Saturday, June 07, 2003

FindLaw's Writ - Dean: Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked. Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be "a high crime" under the Constitution's impeachment clause. It would also be a violation of federal criminal law, including the broad federal anti-conspiracy statute, which renders it a felony "to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose."
Ex-Official: Evidence Distorted for War (washingtonpost.com)

Wednesday, June 04, 2003

GETTING BADDER or Bush's Theme
(to the tune of "Getting Better", Beatles)

It’s getting badder all the time...
I used to get mad at my stool.
The people who bought me weren't cool.
Propping me down, burning me crown,
Feeling me up with your tools...

I’ve got to admit it’s getting badder,
It’s a little badder all the time.
I have to admit it’s getting badder,
It’s getting badder, since you’re Ben Klein...

Me used to be angry young man
Me hiding me head in the sand
You gave me a turd
From sheep I can herd
I’m doing the least that I can...

I admit it’s getting badder,
It’s a little badder all the time,
Yes I admit it’s getting badder,
It’s getting badder, since you’re Ben Klein.

I used to be cool to my woman,
I bleated and cut her a fart on the
Things that she loved
Man I was wrong but I’m changing my thong
And I’m doing the least that I can...

I admit it’s getting badder,
A little badder all the time.
Yes I admit it’s getting badder,
It’s getting badder, since you're Ben Klein.
Getting so much badder all the time...

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Come To Get Him
(to the tune of "Come Together", Beatles)

Here come old Chimpy he come thinkin' so slowly
He got greedy eyeball on those holy rollers
He got Dick down to his knee
Got to be a poker he just poke what he please

He bring no sunshine he got Enron baseball
He got monkey finger he shit coca-cola
He say "I screw you, you pay me"
One thing I can tell you is you're not to be free
Come to get him right now offa me

He Oil production he got Walker midname
He got bigtime sidekick who one final cracker
He got brain down below his knee
Hold you in his hostile you can get his disease
Come to get him right now offa me

He neither-coaster he give yellow warning
He cause muddy water he one money filter
He say "One and one and one is four
Got to be a-cooking books he such a cash-whore.
Come to get him right now offa me...
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil

George Wright
Wednesday June 4, 2003

Oil was the main reason for military action against Iraq, a leading White House hawk has claimed, confirming the worst fears of those opposed to the US-led war.
The US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz - who has already undermined Tony Blair's position over weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by describing them as a "bureaucratic" excuse for war - has now gone further by claiming the real motive was that Iraq is "swimming" in oil.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Media figures in glass houses-Buchanan, Savage, Coulter, and Limbaugh-decry New York Times falsehoods One of the most troubling ironies to come out of the controversy over fraudulent reporting at The New York Times is that the most passionate expressions of outrage have come from some of the most notorious fabricators in the media—and that no one seems to have noticed the breathtaking hypocrisy and double standard.
First it was Mesopotamia, now comes Persia.
Bush Makes War on the Ancients

Despite thin intelligence reports, US plans to overthrow Iranian regime Despite thin intelligence reports, US plans to overthrow Iranian regime
'The Truth Will Emerge'
Essay for The Nation by the great Senator Byrd of West Virginia

Tuesday, June 03, 2003

Take Back the Media.Com Gets the Savage Treatment: Wife of Website Co-Founder Slapped with Lawsuit - A BuzzFlash Interview
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED BREAKING NEWS
ESR | October 15, 2001 | What really happened on Flight 93?
911 - What Really Happened in NYC?
CHIMPY SCREWS THE POORTIME - Joe Klein - Blessed Are the Poor — They Don't Get Tax Cuts There are moments in public life when all is revealed, when the true priorities of a politician or a political party — as opposed to the boilerplate and blather — stand naked in the public square. George W. Bush had one last week. The White House and the Republican congressional leaders were desperate to squeeze the Bush tax cut into the $350 billion limit set by the Senate. There were plenty of ways to do this; all sorts of accounting flummeries had already been perpetrated, but a final tweak was needed. So the Republicans decided that the working poor, who pay little or no income taxes — families with incomes from $10,500 to $26,625--should not receive the expanded child tax credit. Almost 12 million children were effectively denied stipends of up to $400. This saved an estimated $3.5 billion, or 1% of the final bill.
Chimpy Screws the Poor
TIME - Joe Klein - Blessed Are the Poor — They Don't Get Tax Cuts There are moments in public life when all is revealed, when the true priorities of a politician or a political party — as opposed to the boilerplate and blather — stand naked in the public square. George W. Bush had one last week. The White House and the Republican congressional leaders were desperate to squeeze the Bush tax cut into the $350 billion limit set by the Senate. There were plenty of ways to do this; all sorts of accounting flummeries had already been perpetrated, but a final tweak was needed. So the Republicans decided that the working poor, who pay little or no income taxes — families with incomes from $10,500 to $26,625--should not receive the expanded child tax credit. Almost 12 million children were effectively denied stipends of up to $400. This saved an estimated $3.5 billion, or 1% of the final bill.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/03/opinion/03KRUG.html?ex=1055611954&ei=1&en=41f31e1d053d1d43 It's long past time for this administration to be held accountable. Over the last two years we've become accustomed to the pattern. Each time the administration comes up with another whopper, partisan supporters — a group that includes a large segment of the news media — obediently insist that black is white and up is down. Meanwhile the "liberal" media report only that some people say that black is black and up is up. And some Democratic politicians offer the administration invaluable cover by making excuses and playing down the extent of the lies.
If this same lack of accountability extends to matters of war and peace, we're in very deep trouble. The British seem to understand this: Max Hastings, the veteran war correspondent — who supported Britain's participation in the war — writes that "the prime minister committed British troops and sacrificed British lives on the basis of a deceit, and it stinks."
It's no answer to say that Saddam was a murderous tyrant. I could point out that many of the neoconservatives who fomented this war were nonchalant, or worse, about mass murders by Central American death squads in the 1980's. But the important point is that this isn't about Saddam: it's about us. The public was told that Saddam posed an imminent threat. If that claim was fraudulent, the selling of the war is arguably the worst scandal in American political history — worse than Watergate, worse than Iran-contra.Indeed, the idea that we were deceived into war makes many commentators so uncomfortable that they refuse to admit the possibility.

