Bush Lies and Dirty TricksKeeping America Scared (5,233 MB) see also THREAT TO WORLD PEACE - COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM - BUSH'S FIGHT AGAINST DEMOCRACY - AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY |
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| A short, by no means complete,
list of texts dealing with the lies and deceptions of the Bush
administration (as well as those of Tony
Blair aka "Bush's poodle"). All
found in the New York Times, The Guardian and some other (US) mainstream media. (I just started collecting them on
August 8, 2003. However, there are lots of articles before and after
that date. See some of the sites collecting
such texts)
(If the given link doesn't work any more: I can provide you with the original text - just send me an email) |
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My book recommendations on American foreign policy - on September 11 |
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Latest addition: September 12, 2006
There have been too many lies to stay up-to-ate. Sorry.
No evidence Saddam had illegal stockpiles before war, US report finds.
· Bremer: too few troops
· Rumsfeld: no al-Qaida link
Leader: Rumsfeld's missing link
Full text: Rumsfeld's statement
Politics: Tony Blair admits for the first time that weapons of mass destruction may never be found in Iraq, but refuses to apologise for invasion.
With 9/11 Report, Bush's Political Thorn Grows More Stubborn
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
The panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks further called into question one of President Bush's rationales for the war with Iraq.
• Panel Finds No Qaeda-Iraq Tie
• Reports: Al Qaeda | The 9/11 Plot | Video
• The Hijackers | The Interrogation | Full Coverage
US commission's findings bluntly contradict White House claims.
Cartoon: Steve Bell
When Iraqis are blown apart in Baghdad by a car bomb, or Israelis in Haifa by a suicide bomber, these are instantly and correctly labelled as terrorist attacks. However when American helicopters or Israeli tanks cause death to innocent civilians on a similar scale, there is always an alternative version on offer.
(see
story: 'US
soldiers shot us, one by one'
Survivors describe
wedding massacre as generals refuse to apologise.)
Pentagon
tries to ban first photos of coffins returning from Iraq
Comment:
Mark Lawson
for the photos see Russ Kick's website
THE GUARDIAN April 24, 2004
· Decision came nine days after 9/11
· Ex-ambassador reveals discussion
Public inquiry demands to question Bush's national security adviser.
Attack on Taliban planned 'before 9/11'
Leader: Enemies of the truth
Ombudsman forces PM to reveal secret meetings with lobbyists.
· Attorney-General rewrote legal advice
· Unit dedicated to spying on UN
I had no choice, says Gun
Focus: The UN spy scandal
Comment: Andrew Rawnsley
Leader: We must have the truth
Chief UN weapons inspector believes he was bugged.
Clare Short left isolated
Comment: Mark Lawson
Disputed advice quashed opposition
What the UK papers said
Did
we bug Kofi Annan?
UN expresses outrage after Clare Short claims British agents spied on Kofi
Annan.
Whitehall united in doubt on war
Simon Hoggart's sketch
... and try to whip up a political row with a doctored photo. (This smear campaign hasn't - yet - been directly linked to George W., but see text and see also the book "The Lies of George W.Bush. Mastering the Politics of Deception" by David Corn, on Dubya's dirty tricks during the 2000 presidential campaign.)
Spying operation at UN scuppered last-ditch initiative to avert Iraq war.
Spying games on the road to war
What did George Bush really do in Vietnam, asks Suzanne Goldenberg and Oliver Burkeman.
Comment: Sidney Blumenthal
George Bush concedes that there may be a problem over Iraq's missing weapons of mass destruction.
Comment: Martin Woollacott
Claim that Saddam Hussein was able to deploy weapons in 45 minutes suffers another blow.
Comment: Washington's plan to transfer power without a direct vote is a fraud, writes Jonathan Steele.
· PM shows doubts on reason for war
· Asked was he wrong on WMD, he says: 'I don't know'
World: The Pentagon has pulled out the 400-strong military team which was searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, but US officers insist that the hunt will go on.
World: A Pentagon audit has found that Halliburton overcharged the government by $61m (about £35m) for delivering petrol to Iraq.
US
pays up for fatal Iraq blunders
Over 10,000 claims
but families must waive rights.
No
regrets or culprits, just cash
The US military has
not punished any soldier for shooting an unarmed civilian and refuses even
to keep count of the civilians its soldiers kill. Yet for several months
now, American officers have been quietly paying out hundreds of thousands
of dollars in cash to relatives of the dead and injured, offering polite
but carefully-worded condolences and promising investigations that lead nowhere
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Leader:
Scary and scandalous
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This is how much Dubya and his poodle care about the casualties of their wars (photo taken during Bush state visit to Britain, the day after the terrorist attacks in Turkey) |
Media: The Ministry of Defence blames 'negative attitudes by news editors' for the failure of a media offensive to convert the UK public to supporting the outcome of the Iraq war.
World: Washington dismissed Iraq's peace feelers, including elections and weapons pledge, put forward via diplomatic channels and US hawk Perle.
Michael Moore has got George Bush in his sights. In the second extract from his new book he asks his old enemy seven awkward questions.
George W. Bush
The White House, USA
Past Work
Experience
By CARL HULSE and DAVID E. SANGER
Two House panel leaders have said that there were "too many uncertainties" in the information used to justify the war in Iraq.
World: The father of a soldier killed in Iraq has accused President George Bush of being responsible for his son's death.
Intelligence claims of huge Iraqi stockpiles were wrong, says report by CIA-led Iraq Survey Group.
Hutton inquiry: Last minute intervention told intelligence chiefs to harden danger of Saddam's chemical weapons.
Rory McCarthy reports from al-Jisr, scene of the killing of three farmers at hands of US troops.
Now that President Bush has admitted he knew Saddam Hussein had no role in the Sept. 11 attacks, his best course is to continue to level with the American people.
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Yasir Arafat, the president said, had undercut the efforts of the Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, who resigned this month.
Comment: Tim Predmore, currently serving with the 101st Airborne Division near Mosul, Northern Iraq, calls for the end of an occupation based on lies.
Labour MP Michael Meacher claims the US government knew in advance about the September 11 attacks.
Here's the text: Comment: Michael Meacher
For more details read e.g.
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Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed: The War on Freedom. How and Why America was Attacked, September 11th, 2001. (German: Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed: Geheimsache 09/11. Hintergründe über den 11. September und die Logik amerikanischer Machtpolitik. München: Riemann 22002)
President Bush is backing off his pledge to fight AIDS in Africa by saying the promised $3 billion in aid cannot be spent wisely.
By BOB HERBERT
Some of the points Al Gore is raising, especially with regard to President Bush's credibility regarding the war, deserve much closer attention.
Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence
Protest
Groups Planning for Republican
Convention
By
RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Activists on
behalf of many causes intend to bring together their divergent
voices in the name of tarnishing what is planned to be a
shining moment for the president.
By DOUGLAS JEHL
Engineering experts believe that the most likely use for the two mysterious trailers found in Iraq was to produce hydrogen for weather balloons.
- remember that "proof" Colin Powell presented at the Security Council meeting? -
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
The Bush administration persistently manipulates scientific data to serve its ideology and protect the interests of its political supporters, according to a House committee report.
By PAUL KRUGMAN
On environmental issues from ozone to methyl bromide, America's ruling party is pursuing a strategy of denial and deception.
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Under pressure from the White House, the E.P.A. systematically misled New Yorkers about the health risks of the World Trade Center's collapse.
Despite all the protestations of innocence, it is clear that Tony Blair's government embellished the truth in its warnings of an Iraqi threat.
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