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American President Jimmy Carter in a 12/14/06 piece in the NYT addressing the furious criticism of his best-seller Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid is quoted: "Mr. Carter wrote in an essay in The Los Angeles Times on Friday that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's lobbying efforts have produced a reluctance to criticize the politics of the Israeli government. The editorial boards of major American newspapers and magazines, he continued, have exercised self-restraint on the subject of Israel and the Palestinians." This "furor" is in conjunction with the release and analysis of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group Report, but in a scathing agreement with the report's key finding - "The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating." - The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg (12/18/06) brands as "beside the point" the suggestion to "renew negotiations over the Israeli-Palestine problem", as an integral part of the new direction of the U.S. vs Iraq.

Importantly, Mr. Carter has been quoted frequently in recent weeks (several of which appear below) that while some efforts have been made over the years to produce an equitable solution to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, since 1/21/01 nothing has been done by Israel's patron to slow that accelerated acquisition of Palestinian land. That patron is the United States of America under George W. Bush.

Characteristic of some American political and media figures, in a 12/17/06 Meet the Press Thomas L. Friedman said that American voters "held their noses when they voted for Al Gore (in 2000) and John Kerry (in 2004)." One would think that by now a prominent, award-winning columnist would opine in CAPS! that those who voted for Bush in 2000, and then again for Bush in 2004 had lost their senses (Mr. Bush just gave his "Medal of Freedom" to William Safire and Natan Sharansky, the latter a Zionist member of the Israeli cabinet until he resigned in protest against the withdrawal from Gaza.) But Mr. Friedman has had, and still has a different agenda, despite these items on the 12/19/06 Amy Goodman program, also a Jewish American.

"Joint Chiefs of Staff Oppose Sending More Troops to Iraq
The Joint Chiefs of Staff are unanimously opposing a White House plan to send up to 30,000 more troops to Iraq. According to the Washington Post, top Pentagon officials have warned President Bush that a short-term troop increase could give a boost to virtually all the armed factions in Iraq, without strengthening the position of the US military or Iraq's security forces in the long term."

"Report: Blair Knew Iraq Had No WMDs
The Independent of London is reporting the British government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Britain's key negotiator at the UN testified privately that Blair knew Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction. The official, Carne Ross, told an official inquiry that at no time did the British government believe that Iraq's WMD capability actually posed a threat to British interests and that any threat by Saddam Hussein had been 'effectively contained.' The British Foreign Office had attempted to prevent the testimony of Ross from being made public."

"White House Tries to Silence Ex-Official from Criticizing Iran Policy
A former Bush administration official is accusing the White House of trying to silence him from criticizing the president's policy on Iran. Former National Security Council official Flynt Leverett recently drafted an op-ed intended for the New York Times on Iran. The CIA cleared the article but then the White House blocked its publication. According to Leverett, the White House is demanding that he removes entire paragraphs that detail publicly known information about how Iran cooperated with the United States in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and how Iran offered to negotiate a comprehensive 'grand bargain' with the United States three years ago. Leverett accused White House officials of using fraudulent charges of revealing classified information to keep critical views from being heard. Leverett said 'Their conduct in this matter is despicable and un-American in the profoundest sense of that term.' Leverett is the former Senior Director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council and a former senior analyst at the CIA."

And, finally, this announcement by the new Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, that were we not to send this additional "surge" of Americans, men and women dedicated to our country (they honor their oaths, unlike the "Commander in Chief") we would be in danger of "impairing our credibility" among the peoples of the world. Huh?

Even the latest Pentagon Report, known to be under-reporting, has stated that beleaguered country has just experienced the worst toll on Iraqis and American military in the last several years!

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Add the name Dov Zakheim to those of Richard Perle, Ken Adelman, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith who were essentially subversives in the Pentagon under Donald Rumsfeld and clandestinely directed the military policy of the United States to invade Iraq, to fulfill the 1996 declaration of Israel which followed the November '95 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin: "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm (Israel)" the first step of which was the elimination of Saddam Hussein. Prime Minister Rabin was killed by a right-wing Israeli motivated by the far right Benjamin Netanyahu. Mr. Zakheim, the Comptroller and CFO, Chief Financial Officer of the Pentagon during Mr. Bush's first term, was influential in the funding of the work of Mr. Wolfowitz and Mr. Feith, whose manipulation of the secret Pentagon/Israeli maneuver included a back channel liaison with the office of Ariel Sharon, a channel unknown to Israeli intelligence Mossad, which included in the planning frequent secret visits by Israeli military officers to Washington. Without any mention of Zakheim's role in this endeavor Jim Lehrer 12/5/06 featured Zakheim's assessment of the Iraq Study Group's response to our 11/7/06 election and it's recommendations regarding the coming change in U.S. policy in Iraq:

"A withdrawal, even the suggestion of a coming withdrawal, would be a disaster (for Israel?)." Mr. Zakheim as of 12/7 may have an additional supporter?: Great Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair has told George W. that he's going to the Middle East to address the Israeli war on Palestine. Is he for or against? See Below.

December 7, 2006, was the sixty-fifth anniversary of truly another infamous action against the United States, and fifteen days after the 43rd anniversary of the political murder of John Kennedy, a bona fide hero of the WWII battle in the Pacific - one of the multitudes of men and women we honored this last Veterans Day who have volunteered to risk their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor for this nation - for over two centuries. Al Gore and John Kerry also come to mind. We have detailed addenda throughout this first segment of GOPBias.com blog. We now have a pair of criminals in our White House, to what degree protected by AIPAC!? Can that supersede protocol?

And also from a 12/7/06 NYT Brenda Goodman/Julie Bosman piece p. A-33: Former Aide Parts with Carter over Book

(A continuum of articles 10/17-11/16 by Jennifer Siegel in the Jewish periodical Forward - and all of these are joined with the omnipotent AIPAC to discredit those who would challenge in any way Israel's designs for Palestine)

"ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 6 — An adviser to former President Jimmy Carter and onetime executive director of the Carter Center has publicly parted ways with his former boss, citing concerns with the accuracy and integrity of Mr. Carter’s latest book, 'Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.' The adviser, Kenneth W. Stein, a professor of Middle Eastern history and political science at Emory University, resigned his position as a fellow with the Carter Center on Tuesday, ending a 23-year association with the institution.

Deanna Congelio, spokeswoman for Mr. Carter, released a statement with his response: 'Although Professor Kenneth Stein has not been actively involved with the Carter Center for more than 12 years, I regret his resignation from the titular position as a fellow.' It did not address Mr. Stein’s criticism of the book. That criticism is the latest in a growing chorus of academics who have taken issue with the book, including Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of law at Harvard, who called the book 'ahistorical,' and David Makovsky, director of the Project on the Middle East Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy."

All of this is reminiscent of the April '06 reaction of Jewish extremists to the Mearsheimer/Walt paper on the influence of a Jewish lobby (read AIPAC) on U.S. Foreign Policy.

"The essay has caused an uproar. First came headlines in The New York Sun and The Forward, the 108-year-old Jewish weekly, followed by critiques in opinion journals like The New Republic and The Weekly Standard, along with myriad newspaper op-ed articles.

Some Harvard colleagues of Dr. Walt have entered the debate full-throated, including David R. Gergen, also at the Kennedy School and a former adviser to four presidents, and Alan M. Dershowitz, a professor at Harvard Law School, described in the paper as an apologist for Israel.

The Kennedy School invited members of the Harvard faculty to post responses on the Web site, as long as they were scholarly and were not personal attacks. Mr. Dershowitz posted a 45-page response last week in which he attacked the authors' logic and facts. He also asked why they recycled accusations that 'would be seized on by bigots to promote their anti-Semitic agendas.'

'There is this blanket denunciation of a very large number of American Jews and an accusation of disloyalty,' Eliot A. Cohen, a professor at School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, said in a telephone interview. In an opinion article in The Washington Post last week, Dr. Cohen described the paper as anti-Semitic and 'a wretched piece of scholarship.'" - Alan Finder 4/12/06

"A Compromiser Who Operates Above the Partisan Fray

Lee Herbert Hamilton

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 — The choice before the Sept. 11 commission in late 2003 was whether to subpoena the Pentagon to turn over classified documents, and four of the panel’s five Democrats were eager to do so. The dissenter was the commission’s vice chairman, Lee H. Hamilton, a retired Democratic House member from Indiana, who had come to be trusted by the Bush administration as an honest broker.

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On the Iraq Study Group, Mr. Hamilton is demonstrating, as he did in Congress, that he is not in lock-step with Democratic Party leaders, who have mostly recommended a sharper reversal of American policy in Iraq than the group will propose. While never criticizing him in public, Democrats on the Sept. 11 commission and Congressional leaders were often at odds with Mr. Hamilton during that investigation, describing him as too trusting of the Bush administration and too patient in negotiations with the White House over access to classified documents (this is the documentation of the takeover of Pentagon policy to invade Iraq for the benefit of Israel). At the same time, his willingness to hear out the White House won him the respect of the commission’s Republicans...Similar complaints from Democrats about Mr. Hamilton's dealings with the White House were heard in the mid-1980s, when he LED the House intelligence committee and appeared reluctant to follow up on news reports that the Reagan administration had sold weapons to Iran (through Israel) and diverted the proceeds to the Nicaraguan rebels, called the contras.

The reports proved to be true, and Mr. Hamilton acknowledged later that he had been duped by senior Reagan administration officials. (INCREDIBLY) He later LED the House investigation of the scandal. He went on to become chairman of BOTH the international relations and intelligence committees (NYT website rendition)." - By PHILIP SHENON

(As of 12/7/06 twenty eight additional American military deaths in Iraq just since 12/4/06!)
Tim Russert 12/3/06: "How do you believe history will judge the war in Iraq?"
President Jimmy Carter: "As one of the most troublesome and important errors ever made in the national policy of the United States of America. We abandoned a justifiable and major presence in Afghanistan where we could have helped wipe out Al Qaeda, we might have caught Osama bin Laden and if he had still escaped we could have used our tremendous influence at the end of that war, with the Taliban overthrown, to rebuild Afghanistan and to let them know that the Western world and the Arab world were supporting their move to a democracy with full restoration of their basic quality of life. We abandoned them in the middle of a justifiable war and moved our resources, our financial resources, our military resources into Iraq, lost the support, of almost unanimous support around the world following 9/11, and acted almost unilaterally with Great Britain by our side, in an unjustified war in Iraq, and alienated a lot of people who otherwise have been allies of ours."

These items are key to the next two years, starting now, which AIPAC, the "American" Israel Public Affairs Committee, the one all-powerful political entity (actually the secret government of the United States - as suggested by President Jimmy Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid as covered below), by way of it's supporters [i.e. on General Electric (Don Imus), Disney (under political director Mark Halperin), CBS (CEO Les Moonves), the entire staff of NPR, and Roger Ailes with Murdoch's Fox] has eliminated from the airwaves and cable - except for Amy Goodman and DemocracyNow.

- BACKGROUND -

(1) An analysis of the 9/11 Commission plus, which will weigh in on this Iraq debacle.

(2) George W. Bush/Rush Limbaugh vs Senator John Kerry = scroll to two photos, the first being Bush & Cheney in conversation with Limbaugh and the second Rush Hudson Limbaugh III with entourage. Following the photo is an all-too-brief history of the principal, fully known by Jim Rutenberg and his former colleague Bill Carter, and by Adam Nagourney, all three beholden to front page placement by The New York Times. And then there's Republican Don Imus, the GOP activist who runs the Boston/New York/Washington media corridor with his daily Radio & MSNBC programs and was the key to the stolen 2000 presidential "win" by George W. Today John Donald Imus Jr. is again actively instrumental in his support for GOP senators, including fellow Jewish American Joe Lieberman (the both of them having divorced their first wives) who has deserted the Democrats (Good Riddance!). Mr. Imus in the 2004 presidential election was contemptuous of John Kerry (although he "voted" for Mr. Kerry) and his scorn for the Senator continues.

(3) PBS has scheduled a multi-segment "America at a Crossroads" special, one part of which features the notorious Richard Perle who championed and guided support for the invasion of Iraq to protect Israel. Mr. Perle is a co-author of the 1996 "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm (Israel)" the first step of which was the elimination of Saddam Hussein. It is likely that both PBS, NPR and PRI (public radio for Israel?) will be coming to the defense of Perle associate Ken Adelman, along with Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith the central push for this catastrophic war against Iraq. However, it is very unlikely that any of these "news" services will be giving a positive review to President Jimmy Carter's new book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. The best example of this is Terry Gross' 11/27 Fresh Air - Here an example of Ms. Gross' interview:

Terry Gross: "Your book seems to really be asking Americans to examine how Israel has conducted itself, in terms of its policy toward the Palestinians and its, willingness or lack of willingness to negotiate. And Let me read a quote from your book that I think will probably be pretty controversial too. You write 'There are constant and vehement political and media debates in Israel concerning its policies in the West Bank but because of powerful political (AIPAC!), economic and religious forces (Orthodox Jewish Americans like Senator Joe Lieberman) in the US the Israeli government decisions are rarely questioned or condemned. Voices for Jerusalem (American Israel Public Affairs Committee!!) dominate in our media and most American citizens are unaware of circumstances in the occupied territories.'"

President Carter: "That's exactly correct and I think if you would just read the US media, and watch the television and listen to the radio you would rarely see any voice of strenuous opposition to Israeli policies in the Palestinian territories (AIPAC has a stranglehold on the American media). However, when I go to Israel, which I have done often, and with the Carter Center election observers all over the West Bank and Gaza and much of Israel, there are intense debates that go on in Haaretz newspaper and Jerusalem Post, on television and radio in Israel. NONE OF THOSE DEBATES OF A DETECTABLE NATURE HAVE EXISTED IN THE UNITED STATES. I think it's time for us to look at both sides of this issue."

Gross: "But you were saying there are powerful political, economic and religious forces in America..."

Carter: "YES"

Gross: "...which make it difficult to question Israeli policy. Did those voices, that your describing, that you say exist in the United States, did they interfere at all in your negotiations on the Middle East."

Carter: "No they didn't, because I basically ignored them and went directly to the route that was within my purview using the power and influence of the White House to bring the two primary antagonists together. And I would say the proof is in the pudding. It took me a long time. After Sadat did agree to recognize Israel, to open up the Suez Canal, Israel agreed to withdraw from the Sinai Desert. As you know Sadat was, Egypt was isolated by the Arab side, and eventually Sadat was assassinated. Later when Rabin and Perez went to Oslo and met with Arafat and negotiated the Oslo Agreements, the aftermath of that was that Rabin was assassinated by a radical Jew in Israel (November '95. And that's when radical Jewish Americans with radical Sharon Israelis produced "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" (Israel) the first step of which was removing Saddam Hussein.) who said he wanted to stop the peace process. So there have been a lot of powerful forces that have opposed courageous steps toward peace, but the overwhelming majority of Israelis and all their neighbors, want peace. And I think that it's time in this country for the television, radio, newspapers, even members of the House and Senate, to acknowledge that the key issues should be addressed. But at this time, and in the last number of years, there has not been any substantive discussions of the facts that are included in my book. And for the last six years, as I've said, there has been no effort at all by the United States to orchestrate peace talks."

