The Shocking Truth – Nuclear War With Iran The Talk in Cathedral Square, Christchurch
...People with impeccable credentials have written that the so-called terrorist attack on New York and the Pentagon on Sept 9, 2001 was an inside job. Also, that the so-called al-Qaeda terrorists were really pawns in a much bigger conspiracy, organised by the Bush Administration to create a new enemy and justify their global crusade and wars against terrorism.

Laura S. Washington, In These Times
An unnerving new book takes a close look at America's long, dark history of imperialism.

The Bush administration's jihad against newspapers that reported on a secret program to monitor the personal banking records of unsuspecting citizens is more important than the original story. For what the president and his spokesmen are once again asserting is that the prosecution of this ill-defined, open-ended "war on terror" inevitably trumps basic democratic rights in general and the constitutionally enshrined freedom of the press in particular.
The stakes are very high here. We've already been told that we must put up with official lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the unprecedented torture of prisoners of war and a massive electronic-eavesdropping program and other invasions of privacy. Now the target is more basic -- the freedom of the press to report on such nefarious government activities. The argument in defense of this assault on freedom is the familiar refrain of dictators, wannabe and real, who grasp for power at the expense of democracy: We are in a war with an enemy so powerful and devious that we cannot afford the safeguard of transparent and accountable governance.    The reporting of the truth is now to be made illegal !!!

Recently founded in Oakland, Calif., Courage to Resist is one of several organizations around the country trying to stop the Iraq war by focusing on those ordered to wage it.
http://tinyurl.com/ov2xo

"I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve our aggression. My oath of office is to protect and defend America's laws and its people. By refusing unlawful orders for an illegal war, I fulfill that oath today." - U.S. Army First Lt. Ehren Watada
http://www.thankyoult.org/

Famous independent journalists tell us how our mass media make wars possible.
John Pilger said: "journalists have played a critical role in sustaining wars. Starting them and sustaining them" and that "there's almost an obsession, on controlling what journalists have to say...what we're getting is a massive censorship by omission"...The war in Vietnam .."was an invasion...huge numbers of civilians were killed. And in effect it was a war against civilians and that was never told and that's exactly true of Iraq."

Normalizing the Unthinkable

John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Charlie Glass, and Seymour Hersh on the failure of the world's press
The late journalist Edward R. Murrow might well have been rolling in his grave on April 21. That's because Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a lecture that day in Washington, DC to journalists at the Department of State's official Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists.

As well as the Haditha dead victims of U.S. 'Democracy' some 250,000 innocent men, women and children in Iraq have experienced the direct fruits of U.S. democracy from the barrels of U.S. guns, the U.S. bombs dropped on them, and the destruction of their homes.. This is the 'democracy-in-action' that Bush is determined to continue at any cost, as his West Point speech indicates.

As details of the atrocities in Haditha continue to surface in the media, it is clear that George Bush is either completely divorced from reality or simply incapable of grasping the catastrophe he has created. In fact, he is as culpable in the deaths of the “24 unarmed Iraqis” as if he had put the gun to their heads' and shot them one by one.

Dahr Jamail shows that the U.S. Marines slaughter in Haditha is part of the systematic U.S. direct and indirect slaughter of up to 250,000 civilian men, women and children all over Iraq. As with the tortures at Abu Ghraib, there will be a few low-ranking soldiers convicted and people will be conditioned to think the culprits have been punished.
But the architects of this war, and many similar but unreported Hadithas, and wars to follow, will escape scot-free. Bush & Co by their barbaric tortures and slaughter are creating a seed-bed and training ground for terrorism where none existed before.
All 'Coalition of the Willing' allies, including Tony Blair and John Howard, are tarred with this brush.
The effects and consequences of their foul deeds will seep into their own societies.

Countless My Lai Massacres in Iraq

"On Saturday, May 13th, 2006, at 10:00 p.m., US Forces accompanied by the Iraqi National Guard attacked the houses of Iraqi people in the Al-Latifya district south of Baghdad by an intensive helicopter shelling. This led the families to flee to the Al-Mazar and water canals to protect themselves from the fierce shelling. Then seven helicopters landed to pursue the families who fled … and killed them.   The number of victims amounted to more than 25 martyrs. US forces detained another six persons including two women named Israa Ahmed Hasan and Widad Ahmed Hasan, and a child named Huda Hitham Mohammed Hasan, whose father was killed during the shelling."

