22 posts tagged “bush administration”
John R. Houk
© July 29, 2009
I just read a short blog post by Doug Powers on Michelle Malkin’s blog. Powers points to the hypocrisy of Leftists because President Barack Hussein Obama is continuing the Bush Administration’s shadow government plans allegedly developed under the supervision of Vice President Cheney.
Bloggers writing about a ‘shadow government’ would usually entail the old fashioned conspiracy theory as the actual government is submerged to the actual power elites of a nation. In America’s case it would be a de facto suspension or tossing the Constitution of the USA.
The reality is that every Western nation that has a modicum of political or military power probably has some sort of back-up plan in the case a modern crisis disable’s the operating government. I would have to guess some kind of contingency plan would have developed at least since the Cold War.
In these days of nuclear arsenals, disruptions could happen at the push of a button. In the 21st century a government disruption may be even more sudden. Regardless of how a Leftist government tries to wrap today’s reality, this planet is experiencing a Global War of Terror. This means resourceful terrorists that are well funded on a transnational basis is very capable of exploiting the openness of a Western democratic republic or constitutional monarchy. The exploitation may manifest in a dirty bomb, a suitcase nuke, chemical weapon, biological terror and/or some sort of infrastructure attack (computers, power plants, water supply, EMP or such).
America after 911 provided a situation in the effective government to more openly admit the existence of a government contingency plan that centralizes power to meet a crisis, i.e. a shadow government.
The existence of President Bush’s executive order to establish a shadow government thus came under scrutiny by both Leftists intent on whining about the conservative nature of the Bush Administration and the Slanted Right concerned about the Constitutional nullification issues that arise with such a ‘no checks and balances’ centralized government.
Now check it out! The prince of American Leftists in America is not only continuing President Bush’s Shadow government plan, but appears to be strengthening the role of the military as the arbiter of that shadow government.
Frankly the American Left and the American Right should both be raising red flags (oops the Left has already done that) or caution flags. The termination of the U.S. Constitution would affect both the altruism of Leftist ideology and the slanted Right sanctity of strict constructionist constitutionalism. The give and take that has brought balance to America for so many years prior to judicial activism would definitely tilt to the evil of corrupting power on either side of the spectrum.
And yet the dilemma is some sort of order or a path to return to order has to be in effect to confront the designs of foreign or transnational threats to the American people.
It appears there are two threats to the constitutional American way of life: well funded transnational terrorism and a necessary rapid response to confront the actions of rogue governments or transnational terrorists.
The real American hero will be an Abraham Lincolnesque person with a just intent for the American future.
The American traitor will be the Benedict Arnoldesque person willing to sell out the American way of life for personal gain or ideological elitism (Left or Right).
The former will use extra-constitutional means in order to return constitutional rule of law. The later will use the crisis to terminate the U.S. Constitution to implement an ideological centralized government eliminating the ‘checks and balances’ the Founding Fathers developed to lesson a tyranny of the government.
Abraham Lincoln skirted many constitutional restraints in order to preserve the Union of the United States of America. Lincoln and/or the relatively young Republican Party could have tossed the U.S. Constitution to force a different kind of America to evolve. If Lincoln’s leadership lost the Civil War the American States no doubt would have fractured into banana republics similar to the turmoil Latin America has experienced after slowly gaining independence from the Spanish empire.
A successful terrorist attack straining the infrastructure of America will no doubt place an individual calling the shots in a shadow government with the same dilemmas President Lincoln faced in a less complicated time. Will that person be a leader of honor in the mold of Washington and Lincoln or an ideologue wishing to transform America into a political vision of either the Left or the Right?
The Roman Republic transfer to the Roman Empire is a rough parallel that comes to mind.
JRH 7/29/09
There is ONE WORD for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi – LIAR.
Contrary to a whole host of contradicting reports that Pelosi was indeed privy to “waterboarding” as enhanced interrogation techniques – EIT - (Most Republicans). Now that the Obama Administration and most Leftist Democrats have labeled waterboarding as torture, there has been a huge Leftist push to investigate the Bush Administration and the Intelligence Community concerning EIT.
