19 January 2009

So long Bush


It's happening ! Finally that nazi offspring is leaving office ! I'm looking forward to my first solid shit in 8 years ! What a relief eh ?

It's time too look back and to give you my take on him. Because frankly I am appalled by the approach the mainstream media is taking on this story. For some reason they feel that they have been 'too hard' on Bush so these last days they feel the need to emphasis the good things he did. Instead I wish to expose him for the cocksucker he really was. I don't think his actions got the attention they really deserved. Unfortunately he accomplished a lot and I can only focus on a few issues.. It's impossible to go over all the horrible acts he has committed. This is just the stuff that I remember him for, in no particular order.

11th of september 2001.
Setting new standards for ignorance or stupidity. Or perhaps both. First of all, why did you cancel meetings with the previous administration repeatedly, you know, the meetings that were specifically about terrorism ? Meant to inform you so you could keep your country safe from terrorism. In retrospeckt that informations would have been usefull right ?
Especially when you consider you Ignored a memo that was on your desk on august the 6th of 2001 with the title: Bin Laden determined to strike within the US. Hear any bells ringing ?

After this it gets a lot worse. I'm not going into the matter of 9-11 too deep as this blog is meant to be about Bush, but let's talk about it for just a second. Was there prior knowledge ? An absurd insinuation right ? Check out this 7 minute videoclip aired by dutch tv in '07. Intelligence communities all over the world -including its own- warned the United states. Some warnings were very specific. Mentioning Bin Laden, the pentagon and the WTC. Obviously someone took those warnings very seriously, those towers were half empty that day and there was massive insider trading taking place in the days before. I could go on for quite a while actually but I will go into that in an upcoming post since there are lots of other points to be made.

Alright, so you are the president of the United States and you've just discovered your nation is under some sort of attack right ? Shit happens as they say, but what do you do ? 1 Plane has hit the towers and you are informed of several hijackings tacking place. You decide to go ahead with a photo op at a school.. Why did you later lie about this course of events? twice?
When the second plane finally hit the tower Bush was in public so we can easily go back in history and know exactly what Bush did when he found out it was a real attack.
Bush did nothing ! Check out this video. Bush is informed of the gravity of the situation as he is being told 'We are under attack'. No one of the secret service takes him away, and George clearly does not know what to do or does not want to do anything. He sits around with the children for 7 more minutes reading a story about a pet goat. For all George knew he was part of the attack since his presence at the school was announced some time before.
He probably didn't want to alarm the children...

So did George have prior knowledge ? One journalist actually had the courage to ask him! When put in it's context the response is quite extraordinary and you should definitely check it out. Check out this unedited video (00:44).

Carlyle (you can skip this if you like, I just get sidetracked everytime I start ranting about politics)
Perhaps there was no prior knowledge but perhaps there just was a conflict of interest that led him to be so terribly negligent ? There is an organization called the Carlyle group. Through this investmentgroup the Bush family as well as the Bin Laden family have made large profits from this new war on terror. The Carlyle group invests in the weapons and security industry. The industries benefiting the most from this war on terror.
It's a fascinating organization that as advisers has former political and military figures.
What it is is the military industrial complex. Former president Dwight Eisenhower warned the world as he saw this phenomenon rising in the 50ies. To bad people didn't listen. It now is the driving force in the world behind war.


To learn more about the Carlyle group (or the world you live in for that matter) you should check out this dutch documentary, in 48 minutes it lays out how the Carlyle Group operates.

In the 1980s George W Bush made millions on the back of a company financed by Osama Bin Laden's elder brother, Salem. In addition both presidents Bush had lucrative stakes along with the Bin Ladens in The carlyle group which has gone on to become one of America's biggest defence contractors.

On the morning of 9/11 George W. Bush's father was meeting with Osama Bin Laden's brother, Shafig Bin Laden, in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Carlyle Group business. The Bin Ladens sold their stake in Carlyle soon after 9/11. I know it's not about Bush anymore, but how can I NOT write about this ? You have mr. Bush and mr. Bin Laden sitting together in a Carlyle meeting on the morning of 9-11, probably watching tv at some point, realizing they are going to make tons of money, amazing stuff right ?

It doesn't actually make a case against Bush, but it makes part of a really interesting part of history that shouldn't be forgotten. The links actually go much further than this and FBI special agent Robert Wright broke down when testifying that he had been gagged and could not reveal the true extent of what he knew about the Bush-Bin Laden connection and 9/11. His lawyer stepped up and said live on C-Span that all he could say was"The Bush Family vacations with the Bin Ladens". If this is what he was allowed to say.. you can't help but wondering what else is there to find out ?