...In the opinion of many, the U.S. is governed by a criminal conspiracy that has also become an administration  of war criminals, using lies to con their people and congress into supporting an illegal and unjustifiable war on Iraq. Having killed, tortured or imprisoned up to 250,000 Iraqis for no justifiable reason, the Bush Administration has established that it is capable of committing any crime.

An inability to protect its citizens. The belief that it is above the law. A lack of democracy. Three defining characteristics of the 'failed state'. And that, says Noam Chomsky, is exactly what the US is becoming. In an exclusive extract from his devastating new book, America's leading thinker explains how his country lost its way

The terrible cost in murdered, tortured, raped, imprisoned and wounded children in Iraq adds to the  multiplying war crimes of Bush, Blair and Howard in their illegal and deceitful invasion, continuing slaughter and occupation of Iraq.  And the war criminals are so terribly proud of the murderous mayhem they have created for no legitimate reason. Endlessly they pat each other on the back for the great job they are doing in bringing 'democracy and freedom' to the poor oppressed Iraqis, while they joyfully slaughter the innocents.

Easily Dispensable: Iraq's Children

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society. - Joan Ganz Cooney
If, as I would like to believe, the above quote suggests all children and not merely those born in Western democracies, I am no longer certain that we live in a civilized society.
That women and children suffer the most during times of war is not a new phenomenon. It is a reality as old as war itself. What Rumsfeld, Rice and other war criminals of the Cheney administration prefer to call "collateral damage" translates in English as the inexcusable murder of and other irreparable harm done to women, children and the elderly during any military offensive.

The so-called "war on terrorism" is actually a war on the Iraq people and the destruction of their country. From the beginning of the war in 2003. the U.S. reasons to justify this war were known to be lies. There were no WMD, no nuclear weapons programme, no links to al-Qaeda and Osama bin laden, and  no Iraq plans to attack the U.S. or U.K. From the beginning, the war was the most colossal fraud any American administration has every foisted on their own people. After destroying most of the Iraqi infrastructure, the Bush Administration made a big show about rebuilding Iraq and restoring all facilities including, electricity, sewage, bridges, hospitals, water etc. Many billions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury were made available for this work. In fact it was never effectively done. Most of the money was siphoned off by corruption, no-bid, cost-plus contracts, shoddy and incomplete work and so on.

After five months of confusion, bickering, dickering, dithering, and strong-arm tactics from Zalmay Khalilzad, our ambassador to Iraq and various high American officials arriving on the fly, Prime Minister-designate Nouri al-Maliki has reportedly chosen his cabinet and a government will evidently be established in Baghdad's Green Zone. At the moment, its reach seems unlikely to extend much beyond the American-protected berms and fortifications of that citadel-mini-state. In the meantime, what governmental authority still existed in Iraq seems to be rapidly on the wane -- and not just in largely Sunni areas of the country either. (In parts of Sunni al-Anbar province, however, according to Mathieu Guidère and Peter Harling of Le Monde Diplomatique, control seems to be passing into other "governing" hands: "A formal procedure is in place for lorry drivers to pay an insurance fee [to insurgent groups] that allows them to cross the governorate, as long as they are not supplying the enemy.")

Secret contract deals , fraud, ineptitude and shoddy work costing billions of dollars have been a centerpiece of our troubles in Iraq since the eve of the 2003 invasion.
Suspicions of favoritism began with Halliburton and its small $2 million task order to extinguish possible oil well fires that Saddam Hussein might ignite to dispirit coalition forces. The contract quickly steamrolled into a no-bid multi-billion deal to repair Iraq's oil infrastructure once the March 2003 invasion was complete.

