The right wing may soon regret their “faith-based” initiatives and other pandering to fundamentalist Christian interests, as Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the country and probably better-organized to take advantage of these new laws to the detriment of the very people who cheer them now.

Check out this forum discussion:

http://www.harpers.org/IsThereACaseForImpeachment.html

new license plate for everyone: WDID911

A curious side to this war is the resulting immigration to America of Iraq’s refugees-- people whose lives have become intolerably unsafe due to our disastrous actions. The Muslims that Bush and his ilk love to hate are coming here, influencing many aspects of our culture, including religion, food, music, and apparel, like it or not. What most xenophobes fail to understand is that when war blows holes through borders, these inevitably become doors that swing both ways. I wouldn’t blame Iraqis if they sealed it shut again from their side, though.

Understand, the despotic mistake occupying the White House is enjoying the power gifted him by the gang of 5 on the supreme court.

Bush continues to draw our fire but is he the real enemy?  Regime change is necessary but not sufficient to restore America.  Bush and his cabal would be nothing if they were not supported by unjustifiable fear engendered by propaganda, BIG MONEY, religious fanaticism, and a “bottom line” motivated media.  Separation of state and corporations is more important than separation of state and church.  Democracy, business and religion can live and thrive when each tends to its own responsibilities. Corporations and churches are the antithesis of a democratic government and chaos will reign when either attempts to rule.

We can point out this administrations failings, liars, cheaters and thieves in volumnes of detail and it will make interesting reading. Why bother? The whole cabal are war criminals who should and hopefully will be convicted of crimes against humanity and imprisoned. If Iraq and Iran had no oil they would be treated like Darfur. Apparently our top “elected?” offical’s short-sightedness has actually increased. Luckily, we will shortly be facing a serious economic correction and by the time we have stabilized and the petroleum wars are over we will all have a common currency coping with climate change. Fred

Of course Bush knew there were not WMD in Iraq.  One can argue that the reason he sent so few troops into Iraq is because he knew that the people there didn’t have ‘Jack’to fight with.

And as for the hijackers doing their deed? under the nose of Bush.  Did they?  Lets suppose that they were sent here to do some damage, but found that they themselves had been double-crossed.  Who would or could they tell.  Their government?  Our government?  If they knew they were doomed, maybe they decided to go out with a bang.  The WTC stands for money, the Pentagon the military, the White House, Bush. I sometimes can’t help but think that bin Laden is playing the same religious game with the Muslims as Bush is playing with the religious sects here.  After all, they are both oil guys who hated Saddam.

And we should never forget that Bush entered this presidency with the idea of getting Saddam.  They only problem would be, how to sell it.  Incrediously 9-11 happened.

Follow the $$$!
“Uncle Bucky” Strikes it Rich!

Bush’s Uncle Earned Millions in War Firm Sale
An SEC filing shows William H.T. Bush collected about $1.9 million in cash, plus stock valued at $800,000, from the deal.
By Walter f. Roche, Jr., Times Staff Writer - L.A. Times - March 23, 2006

.......A report filed with the U.S. Securiteies and Exchange commission shows that William H.T. Bush collected just under $1.9 million in cash plus stock valued at more than $800,000 from the sale of Engineered Support Systems Inc. to DRS Technologies of New Jersey.
The $1.7-billion deal closed Jan. 31. Both firms have extensive military contracts.
....The contracts, some awarded on a no-bid basis, include a $77-million deal to refit military vehicles with armor for use in Iraq.
Other ESSI products used in the war include radar and detcetion services, field medical stations and field electrical generator units.
....Unamed members of theESSI board and corporate officers have been supoenaed in the inquiry, according to documents.
....SEC filing show that William Bush, 67, exercised options on 8,348 shares of ESSI stock on Jan. 18, 2005, about two months after the stop order was issued and six months before it was disclosed. He collected about $450,000 in cash.
...He (Uncle Bucky) heads a St. Louis investment firm and is the youngest brother of former President George H.W. Bush.

George Bush is a failure as president. He and his crew disrespect the American public and the world community. Together, they obviously sensed early on that waging war in Iraq would be an excellent outlet for his macho self-image and lack of talent as a visionary leader. Just this week, he admitted to spending his “polical capital” on the war in Iraq. Of course he did. He brought nothing else to the table as president. The only Bush deficit larger than the fiscal is his gaping incapacity as chief executive. Tragically, it is the American people who,in their failure to astutely scrutinize the fraud that is George Bush, are ultimately responsible for this tragic outcome.