I am willing to bet this Leftist push to fry the Bush Administration for keeping America safe will suddenly cool off. Why? The reason is an actual investigation will prove that Pelosi is a liar. That would mean one of the most powerful persons in America could be subject to a scandal that would do huge damage to the Democratic Party as the so-called Party of change.
As long as Pelosi is adamant that she was too stupid to understand what the of EIT is, I am fairly certain there will be no push from the House leadership in some kind of tawdry investigation of the Bush Administration keeping America safe.
Read the AP article that comes across as sympathetic toward liar – I mean Speaker - Pelosi.
This has all the appearance that Speaker Pelosi is going to take on the CIA. So somebody is lying – either the CIA or Pelosi. Since I never trust a Democrat, I suspect Pelosi is lying. If Pelosi is lying she can say publicly “I want those documents made public” and hope the CIA will not release classified data to protect their position.
If the CIA is lying (which I doubt in this case), then the release of classified document would show Pelosi is not as stupid as she appears.
I am guessing the CIA is doing some research and may pick & choose documents that make the CIA look good and infer that Pelosi is incompetent (or we could say a stupid liar).
She chastised reporters for falling for the Republicans’ political machinations and deflecting attention from their misdeeds. To clear the air, Pelosi said, “I’d be very happy if they released the briefings.”
And that is the only way this matter can be cleared up. A lot of documents should be declassified, including the briefing Pelosi cites. Either the CIA withheld information from Pelosi et al., or Pelosi is now lying. Either way, the briefing should be released.
While they are at it, all of the memos that deal with this topic should be released. Let’s see the intelligence on what al Qaeda was up to and what intelligence, precisely, came out of the interrogations of senior al Qaeda terrorists.
Something tells me that we will hear a response from the CIA shortly. (John McCormick)
Yeah baby, it is doubtful America’s chief spooks is going to allow Pelosi to malign them since there is an appearance the CIA tried to malign President Bush’s effort to invade Iraq.
Keep in mind that if Pelosi is leaning toward stupid rather than liar (I believe she is both), you have to know as Speaker of the House Pelosi is third in line if something horrible happens to the President and Vice President. This makes Pelosi one of the power elite in America. Does America want a stupid and/or liar to have such power?
JRH 5/14/09
By all accounts President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is one of America
Yet there was intense speculation that JFK and his Administration was involved in the assassination of South Vietnamese dictator Ngo Dinh Diem. The coup preceding Diem’s assassination was indeed orchestrated by the JFK Administration with knowledge thereof from JFK himself.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson definitely believed the JFK Administration was part and parcel to the assassination.
President Richard Milhouse Nixon believed that JFK was directly (Note: annoying soundtrack is part of the website) involved in the ordering of the assassination of Diem. A New York Times story that included the transcripts of Nixon tapes paints of picture of Nixon trying to frame JFK; however after close examination of the NYT story you will note the message the NYT wants its readers to believe does not match Nixon’s strong belief of JFK culpability.
Among Academia during the Vietnam War era it was considered a truism that JFK ordered Diem’s assassination. Kennedy apologists have come to the Kennedy Legacy rescue claiming there is no direct proof that JFK was behind the Diem assassination. Since there is no smoking gun connection it comes down to what one surmises from any evidence available. Today the lack of evidence has pretty much exonerated JFK publicly of culpability; however that does not mean there was not a successful cover-up.
Records of the Kennedy national security meetings, both here and in our larger collection, show that none of JFK's conversations about a coup in Saigon featured consideration of what might physically happen to Ngo Dinh Diem or Ngo Dinh Nhu. The audio record of the October 29th meeting which we cite below also reveals no discussion of this issue. That meeting, the last held at the White House to consider a coup before this actually took place, would have been the key moment for such a conversation. The conclusion of the Church Committee agrees that Washington gave no consideration to killing Diem. (Note 12) The weight of evidence therefore supports the view that President Kennedy did not conspire in the death of Diem. However, there is also the exceedingly strange transcript of Diem's final phone conversation with Ambassador Lodge on the afternoon of the coup (Document 23), which carries the distinct impression that Diem is being abandoned by the U.S. Whether this represents Lodge's contribution, or JFK's wishes, is not apparent from the evidence available today.
