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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."
|
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."
|
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."
|
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.'"
|
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."
|
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."
|
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."
|
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."
|
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." |
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."
|
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."
|
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.'"
|
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."
|
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."
|
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."
|
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."
|
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."
|
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."
|
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."
|
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."
|
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."
|
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."
|
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."
|
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."
|
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."
|
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."
|
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."
|
|
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." |
ŒLet
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."
|
Stating
the Obvious,
by
Paul Krugman
May 27, 2003,
The New York Times
Do
the extreme Republicans really want an economic
train wreck? |
Bush's
secret plan to win in '04, by Harley Sorensen
Posted: Wednesday, May 21,
2003 on
Smirking Chimp
"The New Yorker magazine
was so impressed by Mr. Bush's proposal that it
did the math. And the way the math comes out is
one job for every $550,000 of rich-folks tax cut."
|
Drowning,
First-Class Style,
by James K Galbraith
May 7, 2003 , Appearing
on Tom Paine
"Today
almost nine million are unemployed. Many millions
more are underemployed, and most of all, underpaid.
That is our economic problem. Bush and company did
not entirely create these conditions, but they have
done nothing to make them better and much to make
them worse." |
The
Bush Economy
Bush Lies And Wins, You Lose
02.15.03, From Bush Watch, edited by Politex
"The Bush deficit of $304 billion, the largest
in history as well as the most precipitous, is pre-budget.
With the new Bush budget in place, our deficit is
$5.4 trillion over ten years. (Bush is back-loading
the deficit so the entire economic penality of what
he is doing will not be readily apparent until after
he is out of office.)" |
Economist
tallies swelling cost of Israel to US,
by David R. Francis, Staff writer of The Christian
Science Monitor
December
9, 2002, Christian Science Monitor
"Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States
about $1.6 trillion. If divided by today's population,
that is more than $5,700 per person."
|
A
Fiscal Fantasy,
by PAUL
KRUGMAN
January 22, 2002, From The New
York Times
"The
proposed tax cuts are also heavily tilted toward
the wealthy. Two-thirds of the population would
receive nothing at all; well over half of the total
goes to people earning more than $200,000 per year." |
Truth
and Lies,
by PAUL
KRUGMAN
September 2, 2001, From The
New York Times
"Mr.
Bush promised not to dip into the Social Security
surplus; he has broken that promise. Critics told
you that would happen; they have been completely
vindicated. Mr. Bush told you it wouldn't; he lied."
|
|
Enron
Tapes Hint Chiefs Knew About Power Ploys
by Jonathan Peterson Times Staff
Writer
May
18, 2004, Los Angeles
Times
"Enron
Corp. employees spoke of 'stealing' up to $2 million
a day from California during the 2000-01 energy
crisis and suggested that their market-gaming ploys
would be presented to top management, possibly including
Jeffrey K. Skilling and Kenneth L. Lay, according
to documents released Monday." |
Connect
the Enron Dots to Bush: Enron is Whitewater in spades,
by Robert Scheer
December 11, 2002, from the LA
Times
"This
isn't just some rinky-dink Recent land investment
like the one dredged up by right-wing enemies to
haunt the Clinton White House--but rather it has
the makings of the greatest presidential scandal
since the Teapot Dome. Dec. 11, 2001."
|
All
The President's Enrons,
by Frank Rich
July 6, 2002, from
the NY
Times
"The sight of a corporate crook being led away
in handcuffs, Giuliani-style, would do far more
to restore confidence in Wall Street than any more
presidential blather. Mr. Bush says that only "a
few bad actors" are at fault. Why is the administration
so lax about bringing them to justice?"
|
One
Way Discussion on Energy
March 28, 2002, From
the NY Times
OpEd
|
Ken
Lay-George W. Bush Contacts Date Back To 1994,
by Reed Irvine
2-8-02,
NewsMax.com appearing on Rense.com
"Former
Enron chief executive Kenneth Lay's contacts with
President George W. Bush date back to 1994 before
he became governor of Texas, The Dallas Morning
News reported Thursday." |
Enron
and the Bush administration: kindred spirits in
fraud and criminality
by David Walsh
18 January 2002, from
the World
Socialist Web Site
"It
is pointless at the moment to speculate whether
or not Enron will prove the present government¹s
undoing. The more critical issue is grasping the
extent to which Enron as a criminal and parasitic
enterprise expresses the social essence of the Bush
administration and the American ruling elite as
a whole." |
|
Secrecy
in the Bush Administration
by Rep. Henry A. Waxman
September
18, 2004, Truthout.org
"Rep.