If you are going to go to war, or in our case watch our country go to war, then there should be some benefit, I mean talk about not having your cake and not eating it either.  Where is the cheap gas, the newly woven carpets and items made of sand, where is the puppet government and all kinds of awesome things that come with buying a country?  Geez it seems the best way to get support for the war is to give us something other than lies about democracy and how we supposedly have to go export it and all that non-sense.  As much as I hate Republicans and war mongering, the benefits of it at least make things sane.  Except for the guy or two who collects check from Halliburton, who is making out here?  We’re getting squat.  What gives?

To all the above comments,I would like to add one more comment:  I remember well when Bush made the decision three years ago that the inspection process was only delaying him from taking the action he thought was authorized by the UN and the Senate, and he was going send the troops into battle.  I was appalled at the decision because it was one that was very immorally and inhumanely wrong based upon military axioms.  “George Bush clearly stated as an argument against Saddam Hussein that he used chemical weapons on his own people before and he will use them again.” He clearly stated that there was no deterrent for him to use chemical weapons against us.  As a former Chemical Corps Officer and a graduate of NSM School, C&GS;College, and War College, and from studying mil itary history, I learned that it is important for the success of any military operation you must never commit troops in combat when the enemy possesses a weapon that can cause mass casualties, without first neutralizing that weapon (either physically, by deterrence, or intelligence - knowing where they are and who/what enemy forces have the capability to use them).  The reason for this is two fold:  first, ground troops are critical in defeating the enemy, controlling and occupying the land.  A commander therefore needs all those troops (economy of force doctrine – you must not waste resources). Secondly, it is immoral to sacrifice human life, especially your own troops.  Bush either knew that there was no WMD (chemical/biological) or he made an inhumane, immoral decision to commit combat troops where thousands of troops could have been sacrificed in one chemical attack.  Sure gas masks can help if you have enough warning and are not downwind from the attack.  However, the worst chemicals penetrate the skin as well as clothing unless you are wearing impregnated clothing including head covering and gloves.  Try entering combat with all that protection in temperatures of 120 degrees.  You cannot fight and win a war with all that protection. (The troops did not have all that protection when the war started and still don’t) Therefore,it was important (probably mandatory according to military doctrine) to neutralize that enemy capability (his WMD) before committing troops.  This was especially important since Tommy Franks’ concept of operation was based on the “concentration of forces” doctrine which makes the troops even more vulnerable to WMD. The only way to neutralize the enemy’s WMD capability was to first find out where it was. The UN Inspections were therefore critical to complete before ever considering commiting troops to battle.  Stopping the UN inspections was therefore a stupid immoral decision by Bush.  And, over the next three years, his decision making ability never improved. We should all be grateful that there were no WMD, and therefore no 30,000 body bags bringing home the troops. The military should also have refused to enter battle until the WMD were found.  However, what military commander will refuse president?  You know what happens when they do, they get relieved.

Meanwhile, there’s a civil war raging in Iraq, oursourcing is eliminating jobs that pay above the minimum wage and global warming threatens the future well-being and lives of our children and grandchildren.  What’s worse, our so-called representatives have sold-out to the powers that be.  What to do about it?  We the people change the world, that’s what.

Shearer has the laudable ability to keep pounding away at Bushes lies, mis-steps, blank faced stares, and clearly pre-meditated distortions of past remarks, in a consistent, level headed series of arguments based on the facts as they have emerged.  I don’t have that ability and really don’t expect anything different from GW then what he has shown us for the last term and a half.

But there is one argument of his (Bush) that has resonated with many Americans, I’m afraid to say.  Although I know this argument to be false (as I imagine many of you do as well), that does not mean that millions of Americans aren’t buying it.  The argument is that even if the invasion was based on faulty claims (WMD, links to BinLaden, attempted purchases of yellow cake), it doesn’t matter because what we have accomplished is taking the fight to a middle eastern state (Iraq), and not the US.  Also, I imagine that their plan was originally to have an eventual puppet government in Bagdhad which would allow US bases to remain and thereby oversee the long term delivery of oil, the importance of which should not be downplayed.  I don’t think he’s accomplishing any of these objectives and don’t want to start a long argument as to why (I think that has already been done), but I’d like to see some discussion about the fact that many in the US see this whole damn fiasco as “necessary costs” to keep the fighting there and not here; much as Israel has always been seen as an at times annoying, but necessary, police presence for us in an otherwise very troubled region.

I’d say that the country would be better off if Bush were impeached...but then Dick Cheney would not only be calling the shots but would be standing at a podium and scowling behind the Great Seal!

