Herbert Hoover. A weak job market
also means flat or declining wages and benefits
for those employed." |
Bush's
Fiscal Policy Not Creating New Jobs,
by Seth Sandronsky
Posted: July 9, 2003, from
Alternet
"...the administration had forecast the creation
of 1.4 million new jobs by year-end 2004 after its
most recent tax cut became law. Against that backdrop,
913,000 workers joined the ranks of the unemployed
between March and June, according to the Labor Department."
|
Unemployment
At Highest In Nine Years - Bush 'Concerned'
7-3-3,
From
Rense.com
"The
economy has lost 394,000 jobs since January and
more than 2.5 million over the past two years."
|
Duped
and Betrayed, by Paul Krugman
June 6, 2003, The New York Times
This
article is about the most recent tax cut bill.
|
The
$44 trillion hole? Recent study says Social Security,
Medicare shortfalls could be far bigger than previously
thought.
May 29, 2003: 3:46 PM EDT, by Mark Gongloff, CNN/Money
Staff Writer
"The
implications of the study, which looks beyond the
75-year window the government currently uses for
its estimates, could be staggering -- meaning that
if the federal government wants to meet its Medicare
and Social Security obligations in coming years,
it would have to raise taxes, slash federal spending,
or both. " |
Washington
shelved report of 44-trillion-dollar deficit
Thu
May 29, 2003 8:53 AM ET
"In the midst of negotiating a steep tax cuts
package, the US government shelved a report that
showed the United States faces future federal budget
deficits of more than 44.2 trillion dollars."
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the Obvious | | |
