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Bush, In Essence, Accuses the Top 16 Intelligence Agencies for the United States of Spreading Terrorist Propaganda

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 10/02/2006 - 6:23am.
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

According to Bob Woodward’s (personal and professional turnaround) blockbuster, "State of Denial," Bush has declared about Iraq: "I will not withdraw even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me."

There are far more implications to this statement than its juvenile petulance and adult hubris. Far more even than Bush, in essence, holding America hostage – and allowing the deaths of GIs and Iraqis to continue – because he is not man enough to admit a grave mistake.

You see, he has lately been touring the nation declaring that anyone who claims that the Iraq war has increased the number of terrorists or the threat of terrorism is echoing the propaganda of the terrorists. That would make such people individuals who aid and abet terrorism.

According to a September 30, Associated Press report: "Bush said Friday critics who claim the Iraq War has made America less safe embrace ‘the enemy's propaganda.’

"’You do not create terrorism by fighting terrorism,’ he told a receptive military audience. ‘If that ever becomes the mind-set of the policymakers in Washington, it means we'll go back to the old days of waiting to be attacked - and then respond.’ Bush said Friday critics who claim the Iraq War has made America less safe embrace ‘the enemy's propaganda.’"

In short (although he implies that people are misreading the National Intelligence Estimate in question), Bush is asserting that the top 16 spy agencies in the United States are hapless tools of the "terrorists." Remember that these intelligence agencies were all revamped to make us "safer," according to Bush’s past "assurances."

Yet, they have come to the same conclusions that many of our former and present top military leaders have reached: Iraq has increased the threat of terrorism and become a recruiting ground and "cause celebre" for terrorists. The U.S. is to Iraq what the Soviet Union was to Afghanistan in the 1980s.

It is Bush against the top intelligent agencies in the United States. It is Bush against military experts who have known combat (which no one in the top pro-Iraq War tier in the Bush Administration has experienced). It is Bush against the Iraqis, because 60% of them, according to a recent poll reported in the Washington Post, support attacks on our GIs. That’s right, 60% of the people who Cheney and Bush claim that we "liberated" want our soldiers to die.

It is Bush against the American people, only 20% of whom believe that the Iraq War is going well.

It is Bush against the world.

Here is a man who came in to office with nothing but failure on his resume. His only accomplishments in life that he achieved on his own were that he says he found Christ and stopped being an alcoholic at 40 (and we only have his word for both those milestones).

That’s a pretty thin resume to be second guessing the unanimous findings of America’s intelligence community, many of the top military leaders who have led the fight in Iraq, and the Iraqi and American people.

We repeat, the majority of Iraqis support the killing of our GIs. This is not speculation. It was in the Washington Post, which has been a firm supporter of the Iraq War.

Bush’s pledge to retreat into a bunker with Laura and his dog Barney is something you expect from a toddler, not a president.

We live in perilous times, and we are led by a guy whose response to 9/11 was to continue reading "My Pet Goat."

This is the stuff dark comedy is made of, but this is not dark comedy.

It’s a tragedy, and we are all players on the stage.

Only it is not a drama.

It is our lives that are in the hands of this dangerously foolish, psychologically stunted, and stubborn man.

We all are indeed inhabitants of a "state of denial."

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

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Pending: The Bush Purge Trials

Submitted by crackerjack on Mon, 10/02/2006 - 4:45pm.

Who'd of thought that Bush's own intelligence agencies, just like Joseph Stalin's military seventy years ago, would go over to the enemy. Stalin responded with his infamous purge trials. What will Bush do?

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MAY YOU

Submitted by mdruss42 on Mon, 10/02/2006 - 1:47pm.

LIVE IN INTRESTING TIMES.....The Chinese curse has struck again, Zorro, and you and I will live with it.......because we, as we the people, made it happen. We are the government, not George Bush and his gang....they work at our behest....if we did not want what they and others have done over the last 50 or 60 years, whether we bothered to know it or not, we will still live with the fallout. We can wail,moan and carry on, or we can wish the rest of the world who does not move in lock step with us dead.......but we will live with the fallout.

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Our Republic, Res Publica and Things Secret

Submitted by euthyfro on Mon, 10/02/2006 - 1:39pm.