As the chaos continues in Iraq the Republicans and the subversive media trot out such "Democrats" as Lee Hamilton and Joe Lieberman to finesse this debacle beyond November 7th so as to save the House and the Senate for the GOP. Will it work? Obviously, as of today's date 11/30/06 it hasn't worked. Yet, President Bush in the Middle East declares we will not leave till the job is done. What?

Amy Goodman on DemocracyNow is doing her part. Tom Friedman is not and below we have the quotes to prove it. We'll speculate after the election as to the "Why?" Also, the basic "WHY?" as to the invasion of Iraq when everyone on the planet (certainly the well-connected Mr. Friedman) knew Saddam had no WMDs.

Tom Friedman: "(11/30/03) The next six months in Iraq, which will determine the prospects for Democracy building there, are the most important six months in US foreign policy for a long long time."

"(6/3/04) the war might be over in a week, might be over in a month, might be over in six months, but what's the rush. Can we let this play out please." - on Terri Gross' Fresh Air.

"(10/3/04) What we are going to find out Bob, during the next six to nine months, is whether we have liberated a country or uncorked a civil war." - on Bob Schieffer's Face the Nation

"(11/28/04) Improv time is over. This is crunch time. Iraq will be won or lost in the next few months." - The New York Times.

"(September '05) I think we're in the end game now. I think we're in a six months window here. It's going to be very clear and this is all going to pre-empt I think the next congressional elections, that's my own feeling, let alone the Presidential one."

"(December '05) We've teed up this situation for Iraqis and I think the next six months really are gonna determine whether this country is gonna collapse into three parts or more or whether it's gonna come together."

"(January '06) I think we're going to know after six to nine months whether this project has any chance of succeeding." - on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

"(March '06) I think we're in the end game, the next six to nine months are going to tell whether we can produce a decent outcome in Iraq."

"(May '06) I think we're probably going to find out, Chris, in the next six months, probably sooner, whether a decent outcome is possible here. I think we're going to have to just let this play out." - Chris Matthew's Hardball.

October 27, 2006 - We are now on a pace to lose one hundred U.S. military personnel in this deadliest month of the war!

Amy Goodman (10/17/06): "Four days of slaughter in the town of Balad killed at least 91 people by Monday. The bloodshed began with the beheadings of 17 Shia workers on Friday. In response Shiite militias poured into the area and went on a killing spree. Fifty Iraqis were killed in other attacks across the country, including up to 30 dead from two major bombings in Baghdad. Iraqi police also reported finding 67 corpses scattered throughout the capital on Monday." "The U.S. death toll in Iraq has been soaring this month. Fifty nine (by 10/24 the death toll is 91) U.S. soldiers have died so far in October, putting it on pace to be one of the deadliest months of the war for US forces." - Interview with Borzou Daragahi!

Ms. Goodman's interview with Tariq Ali.

Amy Goodman again: "Prosecutor Prepares to Charge Israeli President With Rape
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports the Jerusalem District Prosecutor's Office has begun formulating an indictment against Israeli President Moshe Katsav. Israeli police said they have uncovered enough evidence to charge the president with rape, sexual harassment, fraud and wiretapping. Katsav's attorney said today that the president would resign when and if he were charged with a crime. Knesset member Limor Livnat criticized Katsav for staying in power this long.

Limor Livnat: 'President Katsav should have suspended himself right at the beginning when the police had started to investigate him; unfortunately, he did not suspend himself, today he took the right decision but president Katsav should suspend himself now and I have to say the whole thing is very sad both to president Katsav but also for all of us.'

Israeli News analyst Zeev Segal said the country has never faced such a situation.

Zeev Segal: 'This is unprecedented, not indictment, but unprecedented allegations against a senior public officer, we do not remember anything like it especially to sexual offenses so tough as rape, it was never known to the Israeli public, or society'."

Note: Our coming quotes from Tom Friedman do not include any reference to President Katsav.

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The 10/2/06 report below by Ms. Mitchell generated a typical attempt by Don Imus to manipulate his guests and his TV-radio audience the next morning to obscure the significance of what Ms. Mitchell reported. Early in the hour he interrupted the NBC (MSNBC) segment by focusing on Ms. Mitchell's hair, a not-so-subtle warning over his "private" airway that she risked the insulting treatment that Mr. Imus successfully uses to punish media and political figures who do not support the "I-Man's" current particular policies and politicians - George Walker Bush, the senior Bush, Dick Cheney, Joe Lieberman and any number of other Republicans. In the following half hour Bob Schieffer, perhaps the one and only time, refused to humor Imus. And all of this brings us to a powerful twosome of Jewish Americans - John Donald Imus Jr. (the power broker of Media/Press from Washington to New York to Boston) and "world renowned" columnist and author Tom Friedman (in print and on TV) both of whom feel indebted to the junior Bush for his enabling Israel.

It's been unbelievably costly for these United States, Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon, todate. There are now more suicide and IED bombings in Iraq than at any time since we invaded in March '03; in Afghanistan (Bush having shifted to Iraq before the job was done) there is chaos developing which reminds of Iraq in 2004 (about the time we faltered in Iraqi reconstruction and basic services restoration) and is a massive challenge to NATO forces; in Palestine Israel, with the assistance of Ms. Rice (a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize?), is strangling any hope for a Palestinian state; and in Lebanon there are one million deadly US/Israeli cluster bomblets left from the Israeli invasion, 90% of them in a barrage in the last 72 hours before the ceasefire.

Lastly, in an OP-ED piece in The Times 10/5/06, a well-credentialed (author of Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet) James Mann asks the question "Why would former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, the world's best-known proponent of balance-of-power diplomacy, give advice to the Bush administration, whose professed strategy and ideals run contrary to his philosophy?" The answer is obvious. As with Messrs. Imus and Friedman, Mr. Kissinger also feels compelled to support Mr. Bush and, in fact, may be the guiding force in think tank and NGO circles here and abroad, substantive yet muted, to endorse, through Bush, whatever Israel does to subjugate Palestinians, including their destruction, even knowing it is this history which has given rise to Islamic terrorism the world over. Yet, in the lengthy article by Mann, the term Israel does not appear. All of the above, and below, answers the question of why Joseph I. Lieberman (who deserted his Democratic Party which sees clearly the political/impeachable criminality of George Walker Bush) is not only immune to criticism, but is actually championed by Imus.

And finally, on the Chris Matthews Show 10/7/06 Mr. Matthews on Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert vis-a-vis Republican Representative Mark Foley: "The story that's now making the rounds all this week (in Washington) that at some time in the last several years Mark Foley was drunk one night around midnight over at the page dorm trying to recruit someone, get them out of the building..."

Andrew Sullivan of The New Republic: "From what I hear this was well known like five years ago..."

Mr. Matthews: "I can tell you I am sure it would make its way to the Speaker's office...if you were a staffer for the Speaker and you didn't tell him about that incident...".

Had Enough?

Today, more than ever, NPR represents National President's Radio, PBS the President's Broadcasting Service and the programming on the full AM and FM radio spectra are criminally confederate/inept (i.e. GOP agenda-driven) in exposing the corruption of the George W. Bush administration. The same holds true for commercial network TV, with the occasional exception of NBC's Brian Williams and Andrea Mitchell. Note the Media/Press coddling of House leader Dennis Hastert (and George W. Bush's, and his father's, response to the scandal), who's Speaker's office was told of the "inappropriate behavior" of Representative Mark Foley THREE YEARS AGO. Regarding the chaos in Iraq, where twenty four additional American service personnel have been killed in the last five days (through Yom Kippur 10/2/06), the senior Bush described Bob Woodward's State of Denial, which has focused the junior Bush's catastrophic Iraq policy, as "Kitty Kelley" journalism 10/5/06, which Charles Gibson did not challenge.

On the 10/8/06 Meet the Press Tim Russert gave this author ten minutes out of an hour for the most important American political non-fiction since the 2004 James Bamford's A Pretext for War. On the subject of the Tenet/White House meetings of July 10, 2001 -

Bob Woodward: "This is an extraordinary meeting (7/10/01). The CIA Director (Tenet) hops in his car and calls from his car 'I have to meet with the national security adviser'. I've never heard of that happening in any other instance at all."

Russert (rushing Woodward): "What's the most important fact in this book (as Mr. Russert well knows, Mr. Woodward has just highlighted the most important fact in this book)?"

Mr. Woodward: "Look. This is a reporter's chronicle of what Carl Bernstein and I used to call 'The best obtainable version of the truth'."

Republicans have earmarked twenty million dollar$ for a "Commemoration of Success" for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the funding was attached to the year's defense spending bill. The measure empowers President Bush to designate "A Day of Celebration" and to issue a proclamation calling on the people of the United States to observe that day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. Had Enough?

Finally. Thanks to Bob Woodward. July 10, 2001 the Bush White House was informed by George Tenet and Cofer Black, the director of CIA and his counterterrorism chief, that the United States was in IMMINENT danger of a major attack by Al Qaeda. While Condi Rice first denied that such a meeting took place and then said that if such a meeting did occur she surely didn't remember there being such a dire warning...same old story from this Bush regime - However: "officials tell NBC News (Andrea Mitchell) former CIA Director George Tenet did testify in secret to the 9/11 Commission about that (7/10/01) meeting," information left out in Ray Suarez' treatment on PBS 10/2/06... and the subject totally stiffed by both Disney/Charles Gibson and Leslie Moonves/CBS and Katie Couric, the latter program introduced by Walter Cronkite. Shame, Walter.

That was two months before 9/11. Today it is fair to ask: "Who has known, in official Washington and the Media/Press, for over five years, that the sociopath George Walker Bush is responsible for 9/11?" In two related items Congress has granted the Bush White House request for an additional $500 million$ added to the $2.5 billion$ we give to Israel this year, and the Israelis have refused to cooperate in the UN investigation of the Israel bombing which targeted a clearly-marked UN building and killed UN personnel from four different countries in the Olmert government's war against Lebanon. It will be difficult to question him on any of these matters because he's primarily committed to raising money for this unscrupulous Republican party, money to silence them on these major issues and keep them in line. Had enough?

The article which follows has created a political firestorm, as well it should. "Secretary of State" Condi Rice told Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, which did not question her statement, "We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight Al Qaeda". False. The 9/11 Commission Report described Ms. Rice receiving in January 2001 a thirteen page "comprehensive paper titled 'Strategy for Eliminating the Threat from the Jihadist Network of Al Qaeda", precisely as President Clinton told Rupert Murdoch's Chris Wallace on camera 9/23/06.

And as the new National Intelligence Estimate states "The Iraq conflict has become the cause celebre for Jihadists", now a world wide network of extremists as a result of the Bush Iraqi debacle and his mindless support of Israel.

"A Combative Clinton Defends Record on Fighting Terrorism
Former President Faults Neocons for Inaction on Bin Laden

By Michael Grunwald
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 24, 2006; A09

Former president Bill Clinton angrily defended his administration's counterterrorism record during a Fox News interview to be aired today, while accusing 'President Bush's neocons' (extremist Jewish Americans) and other Republicans of ignoring Osama bin Laden until the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Clinton had planned to discuss his climate change initiative during his appearance on 'Fox News Sunday,' but he turned combative after host Chris Wallace asked why he hadn't 'put bin Laden and al-Qaeda out of business.' Clinton shot back that 'all the conservative Republicans' who now criticize him for inattention to bin Laden used to criticize him for over-attention to bin Laden.

Clinton said he authorized the CIA to kill bin Laden, and even 'contracted with people to kill him.' He also said he had a plan to attack Afghanistan, overthrow the Taliban and hunt for bin Laden after the attack on the USS Cole, but the CIA and FBI refused to certify that bin Laden was responsible, and Uzbekistan refused to allow the United States to set up a base. By contrast, Clinton said the Bush administration's neoconservatives (Judeofascists) 'had no meetings on bin Laden for nine months,' believing he had been 'too obsessed with bin Laden.'

'At least I tried,' Clinton said. 'That's the difference [between] me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try. They did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed. When I failed, I left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy and the best guy in the country, [Richard] Clarke, who got demoted.'

Clinton seemed particularly irked by Wallace's reference to his decision in 1993 to pull troops out of Somalia, a move bin Laden later described as a sign of American weakness. Clinton argued that even though many Republicans demanded a withdrawal from Somalia the day after the downing of a Black Hawk helicopter, he kept a U.S. presence there for another six months to ensure an orderly transition to United Nations forces. That's when the interview got testy, as a Fox transcript reflects:

Clinton : There is not a living soul in the world who thought Osama bin Laden had anything to do with Black Hawk down or was paying any attention to it, or even knew al-Qaeda was a going concern in October '93.

Wallace : I understand.

Clinton : No, no, wait. Don't tell me that -- you asked why didn't I do more to bin Laden, there was not a living soul, all the people who now criticize me wanted to leave the next day. You brought this up, so you get an answer. But you -- secondly,

Wallace : -- Bin Laden says, but it showed the weakness of the United States.

Clinton : Bin Laden may have said it -- but it would have shown the weakness if we left right away. But he wasn't involved in that, that's just a bunch of bull. That was about Mohamed Aideed, a Muslim warlord, murdering 22 Pakistani Muslim troops. We were all there on a humanitarian mission; we had no mission, none, to establish a certain kind of Somali government or keep anybody out. He was not a religious fanatic --

Wallace : Mr. President --

Clinton : -- there was no al-Qaeda --

Wallace : With respect, if I may, instead of going through '93 and --

Clinton : No, no -- you asked it. You brought it up.

Wallace, a 30-year broadcast veteran who worked at NBC and ABC before Fox (but now works, like Bill Bristol, for Murdoch and Roger Ailes), is not usually considered part of the network's conservative commentariat, but Clinton accused him of doing 'Fox's bidding' by preparing a 'conservative hit job.'

He attacked Wallace for failing to ask Bush administration officials why Clarke was demoted from his counterterrorism job: 'Tell the truth, Chris. Tell the truth, Chris. Did you ever ask that?' He also complained that Wallace had lured him to the interview 'under false pretences,' but when Wallace offered to discuss his climate change project, he replied: 'No, I want to finish this now.'

And so he did, attacking President Bush for focusing on Iraq instead of Afghanistan, urging Americans to read Clarke's book and accusing Republicans of 'a serious disinformation campaign' to blame the Clinton administration for losing bin Laden.