Dahr Jamail's article is real news about the American genocide in Iraq. It may shock and horrify you. You may wonder what Bush and his neocons hope to achieve by their systematic, murder, torture, and imprisonments of  innocent Iraqis. This horrifying mass murder is sold by Bush's, Tony Blair's and John Howard's propaganda machines, including the mass media in the U.S., U.K. and Australia as "bringing democracy to the middle east" and that the only opponents are "terrorists etc" The media will never mention the horrific reality revealed by this fearless, on-the-spot reporter.
Would you like to help stop these outrages? There really is no end to what a seriously concerned person can do.

    "Dear Mr. Dahr, I am wondering why? Americans and coalition forces were supported by pro-Iranian Militias, like the Badr Organization! The support and help of Iraqi Shiites at first helped to somewhat stabilize and maintain the occupation. Death squads trained by the coalition forces are working day and night under cover of the Ministry of Interior, attacking innocent people: both Sunnis and Shiites!!!! In spite of knowing very well who is doing what, we still see no improvement in the security situation. On the contrary, the situation is getting worse.

Here is another good comment on Dahr Jamail's article and the expected U.S. war on Iran. He raises the question as to why the Europeans seem to be playing Bush's game and why IAEA's El Baradei is not warning about Bush's intentions to use nuclear weapons. The international community seems to be fiddling and game playing while Bush is planning a major war, even nuclear war. Why?

"It is only when more people in the US begin to fathom the totality of the destruction in Iraq," writes Dahr Jamail, "that one may expect to hear the public outcry and uprising necessary to end the occupation and bring to justice the war criminals responsible for these conditions. Until that happens, make no mistake: all of us participate in a new Iraq, our hands dyed in the blood of innocents."

The mental hospitals have many patients who believe they are in direct contact with God - that God is telling them things and instructing them to take certain actions. When they act out these heavenly delusions and take the action that they think God has instructed them to take, often it involves violence against others. The law then sees these people as a danger to themselves, family and community and has them placed in a hospital for treatment.
When a world leader like George Bush has such delusions, that involve attacking other states without any provocation or excuse, the world is seriously threatened. When the leaders' delusion is physically expressed as invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq and perhaps Iran to come, the delusions are widely believed to be based on facts, and therefore justified.

LONDON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush allegedly said God told him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan , a new BBC documentary will reveal, according to details released here.
Bush made the claim when he met Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas and then foreign minister Nabil Shaath in June 2003, the ministers told the documentary series to be broadcast in Britain later this month.
The US leader also told them he had been ordered by God to create a Palestinian state, the ministers said Friday.
Shaath, now the Palestinian information minister, said: " President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God.

Many insiders believe the 9/11 attack was a U.S. covert action to rally public support for the Iraq war. Now they think a new 9/11 will be staged by the Bush Administration to boost Bush's flagging popularity, help win the November/06 elections for Bush supporters, suppress dissent, and gain public support for a war on Iran - probably using nuclear weapons. The following article shows how real American patriots are putting themselves on the line by exposing the treacheries and crimes of the Bush Administration. This shocking and overwhelming reality should become known by many more people if we are to help prevent  terrible catastrophes.

It Costs Nothing to be a Patriot

Amount of credible state terror whistleblowers reflects unbelievable enlightenment progress since 9/11
The past year has witnessed a groundswell of support for controversial truths from credible individuals across the political spectrum.
We tread on fertile ground and the climate has never been more welcoming of what would otherwise be considered difficult realities.
In the face of despair born of a world in constant swirling turmoil, we need to regularly remind ourselves of the fact that many hands make light work and slowly but surely we are gaining momentum and having an increasingly indelible effect.

Scott Ritter gives a detailed account of U.S. preparations and plans to strike at Iran before June/05. Obviously this has been postponed for unknown reasons. As Iran will retaliate against U.S. attack, the situation could very easily escalate and involve China and Russia. A sudden global nuclear exchange could result. It's so obvious, why is Europe so compliant and people so passive and silent in the face of global nuclear disaster which would kill and maim billions?

Late last year, in the aftermath of the 2004 Presidential election, I was contacted by someone close to the Bush administration about the situation in Iraq.
There was a growing concern inside the Bush administration, this source said, about the direction the occupation was going.

