Incontrovertible judgment that * willfully misled US into invading Iraq

[BigBearJohn]

Nicely detailed article:

President Bush, With the Candlestick...
By Robert Parry
June 7, 2005


The clues are falling into place, pointing to the incontrovertible judgment that George W. Bush willfully misled the United States into invading Iraq, in part, by eliminating the possibility of the peaceful solution that he pretended to want.

Many of the clues have been apparent for three years – and some were reported in outlets such as our own Consortiumnews.com in real time – but only recently have new revelations clarified this obvious reality for the slow-witted mainstream U.S. news media.

The latest piece of the puzzle was reported by Charles J. Hanley of the Associated Press in an article on June 4 describing how Bush’s Undersecretary of State John Bolton orchestrated the ouster of global arms control official Jose Bustani in early 2002 because Bustani’s Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was making progress toward getting arms inspectors back into Iraq.

If Bustani had succeeded in gaining Iraq’s compliance with international inspection demands, Bush would have been denied his chief rationale for war, even before U.S. military divisions were deployed to the Persian Gulf. Bustani had made himself an obstacle to war, so he had to go.

SOURCE: http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/060605.html

[Karenina]

1. Willfully mislead= LIE

DOWNING STREET MINUTES - OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT MINUTES OF AN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT MEETING - distributed to U.K. EYES ONLY in the form of a memorandum...

[understandinglife]

2. Well done! thank you for posting (nt)

A flag is presented to Colin Lovell, 2, the son of Lance Cpl. Jourdan Grez. (Andrea Bruce Woodall/Post)

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - We support Apian's goal of 10,000,000 signatures on Congressman Conyers letter by June 21, 2005; make it happen! http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/6/214643/6438

[BigBearJohn]

5. Now you did it. Your picture of Colin rec'g his father's flag made me cry

But thanks.

Also thanks for your article on our illustrious Senator Kennedy
making waves about Downing!

[fooj]

3. We cannot rest until this evil madman is held ACCOUNTABLE!

:patriot:

[Dudley_DUright]

4. Bartcop calls Robert Parry's Consortiumnews

the most important site on the internet(s). He always produces some well researched and insightful articles.

[Stand and Fight]

6. Wow...

If I could recommend this article over and over again I would. It hits all the points -- the Bush administration, the Media complacency... Just wow!

[Coexist]

7. fantastic article

[Imagevision]

8. Bush illegal on going to war and should be impeached end of story

[Maraya1969]

9. If they impeach for a blow job and don't impeach for mass murder

What the Hell are we? This is getting to be so downright infuriating. I can't believe that the process has not started yet - UNLESS it has and whoever is doing it is keeping it quiet for now.

There is a fine place in HELL waiting for George Bush and all his cronies that continue to back him in the face of all this.

A fine place in HELL.


Here are your elected officials:

:evilfrown: :evilfrown: :evilfrown: :evilfrown: :evilfrown: :evilfrown:

[nolabels]

11. Yea, but if there was no military could he do it?

The chicken and egg question always pops up for me. Bosnia, Haiti, Columbia, Panama, Nicaragua etc, like the list is endless and most of it not that justifiable other than US corporations having major interests.

Critics: Pentagon in blinders
Long before 9/11, the military was warned about low-tech warfare, but it didn't listen


By Stephen J. Hedges
Washington Bureau

June 6, 2005

WASHINGTON -- Nearly 16 years ago, a group of four military officers and a civilian predicted the rise of terrorism and anti-American insurgencies with chilling accuracy.

The group said U.S. military technology was so advanced that foreign forces would be unlikely to challenge it directly, and it forecast that future foes would be non-state insurgents and terrorists whose weapons would be suicide car bombs, not precision-guided weapons.

"Today, the United States is spending $500 million apiece for stealth bombers," the group wrote in a 1989 article that appeared in a professional military journal. "A terrorist stealth bomber is a car with a bomb in the trunk--a car that looks like every other car."

The five men dubbed their theory "Fourth Generation Warfare" and warned that the U.S. military had to adapt. In the years since, the original group of officers, joined by a growing number of officers and scholars within the military, has pressed Pentagon leaders to acknowledge this emerging threat.

But rather than adopting a new strategy, the generals and civilian leaders in the Defense Department have continued to support conventional, high-intensity conflict and the expensive weapons that go with it. That is happening, critics say, despite lethal insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"They don't understand this kind of warfare," said Greg Wilcox, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, Vietnam veteran and critic of Pentagon policies. "They want to return to war as they envision it. That's not going to happen
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http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news3/chtr19.htm
http://www.antiwar.com/

[Poiuyt]

10. Thanks, Bear

We really appreciate you keeping us up to date with all the DSM articles. I'm just worried that middle America doesn't care about the war, or how Bush lied to start it.

[BigBearJohn]

12. That's a legitimate worry IMHO

[nolabels]

13. They have diffused and masked it effects on everyones pocket book........

and on in society in general so well most don't know or could never tell the difference. The insulation wears thin when family members start to get sucked up(drafted) into it.

(snip)
In April, 2003 an intergenerational team of Niko Matsakis of Boston, MA and Elias Vlanton of Takoma Park, MD created costofwar.com. After maintaining it on their own for the first year, they gave it to the National Priorities Project to contribute to their ongoing educational efforts.

(snip)
http://costofwar.com/

[DemoTex]

14. Read "The Fall of the House of Bush", by Ernest Partridge (DU Home Page)

The Bush administration is confidently marching toward disaster, and we are all unwilling passengers on this fool's journey. Bush's folly, if not diverted, will certainly lead to economic collapse, international isolation, and dreadful terrorist revenge. Herbert Stein's law reigns supreme: "That which can not go on forever, won't." The ingredients of this witch's brew of mischief are many - the federal deficit and national debt, growing income disparity, the dissolution of civil liberties and civil rights, foreign wars, stolen elections, corporate corruption, theocracy and the assault on science and scholarship, official secrecy and lies...

The credibility of the Bush regime is dissolving, and with it the regime's scaffolding of lies. Donald Rumsfeld told us in March, 2003 that "We know where are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad." Subsequent searches of that area have exposed that lie. And Dick Cheney famously proclaimed in August, 2002 that "there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." That sound clip is being heard ever more frequently. So when Cheney appears on Larry King Live and says that he is "offended" by the Amnesty International report on torture, and insists that the Iraq insurgency is "in its last throes" – well, "fool me once..."



http://www.democraticunderground.com/crisis/05/014_ep.html

The Bu$h house is built on a shakey foundation of lies. This will out; sooner or later. Lies, lies, and more lies.

[bleever]

15. Sometimes the obvious takes a LONG TIME to become evident.

But eventually, it's still obvious.

:thumbsup: