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|  Robert Scheer: Top Spys Story on Prewar Intel Is Finally ToldPosted on Apr 25, 2006“The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy.”
Confession time: In fall 2004, during a crucial presidential election campaign, I made the mistake of playing by corporate media rules that amount to self-censorship. Specifically, I joined other journalists in denying the public the right to learn of a definitive investigative report by CBS’ “60 Minutes” on President Bush’s disregard for the truth concerning the weapons-of-mass-destruction threat allegedly posed to the United States by Iraq. Having received an advance copy of the devastating segment, I honored CBS’ proprietary request not to write about the news it carried until after it aired. Only, it never aired. CBS got cold feet, probably because of Dan Rather’s troubles over an unrelated story critical of the president. The suppressed story was solidly reported and, by exposing the Bush administration’s utter disregard for the truth concerning Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, should have been made available to the public before the November election. Now, no one seems to care. The segment finally aired this past Sunday, in a more robust form. Unfortunately, the response has been tepid; it seems the media, at least, have become jaded with all the endless examples of the president’s perfidy. But the CBS story remains very important as further evidence of the depths of the Bush administration’s deception. Perhaps most damning is an interview, added for the broadcast version, with Tyler Drumheller, a CIA veteran of 26 years’ service who was the agency’s top spy in Europe until his retirement a year ago. According to him, before the war Hussein’s foreign minister had been “turned” and was talking secretly to U.S. intelligence. At first excited by this rare inside look at Hussein’s regime, the top dogs at the White House dropped the issue like a hot rock as soon as his information contradicted their overheated rationale for “preemptive” war. “The policy was set,” Drumheller told CBS correspondent Ed Bradley. “The war in Iraq was coming. And they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy, to justify the policy.” That’s how more than three years later, after at least two major governmental investigations into prewar intelligence on Iraq and countless journalistic post-mortems, we are only just now finding out that a highly placed double agent in Iraq was poking a huge hole in the Hussein-as-WMD-bogeyman story. “They were enthusiastic” at first, said Drumheller, “that we had a high-level penetration of Iraqis.” CIA Director George Tenet reported the news that Hussein’s foreign minister, Naji Sabri, was working covertly for the United States to a White House meeting attended by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Their initial enthusiasm, Drumheller says, quickly turned to cold indifference when Sabri told them the opposite of what they wanted to hear. “He told us that they had no active weapons-of-mass-destruction program,” said the ex-CIA official. “The [White House] group that was dealing with preparation for the Iraq war came back and said they were no longer interested. And we said ‘Well, what about the intel?’ And they said ‘Well, this isn’t about intel anymore. This is about regime change.’ “ The White House refused to comment for the “60 Minutes” report, but CBS noted that Rice has said Sabri was just one source, and therefore not reliable. It was ironic, considering how heavily the Bush administration relied on the now infamous Iraqi defector “Curveball,” whose statements so informed the main administration allegations concerning Iraq’s biochemical weapons. Drumheller was in contact with the German intelligence agency CIS, which had detained the man with the apt code name, and says he himself informed the top CIA officials that Curveball was an outright fraud. “They certainly took information that came from single sources on the yellowcake story and on several other stories with no corroboration at all,” Drumheller said. No wonder this man, who risked his life gathering intelligence for our country, has become a critic of the Bush administration. He is clearly unwilling to allow what the president has described as a permanent war to destroy our democracy. True patriotism is not the blind acceptance of presidential deceit. Imperial ambition turns truth-tellers into enemies, by default, because their goal is not the exaltation of the leader’s power. No wonder so many national security professionals, be they top generals or intelligence officials, have gone public recently to denounce how the Iraq war has been sold and fought: The Bush administration’s willful ignorance and buck-passing mock their dedicated service to the nation.
“It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it’s an intelligence failure,” Drumheller said. “This was a policy failure.”
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My hope is that the American people are finally waking up, and maybe there will be a change come November 2006.
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Hi Robert Scheer,
I saw you on the panel on C-span. I don’t doubt that you are right there were no WMDs and Bush liked about it.
However, I was stunned to hear Scott Ritter call the Saddam Hussein and the Baathist party “non-sectarian.” How could you just let that pass you by and not comment?
