Bush Slanders Troops, Blaming Them For His Own Torture Policy
Wed Jun 18, 2008 at 07:29:01 PM PDT
I wasn't planning on posting anything tonight, but 2-star general Anthony Taguba has just directly accused George W. Bush, and others in Bush's Administration, of war crimes.
George W. Bush's response, apparently, is to deny that he directly and personally authorized torture. Rather than taking personal responsibility for his actions George W. Bush has attempted to blame American troops in the field (who themselves have been systematically abused by the Bush administration) for premeditated war crimes that were almost certainly directly authorized by Mr. Bush himself.
Foul, Mr. President.
You sent American soldiers off, on false premises, to fight and suffer in a needless and horrible war, now you blame them for edicts that have flowed from your own presidential, executive signature ?
Foul, Mr. President. Take responsibility. You yourself have reveled in your role as "the decider". Do you now claim that claim was a hoax or an empty boast ?
July 26 - a date which shows why Bush is no Truman
Thu Jul 26, 2007 at 03:27:52 AM PDT
Any date on the calendar carries significance. One can find multiple important people who have that as their birthday. Among the living today Helen Mirren turns 62, Mick Jagger and Admiral Mike McConnell 64, and Kevin Spacey 48. Among historic figures we commemorate Carl Jung born in 1875, G B Shaw in 1856, Gracie Allen in 1902, and Aldous Huxley in 1894. Historic events include Ben Franklin becoming Postmaster General in 1775, Churchill resigning after an election loss in 1945, King Farouk resigning in 1952, Nasser nationalizing the Suez Canal in 1956, and the first Bush signing the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990.
But on this day we should reflect about Harry Truman, because in 1947 he signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and one year later he issued his executive order desegregating the U S armed forces.
President Given Talking Points for Secret NSC Meeting
Mon Oct 02, 2006 at 02:55:12 PM PDT
I am watching MSNBC's Hardball. Andrea Mitchell is covering Bob Woodward's new book
State of Denial. In the context of discussing the White House effort to discredit Woodward's reporting, Andrea Mitchell held up a document that she said was the "President's Talking Points for a Secret NSC (National Security Council) Meeting" that took place just before the United States invaded Iraq.
Okay so...
Why would the President of the United States of American need a "talking points" memo for a National Security Meeting?
A briefing memo sure - of course that might be something he would need, but a talking points memo to talk with his own staff members? WTF?
Mitchell then reported that Bush's contribution to the discussion was "Kick some ass!"
Exposing "Friends of Science" as Big Oil mouthpiece, Part 2
Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 08:05:50 AM PDT
A few days ago, I wrote
Part 1: Carter & Harris: Gore "an embarrassment to U.S. science" in this series of diaries which slowly but surely exposes the hidden connections of
Friends of Science to Big Oil and the electric companies. They got publicity in the Canadian Free Press thanks to columnist Tom Harris, who was exposed in Part 1 as a lobbyist for Canadian electrical companies (see comments, thanks Kossacks!).
I've now gathered enough information for a Part 2. (I had posted an earlier version of this that I deleted; for those that saw it, like va dare, see the new info I found on Tim Patterson and APCO Worldwide.) Part 3 will focus on the actual argument made by Bob Carter and his ilk trying to deny that global warming is a serious threat and how Kossacks can refute them succinctly. Be forewarned, it will be a diary with a moderate amount of science in it. But first, let us explore the Big Oil connections. This diary will focus on the connections of the scientists themselves in the Friends of Science group to Big Oil, specifically 
.
Follow me below the fold for all the sordid details.
BREAKING: Vanity Fair on Niger yellowcake - "black propaganda"
Tue Jun 06, 2006 at 09:27:35 PM PDT
Just out -
Vanity Fair has a story with named sources saying, "the Niger documents were part of a covert operation to deliberately mislead the American public."
The article's lead paragraph:
The Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. As much of Washington knew, and the world soon learned, the charge was false. Worse, it appears to have been the cornerstone of a highly successful "black propaganda" campaign with links to the White House
The damning part:
..at least nine of these officials believe that the Niger documents were part of a covert operation to deliberately mislead the American public.
The sources are listed explicity... (more on the flip)
"A Symphony of Preparedness"...Against Bloggers???
Sat Feb 11, 2006 at 03:44:26 AM PDT
Canadian Press
Published: Friday, February 10, 2006 WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government concluded its Cyber Storm wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers.
BLOGGERS?! We're the object of a WARGAME?
More below
CLASSIFIED: Minutes of 6/10/03 National Security Council Meeting
Thu Nov 17, 2005 at 09:03:19 AM PDT
At great risk to my own freedom (as well as the freedom of the source who provided me these materials), I am posting a transcript of the National Security Council (NSC) meeting from June 10, 2003.
In the meeting, the particpants discuss exposing Valerie Plame's name to various media sources. Included in the meeting:
- George Bush
- Dick Cheney
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Condoleeza Rice
- Stephen Hadley
- Karl Rove
If I stop posting for more than a day, you will know that I have been hauled in for questioning. If I cease posting for more than a week, you will know that I've been dragged down to Guantanamo. And if I never post here again, you will know that I was renditioned to Uzbekistan where I had my sense of humor forcibly removed using only a set of needlenose pliers and a curling iron.
Read on for the full transcript...
Wilkerson op-ed piece in today's LA Times
Tue Oct 25, 2005 at 03:56:54 AM PDT
For those of you who didn't participate in the Red Eye diary and thread, it was announced that Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff while Secretary of State, has an op-ed piece in this morning's Los Angeles Times.
Here's a link to that op-ed piece, which is guaranteed to delight and amaze you:
The White House cabal .
I think that the op-ed piece goes beyond the speech Wilkerson delivered last week, but you'll have to make up your own minds about that. I quote my favorite sentences from the end of the piece below the fold.