'I got closer to killing him than anybody's gotten since,' Clinton said. 'And if I were still president, we'd have more than 20,000 troops there trying to kill him. . . . You got that little smirk on your face and you think you're so clever, but I had responsibility for trying to protect this country. I tried and I failed to get bin Laden. I regret it, but I did try and I did everything I thought I responsibly could.'"

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As we review this last five years, and the eight month period prior to the fateful, hateful horrific 9/11, we should remember (1) that at that time responsible Americans were compiling irrefutable data that the 2000 presidential election had been stolen by Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney and their GOP, (2) that from DAY ONE of his administration George Walker Bush had IRAQ as his prime focus, in spite (good word here) of efforts by Clinton/Gore personnel to alert Mr. Bush to the imminent danger which Osama and Al-Qaeda posed to the United States (the common adjective which the Bush people used to describe Clinton/Gore - "feckless"), (3) that Mr. Bush ignored intelligence sources within his own team and then the specific warning in his August '01 Presidential Intelligence Daily Brief (Mr. Bush continued his vacation, as he did again a year ago when warned of the threat from Hurricane Katrina) that Osama was determined to attack the United States homeland, and (4) just yesterday (9/12/06) after Syria had fought off a marauding armed band attacking the US embassy in Damascus, the dismissive White House response: "Syria must stop being an agent for terrorists!". Mr. Bush's arrogant contempt for all in the Middle East - excepting, of course, Israel (find known-bogus) - has generated across the globe, a condemnation of the United States not seen since our war against Vietnam.

In a week in which one to two hundred IRAQIS died (most slaughtered by other Iraqis) and still more injured as a result of the chaos and killing generated by Mr. Bush's delusional policies, all accompanied by the steady drumbeat of American soldiers killed and maimed...during that week (9/11-15/06) he gathered in OUR WHITE HOUSE...in the OVAL OFFICE...for an hour and a half ...hand-picked "conservative" right-wing Republican columnists for a private meeting - "I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions." And in a direct reference to Abraham Lincoln Mr. Bush claimed he, himself, is responsible for "a third awakening". He is the most self-serving self-indulgent man to ever inhabit our White House. He profanes the Office, Mr. Washington, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Lincoln, all the great men who have served - and all the men and women who have given their lives and blood for these United States of America.

>This US government as it exists today provides a shelter for what can only be described as a criminal conspiracy and, frankly, a threat to the rest of the world, as well as to our own American armed service personnel. Just yesterday, 9/14/06, the honorable Colin Powell: "The world is beginning to doubt our moral basis for the fight against terrorism"...several days after Kofi Annan stated "The US invasion of Iraq was a disaster". One of the ongoing mendacious lies inherent in this administration is its total lack of accountability - as they refuse to include 25% to 35% of the costs of the war in Iraq in their deficit calculations, so do they delay and alter the statistics of American military deaths. For example, when armed service personnel are killed and/or injured in vehicles which are not directly hit by IEDs (improvised explosive devices) their numbers are not included in combat casualty figures.

Interestingly, at the end of that first year (2001) of this Bush "presidency" Republican Messers Russert, Giuliani and the Archbishop McCarrick of Washington, D.C. (named a Cardinal, but then retired) had Mr. Bush anointed to the "Presidency" by GOD!

>>> "Israel faults bad maps in U.N. killings

By STEVE WEIZMAN, The Associated Press, 9/14/2006.

JERUSALEM — Four U.N. observers killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon in July were mistakenly targeted because of inaccurate military maps, Israel said in a report released Thursday.

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said the report was given to diplomats from Canada, China, Finland and Austria, which each had an unarmed observer killed in the July 25 airstrike in the town of Khiam near the Lebanese-Israeli border.

'The findings of the inquiry are that at the time the ordnance was launched, the target we perceived that we were hitting was a Hezbollah military position,' Regev said. 'That was a mistake because what was targeted was the U.N. post.'

Regev said deployment at the time of fresh Israeli forces in the area, where there was intense Hezbollah activity, brought a need to duplicate maps and charts.

'In that process, unfortunately, the U.N. post was not accurately mapped,' Regev said. 'When our aircraft launched its ordnance it believed it was targeting Hezbollah. This was a mistake, it shouldn't have happened.'

He said the report detailed Israeli standing orders at the time, which 'said unequivocally that it is totally prohibited to target U.N. personnel and U.N. positions.'

The United Nations has said that before the airstrike, U.N. observers in Lebanon telephoned the Israeli military 10 times in six hours to ask it to stop shelling near their position. The strike sparked international anger against Israel.

U.N. officials said the observation position was well marked. A picture the world body released July 26 showed the three-story building was painted white with the letters 'U.N.' emblazoned in large black letters on all sides, and a light blue U.N. flag hung from a nearby flagpole that was roughly 50 feet high.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan had said that the attack on the observation post in the Lebanese town Khiam was 'apparently deliberate.'

The U.N. is expected to issue its own report on the incident."

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Here is a significant, though incomplete, record of the Israeli monopoly of American foreign policy (but no mention of the November '95 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin...the 1996 "A Clean Break: A New Strategy For Securing the Realm (Israel)", the first step of which was the elimination of Saddam Hussein...or the provocative 2000 "visit", accompanied by an armed Israeli brigade, of Ariel Sharon to the sacred Palestinian Dome of the Rock which initiated the second intifada and all the bloodshed that has followed - a calculated disruption of the peace process known beforehand, but concealed, by The New York Times' William Safir (that is his given surname). The above may be the final act, long the final goal of radical Israelis (total control of Palestine to the Jordan River), in the history of the Middle East. Pass it on. Needless to report - none of this appears in Walter Laqueur's The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism Oxford University Press 2006, nor in the 1974 The New Anti-Semitism, the 1981 The New Anti-Semitism or the 2000 The New Anti-Semitism - all three published by the Anti Defamation League. <<<

This "President", so consumed by his Iraq obsession, and tied to his father's '92 presidential defeat, disregarded his sworn and sacred oath to protect and preserve the American people. Were it not for our inbred Republican bias in the media/press this junior George Bush would be recognized, as he is abroad, for the pariah he truly is. This Media/Press supporting this "President" and his Republican Party at this time has to be the most corrupt since that of a century and a half ago vilified Abraham Lincoln in an effort to support the secessionist South, a part of the country that remains today the most supportive of this "President" and his Republican Party.

Further, Jim Bamford (find ignoble concept), recognized for twenty years as THE expert on United States intelligence agencies and with unparalleled access to CIA insiders, has made available for all to read, in his recent A Pretext for War PUBLISHED TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO by Doubleday, a detailed expose' of the convoluted flimsy scam (pages 299-309) charging that Saddam Hussein had WMDs - which Bush/Cheney, in conjunction with Tony Blair and Israel, knowingly and unconscionably used that fraudulent information to manipulate the American public and the Congress of the United States into supporting the invasion of Iraq.

We can begin by revisiting James Bamford's A Pretext for War, pp. 270-350. From Michiko Kakutani's 6/18/04 review:

"What he does focus on is the role that Israel has played in shaping American policy. Mr. Bamford contends that 'the blueprint for the new Bush policy' on the Middle East 'had actually been drawn up five years earlier by three of his top national security advisors' (Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and David Wurmser) for the Israeli prime minister at the time, Benjamin Netanyahu (who rejected the plan), and that when they entered office in January 2001, all these hawks needed was 'a pretext' for war against Iraq. Citing a report from the British newspaper The Guardian, Mr. Bamford adds that the Office of Special Plans, a Pentagon unit set up by Mr. Feith, 'forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence unit within Ariel Sharon's office in Israel,' which 'was designed to go around the country's own intelligence organization, Mossad.'"

Recall that the night of 9/11/06, Mr. Bush invoked 9/11/01 shamelessly in an effort to convince Americans that the reelection of Republican party candidates was required in order to protect the United States of America: "The outcome of the battle on the streets of Baghdad" will determine the security of these United States. This was before the NIE report was made public. Mr. Bush was then followed by the Republican Party's House majority leader John Boehner who charged that Democrats were more interested in protecting terrorists than they are in protecting the American people. What we see clearly is the Republicans are more interested in their own political security than that of the nation.

- Bamford continued -

Jim Bamford: "(page 301) With little analysis, the intelligence experts should surely have seen the trapdoors hidden in the documents."

"(page 302) The letters were obviously a blend of several genuine older documents, possibly obtained during the earlier break-in, which were used to masquerade the counterfeit newer ones...in fact, al-Zahawiah's trip had nothing to do with uranium...nevertheless, the SISMI (Italian intelligence)...with their British MI-6 liaison...'The British bought it (page 304)'...At CIA...not solid enough to include in the President's Daily Brief...(but) the CIA began giving the questionable Niger item more prominence...(and page 305) as it moved to the Bush inner circle, it made a herculean leap in credibility."

"(page 308)...the OSP (Pentagon Office of Special Plans manned by Douglas Feith at the direction of Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz) forged close ties to a parallel unit (in) Ariel Sharon's office in Israel."

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There was a time when the Republican Party was respectable. But no longer. This insidious/pernicious White House and congressional leadership (these people approved the Israeli strategy of a bombardment of EIGHTEEN HUNDRED cluster bombs into Lebanon, 90% in the last 72 hours before the ceasefire) which the American media not only tolerates, but assists (note the makeup and tenor of the 9/3/06 and 9/10/06 Sunday talk shows). This political mob of conspirators is an anathema to the United States. It is not the vision, a national conspiratorial political evolution aided and abetted by giant Media/Wall Street conglomerates, which our Founding Fathers had in mind...and the candidates which today support this abominable party are guilty of treason.

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Regarding this Media/Press, no blanket coverage of a political story in recent memory better illustrates the abject corruption of American journalism than the "outing" of Republican former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. Every newspaper, national and local, all of the latter being part of national chains, devoted article after article, as did radio and TV stations across the country fill the airwaves, on the item's least significant aspect - who outed Joe Wilson's wife Valerie. None addressed the true significance of the story, that Ambassador Wilson had exposed as false the contention of the Bush/Cheney regime (the actual documents which made the claim were forgeries) that Saddam Hussein possessed WMD's and, as such, was a threat to the United States and its client state of Israel.

Dan Schorr, the senior news analyst for NPR, gave a meaningful twist to the Armitage revelation on the Sunday 9/3/06 Weekend Edition: "Could it be that there was no neocon (Jewish American) conspiracy to undo the Wilsons?" In so doing Mr. Schorr breached a construct which has held now for over two years. Although Jewish Americans and Israelis played a key role in the fabrication that Hussein was in possession of WMD's (their charge was even more ominous - that he was building a nuclear device), the Media/Press/Publishing empire has successfully kept from the American public at large...the fact that Israel and its Jewish supporters worldwide (most prominently here in the United States, and in the Senate Joseph I. Lieberman, now a Republican) virtually coerced (with no resistance from Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh and Rice) the United States body politic to invade Iraq and eliminate Saddam Hussein, who the Jewish diaspora saw as an obstacle to their obsessive design to gain total control of all of Palestine (the Clinton/Gore administration had rebuffed their demands to invade and occupy Iraq).

With the release now of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report (a report which was available and promised before the 2004 "reelection" campaign of George Walker Bush - but withheld), a document which obliterates the Bush/Cheney bona fides - "In June 2004, Bush defended Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that Saddam had 'long-established ties' with Al-Qaeda. 'Zarqawi is the best evidence of a connection to Al-Qaeda affiliates and Al-Qaeda', the president said. The report concludes that post-war findings do not support a 2002 intelligence report that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program..." - Jim Abrams 9/9/06 The Associated Press. Mr. Abrams also notes that the document quotes Democrats on the committee (now given voice by Republicans Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Olympia Snowe of Maine) "that former CIA Director George Tenet had modified his position on the terrorist link at the (")request(") of administration policy makers."

The network anchors (specifically Russert on 9/10/06 Meet the Press) of these Sunday talk shows allow the administration figures and their supporters to do the talking and interrupt them only with questions which avoid, for example, challenging these people on their key misrepresentations of the salient facts - "Mr. Cheney, you speak of Zarqawi's leading insurgence in Iraq. Your removal of Saddam facilitated same."

"Mr. Cheney, you speak of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein that required his removal - but he didn't 'kick out the inspectors'. They were removed because they could not find any evidence of WMD's. And Saddam himself considered Zarqawi an enemy and was searching for him. Logic dictates that with Hussein isolated, under constant surveillance and armed flyovers, and under the sanctions imposed and working, he would likely have collapsed within three to five years. It was your administration's invasion of Iraq and the actions of Israel which have turned the Middle East into what it is today."

Another example of the compromised national media is Thomas Friedman's latest (9/8-11/06) - "THE WAR IN IRAQ - Facing the central truth - ...the Bush team...told the public - correctly, in my view - that building one example of a tolerant, pluralistic, democratizing society in the heart of the Arab-Muslim world was really important in the broader war of ideas against radical Islam...".

Oh? "...building one example of a tolerant, pluralistic, democratizing society in the heart of the Arab-Muslim world...". Mr. Friedman. Why has Israel refused to set an example?

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With reference to all that follows regarding the anthropomorphic rogue cabal which occupies our White House - a draft-dodger as "President", another draft-dodger as "Vice President", and still another draft-dodger as Chief Spokesperson for this rogue "Administration" (we have photos of this cabal within a short scroll). And then there is the ubiquitous Joe Lieberman, a friend of all three. Close by is Bill Kristol who, in mid-August, furthered their cause saying that we should now invade Iran where (we paraphrase) "we would be welcomed with flowers and sweets." Mr. Kristol, who was also a strong supporter of the Israeli invasion and desecration of Lebanon, is now calling for 50,000 to 60,000 additional American troops sent to Iraq!

August 29th, the one-year anniversary of George Bush's casual response to Hurricane Katrina (find barbecue), Kofi Annan properly called Israel on their frequent and serious violations of this cease-fire which ended the month-long Israeli ravage of Lebanon. UN chief Annan has the courage to speak truth to power. Would that the American Media/Press could do the same. They could begin by noting the massive amount of GOP daily TV advertising OVER TWO MONTHS before the November elections.

There is a history of this Republican group, which includes "41" as he and "43" share vacation time in the seaside family compound in Kennebunkport. The year was 1988, not a good one. Elsewhere it is notable (find Buckley) that Bill Buckley placed Joe Lieberman in the United States Senate and '88 is also a key year in the foreboding process which resulted in Roger Ailes (he of Fox "News" infamy) maneuvering Rush Limbaugh onto the publicly-owned national airwaves.