The Baath party was a Sunni party that oppressed and excluded Shiites and Kurds. The Baath’s party origins are National Socialist and facist. The Baath party goes back to the 1940s. They cooperated with Hitler and attacked and murdered Iraqi Jews in the 1940s.
I can’t understand why anyone on the left should have anything positive to say about Hussein or the Baath party under any circumstances.
Report thisBy Jimmy, May 1, 2006 at 8:50 am #
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The corporation newsmedia seems to have lost the small reliability they once had. The ‘dumbing’ down of America helps them project their false reports and half- truths.
Report thisThe Bush white house is doing things the Nixon group wanted to accomplish-make the President ‘Emperor’.
Many of Nixon’s gang are active for Bush..ie, “Rummy”, Chaney and others.
Keep up the good work John, this country needs more like you.
By Jennifer Hathaway, April 30, 2006 at 5:30 am #
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All of the coulda shoulda woulda corroboration work and fingerpointing being done here is entertaining, if one likes the pseudointellectual equivalent of Jerry Springer, but it certainly doesn’t give solutions, which are what we need.
Bush is the puppet show, he is the guy who stands up in front of us and provides the diversion so that the guys who are robbing us blind can pick our pockets. We go to war because it is lucrative. It is not an emotional nor an idealistic pursuit, it is purely about the money. With Dick Cheney and George the first collecting good pay from Halliburton and their ilk, it doesn’t take an MBA to figure out who are the puppeteers.
We have been taken over by a corporate oligarchy- I won’t use the word plutocracy because it is the families who run the corporations and marry into one another, who consider themselves to be above the rest of us, that are ruling here. The only way to kill this particular hydra is to starve it. The only way to starve it is to refuse to live the corporate-supplied, mall rat life.
Our food, clothing, educational and shelter needs have been suborned by massive international corporations. We must work longer and longer hours, in increasingly dehumanising conditions, for essentials.
Children whose parents are not wealthy enough to provide alternative education or home schooling do not receive an adequate education.
The food supply consists of manufactured items that lack nutrients, are raised in environmentally devastating conditions [read up on Pennsylvania hog farms for an example], and are actually often unhealthy to those who eat it. More alarming is the fact that 80% of mental retardation in this country is caused by malnutrition [source: my abnormal psych class in college].
The media is largely owned by Rupert Murdoch, and those branches that aren’t do not dispute his distorted, sensationalist versions of things.
Fuel and electrical suppliers are owned by a few large corporations in Texas [go figure][my source- a speech by the head of Central Hudson Electric, here in NYS, about six years ago, stating that all of the generating plants in the area had been purchased by a Texas corporation, and that his company essentially only maintained the lines][He further projected that the top-down supply system would deteriorate to the point that it would no longer work, and that individual communities would have to resort to their own energy supplies].
Clothing and electronics are manufactured in China, Sri Lanka, the Marshall Islands, and other Third World countries, where a Columbia jacket that brings $300 in a retail store here is sold on the street for $10 [source: a Quaker activist who witnessed same]. The people doing the sweatshop labor do not receive adequate wages to live on. [watch Black’s “Life and Debt” for a telling discussion on the subject].
The bottom line, for corporations, is the bottom line. The only thing corporations want is our money.
That said, it is important to note that money is no longer an object, it is a symbol of a human being’s energy expenditure. Sometime in the 90s, it was said that a business no longer runs on capital, but on cashflow. So the movement of money became in that moment more important than its inherent value, and with that shift in values, the use of money became more important than “object value”.
If money is now a measure of human endeavor as opposed to actual object value, then it follows that it is not appropriate that a corporate CEO should receive 400+ times as much “dollar per hour” value as the people actually doing work. It is also not appropriate that people should have to work themselves into the ground in order to merely have enough to eat.
Solutions: We need to wean ourselves from the mallrat’s existence as quickly as possible. Buy a freezer, and stock it with meat from local farmers. Buy clothing from local makers who receive the full worth of their efforts. Keep your gas use to a minimum. Invest in solar panels, a woodstove, a vegetable garden. Get your news from alternative [and as much as possible, international] sources. In short, as much as possible, eliminate corporate middlemen. And do not delude yourself with the idea that if you own stock, you will suffer for this shift- the truth is that you will suffer less in the long run than you will if you cling to the falling Empire.