The ONLY solution is to enforce The Plan against the traitorous N.W.O. Zion-Nazi mass-murder, inside-job perpetrators of OKC, 911, 7/7/2005 and the phoney War on Terror and their cronies in the U.S. Government:- http://i.am/jah/plan.htm

silversurfer had it right, this is all about the petrodollar. this is what makes the Iraq invasion such a complete strategic mistake, the only thing we’ve accomplished in Iraq is to put Iran in the catbird’s seat. and Iran, unlike Iraq circa 2002, can really hurt us economically because of their position as OPEC’s number 2 exporter of oil, and it looks more and more likely that something is gonna happen either by us or Israel. it will be bad.

Dori Gaylord on 3/22 at 9:03 am wrote this:

“It’s unbeleivable that so many people in the Rep. party-and others- have not seen through the lies of this administration.  And those that have, are not doing much about it.  The biggest evil-doer is Rove, actually, next to Cheney.  It is hard to think of a more menacing and deceiving bunch and, worse yet, that we are letting it go on and on. I must admit, Bush is a lot smarter than I thought he was in his ability to keep the big deception going. “

It’s not that Bush is so smart, it’s that the American people are so ignorant, lazy and cowardly.  I am continuously amazed at how many American know NOTHING about what is really going on in the world - and are very happy not to know.  They much prefer to blindly follow our “fearless leader” who feeds them lies that make them feel better.  It worked so well he got re-elected - which is astonishing.  Don’t be surprised when the Repubs maintain majorities in the House and Sentate in November.  The sheeple will come through for Bush again. I am fighting against it, but I have no illusions that people here have really woken up still.

By the way, Prof Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt, onlrb.co.uk, london review and Harvard review. Brilliant. Shows the AIPAC lobbyists and others, who got us into Iraq. Brave article. Unfortunately, now on CNN, many of same right wing neo-cons keep coming on. Why does CNN not show lack of electricity and poor sewage. Bring on Mr Scheer on CNN & MSNBC. The media are constantly intimidated from telling us the Iraq fiasco.

What percentage of Americans know what free-fall velocity is?  Put another way, if you asked 1000 people at random what free-fall velocity is, how many could answer correctly?

A related question:  What percentage of Americans have taken a real physics course with calculus?

The less people understand, the less they see, and vice versa.

Bush said No President wants to go to war, yet the only honest man Bush appointed, Paul O’Neil said they were talking about going after Iraq from day 1.
While Cheney wanted Iraq for oil, I think that W wanted to do it because he thought it was a romp and he would go down in history as a Great one and that he would overcome the Bush wimp factor.

Comment on BG1’s comment of 3/21---"all three buildings...fell straight down.”

Yes. And I am NOT an engineer but it struck me as very odd, (as I watched on TV the buildings collapse, one after another) that it looked very like what I had seen before, when the collapse of buildings designated for removal was televised & shown on the screen…

Eerie, I thought! Not what I would have expected buildings to do, after being hit by huge planes...Straight down! Wow! Straight DOWN. (Even the building that had not been hit by a plane.) STRAIGHT DOWN. I’m not certain what it was I THOUGHT buildings would do, if hit by planes, but falling straight down wasn’t it.

Bush and the whole Bush gang can be held accountable if one house of the U.S. Congress can be wrested from Repub. control in November.

You know what the sick thing is?  As dumb, retarded, ignorant, dimwitted, incompetent, childish, selfish, and greedy as Dubya is--his parents and circle of elite rulers STILL think he’s smarter and more worthy of privelege than almost all of the American people.

These are sick people, born into a status quo that STRONGLY favors them, a system designed to keep the poor without money and keep the rich wealthy and in power.  It’s a case of, “Hey, we got a good thing going...why mess it up?” The notion of ‘democracy’ is to them so flimsy and laughable that they don’t even pay attention to it.  What do the American people want?  WHO CARES.  What do the American people deserve?  NOTHING.  If they’re born poor, they can die that way for all Bush and his friends care.

They’re too busy enjoying the jet-set lifestyle of the rich & powerful, too busy inflating their own egos and imagining themselves described in history books.  These are sick, shallow men (and women) who act as if the world revolves around them, because it DOES, if they have anything to say about it--and they DO. 

