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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (68034)	8/25/2006 1:39:33 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

Now, the housing bubble has burst. And the media is taking note of it (in their newscasts, they put the housing story ahead of the Jonbenet Ramsey circus - at least on Wednesday, so that is really something!) .

To: American Spirit who wrote (68034)	8/25/2006 11:06:22 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Bush and his head-in-the-sand believers Tom Mestnik Issue date: 8/23/06 Section: Opinion The bad news for the Bush administration keeps mounting. Now, even the trial of Saddam Hussein, one of Bush's last remaining hole cards, is going horribly, horribly wrong. It has come out in the trial that, according to U.S. intelligence from 1991, the helicopters that Saddam used to kill the massive amounts of Kurds in Northern Iraq were supplied by the United States. This means that if Saddam is found guilty of genocide his good buddies and former close allies in the Reagan and Bush administrations are also complicit in these mass killings. It is not that Bush Jr. cares about the deaths of thousands of innocents but he sure as hell doesn't want average Americans hearing about it - it might affect the patriotic stranglehold he has upon the fearful masses. The last three months have been the bloodiest so far for the newly "liberated" Iraqis and the number of attacks being directed at their liberators, our young men and women in uniform, is also at the highest level since the occupation began. This upsurge in attacks is all too understandable form the Iraqi point of view but may be confusing to the average CNN/Fox news watcher. If you take the ongoing revelations about the Haditha massacre - the attempted U.S. military cover-up and the fact that those U.S. soldiers who participated in the mass murder thought it was no way out of the ordinary - well, you have a pretty good reason for Iraqis, of all factions, to want to take shots at their occupiers. The neo-cons of the Bush administration, despite the full support of embedded journalists within the corporate media, cannot keep up. The grotesque and violent reality in Iraq has so far outpaced their spin abilities that even the most blindly patriotic red-state citizen is hearing a trickle of the facts. Covering up massacres is de-facto behavior for U.S. troops. For Abeer Hamza, the young Iraqi woman who was raped, murdered and then had her body set on fire, the U.S. soldiers involved first tried to blame the act on "insurgents" a charge that the Pentagon and U.S. corporate media is all to happy to help support. Abeer's family was also murdered and her body was torched to aid in the cover-up. Seeing as how U.S. troops are immune form Iraqi or UN prosecution it is doubtful if any perpetrator of any atrocities in Iraq will ever be brought to justice. This, unfortunately, is also typical behavior going back all the way to Vietnam when U.S. soldiers who killed over 500 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai were all acquitted. This reality may be a surprise to you and me but Iraqis are experiencing U.S. war crimes by the hour and they are acting accordingly. The Bush Administration's answer to the ongoing bloodbaths is to crank up the spin machine. Recently, a Bush paid contractor, who had the job of planting pro U.S. stories into the Iraqi press, has gone public. These stories, according to Democracy Now!, were actually written by the U.S. military. Willem Marx was an intern with the Lincoln Group and he spent the summer planting Bush propaganda in Iraq and he had an unlimited budget of millions of dollars to do it. Even Fox News is having trouble keeping the Bush line afloat. Two employees for Fox News, producers no less, quit their jobs over the pro-war bias so prevalent at Fox. These producers, who were stationed in the Middle East, accused Fox by saying: "Not only are you an instrument of the Bush Whitehouse...you are warmongers with no sense of decency, nor professionalism." When one realizes that a majority of Bush supporters list Fox News as their primary source of information you begin to understand why the beliefs of pro-war America are so disconnected from the reality of day-to-day life in Iraq.