But by far the most damaging event of 1988 to these United States was the tainted election of >>> George Herbert Walker Bush to the presidency, and an integral role in this outrage, as one would expect, was played by George Walker Bush - like father, like son.<<<

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The pervasive cancer which is ingrained in these people and their supporters [totally dependent as they are on war, chaos and killing THAT THEY GENERATED (recall "41" as head of CIA) - Israelis dropped US-produced cluster-bombs on 250 Lebanese communities - we not only supplied them, we paid for them] - surely the most corrosive American administration in over a century (Remember Katrina! Find barbecue.), and coupled with the most traitorous lineup (Sharon, Olmert, Netanyahu) of Israeli leadership in the state's history, a direct result of the November '95 assassination, by a right-wing Israeli radical emboldened by the insidious rhetoric of "Bibi" Netanyahu, the tragic murder of a soldier/statesman Yitzhak Rabin.

It is this background that is so assiduously avoided by the self-promoter Tom Friedman (endorsed by Don Imus 8/24/06 as Friedman opined his opposition to ANY inquiry into how this came about, and just two days after Imus gave his blessings to Joe Lieberman) - because Mr. Friedman and his cohorts Lieberman, Imus and others would not be able to continue in their chosen professions if confronted with James Bamford's A Pretext for War, ably reviewed by the NYT premier reviewer Michiko Kakutani (a shorter scroll).

Here an excerpt from Marty Rosenbluth on the 8/24/06 DemocracyNow using an AmnestyInternational USA report detailing what Israel has become joined, as it is, with this Bush White House.

"What the report shows is that the Israeli claim that the damage to the civilian infrastructure in Lebanon was purely collateral damage really doesn't match the facts. Israeli government officials (themselves) at the beginning of the war said that the purpose of the air strikes was to send a message to the Lebanese government that the population would pay a heavy price. That's prima facie evidence that the strikes were designed as collective punishment. But also just the sheer level of the destruction, the destruction of the electrical infrastructure, the water infrastructure, the roads, the bridges, houses, businesses et cetera doesn't match the Israeli claims that it is collateral damage (15 billion$! Who's to pay?)."

And an excerpt from the 8/20/06 Round table of George's This Week on ABC. "Whatever the saber-rattling, the reality of this administration, a lame duck, is not in a position, does not have the public support, would not be able to rally congressional backing for some kind of major military action against Iran, even if it's just air strikes, and the reality is that people are going to start realizing that it's unlikely to be successful for the exact reason that this is post-Iraq" - Robin Wright Washington Post. Go girl!

And from an unsuspecting source, the Lehrer NewsHour 8/21/06.

The "President": "The threats of the 21st century, the challenge we face. Iran is part of the problem. They sponsor Hezbollah (there was NO Hezbollah until Israel invaded Lebanon in the 80's). They encourage a radical brand of Islam. Will we stay engaged? So long as I'm the "President" we will! I clearly see the challenge!"

A legitimate Middle East expert: "People in the Middle East see these as criticizing whatever they may be doing vis-a-vis Israel. Representative groups that bring forward the aspirations of their people...the United States is absolutely seen as insincere when it talks about democracy and tries to crush an elected government in Palestine and supports Israel in smashing Lebanon...(Iraq) this is a country that has become a catastrophic failed state as a result of the American invasion. Tying all of these things together, as the "President" does, is (A) laughable and (B) is causing us serious problems. If we don't see the specificity of the Israeli occupation of Palestine or what has happened to Lebanon...and we go with the over simplification of the "President" we are moving into...serious danger to the United States". - Professor Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University

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This was to be a review of Michael Neumann's The Case Against Israel - "Michael Neumann argues a brilliant case against the legitimacy of Zionism, whose essence has been the pursuit of Jewish ethnic domination over Palestine" Kathy Christison former CIA analyst and author of Perceptions of Palestine - but with the Israeli month-long destruction of Lebanon the Israelis, themselves, have made the indelible case for peoples "all across the world" to see - Regarding UN Resolutions refer to Security Council Resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973) which are still extant and supersede 1559. And ponder Olmert's reaction to the cease fire: "We'll still kill Nasrallah!", which the Israelis attempted 8/18/06 with their commando raid deep within Lebanon and, of course, lied about.

August 1, 2006 was the birthday in 1779 of Francis Scott Key who, in response to his viewing the British bombing of Fort McHenry on September 7, 1814, wrote our national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner. Let us now recommit to fight for THIS country...and its once great promise.

Right and Wrong On the Iraq War

"To the Editor: Re 'The Iraq War Enablers' (column, Aug. 7): Bob Herbert articulates one of most frustrating remnants of the selling of the Iraq war: the enduring fallacy that this is a good war gone bad. It is crucial that the war’s erstwhile proponents come to terms with the fact that this war is not a failure for poor execution but was instead doomed from its conception. Those who have been right about this war since well before the invasion did not stumble on the truth through happenstance; knowledge of the region’s culture, sectarian divisions, religion and military history has informed the skeptics since Day 1. The neoconservative (a euphemism for Jewish American) myth of democracy’s taking root in Iraq and flowering throughout the Middle East was either a pipe dream, cynical propaganda, or both. Taking the wrong lessons from this catastrophe will only lead America to repeat its mistakes. - Mike Leonard New York, Aug. 7, 2006"

We can begin by revisiting James Bamford's A Pretext for War, pp. 270-350. From Michiko Kakutani's 6/18/04 review:

Wake Up America!! The outrageous demand, quoted next, by Ehud Olmert has consequences. For America, not Israel, as the plot exposed by the Brits demonstrates, but NBC, ABC, CBS & NPR & PRI (Public Radio for Israel) et cetera cannot connect!

In this last week several major developments - 8/7/06 Lindsey Hilsun of ITV News reported from Israel that the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had called upon "Jews all across the world" to support Israel against Lebanon (The July Israeli bombing...FOR WHICH WE PAID...of the Lebanese oil depot and, later, power plant is creating the greatest man-made environmental disaster in the history of the country.) - 8/9/06 Joseph Lieberman ["for the sake of our state, our country and my party, I cannot, I will not let this result stand" (You want arrogant chutzpah? These pronouncements from Lieberman & Olmert have raised the bar with Dershowitz not far behind.)] answered Olmert's call by announcing, having lost the Connecticut Democratic primary, that he would run as an Independent (independent of all but Zionist Israel & US Chamber of Commerce) knowing well that between now and November he can count on the support of fellow Jewish American, broadcaster Don Imus.

The 7/31/06 Terri Gross interview with Christopher Dickey, the Newsweek Middle East Regional Editor, based in Paris (Mr. Dickey has that same superior tone in his voice as NYT Jerusalem Editor Steven Erlanger), an interview which consumed 90% of the hour and gave complete absolution to Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and Doug Feith and, of course, Israel itself, and a further half-hour of pro-Israel propaganda with Tom Friedman 8/1/06. Not one letter to the editor in the July 31, 2006 of the New York Times regarding what's happening in Lebanon vis-a-vis Israel.

>> Visualize this timely Tom Toles political cartoon with later addenda:

[Our corporate media gave us this administration, but that does not excuse individuals from their personal responsibility.]

The United States Capitol with flagpole pointing to the heavens...but atop and fully extended is the pristine (now soiled by its ravage of Lebanon and Gaza) Israeli religious standard featuring the six-pointed Star of David...while at half-staff hangs our tattered Old Glory - The Stars and Stripes.

On the Capitol steps are gathered today's incomprehensibly pernicious leaders, of this still great republic, milling below an extended cartoon balloon: "We're all so terribly saddened...". The group includes "Condi", Stephen Hadley, John Bolton, Joshua Bolten, Margaret Warner (refuses to report the $140 billion$ we have given and continue to give while 8/9/06 she has for expert analysis of Israel's destruction of Lebanon Ehud Eiron, a pro-Israeli Armed Forces veteran and an Ori Nir, the Washington bureau chief of the Jewish weekly Forward), Al Franken (8/9/06 "I tend to get a little giggly when it gets really bad"), John McCain [8/22/06 "It grieves me so much that we have not told the American people how tough and difficult this task would be (but like Bush, who sees this as his saving grace, I see this as my only opportunity to be "President".)"], Ken Mehlman, Fareed Zakaria, Scott Simon, Dan Schorr, Howard Fineman, Alan Dershowitz, Ehud Olmert, Shimon Peres (Bob Schieffer, part of the group, introduced Peres 7/30/06 as a Nobel laureate - and on 8/16/06 Schieffer and David Martin described Israel's desecration of Lebanon as "the Muslim war in Lebanon" - and on 8/20/06 "Uncle Bob" demonstrated that he's the co-chairman, along with Don Imus, of this Fall campaign to put Lieberman, the Republican, back in the Senate for McCain and Bush), Joe Lieberman, Tony Snow, Bill Frist, Carl Levin, Hillary, Charles Schumer, Tim Russert, Lisa Myers, Leslie Moonves, Mickey Mouse dancing with Diane Sawyer/Dan Harris/Brian Ross, Paula Zahn, Paula Kerger, Andrea Mitchell, Rupert Murdoch, John Seigenthaler, Mort Zuckerman, John Donald Imus Jr, Jim Lehrer, NPR's chief analyst "Kooky" Roberts, Tom Friedman, Jim Rutenberg, Randy Cohen the NYT ethicist, David Broder, David Brooks and on a gurney being cared for by fat-faced Abe Foxman, Aspen Institute Walt Isaacson and Jake Isaacson, Ariel Sharon. George Bush, Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh were not allowed to participate. Their obvious long-standing inability to feel sadness for others would have exposed the charade.

In the lower right-hand corner is the ever-present muse: "Not as saddened as the rescuers in Qana", including the UN observers who have stated no Hezbollah were in the area (in 1996 a similar Israeli attack on Qana killed over 100 innocents in a UN refugee camp.). <<

In the West, a David Sarasohn has a top-right front-page column setting the 7/30/06 Opinion section of Newhouses' The Oregonian with this headline: "Mr. President, watch who you call 'murderer'". But no. It does not refer to Qana, Lebanon. Sarasohn's focus is stem cells. Somehow he manages to avoid the bloodthirsty Israeli ravaging of Lebanon.

What to make of Philip Roth's 2004 publication of the arrogant/insulting diversionary The Plot Against America? Mr. Roth is too well-connected to plead ignorance to the cruel irony in the book's title. Our country has been desecrated by a band of Roth's fellow Jewish Americans, particularly those who infiltrated the Pentagon.

Three hundred and fifty years ago the budding giant of philosophy, 23-year-old Baruch Spinoza, was excommunicated by his fellow Jews from the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam. Spinoza "came to be vilified throughout all Europe" because he "argued that no group or religion could rightly claim infallible knowledge of the Creator's partiality to its beliefs and ways." Here a series of excerpts.

"The Jews who banished Spinoza had themselves been victims of intolerance, refugees from the Spanish-Portuguese Inquisition. Spinoza's reaction to the religious intolerance he saw around him was to try to think his way out of all sectarian thinking. Self-aggrandizement can be the invisible scaffolding of religion, politics or ideology. Spinoza's faith in reason as our only hope and redemption is the core of his system, and its consequences reach out in many directions, including the political. Which is why, for Spinoza, democracy was the most superior from of government - but it can never relieve us of our responsibility to strive to justify our beliefs in the light of evidence. Statecraft infused with religion not only dissolves the justification for the state but is intrinsically unstable, since it must insist on its version of the truth against all others." Complete column by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, entitled Reasonable Doubt, OP-ED 7/29/06 in NYT.

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July 25, 2006, was the one hundred and fiftieth birthday of George Bernard Shaw, while we're in the midst of celebrating the two hundred and thirtieth birthday of our beloved United States of America. It was this great man who said "All great truths begin as blasphemies." He was on the same path as Mahatma Gandhi, The Jews of Palestine, which foretells the source of the chaos in the Middle East and, in fact, here in the United States as American policy supports and funds the Sharon/Olmert bloody outrage.

Over many years America has been extremely generous to Israel. The country has been the recipient of about $140 billion up to 2004 and about $3 billion annually. That's an average of about $500 a year for every Israeli.

In brief - This conflagration of the Middle East; September 11th '01, specifically threatened by Al Qaeda; our invasion of Iraq - none of this would have occurred had not Republican Justices Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas (perhaps the worst Justice in the Court's history, placed there by the senior George Bush through a Senate Judiciary Committee headed by Joe Biden), O'Connor and Kennedy victimized both Vice President Albert Gore [Mr. Lieberman would have been restrained, much as John Kennedy isolated Lyndon Johnson...and it is doubtful Joe could have participated in another assassination...and yet? (Lieberman was elected to the Senate through the considerable efforts of ultra-conservative Bill Buckley who hated the serving Connecticut Senator Lowell Weiker. Senator Weiker had destroyed Buckley in several notable debates in the 1970's, subjects the war against Vietnam and Watergate, and the petty Buckley hated him for that.)] and the American people in the Supreme Court's 5-4 2000 decision. Actions have consequences. Example: (1) "the mutilated corpses of two American soldiers abducted in June...killed out of revenge for the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl in March" - Edward Wong NYT, Baghdad 7/10/06 (2) the abduction of the Israeli soldier Shalit from Gaza checkpoint, ending a self-imposed ceasefire by Hamas, was the response to the June 9th Israeli shell which killed seven Palestinians picnicing on the northern Gazan beach.

A full analysis of US/Israeli responsibility for current chaos in Lebanon and Gaza on DemocracyNow.org - their 7/17/06 broadcast available now, and the full text here. Particular attention to Rania Masri (electroniclebanon.net) from Lebanon, rather then the pro-Israel slant from, say, General Electric's NBC and its "reporters" Brian Williams, Martin Fletcher (Tom Aspell refused to use the GE line and, so, was sent to Korea), and Andrea Mitchell...duplicated by Les Moonves' CBS and Bob Schieffer (Bush appointed his younger brother Tom ambassador to Japan), Richard Roth and Bob Simon and "expert" Richard Haass who heads the Council on Foreign Relations, Henry Kissinger's former habitat. All mimic the pro-Israel stance of NPR. And Lehrer stoops to pressure, having Judy Woodruff load her analysis team with the brazen duo of Trudy Rubin and Bill Kristol, neither one of whom has repudiated the insidious AIPAC. Has any major national Jewish organization challenged AIPAC? And not one newscast mentioned the billion$ we have given and continue to give Israel every year.

ITEM - In Sept. '01 Italian intelligence SISMI (details pp. 297-303 Bamford's A Pretext for War) forwards known-bogus Saddam-WMD "documents" to MI6 and CIA, both of which "legitimize" Saddam threat.

- In Sept. '02 Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League informs Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi that the League will present its Distinguished Statesman Award to him in Sept. '03.

- On Tuesday, 9/23/03 (article in 9/19/03 N. Y. Times) Mr. Foxman and Jacob Isaacson, director of the American Jewish Committee make the presentation at a gala Plaza Hotel dinner co-hosted by Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch and Mort Zuckerman.