Report thisBy Steven, April 29, 2006 at 5:13 pm #
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A great evil has shrouded our land since before the final administration. The republicans and the democrats are the two faces of the antichrist. Or of the great evil that has smothered our goodness. It is time to bend over and kiss your ass goodbye. Perhaps the next civilization will embrace goodness.
Report thisBy bill henslee, April 29, 2006 at 1:07 pm #
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dear Mr. Scheer:
Was Mr Drumheller one of the CIA bureaucracy that is being cleaned out by Director Goss for the incompetency that led to 9/11?
How did Mr. Drumheller know all this about the South Asia desk if he was in charge of Europe? Didn’t the CIA use normal intelligence compartmentalization and ‘need to know’ in his tenure? If not, why not?
To decide how good Mr. Drumheller is in his chosen profession and area of expertise (Europe), how well did he predict the collapse of Russia and the freeing of Eastern Europe without firing a shot?
Is Mr. Drumheller part of the cabal within the CIA that is trying to take down the Bush administration? They may not agree with policies set by the civilian administration based on their interpretation of CIA estimates ("its a slam dunk"--George Tenet), but they haven’t done so well over the years with their prognostications.
If Mr. Drumheller was so confident he was privy to the correct information on Iraq and that the administration was going to ignore it, why didn’t he resign and go public when it counted in 2003 to stop the war--or is he simply part of the CIA disinformation cadres that are trying to shift the blame away from their pathetic performance over the years?.
Report thisBy Fadel Abdallah, April 29, 2006 at 12:10 pm #
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Christianity-Democracy: Deadly Combination!
History does repeat itself sooner than we think! Hitler, using the deadly combination of democracy and Christianity, did his thing! Less than seventy years after Hitler comes Bush and gang, using the same deadly combination of Christianity and democracy! The result can be seen unfolding everyday!
Report thisBy Ellen, April 29, 2006 at 11:51 am #
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All this killing and destruction to be the last man standing in terms of access to oil? Wouldn’t it have made more sense to gather a worldwide coalition to study alternative fuel development?
Report thisBy Bob Faulkner, April 29, 2006 at 8:20 am #
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This is not a comment on pre-war intelligence; but, I can find no other place to post it. This is about gas prices and the oil industry…
There are things we can do to bring down the cost of gas.
1) We could regulate the gas industry...tell the gas companies what they can charge based on the cost of extracting oil and processing crude plus a percentage for profit in this country rather than basing the cost on a “world oil market” price.
2) We could Nationalize the oil industry.
So, are we so married to the free market and no-restraint capitalism that we cannot speak of these options even when faced with...(fill in the rest yourself, please. I’m not so good with prose)
Report thisBy Gilbert LaBiaga, April 29, 2006 at 7:12 am #
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A LIAR=Bush. Who will you trust? The US or Iran.
Report thisBy Nancy W., April 28, 2006 at 9:06 pm #
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Robert, I thoroughly enjoyed seeing you and Scott Ritter speak at the Track 16 event last night. I brought my 15 year old son along to hopefully let him take in all of the information both of you had to offer and then form his own political opinions with the facts given. To my surprise he listened carefully and discussed with enthusiasm what was said while making the two hour drive home. I am so glad we went and I thank you Robert for your passion and sacrifices. I agree that we have to look at history, take note of the patterns and not be complaisant and sit by while our wonderful country falls into ruin. I do what I feel is a very small part in attempting to educate those around me and my voice will not be silenced. I am truly outraged at the current administration, however I will never stop believing that this nation can be great again if we demand it. Thank you again. Keep shouting it from the rooftops.
Report thisBy Lou, April 28, 2006 at 8:33 pm #
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Surprise, surprise! That naivete and lack of historical perspective should bring Americans to this pretty pass, and you too, Mr. Scheer, you, who should know better most of all? Where have you been since the 1960s?
Report thisYour mea culpa = too little, too late. And what will you do about it now?
By SJ, April 28, 2006 at 7:55 pm #
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So everyone agrees that we must stand up - from website to blog the country is finally waking up - I hear the cries from every corner - we must take our country back - We are the People Now What??? PS I bet my email is monitored - is yours??????
