The Top 100 Heroes of Peace

http://pulpnonfiction.blogspot.com

The Top 100 Heroes of Peace come from

diverse backgrounds from all corners of the

globe have one common denominator one

unifying message.NO to WAR NO to NWO.NO to

W.
Everyone on this list have spoken at great

risk to their jobs and their lives.Not a

few of them have lost their jobs and too

many have lost their lives speaking out

against the Bushes and the Blairs and the

Sharons.Suicides, Plane Crashes, Accidents

.One was bulldozed to death.

The troika of Blair Bush and Sharon have

stepped on the toes of 5 billion 900

million people on the planet.We can not

allow this madness to continue.We can not

afford four more years of these Bullies

BLUSHARON and their Crusade Charade and

Their phoney Warrenterra.If we really want

to head off the NUCLEAR WAR that is clearly

on the horizion WE MUST ACT NOW and bring

these war criminals to stand trial for

their crimes against the bulk of humanity.

From New York and from the families of the

victims of the 911 World Trade Center to

the far shores of Australia, the message is

loud and clear.Blusharon must be stopped

and held accountable for this nightmare

that we have been going through since

January 2000 when the Bush gang stole the

election from the people,to this very

minute when an Israeli tank is firing on

unarmed children as young as 12 year old in

Palestine and our troops somewhere in

Baghdad,as you are reading this, are firing

into an Iraqi crowd rallying against our

occupation killing and wounding scores of

Iraqi human beings.

We can not WAIT till November to vote Bush

and his Carlyle/Cabal and their New World

DisOrders thousand points of fright aganda

out of office,we must ACT NOW.We must stop

the war and the racism.
We must vote to IMPEACH NOW.Let your voice

be heard!Go NOW this very minute before you

do anything else to http://votetoimpeach.

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thousands (383,000 + as of 1-15-04)who have

so together we can in owr own small

way,make a difference and do something to

stop the madness! It takes but a minute of

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mouse!And after you do that,do yourself a

favor do your childrens children a favor

and forward this list of HEROES of PEACE to

everyone you know who cares about what is

really happening to our planet and who want

to do someting to STOP the real evil

dewars, the Troika of BLUSHARON!

The 100 Heroes :

Plaid Adder

"Everything about the way Team Bush

approached the state visit with the Queen

suggested that in the rarefied atmosphere

enclosing the Bush crew, paranoia had

displaced oxygen. In order to spend four

days in a country governed by Bush's most

conspicuously loyal coalition "partner,"

Bush's people apparently felt it would be

necessary to take along their own private

army of handlers, secret service agents,

snipers, and weaponry. While not granting

secret service agents diplomatic immunity

in order to make it easier for them to

shoot to kill, the British authorities did

cancel all police leave in order to produce

the 14,000 police officers deemed necessary

to protect Bush and his "sterile zone." As

far as Bush's people were concerned, no

sacrifice was too great to ask in order to

obliterate even the smallest risk to their

president's health and well-being - not

even the grounds at Buckingham Palace,

which according to a report in the Sunday

Mirror sustained thousands of pounds' worth

of damage from helicopters and "clod-

hopping" security men. And then, less than

three weeks later, Bush suddenly turns up

in Baghdad, sans private army, sans 12-

inch-thick-armor-plated Presidential limo,

sans 14,000 cops. If all of London is

offended right now, I could hardly blame

them. ...Bush's handlers feel that he is

safer on a military base in the middle of a

bloody war zone than he is walking the

public streets of a free city. And this is

a problem, because it suggests that free

cities - and free citizens - are a serious

threat to the Bush they really care about

protecting."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/

plaidder/03/p/06.html

Ben Affleck Actor Anti War Activist

"The Bush administration has continued to

push a dangerous right-wing agenda which

has included increasing encroachments on

civil liberties, particularly with the

questionable and aggressive use of the

Patriot Act.""I save a million bucks," he

joked, "the deficit grows like William

Bennett's credit line on a one-armed-bandit

bender at Bally's."
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/

127456p-113972c.html

Robert Altman king of counter-culture

cinema

"If you asked would I live in London the

rest of my life, yeah, I'd be very happy to

stay here. There's nothing in America that

I would miss at all.I am a political

person,but I don't have to put a strong

debate into a film. This present government

in America I just find disgusting, the idea

that George Bush could run a baseball team

successfully -he can't even speak! I just

find him an embarrassment. I was over here

when the election was on and I couldn't

believe it -and I'm 76 years old. Then when

the Supreme Court came in and turned out to

be a totally political animal, the last

shred of any naivete that was left in me

has gone. When I see an American flag

flying, it's a joke."
http://www.artistsnetwork.org/news3/news

134.html

Anonymous

"My family was one of Hitler's victims. We

lost a lot under the Nazi occupation,

including an uncle who died in the camps

and a cousin killed by a booby trap. ...

I'm no expert on WWII - but I learned a lot

about what happened in Germany - and Europe

- back in those days. I always wondered how

the wonderful German people - so honest,

decent, hard-working, friendly, and

generous - could ever allow such a thing to

happen. (There were camps near my family's

home - they still talk about them only in

hushed conspiratorial whispers.) ... So

why, now, when I hear GWB's speeches, do I

think of Hitler? Why have I drawn a

parallel between the Nazis and the present

administration? Just one small reason -the

phrase 'Never forget'. Never let this

happen again. It is better to question our

government - because it really can happen

here - than to ignore the possibility. So

far, I've seen nothing to eliminate the

possibility that Bush is on the same course

as Hitler. And I've seen far too many

analogies to dismiss the possibility. The

propaganda. The lies. The rhetoric. The

nationalism. The flag waving. The pretext

of 'preventive war'. The flaunting of

international law and international

standards of justice. The disappearances of

'undesirable' aliens. The threats against

protesters. The invasion of a non-

threatening sovereign nation. The

occupation of a hostile country. The

promises of prosperity and security. The

spying on ordinary citizens. ... There

isn't much doubt in my mind - anyone who

compares the history of Hitler's rise to

power and the progression of recent events

in the US cannot avoid the parallels. It's

incontrovertible."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/010904A.