Henry A. Waxman has released a comprehensive examination
of secrecy in the Bush Administration. The report
analyzes how the Administration has implemented
each of our nation's major open government laws.
It finds that there has been a consistent pattern
in the Administration's actions: laws that are designed
to promote public access to information have been
undermined, while laws that authorize the government
to withhold information or to operate in secret
have repeatedly been expanded. The cumulative result
is an unprecedented assault on the principle of
open government." |
Bush
Administration Directs Agencies to Ignore Clean
Water Act
September
14, 2004, Salon
"Using
a back-door route to deregulation, the Bush administration
has removed clean water protections for 20 million
acres of American wetlands and tens of thousands
of miles of streams, lakes and ponds, according
to documents obtained through the federal Freedom
of Information Act." |
Democrats:
Medicare Bill Cost Kept Secret
by MARK SHERMAN, Associated
Press Writer
July
7, 2004, Associated
Press
"Democrats
say an internal Bush administration investigation
into the new Medicare law confirms there was a coordinated
effort to keep its true costs from Congress and
the public." |
Mergers
lead to costly gasoline
Study looks at role of the White House
by JIM EFSTATHIOU JR. for Bloomberg
May
18, 2004, Detroit
Free Press
"President
George W. Bush allowed an increase in oil-refinery
mergers to go unchecked since he took office and
may have contributed to the highest gasoline prices
in 20 years as the November election approaches,
Bloomberg research has found." |
Report:
White House Wrong on Medicare
May
2, 2004, Associated
Press
"Bush
administration officials were wrong to prevent a
budget expert from giving Congress estimates of
the cost of Medicare legislation, congressional
researchers have concluded." |
White
House Minimized the Risks of Mercury in Proposed
Rules, Scientists Say
by JENNIFER LEE
April
7, 2004, New York Times
"While
working with Environmental Protection Agency officials
to write regulations for coal-fired power plants
over several recent months, White House staff members
played down the toxic effects of mercury, hundreds
of pages of documents and e-mail messages show."
|
Republican
Congressmen Advised To Deny Global Warming,
by Antony Barnett
April
4, 2004, The Observer
as appearing on rense.com
"George
W. Bush's campaign workers have hit on an age-old
political tactic to deal with the tricky subject
of global warming - deny, and deny aggressively."
|
Bush
Admin Ordered Medicare Cost Estimates Withheld,
by Tony Pugh
March
12, 2004, Knight Ridder
Newspapers
appearing on rense.com
"The
government's top expert on Medicare costs was warned
that he would be fired if he told key lawmakers
about a series of Bush administration cost estimates
that could have torpedoed congressional passage
of the White House-backed Medicare prescription-drug
plan." |
Bush
Puts Giant Sequoias On The Chopping Block,
from BushGreenwatch.org
March
2, 2004, appearing on rense.com
"Under
the guise of forest fire prevention, the Bush Administration's
Forest Service has proposed logging in California's
Sequoia National Monument, home to some of the world's
tallest and oldest trees, reaching ages of 3,200
years or more." |
How
the White House Shelved MTBE Ban,
by PETE YOST Associated Press Writer
February
16, 2004, Guardian - UK
"The
Bush administration quietly shelved a proposal to
ban a gasoline additive that contaminates drinking
water in many communities, helping an industry that
has donated more than $1 million to Republicans."