A second charge has to do with Kennedy administration denials that it had had anything to do with the coup itself. The documentary record is replete with evidence that President Kennedy and his advisers, both individually and collectively, had a considerable role in the coup overall, by giving initial support to Saigon military officers uncertain what the U.S. response might be, by withdrawing U.S. aid from Diem himself, and by publicly pressuring the Saigon government in a way that made clear to South Vietnamese that Diem was isolated from his American ally. In addition, at several of his meetings (Documents 7, 19, 22) Kennedy had CIA briefings and led discussions based on the estimated balance between pro- and anti-coup forces in Saigon that leave no doubt the United States had a detailed interest in the outcome of a coup against Ngo Dinh Diem. The CIA also provided $42,000 in immediate support money to the plotters the morning of the coup, carried by Lucien Conein, an act prefigured in administration planning Document 17). (John Prados)
So why do I mention some dirt on an American hero as JFK?
The reason is President Barack Hussein Obama has decided to re-open the door on possible prosecution of Bush Administration Aides and functionaries (including Lawyers providing legal advice) concerning the Bush Administration tactic of using extreme interrogation methods to extract information out of Islamic terrorists to protect the American Homeland. Most people in this currently Leftist dominated nation use appellation of “torture” for extreme interrogation methods. This is odd for the Obama Administration has decided to abandon all actual words for Leftist euphemisms for phrases and words like Global War on Terrorism or Islamic terrorists.
I am not a proponent of the kind of torture that leads to the termination of life or to the maiming of one’s body. Torture thus defined is indeed a heinous crime or war crime if perpetrated by signatories of the Geneva Conventions.
I am a proponent of what is labeled as torture yet there is NO threat to life and limb. It is the use of psychological methods to extract relevant information not necessarily for prosecution but rather for the safety of American citizens and military operations against Islamic terrorists abroad. The Bush Administration has indeed proven such extracted information has kept American soil free from another 911 style attack on American lives.
Left Wing Time.com places Vice President Cheney’s assertion that extreme interrogation methods indeed prevented terrorist attacks as well as the capture of other terrorists. Time.com also pooh-poohs the former Vice President by saying the harm to the American image outweighs any success that can be claimed by extreme interrogation methods.
HUH? Does that make sense? The Lefties are saying the aspirations of terrorists were mere fantasy that would not take place. I guess 911 was one of those fantasies that a failure in Intel failed to prevent.
Now here’s the thing. President Barack Hussein Obama initially showed bi-partisan wisdom in sticking to his convictions (as wrong as they are) by saying there will be NO prosecutions or investigations into the circle of Bush Administration people in the loop for getting the extreme interrogations started and accomplished. BUT NOW BHO is saying well hold up there, my fellow Lefties are crying for Right Wing (viewed as extremist no doubt) blood or the blood of BHO if he fails to go after all the Bush Administration people from top to bottom involved in extreme interrogation techniques.
BHO might as well go back and investigate anyone still alive from previous Presidential Administrations that have the stench of criminal activities from President Clinton through President Eisenhower (I am fairly certain before Eisenhower that for sure Presidential Aides and advisors are dead).
My point is the Bush Administration did not break any prosecutable any more than previous Presidential Administrations. There are Presidents in this time period that Americans loved to loathe; however many of the Presidents are legends or were at least very popular among voters (after all Clinton beat an impeachment rap). If BHO goes on a partisan political vendetta on a Presidential Administration that he deplored, it should open the doors for anyone who is alive connected with previous Administrations (Can you say Sandy Berger?).
JRH 4/23/09
Ever since rumors of Iran going beyond the use of peaceful technology with their nuclear program there have been hints of military strikes (and HERE) from either Israel or the USA or both to set Iran’s nuclear back.