ITEM - A N. Y. Times 7/13/06 article datelined London by a Sarah Lyall: "like the so-called Downing Street memo, which showed that the decision to go to war had already been made in July 2002." In fact, former CIA agent/analyst Ray McGovern details a 9/20/01 private dinner conversation between Tony Blair and George Bush in Crawford, Texas in which Blair and Bush agree to invade Iraq.

ITEM - Speaks reams: "Top Blair Fund-Raiser Arrested in British Labor Party Scandal - After Mr. Blair came to office, Lord Levy, previously Michael Abraham Levy, was named Baron Levy of Mill Hill. In 2000, Mr. Blair appointed Lord Levy as his personal envoy to the Middle East. Mr. Blair's deputy prime minister, John Prescott, has been mired in...his close ties to Philip Anschutz, an American billionaire seeking to build a huge casino near the ill-starred Millennium Dome in east London." Alan Cowell, London July 12, 2004.

ITEM - The three draft dodgers, enabled by American Jewry, plan to take over the world.

One of them under the influence of Viagra, on a break from his colloquy with Bibi, arranged by Roger Ailes.

And some advice for those of you who might choose to take issue with Mr. Limbaugh...in person...on or off the air...advice from George Bernard Shaw:

"Never wrestle with a pig. You just get dirty...and the pig enjoys it."

Why Rush Limbaugh moved to Florida

RUSH HUDSON LIMBAUGH III

"These people who support my program are not the mind-numbed robots who are victims of Keith Rupert "Scum" Murdoch's Australian News Corporation's 'We Report-You Decide'."

"Now it's true we spent three full days of programming, maybe more, during Clinton/Gore 'establishing (falsely)' that they sold lots in Arlington National Cemetery for campaign contributions...and that we spent three full days of programming last August knocking down (falsely) the August 12th Time story that the junior George Bush, Dick Cheney and Condollleeezzzaaa Rice [Interestingly, Ms. Rice's first name is misspelled on the oil tanker named for her by CHEVRON! aka Standard Oil of California (How many other 'National Security Advisers' have their names on Big Oil tankers?)...and,of course, it is now Chevron/Texaco]...to repeat, that the Junior George Bush, Dick Cheney and Ms. Rice were CONTINUALLY informed (beginning during the 2000-2001 transition by George Tenet and his Director of Operations, and Clinton/Gore National Security Adviser Sandy Berger) that Osama bin Laden presented 'an immediate. . .impending...a tremendous threat' to the United States, but that Bush/Cheney/Rice had ignored the warning and, consequently, insured the success of 9/11/01."

"Yes, our three-day Arlington National Cemetery canard drove our audience to tears and rage - "......

......" - and the many weeks that we spent charging that Clinton/Gore had sold nuclear secrets to the Chi-Coms (for those of you in Rio Linda, that's Chinese Communists)...again, for campaign funds...which convinced our audience that Clinton/Gore had committed treason...and now...it's obvious...that all that time Republican Louis Freeh was harboring subversive FBI agents who WERE dallying with a Chi-Com double agent"......

* which record CAN NOT be papered over by the slanderous fabricated polemic of one Robert Patterson and his Dereliction of Duty...no matter how many copies these wealthy corrupt Republicans buy to put it on the Sulzberger's The New York Times Company's best seller list...particularly with the bona fide dereliction of duty by George Walker Bush...as detailed in the August 12, 2003 Time *

......"and so consumed was FBI Director Freeh with nailing William Jefferson Clinton and Albert Arnold Gore Jr. for something...ANYTHING...hopefully for (talk about an FBI with an agenda) treachery...that our Federal Bureau of Investigation was allowed to be politicized by the right-wing Republican Party to the point that it was more compromised by American double agents than at anytime in its HISTORY -" .....

......"- and it's true I was an invited and honored guest in Israel of Zionists Netanyahu and Sharon...but I'll deny that I had ANY role in the 1996 document 'A Clean Break - A New Strategy for Securing the Realm (Israel, not the United States of America!)" the first step of which was the elimination of Saddam Hussein....

......"- and it's true that our three-day knock-down of the August 12th Time story so intimidated the Media/Press that they have side-stepped the story to this day - and I may have known about the 1996 'A Clean Break' document, but I didn't write it and I'm not responsible for it (True. I was in Israel with Netanyahu....). So I've said all these things...repeated many of them ad nauseum...but these people were free to disbelieve me. What's all the fuss about?"

Limbaugh 4/11/03 quote, with some editorial license. . .BUT. . .WITH...THE ...BASIC...HORRENDOUS...FACTS INTACT!

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Dear God: Please grant us independence from this insidious command that we support - indeed squander our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor - in this unholy alliance with the rapacious and bellicose theocracy Israel (on their flag - the star of David) and its thoughtless/manic advocates here in the United States. Their cup runneth over, while ours and that of the Palestinians and, now, the Lebanese are drained. We've done enough...and it has cost us dearly (The Council for the National Interest Foundation is being battered by forces unknown. The www.cnionline.org needs help. Do what you can.). Amen.

Thank you, Lord. What we have here is a reasoned and comprehensive approach which all Americans - responsible Democrats, Republicans, Independents and non-affiliated - can support, as we work for an accountability mechanism to which Bush/Cheney MUST respond. This bloody civil war in Iraq...the destruction of Lebanon...this inexcusable slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza by Sharon-Olmert! Neither would be possible without the arrogance of George Walker Bush and his ilk. Let us, Lord, reclaim the promise of our past and the dedication of our Founding Fathers. Amen.

We can begin by revisiting James Bamford's A Pretext for War, pp. 270-350. From Michiko Kakutani's 6/18/04 review:

[ An Open Letter 7/6/06 To Mr. Dan Rather ]

"We pen this on the date that four hundred and seventy one years ago Sir Thomas More was beheaded. Fortunately the penalty for speaking truth to power has become more humane.

Yours and Mary Mapes' dismissal by CBS under Sumner Redstone and Leslie Moonves are present-day examples of corrupt power solutions to unsettling information, more disturbing because it ended your career on publicly-owned airwaves at a critical time, and brought to a close a remarkable fifty years of airing political/governmental misdeeds, a series begun and inspired by your predecessor Edward R. Murrow's expose' of Joe McCarthy.

Your program was on the mark, as James C. Goodale's analysis confirms. Further, Seymour Hersh's conversation with Amy Goodman on today's (7/4/06) DemocracyNow broadcast makes clear that what was evident thirty five years ago, i.e. Mr. Bush's cavalier attitude toward public service, has evolved, given his position, into a threat to this country. Mr. Hersh now sees him as messianic.

In the same time frame as your experience vis-a-vis CBS, James Bamford's "A Pretext for War" was published and given a positive and, more important, thorough review by Michiko Kakutani. As of two months ago it seems that Mr. Bamford and his book are now encountering, as you are, an early 21st century version of blacklisting on an American issue as ominous as the early days of World War II.

On 5/11/06 in a lengthy commentary "All the President's Books" Ms. Kakutani included seventeen current publications, even Douglas Brinkley's on hurricane Katrina, seven of the books with multiple references, all on Bush vis-a-vis Iraq - but no mention of Mr. Bamford or A Pretext for War.

The full-page ad in the July 2nd Week in Review, plus the April 12, 19, 20 and 22nd N. Y. Times articles on the Mearsheimer/Walt "The Israel Lobby and U. S. Foreign Policy" speak to what may be the most diabolic action, perhaps treasonous, against the United States since the Civil War - the diverting, beginning 1/21/01, of U. S. foreign policy goals from preserving, protecting and defending the people and Constitution of these United States. Compounding the catastrophe, we are virtually funding the Israeli military action against Gaza which the, again diabolic, Israelis precipitated (remember Sharon's "visit" with a brigade of armed Israeli military to the Dome of the Rock in 2000) with an "errant" artillery shell that killed seven picnicing Palestinians on the northern Gazan beach 6/9/06.

The Week in Review ad and the April Times' articles are too isolated to have penetrated public political discourse. With great respect Mr. Rather, you may be the one in this nation with the experience, energy, fortitude and inclination - the dedication - to take this on.

Respectfully - Republican Bias in the Media"

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We post this 4th of July commemoration twenty eight days after the thirty eighth anniversary of the tragic assassination of Robert Francis Kennedy, a death which led to the presidential election of the most truly impeachable administration in the last century, the 20th, that of Richard Nixon, which has been exceeded in Constitutional-rending criminality by only the regime of George Walker Bush.

>BREAKINGNEWS - On 6/24/06 NPR's Tom Goldman and Scott Simon made much of a 1996 Lance Armstrong story, adjudicated in Mr. Armstrong's favor. Would that the NPR team investigate these dicta - the 1996 Israeli/Jewish American A Clean Break: The New Strategy for Securing the Realm (Israel), the first step of which was the elimination of Saddam Hussein...and the inexplicable delay in the Federal trial of AIPAC's Rosen & Weissman.

Here we interject a summation of the life of an exemplary Jewish stalwart who, as a teenager, walked or rode a donkey overland from Romania to Palestine, and whose uncompromising sensibilities called for the sharing of Jerusalem with Muslims and Christians and for Israel, after the '67 Israeli Arab war, to unilaterally withdraw from key portions of the occupied territories which Sharon/Olmert now demand be permanently confiscated by Israel. Mr. Ben-Aharon was a responsible Zionist who recognized that Palestinians have as much right to that sacred land as do Jews (Welcome the Council for the National Interest, founded in 1989 by, among others, the formidable Paul "Pete" McCloskey.). Had Mr. Ben-Aharon's vision been implemented the Israeli/Palestinian confrontation would have ended over two decades ago and, more important to the United States, the vice in which Saddam Hussein found himself in 2000 would by now have collapsed his regime...and we would not have lost over twenty thousand of the best of our young people to violent death and grievous injury...and would have OVER HALF A TRILLION DOLLAR$ for education, health care and those basic services which this greatest country on Earth should be providing its people.

There is an aspect of this insufferable/inseparable destruction (which we fund with a minimum of 3 billion$ per year to Israel - THAT'S OUR MONEY!), what is essentially the Israeli domination of US policy in the Middle East these last six years, a policy initiated and fostered by "conservatives", "neoconservatives" (a euphemism for rabid Jewish Americans) and so-called "progressives" (This last category, which was a leading factor responsible for forcing us into Iraq, now are some of the war's most vicious critics.) - all of which has yet to be addressed by the tightly managed, agenda-driven and manipulated Media/Press - and that aspect is the October '98 Wye River Conference on the eastern shore of Maryland during which the singularly distinctive, distinguished and legitimate King of Jordan had this to say about progress toward real peace in the Middle East...and William Jefferson Clinton. The contrast with today's effort, as Jewishly interpreted by the NY Times and Steven Erlanger 6/23/06 is stark:

"They embraced and promised to accelerate for a substantive meeting...orchestrated by King Abdullah II and Elie Wiesel (the "they" being Mahmoud Abbas and Ehud Olmert)...Mr. Olmert vowed 'to put everything on the line for peace' and make 'painful concessions as Mr. Sharon had done.'" Accompanying the story The Times picked a Reuters photo showing smiling, jovial Olmert, Abbas and Abdullah II. The present King of Jordan should be smiling, as is Olmert. Our painful policy has not only removed the major threat to Israeli expansion, but will also enable Jordan to share, with Israel, Iraq's oil and water. Regarding present-day Jordan, which under the regime of the son of the great Hussein, the country now permits fifty thousand virtual slaves working...for WALMART, TARGET etc....in sowing sewing sweat shops.

Here Abdullah's father, the singularly distinguished King Hussein in 1998:

"Mr. President. I have had the privilege of being a friend of the United States and its Presidents since the late President Eisenhower. And throughout all the years that have passed I have kept in touch. But on the subject of peace...the peace we are seeking...I have never, with all due respect and all the affection I held for your predecessors, known someone with your dedication, clear-headedness, focus and determination...to resolve this issue...in the best way possible."

Significantly, a Haim Watzman piece 6/22/06 which dominates The Times' OP-ED page, and is datelined Jerusalem, seems to combine Israel and the United States, an onerous comparison for us: "The army of a democracy fighting an insurgency - Israel in the West Bank, like the United States in Iraq - face tough choices." But Mr. Watzman has it right, while we're under the control of the Bush/Cheney cabal. Both countries are occupying another people's land, and give no indication of doing otherwise. This was made clear on the Moonves/Schieffer 6/25/06 Face the Nation.

There is another factor which bears responsibility for this debacle. Rush Limbaugh...and the two N Y Times "reporters" (Face it. They're propagandists!) Jim Rutenberg and Bill Carter (Mr. Carter does know his sitcoms), who for years enabled, indeed championed and supported the loud mouth.

(One day we'll relate the weird, unquestioning leadin to Limbaugh's deafness as reported by Carter/Rutenberg, details of which they kept to themselves.).

Maureen Dowd nails him.

***** The United States (hardly recognizable from 1/21/01 to the present) has paid a terrible price for this Iraqi opportunity now for democracy - two successive stolen American presidencies ( this ground breaking compilation courtesy of Robert Francis Kennedy Jr) and continuing chaos in Iraq and Afghanistan....

*** "Republicans have an election-year strategy (again) to shut down voter registration drives (in Ohio)...its secretary of state, J. Kenneth Blackwell, has put in place 'emergency' regulations that hit registration workers with criminal penalties for perfectly legitimate registration practices...Mr. Blackwell (is) the Republican candidate for governor (and) in 2004 he instructed county boards of elections to reject any registrations on paper of less than 80-pound stock, (an) almost certainly illegal order"...and can you remember the hundreds of primarily Democratic Party voters, as in Florida, that were subjected to interminable lines at polling places throughout the state, in numbers that challenged the key Bush "victory" in Ohio and were NEVER resolved - above quotes from N. Y. Times 6/7/06 editorial. (Now the Bush/Cheney agents are doing the same thing in Mexico, in our name). ***

.....September 11, 2001 (within this initial site segment is a link to the August 6, 2003 Time cover story), a near TRILLION dollar financial commitment to Iraq - "The New York Times reports the Bush administration is considering keeping at least fifty thousand troops in Iraq for years to come, possibly for decades...Meanwhile on Capitol Hill Republican lawmakers appear to be giving the Pentagon the go-ahead to build permanent military bases in Iraq. Last week lawmakers quietly removed a provision that would have blocked the military from establishing permanent bases in Iraq." - Amy Goodman 6/12/06 (eight billion$ somehow vanished into the black hole of American and foreign contractors, wealthy London-based Iraqi emigres and present day members of the Iraqi "Parliament") - while in America lack of funds prohibit the education of our young commensurate with the GNP and require key early-education professionals in the public sector to make do with subsistence compensation. Our national healthcare system is a disgrace among western industrialized nations and the character of our present political leadership bunkered in the White House is viewed with contempt by the rest of the world...and the concurrent unleashing and empowering (remember Terri Schiavo?) of the most regressive and draconian United States religious, cultural and social networks, which dominate our national airwaves, have set a standard compared to which McCarthyism seems noble (See George Soros' The Age of Fallibility). Bush/Cheney has so damaged our system of governing that our democracy is now on life support, and may not survive. *****

What follows is NOT Anti-Semitic, the blanket accusation which is applied to any criticism of Israel, its policies and those Jewish Americans [e.g. Neal Conan, Judith Miller, Randy Cohen, Edward Rothstein, Margaret Warner, Leslie Moonves (the former actor Moonves neutralized Dan Rather and that impact on CBS News is not unlike Clarence Thomas' on the United States Supreme Court, devastating), Michael Scheuer, Mark Strassman, Stuart Levey Undersecretary of Treasury and Thomas L. Friedman] whose allegiance to Israel supersedes their loyalty to the United States. It is brutal disturbing fact, now, as the growing "ethnic-cleansing" pattern ravages the people of Iraq. WE DID NOT INVADE IRAQ BELIEVING SADDAM HUSSEIN HAD WMDs! Steve Inskeep and NPR may have the power to delay for several months the Haditha story (the incriminating evidence of payoffs by the US military establishment to the Iraqi survivors was there for the Nacional Presidente' Radio million$ to uncover - as it was for the Blair government-gutted BBC)...and Inskeep/NPR can interview Mike Wallace and then James Carroll, the latter author of House of War, but it is ludicrous for Carroll, with his sources and history (his father was integral in the creation of the Pentagon) to state on 5/30/06 that Bush/Cheney invaded Iraq because Saddam had WMDs.