As for the media? They lie and abdicate their journalistic reponsibilites every day - Apologies not accepted as long as this country continues on it’s murderous rampage without a peep from the press. The media has been and continues to be complicit
Report thisBy PACER42, April 28, 2006 at 8:37 am #
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We have to get up and stand for America. We the people need to abolish our existing government and form a new government. Get all the Bums out of DC and restructure. It is just gonna get worse folks.. really really bad. Stop all the waste of vocabulary and take action now.
Report thisBy s.ahmadi, April 28, 2006 at 4:14 am #
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What a joke of an article! Most informed persons knew that was no WMDs in Iraq. All the arguments the president presented had blatant holes in them, but did our prestigious media point them out to the American Public. NO.
Report thisThe media has been an accomplice to this ill-fated war...I cite the numerous times admins officials claiming a link between Saddam and 9/11. The facts were out there but the media really didn’t cared to tell the American Public. The war was a news story, and I imagine brought in some ratings and pulitizers for these clowns. What I am really sick of is the after the fact reporting! Now that we are stuck in a quagmire, we hear everyday “new” evidence that discredits all the pre war rationale for the invasion. The evidence is not new...it was out there all the time.
I really have no respect for the media right now because they don’t seem to stand for anything except for being a mouthpiece for the government.
Their lack of courage to speak truth to power is a major reason American’s supported this ill-fated and illegal war.
By Aurelio Grisanty, April 28, 2006 at 2:31 am #
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Shame on you. A million times.
Report thisBy Herman K., April 28, 2006 at 12:52 am #
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Bush is putting the right man in as press secretary to continue what the administration is so good at. Giving us a SNOW job.
H,K.
Report thisBy Claire Joseph, April 27, 2006 at 9:27 pm #
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An opportunity truly squandered.
Report thisBy Mike #2, April 27, 2006 at 5:10 pm #
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Lois Nickols is right. We as citizens are responsible for whatever our elected officials do and we have to act like we understand that. We can’t blame the press or anyone else. I live in San Diego county. I do not live in the 50th congressional district recently vacated by that scumbag Randy Cunningham, but nonetheless I am working as a volunteer on the campaign to get a Democrat elected there in the runoff election in June.
I haven’t done such volunteering in several years. I just wrote an occasional check. That’s not enough. If we don’t take away control of either the house or senate this November, we will all be screwed, and blaming someone else won’t do any good then either.
Report thisBy roderick whitney stillwell, April 27, 2006 at 4:32 pm #
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Comment #7916 by Dan on 4/26 at 7:21 am
Nice post Dan.
See also:
On the PNAC site concerning Iraq from July 2001:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraq-070601.htm
PNAC signers are:
Elliott Abrams
Gary Bauer
William J. Bennett
Jeb Bush
Dick Cheney
Eliot A. Cohen
Midge Decter
Paula Dobriansky
Steve Forbes
Aaron Friedberg
Francis Fukuyama
Frank Gaffney
Fred C. Ikle
Donald Kagan
Zalmay Khalilzad
I. Lewis Libby
Norman Podhoretz
Dan Quayle
Peter W. Rodman
Stephen P. Rosen
Henry S. Rowen
Donald Rumsfeld
Vin Weber
George Weigel
Paul Wolfowitz
I humbly submit, with a view to the pervasiveness of the perfidy and ineptitude extant among the Administration, both Parties in Congress and the media, “Impeachment” would be like trying to clean your ear with your own elbow. Surrendering the Bush executive to The Hague is the only way a cleansing can happen and the only way international support or trust for the US is going to obtain.
Ultimately, the greatest offences of this admin are against world values and take the form of crimes against humanity and violations of international law. The homily “Physician, heal thyself” is quaint and appealing, but not advisable when the physician in question is a paranoid schizophrenic taking medical advice from the voices in his own head.
Counting on predicates to cleansing to derive from the emergence of a Democratic Congress in November is serendipity. As the American public becomes aware of the catastrophic state of the economy over the next 3-4 months, as inflation jumps, interest rates lurch, as GM and Ford move toward Ch. 11, as confidence in the Stock and Bond Markets wanes and the value of the Greenback continues to dip (plunge)… when the corporate media can no longer hedge against it’s own demise by keeping mum about the real state of affairs, ‘outsourcing’ the prosecution of the culprits will start to make a lot of sense.