NEW YORK -- Tens of thousands of protesters marched Saturday through lower Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, just hours after this month's GI death toll reached 70.
Cindy Sheehan, a vociferous critic of the war whose soldier son died in Iraq, joined in the march, as did actress Susan Sarandon and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
''End this war, bring the troops home,'' read one sign lifted by marchers on the sunny afternoon, three years after the war began.
Organizers said 300,000 people marched, although a police spokesman declined to give an estimate. There were no reports of arrests.
''We are here today because the war is illegal, immoral and unethical,'' said the Rev. Al Sharpton. ''We must bring the troops home.'' 'They're going to lie to us again'
Organizers said the march was also meant to oppose military action against Iran, which is facing criticism over its nuclear program. The event was organized by the group United for Peace and Justice.

Israel Influences US but not in US Interests

Robert Fisk explores the potentially disastrous influence of Israel on US policies toward the middle east.
Israel wanted a hard line toward Palestine and Hamas, and a soft line toward expanding Israeli settlements on stolen Palestine territory, on Israeli military action, on Israel's ignoring of UN resolutions and building a huge wall that effectively stole Palestine land.

When two of America's most distinguished academics dared to suggest that US foreign policy was being driven by a powerful 'Israel Lobby' whose influence was incompatible with their nation's own interests, they knew they would face allegations of anti-Semitism. But the episode has prompted America's Jewish liberals to confront their own complacency. Might the tide be turning?

Is anymore evidence needed to prove that Bush and his administrations have lied to provide justification to make war on Iraq? Robert Scheer once again presents damning evidence of this fact. It is one of the best.

"The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy." --Tyler Drumheller, formerly CIA's top spy in Europe.
Confession time: In fall 2004, during a crucial presidential election campaign, I made the mistake of playing by corporate media rules that amount to self-censorship.
Specifically, I joined other journalists in denying the public the right to learn of a definitive investigative report by CBS' "60 Minutes" on President Bush's disregard for the truth concerning the weapons-of-mass-destruction threat allegedly posed to the United States by Iraq. Having received an advance copy of the devastating segment, I honored CBS' proprietary request not to write about the news it carried until after it aired.

.....The reasons for wars in which resources are a factor, are usually camouflaged by a screen of propaganda. In the U.S. case it is the blanket phoney justification "war on terrorism" . This covers U.S. global domination plans, the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and the coming war with Iran, currently justified under the "wars on global terrorism" blanket. The real reasons include the theft of other people's oil resources.. The objective is to control middle east oil, prices and access to oil by competitors of the U.S. Rising oil prices is only the beginning.

It's official: the era of resource wars is upon us. In a major London address, British Defense Secretary John Reid warned that global climate change and dwindling natural resources are combining to increase the likelihood of violent conflict over land, water and energy. Climate change, he indicated, "will make scarce resources, clean water, viable agricultural land even scarcer" -- and this will "make the emergence of violent conflict more rather than less likely."

This article shows how much the popularity of Bush and his Administration has dropped and how it has alienated the American population. Numerous factors cause this - Bush's very poor domestic performance, his spying on Americans, his arrogance, poor judgement, his dictatorial attitude, and more than anything else, his illegal war on Iraq. Obviously most Americans would disapprove of his war plans for Iran, especially if he nuclear bombs Iran. He and his advisors know this very, very well. Yet they are still  preparing to launch another illegal war on a much bigger and better prepared target - Iran, when their military resources are overstretched. Another crazy neocon mystery? I don't think so.

You can count on one thing. All over Washington, Republicans are at least as capable as I am of watching and interpreting the polling version of the smash-up of the Bush administration. With each new poll, the numbers creep lower yet.
Presidential approval in the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll dropped another 3% in the last month and now sits at 38%, while disapproval of the President continues to strengthen -- 47% of Americans now "strongly disapprove" of the President's handling of the presidency, only 20% "strongly approve." (62%, by the way, disapprove of the President's handling of the war in Iraq.)