|
Scientists
Accuse White House of Distorting Facts,
by JAMES GLANZ
January
18, 2004, New York
Times
"The
Bush administration has deliberately and systematically
distorted scientific fact in the service of policy
goals on the environment, health, biomedical research
and nuclear weaponry at home and abroad, a group
of about 60 influential scientists, including 20
Nobel laureates, said in a statement issued today."
|
Bush
ally's firm vies for Medicare cards,
by Wayne Washington and Susan
Milligan, Globe Staff
December
12, 2003, Boston Globe
"A
Texas company owned by a campaign contributor
and former business associate of President Bush
could profit if Medicare endorses its drug card
program under guidelines set by legislation the
president signed into law on Monday, according
to a report released yesterday by a research group
run by a former Clinton administration official."
|
States
might lose controls on corporate crooks,
by A.C. Thompson and James A.
Thompson
November
19, 2003, inthesetimes.com
"The
Bush administration is quietly seeking to roll
back oversight of the banking business and the
scandal-riddled securities market through two
pending proposals--a planned rule change for the
banking industry and a house bill--that diminish
the ability of states to police banks and stock
brokers."
|
Ozone
Layer 'Sacrificed' To Lift Re-Election Prospects,
by Geoffrey Lean, Environment
Editor
November
24, 2003, The
Independent - UK
"His
administration is insisting on a sharp increase
in spraying of the most dangerous ozone-destroying
chemical still in use, the pesticide methyl bromide,
even though it is due to be phased out under the
Montreal Protocol in little more than a year.
And it has threatened that the United States could
withdraw from the treaty's provisions altogether
if its demand is not met."
|
Making
the troops pay twice, by
Dan Carpenter
November
9, 2003, Indystar.com
"If
you notice there are more veterans to honor this
Veterans Day than there were last year, thank
the Bush administration and the Republican Congress.
If
you want more help for those veterans, better
ask the Democrats."
|
The
Bechtel Corporation, by
Mick Youther
October
3, 2003, Intervention Magazine
"A
history of poor planning, mismanagement, cost over-runs,
and environmental destruction lands Bechtel Corporation
a sweetheart deal in Iraq -- and American taxpayers
pick up the tab!" |
The
Military's Bloated Budget: It hasn't been this big
in 50 years - Here's how to trim the fat,
by Fred Kaplan
September
12, 2003, Slate
"This year, if all goes as President Bush plans,
the United States will spend more money on the military
than in any year since 1952, the peak of the Korean
War." |
Global
Warming is Now a Weapon of Mass Destruction: It
Kills More People Than Terrorism, Yet Blair and
Bush do Nothing,
by John Houghton
Published on Monday, July 28,
2003, by the Guardian/UK
"...
impacts of global warming are such that I have no
hesitation in describing it as a "weapon of mass
destruction". |
Vets
served and sacrificed yet Washington plays politics,
by Myriam
Marquez
Published July 24, 2003, From
The Orlando Sentinel
"During
the 2000 campaign, Bush promised vets their due,
yet the White House now threatens to veto any legislation
that would grant parity. Even a congressional compromise
reached last year that would give the most severely
disabled retirees with combat-related injuries or
illnesses a fair shake has been stuck in a bureaucratic
limbo of rule-making to see who would qualify --
at best, only about 5 percent of all disabled career
military." |
Every
Breath You Take,
by Paul Krugman
November 26, 2002, From The
New York Times
"Last
week the Bush administration announced new rules
that would effectively scrap "new source review,"
a crucial component of our current system of air
pollution control. This action, which not incidentally
will be worth billions to some major campaign contributors,
comes as no surprise to anyone who pays attention
to which way the wind is blowing (from west to east,
mainly - that is, states that vote Democratic are
conveniently downwind)." |
Ignoring
a Growing Peril,
by BOB HERBERT
June 6, 2002, From The New York
Times
"The
Bush administration has acknowledged that the U.S.
will experience far-reaching and, in some cases,
devastating environmental consequences as a result
of global warming. But it does not plan to do much
about it."
|
Campaign
Reform Farce
April 9, 2002, The New York
Times
"Only
the most confirmed cynic would have imagined that
after passing a historic campaign reform bill last
month, Congress would start undoing its achievement
right away. Yet that is exactly what is happening
this week in Washington." |
Toxic
Deception: Whitman Misleads 'Today' Show Viewers...