It became clear as Bush’s popularity began to shrink coupled with zero support with the Russian and Chinese portions of the United Nations Security Council that the Bush Administration was not going to involve the USA in a military strike against Iran. This so much the case a political rumor escaped that Ehud Olmert visited Bush to get the go ahead for Israel to do a solo strike against Iran’s nuclear capability. Bush did not give that go-ahead.
Now the rumors are beginning to fly again and only action will verify the difference between reality and rumor.
That rumor is that Israel is considering a solo strike against Iran before President Elect Obama takes Office on January 20, 2009. The reasoning being that Bush’s hands are even more tied and President Elect Obama is so pro-Arab that he will be more ambitious to strip Israel back to the pre-1967 borders before Arab invaders made yet another attempt to destroy Israel – and lost. Coincidently this pre-1967 border plan is a Saudi initiative.
Setting this up for you, you really need to read Joel C. Rosenberg’s article on this situation.
JRH 11/17/08 (Hat tip to Don Moore of Blind Conservatives)
Do you remember 9/11? Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrats have been trying real hard to make YOU the American forget 9/11.
You see thing is Osama bin Laden may be the only Islamic terrorist to attack American soil BUT his al Qaeda is not the only Islamic terrorist organization to attack American citizens, American military assets and American diplomatic assets.
“Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction. Victory against terrorism will not take place in a single battle, but in a series of decisive actions against terrorist organizations and those who harbor and support them.”
The Dems have been trying to sell voters that Afghanistan and chasing bin Laden is the only thing America should be acting against global terrorism. The thing that Bush understood in 2001 (yet even his memory slowly faded) is that al Qaeda is not the only Islamofascist organization intent on harming America. In addition multiple Middle Eastern nations (including the Palestine Authority) harbor(ed) Islamic terrorists.
When the Dems (and some Republicans) realized that going after terrorists wherever harbored could mean not only the perpetrator of 9/11 in the hinterland of Afghanistan and Pakistan. It would mean oil rich Iraq, Libya, Iran and politically sensitive Syria, Lebanon and the Palestine Authority. This also includes the Mohammedan oil billionaires of Saudi Arabia and the oil rich Emirates of the Saudi Peninsula who have financed Islamic terrorists. Then there are also militarily powerful nations such as Egypt and Pakistan that harbor or tolerate Islamic terrorists and sympathizers.
When these cowards realized that ending Islamic terrorism against America would have a greater international impact with economic friends who are Arab lovers like Western Europe, Russia and China; then pressure was placed on Bush to curtail on the “those who harbor and support.”
When Bush gradually gave in to this pressure the Bush Doctrine began its demise and the handling of the post invasion of Iraq became mishandled.
Not only has the Bush Administration totally abandoned the “those who harbor and support,” but that Administration has become the primary impetus to deal with Islamic terrorists in the misnamed land known as Palestine to create a sovereign nation of murdering terrorists.
If Barack Hussein Obama wins the November 4th election, it will please so-called Palestinian Arabs who actually sent money to the Obama campaign and have publicly relished the idea that the Republican are favored to loose to BHO.
What does that mean? It means Republicans still represent a crowd who wants victory while the Islamic terrorists believe Barack Hussein Obama will weaken America.
It is not just murdering terrorists attempting to establish a terrorist State known as Palestine, but now the other Islamic terrorists recognize a BHO victory will be a plus for their cause to of Islamicizing dar al-harb.
AGAIN! Which American political party is viewed by Islamic terrorists as a feared enemy?
JRH 11-2-08
Newt Gingrich takes on the Barack Hussein Obama and the Democratic Party lie that the present economic crisis is totally the blame of the Republicans and Bush Administration ineptitude in managing our economy.
The only true thing in blaming the Republicans for the current economic crisis is that the Bush Administration failed to recognize the bad loans being made and not aggressively bring it to the public to aid the Republican Party in its attempt to reform the lending practices that has tipped the dominoes to a full blown economic crisis.