shtml

Hanan Ashrawi

"So far, the solution remains simple and

attainable, having been
repeatedly defined and having become part

of a global consensus. The
two-state solution is still possible,

though becoming increasingly
more difficult with the expansion of

settlements, by-pass roads, and
the apartheid wall throughout Palestinian

territory. The bi-national
state as a de facto solution will become

the only option should
Israel continue its expansion and its

refusal to withdraw to the June
4, 1967 lines and remove the settlements of

the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip. Territoriality will give way to

demography, and the issue
then will become one of democracy, with

Zionism forced to reexamine
its most basic premises."
http://lists.nu.ac.za/pipermail/ccs-l/2003

/002799.html

Bashar Assad President of Syria

"Our stance is clear, and so is the stance

of this party. Hizboullah is a Lebanese

resistance party and its role inside the

Lebanese territories is a resisting role,

but other than this it has it's a political

role and this is an internal Lebanese

affair. Our dialogue with the Americans was

in relation to this particular point. We

were saying to the Americans that when

Israel stops its continuous aggression and

provocation, there will be no single action

from Hizboullah; this was said by officials

in Hizboullah. They do not start and they

do not commit an aggression, while Israel

is committing aggressions and the

Hizboullah is reacting. Therefore, if the

situation is like this, we will continue

supporting Hizboullah. Hizboullah did not

put any other vision; it did not say that

it is seeking to eliminate Israel or that

it is against Syria concerning the peace

process. We did not hear such circulations.

Hizboullah is saying: We want to liberate

the last inch of the Lebanese territories.

So, within this logic we can't be but with

it and with the Lebanese people. It is not

against the Lebanese people and if it were

against the Lebanese people; it would never

be able to achieve what it did. Therefore,

according to this logic we are with

Hizboullah."
http://www.lebanonwire.com/0305/03052601

ANBA.asp

Uri Avnery Israeli writer and peace

activist with Gush Shalom

"From Golda to George, quite a short jump.

Bush wanted a war in Iraq. He could not

disclose the real aim to the public: to get

his hands on the fabulous oil riches of

that country, to dominate the world's oil

supplies and acquire a stranglehold on the

economies of Europe, Japan and any other

potential competitor. He needed a much more

simple and compelling reason: Saddam has

weapons of mass destruction, he is in

cahoots with Bin-Laden, he is about to

attack the United States.

To be convincing, authoritative-sounding

intelligence data were required. So the CIA

produced documents, already known to be

false, showing Saddam trying to acquire

uranium in Niger. Put this into the

President's State of the Union Address and

hop! there's your war.

Did the Americans get upset when the lie

was discovered? Not at all. So the

President lied. Big deal. And the CIA

helped him to lie. Big deal again. The

important thing is that the sons of Saddam

have been killed in a "targeted

elimination", Israeli-style. How wonderful

!"
http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery08022003

.html

Alec Baldwin

"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected�

selected by five judges up in Washington

who voted along party lines.""I'll raise as

much money as I can to make sure that this

Bush winds up like the last Bush, a one-

term President."
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/

leave.htm

Amiri Baraka SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA

"I WILL NOT �APOLOGIZE�, I WILL NOT �

RESIGN"The ADL, by attacking me by

distorting what my poem is saying, is doing

its usual ugly, as a well known running dog

of imperialism, particularly by attacking

anyone who takes an independent position or

is critical of Israeli Imperialism and its

attendant ideology political Zionism. As

they are attempting with me the ADL

slanders anyone who is not happy with

Israel�s ethnic cleansing of the

Palestinians.

Of the other lines of the poem, which the

ADL termed an example of the Hitlerian �Big

Lie�, and the poet�s �spewing Anti-Semitic

venom�. The lines, �Who knew the World

Trade Center was gonna get/bombed?� Well

now, certainly, even the Democratic Party

has affirmed that the Bush Administration

knew. I agree with this, and it is

everywhere on the Internet that not only

was the US warned repeatedly by Germany,

France, Russia, England but also Israel.

Michael Ruppert of the Green Party has

issued a video stating clearly, �Israeli

security issued urgent warnings to the CIA

of large-scale terror attacks. �And that

the Israeli Mossad knew that the attacks

were going to take place�they knew that the

World Trade Center were the targets. This

is from British newspaper the �Telegraph�.
http://www.amiribaraka.com/
http://www.amiribaraka.com/blew.html
http://www.amiribaraka.com/speech100202.

html

Benjamin Barber American Dream, Super

Sized: Democracy can not coexist with

Bush's failed doctrine of preventive war

"In his historic speech at the National

Endowment for Democracy recently, President

Bush embraced a new doctrine, a "formal

strategy of freedom" in the Middle East �

and he did it just in the nick of time.
For although the war in Iraq is won, the

peace has been lost, and that other Bush

doctrine, the "preventive war" doctrine, is

in disarray. The United States can neither

withdraw with honor � anarchy, civil war

and renewed tyranny probably would result �

nor stay and fight on into a Vietnam-style

quagmire, which is what the new Baathist-

terrorist alliance is obviously hoping for

..."
http://www.benjaminrbarber.com/

Jack Beatty: A miserable failure

"With one phrase Dick Gephardt has defined

the issue to be decided next November. Can

a "miserable failure" of a president win

re-election? Bush's victory would testify

to a civic failure more dangerous to the

American future than any policies

implemented or continued during a second

Bush term. A majority would have

demonstrated that democratic accountability

is finished. That you can fail in

everything and still be re-elected

president. You can preside over the most

catastrophic failure of intelligence and

national defense in history. Can fire no

one associated with this fatal chain of

blunders and bureaucratic buck-passing. Can

oppose an inquest into September 11 for

more than a year until pressure from the

relatives of those killed on that day

becomes politically toxic.... You can lose

more jobs than any other President since

Hoover. You can cut cops and after-school

programs and Pell Grants and housing

allowances for the poor to give tax cuts to

millionaires. You can wreck the nation's

finances, running up the largest deficit in

history. You can permit 17,000 power plants

to increase their health-endangering

pollution of the air. You can lower the

prestige of the United States in every

country of the world by your unilateral

conduct of foreign policy and puerile "

you're either with us or against us"

rhetoric. Above all, you can lie the

country into war and your lies can be

exposed--and, if a majority prefers

ignorance to civic responsibility, you can

still be reelected. ...The re-election of

George W. Bush would signal that a kind of

corruption had set in among the led. Our

miserable failure as republican citizens

would match his as President."
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro

/pp2003-09-24.htm

Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy

Studies in Washington DC.