Cover up
I'm not quite done yet and I have to get back to George Bush himself. After 9-11 ofcourse there were the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq but something else happened. After each event that changes a country forever there is a commission put in place to investigate and make inquiries. Hopefully the lessons learned will prevent such things from happening in the future. So after a historically long time of waiting (other disasters took -titanic 6days- pearl harbour 9days- JFK assasination 7days- challenger disaster 7days-) it took Bush 411 days to put a chairmain of the commission in.. and then he came up with Henry Kissinger..! Now you have got to understand, Henry Kissinger has covered up a lot in his lifetime, he is famous for it and did you know in some countries he is wanted for warcrimes ? Some people even consider him as an expert on cover ups, so he was the obvious choice for Bush to put him in charge of the independent 9-11 commission right ?
Naturally no one accepted Henry Kissinger as head of the commission, but it showed the intentions the president had with forming this committee.
The coverup is as important as the crime. So Bush appoints (after 431days now) Thomas Cane & Lee Hamilton. Cane has conflict of interest. Mister Hamilton has the nickname "Mister coverup" I don't think I need to go into that even more. Other members of the commission have similar profiles and are intimitaly involved with the Bush administration. This makes the commission far from independent and a farce even before it began its work. I will go into the actual work the commission did at another time.

Ofcourse one of the people that had to appear infront of the commission was George W. Bush himself. But Bush doesn't like to talk about his responsibilities of 9-11 that much, so he finally agreed to meet with the commission, but only on his own terms..
- Behind closed doors
- no family members allowed
- no transcripts for the record
- he was NOT under oath (think about that for just a second)
- he was to appear together with Dick Cheney, and not separate as the commission asked for (to get their stories straight ?)
What makes him so special ? Regularly the point is made that people can give up their privacy because they don't have anything to hide, so lets hear it George, you don't have anything to hide do ya ?

These were all things Michael Moore should have discussed in his "documentary" fahrenheit 9-11. But he did not. Michael Moore decided to make it appear as if Bush is just an idiot that somehow became the president, took a lot of vacations and made some silly mistakes. The picture I'm painting is much darker then that.

The White house did everything in its power to derail an open inquiry. Then, when faced with it inevitability, the president and his aides sought to limit its scope, its acces, and its funding.

The 9-11 commission started out with a budget of 3 million dollars.
compared to other commissions:
casino gambling - 5 million dollars
columbia shuttle explosion - 50 million dollars
whitewater - 50 million dollars

The 9-11 commission later gets more funding but only gets up to 15 million dollars in total. The government spent 60 million dollars in the investigation of the sex life of Bill Clinton.. just to put things in perspective.

Iraq

Bush’s former counterterrorism chief, Richard Clarke, said that on September 12, 2001, one day after 9/11, “The President in a very intimidating way left us — me and my staff — with the clear indication that he wanted us to come back with the word that there was an Iraqi hand behind 9/11.”

So why the hell did we -the dutch government supported it too- go to Iraq ?

This piece I have taken from: The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder written by Vincent Bugliosi (a heavy hitter, a tough-minded, legendary prosecutor ) because I could never have done it better myself.

In his first nationally televised address on the Iraqi crisis on October 7, 2002, six days after receiving the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), a classified CIA report, President Bush told millions of Americans the exact opposite of what the CIA was telling him -a monumental lie to the nation and the world.

On the evening of October 7, 2002, the very latest CIA intelligence was that Hussein was not an imminent threat to the US This same information was delivered to the Bush administration as early as October 1, 2002, in the NIE, including input from the CIA and 15 other US intelligence agencies. In addition, CIA director George Tenet briefed Bush in the Oval Office on the morning of October 7th.

According to the October 1, 2002 NIE, “Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks with conventional or CBW [chemical and biological warfare] against the United States, fearing that exposure of Iraqi involvement would provide Washington a stronger case for making war.” The report concluded that Hussein was not planning to use any weapons of mass destruction; further, Hussein would only use weapons of mass destruction he was believed to have if he were first attacked, that is, he would only use them in self-defense.

-So let me get this straight. You took your country to war, and in doing so you threatened it, even when your own intelligence services SPECIFICALLY told you not to ? That's just nuts, and directly against the oath you took when you became president. George should be in jail, end of story-

Vincent Bugliosi continues:

Preparing its declassified version of the NIE for Congress, which became known as the White Paper, the Bush administration edited the classified NIE document in ways that significantly changed its inference and meaning, making the threat seem imminent and ominous.

In the original NIE report, members of the US intelligence community vigorously disagreed with the CIA’s bloated and inaccurate conclusions. All such opposing commentary was eliminated from the declassified White Paper prepared for Congress and the American people

Your administration willingly LIED against congress/the American people ? I wonder who those 25% of Americans are that still support you George.