Lest a reader think this is overstating the issue, consider: The [Director?]of the Government Accountability Office, David Walker, has reported to the President in “reported liabilities, net social insurance commitments2 and other fiscal exposures” <www.gao.gov.> that the actual, “accrued”, national debt is not the $8.3 trillion as is commonly cited to the general public, rather it is $46 trillion; $156,000 for each man, woman and child living (legally) in the US today. A man with a wife and 2 children is about to assume a $624,000 debt in addition to current taxes, mortgage and living expenses.
The prime reason for the lack of comprehension of the significance of this sorry state in America itself is that corporate media knows full well that once the rat is out of the sack, it’s value is going to collapse right along with that of the rest of corporate America. By the time the September quarterly reports come out, the US is going to be a very different place than it is right now. Many hard-working Americans realize they are 2 paychecks away from being homeless; the US economy is 2 quarters away from insolvency. Impeaching a naughty president is going to seem a minor issue. There will be a lot bigger fish to fry. Give him/them up while the gesture can generate some goodwill and attract some friends. The US is going to need them.
roderick whitney stillwell
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By Spooky, April 27, 2006 at 3:13 pm #
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Oh, here is the addendum to the previous response I left. 2007 is the critical year for invading Iran. We wouldn’t do it prior to the midterm elections. And launching an offensive next year could, at least theoretically, be additional easily-manufactured fear to keep the electorate leaning more Republican than otherwise for 2008: you know, the war-time president shtick.
Report thisOne has to wonder whether only a Democrat win in the midterms would avoid this scenario.
By Frank @ The Progressive Report, April 27, 2006 at 2:26 pm #
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Mr. Scheer,
What was contained in the original 60 Minutes story? Having re-read the entire transcript of the Ed Bradley reported piece I am wondering what percentage of the article could have existed without corroboration from Tyler Drumheller, just an add-on to the Niger yellowcake story?
As you report in your story, CBS was already dealing with “Dan Rathers troubles over an unrelated story critical of the president”. Therefore, the question must be posed, who and what were the sources for the original 2004 piece?
Frank @ The Progressive Report
Report thisBy Lilith, April 27, 2006 at 2:19 pm #
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Robert,
I agree with Sylvia Barksdale Morovitz’s post when she said:
“Yes Robert, we still care. Your error in judgement in 2004 has obviously come back to haunt you. I wish it had not occurred but you too are human and humans make mistakes. Be advised that youre still the top political reported in the country and the people who know your work feel very fortunate to have you out there!”
You have had a long couragous carrier in the media. Your ability to see and report the heart and soul of our leaders is a national asset! We have also been blessed by your ability to see the truth through all the fog of miss-information and to report it fairly and accurately. Thank you for your honesty with us about this oh so human mistake. Be assured that I, at least, know that this mistake in no way shaped or sullied your jurnalistic ability and crdibility since then.
With this admition of yours I know have even more respect for you as a jurnalist and as a fellow humanbeing.
Am loving your book by the way.
Lilith
Report thisBy Spooky, April 27, 2006 at 12:23 pm #
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Here’s an idea I heard: Iraq was never the true target rather Iran was. As a mounting regional power and with oil reserves slighlty larger than Iraq, they are to be taken care of before they become too strong. They are too difficult to attack from the sea, hence the military bases being built in adjoining states Afghanistan and Iraq.
Frightening thought if true. Lying so viciously (two wars) to plan the third, perpetuating failed energy policy that keeps our infrastructure (and power structure) intact rather than transforming the American dream to something more sustainable. Not to mention that Iran’s military would find it easy to shut down the Persian gulf oil trade indefinitely.
Report thisBy Jerry Pesce, April 27, 2006 at 9:55 am #
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Where do we go from here if no one thinks its a big deal now?
Report thisBy Lois Nickols, April 27, 2006 at 9:50 am #
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Anytime our government talks of “war” and “intelligence”, it behooves us as citizens to question their authority. It is all well and good to blame journalists for their failure to do our thinking for us. How many e-mails, letters and phone to calls to politicians from the local level up do we as Americans make. Assume a little responsibility for the mess we’re in and make your representatives at all levels of government know how you feel and get active in elections. Run for office, get involved in organizations that question authority or start your own! Time to grow up.
Report thisBy Richard, April 27, 2006 at 7:21 am #
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Well, Mr. Scheer’s mea culpa is no worse than those we’ve heard from other mainstream media types like Washington Post Richard Cohen and current editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller, who neglected to see that Judith Miller was simply used by Bush as a shill to sell the administrations false claim of W.M.D. for launching preemptive war against Iraq.