JRH 10-15-08
Binyamin Netanyahu has the correct vision for a viable State of Israel. Netanyahu is the current leader of the Likud Party. Likud is in opposition to ex-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Party founded by now incapacitated Ariel Sharon – Kadima. Thank God Almighty that Olmert has been forced out of Office due to links of criminal activity.
Olmert has made it his mission to pander to the Bush Administration to give away all that is holy to Judaism (and ergo Christianity) to a group of Arabs that usurped the name Palestinian who wish to form a hostile Arab/Islamic sovereign State next door to Israel.
Just before leaving Office Olmert has been quoted as saying:
"The notion of a Greater Israel no longer exists, and anyone who still believes in it is deluding himself... I've come to realize that we have to share this land with the people who dwell here, if we don’t want to be a binational state."(Israel National News)
The “Greater Israel” includes land won in the heat of battle from invading Muslim armies in 1967. Israel’s victory gave military control of one time Arab occupied East Jerusalem in which the Temple Mount is located. Israel had access to holy burial sites of the Jewish Patriarchs and people of Biblical importance (from a Christian and Jewish perspective).
The greatest error of 1967 was allowing the Mohammedan Waqf near absolute control of the Temple Mount because to the two Mosques conquering Muslims built there. The very Arab nations who refused to matriculate their fellow Arabs into their own population in order to create a wedge to continuously be able to have an excuse to end Israel’s existence.
There have been indications that the new Kadima Party leader Prime Minister Tzipi Livni is a puppet to continue the dismantling of Israel.
Netanyahu wants elections sooner than later to know the will of the people on giving up Jewish land to Muslim supremacist Arabs who have no right to a sovereign State that was originally designed to part of Jordan (Transjordan in 1947).
Let us pray Netanyahu will succeed in moving Israel into their Parliamentary style elections and that Livni’s Kadima Party will be set aside by a Likud ruling coalition with Netanyahu as Prime Minister.
JRH 9/30/08
My fellow Christians I have to inform you that the Temple attributed to Solomon and the second Temple built by Zerubbabel and later alleged to have been renovated by Herod the Great NEVER existed.
This is the case according Muslims. These Muslims are obviously anti-Semitic and anti-Christian racists; however these Muslims are clerics that have a legal standing that is not connected to the illegal terrorists (by European and Slanted Left standards anyway).
The Freedom of Religion typical American might think, “So what? Matters of faith are a personal subjective thought process which is irrelevant to objective facts.”
A typical American might think, “The Christian faith believes Jesus Christ died physically on a cross and three days latter arose from his grave totally alive with full attributes of Godhood. Scientifically this is impossible yet I believe.”
Or a typical American might think, “The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) believe the original native American Indians were the lost tribes of Israel. Scientifically this is ludicrous yet a Mormon of faith subjectively believes this.”
The American point is Freedom of Religion does not affect the day to day lives of American society in a violent way with objective disagreements over subjective faith. In other words – Big Deal, you can believe as you like.
History has not shown this American belief in religion. Christians contrary to their own Scripture were barbaric between themselves and those outside of the faith of Christianity; i.e. persuasion was a violent issue. Greater education and an infusion of secularism has pretty much transformed the Western World to have a greater respect for human life even in the midst of religious and/or non-religious differences.
This is not the case in the Middle East and among many Muslim immigrants (including next generation Muslim Western citizens). Violence is still the foundation of persuasion. Indeed a devout Muslim who actually follows the literal tenets of the Quran, Hadith and so on would not think twice of utilizing violence to justify a violent act.
If you are a Christian or a Jew (ESPECIALLY A JEW) the Mohammedan tendency toward violence and Islamic Supremacism should perk your ears when you hear or read that the Bush Administration and the fading Olmert government are determined to do whatever it takes to establish an Islamofascist Palestinian State. Here is the real bad part of a sovereign Islamofascist Palestinian State: part of the forced deal is to divide Jerusalem between Jewish/Israel sovereignty and Islamofascist/Palestine sovereignty. Even more notorious is a Jerusalem division would place the Temple Mount under the direct authority of Islamofascist Palestine.
