As frenzied Republican sociopathsbask in the victory of “Nudist” Senator Elect of Massachusetts, Scott Brown, some are in an “acute state of longing” for criminal murderer of Iraqi children, George W. Bush’s bloody past. Claims such as: “George W. Bush liberated 60,000,000 Muslims from tyranny,” “Miss Him? 1 Year Later, Bush Still Stands Proud,” “ONE YEAR GONE: President George W. Bush Answered the Calling of Our Time,” ….littered Republican websites. [ MORE ]
This is What Bush Will Be Remembered For: [ ANDTHIS ] An Iraqi Child With Leg Blown Off — All Because of Bush! [ For More Pictures of Iraqi Children Murdered By Bush -- Scroll All The Way Down ]
Bush did not liberate 60,000,000 Muslims, he hanged 1,000,000 in cold blood — based on a LIE! That’s his legacy, etched in stone. These are the same Republican LIARS at work, the same racist crooks who want us to believe that 9/11 did not happen or that Bush inherited it from Bill Clinton.
Rehabilitating Bush: One year later, right-wing media still mourn the loss of Bush — One year after the inauguration of President Obama, right-wing media — in particular Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government, Big Hollywood, and Big Journalism — marked the anniversary with a series of articles fondly reminiscing about the Bush administration, in which they often attempted to rewrite the history of Bush’s policies and also attacked Obama. [ READ MORE ]
Rove shelters Bush from any responsibility for 2009 increase in deficit — In his Wall Street Journal column, Karl Rove ignored the Bush administration’s responsibility for the 2009 budget to attack the Obama administration over deficits. Rove also ignored several economic analyses that estimated relative employment increases under the stimulus in order to claim that the stimulus failed. [ READ MORE ]
Sicko Glenn Beck falsely attributes entire 2009 debt to Obama — Glenn Beck attributed the entire deficit for the fiscal year 2009 to President Obama, stating that the federal debt was “$10.6 trillion in 2008,” and that since Obama “comes in,” “we’ve gone in the one year, we’ve gone to… $12.3 trillion on the debt.” In fact, only a small portion of the fiscal year 2009 deficit is due to Obama’s policies; in January, before he took office or signed any legislation, CBO projected that, based on policies set under President Bush and economic conditions at the time, the deficit for fiscal year 2009 would reach $1.2 trillion. [ READ MORE
.....and more sickness and lies in VIDEO:
Campaigning on Fox? Huckabee declares tea party movement "most positive thing that I've seen in my lifetime in politics"
FAT Rush Limbaugh calls Obama an idiot for having high expectations on Middle East peace process
...then congratulates himself for stopping Healthcare, for being the "one voice" that spoke out against Obama's agenda
Hannity: Brown's victory "marks the beginning of the great repudiation of the Obama agenda"
Stossel says it's "just false" that "government subsidies" can "create jobs"
NOTE: Politifact.com previously found Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele's claim that "in the history of mankind and womankind, government - federal, state, local, or otherwise - has never created one job" was "Pants on Fire" false.
Sick Beck promises upcoming "documentary" on communist atrocities will show what "progressives don't want you to know"
"Porn-Master" Bill O'Reilly: If researchers "need a bigger sample" of blonde women, "come to Fox News"
Inside Bush and Cheney’s Final Days: Both planned the war on terrorism but broke over whether to pardon one of its key architects — “Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby“
Time: Hours before they were to leave office after eight troubled years, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney had one final and painful piece of business to conclude. For over a month Cheney had been pleading, cajoling, even pestering Bush to pardon the Vice President’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby. Libby had been convicted nearly two years earlier of obstructing an investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer’s identity by senior White House officials. The Libby pardon, aides reported, had become something of a crusade for Cheney, who seemed prepared to push his nine-year-old relationship with Bush to the breaking point — and perhaps past it — over the fate of his former aide. “We don’t want to leave anyone on the battlefield,” Cheney argued. [ READ MORE ]
Citizens are reporting dry runs in the skies of the Negev, Israel’s traditional air force training grounds and a desert with some resemblance to Iranian conditions. Piecing these scant testimonies together, it seems that the Israelis are concentrating their effort on midair refueling and surgical strikes on multiple targets.
