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Title: Bush Admin. Worse Than Our Nightmares
Source: Informed Comment
URL Source: http://www.juancole.com/2009/08/bus ... worse-than-our-nightmares.html
Published: Aug 21, 2009
Author: Juan Cole
Post Date: 2009-08-21 12:22:23 by Brian S
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Comments: 18

It was worse.

Back in the bad old days of Bush's corrupt gang, we on the left were pilloried for suggesting that the administration was manipulating terrorism-related news in order to win the 2004 elections. But when Tom Ridge says it . . .

In fact, I argued in summer, 2004, that when Ridge did raise the terrorism alert, it had the unfortunate effect of outing an al-Qaeda double agent who had been turned by the Pakistani government and was helping set a trap for al-Qaeda in the UK. In turn, that caused the British government to have to move against the people it had under surveillance prematurely, harming the case.

Ridge is alleging he was pressured on the eve of the election. But I still wonder about the circumstances of the summer announcement. He might have been being used then, too, and not known it.

And if any of us had said that Dick Cheney was setting up civilian mercenary assassination squads (at least 007 works for the British government), and set things up so that perhaps neither the CIA director nor the president even knew about it, we would have been branded moonbats. But well, that is today's story

You shudder to think what hasn't come out yet.

If Bush and his gang falsely put up the terror alert or even tried to, for partisan political gain, that is a sort of treason. If they thereby ruined a British surveillance operation, they recklessly endangered US and NATO security. If they were arranging for civilian mercenaries to murder people . . . well you'd have to say that they were at least planning to be murderers. (The wingnuts will say that Xe was only being contracted to kill al-Qaeda types; but the wingnuts wouldn't be able to tell a Barelvi from an al-Qaeda supporter if their lives depended on it, and I wouldn't exactly trust Mr. Prince to be fair to Muslims.)

The horrible thing is that Wolf Blitzer on CNN assembled David Frum and Frances Townsend, former members of the Bush administration, to sit around on his afternoon news and analysis program on Thursday afternoon and more or less either call Ridge a liar or pooh-pooh the significance of what he is saying. There wasn't a single centrist or left of center voice to show any outrage. I mean, I know that Time Warner is not made up of people who necessarily care about the little person or social justice or anything. But a little bit of shame?

It isn't enough that the corporate media lied to us for Bush for 8 years, they are continuing to do it. Subscribe to *WAR CRIMES*

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Bush's terms were bad. Without question, and without reservation, they were evil in many respects.

But Bush is no longer in office, and hasn't been for quite a while now. And Barry, apparently, is keeping all of the power that Bush claimed for himself instead of putting them in file 13.

I expect we'll be seeing an article then about Barry and his following lockstep in Bush's tradition?

SonOfLiberty  posted on  2009-08-21   13:33:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Bush's terms were bad. Without question, and without reservation, they were evil in many respects.

But Bush is no longer in office, and hasn't been for quite a while now. And Barry, apparently, is keeping all of the power that Bush claimed for himself instead of putting them in file 13.

I expect we'll be seeing an article then about Barry and his following lockstep in Bush's tradition?

Not only that, but just like Bush and the republicrats refusing to investigate Clinton lawbreaking, Obama and the democans refuse to investigate Bush lawbreaking. The same o' same o' two party fraud two-step.

F.A. Hayek Fan  posted on  2009-08-21   14:59:44 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

But Bush is no longer in office, and hasn't been for quite a while now. And Barry, apparently, is keeping all of the power that Bush claimed for himself instead of putting them in file 13.

I expect we'll be seeing an article then about Barry and his following lockstep in Bush's tradition?

Not only that, but just like Bush and the republicrats refusing to investigate Clinton lawbreaking, Obama and the democans refuse to investigate Bush lawbreaking. The same o' same o' two party fraud two-step

Have you guys read this:

www.online journal.com/art...ublish/article_4578.shtml

The smooth criminal transition from Bush/Cheney to Obama

To sober, clear-eyed observers of history and political deception, the ascension of Barack Obama held the promise for unprecedented new dangers: a revitalized New World Order, led by the Anglo-American empire’s neoliberal criminal faction and an iconic, deceptive new facilitator; and a continuation of Bush/Cheney criminality and war, under smarter and much more effective management.

Now, just months into their tenure, the Barack Obama administration has more than fulfilled the murderous promises he made to his elite constituency, deepening the mass destruction of Bush/Cheney, while charming its victims all over the world into enjoying their own demise.

The empire’s facilitator

Beneath his seemingly boundless charisma and charm, Barack Obama has always been an utterly ruthless politician. He has been a compromiser who has danced with the darkest forces of political and criminal power, while winning over common people; a consensus-abiding chameleon and a “pragmatist.” Obama is the true model of what George W. Bush only claimed to be: “a uniter, not a divider.”

The signs were clear from the early days of the presidential contest that Obama was, like every presidential candidate, a handpicked puppet. His cadre of national security and foreign policy advisors included the most notorious war criminals, intelligence/security “advisors” and corrupt think tank assets in the world. His campaign was bankrolled by Wall Street, and big corporations. His policy agenda was taken from the playbook of the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. Both neoliberal (and neocon) elite power and money coalesced behind Obama, as his political rivals dropped off.

Obama’s record in the US Senate was one of general complicity with Bush/Cheney and the status quo, including enthusiastic support of the consensus “war on terrorism” deception and the big 9/11 lie. Former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has described how, in her encounters with Obama, the senator from Illinois repeatedly refused to act in opposition to Bush/Cheney policies. Time again, during his days in the Senate, and throughout the presidential campaign, Obama has not only fully supported the Bush/Cheney administration on the USAPATRIOT Act, and the wholesale militarization and criminalization of the United States.

Immediate destabilization

The naïve, the hopeful and the ignorant have continued to harbor fantasies about “change,” even as Obama promptly destroyed every single hope, starting with the composition of his administration. He handpicked a transition team, and then a cabinet consisting entirely of legendary war criminals and corrupt elites, each more malodorous and corrupt than the next. From Iran-Contra participant Robert Gates and war criminal Richard Holbrooke, to Hillary Clinton and an economic advisory team comprised of the architects of Wall Street destruction, including Paul Volcker, Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, and new Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

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christine  posted on  2009-08-21   23:38:35 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

The naïve, the hopeful and the ignorant have continued to harbor fantasies about “change,” even as Obama promptly destroyed every single hope ...........

"change" ........

Change --- as Obama sees it today "change" is to KILL the United States of America.

Even when Barry was helping Frank Marshall Davis roll the cart with the (8-balls) cocaine through Hawaii ..... Barry had his only real physical job.

He must have been proud as Frank sweat (poem) all over his face on those late night/white-hating get togethers.

No wonder he can't golf or bowl.

beyond the sea  posted on  2009-08-22   11:19:01 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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