They are a part of the small 1 or 2% who have more wealth and power than the bottom 95% COMBINED.  Is this a healthy way to divide resources or to run a society?  It’s time for some WEALTH RE-DISTRIBUTION.  They re-distribute the wealth out of the public’s pocket and into their own, time and again.  Who’s PAYING for the Iraq ‘war’?  The U.S. taxpayers!  Who’s BENEFITTING from the Iraq ‘war’?  Halliburton, Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, etc!  They funnel the public’s wealth into a small collection of very big, very private pockets.

The real reason our glorious Capitalist leaders found the idea of Communism to be so heinous and vile is not any of the ‘50s era propaganda tripe you still hear these days about them being “godless” or “hell-bent on world domination"--no, it’s because of the simple fact that these Capitalist pigs were afraid that Communism would spread a bad example---sharing the wealth more evenly than this “American Dream” fraud.  These Capitalist pigs like Bush & Cheney are FINE with 90% of the population living in slums, so long as THE ELITE still get to keep their mansions and yachts and nice clothes and toys.

These are psychopathic personalities.  No conscience.  No care for others, no ability (or interest) to empathize.  No willingness to consider their own actions.  They were born into a world that seems fine & dandy to them--because THEY are the few who benefit from the current arrangment.  “Life is good!” “It’s good to be the King.”

It’s time to bring down U.S. Capitalism.  It’s corrupt from top to bottom, and it’s leading the world in horrific directions.  The logical conclusion of Capitalism is a sick picture of greed, violence, deception, and staggering inequality that exacerbates every problem connected to it. 

U.S. Capitalism is a sick dog, and needs to be put down.  It’s never given the American People the things we’ve been promised.  Our best hope of achieving the American Dream now lies with “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” and “Deal or No Deal.” How many of us are still under the delusion that hard work will equal good pay?  That’s not true in America any more, and it’s getting less true every day.

Bobby, if anything Bush has taught us over here in Canada is that any fool with an IQ of a worm can be President. Many Canadians now expect America to invade our own land when times get tough. And even though most of us would probabaly be blown off the earth by the American Gestapo State, we will defend the right to live freely and not to be ruled by a dictatorships new world revived empire American order. Bush is nuts, plain and simple. A man who can laugh and tell creepy jokes while talking amongst his American followers in one sentence then mention Iraqi women and children being slaughtered for a good cause in another is a sure sign the grandson of the man who helped fund Hitler wants to rule the world as well. With a smile.

How can GW look unprepared in townhall “style” lectures/interviews when he knows all the questions in advance? I could not imagine that the leader of the Free World is unprepared for his own press conference.

Even if I were a die-hard republican, of which I am not, I would have difficulty accepting the ineptness and lies of this pathetic administration. You are doing a wonderful job Karl Rove! Keep up the good work, because you are starting to remind of Teflon Don.

Cleveland shows once more what a large bubble of denial of facts W. lives in.  As he does more of these out of desperation to recover some ratings, his bubble will be more and more visible.

He will continue to slide into futility. His naked incompetence will be increasingly revealed.

“BUSH BOMBS IN CLEVELAND” Thanks again, Robert, for your superb analysis of GW’s road trip.  I caught some of the reporting on CNN and for the very first time, realized how he appeals to so many.  [Excuse please, that should be past tense, appealed.] It is uncanny and very dangerous.  He has the ability to present himself as innocent.  According to Freud, this asset is the thing that permits criminals, such as serial killers, to get away with their horrors for so long.  They may be nabbed time and again but their ability to come across as someone who wouldn’t harm a fly compells the law to let them go.  Lies, to such an individual means the same as truth.  In time, it is also the thing that deprives a person of conscience.  He cannot feel remorse for his own actions nor for the sufferings of others.  He is unable to give or receive love.  He is 100 percent self-absorbed; more science fiction creature than human.

Indeed, GW is one who cannot seem to keep his foot out of his mouth.  His remark that ‘critics should look past the images of violence to see clear signs of progress’ is just so outrageous that it’s laughable.  Did he mean the conglomerates of terror groups is progress?  Exactly where is one supposed to look to see this progress?  One’s vision is limited, of course, but not blinded.  GW, Inc., with the aid of Blair, has created total chaos in the country that was Iraq.  Civil war rages but still; following his personality, he is in denial of any responsibility.  One is appaled!  Just what did he think a president’s duties were, anyway?

GW’s little road trips are but for one thing and that is in attempt to recoup support for the House and Senate in November.  The republicans in leadership who seem to be shying away from him now is but for one thing.  That is in an attempt to make the people believe they are in disapproval of his policies, when they have been a rubber-stamp the whole way.  We can only hope that no one buys into this ploy.