And The Rollbacks Roll On
Published: Mar 19 2002, from
TomPaine.com
"It was a toxic deception: Two days earlier,
Whitman approved a two-year delay of Clean Air Act
rules that would cut toxic emissions from 80,000
industrial sources. The rules -- among scores of
Clean Air Act deadlines that the EPA is currently
violating -- are already more than a year overdue."
|
The
New EPA: Protecting Polluters EPA Administrator
Christine Todd Whitman's Tenure Is Marked By Rollbacks
and Missed Deadlines,
by Steven Rosenfeld
Published: Mar 18 2002, from
TomPaine.com
"The
EPA is doing a terrible job in controlling emissions.
It has missed every single deadline in recent memory
for controlling toxic air pollution. As a result,
almost half of the industries that emit major amounts
of toxic air pollution are still not regulated."
|
Missile
Defense: The Untold Story,
by BILL
KELLER
December 29, 2001, From The
New York Times
"In
the nearly 40-year fight over building weapons to
shoot down incoming missiles, the proponents have
generally fallen into two camps, the dreamers and
the schemers." |
|
Bush
Knew About Leak of CIA Operative's Name
by Staff and Wire Reports
June
3, 2004, Capitol Hill
Blue
"Witnesses
told a federal grand jury President George W. Bush
knew about, and took no action to stop, the release
of a covert CIA operative's name to a journalist
in an attempt to discredit her husband, a critic
of administration policy in Iraq. Their damning
testimony has prompted Bush to contact an outside
lawyer for legal advice because evidence increasingly
points to his involvement in the leak of covert
CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to syndicated
columnist Robert Novak." |
Bush's
'success' just another fiction
by John Ed Pearce HERALD-LEADER
CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST
January
11, 2004, Lexington Herald-Leader
"Of
course, as a candidate for re-election, Bush can
hardly be expected to tell the truth and nothing
but the truth, because the truth is that his administration
has been an economic disaster. During his stint
in office, 2.9 million people have lost their jobs.
Nine million people are still out of work, salaries
are stagnant and wages are down in terms of the
1999 dollar, while an estimated 250,000 people are
not listed among the unemployed because they have
quit looking for work." |
O'Neill
Calls Bush a Disengaged President ,
by MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer
January
9, 2004, Associated
Press
"In
an excerpt released by CBS, O'Neill said that a
lack of real dialogue characterized the Cabinet
meetings he attended during the first two years
of the administration and gave O'Neill the feeling
that Bush 'was like a blind man in a roomful of
deaf people.'" |
Keeping
Secrets: The Bush administration is doing the
public's business out of the public eye. Here's
how--and why, by Christopher
H. Schmitt and Edward T. Pound
December
22, 2003, U.S News &
World Report - Investigative Reports
"Like
other chief executives before him, Bush moved
to unravel the efforts of his predecessor. Bush's
chief of staff, Andrew Card, directed federal
agencies to freeze more than 300 pending regulations
issued by the administration of President Bill
Clinton. The regulations affected areas ranging
from health and safety to the environment and
industry. The delay, Card said, would 'ensure
that the president's appointees have the opportunity
to review any new or pending regulations.' The
process, as it turned out, expressly precluded
input from average citizens. Inviting such comments,
agency officials concluded, would be 'contrary
to the public interest.'"
|
WHITE
HOUSE COVERS TRACKS BY REMOVING INFORMATION
December
18, 2003, The Daily Mis-Lead
"In
a high-tech cover-up, the Washington Post this
morning reports the White House is actively scrubbing
government websites clean of any of its own previous
statements that have now proven to be untrue."