The reason a divided Jerusalem is evil is because the Islamofascist Palestinians of have a determined history of destroying Jewish Holy sites and to a lesser degree Christian sites. In addition the predominant Islam thought paraded in the 21st century is that the first and second Jewish Temples NEVER EXISTED.
The discovery has met with skepticism from an archaeologist with Waqf, the Jordanian-controlled trust that manages the 36-acre compound. And it has not pleased some Muslim leaders, who regard the site as an exclusive Muslim preserve. Some have denied that the Jews ever built a temple there. Sheikh Ikrema Sabri, the former mufti of Jerusalem, recently told the Jerusalem Post that the temples of Solomon and Herod never existed.
"There was never a Jewish temple on al-Aqsa, and there is no proof that there was ever a temple," Sabri said. "Because Allah is fair, he would not agree to make al-Aqsa if there were a temple there for others beforehand."
Sabri also said the Western Wall, revered by Jews as the last remnant of a huge retaining barrier built by King Herod to support the vast plaza where the temple stood, has no historical significance for Jews.
"The wall is not part of the Jewish temple. It is just the western wall of the mosque," he said. "There is not a single stone with any relation at all to the history of the Hebrews." (SFGate.com)
Here is another example of denial of facts:
When the kingdom of Jordan ruled Jerusalem's Old City between 1948 and 1967, Jews were barred from sacred sites, and the famous Hurva and Ramban synagogues were blasted into rubble. But since capturing eastern Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War, Israel has ensured Christians and Muslims free access to their holy places. Why? Because from its inception, the Jewish state was a liberal democracy, enshrining religious freedom in its declaration of independence and enforcing it through policy and law.
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The most obvious of these is fundamentalist Islam, which sees alien religious views, even certain Islamic ones, as heretical and a target for violence. The Taliban's destruction of millennia-old Buddhist landmarks; Al Qaeda's bombing of one of Shia Islam's holiest shrines in Samarra, Iraq; and Hamas's attack on the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem give us a taste of what Palestinian Islamist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad would do to the Temple Mount, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and the City of David, were they to take control.
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There has also been destruction at the level of ideas. As Mr. Gold shows, Muslim and Arab leaders in the past recognized that Jerusalem was the location of Solomon's Temple, but today it has become official policy, taught in schools and backed with pseudo research, that the most sacred place in the Jewish imagination — the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, built by King Solomon and maintained on and off for nearly 1,000 years — never existed. Echoing the Holocaust denial of their Iranian contemporaries, Palestinian leaders, writers, and scholars have embarked on a campaign of intellectual erasure, which Mr. Gold calls "Temple Denial," aimed at undermining the Jewish claim to any part of the land.
Mr. Gold's argument, therefore, comes down to this: Jerusalem cannot be divided without being effectively sacked — with its Jewish and Christian holy places cut off and even destroyed. … (New York Sun)
Muslims deny the existence of the Jewish Temple today; however it is very obvious that is Islamic Supremacist racism. The Jerusalem Waqf of 1925 printed a travel brochure that asserted the Temple Mount was Jewish and that the Jewish Temple existed on the Temple Mount.
There have been tons of artifacts and archeological discoveries that also prove the existence of the Temple. One of the most recent was the discovery of the Hasmonean Jerusalem wall. The Hasmonean dynasty started out well with the Maccabean revolt against Greek/Syrian oppressive rule which one the day and rededicated the Temple. The Maccabean revolt had some miraculous occurrences involving the rededication of the Jewish Temple which is today celebrated as Hanukkah. The Hasmonean wall proves the existence of the Temple.
The Mohammedan denial of the existence of the Temple will lead to Islamofascist actions that history shows will occur. The Jerusalem Church of the Holy Sepulcher will be heavily oppressed if not destroyed AND total control of the Temple Mount by Mohammedans will result in the eradication of that which is Jewish not to mention the prohibition of Jews to visit the Western Wall of the remains of the Temple.
