"Faulty intel does not equate to a lie"
hmmmm ya... right...
Congress recently passed a corporate reform bill known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. President Bush signed the Act into law on July 30, 2002 and called the legislation “the most far-reaching reforms of American business practices since the time of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.” The act is aimed at eliminating corporate accounting fraud and deceptive management practices at public companies and contains far reaching provisions addressing issues such as personal responsibilities of top corporate officers, new obligations of management, enhanced SEC financial disclosure, and auditing issues for public companies. While some of the provisions become effective immediately, other provisions must be implemented by the SEC through the adoption of rules over a time period ranging from 30 days to one year. The following summary highlights the key provisions of the act likely to have an immediate impact on you and your company
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I wonder, under the new law, how many CEO's dare make a 'misleading' statement, let a alone an outright LIE.
never mind that the team, or the spooks, or uncle joe, or the godly troll, provided the 'intel' or 'facts' The CEO gets fried...
But I suppose that pilfering the nation's resources in a stupid war, is "ok" no consequences at all...
in spite of KNOWINGLY making false statements, just to scare the shit out of the people and convince them that "war is good"... 'reason is bad' good - bad 'holy war - evil-doers'
did i mentioned that there were soldiers killed ?
It is time to turn the table, let's get the criminals OUT OF WASHINGTON...
If we are to measure the businessman by a hard and defined law, why not the politician? what sort of privilege does the politician enjoy?
being a scumbag?
ya....
"No critical reasoning ability"
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I love it.... Clinton shed light on the cockroaches and now Bush is demonstrating how far they are willing to go.
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Jan. 2004: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace concludes that the Bush administration "systematically misrepresented" the threat from Iraq's weapons programs. Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill confirms that plans to invade Iraq were formulated before Sept. 11. Former senior US weapons inspector David Kay says major stockpiles of WMD probably didn't exist in Iraq.
"The Neoconservative Plan for Global Dominance" and "Homeland Security Threatens Civil Liberty" are listed as Project Censored's most underreported stories for 2002-2003. The New York Times runs an editorial on black box voting, drawing widespread attention to the possibility of rigged elections in 2004.
Feb. 6, 2004: The National Lawyers Guild issues a press release saying that it will "move to quash an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force subpoena" regarding the Nov. 15, 2003 antiwar conference at Iowa's Drake University. Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director of the Guild, says the subpoena "has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with intimidating lawful protestors and suppressing First Amendment freedom of expression and association."
Oddly enough, that's remarkably similar to a statement Church's Select Committee on Intelligence Activities issued nearly 30 years ago when it deemed COINTELPRO "a sophisticated vigilante program aimed squarely at preventing the exercise of First Amendment rights or speech and association." Is everything old becoming new again?
Luckily, we have a still have some lawmakers who take their responsibilities seriously. "I will be following this case closely to help make sure that the Department of Justice protects and defends people's constitutional rights,'' Sen. Charles Grassley said of the Drake subpoenas. "Prosecutors should be especially vigilant about using extraordinary steps in cases when such a treasured American value as free speech is at stake," Sen. Tom Harkin wrote in a letter to John Ashcroft.
Even so, last year's Dixie Chicks' CD burning rallies could have been ripped from the pages of It Can't Happen Here and regardless how free we think we are (and how preposterous any comparison between Nazi Germany and America might be to most) the haunting words of this anonymous German resonate through time:
"You speak privately to you colleagues. . . but what do they say? They say, 'It's not so bad' or 'You're seeing things' or 'You're an alarmist.' And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can't prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don't know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end?" – Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free [ThirdReich.net]
In 1987, while reporting on "America's secret government," Bill Moyers urged us to be vigilant. "One day, sadly, we are likely to discover, once again, that while freedom does have enemies in the world, it can also be undermined here at home, in the dark, by those posing as its friends," he said.
Given our recent history, if freedom were to be undermined, how would we know for sure?/b
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"No critical reasoning ability"
ya.....
from someone who believes in the 'man-in-the-sky-theory and cannot answer a simple question... as to the proof of his own statements.
roflol!
a plain imbecile |