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Late last year, Israel embarked on a coordinated campaign of leaks to the press regarding its determination to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities if Obama’s then-new administration fails to sway the Iranians diplomatically. Israel is unwilling to accept a nuclear Iran: “It is not an option,” say its senior intelligence and military leadership.
On January 20, 2009, I appeared as a guest in the most popular political affairs program in Macedonia (“Glasot na Narodot,” or The Voice of the People). I warned that Israel is willing to wait 6 to 8 months for Obama’s “diplomacy” with regards to Iran’s nuclear capability to show some progress. If Iran remains recalcitrant, Israel plans to bomb two facilities in Iran as it did in Iraq in 1981, I said. Refueling won’t be a problem, I assured the program’s host, Slobodan Tomic: both Egypt and Saudi-Arabia offered to help.
Israel has decided to go ahead. Taking into account political, geopolitical, military preparedness, and climatic conditions, there are two windows: between July 21 and 24 and between August 6 and 8. Advance teams comprised of Mossad agents and military personnel are already on the ground in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iraq (including in the Kurdish lands, adjacent to Turkey).
A mock has been erected not far from Eilat (near the Red Sea, opposite Aqaba). A defunct airbase in Biq’at Ha’Yareach (Moon Vale) has been resurrected to accommodate Air Wing 10. In a country as small and intimate as Israel, it is amazing that this has been kept a secret: hundreds of recruits and reservists – from mechanics and pilots to cooks and administrators – have been re-stationed there in the last few months.
A mysterious facility also sprouted up not far from Dimona’s nuclear reactor, next to a university town called Sde Boker. It is not known what is its role, though speculation is that it is intended to shield the sensitive facility from an Iranian counter-attack. Several batteries of aged Patriot missiles have been recently replaced with brand new anti-missile rockets developed by Israel.
Citizens are reporting dry runs in the skies of the Negev, Israel’s traditional air force training grounds and a desert with some resemblance to Iranian conditions. Piecing these scant testimonies together, it seems that the Israelis are concentrating their effort on midair refueling and surgical strikes on multiple targets.
Finally, HAGA (Hagana Ezrakhit), the Civilian Defense Force, a part of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), has been instructed to begin preparations for a possible Iranian counter-strike with long-range conventional missiles. At this stage, Israel is not contemplating chemical or biological warfare (though the distribution of gas masks does seem to be part of the drill).
No one knows for sure where will Israel strike. Wiping off all the widely distributed and impregnable components of Iran’s capability to enrich uranium is close to impossible. The after-effects of even a limited air attack may be devastating and not necessarily short-term, as the Israelis are convinced. The price of oil is likely to spike and radicals and extremists throughout the benighted region are bound to leverage the attack to smear and taunt Israel and its allies but, then, what else is new. The Arab countries are likely to breathe a sigh of relief that the Iranian bully has been humbled.
The big question mark is how will the Obama administration react to such a fait accompli that flies in the face of the new President’s stated policies. Will Obama try to make an example out of Israel and harshly punish it – or will he merely verbally lash it and proceed with business as usual? Time will tell. Soon.
Israel, Obama, Iran, and Journalism “During Netanyahu’s visit, Israel shared intelligence with the CIA regarding the potential for a terrorist attack which will dwarf 9/11 if Iran is allowed to continue with its nuclear designs and share its outcomes with allies such as Hamas and the Hizbullah. Iranian proliferation is a direct threat to US National security.
Obama’s staff is ignoring the intel (HUMINT) because they believe that it is intended to manipulate the Administration into accepting Israel’s planned bombing of two facilities in Iran.
They are also ignoring intel regarding a Hamas cell in Cairo that is bent on mischief. The Israelis are shunned. The CIA is exasperated.”
How reliable is this information? Can journalists be trusted not to be manipulated; not to substitute opinion and wishful thinking for facts; not to be corrupted with the trappings of power or outright pecuniary incentives?
Consider my case:
On January 20, 2009, I appeared as a guest in the most popular political affairs program in Macedonia (“Glasot na Narodot,” or The Voice of the People). I warned that Israel is willing to wait 6 to 8 months for Obama’s “diplomacy” with regards to Iran’s nuclear capability to show some progress. If Iran remains recalcitrant, Israel plans to bomb two facilities in Iran as it did in Iraq in 1981, I said. Refueling won’t be a problem, I assured the program’s host: both Egypt and Saudi-Arabia offered to help.
