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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (413231)	6/10/2003 12:47:24 AM
From: jim-thompson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

This weekend I am a host for the local elect Rev Al Sharpton committee. I will let you know how it goes. We are all talking about going down to South Carolina for the primary and witness first hand Al's landslide victory.

To: American Spirit who wrote (413231)	6/10/2003 12:48:30 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

AMERICAN MEDIA, THE WHORES OF THE RIGHT AS, The American media is a disgusting amalgam of small-mindedness, pandering, propaganda and pomposity. They all know that Bush is the biggest LIAR on the entire planet and that Blair is the most articulate liar with a world-stage platform. No one in the media believes George Bush is telling the truth. But they also don't believe it would be a good idea to be the first one to say the Emperor has no clothes, just in case they get the arrows in the back, just as this herd of cowards did to Rep. Cynthia McKinney who lost her House seat for telling the truth.

To: American Spirit who wrote (413231)	6/10/2003 1:35:28 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769667

Only the traitors will try to call Bush a liar, and their numbers are dwindling. More so, now that they have seized on this suicide propaganda. It's like airplane glue to them. This is the end for the left. They won't even be around to fabricate votes in the next presidential election. The Blue Zone is DOOMED. Thank the reality fix of 91101, that woke up the people of America...

To: American Spirit who wrote (413231)	6/10/2003 3:40:59 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

BUSH LIES DEPT.: Debunking Continues, Pressure for Impeachment Grows Americans had been deliberately misled by Bush.... guardian.co.uk CIA had doubts on Iraq link to al-Qaida Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington Tuesday June 10, 2003 The Guardian The debunking of the Bush administration's pre-war certainties on Iraq gathered pace yesterday when it emerged that the CIA knew for months that a connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida was highly unlikely. As President George Bush was forced for the second time in days to defend the decision to go to war, a new set of leaks from CIA officials suggested a tendency in the White House to suppress or ignore intelligence findings which did not shore up the case for war. The interrogation reports of two senior al-Qaida members, both in US custody, showed that the CIA had reason to doubt the allegations of a connection between Saddam's regime and the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. Such assertions, promoted vigorously by the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, were used as an additional justification for war, after the central argument that Iraq's arsenal of banned weapons posed an imminent danger. The charge of a link between Osama bin Laden and Saddam was contentious even at the time, and yesterday's report in the New York Times that the two al-Qaida members, Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, dismissed the idea deepened the impression that Americans had been deliberately misled to support the decision for war. In recent days that impression has become sufficiently widespread to put officials on the defensive. Yesterday Mr Bush predicted that US inspectors scouring Iraq would soon find evidence of a programme of weapons of mass destruction. He also reaffirmed that al-Qaida maintained a network in Baghdad. "Intelligence throughout the decade shows they had a weapons programme," Mr Bush said. "I am absolutely convinced that with time, we'll find out they did have a weapons programme." That assertion stops well short of Mr Bush's statement during a visit to Poland on May 31 that US troops had already found weapons of mass destruction: two trailers the US said at the time had been used as mobile biological labs. With the White House fighting for its credibility, the New York Times reported that the two al-Qaida lieutenants had dismissed the notion of cooperation between Saddam and Bin Laden. Zubaydah, who was arrested in Pakistan in March last year, told his CIA interrogators that Bin Laden had considered and then rejected the idea of working with Saddam because he did not want to be in the Iraqi leader's debt. His information was supported on the eve of war after Mohammed was arrested in Pakistan on March 1. Mohammed, who had been al-Qaida's chief of operations, told the CIA the group did not work with Saddam. While the CIA shared its interrogation record of Zubaydah with other intelligence agencies, it did not release its conclusions to the public. That omission could prove extremely damaging to the administration because it suggests that officials ignored intelligence that did not fit with their plans for Iraq. "This gets to the serious question of to what extent did they try to align the facts with the conclusions that they wanted," an intelligence official told the New York Times. "Things pointing in one direction were given a lot of weight, and other things were discounted."