"Nelson Mandela was right when he said that

attacking Iraq would be "a disaster." A U.

S.invasion of Iraq would risk the lives of

U.S. military personnel and inevitably kill

thousandsof Iraqi civilians; it is not

surprising that many U.S. military

officers, including some withinthe Joint

Chiefs of Staff, are publicly opposed to a

new war against Iraq. Such an attackwould

violate international law and the UN

Charter , and isolate us from our friends

andallies around the world. An invasion

would prevent the future return of UN arms

inspectors,and will cost billions of

dollars urgently needed at home. And at the

end of the day, aninvasion will not insure

stability, let alone democracy, in Iraq or

the rest of the volatileMiddle East region,

and will put American civilians at greater

risk of hatred and perhapsterrorist attacks

than they are today."
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/

P_BennisIraq.html
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:AQYI1

sPAePQJ:http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/

P_BennisIraq.pdf+Phyllis+Bennis+Wellstone+

Bush&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Alan Bisbort: Dry Drunk

"How did [Bush], at age 56, get so fumble-

tongued, incapable of coherently stringing

more than two sentences together, snippily

irritable with anyone who dares disagree

with him or even ask a question... How did

he poutily turn his back on the

democratically elected president of one of

our most important allies (Germany�s

Gerhard Schröder) because of something one

of his underlings said about him? Why is he

listlessly in need of constant vacations

and rest, dangerously obsessed with only

one thing (Iraq�s apparently nonexistent

weapons of mass destruction, which must

mean that it really was, all along, about

the oil) to the exclusion of all other

things (including an economy that is slowly

sucking the life from the nation as well as

trashing the retirement savings of anyone

reading these words)? Why is Bush so eager

to engage in violence and so incapable of

explaining why?"
http://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=

195_0_4_0_C

Hans Blix UN Inspector General

"I was smeared by the Pentagon I have my

detractors in Washington. There are

bastards who spread things around, of

course, who planted nasty things in the

media. Not that I cared very much.It was

like a mosquito bite in the evening that is

there in the morning, an irritant"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,

2763,974998,00.html

Richard Blow

"Did O'Neill owe his loyalty to Bush? To

the presidency? To the public, or to his

own conscience? There's no easy answer

here, and people can make up their own

minds better than any columnist or White

House spinner can do it for them. Anyway,

that conversation is of lesser importance

right now. This is a very valuable book,

certainly the best book about the Bush

White House to date, and a discussion about

its contents is more important than one

about its ethics. The substance of this

book, along with the fact that O'Neill

isn't making a dime off it, elevates it

above a simple tell-all. The Price of

Loyalty is not about cashing in, it's about

conscience... At the center is the

president, who comes across looking more

like Ronald Reagan than like his father. He

is often disengaged and frequently

ignorant. He repeats the mantra that he has

to stick to his campaign promises, but not

for the reasons one would hope. Instead,

Bush comes across as so intellectually

overwhelmed that he hangs onto those

campaign promises like a drowning man

clinging to an ocean buoy in a stormy sea.

They provide an intellectual center for a

man who appears to lack one."
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/

9785

Robyn E. Blumner: Filling a suit isn't

enough any more

"[George Bush] was the perfect front man

for the corporate interests and right-wing

ideologues who were looking for a guy who

was both electable and malleable. ...While

it is true that candidate Bush with his "

gentleman's C's" suffered from a lack of

depth - the man had a startling lack of

interest in geopolitics - the oligarchs

knew that in the age of sound bites you

don't need the ability to explicate at

length. The mileage one could get from the

meaningless phrase "compassionate

conservative" would be worth a wall full of

well-digested books by Benjamin Barber,

Thomas Friedman and Francis Fukuyama.

Moreover, what Bush had was far more

valuable: a gold-card pedigree, giving him

nationwide credibility, an outside-the-

Beltway Marshal Matt Dillon affectation

and, it seemed initially at least, the

ability to hide his fierce conservatism

within a common touch. But as the war in

Iraq continues to go badly, sending back

news of a daily casualty count, Bush's

common-touch artifice is beginning to wear

thinner than the backside of his Crawford

jeans. Showing through is the real Bush,

his swaggering arrogance, unidimensional

understanding of issues, congenital lack of

sympathy and intense pique at challenging

questions.
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/11/09/Columns/

Filling_a_suit_isn_t_.shtml

Jose Bono One of the most powerful figures

the Spanish Socialist Party.

His remarks were not intended to be heard,

but were recorded by a television team

while he was talking to Joaquin Almunia, a

former Socialist leader. Mr Bono said: "

Hey, and our colleague Blair? He's a

complete dickhead (un gilipollas integral).

He's an imbecile."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.

jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/16/wspain16.xml

James Boyne

"The truth of the matter is that in 2004

President Bush will defeat himself. "The

cat is out of the bag". "The genie is out

of the bottle". "The jig is up". "You can't

fool all of the people all of the time".

President Bush is not a President. He is

just a kid. He is just a transient

personality in history, passing by, that

history will barely mention in a short one

hundred years from now. He will be

remembered as the son of a President, who

came to office on the strength of "name

recognition". He will be remembered as a

President who was lead by the nose by

special interest groups, lobbyists, Cabinet

appointees, major corporate interests, and

the hidden agenda of corrupt Republican

politics. He may be remembered as the

President that destroyed the Republican

Party in the interests of "special

interests". What emerges in its place, no

one knows."
http://www.opednews.com/boyne1203

__bush_will_beat_bush.htm

John Brown Ph.D., Foreign Service Officer

stationed in Moscow

"I am submitting my resignation from the

Foreign Service (effective immediately)

because I cannot in good conscience support

President Bush's war plans against Iraq.The

president has failed:
To explain clearly why our brave men and

women in uniform should be ready to

sacrifice their lives in a war on Iraq at

this time;To lay out the full ramifications

of this war, including the extent of

innocent civilian casualties;To specify the

economic costs of the war for ordinary

Americans;To clarify how the war would help

rid the world of terror;To take

international public opinion against the

war into serious consideration.Throughout

the globe the United States is becoming

associated with the unjustified use of

force. The president's disregard for views

in other nations, borne out by his neglect

of public diplomacy, is giving birth to an

anti-American century."
http://www.thetip.org/

art_Good_bye__Mr__President__The_Secret_Res

ignation_Letters647_icle.html

Pat Buchanan 2000 Presidential Candidate

"In the longer haul, unless you stop this

cycle of reprisals and assassinations and

atrocities and terror on all sides, the U.