This and other interviews provoked speculations in Balkan media and on the Internet:
Vaknin probably had assumed that the NSA (which has a presence in Skopje, having recently moved some of its facilities there from Athens) will be monitoring the program and will report to Washington, suggested one of them.
Vaknin’ sister is Sima Gil-Vaknin, the IDF’s (Israel Defense Force’s) Chief Censor (true) and Vaknin is a senior Israeli intelligence operative (which I deny emphatically).
Recently, the leading Balkan newsmagazine “Fokus” published a long article about the Eligibility Problem (Obama’s missing original birth certificate and other personal documents). In that article, Fokus speculated that Israel may have written off Obama and has embarked on a worldwide campaign to discredit him and counter his dangerous diplomatic and military moves. Vaknin, contended the magazine, spearheaded these activities in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans in conjunction with the Hasbara’s clandestine unit, which is under the direct control of the Prime Minister’s office. I have since denied these rumors, too.
I am a journalist of long standing (since the mid-eighties), have lived and worked in Israel and maintain a network of top-level, unimpeachable sources. I am made privy to a lot of information and disinformation (see my articles about Macedonia’s accession to NATO and the name issue). Like every journalist, I sometimes can’t tell the difference and get duped. But this is one of the risks of the First Amendment.
As I see it, my job is not to block or filter content. My task is publish with appropriate disclaimers regarding the sources of my information. I should serve as an eBay of data, ranking the past performance of “vendors” of intelligence and letting the fully-informed reader make up his or her mind whom to believe and whom to discredit.
Back to the opening scoop:
Is it true? Did it happen?
Who knows! All I can say is that someone wanted this information leaked. It could be a arrow shot across the Obama administration’s bow. It could be part of a much larger picture. It could be a signal aimed at Iran. It may be a brazen fabrication. History will tell.
But one thing it is for sure: a story. Someone(s) told me, a journalist, this story. They wanted it out. The importance of a story sometimes lies not with its content, but with its very release. It is the role of the discerning reader to read between the lines, connect the dots, and come up with his or her own narrative.
In Sunday’s Washington Post, former Counter-Terrorism Chief Richard Clark took aim at former Vice President Dick Cheney, writing “top officials ignored warnings from the CIA and the NSC staff that urgent action was needed to preempt a major al-Qaida attack.” Cheney then turned around and place that blame on Clark.
FROM CNN’sJack Cafferty: Dick Cheney says he doesn’t think Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks. More than six years after the Bush administration took us to war in Iraq — after 4,310 Americans died there, and with U.S. troops possibly staying in that country for years to come — the former vice president says the Iraqi dictator had nothing to do with the planning or execution of the terror attacks.
Shortly after 9/11, Cheney was singing a different tune… Then he said it was “pretty well” confirmed that one of the leaders of the attack, Mohammed Atta, had met with a senior Iraqi intelligence official in Prague in 2000.
Nonetheless, Cheney continues to defend the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq — saying Saddam’s previous support for known terrorists was a real threat after 9/11. And he insists there was an ongoing relationship that went back years between al Qaeda and Iraq — saying that information came primarily from CIA Director George Tenet.
The former vice president is now explaining away the early uncertainty of the so-called Iraq-9/11 link by saying that intelligence gathering is “more an art form than a science.” However, he failed to mention those Iraqi weapons of mass destruction that never seemed to materialize — another supposed reason for the invasion.
Here’s my question to you: Six years after the invasion of Iraq, how does it make you feel when Dick Cheney says there was no link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11? [ Visit Jack's Blog ] [ Here are some comments ]
The picture of Obama next to Iraqi Prime Minister, reminds me of George Bush standing next to Al-Maliki — waiting for the shoe missile launch by the HERO Iraqi journalist (Time – Person of The Year). The positioning of the two leaders is eerily similar to the Bush-Maliki “missile staging” last year. LOL!
Just recently, Bush crawled out of his hiding hole and went to Canada, where he was greeted with protests, effigies and a stockpile of shoes. He will meet more shoes in the future whenever he travels abroad.
Late last year, Israel embarked on a coordinated campaign of leaks to the press regarding its determination to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities if Obama’s then-new administration fails to sway the Iranians diplomatically. Israel is unwilling to accept a nuclear Iran: “It is not an option,” say its senior intelligence and military leadership.