Washington's political timetable may turn harsh rhetoric into military escalation, unless voices of restraint in both the United States and Iran can prevail.
Seymour Hersh's recent New Yorker article on the risk of war between the United States and Iran contained many insights into the current thinking of US political and military leaders. The one that has attracted most attention was the desire of figures on the political side to keep the "nuclear option" on the table, even in the face of reported opposition from some military planners (see "The Iran plans", New Yorker, 17 April 2006).     more from Paul Rogers

It's a never-ending mystery why so many Americans allowed themselves to be conned into supporting this barbarous war.
A deeper mystery is why they continued to support the war even after they learned that Bush and his associates had told a series of lies to get their support.
Having his lies and excuses exposed about the reasons for war, did not result in Bush withdrawing from this illegal war and paying reparations to the Iraqis. Indeed, as the situation worsens, Bush steps up his assault and prepares to make war on Iran.

Of all the war crimes that have flowed from the originating crime of President George W. Bush's unprovoked invasion of Iraq, perhaps the most flagrant was the destruction of Fallujah in November 2004. Now, as ignominious defeat looms for Bush's Babylonian folly, some of the key players in fomenting the war are urging that the "Fallujah Option" be applied to an even bigger target: Baghdad.
What these influential warmongers openly call for is the "pacification" of Baghdad: a brutal firestorm by U.S. forces, ravaging both Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias in a "horrific" operation that will inevitably lead to "skyrocketing body counts," as warhawk Reuel Marc Gerecht cheerfully wrote last week in the ever-bloodthirsty editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal.

"To me it would be a worse crime to stay silent if telling the truth could prevent war."
More than three years ago, as George Bush and Tony Blair rushed headlong into the invasion of Iraq, Martin Bright, then at the Observer, tested the veracity of an e-mail passed to him and his colleagues anonymously, while I nervously waited to see if the contents would appear in a newspaper. The e-mail, which the paper duly published, contained details of a bugging operation designed to coerce wavering members of the UN Security Council to vote for the use of force. It alerted the world to what I saw as scandalous dirty tricks within the United Nations.

Top journalist, John Pilger, shows how Blair and his aides are taking Britain toward fascism and Orwell's "1984" using the umbrella threat of terrorism as their cover and rationale.
However Blair and Bush are creating far more terrorists by their very brutal, illegal. war on Iraq. Yet he gets away with draconian new laws based on his deceit and war crimes. It's amazing and disheartening that Britons so easily succumb to Blair's lies and fascist steps. The cost and the consequences of their ignorance and passivity may become very high indeed.

The bill marks the end of true parliamentary democracy; it is as significant as Congress abandoning the Bill of Rights
People ask: can this be happening in Britain? Surely not. A centuries-old democratic constitution cannot be swept away. Basic human rights cannot be made abstract. Those who once comforted themselves that a Labour government would never commit such an epic crime in Iraq might now abandon a last delusion, that their freedom is inviolable. If they knew.

War, Geopolitics and History - Conflict in the Middle East
In a brilliant and convincing lecture, Rev Ray Griffin exposes why the 9/11 and Twin Towers attacks must have been part of a Bush Administration plot.
The only conceivable purpose was to terrify, propagandise, and deceive the American people into supporting Bush's illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Dr. David Ray Griffin: Guns and Butter
In this definitive presentation given on March 30th, 2006 at the historic Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California, Griffin deconstructs nine official myths, given that day.
Recorded 03/30/06 - Broadcast 04/05/06 - Guns And Butter      "9/11, The Myth & The Reality,"

This article reinforces John Pilger's article "Freedom Dies Quietly" on 13/4/05
Fascism is being introduced in England and slyly undermining Democracy. The people don't know or care.
This would help insure that the truth about Blair's illegal war on Iraq continues to be suppressed. It also lowers the likelihood of any criminal prosecution of the Blair Administration for war crimes.

From forcing through ID cards to the erosion of parliamentary scrutiny, a determined clique is hijacking our democracy
....Piece by piece, month by month, Tony Blair's administration is removing the safeguards that protect all of us from the whims of a government and the intrusions of a powerful state. It is engaged in a ferocious power-grab. Yet this story has not seized the imagination of the media or the public. In our failure to respond, the government must be reading a tacit acceptance that it can do what it chooses, because we either don't notice or don't care.

