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BushCo Wants Retroactive Protection for War Crimes

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:40:30 -0400

By seeking retroactive protection for war crimes, Bush and Co are basically telling the world that they have committed war crimes, and they are above the law.

By Pete Yost ASSOCIATED PRESS
August 9, 2006

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration drafted amendments to the War Crimes Act that would retroactively protect policymakers from possible criminal charges

Do We the American people really accept a government that knowingly committed war crimes? I don't, and I'll bet most Americans wouldn't either, especially if they knew everything thing else that this Bush Cabal has done.

It is time for intelligent Americans to address the "War on Terror" rationally. Is "waterboarding" suspects realling making you safer? The WoT is based on Bush's absurd claim that, "they hate us for our freedoms." Does anybody really believe that anymore?

Oil Companies rake in Record Profits, again

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:35:01 -0400

It's seems pretty obvious to most Americans that if the companies lowered the price of gas, they could still turn a profit. But they keep the price sky high, strangling our economy and making life that much harder on most working Americans. With the price of gas way up, the price of everyday goods is up too, milk, cheese, eggs, bread, soap ... everything at the store is more expensive... yet the oil companies are free to charge whatever they want, free to rake in the profit, even at our expense. If the price of gas was lowered, the average American would have more money to spend on other items, they could afford to travel again, thus boosting our economy in so many ways.

But Congress doesn't seem to care about the average American, besides, they don't have to pay for gas, they get free air travel from the corporations, like Don Young who was near the top with $83,000 worth of corporate jet travel.

UPDATE:

As of March 17, 2005: Don Young (R), has raised $874,000 from oil and gas interests since 1989

The EPA's Lies after 9/11 will kill more than the attack itself

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:35:29 -0500

from a radio show, George Noory interviewing former Marine, Prof Jim Fetzer Ph.D. of st911.org

JF: The towers were loaded with asbestos...

GN: That's why so many thousands of people are still getting sick.

JF: They're dying from it George, they're dying from it. The EPA even lied to the New Yorkers. This is so criminal its unbelieveable. They told them that it was not toxic dust when in fact the opposite was the case- this is a shock! And that the New York Times should ignore all of this is an atrocity!

The dust clouds of 9/11 left a thick coat of ultrafine concrete and asbestos dust across lower Manhattan - this eyewitness puts it at 3" thick 6 blocks away.

This ABC video has some good shots of the dust cloud
thanks PrisonPlanet.com

Of course this was extremely toxic dust, but rather than alarm the public, the EPA blatantly lied, "to boost morale" by re-opening Wall St.

What kind of people would put thousands at risk to "boost morale"?

FBI Memos Reveal Torture Approved by Top Officials

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:26:31 -0500

by Drew Brown, Knight-Ridder News

WASHINGTON - Military interrogators posing as FBI agents at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, wrapped terrorism suspects in an Israeli flag and forced them to watch homosexual pornography under strobe lights during interrogation sessions that lasted as long as 18 hours...

FBI agents working at the prison complained about the military interrogators' techniques in e-mails to their superiors from 2002 to 2004, 54 e-mails.. showed. The agents tried to get the military interrogators to follow a less coercive approach and warned that the harsh methods could hinder future criminal prosecutions of terrorists because information gained illegally is inadmissible in court.

Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, who was in charge of the prison at the time, overrode the FBI agents' protests..

[Ed Note: Miller was then sent to run Abu Ghraib. The sent this torture freak General to Iraq on purpose!]

The memos offer some of the clearest proof yet that the abuses and torture of prisoners in U.S. military custody weren't the isolated actions of low-ranking soldiers but a result of policies approved by senior officials.

Flashback: Cheney Fixed the Facts

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:09:23 -0500

From the former CIA Analyst's Opening Statement at Conyers' Downing Street Memo Hearing, 6/16/05

Ray McGovern - We Now Know - mp3

The Downing Street minutes and the other documents that have been released now help. They help a lot, and I would like to publicly thank the patriotic, courageous whistle-blowers who did that, who made available these documents because through them and through of all people Rupert Murdoch's Sunday Times we know the answers to a lot of these questions. By now you know what the Downing Street minutes say. Let me focus in on the phase the intelligence facts were fixed around the policy.

How exactly is this fixing accomplished? Rather than speak in generalities, let's do AOL. Let's do the anatomy of a lie. We'll take just one. You have to pay a little bit of attention here because it flows through a chronology. Here is how it works.

On August 26, 2002, less than 5 weeks after the briefing at 10 Downing Street, Vice President Cheney gave a major speech in which he said, "We now know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. Among other sources, we've gotten this from the first-hand testimony of defectors including Saddam's own son-in-law."

This was a lie.

Saddam's son-in-law, Hussein Kamel, told us just the opposite when he defected in 1995. Again, he told us just the opposite. You can find it on page 13 of his debriefing report. He said, "All weapons, biological, chemical, missile, nuclear, were destroyed." How did Kamel know this? He was in charge. They were destroyed in July 2001. I'm sorry, in July 1991 at his order. Why? To prevent the U.N. inspectors from finding them after the war. And everything else, everything else Hussein Kamel told us checked out to be true.

Flashback: Cheney Lied about Iraqis meeting with Mohammed Atta- even after the CIA told him otherwise

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:59:16 -0500

The most explosive of allegations came from Cheney, who said that September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta, the pilot of the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center, had met in Prague...

Cheney continued to make the charge, even after he was briefed.. that both the CIA and the FBI discounted the possibility of such a meeting.