Keep up your fine reporting, Robert.  No one does it as well as you!

Now with the stepped up speaking campaign to bolster sagging approval ratings, each night on network news we see sound bites of our boy king lying and retelling old lies over and over again, with not one nod by these news organizations to the fact that these are known to be lies. The average Joe on the street thinks he’s just seen the news, when what he’s really seen is only just basically, an ad. Our fraternity boy towell snapper leader tells us we’ll be in Iraq at least until his term is over, and His Malevolence, the vice president tells us that, despite evidence to the contrary, progress is being made on the ground. But no one tells us that the progress he’s talking about is progress on the military bases being built there by Haliburton, to protect and control the oil, and that when they’re well fortified with defenses and air strips and all, we’ll leave the rest of the country free to rebuild itself. That will be Iraqi Freedom, that will be Victory, and that will be when our Mission has been Accomplished. Where’s the news on that? Do they need to be paid to tell us the rest of the story?

Bush is a puppet. His handlers are the ones we should all fear. The lies, misdirection and exposed coverups are all what are known in intelligence circles as “limited hangouts”, designed to keep the public focused on everything but the truth. Even portions of the truth are revealed in order to keep the real agenda hidden.

Yes, the Iraq folly was launched ostensibly to control their oil. And we in the truth movement may convince many of that truth. But those who insist U.S. expansionism is only about oil just play into the medacity of the snakes intent on global hegemony. The question we must ask is, why Iraq? And now Iran? Why not a multitude of other areas where oil is abundant and not nearly as likely to cause a worldwide stink? We’re not making a thin dime on the oil that supposedly was to finance this whole escapade.

Why? Now that you’ve asked, I’ll tell you why. The DOLLAR. Ever since the OPEC agreement that mandated worldwide payments for oil be made in US$, ALL transactions worldwide have always been made in US$. To buy oil, countries had to have dollars. As long as they needed dollars to purchase oil, the US had a captive market for its burgeoning credit expansion.

Saddam Hussein was about to blow that monopoly sky high when he began offering Iraqi oil on the open market in exchange for Euro$. The fragile US economy and indeed Western life as we know it is absolutely dependent on the supremacy of the US$. So, we go to war to protect the US$. Now Iran plans to launch an oil bourse to sell its oil on the open market in, guess what? EURO$! And the wars go on.

Hope Mr Scheer, will comment on powerful John Mearsheimer & Stephan Walt article & book coming. Shows how AIPAC, has made us a warmongering nation. The 800 pound gorilla of our politics. We should be a peace loving nation and should REALIZE THAT CHINA .... IS THE 800 POUND GORILLA IN THE NEXT 5-10 YEARS. Should make peace with Iran & Middle East.

Letter to SF Chronicle March 22

Hard reality of Bush’s parallel universe

Instead of dismissing the “parallel universe” of George Bush as illusion, we do better to understand why the White House considers Iraq a “mission accomplished.” Measured only by outrageously misleading PR promises, or lives lost, certainly Iraq is a mess, a dramatic failure.

Measured, however, in rightwing, neo-con terms, namely control over the entire region, Iraq is a decent success.  Pakistan, Egypt, and Syria are quiet, and even Iran is backing off.  Measured by controlling the flow of Iraqi oil, to boost prices and moderate Asian growth, Iraq is a
startling, three-year success.  Measured imperialistically, proving how horrifically the U.S. military punish countries refusing to play by our rules, Iraq is almost a triumph.  Even direct terrorist attacks on America appear in remission.

Iraq for me is about “shock and awe” in its most devastating, world-wide sense.  That “petro-imperialism” doesn’t sell nearly as well as freedom and democracy hardly puts Bush in a phantom universe, just requires deception from the start.  Kevin Phillips’ new book, “American Theocracy,” describes the world Bush inhabits, combining apocalyptic visions of holy war, U.S. troops as oil police force, and incredible American blindness towards what mammoth war deficits mean.

This administration may be selfish, deluded, wrong-headed, and incompetent but its “universe” is rooted in hard, literally “underground” realities.  Our foreign policy won’t change until more people get what Iraq has been and is truly about.

Robert Becker

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Bush gang is in a parallel universe on Iraq

Editor—It is painful to watch President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stumble and bumble their way through reality.