Virtually every prominent Jewish American (and Jewish Brit and Jewish Frenchman, certainly including Bernard Henri-Levy) knows we did not take out Saddam because of his WMDs, known to be non-existent. We eliminated Saddam Hussein because Sharon's (now Olmert's) Israel saw him as one-half of the obstacle to Israeli control of all of Palestine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River, the other half of the obstacle being Iran, long threatened and beleaguered (as was Iraq), by a belligerent, avaricious nuclear-armed Israel (200+ nukes), Iran now the focus of Bush/Cheney deadly foreign policy. With respect to Jewish America, so much more clannish than, say, Irish America, it is likely that much of Jewish America knows the scam as well. As for the American Media/Press refusal to state, report and print the obvious, although of lesser import its like their refusing to admit that The West Wing, one of the best programs in the history of the medium, had to be cancelled because it presented a weekly embarrassment to the Republican Party and the George Walker Bush administration and was a regular reminder to the American public how truly inept, incompetent, clueless, yet arrogant and pernicious, is this Bush/Cheney debacle. We prefer to recognize the esteemed Marine Corps Colonel, and United States Congressman John Murtha on Haditha: "We don't know how far it goes. I mean it goes right up the chain of command, right up to (Marine) General Pace (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs). When did he know about it? Did he order the cover up? Who ordered the cover up? Who said 'We're not going to publicize this thing, we're not going to even investigate it.'"

Here phrases from the 7/5/06 column by the aforementioned Mr. Friedman:

"The Palestinians could have a state on the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem tomorrow, if they and the Arab League clearly recognized Israel, normalized relations and renounced violence."

If you believe that Olmert/Sharon will give up the settlement Ariel in the West Bank, which they built WITH OUR MONEY over the Palestinian aquifer...as the saying goes "We've got a bridge in Brooklyn we'll sell you."

The New York Times under the junior Arthur Ochs Sulzberger is particularly culpable, as a following sidebar demonstrates, with, for example, an OP-ED by one Owen West on our Memorial Day 5/29/06 entitled "The Troops Have Moved On". The politicized Mr. West has organized, surely with White House assistance, a Vets for Freedom...and includes this phrase: "today's debates are mean-spirited and dominate the argument by insinuating false motives", which statement provides the coup de grace. It is precisely that "false motive" which is the key to unravelling this monumental, unparalleled and unprecedented fraud against the Constitution and people of the United States, a fraud as familiar to Philip Roth, Thomas L. Friedman, Al Franken, Jonathan Karl and Don Imus as it is to Joe Lieberman. Ehud Olmert gave voice to the fraud, in Washington D C, May 24, 2006: "Our wish is to build a better future for the region, hand in hand with the Palestinians." Clearly another mendacious liar like Sharon, the both of them having authorized the bulldozing of 400-year-old Palestinian olive trees tended by generations of Palestinian families. Mr. Olmert's hour-long propaganda to a captive Congress was assisted by Elie Wiesel. The quotes on this internet site are irrefutable. Much as Anthony Charles Lynton Blair gutted the BBC to conceal the facts of the Downing Street memo, and George Walker Bush has profaned our culture in his self-serving obsession to obscure his history of personal failure, Mr. Olmert's address was designed to elicit sympathy for a Zionist Israel and legitimacy for Jewish Americans in broadcasting and the private sector who support the ignoble concept - allegiance to Israel rather than to our own country, an act of treason in light of the damage caused to these United States by the invasion of Iraq, facilitated in part by men like Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith. This monstrous misuse of our country, its history, culture and promise demands accountability.

NewsBreak I - In the last five weeks we have seen a foreign power, Israel, complete one half of an unprecedented rip-off [a virtual theft of $400 BILLION and the death and critical injury of thousands of American military personnel in Iraq - This seizure of the control and direction of American Middle East policy, completed IN OUR WASHINGTON D C, an operation which included a strongarm passage by AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Conspiracy) of a bill in Congress titled "Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006" which prohibits any and all aid to the Palestinians (while US aid to Israel is a minimum of $3 BILLION per year)]...this is what the stealth address to a joint session of our Congress by the Israeli Ehud Olmert completed.

NONE of this was covered by the major networks, which are obligated by law to provide a public service of news and information in exchange for the use of publicly-owned airwaves to carry their programs and commercials (which are often indistinguishable)...we are citing here the latest non-performance of Rupert Murdoch's FOX conglomerate, General Electric's NBC (Brian Williams, Tim Russert, Andrea Mitchell), Disney's ABC and Leslie Moonves' CBS (Bob Schieffer).

This site may seem overwrought, but so be it. It's one of the very few on the web which adequately addresses what follows. And the core of what follows is further detail of the inexplicable detour of American military force from Afghanistan to Iraq. Were Edward R. Murrow among us [Mr. Murrow's birthdate 4/25/08. He died young from a four-pack-a-day addiction to cigarettes (credit Clinton/Gore with exposing that vile industry, an industry given a pass by Mike Wallace)], but were he with us today he would not tolerate journalism's silence on the why of the shift to Iraq. At this critical time in our history Paul Krugman, if not Frank Rich, may be the one reporter/commentator closest in courage and the selection of the major question of our time. This week (5/22-26/06), while Brian Williams gallivants around Africa, and Ted Koppel totally avoids the question, Mr. Krugman grips the meaning of Mr. Bush, Mr. Blair and Mr. Olmert, all in Washington this week. What are they about?

NewsBreak II - Unreported by the Media/Press an unannounced hearing was held May 7th on US vs Steven Rosen & Keith Weissman which reclassified the May 23rd trial date to a sealed hearing now closed to the public (another example of the selective use of "national security" by Bush/Cheney to withhold from the American people information damaging to George Walker Bush and his rabid, and in this case, traitorous supporters). A new trial date has been scheduled for August 7, 2006. Don't bet on it.

As President Bush's approval drops below 30%, the commercial networks of General Electric, CBS, Disney and Rupert Murdoch, in collusion with the White House, essentially commandeered the publicly-owned airwaves to (1) change the subject and (2) to obscure his failure as a President of the United States. Those are the reasons the primetime television address from our Oval Office was scheduled for 5/15/06 (Mr. Bush is now the equal of Ronald Reagan, but only in reading a teleprompter.). Whether the device is successful in a bumpup into the 30's (made problematic by John Murtha's press conference 5/17/06 and the further deaths of four American military personnel and one sailor on 5/18/06 unreported by both NBC Brian Williams' Nightly News and Bob Schieffer and Leslie Moonves' CBS Evening News - and there is also from United States Marine Corp hero John Murtha that the death count from the slaughter of Iraqi innocents last November may double to thirty)... whether the speech helps Bush remains to be known, but we have seen a classical example of "news" management, direction and manipulation - truly Republican Bias in the Media.

On a 5/17/06 Fresh Air Terri Gross interviews Dan Okrent, the first ombudsman of the N. Y. Times, and between the two of them it is acknowledged that every time there is in the newspaper "a reference to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict" there is the greatest outpouring of response - but that is all that is said by either Okrent or Gross. No explanation. No detailing of arguments. And Mr. Okrent was in that position for a year and a half while dozens of articles from Greg Myre and Steven Erlanger appeared in print. Finally an understanding of why there are NEVER any letters to the editor on the subject.

Ms. Gross and Mr. Okrent also managed to skip over Judith Miller's earlier affair with the young Sulzberger, which affair enabled her to present the erroneous stories of Iraq's WMDs (Chalabi was noted, but not her primary source in the Bush/Cheney administration, the indicted "Scooter" Libby) without being challenged by any editor above her.

The confluence of these two stories - The Palestinian/Israeli conflict and the bogus Iraqi WMDs - they are the key to an accurate understanding of the veering of United States foreign policy, under George Walker Bush, into Iraq.

Actually, an earlier 5/11/06 Michiko Kakutani piece All the President's Books includes this sentence which fills in the story: "Mr. Bremer says of his own controversial May 2003 announcement formally dissolving the Iraqi Army...that the decision was made in consultation with Mr. Wolfowitz and Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith, and authorized by Mr. Rumsfeld."

On the 5/13/06 Chris Matthews Show Andrea Mitchell vents as follows: "U.N. diplomats are trying to low-ball this, but U.N. inspectors have found the first hard evidence of highly-enriched uranium that can make weapons, cannot be used for peaceful purposes, inside Iran at a former defense site. It can be now a real, the smoking gun if you will, that Iran is not doing this for civilian purposes, but it really is a weapons program."

However, the reliable William J. Broad in the 5/13/06 New York Times is better informed and less agenda-driven in his "Inspectors Cite Equipment Link to a Closed Military Base": "...an Iranian opposition group (CIA?) had charged that the authorities had removed enrichment gear from Lavizan before demolishing all the buildings and carting off the rubble. Iran claimed it was contamination from imported equipment. The agency (I.A.E.A.) found that at least some of the highly enriched uranium came from equipment imported from Pakistan. If it matches, one diplomat said, that would tend to support accidental contamination."

In any event NBC's Tom Aspell is more responsible a reporter than the vaunted Ms. Mitchell...and, too, there should be some reference to Israel's nuclear weaponry in that volatile Middle East, which has been designated nuclear weapon-free.

And a sidebar - On page 660 of Sidney Blumenthal's The Clinton Wars: "The Clinton administration also entered into negotiations to get the Taliban to hand over bin Laden to a third country to face justice...Pakistan, the nation most closely supportive of the Taliban, was also unhelpful. 'I will do as much as I can,' Musharraf said - and did nothing" and "the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the most dysfunctional agency of the government and the most resistant to cooperation with the National Security Council on al Qaeda. Its director, Louis Freeh, had for years treated the White House as his enemy."

All of this is coming together after the four hundred and forty second birthday of William Shakespeare, a man who recognized the deception, corruption and the evil in political and religious fraud - and after the two hundred and thirty first anniversary of Paul Revere's 10pm start of his historic ride from Boston to Lexington to Concord to alert American patriots - and after the one hundred and sixty-sixth birthday of the great Emile Zola, who with his January 13, 1898 earthshaking open letter J'Accuse to the French public risked his life, his fortune and his sacred honor for his country (He was, in fact, sentenced later in 1898 by the French to imprisonment and removed from the roll of the Legion of Honor, but escaped to England.), by exposing the corruption (which had been condoned by the French press), indeed the treason of the leadership of the French Republic, military and governmental, leadership which had been compromised by the subservience to a foreign power of a key planning group embedded within, subservience which imperilled national security. Sound familiar?

We have as difficult a task as did Zola over a century ago, bringing truth to light, that not only have a succession of two presidential elections been stolen, but also the integrity of United States policy and power abroad. The great Frank Rich has a summation in his 4/30/06 "Bush of a Thousand Days".

In this nation, at this time, we have a Media/Press so compromised by its ethnicity, its ethnic uniformity, that it favors the interests of a foreign power, Israel, over the interests of its homeland, the one country in the world which has provided sanctuary and, for over two hundred years, has been a haven and beacon for all peoples, all ethnic groups, all religions, so help us God. By so doing, this compromised Media/Press has been willing, since the very inception of the Bush/Cheney administration (which began with the stolen 2000 presidential election secured by James A. Baker III), to risk, indeed undermine our national security...our national solvency (our commitment to the Iraq debacle now exceeds $400 billion)...and our formerly prestigious standing in the world. WHERE IS OUR ZOLA TODAY? And does the construction of a massive BILLION DOLLAR United States embassy on a 110 acre fortress-like compound along the Tigris River in Baghdad tell you something? Are we there, in part, to provide oil, water and security for a Greater Israel? And do the Iraqis understand now, the limits of their independence? And as pro-Israel American journalists frequently blame Hezbollah we need a RealityCheck!

*Here a Deborah Amos NPR 4/21/06 segment which matches the critical analysis, new for NPR since Bob Edwards was fired, of Nina Totenberg on the leak by President Bush of bogus intelligence to con the American public and the Congress into supporting his personal war of choice against Iraq.

However, both the Amos and Totenberg pieces are overshadowed by Sunday night's 4/23/06 Ed Bradley/chief of the CIA's European operation Tyler Drumheller's 60 Minutes WRAPUP...FINALE...DEMISE...of GEORGE WALKER BUSH, a report, long overdue, which the quartet of John Donald Imus Jr./Donald J(?). Trump/Andrea Mitchell/Jonathan Alter stiffed Monday morning until the last hour of the program when nobody's listening 4/24/06 - the numero uno topic in D. C., which Imus/Trump/Mitchell/Alter can not handle.

This site showcases Ms. Totenberg's critique in the next several pages. Ms. Amos' piece is even more of a surprise than Ms. Totenberg's because it breaches, for the first time, a most sensitive issue for both NPR (National Presidential Radio) and PRI (a choice of terms - Presidential Radio Institute or Public Radio Israel) (and PBS - Presidential Broadcasting System), the influence of Jewish American reporters/commentators on the inclusion/exclusion, content, context and bias of what they put on the air of National Presidential Radio (and PBS).