S. -- which is lined up behind Israel

because of our aid to them ... the U.S.

needs to take an independent stance to make

a just, honorable workable solution that

does not take Israel's side 100 percent,

and does not take the side of the

Palestinians 100 percent."Capitol Hill is

Israeli-occupied territory." (St.Louis Post

Dispatch, 10/20/90)During the Gulf crisis:

"There are only two groups that are beating

the drums for war in the Middle East -- the

Israeli defense ministry and its 'amen

corner' in the United States." ("McLaughlin

Group," 8/26/90) The Buchanan '96

campaign's World Wide Web site included an

article blaming the death of White House

aide Vincent Foster on the Israeli

intelligence agency, Mossad -- and alleging

that Foster was a Mossad spy. (The campaign

removed the article after its existence was

reported by a Jewish on-line news service;

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 2/21/96.)
http://dir.salon.com/people/feature/2001/

12/04/buchanan/index.html
http://www.fair.org/current/buchanan-bigot

.html

Robert Byrd Democratic Senator West

Virginia

"The American people may have been lured

into accepting the unprovoked invasion of a

sovereign nation, in violation of long-

standing international law, under false

premises"
The American people unfortunately are used

to political shading, spin, and the usual

chicanery they hear from public officials.

They patiently tolerate it up to a point.

But there is a line. It may seem to be

drawn in invisible ink for a time, but

eventually it will appear in dark colors,

tinged with anger. When it comes to

shedding American blood - - when it comes

to wreaking havoc on civilians, on innocent

men, women, and children, callous

dissembling is not acceptable. Nothing is

worth that kind of lie - - not oil, not

revenge, not reelection, not somebody's

grand pipedream of a democratic domino

theory.And mark my words, the calculated

intimidation which we see so often of late

by the "powers that be" will only keep the

loyal opposition quiet for just so long.

Because eventually, like it always does,

the truth will emerge. And when it does,

this house of cards, built of deceit, will

fall."
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0521-

10.htm

Jean Carnahan Former Democratic Senator

Missouri

"I'm the number 1 target of the White

House. They can't get Osama bin Laden;

they're going to get me."
http://www.freeworldalliance.com/newsflash

/2002/02newsflash1526.htm

Barry Chamish Barry Chamish is an Israeli

researcher author journalist

"This was my first lesson in Israeli

cheating. The most unexpected people are

engaged in it and the people would rather

believe there was no cheating in their

world.I quit the game for good in utter

disgust and then Rabin was murdered. I had

honed the skill of catching cheaters and

this time I vowed I would not let them

prosper. I caught Rabin's real murderers

and though about half the country know it,

they cannot be properly motivated to bring

justice to their land. They would rather

believe that their leaders are honest, the

leaders know it, so the cheaters they

elected can get away with anything. It is a

national character flaw that is proving too

costly in lives and integrity."
http://www.redmoonrising.com/chamish.htm

Jacques Chiraq President of France

"Nothing today justifies a war in Iraq," he

said. "This region really does not need

another war.the debate over Iraq should

take place "in the spirit of friendship and

respect that characterises our relations

with the United States and other countries

.To act without the legitimacy of the

United Nations, to favour the use of force

over law, is taking a serious

responsibility"France and Russia, along

with Germany, are among the strongest

proponents of a peaceful solution to the

Iraq crisis, a position that runs counter

to the U.S. warning that "time is running

out" for Baghdad to disarm.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/02/10/

sprj.irq.france.putin/

Noam Chomsky Leading linguist and

commentator

"President George Bush will have to "

manufacture" another threat to American

security to win re-election in 2004 after

US failure in occupying Iraq."The nation's

most implacable critic of U.S. foreign

policy argues that the war is unjust,

America is the biggest terrorist state and

intellectuals always support official

violence."
http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/

01/16/chomsky/index.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/

75106B9F-1FDB-4D2A-8484-992CBF7C51A3.htm

Ramsey Clark Former Democratic Attorney

General

"Regime change! George Bush has to go and

we have the power to do it. The officials

of the government shall be removed from

office for crimes and misdemeanor; their

crime against peace, and for use of torture

in Iraq.""The greatest crime since World

War II has been U.S. foreign policy."
http://votetoimpeach.org

Eleanor Clift: No Mistakes Were Made

"President Bush is certain he did the right

thing by going to war in Iraq. Bush never

second-guesses himself, a trait that

permeates his administration and contains

the seeds of his undoing. HOW CAN BUSH fix

the mess in Iraq if he denies any missteps?

This administration�s unwillingness to ever

admit a mistake makes it unlikely it will

expand the force size in Iraq, take

responsibility for the phony intelligence

Bush touted as a prelude to war or eat

enough humble pie to get military and

financial help from other nations. The

White House won�t acknowledge anything that

might chip away at Bush�s commander-in-

chief image. That�s the nature of the

reelection machine that Karl Rove has

constructed in his role as Bush�s

consigliere. To admit flaws risks losing

the luster of the wartime president."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/937725.asp?0cv=

KA01

Robin Cook British Foreign Secretary

Why I had to leave the cabinet
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/

comment/0,12956,916359,00.html
This will be a war without support at home

or agreement abroad
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?

template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=98418

David Corn: Is the President a Pathological

Liar?

"I obviously believe Bush has lied often

and consistently about grave matters, but I

have shied away from labeling Bush

'pathological' and the like. Now I wonder

about that. What forced this

reconsideration was a speech Bush delivered

in late November to several thousand troops

at Butts Army Air Field in Fort Carson,

Colorado. On this occasion, Bush served up

the usual rah-rah about the war on

terrorism. But as he was hailing the U.S.

military, he remarked, 'Working with a fine

coalition, our military went to

Afghanistan, destroyed the training camps

of al Qaeda and put the Taliban out of

business forever.' Out of business forever?