Money for Nothing: Who's looting who in Iraq?

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:08:51 -0500

Billions of dollars have disappeared, gone to bribe Iraqis and line contractors’ pockets.

by former CIA Analyst Philip Giraldi

The United States invaded Iraq with a high-minded mission: destroy dangerous weapons, bring democracy, and trigger a wave of reform across the Middle East. None of these have happened.

When the final page is written on America’s catastrophic imperial venture, one word will dominate the explanation of U.S. failure—corruption. Large-scale and pervasive corruption meant that available resources could not be used to stabilize and secure Iraq in the early days of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), when it was still possible to do so. Continuing corruption meant that the reconstruction of infrastructure never got underway, giving the Iraqi people little incentive to co-operate with the occupation. Ongoing corruption in arms procurement and defense spending means that Baghdad will never control a viable army while the Shi’ite and Kurdish militias will grow stronger and produce a divided Iraq in which constitutional guarantees will be irrelevant.

The American-dominated Coalition Provisional Authority could well prove to be the most corrupt administration in history, almost certainly surpassing the widespread fraud of the much-maligned UN Oil for Food Program. At least $20 billion that belonged to the Iraqi people has been wasted, together with hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars. Exactly how many billions of additional dollars were squandered, stolen, given away, or simply lost will never be known because the deliberate decision by the CPA not to meter oil exports means that no one will ever know how much revenue was generated during 2003 and 2004.

Cheney 'Authorized' Libby to Leak Classified Information

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:31:08 -0500

Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush administration's use of prewar intelligence in making the case to go to war with Iraq, according to attorneys familiar with the matter, and to court records.

http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0209nj1.htm
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/10/1433252

Gonzales Lied at Confirmation Hearing

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:10:38 -0500

Shouldn't that alone get him thrown out as Attorney General? When did it become ok to lie to get a job- especially when it comes to spying on American Citizens!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/30/AR2006013001318.html

At the hearing, Feingold asked Gonzales where the president's authority ends and whether Gonzales believed the president could, for example, act in contravention of existing criminal laws and spy on U.S. citizens without a warrant.

Gonzales said that it was impossible to answer such a hypothetical question but that it was "not the policy or the agenda of this president" to authorize actions that conflict with existing law. He added that he would hope to alert Congress if the president ever chose to authorize warrantless surveillance, according to a transcript of the hearing.

In fact, the president did secretly authorize the National Security Agency to begin warrantless monitoring of calls and e-mails between the United States and other nations soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Bush Removed Abramoff Prosecutor- TWICE!

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:18:10 -0500

Twice now, Bush has removed the prosecutor in the Abramoff case. Twice!

From the LA Times, Aug 8, 2005 via Bellaciao:

WASHINGTON — A US grand jury in Guam opened an investigation of controversial lobbyist Jack Abramoff more than two years ago, but President Bush removed the supervising federal prosecutor, and the probe ended soon after.

SF Chronicle, Jan 27, 2006:

The investigation into Jack Abramoff, the disgraced Republican lobbyist, took a provocative new turn Thursday when the Justice Department said the chief prosecutor in the inquiry would step down next week because he had been nominated to a federal judgeship by President Bush.

How can Bush remove Abramoff’s prosecutor twice and get away with it?

Legal Scholars: Bush Spying Excuse "not even close"

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:51:58 -0500

Just because Bush says his domestic spying program is legal and justified does not make it so. While the Constitutional scholars didn’t say, “he’s lying”, they did say that his program is “blatantly unlawful” - which is basically calling him a liar, diplomatically.

that Mr. Bush’s warrantless domestic wiretapping program is legal, as contended by his lawyers - simply cannot be taken seriously.

Former NSA Lawyer: Bush committed a crime

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:40:24 -0500

Constitutional Scholar Jonathan Turley at Conyers' NSA Hearing: Bush Committed a Crime mp3

On Dec 30th 2005, the President signed the torture bill and he used a “signing statement”- reserving the right to violate that law. Now we know that there is an NSA operation based on the same extreme theory of Presidential power.
The problem with these claims is that they are devoid of any limiting principles. They place this country on a slippery slope that inevitably leads to a maximum leader.

Halliburton overcharged taxpayers by $1 Billion

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:13:32 -0500

"I can unequivocally state that the abuse related to contracts awarded to KBR (Kellogg Brown and Root) represents the most blatant and improper contract abuse I have witnessed during the course of my professional career," said Greenhouse, a procurement veteran of more than 20 years.

Surely we caught the crooks that fixed the books bilking US taxpayers from a Billion dollar, (actually it's $1.5 Bil now)... no, we didn't catch the crooks, we gave them a $60 million bonus!

The Corporate Plunder of Iraq

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:31:05 -0500

During 14 months of its existence the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) – the body set up to rule Iraq and headed up by Bush favourite Paul Bremer – issued 100 legal orders by decree.

Those orders, implemented without the consent of Iraqi people, represent a pure form of neo-liberal orthodoxy that has had profound and irreversible consequences for the Iraqi economy.

The explicit aim was to promote fast entry into Iraq’s oil rich economy. CPA Order 12, implemented a month after George Bush declared major hostilities over, suspended customs and duty charges on goods entering the country.

Within a few days of the order being passed, mass produced chicken legs were dumped on the Iraqi economy by US companies, forcing the market price of chicken down to 71p a kilogram, below the cheapest price that Iraqi producers could sustain.

Those chicken legs were surplus to the US market because the average American prefers breast meat. Before the invasion, those chicken legs would have most likely been sold as pet food.