I would say 30,000, more or less, have died as a result of the initial incursion and the ongoing violence against Iraqis.
- George W. Bush, December 12, 2005, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
How many Iraqis have died as the result of the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of their country remains an unresolved question in the anti-war movement. It is a question the pro-war camp avoids. Yet what more important question is there?
The above quote made by the "compassionate conservative" shows a disturbing trend in the corporate media and amongst the spokespersons of the current powers that be, to camouflage the true cost of the illegal occupation of Iraq - the cost in blood paid by Iraqis. It is a trend that ensures that the enormity of the atrocity goes unnoticed.

The Assault on Democracy
Noam Chomsky discusses U.S. policies in Latin America, subverting elections in Haiti, and why American elections are like toothpaste ads.

The Whitehouse memo shows Bush and Blair had lots of testimony based on UN inspection that there were no WMD or a nuclear weapons in Iraq. But they decided to make war based on the lie that there were WMD in Iraq, even though that would not be a valid excuse for war in any case. Some of the other lies invented to justify the war were that Saddam had links to al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, and that Saddam was connected to the attack on 9/11, and that Saddam was a threat to the US, UK. None of this was true and Bush and Blair had no evidence for their lies.
Nevertheless both lied to their publics and governments in order to get support for their war.
Now they are planning to do it again to justify a war with Iran.

It's extremely rare, to get this kind of an insight of an extremely private, we should say secret meeting between two leaders preparing for a coming war. Tell us what you think are the main insights to be gained from the so-called White House memo?

How can this much evidence be ignored or dismissed

.....We seem to never learn from our past mistakes. Today’s neo-cons are... idealistically misled and aggressive in remaking the Middle East..... Even given the horrendous costs of the Iraq War and the unintended consequences that plague us today, the neo-cons are eager to expand their regime-change policy to Iran by force.
The obvious shortcomings of our regime change and occupation of Afghanistan are now readily apparent. The Taliban was ousted from power, but they have regrouped and threaten the delicate stability that now exists in that country. Opium drug production is once again a major operation, with drugs lords controlling a huge area of the country outside Kabul.

The following secret memo of Bush/Blair meetings in January 2003, published in shows Bush determined to invade Iraq, even if they failed to get a second UN resolution and UN inspectors did not find any WMD.
Bush discussed with Blair "various ways to provoke a confrontation" with Iraq to justify invasion such as:
" flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in U.N. colours...If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach" and that would give the U.S. a pretext to attack.

But behind closed doors, the president was certain that war was inevitable. During a private two-hour meeting in the Oval Office on Jan. 31, 2003, he made clear to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain that he was determined to invade Iraq without the second resolution, or even if international arms inspectors failed to find unconventional weapons, said a confidential memo about the meeting written by Mr. Blair's top foreign policy adviser and reviewed by The New York Times.

In the following article Ralph Nader gives an excellent analysis of why the Bush-cons Administration should be impeached. I hope the Americans are able to do this- and that the U.S. will withdraw from Iraq - and that there will be no war with Iran. However the future could be very different.For some time the Bush-cons have been planning a war with Iran, perhaps nuclear. They're unlikely to stop now and admit failure in Iraq. That would be unacceptable, and in any case they don't appear to be any serious challengers. I think they will try to continue their horrendous dream of an American empire. As a trigger Bush desperately needs another 9/11 "Pearl Harbour" which he can blame on Iran, then use as a justification for attack. As 9 states have nuclear weapons and the IAEA reports Iran has none, even Bush might find it hard to justify an attack on Iran because it might get nuclear weapons some day.

Attention please, good people! Adjust your routines and come to the aid of your country, and your children with your thoughtful patriotism. Don't just hope for impeachment, demand the resignation now of the mad hatters in the White House--George W. Bush and Richard Cheney.

"War Made Easy:How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death" is the title of a new book that shows how the 4th Estate has evolved to become the major propagandist propelling Americans to war. The details of Bush's many lies are thoroughly dissected. For information, go to: www.WarMadeEasy.com
The following article by the author is a small taste.