That was a false statement....Bush was more

likely engaged in the deceit of

triumphalism --ignoring facts and saying

whatever sounds good to juice up the

public. It was hype, extreme rhetoric,

utterly divorced from events on the ground.

This statement was a report from Planet

Bush, not the world as it exists--a

demonstration of Bush's penchant to embrace

(and peddle) self-serving fantasy over the

obvious truth."
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/02/news-

corn.php

Rachel Corrie Peace Activist

Rachel was killed on March 16, less than a

year ago, when she was run over by Israeli

bulldozer #949-623. Rachel died in the

attempt to stop the bulldozer from

demolishing the home of a Palestinian

physician in the Gaza Strip. This weekend

The Wisconsin Council of Churches plans an

interfaith gathering: the "Courage for

Nonviolence" conference.
http://www.rachelcorrie.org/

Martin Crutsinger

"Former treasury secretary Paul O'Neill,

pushed out of the administration for not

being a team player, says President Bush

was so disengaged during Cabinet meetings

that he was like a "blind man in roomful of

deaf people." O'Neill, who has kept silent

about the circumstances surrounding his

ouster from the Cabinet 13 months ago, is

now ready to give his side of the story in

a tell-all book that paints Bush as a

disengaged president who didn't encourage

debate either at Cabinet meetings or in

one-on-one meetings with his Cabinet

secretaries."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles

/2004/01/10/

ex_treasury_chief_takes_aim_at_bush_in_new_

book/

Herta Daeubler-Gmelin German Justice

Minister

"Bush wants to divert attention from his

domestic problems. It's a classic tactic.

It's one that Hitler used."
http://www.rense.com/general29/conmp.htm

Robert Dreyfuss Writer

"In desperate moments, people lash out.

Perhaps the clearest sign of Perle and

Frum�s desperation is their shameless

effort to preempt their opponents attacks

by claiming that anyone who criticizes them

is an anti-Semite. In disparaging the "myth

of the neoconservative cabal," Perle and

Frum say that "the neoconservative myth

offers Europeans and liberals a useful

euphemism for expressing their hostility to

Israel." It�s a standard refrain for

defenders of Israel�s own excesses: if you

dare to criticize Ariel Sharon�s thuggish

policy toward the occupied territories, the

expansionist settler movement, the building

of The Wall, etc., then you are prima facie

anti-Semitic. In similar fashion, if you

disagree with the Perle-Frum vision of an

endless war on terror and preemptive

regime-change wars, and if you excoriate

the relatively small group of neocons

partisans who advocate that policy, you

hate Jews. (David Brooks, writing in The

New York Times recently, went so far as to

say that when critics use the world

neocons, "neo" means Jewish!) Journalists

around the world, Perle and Frum say,

constantly ask them: "Is the war on terror

a Zionist plot?" Well, no, it�s not. But

neither are Perle�s critics anti-Semites."
http://tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9755

Francoise Ducros Canadian Prime Minister's

Director of communications replaced for

calling Bush a "moron"

"Bush,"What a moron."
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/nov2002/

can-n28.shtml
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/11/21/moron

021121

David Duke American Patriot

"America should put Israel at the top of

our hit list; for in this article, I will

prove that Israel has committed deliberate

acts of murderous terrorism against America

and has responsibility for the carnage of

September 11, 2001.Israel has committed

more continuing terrorism in the last half

century than any other nation on earth.

Then, I will expose Israel�s record of

terrorism and treachery
against the United States of America.

Finally, I will show the shocking facts

proving thatIsrael�s extremist government,

under the leadership of mass-murderer Ariel

Sharon,treacherously abetted the 9-11

catastrophe."
http://www.davidduke.com/writings/

howisraelcaused911.pdf

Susan J. Douglas

"[A]s we're learning from the mainstream

media, whose latest negative news peg about

Howard Dean is that he's too "angry" to be

president, we're not supposed to display

our fury over Team Bush's multiple crimes.

Angry just doesn't go with the PR-driven,

entertainment-oriented nature of modern

campaigning. At the same time, as "The

Daily Show" reminds us every night, Team

Bush does provide America with many

laughable moments. I mean, really, that

Baghdad photo op of Dubya with the roasted

turkey looked exactly like something you'd

see in The Onion. ("The turkey has landed,"

quipped the front-page headline in the

London Independent.) So, if "angry" is out,

then let's get happy and start making a lot

more fun of our Emperor wannabe.... While

most of us feel that fury is exactly what

is called for at this moment, ridicule and

condescension often can be more powerful

than indignant attacks."
http://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=

499_0_3_0_C

Robert Fisk Journalist

"Why, I wonder, doesn't Mr Bush let Ariel

Sharon run the White House press bureau?

Not only would it be more honest we would

at least be hearing the voice of Israel at

first hand but it would spare the
American President the ignominy of

parroting everything he is told by the

Israelis."
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/06/

34755.html

Chris Floyd: Bush's New Testament: I'm

God's Errand Boy

"Here are Bush's exact words, quoted by

Haaretz: 'God told me to strike at al-Qaida

and I struck them, and then He instructed

me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and

now I am determined to solve the problem in

the Middle East. If you help me, I will

act, and if not, the elections will come

and I will have to focus on them.' You

can't put it plainer than that...No votes,

no inspections, no proof or lack of proof

-- in fact, no earthly reason whatsoever --

could have stopped Bush's aggressive war on

Iraq. It was God's unalterable will: the

Lord of Hosts gave a direct order for

George W. Bush to 'strike at Saddam'...And

that's why Bush acts with such serenity and

ruthlessness. Nothing he does can be

challenged on moral grounds, however

unethical or evil it might appear, because

all of his actions are directed by God. He

can twist the truth, oppress the poor,

exalt the rich, despoil the Earth, ignore

the law -- and murder children -- without

the slightest compunction, the briefest

moment of doubt or self-reflection, because

he believes, he truly believes, that God

squats in his brainpan and tells him what

to do."
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid

=12005

Al Franken Author Comedian

"George W. Bush said he doesn�t mind being

�misunderestimated.� Because by �

misunderestimated,� Bush means being

underestimated for the wrong reason. The

media thought he was kind of stupid. He

isn�t. He�s just shamelessly dishonest."
http://www.holtuncensored.com/members/

column355.html

James Howard Gibbons A president should

read a newspaper

"Throughout his presidential campaign and

first years in office, President Bush has

had to combat the impression that he is an

intellectually lazy, incurious, ill-read,

semi-empty vessel. Recently he all but

confirmed the suspicion when he told a

television interviewer that he never reads

a newspaper beyond the occasional headline.

