September 10. 2006

A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn’t going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of liberty: George Baumler


Senate Intel Committee Bloodies Bush's Nose
Larry Johnson takes a hard look at today's Senate Intel Committee report: "The Senate Intelligence committee today released 'Postwar Findings About Iraq's WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How They Compare With Prewar Assessments and the Use by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by the Iraqi National Congress' as part of its long awaited and long promised Phase II report about the accuracy of the intelligence and it is ugly for the Bushies."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/0090806X.shtml

Rockefeller: Bush Duped Public On Iraq
After 2 1/2 years of reviewing pre-war intelligence behind closed doors, the lead Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Senator John Rockefeller of West Virginia, who voted for the Iraq War, says the Bush administration pulled the wool over everyone's eyes.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091006X.shtml

America's warrior nation - The legacy of 9/11 By Gore Vidal
The shortcomings of the American leader were alarmingly exposed on the day the terrorists struck. He and his acolytes are now leading their empire towards permanent conflict with lslam . http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14910.htm

FBI Protests CIA Interrogation Tactics
Abu Zubaydah, the first Osama bin Laden henchman captured by the United States after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was bloodied and feverish when a CIA security team delivered him to a secret safe house in Thailand for interrogation in the early spring of 2002. The events that unfolded at the safe house over the next few weeks proved to be fateful for the Bush administration.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091006Y.shtml

General: "Rumsfeld Killed Plans for Post War Iraq"
Shortly after the invasion of Afghanistan Donald Rumsfeld told his team to start planning for war in Iraq, but not to bother planning for a long stay, a high-ranking military official said in an interview.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090906A.shtml


If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy: James Madison: US fourth president, 1751-1836


For US Troops and Their Families, Iraq War's Invisible Costs Keep Piling Up
Upon receiving the news that they would be extended for at least four more months, a seasoned NCO on his second tour of duty with the 172nd Stryker Brigade in Iraq said, "I'd like to punch [Rumsfeld] in the gut. He treats us like we're not human. He acts like he's not destroying families."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091006G.shtml

CIA Can Still Get Tough on Detainees
New US policies on the treatment and interrogation of terrorism suspects outlined this week by the Bush administration mean that the military no longer will resort to harsh or extreme methods to obtain information - but that the CIA could.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090906D.shtml

Interrogation Techniques Rejected By Military Get Bush Approval
Poll Finds Waning Faith in Military Interventions:
Many of the harsh interrogation techniques just repudiated by the Pentagon would be made lawful by legislation put forward the same day by the Bush administration, and the U.S. courts would be forbidden from intervening.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14896.htm


Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.:
Groucho Marx: American comedian, actor and singer, 1890-1977


Senate Panel: No Saddam, al Qaeda Connection
The theory that a connection between Hussein and bin Laden ever existed - widely viewed as government propaganda on the left - has now been debunked. In a harsh rebuke of Vice President Cheney, and other high ranking Bush administration officials, the Senate Intelligence Committee today released a report denying any connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/0090806Y.shtml

Torturing the Truth
"I've said to people we don't torture. And we don't. "That's what President Bush told Katie Couric. The president's statement here is beyond doublespeak and above spin. It's untrue, it's egregious. The Pentagon's backhanded, long-delayed and uncourageous acknowledgment that torture was used also repudiated what the president has been telling citizens for years. We've been lied to and we are still being lied to.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090906E.shtml

On his knees, Bush pins his hopes on fear:
GEORGE BUSH was fighting for his presidency this week as much as for the Republican members of Congress who face defeat at the mid-term congressional elections less than two months away.
http://tinyurl.com/q38h5

Bin Laden Trail 'Stone Cold'
U.S. Steps Up Efforts, But Good Intelligence On Ground is Lacking
The clandestine U.S. commandos whose job is to capture or kill Osama bin Laden have not received a credible lead in more than two years. Nothing from the vast U.S. intelligence world -- no tips from informants, no snippets from electronic intercepts, no points on any satellite image -- has led......
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/09/AR2006090901105.html