I don’t know how many of you watched Bob Woodwards interview on 60 Minutes this Sunday, but when He said it was “the oldest story” of covering politics, he made an understatement. I’m sure I’m one of few people in the country (or the world for that matter) who thought first and foremost of Plato, the father of western philosophy. While, in his Sokratic Dialogues, he preserved for us what is still the most effective method of discerning the answer to such questions as: what is good? What is virtue?, it is in his later writings (The Republic, The Statesman, and Politics), but especially The Republic that his own view of philosophy is presented. When studying Ancient Greek in college I was introduced to a new way of looking at Plato, where the meaning of his works are looked at as presenting different meanings to different audiences, an exoteric one meant for general readership and an esoteric hidden meaning for his serious students. Even without getting into the nuances of the Ancient Greek language we can easily see a rift between the open, anti-dogmatic Sokrates and his student.
In The Republic, Plato gives us the plan for a “perfect” state. It is one in which an upper-class of warrior-citizens wields complete political power to protect the vast majority of people supporting them. It was an ancient blueprint for a Fascist state and it was meant only for his students that would make up the warrior-citizen class, for the rest, the Sokratic Dialogues, a guide to communal understanding through the free exchange of ideas.
No wonder then, that Plato was the favourite philosopher of Leo Strauss, progenitor of the Neo-conservatives now running our government. No wonder that all official public statements reassure us that the war in Iraq is going well and matters will get better while all the “classified” NIEs and inter-governmental memos tell a very different story. How many of our “public servants” are career politicians? How many the sons of politicians or drawn from the ranks of millionaires? Plato has won, the Sokratic ideal of open dialogue leading to an understanding of the greatest questions we can ask has been left two thousand four hundred and five years ago in our murky past.

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Conjecture!

Submitted by zorro on Mon, 10/02/2006 - 12:28pm.

None of you read the entire NIE. What gives? You guys are fired up for nothing. Besides, let the sunnis kill the shiites and vice-versa and before long the peace in Iraq will prevail. And, doing it that way will result in less jihadists to threaten us. :)

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How Christian of you...

Submitted by Lee Franklin on Mon, 10/02/2006 - 1:22pm.

"Besides, let the sunnis kill the shiites and vice-versa and before long the peace in Iraq will prevail."

The problem seems to be, based on conclusions from our collective intel-gathering folks: the longer we stay in Iraq following the course, the worse things get. So, we should stay, getting killed ourselves and making things worse for ourselves for decades to come, until the Iraqis all suicide? Against each other and us?

Brilliant.

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You drive?

Submitted by zorro on Mon, 10/02/2006 - 1:34pm.

It's strategic - We need the oil. You and I burn oil for heat and driving. it's your fault and mine. We have to stay there indefinitely.

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Conjecture?

Submitted by willymack on Mon, 10/02/2006 - 12:54pm.

None of us has read the entire NIE beacuse it isn't available for us to read. Not even Congress has been allowed to see it all. One FACT that hasn't been "classified" or redacted is that all 16 intelligence orgainzations, composed of people who KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT, said the same thing: that our "war against terror" is a dismal failure, and only creating more terrorists. To wave the obvious facts aside and insult capable people with the best interests of our country in mind is a sure sign of childish petulance if not outright pathology.

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Not at all

Submitted by zorro on Mon, 10/02/2006 - 1:11pm.

At least 5,000 al Qaida terrorists died. I believe at least 70% of their leadership is gone. The killing in Iraq is vendetta between sunnis and shiites. :)

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Bush is good friends with Saudi terrorists

Submitted by dorispatrick on Mon, 10/02/2006 - 10:48am.

Bush has said many, many times that the Saudis are his good friends. The Saudis heavily fund terrorism and teach Muslim children in the USA to hate Americans. Bush imprisons our Marines on the words of the enemy in a war! Bush is not working to benefit our nation. The military men who speak out are heroes. They are absolutely correct. the Bush administration is treasonous- from the war to our borders to SPP. Treasonous!

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We've been here before

Submitted by marlow on Mon, 10/02/2006 - 10:43am.

Hitler made a big mistake and could'nt own up to it, even when the Soviets were practically standing on top of his bunker. Thousands of children sent to the front to die. These things tend not to end pretty...

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State of Affirmation

Submitted by Victor on Mon, 10/02/2006 - 8:59am.

You know, as it's sovereigns, we the People can still uphold our Constitution regardless. And as for the After-the-fact; Don't Tell, Don't Ask; TORTURE ACT, it's just a gaddam piece of paper! So what'll it be People, Thought Heard Round the World or another SHOT? Cheers. YANK FREE!

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Evil or.....

Submitted by tseving on Mon, 10/02/2006 - 7:59am.

I have long thought of Bush as simply an evil man. Given the revelations in Woodward's book, I can't help but question whether or not he is a psychopath.
tseving
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Evil Man

Submitted by clyde paige on Mon, 10/02/2006 - 10:55am.

Not only is Bush a psychopath he has no idea of what is going on. Here is a quote from Bush I DON'T HAVE THE FOGGIEST IDEA ABOUT WHAT I THINK ABOUT INTERNATIONAL FOREIGN POLICY. YET HE IS DECIDING TO REMAKE THE MIDDLE EAST AND ALTER THE COURSE OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY.Bush should be impeached and tried as a war criminal

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Sociopath

Submitted by VettaKing on Mon, 10/02/2006 - 8:48am.

He's definitely a sociopath. Nothing in his history suggests he has the slightest ability to relate to other human beings in a civilized or respectful manner. Just look how mad he gets everytime someone asks him a legitimate question. You can see the anger in his eyes. The fact that any other person even has the right to question him is completely out of line in his world view.

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