BUSH REACTION TO NIE REVEALS HIM AS WORLD WARMONGER NO. 1

[babylonsister]

BUSH REACTION TO NIE REVEALS HIM AS WORLD WARMONGER NO. 1
Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2007-12-06 17:06. Media

By Sherwood Ross

So, just how much are the American people supposed to take? Here we’ve got a president who lied us into making war on Iraq and who, despite a new National Intelligence Estimate(NIE), is stubbornly trying to lie us into another war against Iran.

President Bush today is telling Iran to “come clean” when he’s nose deep in what comes out of the hind end of a Texas Longhorn.

Our commander-in-chief is so fanatical for war against Iran that, as investigative reporter Seymour Hersh wrote earlier this year in The New Yorker, there’s a special planning group under the Joint Chiefs of Staff organized to plot one. Hersh quotes a former intelligence official stating the group is “charged with creating a contingency bombing plan for Iran that can be implemented upon orders from the President, within 24 hours.”

So it’s clear why Bush pushed Congress last September for his warmongering Iran resolution that Senator Jim Webb (D-Va.), former Secretary of the Navy, labeled “a de facto authorization for use of military force against Iran.” Bush is rarin’ to attack! The wonder is why the Senate would give this liar anything but the boot?

Despite the new NIE estimate, Bush continues to insist Iran is the warmonger. This only further strengthens the case for impeachment against him and for criminal prosecution of those responsible for Iraq war, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell and his successor, Condoleezza (“Mushroom Cloud”)Rice.

As John Prados points out in his book “Hoodwinked”(The New Press), Vice President Richard Cheney also “played a key role in getting Iraq to the top of the Bush agenda and keeping it there…and falsely implicated Iraq in Al Qaeda terrorism,” and much, much more. Maybe we need a refresher course in Bush’s lies.

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[Cha]

1. Now, if the m$$$$$$$$$$m will

pickup this article by Sherwood Ross and publish it all over the Nation. Or are they still not into the facts of the matter?


"To date, Bush’s war has cost the American people 4,000 lives and 30,000 wounded and a trillion dollars of wasted tax dollars. And it has cost the people of Iraq a million killed, perhaps another million wounded, untold billions in destroyed property and commerce, four million driven from their homes, and two million forced to quit the country!

The UN calls this exodus a “humanitarian crisis” but believe me, those are just words unless it is your family, your children, and your loved ones driven into the streets! Unless it is you that gets the call to come down to the morgue to identify a body thought to be your kid. And what for? What did the people of Iraq ever do to us?

Still worse, commander-in-chief Bush has allowed the Pentagon to fire irradiated ammunition (banned by the Geneva Convention) all over Iraq as though it is some kind of paintball playland, radiation that is likely causing cancers, radiation that will poison that unfortunate country perhaps for thousands of years to come--- a crime against humanity."

[suston96]

2. Too much of this NIE is redacted secret....

I want to know where their new information comes from.

Some laptop belonging to Iranian engineers? Could be, but so what? Planting that kind of dismissive crap gets Iran off the hook.

How about Iran's efforts to buy the nuclear technology they need from Russia and China? What's up with that?

Anymore Iranian laptops available? Loose-lipped laid-off nuclear weapons workers talking?

Bolton is right. Congress should investigate that NIE. Congress did not last time and look what happened.

[Cha]

4. bolton is full fucking shite and

anyone who thinks he is "right"..is, too.

[Hestia]

5. Bolton is correct? Are you really that misinformed?

The process for fuel for reactors is the same for weapons, but fuel for reactors is (I forget the exact percentage) something like 3%, whereas fuel grade uranium is 90% +/-. Why, just tell me why, they should not be allowed to use nuclear reactors for energy (I am totally against nuclear reactors, but that is not the point of this post) like other countries? What has Iran done to the US in the 10 years? Anything besides dissing Isreal? And? So?

If you are saying the neocons are correct in bombing Iran off the map, maybe you should do some searching in past threads regarding the neocons, Bolton, et al and see just what their policies have brought us. Debt and Privitization.

[suston96]

6. What I said was....

That Bolton was correct in asking Congress to look into the accuracy and confidence of this most recent NIE.

If Congress had done that with the 2002 NIE there wouldn't be 4000 dead GIs and tens of thousands maimed or wounded veterans.

"......maybe you should do some searching in past threads..."

On this board? You gotta be kidding.

[Cha]

3. Rec'd

This is what we always knew we had and now more are finding out just how insane these headhunters are.