Norman Solomon is the author of the new book War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. More than any other New York Times reporter, Judith Miller took the lead with stories claiming that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Now, a few years later, she's facing heightened scrutiny in the aftermath of a pair of articles that appeared in the Times on Sunday—a lengthy investigative piece about Miller plus her first-person account of how she got entangled in the case of the Bush administration's "outing' of Valerie Plame as a CIA agent.

On March 17 William Rivers Pitt wrote that Bush is "deranged, disconnected, and dangerous." In his March 20 Cleveland speech, Bush proved Pitt right.
Bush gave a delusional speech that shows he is detached from reality. "We’re going to help the Iraqis build a strong democracy that will be an inspiration throughout the Middle East, a democracy that’ll be a partner in the global war against the terrorists."
Has no one told Bush that the Iraqis cannot even agree to form a government?
The day before Bush’s delusional Cleveland speech, Iyad Allawi, the former prime minister of one of our make-believe Iraqi governments, said that in Iraq the casualty rate from the sectarian strife is so high that "if this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."

Impeachment is the only recourse that can bring a halt to the madness in Iraq, and the insanity being planned in Iran and elsewhere.
As America reaches the third anniversary of President Bush's decision to invade and occupy Iraq, there is for the first time the unsettling realization brought about by the clarity of acts that emerges only after the passage of time that something horrible has happened.
This awakening of collective awareness on the part of the American people is reflected not only in the numerous polls which show ......read on

American forces have dramatically increased airstrikes in Iraq during the past five months, a change of tactics that may foreshadow how the United States plans to battle a still-strong insurgency while reducing the number of U.S. ground troops serving here.

"Construction Minister Jassem Mohammed Jaafar said, "Holes were dug into the mausoleum’s four main pillars and packed with explosives. Then charges were connected together and linked to another charge placed just under the dome. The wires were then linked to a detonator which was triggered at a distance."
Clearly, the bombing was not carried out by rogue elements in the disparate Iraqi resistance. This is the work of highly-trained saboteurs and bomb-experts who were executing a precision-demolition to incite sectarian violence. The blast bears all the hallmarks of a covert Intelligence agency-operation."
The Smoking Gun February 26, 2006

Ever since the attacks of September 11, 2001, there was enough evidence available for me to conclude that the Bush administration knew we would be attacked with airplanes in some way but they purposely did nothing to prevent the attacks in order to justify their political goals.
For example, aside from the multiple warnings the Bush administration received – as confirmed by Richard Clark, Condoleezza Rice, and Donald Rumsfeld – they were also aware that the Pentagon and FEMA had conducted exercises that involved jetliners used as missiles. There is a mountain of evidence that the president and his cabinet, as well as the intelligence community, knew that this scenario was possible.

On this very conservative campus (in the most conservative county in the most conservative state in the union), where community leaders pulled out all the stops in 2004 to prevent Michael Moore from speaking as part of his anti-Bush, pro-Kerry “Slacker Uprising Tour,” Dr. Steven Jones, this pious professor from the Mormon Church-owned Brigham Young University, calmly, gently, gave a simple physics lesson on the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings, the implications of which awed the audience with a sense of world-historical significance, and implied an indictment of the present administration so utterly devastating that it made Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 look like a Bush apologia.

This is the best and most comprehensive resource I have yet found on the 9/11 attack in 2001. From my own continuing research I think the scholars are right: that the U.S. is in the hands of a criminal conspiracy who are bent on global domination. It's such and awful big pill to swallow, that many will reject this conclusion as untenable, impossible and that those who think this way must be nuts. I don't blame them for thinking this way.
However disbelieving a person may be of this conclusion, I urge them to read some of the material on this Scholars website.
Really, I think all our lives depend on stopping the Bush Conspiracy before it takes us all past the point of no return - such as the often predicted major US 'next step' - Bush's military assault on Iran.

Guantanamo, with it’s illegal imprisonment of innocent people, torture, forced feeding, shaming, lack of trials, should be closed. For New Zealand’s own good, for Americans, and for people everywhere who believe in freedom, democracy and human rights, we should stand up to the Bush Administration, and officially protest it’s criminal policies.
It is not anti-American to bear witness to how the Bush Administration is violating the U.S. Constitution and International Law.