Their incessant blather about how well things are going in Iraq ("we will be greeted with open arms,” “mission accomplished,” “Iraq will be rebuilt with Iraqi oil revenue,” “the insurgency is in its death throes,” “there is no civil war” and “I have a strategy for victory") in the face of daily carnage in that beleaguered country, makes one wonder what universe they inhabit.
DANTE TROTTA

Bushco have a singular, exceedingly strange way of viewing the world.  S. Hayes of the AEI said this morning on CSPAN that sometime before or just after the American invasion in ‘03 Iraqi government officials “looted” government files and subsequently burned them as incriminating evidence. Is it possible to “loot” one’s own files?  The use of that word is interesting in what it implies, namely that those files rightfully belonged to Americans.  In context of the bigger picture, the whole world belongs to America - to do with as it pleases.

Comment on Steve Jones comment:

The government investigations failed to prove that the temps in side both WTC 1 & 2 ever reached the temp required to melt the steel columns.

The government investgations didn’t even attempt to explain why the WTC #7 collapsed: wasn’t hit by any planes and over 300 feet away from WTC 1 & 2. Have you ever seen any film of it collapsing/imploading? Consider yourself lucky if you have.

Remember, our government told every one that the dust and debris were safe and that everyone should return to work. This was after the EPA reports showed that the debris contained high concentrations of mercury, asbetos, and high pH material. I guess they figured someone had to “take one “ for the team because the economy needed Wall Street up and running.

A funny thing - the owner of the WTCs buildings insured them against a terrorist attack 2 months before 9/11.

No I’m not an engineer but I did take the hour plus time to watch Proffesor Jones’ lecture and the facts presented are truly enlightening.

Why are we in Iraq? Our nation will collapse without oil and the world is now in to the “Peak oil” decline. Without 9/11 there couldn’t be the lie about WMDs and the mushroom cloud. Without 9/11 there would be no excuse for the invasion of Iraq. And now, 3 years out, how many people are aware that the USA has built or is now constructing permanent military bases and airfields in Iraq. Why? To stake out and defend our oil spigot.

“The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts.”: Thomas Jefferson

It’s unbeleivable that so many people in the Rep. party-and others- have not seen through the lies of this administration.  And those that have, are not doing much about it.  The biggest evil-doer is Rove, actually, next to Cheney.  It is hard to think of a more menacing and deceiving bunch and, worse yet, that we are letting it go on and on. I must admit, Bush is a lot smarter than I thought he was in his ability to keep the big deception going.

“That’s a great question...” ranks right up there with, “The American people...” as far as irrelevant phrases coming out of the mouth of this Administration.

“… a safe haven for terrorists to plot new attacks against our nation...” is an example of how ignorant, misleading, and/or downright stupid (different from ignorant) these people are (or think we are).

Terrorists don’t need a “safe haven”.  Logic dictates that anybody willing to kill themselves for a cause is not very concerned about “safety” or “havens”.  If they were, they would certainly prefer to live in open societies rather than closed ones where their every move would be monitored (it seems we’re approaching that state here).

Who are these people (the Administration) talking to?  It can’t be anyone familiar enough with history to know that unlike what Bush says, “Democracies do not war with each other...” they do war with each other- often.

It just depends on what your definition of Democracy is.  Further, as for Democracies being “peaceful”, perhaps he could pick up a history book (or Google) “U.S. and war”.

Unless, of course, that can of unpleasant worms is somehow to be ignored like the crazy aunt in the attic.

There was a time when one could simply ascribe ignorance to the man.  Then came a time when that changed to dangerous ignorance.  Unfortunately, we have now reached a point where his rantings and broken record speeches seem to have passed over to a delusionally dangerous ignorance with sprinkles of carelessness and reckless abandon (for taste)- mix with greed and contempt for all but “rich, white men- folk”.

A true recipe for an utterly complete disaster pie.  Guaranteed to leave no “compassion” or “conservative” aftertaste.

Al Qaeda could not have known the WTC buildings would collapse. To some extent, the war on terror is based on a mistakes by al Qaeda and structural engineers.

I am curious to know if people directly affected by the WTC collapse have sought to sue the engineers.  Such a suit would also bring the conspiracy theories out into the realm of public examination.

Joanne askes, “When will the Congress, House, and American people say “enough!” and get this lying joker and his cronies out?”

I wonder---if George’s calling our consitution a “goddam piece of paper” didn’t do it, then what would it take?

“To be sure, occupied Iraq is useful to al Qaeda and its ilk — as a recruiting poster. In this and myriad other ways, the United States military’s continued heavy-handed presence in Iraq strengthens the hands of extremists and demagogues who can appeal to latent Iraqi nationalism and Muslim pride. Yet we seem to have forgotten that terrorists don’t really need Iraq as “a safe haven for terrorists to plot new attacks against our nation,” as Bush put it — they are just as likely to be drawn from countries that are nominally our allies, such as the 15 hijackers recruited under the noses of the Bush family’s sheikh friends in Saudi Arabia.”