There is an extremely important article, by one Alan Finder, although the treatise must be read "between the lines." It is entitled "An Essay by 2 Professors Creates a Debate About the Influence of a Jewish Lobby" on page A-19 of the 4/12/06 N. Y. Times. It is self-explanatory, and the guts of this issue, although not mentioned, is AIPAC (Note: US vs Steven Rosen & Keith Weissman is now scheduled for the Eastern Virginia Federal District Court 5/23/06 10am Case # 1:05CR225.), and is on this site: "The paper asserts that the United States' support of Israel has been unwavering, has jeopardized American security and has been driven by 'the unmatched power of the Israel Lobby,' which the authors describe as a loose coalition of American Jews and their allies (also recommended as balance is Michael Neumann's The Case Against Israel and counterpunch.com)."

A screed in opposition was quick to appear in an early April The New Republic, by Publisher Martin Peretz, who also does not mention AIPAC. Mr. Peretz gives it away - too much protest. The facts are that as Israel builds a wall to confiscate Palestinian land and all that is valuable on the West Bank, so does the Jewish American-dominated Media/Press maintain a wall to, for example, shield AIPAC from the scrutiny of the American people. David Gergen regularly contributes editorials with Mort Zuckerman's U. S. News & World Report, and has a 4/03/04 piece on The Israel Lobby titled "An Unfair Attack". What are Mr. Peretz/Mr. Zuckerman/Mr. Gergen...what are their reactions to the more than doubling of American military deaths in April, over the deaths in all of March, so far.

To substantiate the Mearsheimer/Walt expose' Toni Judt, the director of the Remarque Institute at New York University, submits the OP-ED in the 4/19/06 N. Y. Times, an article which directly contradicts the ubiquitous Republican David Gergen.

An answer to Mr. Gergen's pontifical red herring: "As a Christian, let me add that it is also wrong and unfair to call into question the loyalty of millions of American Jews...." The focus is not on millions, but on such individuals as Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, et cetera, who played key roles in this confiscation of American foreign policy...and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC, and its Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman who are, finally, scheduled for trial May 23rd, "...charged with 5 counts of conspiracy to obtain and disclose classified U. S. defense information FOR FIVE YEARS." - The Associated Press 8/5/05. It will be interesting to see whether Messrs. Peretz, Zuckerman and Gergen will join with the Bush/Cheney White House to have the charges against Rosen & Weissman dismissed. Mr. Gergen is quite a judge of character. A paragraph from his 4/23/06 OP-ED piece:

"I was a young member of the White House staff when the Watergate break-in was reported in the summer of 1971 (Mr. Gergen, so full of himself, doesn't even know the date. It was in the early summer of 1972.). I continue to believe that if President Richard Nixon had quickly come clean, overhauled his team and asked for public forgiveness, he would have still won re-election in 1972 and might have become a respected president. But instead he refused to change. He waited until 1973 to oust his chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman, and advisers like John Ehrlichman and John Dean. Even then, he was just tossing morsels to the wolves at the door." Mr. Gergen. Mr. Nixon was a criminal! A crook! Here the unsanitized Watergate.*

And the 4/13/06 "correction" by Patrick Fitzgerald, so focused by the right-wing echo chamber? A classic distinction without a difference. The Bush administration, with impunity, reversed the intelligence community's assessment, an assessment unchallenged by ANY other source, that the charge that Saddam Hussein was seeking nuclear weaponry was bogus. The White House broadcasting of those delusional bogus threats was led by the President. What should be the penalty?

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There is a three-star Marine Corps general, Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, who served as director of operations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2000 through the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and the war in Afghanistan, left the military in late 2002 as the Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz Defense Department was deep into planning for the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. He is quoted in an excellent 4/9/06 N. Y. Times Thom Shanker piece from Time: "I retired from the military four months before the invasion, in part because of my opposition to those who had used 9/11's tragedy to hijack our security policy." And Mr. Shanker adds from Time and General Newbold: "The decision to invade Iraq, he wrote, 'was done with a casualness and swagger that are a special province of those who have never had to execute these missions - or bury the results.'" These sentiments explain both the headline of another 4/9/06 Shanker article on the front page: "Young Officers Leaving Army At a High Rate", and also the building public awareness of the catastrophic damage Mr. Bush has caused, not only to our honorable military and service men and women, but to the country as a whole. And the latest disclosures regarding his declassification of false intelligence may have sealed his fate.

And how is it that this justified cloud of public condemnation has not included another "straight shooter", Senator John McCain? Has the Senator commented on Bush's cherry-picked release of false intelligence - or has he ditched his "Straight Talk Express"?

One man, James Bamford, has been leading with his 2004 A Pretext for War, which haunts the Republicans and George Bush today as Bush attempts to extricate himself from a more than thirty year history of (note the link in a paragraph which follows)...no other way to put it...continuous deception now highlighted by his 4/10/06 remarks 'splaining his leak of carefully selected classified intelligence to mislead the press, hence the public, on Saddam Hussein and WMDs: "Yes...No...ugh...you talk about...you're not supposed to talk about classified information...ugh...and so I declassified the document (Huh? Only the bogus info.). I thought it was important for people tuh tuh get a better sense for...why I was saying what I was saying in my speeches...and I felt I could do so without jeopardizing...you know...ongoing intelligence matters (See? I didn't talk about the NSA wholesale intercept dragnet.)...so I did."

Mr. Bamford has the full story on pages 306-307. Here a key paragraph: "(307 paragraph 2)". Bamford also writes of General Newbold's observation of using "9/11's tragedy to hijack our security policy." "(Last two paragraphs p.308)".

And Bamford on Israeli connections (page 320):

"At the same time that Cheney began his media blitz, Ariel Sharon's office in Israel, as if perfectly coordinated, began issuing similar dire warnings concerning Hussein and pressing the Bush administration to go to war with Iraq. Like those from Cheney, pronouncements from Sharon's top aide, Ranaan Gissin, included frightening 'evidence' - equally phoney - of nuclear, as well as biological and chemical, threats.

'As evidence of Iraq's weapons building activities,' said an Associated Press report on the briefing, 'Israel points to an order Saddam gave to Iraq's Atomic Energy Commission last week to speed up its work', said Sharon aide Ranaan Gissin. 'Saddam's going to be able to reach a point where these weapons will be operational,' he said....Israeli intelligence officials have gathered evidence that Iraq is speeding up efforts to produce biological and chemical weapons, Gissin said.'

It was clear, based on the post war reviews done in Israel, that Israeli intelligence had no such evidence. Instead, the 'evidence' was likely cooked up in Sharon's own Office of Special Plans unit, which was coordinating its activities with the Feith/Wurmser/Shulsky Office of Special Plans (in our Pentagon). The joint get-Saddam media blitz would also explain the many highly secret visits by Israeli generals to Feith's office during the summer."

And here in an Oct. 26, 2005 report from Jerusalem the aforementioned Mr. Gissin had this to say: "In those places where the Palestinian Authority fails to deal with terrorists (who oppose Sharon's takeover of the West Bank), we will have to do it," said Ranaan Gissin, a spokesman for Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon.

"And we can't wait."

And a Sanger/Barstow article in the 4/9/06 N. Y. Times has a detailed review of the Bush deception: "(paragraphs 2, 5, 6, 11, 12 and last paragraph)", followed by a 4/11/06 Sanger/Johnston piece which fills out Mr. Fitzgerald's filing: "...talks not of an effort to level with Americans but of 'a plan to discredit, punish or seek revenge against Mr. Wilson.' It concludes, 'It is hard to conceive of what evidence there could be that would disprove the existence of White House efforts to 'punish Wilson'."

This latest disclosure, the lies of Bush regarding selective release of classified information, the dishonesty and deception employed by this most immature, self-centered and reckless figure, George Walker Bush, has, finally, jolted a portion of our Media/Press into understanding and a willingness to report the severe damage this man has inflicted on our country, and on the Middle East - continuing deaths and severe injury to American service personnel and wholesale daily slaughter of scores of Iraqis as their "leaders" are consumed not by the needs of the Iraqi people, but by their own selfish obsession for personal gain...from oil revenues (to be provided by American auspices), United States Treasury largess and the exploitation of centurys-old religious beliefs. Its as though the narrow all-consuming self-interest of the junior George Bush had metastisized into the Iraqi body politic.

The 4/6/06 reporting of the General Electric duo Brian Williams and Lisa Myers established a major breakthrough for the leader of the commercial networks, a major change from its near deification of Mr. Bush following the 2000 election. In contrast, Bob Schieffer, on his 4/9/06 Face the Nation ignores totally this issue. His guest is Richard Wagoner, the CEO and Chairman of General Motors. Leslie Moonves' CBS is in lockstep supporting this Bush administration.

But first Nina Totenberg, whose lengthy service at National Public Radio recalls an earlier estimable NPR, before the lounge singer Ms. Kroc's $200 million "gift", closely followed by the innumerable "Support For NPR Comes From...". Ms. Totenberg's 4/7/06 analysis says it all:

"For over two years special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has been investigating the leak to the press of the CIA agent's name Valerie Plame. Plame is the wife of the former Ambassador Joseph Wilson who in 2002 was sent to Niger on behalf of the CIA to determine if Saddam Hussein was seeking to illegally buy uranium for use in an Iraqi nuclear weapons program. Wilson determined that Iraq had not been trying to buy uranium from Niger, and he subsequently went public with his conclusion. Shortly thereafter his wife's name and CIA connection was leaked to the press and after a complaint from the CIA the Justice Department named Fitzgerald to conduct an independent inquiry. In October the special prosecutor announced a five count indictment against Cheney's then-chief of staff Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, not for leaking, but for lying to the grand jury and obstruction of justice. The President's top political aide Karl Rove remains the focus of further investigation and yesterday the prosecutor filed the papers in the Libby case that strike at the heart of the President's image as a 'straight shooter'. Specifically, in his court filings, prosecutor Fitzgerald said that when Libby appeared before the grand jury he testified that he gave a N. Y. Times' reporter (Judith Miller) classified information from a secret National Intelligence Estimate with the President's approval as conveyed to him by the Vice President. Libby said he was authorized to give the reporter two national intelligence judgments showing that, contrary to Ambassador Wilson's assertions, Iraq was vigorously trying to secure uranium from Niger. Fitzgerald quoted Libby as saying 'it was the only time he could recall in his government experience (of many years) when he disclosed a classified document to a reporter on orders of the president.' Fitzgerald stopped short of saying that the President authorized Libby to disclose the identity of Wilson's wife or the fact that she was a CIA agent, but the court filing does say that SOME DOCUMENTS taken from the administration's files 'could be characterized as reflecting a plan to discredit, punish or seek revenge against Ambassador Wilson.' Yesterday's disclosure would not seem to put the President in any legal jeopardy. It's long been the position of the Justice Department and presidents of both parties that the president has the power to declassify documents, and President Bush has, by executive order, shared that power with Vice President Cheney. But the picture drawn by yesterday's court filing is in sharp contrast to the President's often-repeated strong statement that he doesn't tolerate leaks. In the last few months alone both the President and Vice President have strongly criticized the press and those who leak information to the press, resulting in the disclosure of the NSA warrantless eavesdropping program, and the existence of secret overseas CIA prisons for suspected terrorists. In each of these cases the administration has ordered a criminal investigation. That's the same approach the President took at the time the Plame investigation was announced: 'If somebody did leak classified information I'd like to know it and we'll take the appropriate action, and this investigation is a good thing.' Now, that the President himself was authorizing leaks, or, as the old saying goes 'in Washington, the Ship of State is the only one that leaks from the top.'"

*In our next update we will include the FULL George Walker Bush statement of September 30, 2003, thanks to the 4/7/06 DemocracyNow.org program, the full quote provided by the esteemed Amy Goodman.*

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The following is the kind of verbatim record, presented here by Chris Matthews, that the new Bush administration's effort to sidestep legitimate reportage (fully covered below) and replace it with known sycophants (visualize Brit Hume) welcomed to the White House residence - A policy in partnership with an equally agenda-driven Israeli press, which is now attempting to mislead the world, regarding the "Road Map" of Ehud Olmert, designed to perpetuate what is a Jewish theocracy with full rights to citizenship limited to those with a Jewish grandparent.

First Mr. Matthews: "When America was heading into Iraq I remember listening in my car to Darryl Worley 'Have you forgotten how it felt that day. See your home land under fire and your people blown away'. Those were fighting words...that Darryl Worley song came out just as we attacked Iraq and it made the deep-in-the-gut case that this was payback. They hit us, we were hitten' them back. At least seven out of ten Americans, a potent majority, believed that Iraqis were involved in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. With the war now unpopular, the President denies he ever said or even implied a connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11."

Mr. Bush at his recent, rare White House press conference: "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, and, and Saddam Hussein. I was very careful never to say that Saddam Hussein ordered the attacks on America."

Mr. Matthews has ON TAPE the Bush refrain: "The war on terror, you can't distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror."

Mr. Matthews: "And how about the president's formal letter sent to Congress on March 18, 2003, the day before we attacked Iraq, saying he was acting against those who 'committed or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11th, 2001. Sincerely, George W. Bush.'" There is more of our misperceptions of Mr. Bush below on roman numeral three (III) as covered by Helen Thomas.

And how appropriate for this date. Beyond Chutzpah - On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. Baruch Kimmerling, George S. Wise Professor of Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Professor Kimmerling is describing Norman Finkelstein's Beyond Chutzpah. Mr. Finkelstein is also the author of The Holocaust Industry. And both books join our Must Reads.

Professor Kimmerling: "Beyond Chutzpah is the most comprehensive, systematic, and well-documented work of its kind. It is one of the harshest - yet rational and nonemotional - texts about the daily practices of the occupation and colonization of the Palestinian territories by Israel, and it is an excellent demonstration of how and why the blind defenders of Israel, by basing their arguments on false facts and figures, actually bring more damage than gains to their cause."

This issue, Israel/Palestine, THE MAJOR SOURCE TODAY OF WORLD CONFLICT, is best presented by Appendix II - History of the Israeli-Palestine Conflict on page 255 of Mr. Finkelstein's Beyond Chutzpah. Read and know.

Where are George Mitchell - Robert Caro - Gary Hart - Al Gore - Warren Rudman - Norman Mailer - George Soros - Warren Buffet - Dan Rather - Paul Newman - Bill Moyers - Hedrick Smith - Hendrik Hertzberg - Bob Woodward - Richard Holbrooke - Frank Rich - et cetera - ON THIS ISSUE? John Danforth has taken a stand and God bless him for that and, also, Garrison Keillor, who has taken the measure (1/29/06) of the Jewish/French gad-fly diplomate Bernard-Henri Levy and found him in the diminutive: "Bernard-Henri Levy (twice-married like the Orthodox Zionist Joe Lieberman) is a French writer with a spatter-paint prose style and the grandiosity of a college sophomore". From the safety of London he fulminated about "Fascism, Nazism and Stalinism." No mention of Zionism. Levy is the author of American Vertigo.

The following was included in the 3/29/06 N. Y. Times, noteworthy for its reference to several aspects of the war against Iraq - the decision... and the why.