The issue of human rights abuses at Guantanamo Bay is still very much a live one following the release of the UN Human Rights Commission Report into the detention centre highlighting widespread torture practices. Yesterday Keith asked Foreign Minister Winston Peters during Question Time whether New Zealand would step up to the plate and call for the closure of the detention centre following the release of the report.
It is interesting that the Foreign Affairs Minister is reticent about standing up to the United States on this issue, given his recent comments about their recognition of our role in the Pacific!

I have often warned about the possible Bush Administration use of a fake attack on the U.S. to justify an attack on Iran - as the 9/1l attack in 2001 , was used to justify the Iraq war. But Iraq had no links to al-Qaeda, nothing to do with terrorism, the 9/11 attack, or bin-Laden and had no weapons of mass destruction, and no nuclear weapons program. However the very erroneous and false justifications for the Iraq war were exposed repeatedly but not by the mass media. Bush did not end the falsely justified war. The U.S. is continuing the war by increasing by 5 times, the air attacks on selected Iraq targets. The liars are winning.
So here is the Pentagon plan, revealed by an ex-CIA agent, to use the same type of attack to justify a war on Iran, even though Iran will have nothing to do with an alleged terrorist attack on the U.S.

In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran.
The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States

Leonid Ivashov, Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces when the September 11, 2001, attacks took place, now explains that international terrorism does not exist and that the September 11 attacks were the result of a set-up. What we are seeing is a manipulation by the big powers; this terrorism would not exist without them. He affirms that, instead of faking a "world war on terror", the best way to reduce that kind of attacks is through respect for international law and peaceful cooperation among countries and their citizens.

BOSTON: The cost of the Iraq war could top $US trillion ($NZ2.91 trillion), far above the White House's pre-war projections, when long-term costs such as lifetime health care for thousands of wounded US soldiers are included, a study said today.
Columbia University economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard lecturer Linda Bilmes included in their study disability payments for the 16,000 wounded US soldiers, about 20 per cent of whom suffer serious brain or spinal injuries.

The Quiet Death Of Freedom

Cindy Sheehan is one of the great ladies and leaders of the American Peace movement. Her soldier son was killed in Iraq and this motivated her to research the war and then become a peace campaigner exposing Bush's lies and war crimes.
Fearlessly she camped out at Bush's Texas ranch, then at the Whitehouse, demanding an interview with Bush about why her son was killed, and the illegality of the Iraq war. Naturally Bush snubbed her. If only more Americans had her courage and commitment, Bush would withdraw from Iraq.

James Risen's book shows that In 2002 the CIA had testimony from many Iraq sources that Iraq's WMD or nuclear programme had been dead for 10 years.
Nevertheless the CIA gave the Bush Administration what it wanted - an "intelligence estimate that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program." The Bush Administration planned a war with Iraq and had the CIA provide what they called "intelligence" to provide material they could use as justification.
This case illustrates that the CIA is also a propaganda agency and much of its material is produced to suit the political objectives of the Administration. It is yet another expensive tool of the state used to fool the American people.

... From past experience I believe anyone who expresses a view against the US role in the Iraq war, or expresses questions or doubts about the official story of the 9/11 attack could be spied on. Remember Bush warned: "You are with us, or with the terrorists". I also expect that includes spying on non-US people living in other countries, who express similar views.
Further information will clarify this.
I think this is further evidence that a criminal conspiracy has taken over the U.S. and is using the apparatus of the state to create an Orwellian type of fascist military rule - complete with spying on everyone. They will claim, and most will agree, that this is necessary to protect and preserve American Democracy. U.S. mass media will comply with this plan, maintain the cloak of deceit, exactly as they did for Bush's Iraq war. Lies will be repeatedly endlessly as before.

...Information from intercepts - which typically includes records of telephone or e-mail communications - would be made available by request to agencies "that are allowed to have it, including the FBI, DIA, CIA and Department of Homeland Security," one former official was quoted as saying. ...
... The New York Times reported two weeks ago that President George W Bush had authorised the NSA to monitor, without court orders, the international telephone calls and emails of US citizens suspected of links to foreign terrorists.
...A 1978 law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, makes it illegal to spy on US citizens in the United States without the approval of a special court.