Mr. Scheer-

As Bush and his administration have been proven to be liars, why do you and others still assume that their version of 9/11 is the truth?

The time has come when the country must realize that the Bush Administration is antil-democratic and in many ways a precursor of a fascist state.  When the president of the United States breaks the laws of the state and lies to put us in to a futile war that had nothing to do with 9/11 for his own crazy ideas, it is time to relieve the country from this man who has failed at every job he was given and has continued on his way dragging our country down with him.  I really wonder if he is just retarded or simply crazy.  Whatever the reasons, there is no doubt this country would be better without him and the sooner the berrer.

Reply to Comment #5631 by Bob Faulkner: “The aitplanes apparently sprewed jet fuel all over the floor. The columns must have melted almost simultaneously with the intensity of the heat.”

WTC #7 wasn’t hit by any planes, yet it still collapsed in a free-fall. Having been in the construction trades for much of my life, it struck me as a controlled demolition.

As usual, Scheer Rules!!

Bush ,alas, rules badly

my favorite lie so far is when he said he didn’t want war.

Re comment 5614. Prof. Steven Jones’ paper [http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html] discusses the breakaway of the top 33 floor segment of WTC-2. Please note that this picture shows a rotation of 23 degrees from vertical. THIS IS THE SMOKING GUN OF 9/11 which probably occured because of asymetric placement of explosives. This mistake, if uncorrected, should have resulted in the segment’s continued rotation and ultimate collapse into Liberty Street. This did NOT happen. Instead in the next split second this 33-floor segment of WTC-2 stopped rotating and blew up in midair into a cloud of pulverized concrete and ejected steel girders along with the sequenced demolition of the rest of the building. The prevention of this segment’s rotation violates the laws of physics unless acted upon by an external force. An act of HUMAN INTERVENTION to correct the detonation mistake was needed to subtract the support force (by the rest of the tower) to stop its rotation.  This was accomplished instantaneously when the rest of the tower was demolished below along with the blowing up of the segment itself.

Fluff up your feather pillows and keep the tar on the back burner for the US Government and their Corporate State Controlled Media Whores!

I hope bush stays on tour speaking every day. Because every time this moron opens his mouth his drops another few points in the polls. It gets to the point that anyone with half a brain can see right through this phony when he continually and blatantly lies. So please, let his stump all over the country, it won’t be long that he’d be in the minus figures if there were such a thing.

“I don’t think we ever said — at least I know I didn’t say — that there was a direct connection between Sept. 11 and Saddam Hussein.”

Even now, he’s using semantic trickery. No “direct” connection, implying of course there was some indirect linkage or other relationship.

Mr. Scheer:

Thank you for keeping the true issues before the American Public.  Not enough of the media (especially the MSM) is doing so.  I look forward to your continuing commentary.

Rene Gayde

When will the Congress, House, and American people say “enough!” and get this lying joker and his cronies out?  I feel like I am watching a very bad movie with a horrific end in sight.  Where is the barometer of truth?  I cannot believe that the people we elected to office are so afraid of their own personal needs that they have become cowards;ie: Hilary Clinton and others trying to hide and leave before the vote on censure.  Wow! I never thought I would live to see a government like this.  What can we do?  I feel powerless.

Bush lied here:

BUSH: “First, just if I might correct a misperception, I don’t think we ever said—at least I know I didn’t say that there was a direct connection between September the 11th and Saddam Hussein.”

Because Bush said here:

“The use of armed forces against Iraq is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations or person who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.” [President George W. Bush, Letter to Congress, 3/21/03]

He can’t keep his lies straight, there are too many of them.  He has gotten to the point where he will deny his own words.  Very Orwellian.

Comment on Steve Jones comment:

I am not an engineer. The aitplanes apparently sprewed jet fuel all over the floor. The columns must have melted almost simultaneously with the intensity of the heat. Once one floor collapsed, the weight of the collapsing floor on the unsupported areas of the floor beneath seems to have caused it to collapse.

A slimlar thing happened to the top floors of a popular hotel in Mexico City about 20 years ago.

What seems more curious to me is why everyone seems to think that Al Qaeda had planned the complete destruction of the towers. I think they only expected to cause mayhem on a floor or two or three. After all, the architect of the towers said they were designed to withstand a collision of a Boeing 707, probably the largest aircraft at the time they were built.