"To the Editor: Re 'Bush Was Set on Path to War, Memo by British Adviser Says' (front page, March 27):

Once more, we are reminded by a secret, official British government memo that President Bush was determined to lead the United States to war against Iraq, although there was no evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was a threat to us or anyone else.

Mr. Bush even proposed possible staged scenarios to make it appear that Iraq had provoked the war. We also see that he casually expected an easy conquest of Iraq and setting up of a new government.

In this senseless, unnecessary war, tens of thousands of Americans and Iraqis have been killed and maimed, and the United States has lost the trust of most of our friends and allies.

When will President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld be called to account for their lying us into this disastrous war?

Some questions remain: Why did President Bush choose to go to war? Was it oil? Or was it the desire to make him more electable as a wartime commander? And why did Prime Minister Tony Blair agree to go along? - Morton Wachspress, Pompton Plains, N.J., March 27, 2006"

First the decision, particularly its timing. On the March 20, 2006 NPR Morning Edition a Mike Shuster relates a salient fact rare for the music-dominated NPR, and to become even more rare for all news organizations as the new Bush administration's policy takes hold, to resell its Iraq debacle to the American people.

Mr. Shuster: "We now know from a wide variety of sources that President Bush instructed General Tommy Franks to begin planning for a possible invasion of Iraq as early as December 2001...". Actually, we know from a private dinner at the Crawford, Texas domicile of Bush, a dinner whose only guests were Bush, Tony Blair, and the UK Ambassador to the United States, that the decision was made and agreed to by Blair, on September 20, 2001, but nine days after 9/11.

Regarding the new feature of Bush's National Security Strategy for 2006, known as JEWHRs - Journalists Embedded in the White House Residence - it features informal, OFF-THE-RECORD, sessions, IN-THE-RESIDENCE, with carefully selected representatives of major news organizations, "discussions", for example, on the war against Iraq!

The New York Times has declined to participate, but, according to its Kathy Seelye, a David Bohrman, the Washington bureau chief for CNN, said such "discussions" were a good idea: "...our reporters rarely get to just kick back." Cozy. The sessions began Thursday, 3/23/06, and "appear to be the first time that the Bush administration has systematically brought in members of the White House press corps."

Now for the "why" of Mr. Wachspress' letter - "Why did President Bush choose to go to war? Was it oil?". A 3/19/06 letter from a Columbia University professor emeritus has an answer, one filled out on the 3/24/06 DemocracyNow below.

Professor Stern: "To the Editor: You rightly blame our leaders, who prefer to live in a 'dream world' rather than face the realities of the war, for 'the Iraq debacle.'

We should not forget that this 'dream world' was fabricated by adjuncts of this administration well before 9/11; neocons had for years hammered home their arrogant doctrines of unilateralism, of defying international law, of pre-emptive wars projecting American armed power everywhere.

A few of these radicals have recently reconsidered their advice (Francis Fukuyama); others would have us move on to Iran.

Of the neocons who promoted this 'debacle,' one might say, in paraphrase of a great leader, 'NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC HAVE SO FEW INFLICTED SUCH HARM ON SO MANY.' - Fritz Stern New York, March 19, 2006 - The writer is university professor emeritus at Columbia University."

Of the neocons (a euphemism for Jewish Americans who committed treason by infiltrating our Pentagon to labor for a foreign power, Israel) who promoted "pre-emptive wars projecting American armed power everywhere."! Many thanks to Fritz Stern of New York for his letter to the editor.

As confounding as is this expanding Bush administration determination to pre-empt what little responsible Media/Press remains in this country (Thomas Friedman's 3/29/06 column avoids Bush's National Security Strategy for 2006, the crux of which is Iraq, with but a listing of its title, preferring to concentrate the piece on "America's Technology Future at Risk" and the associated "Teaching at Risk") - but on 3/30/06 Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General of the United States, finds time to visit the NBC affiliate (a segment of Belo Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with ownership of TV stations, newspapers and cable) in Portland, Oregon, and the Republican-oriented Portland Business Alliance, all in concert with this new Bush approach to "journalism". The local TV reporter was unable to question Mr. Gonzales about his prior position as White House Counsel, as to how it was that when informed that the then-Attorney General of the United States, John Ashcroft, now a lobbyist, had seen to the appointment of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate a treasonous felony, the outing of deep undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame...how it was that Mr. Gonzales immediately informed chief of staff Andy Card, but failed, for eight to twelve hours, to instruct the "staff", as required by law, to "immediately" secure all records, e-mails etc., that pertained to the matter.

I - March 24, 2006, headline from Amy Goodman's DemocracyNow.org - "New Study Criticizes Power of Israeli Lobby in Washington - And a dean at Harvard University and a professor at the University of Chicago are coming under intense criticism for publishing an academic critique of the pro-Israeli lobby in Washington. THE PAPER CHARGES THAT THE UNITED STATES HAS WILLINGLY SET ASIDE ITS OWN SECURITY AND THAT OF MANY OF ITS ALLIES IN ORDER TO ADVANCE THE INTERESTS OF ISRAEL.

In addition the study accuses the pro-Israeli lobby, particularly AIPAC - the American Israel Public Affairs Committee - of manipulating the U.S. media, policing academia and silencing critics of Israel by labelling them as anti-Semitic. The study also examines the role played by pro-Israeli neo-conservatives in the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The authors of the study, Stephen Walt, a dean at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and John Mearsheimer of University of Chicago are now themselves being accused of anti-Semitism. In Washington, Democratic Congressman Eliot Engel of New York described the professors as 'dishonest so-called intellectuals' and 'anti-Semites.' Harvard professor, Ruth Wisse, called for the paper to be withdrawn. Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz described the study as trash that could have been written by Neo-Nazi David Duke. The New York Sun reported Harvard has received several calls from 'pro-Israel donors' expressing concern about the paper. Harvard has already taken steps to distance itself from the report. Earlier this week it removed the logo of the Kennedy School of Government from the paper and added a new disclaimer to the study. The 81-page report was originally published on Harvard's website and an edited version appeared in the London Review of Books. The controversy comes less than a year after Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz attempted to block the publication of Norman Finkelstein's book 'Beyond Chutzpah: On The Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History.'"

II - Jimmy Carter, Ha'aretz newspaper in Israel - excerpts

"For more than a quarter century, Israeli policy has been in conflict with that of the United States and the international community. Israel's occupation of Palestine has obstructed a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land, regardless of whether Palestinians had no formalized government, one headed by Yasser Arafat or Mahmoud Abbas, or with Abbas as president and Hamas controlling the parliament and cabinet.

The unwavering U.S. position since Dwight Eisenhower's administration has been that Israel's borders coincide with those established in 1949, and since 1967, the universally adopted UN Resolution 242 has mandated Israel's withdrawal from the occupied territories. This policy was reconfirmed even by Israel in 1978 and 1993, and emphasized by all American presidents, including George W. Bush. As part of the Quartet, including Russia, the UN and the European Union, he has endorsed a 'road map' for peace. But Israel has officially rejected its basic premises with patently unacceptable caveats and prerequisites.

The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine. There were just a few hundred settlers in the West Bank and Gaza when I became president, but the Likud government expanded settlement activity after I left office. President Ronald Reagan condemned this policy, and reaffirmed that Resolution 242 remained 'the foundation stone of America's Middle East peace effort.' President George H.W. Bush even threatened to reduce American aid to Israel.

Although President Bill Clinton made strong efforts to promote peace, a massive increase of settlers occurred during his administration, to 225,000, mostly while Ehud Barak was prime minister. Their best official offer to the Palestinians was to withdraw 20 percent of them, leaving 180,000 in 209 settlements, covering about 5 percent of the occupied land.

The 5 percent figure is grossly misleading, with surrounding areas taken or earmarked for expansion, roadways joining settlements with each other and to Jerusalem, and wide arterial swaths providing water, sewage, electricity and communications. This intricate honeycomb divides the entire West Bank into multiple fragments, often uninhabitable or even unreachable. Recently, Israeli leaders have decided on unilateral actions without involving either the United States or the Palestinians, with withdrawal from Gaza as the first step. As presently circumscribed and isolated, without access to the air, sea or the West Bank, Gaza is a nonviable economic and political entity.

The future of the West Bank is equally dismal. Especially troublesome is Israel's construction of huge concrete dividing walls in populated areas and high fences in rural areas - located entirely on Palestinian territory and often with deep intrusions to encompass more land and settlements. The wall is designed to surround a truncated Palestine completely, and a network of exclusive highways will cut across what is left of Palestine to connect Israel with the Jordan River Valley." - Jimmy Carter 3/17/06.

Significantly, the Carter article did NOT appear in the Israeli Ha'aretz website. This text is from the Foundation for Middle East Peace.

http://www.fmep.org/analysis/articles/colonization_of_palestine_precludes_peace.html

III - At one of Mr. Bush's exceedingly rare White House press conferences (3/21/06) one of Washington's most experienced and perceptive journalists - she has covered nine presidents - through assassination, Gulf of Tonkin, war against Vietnam, Watergate, Iranian Hostage Crisis, Iran-Contra, Gulf War, bogus impeachment and, now, the war against Iraq - Ms. Thomas has the credentials and, more important, the courage to speak truth to power.

She has called this junior George Bush arguably the worst president in our history, and at the Tuesday press conference she phrased the one key question which her colleagues had not the cajones to pose to this "Commander in Chief". We paraphrase: "Mr. President, why did you REALLY want to go to war with Iraq from the moment you got into the White House?" Mr. Bush, having cowed everyone in the room except Helen Thomas, resorted to his rude and hostile demeanor he uses on those who question his bona fides: "I didn't want war...to assume that imperception...to assume that I wanted war is just flat wrong." A pesky fact. That 9/20/01 private Bush/Blair dinner in Crawford, Texas.

Republican Bias in the Media - March 24, 2006, thirty two days after a REAL American Presidents' Day, and ten days after the 127th anniversary of the birth of a REAL Citizen of the World, a Jewish man, the great Albert Einstein, who would be appalled by the heavy-handed and treacherous, yea traitorous, performance of AIPAC, that Jewish American group whose only allegiance is to Israel.

And where on this AIPAC story are General Electric's anchor John Seigenthaler and the much-heralded Andrea Mitchell - Disney's chief investigative reporter Brian Ross - Viacom/CBS's Leslie Moonves, Washington/White House correspondent Jim Axelrod and 60 Minutes correspondents Mike Wallace and Bob Simon - Fox's Chris Wallace and Bill Kristol - PBS's Jim Lehrer and Margaret Warner - NPR's Scott Simon, Dan Schorr, Linda Wertheimer, Carl Kasell, Neal Conan et cetera.

And The New York Times Company's Tom Friedman? In his 3/19/06 column subheaded "We Blew It" Mr. Friedman exclaims "We don't need any more pre-9/11 commissions." What's he writing about? We have had NO pre-9/11 investigations! NONE! Not from the Bush-appointed Silberman/Robb diversion; Not from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, although Pat Roberts promised same over two years ago; Not from the 9/11 Commission, which was precluded from a pre-9/11 report! And Friedman knows it well. By 3/22/06 he had shifted his focus to the Bush energy policy - and by 3/24/06 was zeroing in on India and China. Another gadfly. Mr. Friedman may also realize that his fellow conspirator-in-silence, "Louie" Freeh, who was director of the FBI up to that period just prior to 9/11, could also be subjected to some serious questioning regarding his performance in that high office.

BreakingNews - The attorneys for "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff for Dick Cheney, served subpoenas 3/14/06 on The New York Times Company and its former star reporter Judith Miller, who planted in The Times, for Bush/Cheney/Libby (with the acquiescence of the boy/publisher, the junior Sulzberger, a former paramour of Ms. Miller), those early bogus accounts that Saddam Hussein had WMDs, accounts which bolstered the false Bush/Cheney claims that Saddam posed an "imminent" threat to both the United States and Great Britain. Ms. Miller has been a key, although undercover, agent for AIPAC. The time is overdue to describe AIPAC accurately and forthrightly, something our Media/Press has refused to do. This depraved fifth column, this bloodthirsty helfand, for those fluent in Yiddish, may have sounded the death knell for our beloved United States because, frankly, to AIPAC, this Jewish cabal/cancer in our midst, the health, the very survival of these United States is a distant second to the growth of Israel as the lone power in the Middle East, fully in control from the Mediterranean to the Jordan Valley with full access to both the water and oil of Iraq, for which they are determined to use, if necessary, their 100-130 nuclear weapon arsenal.

Also of import at this time is Michiko Kakutani's 3/14/06 blockbuster review of Francis Fukuyama's America at the Crossroads. Don't be put off by the surnames. Mr. Fukuyama's book is equal in timeliness and impact to James Bamford's A Pretext for War, the Kakutani review of which is prominent on this site. Ms. Kakutani: "In an OP-ED article in The Washington Post published on the second anniversary of 9/11, he warned that 'overreaction to Sept. 11 will lead to a world in which the United States and its policies remain the chief focus of global concern,' also saying that 'THE TREMENDOUS MARGIN OF POWER EXERCISED BY THE UNITED STATES IN THE SECURITY REALM BRINGS WITH IT SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES TO USE THAT POWER PRUDENTLY.'"

On March 10, 1789 Thomas Jefferson was appointed Ambassador to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin, both recognized today as citizens of their world. And when Mr. Jefferson returned home from Paris he brought with him so many books, all of which he read, they filled over 150 feet of shelf space, truly the beginning of a Library for America [which today exposes the arrogant/infamous gadfly poseur Bernard-Henri Levy, who has (3/7/06) characterized George Walker Bush as "Jeffersonian"..."Jacksonian"..."Wilsonian." The slippery Mr. Levy chooses to ignore the fact that Andrew Jackson was a war hero (while Mr. Bush's closest proximity to actual combat is losing himself in his favorite film Top Gun) who championed the common man while president Bush supports the interests of corporate magnates and oil tycoons (phrase thanks to Byron Boneparth of Chappaqua, New York). He has yet to describe Bush as "Lincolnian": "of or pertaining to his character, or political principles" - but that equating will surely come from the all-knowing Levy].

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This site is a Memorial to United States Senator Wayne L. Morse 1900-74 (Senator Morse was one of two senators who detected the fraud in LBJ's 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.) & United States Congressman Charles O. Porter 1919-2006 (Former Congressman Porter energized the Democratic Party for the State of Oregon to seek the impeachment of the five justices of the Supreme Court who unlawfully decided Bush v. Gore to place Bush/Cheney in the White House. Congressman Porter, in print and on air with the verve and wisdom of a lifetime in the law, then articulated the fraud inherent in the decision.).

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April 16, 2007 with assistance of DemocracyNow.org - Noam Chomsky Accuses Alan Dershowitz of Launching a "Jihad" to Block Norman Finkelstein From Getting Tenure at Depaul University

"A Compromiser Who Operates Above the Partisan Fray