Me & Pat Buchanan – FF
WorldNetDaily: Why are we still here?
Huh. Did you ever think you’d see me and Pat Buchanan agreeing on anything?
Wolfowitz Had CIA Investigate Blix
Jason Leopold: How Wolfowitz Unleashed CIA on Blix
Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, was so eager to see the United States launch a preemptive strike against Iraq in early 2002, that he ordered the CIA to investigate the past work of Hans Blix, the chief United Nations weapons inspector, who in February 2002, was asked to lead a team of U.N. weapons inspectors into Iraq to search for weapons of mass destruction, in an attempt to undermine the scientist.
The unusual move by Wolfowitz underscores the steps the Bush administration was willing to take a year before the U.S. invaded Iraq to manipulate and or exaggerate intelligence information to support it’s claims that Iraq posed an immediate threat to the United States and that the only solution to quell the problem was the use of military force.
Maybe it’s just me, but this seems a lot like the same sort of thing people got mad at Nixon for…
If this report is accurate, maybe it’ll turn more eyes toward the oaf in the White House.
Bush exaggerates, Gore lies
Are hopefuls judged by a single standard? When Russert fought Dean, we weren’t sure
When Gore was said to have exaggerated about an old movie, it became a troubling, two-year cause celebre. Here, the Bush Admin ‘may have exaggerated’ about going to war!
Odds are good that posting this is preachin’ to the choir, but – Jesus! Does anyone in the media even care? Maybe Gore wasn’t the man in 2000, but why not apply something approaching the same standards of truthfulness to W?
Real Life Top Ten
Greil Marcus’ ex-Salon column has found a new home!
Blow Jobs vs. War vs. Break-ins vs. illegal arms sales
We Went to War Under False Circumstances
Those of us with functioning memories can go all the way back to fall of 2002 and remember that the Bush government repeatedly stated that Iraq was an imminent threat to the United States because of its weapons of mass destruction and only war could end its threat to these shores.
There are a couple of readers here I can guess are saying something along the lines of “So what – politicians tell fibs. It happens. This guy is no worse a beast than the last one – or the next one.”
My question is why we accept it. It’s like the weather – everybody complains, no one does anything to change it (we’ll set aside for a moment the easy joke that the Bush environmental policies are, indeed, likely to aid a climate change).
It is the acceptance of immoral or unethical behavior that gets us leaders who are – surprise – immoral or unethical.
Nearly two years. Remember?
Here’s a sadly ironic (or ironically sad) link to this site about that amount of time ago, a time when I actually wrote here at length.
More Bush Lies
AlterNet: 10 Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq
Rather than apologize for leading us to a preemptive war based on impossibly faulty or shamelessly distorted "intelligence" or offering his resignation, our sly madman in the White House is starting to sound more like that other O.J. Like the man who cheerfully played golf while promising to pursue "the real killers," Bush is now vowing to search for "the true extent of Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs, no matter how long it takes."
The bile continues to rise…
Bush was just plain wrong on Iraq
It must be emphasized that while lies are immoral, bad judgment at the senior level of government–being so utterly wrong–is intolerable and dangerous in a nuclear world.