- It's been one thousand days since September 11, 2001.
The changes to this Republic, made after 911 and in the name of the attacks
on that day, far exceed the thousand cuts that those changes represent
to our way of life. Nor have these changes escaped notice on the global
stage, as many of our edicts apply directly to the people of other nations
as well.
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- This USA was born in a Revolutionary War. Within these
last thousand days we're beginning to see the end of this Republic, along
with all that we said it once stood for. In less than four years we have
allowed amateurs to rip apart the fabric of this society. Those who have
strangled freedom here are beginning to create from her corpse a monster
that stands for lies, for deceit, for corruption and for stolen power and
wealth, anywhere where people fail to resist them.
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- Coincidently, one of the founders of this group just
died. The death of Ronald Reagan might have seemed convenient for the embattled
current president. An entire week has been struck from the calendar of
events for the United States, just to morn the death of Reagan. Bush could
use a break from all the wars and the investigations, and the bad news
that's becoming Tsunami-like, rather than just the news of the day. But
this 'break' may turn out to hold a great deal more than Bush &Company
might want to hear.
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- Flashback to 1980: and to the presidential election that
brought Ronnie into office. There was a major scandal being born that grew
out of the Iran Hostage Crisis. It seemed that the American Embassy hostages
held 444 days by Iran, would magically be coming home if Ronnie won. A
grateful nation didn't question how this came to be, not at that time.
How this was accomplished has never been fully explained.
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- Bush Senior directed the CIA from January of 76 to January
of 77. It was rumored that GWH Bush may have been the mystery liaison between
the Iranians and the Regan campaign, and that he was the one who negotiated
this very convenient swap of arms for hostages. What is known is "In
1980 Bush became Reagan's running mate despite earlier criticism of Reagan's
"voodoo economics" and by the 1984 election had won acclaim for
his devotion to Reagan's conservative agenda."
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- After the prisoners were released, the US turned to Saddam
to begin serious attacks upon Iran, just to keep Iran from expanding their
influence in the region. It was in this atmosphere that the US began to
cultivate and direct Saddam as a US instrument in the Iran-Iraq war.
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- The Iran-Contra Affair became public, at the end of Ronnie's
second term; this scandal was investigated by the Tower Commission and
dealt with trading arms for hostages in Central America; Bush 41 (Daddy)
was knee deep in all of it. Drugs were rumored to have also had a role,
as well as weapons; this was a very dark chapter in American foreign policy.
There was one man who knew what happened and that was William J. Casey,
the director of CIA, but he died in 1987 before he could testify. http://www.angelfire.com/dc/1spy/Casey.html
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- Why is this not all a matter of public record? George
W. Bush "signed Executive Order 13233, sharply restricting public
access to the papers of former presidents. The Bush order overrides the
post-Watergate, 1978 Presidential Records Act, guaranteeing that a president's
papers must be made available to the public 12 years after he leaves office.
Now George W. Bush can personally decide when the White House documents
of Ronald Reagan and his father will be made public."
- http://www.public-i.org/report.aspx?aid=207&sid=200
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- Bush junior claims that this was done for national security
reasons. It looks a lot more like protecting the possibly criminal past
of his father and or Reagan, than anything else. To show the world that
this is not the case - all George needs to do is release the documents.
That would end any problem with what really happened between George Senior
and Ronnie, back when 40 was elected with 41 as his running mate. It might
also tell us exactly what happened in the Iran-Contra Affair.
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- In the unauthorized biography of George Bush (Sr.), Webster
Tarpley says: "Church {The Church Committee} was especially diligent
in attacking CIA covert operations, which Bush (Sr.) would be anxious to
defend. The CIA's covert branch, Church thought, was a "self-serving
apparatus." "It's a bureaucracy which feeds on itself, and those
involved are constantly sitting around thinking up schemes for [foreign]
intervention which will win them promotions and justify further additions
to the staff...It self-generates interventions that otherwise never would
be thought of, let alone authorized."
- "It will be seen that at the beginning of Bush's
tenure at the CIA, the Congressional committees were on the offensive against
the intelligence agencies. By the time that Bush departed Langley, the
tables were turned, and it was the Congress which was the focus of scandals,
including Koreagate." http://www.tarpley.net/bush15.htm
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- Is there a pattern here? Being devious is part of every
pragmatic political career, however Bush Senior was particularly adept
at covert and back channel operations. This is one of the reasons that
those papers from Bush Senior's time as both President and Vice-President
need to be available to researchers to clear up any hint of criminality.
There can be no national security threat from the papers of the Vice-President,
as that office carries with it no national responsibilities beyond presiding
over the Senate-and that's all a matter of public record. So why did Bush
choose to seal them away from the public eye, and why did Congress let
that happen? Of course when one looks at the current Vice-President maybe
the responsibilities of that office have changed?
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- Given that so many of the tainted people now serving
in this White House, came directly from the failed Iran-Contra Affair;
John Negroponte, Richard Armitage, Richard Perle, not to mention the "background
boys" from previous iterations of this crowd, Rumsfeld and Cheney
among them. Yet there were no official questions raised by the appointments
of any of these people, why not? One reason might just be because of what
really happened first in Iran, and later in the Iran-Contra Affair.
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- One thing clearly arises from this stench. United States
foreign policy in the Middle East got screwed up very badly over Iran when
that country seized our Embassy and held our people hostage. We have never
recovered from that event, and that includes the bungled war by Bush senior
in 1991, and Bush junior in 2003. In both cases force was used when diplomacy
and statecraft were called for. In both cases the task of stabilizing the
region for American interests was too large for either Bush to manage.
War was used because each man lacked the skill or the ability to deal with
the real problems there as leaders. That's our real problem: those that
we have either chosen or allowed to act for us, and in our names.
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- In only a thousand days; after all the years of preparation
and back-room schemes that have gone on for decades, it all comes down
to this. The complete and secret compartmentalization of the government,
coupled with the isolation of the very people who put them in office. "Freedom,
liberty and justice" are no longer "for all," but only for
the few who have decided that since we no longer matter, we no longer have
a need for any of those "rights."
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- Given the complete fiasco that has been junior's turn
in the chair: What will the next one thousand days be like? What will your
children inherit from those who say they represent us? For that matter
who will still be here, to be called "us," in the next one thousand
days?
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- kirwan
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