... The president is treated each morning

to a gossip sheet prepared by the CIA and

massaged by White House aides. As Americans

have learned, intelligence consists of

unreliable hunches, guesswork and surmise

that make poor substitutes for news. The

accuracy rate of the press has been much

better than the CIA's, particularly on

issues vital to national security.

Intelligence reports funneled to Bush have

been wrong about Iraqi weapons, the ease of

occupation, the relationship between Saddam

Hussein and al-Qaida, and much, much more.

... Since Bush doesn't read a daily

newspaper, Americans must assume he is

ignorant of much that one contains. Without

a newspaper, he can't even know the name of

his latest campaign contributor to be

indicted."
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/

editorial/2225632

Kenyon Gibson THE NOTSEE PARTY

"Perhaps the greatest crime of the Not See

Party was the execution of Operation

Northwoods on September 11, 2001. Instead

of having real Cubans to take part and take

blame, they had Osama bin Laden, an old

friend of the Bushes, to play scapegoat.

Forty years of refinements to these plans

made them a bit slicker and more high tech

than the '60s version. However, a few

things went wrong, and intelligent people

all over the world, including many American

citizens, were noticing that 9/11 must have

been an inside job. For instance, if one

looks at the anthrax hoax, perpetrated soon

after 9/11, it becomes clear that this was

a fraud made to look like a Moslem act of

terror. In fact, it was clearly US anthrax,

most likely put in the mail by US scientist

Dr. Steven Hatfill, who to this day remains

free despite the evidence against him.

As to the body of evidence against the US

government relative to the 9/11 attacks,

there can be no doubt that this was an

inside job. Molten steel from the beams,

advance warnings given to US politicians

not to fly, unprecedented levels of options

trading on United and American Airlines,

the lack of US Air Force response, Bush's

remark about 'seeing' the plane hit before

it was broadcast, the lack of black box

data, the precision with which one plane

hit the Pentagon, the way the towers jumped

and caused small earthquakes before

falling, these and a plethora or other

facts point to 9/11 simply being Operation

Northwoods."
http://www.rense.com/general47/zion.htm

Steve Gilliard: What to do about George?

"[A]s it was so clearly predictable that

the Iraq war would morph from conventional

combat to guerrilla war, as it had done in

both 1920 and 1991, eventually the series

of lies used to rush the country into war

will be exposed. With that, Bush's problems

will explode from the barely manageable to

the fatal. Bush's one asset is his personal

character, or more accurately, the illusion

of his personal character as an honest,

straight shooting man. The reality would be

more like a boorish man who is

intellectually incurious, but if you've

seen Being There, the simplistic statements

of mentally disabled gardener Chauncey are

turned into political genius, you can

understand how the process works. People

wanted, no, needed Bush to turn from the

callow, incompetent son into a heroic,

decisive president.... The problem is that

Bush is not a leader. He is a hanger on. He

is too proud to follow, and too weak to

lead. He can create the aura of leadership,

mostly by a stubborn refusal to alter his

thinking or by admit error. But when real

leadership is required, he simply cannot

follow through."
http://www.dailykos.com/archives/003430.

html#003430

Jeremy Glick Son of Victim of 911 WTC

"our current president, who I feel and many

feel is in this position illegitimately by

neglecting the voices of Afro-Americans in

the Florida coup, which, actually, somebody

got impeached for during the Reconstruction

period -- Our current president now

inherited a legacy from his father and

inherited a political legacy that's

responsible for training militarily,

economically, and situating geopolitically

the parties involved in the alleged

assassination and the murder of my father

and countless of thousands of others. So I

don't see why it's surprising..."
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~gabriel/

weblog/Glick.htm

AMY GOODMAN, HOST, "DEMOCRACY NOW

"I think there's no question that Bush has

increasingly destabilized the world, and

what has taken place in Saudi Arabia is a

key example. What Graham has raised is very

important. He's former head of the Senate

Intelligence Committee, and he, together

with Porter Goss, who, in fact, is a former

CIA agent are quite infuriated that the

Bush administration, rather than deeply

investigating what happened on September 11

are actually preventing information from

getting out, and this is of grave concern.

He also said that the invasion of Iraq is a

distraction from the war on terror, and I

think what we're seeing this week in Saudi

Arabia with these deadly bombings is a good

example of that."
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0305/14/lol

.10.html

Richard Green [father of helicopter pilot

Philip Green killed in a crash]

"I feel highly emotional about Tony Blair's

presence at the service. "I think he's a

war criminal, it's as simple as that. The

man, without any consideration to the

Labour parliamentary party, elected to go

to war with this scabby little friend in

Texas [Dictator Bush], and killed 51 of our

men unnecessarily,"
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/

story.jsp?story=450117

Denis Halliday Former head of the U.N.'s

humanitarian program in Iraq

"An American invasion would be an

international crime -- and would make the

U.S. even less safe.The whole weapons

inspection issue is really just a ruse. The

real agenda of the Bush administration is a

regime change -- which is just a polite

word for assassination. It has nothing to

do with the U.N. or weapons inspectors or

even human rights."
http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/

03/20/halliday/index1.html

Michael Hardt

"Global Elites Must Realise that US

Imperialism Isn't in Their Interest.Some of

the worst tragedies of human history occur

when elites are incapable of acting in

their own interest. The waning years of

ancient Rome, for example, were full of

misguided political and military adventures

that brought death and destruction to the

elites, their allies and their enemies

alike. Unfortunately we are again facing

such a situation. It seems inevitable that

the United States will soon conduct a full

-scale war in Iraq. The US is also engaged

in a war on terrorism that may extend to

all regions of the globe. And, most

importantly, the US has embarked on a

foreign policy of "security" that dictates

that it not merely react to threats but

anticipate them with pre-emptive strikes.

