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steen said:http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040420-2.html
(April 20, 20)
Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. It's important for our fellow citizens to understand, when you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the Constitution.
So he values the Constitution? Sure seems like he lied.
http://www.studentsfororwell.org/War Is Peace
In order to fight terrorism, we must cause it, says Donald Rumsfeld.
It's okay that there were no “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq; that's not why we went to war.
“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.” — George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
Freedom Is Slavery
The Anti-Terrorism Act ensures US citizens' freedom by ensuring the FBI's ability to examine their activities.
Security cameras have been placed around the Columbia campus and around the island of Manhattan.
We encourage all true citizens of this country to join Operation TIPS, which, we promise, will help further an Orwellian society in ways that we at SOS cannot even begin to fathom.
While Victory Gin is not (as far as we know) yet available, the sale of freedom fries is an important first step; freedom fries and freedom toast are also now available in Congress. Also, check out Victory Beer, and W Ketchup
The truly Orwellian and praiseworthy Transportation Safety Administration gets our thanks for spotting anti-Americanism in passengers' baggage.
On surveillance cameras: “The value we gain in public safety far outweighs any perception by the community that this is Big Brother who's watching.” — Ron Huberman, Executive Director, Chicago Office of Emergency Management
Wearing a t-shirt which says “Protect Our Civil Liberties” is, of course, obscene, and will get you kicked out of Bush campaign rallies.
George Orwell Plaza, in Barcelona, has continuous closed-circuit television recording.
Ignorance Is Strength
Osama bin Laden's messages will no longer be shown in Oceania. This will improve the strength of the bloc.
There is no dissent in this country. Those who disagree with President Bush are merely confused.
The New York Times published an excellent piece of doublethink in its magazine section on Sunday 18 November. It is bad that Al-Jazeera fails to take American positions seriously. It is good that American media doesn't take Arab positions seriously. And all this from an Arab-American scholar who President Bush the First once called “more anti-Arab than the Israelis.”
Government agencies are requesting that certain government reports be removed from public libraries. An excellent indication that SOS is having influence at the highest levels!
The Guardian reports that PR firms have begun creating false citizens to try and shift the debate on certain key issues. Big Brother is certainly pleased!
Do not wear a “Give Peace a Chance” t-shirt at the mall, or carry a protest sign when passing through. It may be illegal.
It's good to know that the recent pro-war rallies have been sponsored by Clear Channel—we wouldn't want people expressing their opinions without the help of media conglomerates!
We're pleased to learn that the government has been removing information from websites which do not agree with the current administration's policies.
For example, the CDC's website no longer points out that condoms are an effective means of stopping sexually transmitted diseases.
Thanks, Time Magazine for removing articles from your website!
Reading an article critical of the government is a serious form of thoughtcrime—and, fortunately, the FBI takes such things seriously!
Do not email President Bush.
Youths in Arabic-speaking countries are encouraged to read Hi Magazine.
A recent study showed that thanks to Fox News and other Minitrue news sources, most Americans believe untrue things about the war in Iraq.
We are proud to present a special report on a specific instance of doublethink in the New York Times.
The FBI urges you not to carry almanacs, lest you be labeled a terrorist.
The Civil War will not be taught in US History courses in Georgia.
“Those who cast the votes decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything.” — Stalin, a man truly ahead of his time.
In the grandest pro-Orwellian tradition, science is (fortunately) no longer a tool for objective truth, but rather one to promote an agenda. Huzzah!
hipsterdufus said:
Stace said:Oooh that cracked me up!!!
But yeah, Bush lied, nothing new there, I've been saying it for 5 years now.....
At least "no one died when Clinton lied".....no one got their civil liberties taken away, either... :mrgreen:
Stace said:Oooh that cracked me up!!!
But yeah, Bush lied, nothing new there, I've been saying it for 5 years now.....
At least "no one died when Clinton lied".....no one got their civil liberties taken away, either... :mrgreen:
SixStringHero said:IIRC people did in fact die when we went into the Balkans to remove Milosevec from power and were given the pretext that we would find mass graves.
Did this constitute a lie?
People did die under Clinton.
SixStringHero said:IIRC people did in fact die when we went into the Balkans to remove Milosevec from power and were given the pretext that we would find mass graves.
Did this constitute a lie?
People did die under Clinton.
Stace said:That wasn't what I was talking about, so, moving on.......
tecoyah said:Unbelievable....are you really so blinded by supposed patriotism as to reach this far into someones statement for a straw to grasp onto....I mean.....please. Of course people died under Clinton, freakin' Duh. People die under every administration....that is obviously not the point, regardless of how hard you attmpt to sideline the actual discussion.
