On This Date in BUSH HISTORY 12/9: Delusional Cheney & Silenced Science

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On This Date in Bush History 12/9: Silenced Science

2001: The ever-delusional Dick Cheney says today, "It's been pretty well confirmed that <9/11 highjacker Mohamed Atta> did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service ... before the attack". Most who looked into this came to believe it not to be true, but Cheney kept repeating this. After extensive investigation, the 9/11 commission said, "We do not believe that such a meeting occurred". By June 20th 2004 even Mr. Cheney was admitting, sort of, that maybe what he had been saying for quite awhile now was false. Strangely, he chose to do this in his own unique, ever delusional way. In a CNBC interview Mr. Cheney is asked about Atta: "You have said in the past that it was, quote, 'pretty well confirmed' ". Mr. Cheney interrupts to say, "No, I never said that". If that’s what you want to believe, Mr. VP.

2002: President Bush announces the nomination of John Snow for Treasury Secretary today, replacing Paul O'Neill. To help Snow push more tax cuts for the wealthy an analysis of unfunded future government obligations that had been ordered by O'Neill was removed from budget documents issued under new Treasurer Snow. Scott Burns of The Dallas Morning News said the removed data "shows the United States is broke". Burns believes the analysis was deleted because the tax cut "sales job would be awkward if an official government document announced we were already $43 trillion in the hole". Rather than be honest with the American people, giving them the hard facts of the nation's obligations, the Bush administration removed those facts from the budget, thus advancing a more important goal: more tax cuts for the rich.

2006: The Union of Concerned Scientists announced today that 10,000 scientists have signed a petition calling on the Bush administration to cease muzzling of scientific findings that "are in conflict with the administration's policies or with the views of its political supporters".

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