Desperate to Remain in Control, GOP Resorts to Attack Ads
Republicans are planning to spend the vast majority of their sizable financial war chest over the final 60 days of the campaign attacking Democratic House and Senate candidates over personal issues and local controversies, GOP officials said.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091006Z.shtml

Bully Bolton :
Has Bolton been central to a multi-year-long neo-crazy conspiracy – falsifying intelligence, while suppressing all legitimate intelligence on nukes and chemical weapons – with the objective of selling pre-emptive war against Iraq, Iran, Syria, et al. to a gullible Congress and populance?
http://www.antiwar.com/prather/?articleid=9677

A Father Remembers a Fallen Marine's Last Days
"In the four months since the death of my son, Sgt. Matthew J. Fenton, from injuries suffered in Iraq, I have stated many times the horror of what I saw in the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland." says John Fenton, "I believe that the time has arrived to tell the whole story of his death and the carnage that was inflicted on some of his fellow Marines. I do not find this easy to do, but as the death toll and injured number continues to climb, I cannot sit silently."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090906G.shtml

On the question of why the US has lost support around the world,
more than two-thirds of respondents identified a "major reason" as the Iraq war; 58% cited "America's wealth and power"; 49% "the US-led war on terror"; and 46% "US support for Israel".
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14892.htm

Armitage admits he blew cover of CIA agent:
The former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage has confirmed that he believes he was the initial source for a 2003 newspaper column that disclosed the CIA's previously secret employment of Valerie Plame, the wife of a prominent critic of the US war in Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/n3pqe

New poll says most Canadians blame U.S. for 9/11 attacks :
A majority of Canadians believe U.S. foreign policy was one of the root causes that led to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and Quebecers are quicker to criticize the U.S. administration for its international actions than other Canadians, a recent poll suggests.
http://tinyurl.com/rcrdc

False Flag Operations:
Declassified Military Documents Show How US Government Planned Terrorist Attacks Against its Own Citizens
http://snipurl.com/w7kg

9/11 lies:
Bamford revealed that an FBI agent who worked as a consultant to the film quit halfway through production of the mini-series because he believed the writers and producers were “making things up.” Watch it:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/07/fbi-agent-quit/

Full house as leading 9/11 conspiracy theorist has his say :
They call it the 9/11 for Truth Movement, and tonight those who believe the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon were carried out by the American government and not jihadist hijackers will gather in London's Conway Hall to listen to one of the biggest figures among a growing number of disbelievers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1868445,00.html

BYU places '9/11 truth' professor on paid leave:
Brigham Young University placed physics professor Steven Jones on paid leave Thursday while it reviews his involvement in the so-called "9/11 truth movement" that accuses unnamed government agencies of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,645199800,00.html

Career Women Face Less Money, Less Marriage
"Is there a war on women who work?" asks Kate Klonick in response to a recent Forbes article which advised men to avoid marrying women with careers.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/090806WB.shtml

Ohio Judge Orders '04 Ballots Be Preserved for Legal Examination
A federal judge ordered Ohio's county elections boards on Thursday to preserve ballots from the 2004 presidential election, a move activists hope will help prove accusations of fraud.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090806G.shtml

The Myth of Fair Elections in America
"The debacle surrounding the Republican victory in 2000 demonstrated to the world that America's electoral process is wide open to abuse," Paul Harris writes, and "America's system of voting is now even more suspect, more complicated, and more open to abuse than ever before."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090806L.shtml


Private Funeral Held for Steve Irwin
BEERWAH, Australia (Sept. 10) - A private funeral for "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was held on Saturday and plans were for his body to be buried at the family-owned Australia Zoo, several Sunday newspapers said.
http://articles.news.aol.com/entertainment/_a/private-funeral-held-for-steve-irwin/20060909192409990006?ncid=NWS00010000000001
(So sad – he will be missed.)