|
Ashcroft
Justice Department tries to hide criticism of
self in diversity audit
by DAVID JOHNSTON and ERIC LICHTBLAU
October
31, 2003, The
New York Post
"An
internal report that harshly criticized the Justice
Department's diversity efforts was edited so heavily
when it was posted on the department's Web site
two weeks ago that half of its 186 pages, including
the summary, were blacked out."
|
CIA
Identity Leak Far Worse Than Reported,
by Warren P. Strobel
October
11, 2003. Knight Ridder Newspapers
"It's
just a 12-letter name - Valerie Plame - but the
leak by Bush administration officials of that CIA
officer's identity may have damaged U.S. national
security to a much greater extent than generally
realized, current and former agency officials say."
|
The
Spin is Not Holding,
by David Corn
October
4, 2003, The Nation
"The
spin is not holding. Facing two controversies--the
Wilson leak...and the still-MIA WMDs--the White
House has been tossing out explanations and rhetoric
that cannot withstand scrutiny." |
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." |
Fight
Club,
by MATT
BAI
August 10, 2003, From The New
York Times
"Outside
of Washington, only Stephen Moore's relatives have
ever heard of him -- and even some of them would
probably have to think on it a while. But in this
era after campaign-finance reform, as the fund-raising
dominance of the two parties diminishes, it's the
people you've never heard of who will change the
course of politics, and Moore seems bent on taking
a hammer to George W. Bush's carefully sculptured
majority party." |
BEYOND
BUSH - Part I,
by Michael Ruppert
July
7, 2003, fromthewilderness.com
"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...But even people
who aren't partisan Republicans shy away from confronting
the administration's dishonest case for war, because
they don't want to face the implications..."
|
Toward
One Party Rule, by Paul Krugman,
June 27, 2003, The
New York Times
"We
may be heading for a replay of the McKinley era
in which the nation was governed by and for big
business." |
What
you can do about Bush, by Harley Sorensen
June 23, 2003, The
San Francisco Chronicle
"Folks,
Bush has gone too far, too many times. He is a one-man
wrecking crew, destroying, bit by bit, what decent
men and women have created and improved upon for
227 years. We
have to stop him. We have to do it soon. If we don't,
we won't have an America to protect."
|
Dereliction
of Duty,
by Paul Krugman
June 17, 2003, The
New York Times
"Behind the rhetoric - and behind the veil
of secrecy, invoked in the name of national security
but actually used to prevent public scrutiny - lies
a pattern of neglect, of refusal to take crucial
actions to protect us from terrorists." |
A
Nation of Victims, by Renana Brooks
June
12, 2003, The
Nation
"President
Bush, like many dominant personality types, uses
dependency-creating language. He employs language
of contempt and intimidation to shame others into
submission and desperate admiration."
|
Bush's
Scorched Earth Campaign, by Neal Gabler
June 8, 2003, The Los Angeles Times
"The
presidency's real goal is to disable the Democratic
opposition, once and for all." |
Liberals
vs. Conservatives? It's the Corruption, Stupid,
By
Maureen Ferrell
May 20, 2003,
On
Buzzflash.com
"...duped
citizens continue to make this an issue of "liberals
versus conservatives," while missing the larger
point. Attacks on George Bush are not attacks on
America and this game of "which team are you
on?" is just plain stupid." |
Rolling
Back the 20th Century,
by WILLIAM GREIDER
April 24, 2003,
From
The Nation
"George W. Bush, properly understood, represents
the third and most powerful wave in the right's
long-running assault on the governing order created
by twentieth-century liberalism." |
Rove's
Way,
by MATT BAI
October 20, 2002, From The New
York Times
"White
House tours don't pass through Karl Rove's office,
but most everything else around the presidency does.
Rove determines which lobbyists and supporters get
access to the White House, and he weighs in with
Bush on every major domestic-policy decision, from
stem cells to farm subsidies." |
The
Bush Doctrine, R.I.P.,
by Frank Rich
April 13, 2002, From the New
York Times
"It
takes some kind of perverse genius to simultaneously
earn the defiance of the Israelis, the Palestinians
and our Arab "allies" alike and turn the United
States into an impotent bystander." |
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