SixStringHero said:I only brought this up because I find the 'No one died when Clinton lied' mantra highly ignorant.
steen said:I do find it odd, how conservatives SEVEN years after are still fixated on Clinton. It is almost as if, by keeping on talking about him, they can avoid thinking about the many lies shrub has told and the many of America's finest that he has let be killed for haliburton's oil profits
SixStringHero said:First off, I'm not a conservative.
And while you brought it up....Were you up in arms about Clinton's no bid contracts that were given to Haliburton in the Balkans?
steen said:I do find it odd, how conservatives SEVEN years after are still fixated on Clinton. It is almost as if, by keeping on talking about him, they can avoid thinking about the many lies shrub has told and the many of America's finest that he has let be killed for haliburton's oil profits
steen said:I do find it odd, how conservatives SEVEN years after are still fixated on Clinton. It is almost as if, by keeping on talking about him, they can avoid thinking about the many lies shrub has told and the many of America's finest that he has let be killed for haliburton's oil profits
A war pushed by the inner circle from even before bush got into office, with enormous windfalls to oil friends of the administration. That it just happened to soon have cost as many of the lives of America's bravest as the 9/11 attack, based solely on lying excuses? What do you mean about "smarter than that"? The president is a corrupt crook who sold American lives for his friends' profits.The Real McCoy said:Common steen, you're smarter than that.
hipsterdufus said:
steen said:http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040420-2.html
(April 20, 20)
Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. It's important for our fellow citizens to understand, when you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the Constitution.
So he values the Constitution? Sure seems like he lied.
tecoyah said:OK...so....in summary....Bill Clinton lied.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled debate on the current president, and whether or not...HE...lied.
My opinion.....Yup, He did.
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December 2005
Who Is Lying About Iraq?
Norman Podhoretz
The main “lie” that George W. Bush is accused of telling us is that Saddam Hussein possessed an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, or WMD as they have invariably come to be called...
George Tenet, his own CIA director, assured him that the case was “a slam dunk.” This phrase would later become notorious, but in using it, Tenet had the backing of all fifteen agencies involved in gathering intelligence for the United States.
The intelligence agencies of Britain, Germany, Russia, China, Israel, and—yes—France all agreed with this judgment. And even Hans Blix lent further credibility to the case in a report he issued only a few months before the invasion:
The discovery of a number of 122-mm chemical rocket warheads in a bunker at a storage depot 170 km southwest of Baghdad was much publicized. This was a relatively new bunker, and therefore the rockets must have been moved there in the past few years, at a time when Iraq should not have had such munitions. . . . They could also be the tip of a submerged iceberg. The discovery of a few rockets does not resolve but rather points to the issue of several thousands of chemical rockets that are unaccounted for.
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Lawrence Wilkerson:
I can’t tell you why the French, the Germans, the Brits, and us thought that most of the material, if not all of it, that we presented at the UN on 5 February 2003 was the truth. I can’t. I’ve wrestled with it. [But] when you see a satellite photograph of all the signs of the chemical-weapons ASP—Ammunition Supply Point—with chemical weapons, and you match all those signs with your matrix on what should show a chemical ASP, and they’re there, you have to conclude that it’s a chemical ASP, especially when you see the next satellite photograph which shows the UN inspectors wheeling in their white vehicles with black markings on them to that same ASP, and everything is changed, everything is clean. . . . But George [Tenet] was convinced, John McLaughlin [Tenet’s deputy] was convinced, that what we were presented [for Powell’s UN speech] was accurate.
“The consensus of the intelligence community,” as Wilkerson puts it, “was overwhelming” in the period leading up to the invasion of Iraq that Saddam definitely had an arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, and that he was also in all probability well on the way to rebuilding the nuclear capability that the Israelis had damaged by bombing the Osirak reactor in 1981.
Kenneth Pollack, who served in the National Security Council under Clinton:
I participated in a Washington meeting about Iraqi WMD. Those present included nearly twenty former inspectors from the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), the force established in 1991 to oversee the elimination of WMD in Iraq. One of the senior people put a question to the group: did anyone in the room doubt that Iraq was currently operating a secret centrifuge plant? No one did. Three people added that they believed Iraq was also operating a secret calutron plant (a facility for separating uranium isotopes).
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Clinton in 1998:
If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons-of-mass-destruction program.
Secretary of State Madeline Albright, in 1998:
Iraq is a long way from [the USA], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risk that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.
Sandy Berger, Clinton’s National Security Adviser:
He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.
Clinton’s Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, was so sure Saddam had stockpiles of WMD that he remained “absolutely convinced” of it even after our failure to find them in the wake of the invasion in March 2003.
Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, and John Kerry, urged the President to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq’s refusal to end its weapons-of-mass-destruction programs.
Nancy Pelosi, the future leader of the Democrats in the House, and then a member of the House Intelligence Committee:
Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons-of-mass-destruction technology, which is a threat to countries in the region, and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process...
Bob Graham:
There is no doubt that . . . Saddam Hussein has invigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical, and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf war status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies.
Senator Carl Levin also reaffirmed for Bush’s benefit what he had told Clinton some years earlier: Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations, and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, October 2002:
In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical- and biological-weapons stock, his missile-delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al-Qaeda members.
Senator Jay Rockefeller, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee:
There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years. . . . We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction.
Al Gore in September 2002:
We know that [Saddam] has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.
Gore again, in that same year:
Iraq’s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter, and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.
John Kerry, speaking in 2002:
I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force—if necessary—to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.
Ted Kennedy: We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.
Robert Byrd: The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical- and biological-warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons.
Editorials in the New York Times repeatedly insisted that without further outside intervention, Iraq should be able to rebuild weapons and missile plants within a year [and] future military attacks may be required to diminish the arsenal again.
The Times was also skeptical of negotiations, pointing out that it was hard to negotiate with a tyrant who has no intention of honoring his commitments and who sees nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons as his country’s salvation.
The Washington Post: [o]f all the booby traps left behind by the Clinton administration, none is more dangerous—or more urgent—than the situation in Iraq. Over the last year, Mr. Clinton and his team quietly avoided dealing with, or calling attention to, the almost complete unraveling of a decade’s efforts to isolate the regime of Saddam Hussein and prevent it from rebuilding its weapons of mass destruction. That leaves President Bush to confront a dismaying panorama in the Persian Gulf [where] intelligence photos . . . show the reconstruction of factories long suspected of producing chemical and biological weapons.3
Another fallback charge is that Bush, operating mainly through Cheney, somehow forced the CIA into telling him what he wanted to hear. Yet in its report of 2004, the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, while criticizing the CIA for relying on what in hindsight looked like weak or faulty intelligence, stated that it did not find any evidence that administration officials attempted to coerce, influence, or pressure analysts to change their judgments related to Iraq’s weapons-of-mass-destruction capabilities...
One more good one:
1 Hard as it is to believe, let alone to reconcile with his general position, Joseph C. Wilson, IV, in a speech he delivered three months after the invasion at the Education for Peace in Iraq Center, offhandedly made the following remark: “I remain of the view that we will find biological and chemical weapons and we may well find something that indicates that Saddam’s regime maintained an interest in nuclear weapons.”
tecoyah said:You mean this Right:
Then, in February 2003, the Corps of Engineers gave Halliburton a temporary no-bid contract to implement its classified oil-fire plan. The thinking was it would be absurd to undertake the drawn-out contracting process on the verge of war. If the administration had done that and there had been catastrophic fires, it would now be considered evidence of insufficient postwar planning. And Halliburton was an obvious choice, since it put out 350 oil-well fires in Kuwait after the first Gulf War.
The Clinton administration made the same calculation in its own dealings with Halliburton. The company had won the LOGCAP in 1992, then lost it in 1997. The Clinton administration nonetheless awarded a no-bid contract to Halliburton to continue its work in the Balkans supporting the U.S. peacekeeping mission there because it made little sense to change midstream. According to Byron York, Al Gore's reinventing-government panel even singled out Halliburton for praise for its military logistics work.
No one cared in the least...as no one knew. And had they it likely wouldnt have been a big deal. But, there wasnt an acting VP making money off the deal either. The perception here is important, regardless of any shady deals or not. By placing themselves in a position to be questioned through deductive reasoning, the Administration is getting what was inevitable.
I dont know if there is corruption going on here....but I sure as hell want to find out. And the smoke and mirrors used to fog the issue really shakes my confidence in the honesty of those in power.
Trajan Octavian Titus said:That's an outright lie Cheney recieves no money from Halliburton except for his pension of which the amount doesn't change if Halliburton is more successful, and guess what Cheney does with his pension, he gives it to charity. You want to know who gets profits from Halliburton??? Michael Moore owns stock in Halliburton, it's a fact look it up.
hipsterdufus said:I wish I had stock in Haliburton back in 2004.
Graph released by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Cheneys stock options rose over 3000% last year.
Can't you see the conflict of interest in the VP / former Ceo of Haliburton granting multi-billion dollar contracts to his former company.
Where is the data that he gives all of this money to charity?
Even if true, he can change his mind at any time.
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