Bush is not just a liar, he’s nuts.  I really believe he has serious mental problems.  I think this guy is a certified crazy.  He scares me to death, and should everyone else.  We have a man in control of the world who is stupid, arrogant, and crazy as hell.

what’s even stranger than the skepticism of the Cleveland “straw” audience is the turnaround of Mr. Scheer.

For someone who knows full well why we are in Iraq and why we will “stay the course” and be there long after the 8-year supposed Bush reign is over (oil, of course), Scheer has dried up so completely about it that we have to assume that where the LA Times couldn’t keep him quiet about oil, someone else (perhaps his book publishers?) can do so and has done it.

Why does Scheer continue to beat the dead horse of wmds and lies and bad intel when it is a GIVEN that all of it was faked and fixed so we could go steal control of Iraq’s oil?

The only writer with the courage to keep talking about oil seems to be Greg Palast.

I have always seen Molly as a pimp for the media whores, but I am truly saddened to see Robert Scheer, a man I truly admired, go the same route.

Oh, and the reason for the question in Cleveland? Well it has always been that the Rove formula was to talk about the lies and talk about the wmds that didn’t exist so as not to talk about the oil which does exist and was the ONLY reason for wanting anything to do with Iraq. You see, they would much rather discuss the lies than talk about the TRUTH.

It is always a big relief to read that many Americans now feel the same as a majority in the UK that the decision to go to war was based lies and deceptions. Whereas many of us look upon Bush as a fool, the real culprit is Tony Blair who is a very intellegent man who must have know the truth yet still went along with the USA. Would the war have still gone ahead if the USA had had to go it alone?

So Bush has been lying again.  Bush lies as people die. Of course, there are lies, and then there are lies. Seven years ago, a President of the United States was impeached because he lied about details of his sex life. His enemies insisted: It’s not the sex that’s the impeachable offense-- although they couldn’t stop talking about the sex--it’s the lying! Though nobody died for those lies.

Tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, have died for Bush’s lies. Bush’s War is based on a Mountain of Lies, and he keeps on piling lie upon lie, until that Mountain of Lies reaches up through the skies, right through the hole in the Ozone Layer (that Bush’s environmental lies are widening considerably).

The horrifying thing about Bush’s War Lies is that they get worse and worse, more astounding, more obvious, more blatant...or is it delusional?

I suppose that Bush and his handlers feel that if he can get the American people - and our handlers, otherwise known as: the American Mainstream Media - to swallow one whopper, he can get us to open wide and swallow a bigger one. With each lie, Bush shoves it in our mouths, making us gag, making the tears stream down our faces. But we take it, don’t we? We just keep swallowing this bastard’s deadly lies, as he pushes our heads down on his load of crap.

Time to use our teeth on the SOB ! Time to bite down and impeach this incompetent lying chickenhawk brute! America needs a divorce.

So Bush is a liar, what else is new.

One thing that’s been on my mind lately is that I, as an engineer, have been thinking about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11/01.  What’s curious to me, and to other technical people, is that all 3 towers, including WTC 7 which was NOT struck by a plane, all fell in the same way, STRAIGHT DOWN at FREE FALL VELOCITY, INTO THEIR FOOTPRINTS.  The only way to achieve this kind of collapse is with precisely synchronized detonation of carefully placed explosives, i.e. controlled demolition.  Explosions were heard and felt by many people at the WTC.  Experts in controlled demolition, who have seen the videos of the collapses, say they could only have been caused by controlled demolition.

I am a licensed engineer.  See Steven E. Jones., Professor of Physics at BYU.

http://www.st911.org/
http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=96403465200240 8586&q=professor+jones+byu+9/11
http://911review.com/articles/griffin/nyc1.html
http://www.interlinkbooks.com/BooksN/New_Pearl_Harbor.html
http://www.rense.com/general69/discred.htm
http://www.rense.com/general68/911nul.htm
http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/professor_jone s_exposes_controlled_demo.htm
http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/jones/StevenJones.html
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PWgSaBT9hNU&search=9/11 911 9-11 september 11 9/11/01 stephen jones david ray griffin jeff king revisited 911revisited tribute wtc wtc7

He also used this as another opportunity for the straw man argument he uses to counter opponents of his NSA spying program:  “...nobody from the Democrat Party has actually stood up and called for getting rid of the terrorist surveillance program. You know, if that’s what they believe, if people in the party believe that, then they ought to stand up and say it.”