What can anyone say at this juncture except to point out that these rehabilitated media icons like Robert Scheer now have a special duty to go straight at the jugular of the Bush liars and swindlers who have taken our country down the path of destruction?
To hear the Bush cheerleaders one would think this is the best economy ever and they point to the burgeoning growth of shareholder portfolios on Wall Street and great earnings reports by defense-related corporations as proof of their claim.
Recently, I read one editorial from the Washington Times (another “fair and balanced” newspaper) reprinted in the Bush and Republican-friendly newspaper, San Diego Union Tribune. The title headline read “A Great Time for The U.S. Economy” by Donald Lambro. Mr. Lambro wrote, “Inflation, that wearily worrisome bogeyman that frightens the Fed so much, has not been as scary as it feared. Core inflation, when volatile food and oil prices are excluded, rose by a tame 2.1 percent in the last 12 months.” I don’t know how many people are having a “great time” filling their gas tanks at $3.40 per gallon or buying a basket full of groceries that have shot up in price due to the transportation costs of getting them to the grocery store, but I’d venture to say that volatile or not, these are necessities that I find hard to exclude.
But the Iraq War has taken quite a subordinate role in the last couple of weeks as the gasoline prices have soared to nearly $4.00 per gallon in many parts of the country. Now, Bush has at least for the moment got himself another mushroom cloud issue propelled by fear and anxiety over fuel costs while U.S. military fatalities in April are now equal to the highest number reached earlier this year. But, no matter to Bush now that the headlines are touting Bush’s “engagement and involvement” in the high cost of fuel. Suspending the strategic petroleum reserve stocks supposedly will add a few more gallons of gasoline per day to the supply but does nothing to stop the oil profiteers from running wild.
Bush is also calling for an investigation into the possible, (gasp)!, price gouging by oil companies. Now that’s a good one. A Republican president asking a Republican Congress to investigate some of the biggest Republican contributors, the big oil companies. Like Jay Leno said recently on his Tonight Show, “Guess who they’ll blame? The Democrats of course!”
Robert Scheer and others once again have an opportunity to regain the claim the Fourth Estate once touted when they were the protectors and beacons of Truth and the watchdogs of democracy which demanded that our leaders be held accountable by the people.
One more chance may be all they’ll get before November. Why? Because the Bush autocracy is getting closer to implementing a full-blown dictatorship when they recently announced that they would press charges against news sources and reporters they considered were leaking information that the Bush Justice Department determined is a threat to national security. And of course, with Tony Snow to continue to “catapult the propaganda,” the case for building American gulags will become a distinct possibility. Why? Because two-thirds of all Americans now disapprove of the job Bush is doing in every aspect of government.
I can only hope that we can take back our democracy from this pernicious Kleptocracy that has wormed its way into and now controls every lever of government including the U.S. Congress and the Star Chamber U.S. Supreme Court.
Albert Camus wrote, “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” This may be the summer of discontent for the Bush mob or it may well be nuclear winter for Americans who cherish our freedoms. It’s really all up to Mr. Scheer and his colleagues in the free press to now redeem themselves.
Report thisBy William P. Weber, April 27, 2006 at 6:20 am #
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We Must Demand Presidential Elections This November 2006 Posted by: BillsAlterNet on Apr 27, 2006 6:05 AM
On my WEB page at: http://www.cyberspaceadventures.com following Sunday’s April 23the broadcast by 60 minutes on A SPY SPEAKS OUT
I Wrote:
The Time Has Come When The Democrats and All 3rd Parties Should Unite and Demand That An Unprecedented Presidential Election Be Held This Coming November. To Vote Out Of Office Our Present Lying And Misleading War Party.
It Has Never Been Done Before But We Sure Need Such Action Now. I have checked with most of the Major News Papers on line and at this time have yet to see any support for taking action against the Present Bush Administration regarding the 60 minutes expouser of FBI informant Tyler Drumheller who told (CBS)
Quote: “The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy.”
Where Is The Bush War Party Leading our Nation? I asked
Today April 27th I want to thank Robert Scheer, and AlterNet for picking up the story and asking the same question.
Impeaching the President and Vice President will tak