But here's the thought that should make those commentators really uncomfortable. Suppose that this administration did con us into war. And suppose that it is not held accountable for its deceptions, so Mr. Bush can fight what Mr. Hastings calls a "khaki election" next year. In that case, our political system has become utterly, and perhaps irrevocably, corrupted.




The Ballad of George W. Bush
OR
"I'm the Squanderer"


Oh well I'm the type of guy who will never settle down
Where precious oil is welled, you know that I'm around
I wink 'em and I wank 'em 'cause to me they're all the same
I shock 'em and I awe 'em they don't even know my game
They call me the squanderer, yeah the squanderer
I foam around around around...
Oh well there's Flow on my left and there's Moab on my right
And Cheney is the churl that I'll be with tonight
And when he asks me which one I love the best
I tear open my shirt I got Enron on my chest
'Cause I'm the squanderer yeah the squanderer
I foam around around around...
Oh well I foam from town to town
I go through life without a care
'cause I've the cerebrum of a clown
With my two fists of lead and I'm going nowhere...
'Cause I'm the squanderer yeah the squanderer
I foam around around around my mouth
and the Media saysn't a thing...

-Anon
BUSH: "I'M A SQUANDERER"
Duh! The World is Less Than Nonplussed at American Shock and Awe
Shock and Awe...or Shuck and Jive?
Either way...we have squandered...
[picture Bush singing: "I'm a squanderer..."]
IHT: Poll shows U.S. isolation: In war's wake, hostility and mistrust The poll forcefully supported the finding of an earlier survey that a U.S. war with Iraq would fuel anti-American sentiment.

Monday, June 02, 2003

BIRDFINGER: 2003
ic Teesside - War crime threat to Blair
The mother of a North soldier who died in the Gulf has said that Tony Blair should be prosecuted as a war criminal if no weapons of mass destruction are found in Iraq.
Ann Nichol lost her Royal Marine son John Cecil, 36, in the Iraq war when the Sea Knight helicopter he was travelling in crashed in Kuwait in the first days of the conflict.
Now she has reacted angrily to the admission by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that weapons of mass destruction - WMD - may never be found in Iraq. Before the war Mr Blair and President Bush justified the toppling of Saddam by claiming he had biological and chemical weapons.
Ann said: "If this turns out to be a lie then Tony Blair should resign. He should also be prosecuted under international law as a war criminal.
"If they don't find any weapons of mass destruction then this war has been based on a pack of lies and they have put all of our sons and daughters lives on the line for a lie."


And to think...he was such a swell guy once...

Tony! If you're listening...go back to your roots. Read Eckhart.
You are choking on the Mammon that you are trying to gobble down, and in the process, you are losing your spirit. Literally. Eckhart warned what you would give up in your pursuit of material things.
You are losing the gift.

Change. Change. Change.
USATODAY.com - Insults thrown, left and right Bill O'Reilly, the conservative talk show host, first decried political commentators who "call people names." Then he called Al Franken, the liberal humorist, an "idiot."

More on how Al Franken told television's favorite slabberdegullion, Bill O'Reilly, to go fuck himself...
NYPOST.COM Entertainment: POLITICAL THRILLA By JOHN MAINELLI "This isn't your show, Bill" OR How Al Franken told Bill O'Reilly to go fuck himself.
Yahoo! News - Leave Iraq, Tribesmen and Sacked Troops Tell U.S. "The Iraqi people did not fight the Americans during the war, only Saddam's people did. But if the people decide to fight them now, they are in big trouble."
Economic Performance of the Last Three Presidential Administrations