These military adventures are one sign that

the US is fast becoming an imperialist

power along the old European model, but on

a global scale. It is imposing itself as

the active and determining centre of the

full range of world affairs, military,

political, and economic. All exchanges and

decisions are being forced, in effect, to

pass through the US. The ultimate hubris of

the US political leaders is their belief

that they can not only force regime change

and name new leaders for various countries,

but also actually shape the global

environment -- an audacious extension of

the old imperialist ideology of mission

civilisatrice. Regime change in Iraq is

only the first step in an ambitious project

to reconstruct the political order of the

entire Middle East. And their designs of

power extend well beyond that."
http://slash.autonomedia.org/analysis/02/

12/18/1535212.shtml

Woody Harrelson Actor Peace Activist

"This is a racist and imperialist war. The

warmongers who stole the White House have

hijacked a nation's grief and turned it

into a perpetual war on any non-white

country they choose to describe as

terrorist."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,

813189,00.html

Thom Hartmann: A Fistful of Kryptonite

Against SuperGeorge

"[W]hen Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush, et al

finally came up with the priorities for

their new administration, al-Qaeda had been

replaced by tax cuts for Bush's rich donors

on the "A" list, and didn't even appear on

the "B" list. Thus came 9/11, despite

warnings given to the President on August

6, 2001 that in the immediate future al-

Qaeda intended to hijack commercial planes

and use them to attack east coast targets.

...Rove and Bush realized that if they

simply branded Osama as the criminal thug

that he was - the leader of an obscure

Islamic mafia with fewer than 20,000

serious members - they wouldn't have the

super-villain they needed for George W.

Bush to be seen as a super-hero. If Bush

only authorized a police action, he'd miss

a golden opportunity to position himself as

the Battle Commander of The War Against

Evil Incarnate. ... By recasting bin Laden

from a super-villain into a banal criminal,

we weaken support for him around the world.

And we also deflate the heroic SuperGeorge

action figure in the minds of average

Americans, allowing more rational statesmen

and women to bring this great nation back

to the peace we held through so much of the

last half of the 20th century."
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0106-

13.htm

Martin Heidt: Finally, the Truth About

Bush's Military Service Record

A return of this important article about

Bush's AWOL history. "Bush didn't apply for

duty at Dannelly Air Force Base until

September 1972. From May until September he

was in limbo, his temporary orders having

been rejected. And when his orders to

appear at Dannelly came through he still

didn't appear. Although his instructions

clearly directed Bush to report to

Lieutenant Colonel William Turnipseed on

the dates of '7-8 October 0730-1600, and 4

-5 November 0730-1600,' he never did. In

interviews conducted with the Boston Globe

earlier this year, both General Turnipseed

and his former administration officer,

Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Lott, said that

Bush never put in an appearance....Both

Bush and his aides have made numerous

statements to the effect that Bush

fulfilled all of his guard obligations.

They point to Bush's honorable discharge as

proo f of this. But the records indicate

that George W Bush missed a year of

service." (See also Sheila Samples' "Bad to

the Bone" , and Juan Stam's "Bush's

Religious Language").
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/

3671

Seymour Hersh Pulitzer prize-winning New

York Times journalist

"I think Bush's going to lose [the

election], unless he makes some radical

change, which he's not going to do....

Bush's got money troubles, troop troubles;

he's going to have to hold it. I just don't

see any way out.The Bush administration's

operations in Iraq as a "massive failure"

during a lecture at the Fletcher School

yesterday. He is the winner of a Pulitzer-

Prize and regular contributor to The New

Yorker.The biggest problem,is that "there

are no weapons of mass destruction [WMD]."

Hersh found it "unnerving" that US

authorities sincerely believed in the

existence of WMD in Iraq. "A lot of people

I like and respected really thought there

was an issue there, but I don't think so."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

article5200.htm

Tom Hayden California peace activist

"It is natural that opponents of war want

to protect their efforts from being tagged

as unpatriotic.We know we'll be attacked by

the White House and right-wing radio

broadcasters for disregard of the troops,

when in fact it's the White House that's

putting them in harm's way,Even the most

modest critics of this administration's

policy, like comedian Bill Maher, have been

tarred with that brush already. Now you can

expect more of the same."
http://www.artistsnetwork.org/

artandpolitics/ap1.html#msheen

Ron Hutcheson

"President Bush's decision to take revenge

on countries that opposed the war in Iraq

shocked the diplomatic world, but it fits

his longstanding pattern of rewarding

friends and punishing enemies. In a family

that prizes loyalty, Bush is known for

playing hardball with anyone who crosses

him. By his description, he was the chief

loyalty enforcer in his father's White

House. Later, as governor of Texas, he

cracked the whip on Republicans who failed

to back his policies - a practice he has

taken with him to Washington."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/

1213-01.htm

David Icke Webmaster

GET OUT OF THIS ONE THEN GEORGIE BOY
PRESIDENT BUSH EXPOSED FOR PROVABLE AND

BLATANT LIES OVER SEPTEMBER 11TH And what

about that statement about "there's one

terrible pilot". What?? A passenger jet

crashes into one of the twin towers full of

people and all the President of the United

States can say is "there's one terrible

pilot"!! And then he walks into a classroom

to read a story about a pet goat?? God help

us. "There's one terrible pilot"? We are

not talking a light plane flown by an

amateur, but a commerical airliner and even

if it had not been a terrorist outrage, it

would still have been an enormous tragedy

requiring the leadership of the US

president. But of course none of this

tissue of lies by Bush could have happened

because he could not possibly have seen the

first crash on live television because

there was no live coverage. The fact that

Bush KNEW the plane was going to hit the

tower is more like it because he, like his

masters who orchestrated it, was well aware

of what was going to unfold that morning."
http://www.davidicke.com/icke/articles3/

bushlies.html

David Irving Real Historian

"As for Osama bin Laden himself, I still

find it hard to believe that this

simpering, giggling mystic was able to

mastermind this ruthless plan. Maybe that

is why the Pentagon was loath to put it on

show -- except that their own military

leaders like Tommy Franks, Air Force

General Myers and the ineffable Rear-

Admiral Stufflebeem seem to be several

plates short of a picnic in their own

intellectual department, from what we can

see at their press conferences (unlike

Rumsfeld whose brain is as sharp as a

Wilkinson sword). Watching the videotape I

kept asking myself -- this being Florida --

what these guys had been smoking. Evidently

in this case Islam is itself the opiate."
http://www.rense.com/general18/ckk.htm

Molly Ivins: The Uncompassionate

Conservative

"In order to understand why George W. Bush

doesn't get it, you have to take several

strands of common Texas attitude, then add

an impressive degree of class-based

obliviousness. What you end up with is a

guy who sees himself as a perfectly nice

fellow -- and who is genuinely disconnected

from the impact of his decisions on people.