It is a bad scenario. DO NOT DIVIDE JERUSALEM! DO NOT GIVE TOTAL CONTROL OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT TO MOHAMMEDANS!
JRH 9/6/08
Check this out:
Don Bordenkircher – who served two years as national director of prison and jail operations in Iraq– told WND that about 40 prisoners he spoke with "boasted of being involved in the transport of WMD warheads to Syria.
A smaller number of prisoners, he said, claimed "they knew the locations of the missile hulls buried in Iraq."
This is not the first inklings of the actual existence of Iraqi WMD. Former high level military officials of Saddam Hussein like Georges Sada (Find Georges Sada on page) have said the WMD were moved to Syria. Dave Gaubatz which was part of a team sent to Iraq to look for WMD pointed the finger where to look; however he was mysteriously ignored.
Many of these people (American teams, former Hussein regime individuals, Israeli Intelligence and so on) have all had pretty credible evidence via spoken corroboration. Obviously most of these finger pointers have their own agenda for going public; nonetheless there are simply way too many people to ignore.
So here is the mystery I can’t wrap my mind around: With all the criticism the Bush Administration has been hammered with which led to the expulsion of Republican control of Congress in 2006; why has not the Bush Administration been more opportunistic to point to these sources for vindication?
Another mystery: What’s with the Duelfer Report that dismisses all this information as irrelevant publicly saying there were no WMD in Iraq?
Has the government become so polarized politically between Left and Right that a total lack of cooperation exists to mutually justify an Iraqi invasion? Is the Bush Administration the victim of American government scandal in the amount of support militarily given to Saddam Hussein prior to Iraq War 1 or prior to Iraq War 2 (or both)? Would the public information be so embarrassing to the American government (which would include Bush 1 and the Clinton years) that GW Bush is willing to be the target of a Left that knows it can get away with lies?
It is a mystery that I hope I live long enough for history to report all the cloak and dagger background concerning Saddam Hussein, America and WMD.
JRH 7/31/08
Here is a classic example of the paradox of the Bush Administration. The Administration is obviously committed to fighting the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) or American troops would not be in Afghanistan and Iraq with some saber rattling toward Iran to boot.
The paradox is the Bush Administration is wooing Sunni Mohammedan nations that have been unofficially exporters of Islamist doctrine to Middle Eastern terrorists and to the West in a play to build an Arabic consensus against Iranian hegemonic designs. Most of Iran’s client States and terrorists are Shi’ite.
As part of this Arabic wooing the Bush Administration has come under the delusion that establishing a sovereign Arab nation called Palestine with land that is historically part of the Land of Israel AND won as the result of Arab invasions attempting to eradicate Israel will bring both peace and Arabic support for America against the psycho Iranian Ayatollahs and Shi’ites.
And so Secretary of State Condi Rice has harshly criticized Israeli plans to build dwellings for Jews in Eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank as counter productive to establishing that sovereign Arab nation called Palestine.
The Yahoo News article I read this at is entirely slanted to the Arabs that call themselves Palestinians with such expressions as land “won” by Israel in the 1967 war without mentioning the land was won resulting from a victory of an invading enemy bent on destroying Israel from the face of the earth.
Hello! The land won is the price the Arabs must pay for their continuous invasions of Israel. The land was lost by Arabs by Arab aggression and Israel won land that is part of their heritage. The Mohammedan claim that the land has always been Mohammedan is as delirious as the Mormon belief that the lost tribes of Israel came to America and became the Native Americans. The claims are pure historical theo-political lies to justify the death cult’s eradication of Judaism from the land that Mohammedans themselves conquered in war centuries earlier from Christian Byzantines and then non-Mohammedan Persians.
The Bush Administration needs to cut the crap and support the ONLY Western Style Democracy in the Middle East and quite dealings with Islamofascist Arab-Palestine terrorists and Islamic nations as if they are victims when in actuality they are aggressors.