Vincent Bugliosi is not done yet:

The Manning Memo

On January 31, 2003, Bush met in the Oval Office with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In a memo summarizing the meeting discussion, Blair’s chief foreign policy advisor David Manning wrote that Bush and Blair expressed their doubts that any chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons would ever be found in Iraq, and that there was tension between Bush and Blair over finding some justification for the war that would be acceptable to other nations. Bush was so worried about the failure of the UN inspectors to find hard evidence against Hussein that he talked about three possible ways, Manning wrote, to “provoke a confrontation” with Hussein.

One way, Bush said, was to fly “U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, [falsely] painted in UN colors. If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach” of UN resolutions and that would justify war. Bush was calculating to create a war, not prevent one.

Staging events huh ? You've been hanging out to much with Dick Cheney George ! You kinda remind me of.. Hitler !

Denying Blix’s Findings




Hans Blix, the United Nation’s chief weapons inspector in Iraq, in his March 7, 2003, address to the UN Security Council, said that as of that date, less than 3 weeks before Bush invaded Iraq, that Iraq had capitulated to all demands for professional, no-notice weapons inspections all over Iraq and agreed to increased aerial surveillance by the US over the “no-fly” zones. Iraq had directed the UN inspectors to sites where illicit weapons had been destroyed and had begun to demolish its Al Samoud 2 missiles, as requested by the UN. Blix added that “no evidence of proscribed activities have so far been found” by his inspectors and “no underground facilities for chemical or biological production or storage were found so far.” He said that for his inspectors to absolutely confirm that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) “will not take years, nor weeks, but months.”

Mohamed El Baradei, the chief UN nuclear inspector in Iraq and director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the UN Security Council that, “we have to date found no evidence or plausible indication of the revival of a nuclear weapon program in Iraq.”

The UN inspectors were making substantial progress and Hussein was giving them unlimited access. Why was Bush in such an incredible rush to go to war?

Hussein Disarms, so Bush … Goes to War

When it became clear that the whole purpose of Bush’s prewar campaign — to get Hussein to disarm — was being (or already had been) met, Bush and his people came up with a demand they had never once made before — that Hussein resign and leave Iraq. On March 17, 2003, Bush said in a speech to the nation that, “Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their refusal to do so will result in military conflict.” Military conflict — the lives of thousands of young Americans on the line — because Bush trumped up a new line in the sand?

Personally I would like to add: Saddam Hussein offered to step down and go into exile one month before the invasion of Iraq. Bush talked about it and knew it, but instead denied it. Hardly makes sense right ?

The Niger Allegation

One of the most notorious instances of the Bush administration using thoroughly discredited information to frighten the American public was the 16 words in Bush’s January 28, 2003 State of the Union speech: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” The Niger allegation was false, and the Bush administration knew it was false.

Joseph C. Wilson IV, the former ambassador to Iraq, was sent to Niger by the CIA in February 2002 to investigate a supposed memo that documented the sale of uranium yellowcake (a form of lightly processed ore) to Iraq by Niger in the late 1990s. Wilson reported back to the CIA that it was “highly doubtful” such a transaction had ever taken place.

On March 7, 2003, Mohamed El Baradei told the UN Security Council that “based on thorough analysis” his agency concluded that the “documents which formed the basis for the report of recent uranium transactions between Iraq and Niger are in fact not authentic.” Indeed, author Craig Unger uncovered at least 14 instances prior to the 2003 State of the Union address in which analysts at the CIA, the State Department, or other government agencies that had examined the Niger documents “raised serious doubts about their legitimacy — only to be rebuffed by Bush administration officials who wanted to use them.”

On October 5 and 6, 2002, the CIA sent memos to the National Security Council, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and to the White House Situation Room stating that the Niger information was no good.

On January 24, 2003, four days before the president’s State of the Union address, the CIA’s National Intelligence Council, which oversees all federal agencies that deal with intelligence, sent a memo to the White House stating that “the Niger story is baseless and should be laid to rest.”

Someone who tried to put Bush in jail was my favorite democrat; congressman Dennis Kucinich. A true american hero if you ask me. He stood before congress and brought up over 60 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush ! It's obvious that this guy has done his homework.

Honestly do you want me to continue ? I could if I wanted, but its getting late and later this week I wish to spend some more time on my upcoming article about Obama. I am going to leave you with my favorite journalist, Keith Olbermann, he has a go at Bush (and Obama).

I think together with Keith I've made a case to bring Georgie to trial. Maybe he could be sent to Guantanamo Bay for a couple of years, you never know what he might confess right? It's for America after all.