... I have known George W. Bush slightly

since we were both in high school, and I

studied him closely as governor. He is

neither mean nor stupid. What we have here

is a man shaped by three intertwining

strands of Texas culture, combined with

huge blinkers of class. The three Texas

themes are religiosity, anti-

intellectualism, and machismo. They all

play well politically with certain

constituencies." Fear and loathing in

America
"Among the more amusing cluckings from the

right lately is their appalled discovery

that quite a few Americans actually think

George W. Bush is a terrible president.

Robert Novak is quoted as saying in all his

44 years of covering politics, he has never

seen anything like the detestation of Bush.

Charles Krauthammer managed to write an

entire essay on the topic of "Bush haters"

in Time magazine, as though he had never

before come across such a phenomenon. Oh, I

stretch memory way back, so far back, all

the way back to -- our last president. ...

It is not necessary to hate George W. Bush

to think he's a bad president. Grown-ups

can do that, you know -- decide someone's

policies are a miserable failure without

lying awake at night consumed with hatred.

Poor Bush is in way over his head, and the

country is in bad shape because of his

stupid economic policies. If that make me a

Bush-hater, then sign me up."

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/

2003/11/ma_559_01.html
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.

cfm?itemid=15681

Chalmers Johnson decades as student and

East Asia scholar consultant to the CIA

from 1967 to 1973,

"This is not the way most of us think of U

.S. foreign policy.We Americans deeply

believe that our role in the world is

virtuous�that our actions are almost

invariably for the good of others as well

as ourselves. Even when our actions have

led to disaster, we assume that the motives

behind them were honorable.� But,the

evidence is building up that in the decade

following the end of the Cold War, the

United States has largely abandoned a

reliance on diplomacy, economic aid,

international law, and multilateral

institutions in carrying out its foreign

policies and resorted much of the time to

bluster, military force, and financial

manipulation.�
http://www.alumni.berkeley.edu/Alumni/

Cal_Monthly/September_2000/QA_-

_A_Conversation_with_Chalmers_Johnson.asp

Alex Jones Radio Anti War Commentator

"George W. Bush planned the attacks of

September 11th!"
http://www.prisonplanet.com/jones_report.

html
http://www.infowars.com

Walid Jumblatt Lebanese Minister of Public

Works and Transport

"There are a number of questions on the

authors of the attacks in America. I think

they were a great coup carried out by the

secret services. The CIA and the Mossad

could be behind (the attacks) to provoke a

new war and impoverish and occupy the

Middle East."
In Beirut, Walid Jumblatt, an influential

Lebanese politician and leader of its Druze

community, triggered US outrage on Monday

when he expressed regret Mr Wolfowitz was

unhurt in the rocket attack.
"We hope the firing will be more precise

and efficient (next time), so we get rid of

this microbe and people like him in

Washington who are spreading disorder in

Arab lands, Iraq and Palestine," Mr

Jumblatt said in a statement.Mr Jumblatt

called Mr Wolfowitz a `friend of Ariel

Sharon', the hard line Israeli prime

minister, `and one of the main architects

of ... the destruction of Iraq' even before

the war to topple Saddam."
http://www.maktab-al-jihad.com/iraq/

iraq_news_303.htm
http://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/911/

Jews_WIII.htm

Donald Kaul

"The president had a wonderful plan: knock

over Saddam Hussein like a cardboard

cutout, install a friendly, somewhat

democratic government in oil-rich Iraq and

send a message to our enemies -- "Don't

mess with George Dubya." The knocking-over

part went as planned, but not much else. In

much of Iraq, we find ourselves a hated

occupier engulfed by a demoralizing

guerrilla war... Our kids are getting cut

up. And through it all President Bush sits,

... frozen at the controls, declaring that

his plan is working. He even had the gall

to declare that recent attacks on our

troops are proof that we're making progress

just before guerrillas shot down a U.S.

helicopter, killing 16 and wounding 21... I

suppose we shouldn't be surprised at

President Bush's inability, or

unwillingness, to face the facts of the

mess in Iraq. He is, after all, a

fundamentalist Christian. Fundamentalists

are creatures of belief, and for them,

belief trumps facts, always. They don't

have to prove what they believe. What are

mere facts, after all, compared to the Word

of God."
http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?

op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=5754

David Kelly U.K. weapons expert

A journalist who used British scientist

David Kelly as a key source testified

Tuesday that Kelly was sure Iraq had

weapons of mass destruction, but that

intelligence had been embellished to

heighten the actual threat.Kelly apparently

committed suicide after he was forced to

appear before a parliamentary committee.

Tony Blair said he was not aware of the way

in which the Ministry of Defence was

planning to reveal Kelly as the source for

the BBC story questioning Britain's

intelligence dossier as SEXED UP/However,

Blair accepted full responsibility for the

government's decision to reveal Kelly as

the source of the story.
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/08/28/

blair_inquiry030828
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/08/12/

kelly_inquiry030812

Edward Kennedy Senator

"I believe that this Administration is

indeed leading this country to a perilous

place. It has broken faith with the

American people, aided and abetted by a

Congressional majority willing to pursue

ideology at any price, even the price of

distorting the truth. On issue after issue,

they have moved brazenly to impose their

agenda on America and on the world. They

have pursued their goals at the expense of

urgent national and human needs and at the

expense of the truth. America deserves

better.I do not make these statements

lightly. I make them as an American deeply

concerned about the future of the Republic

if the extremist policies of this

Administration continue."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/011504A.

shtml

John Brady Kiesling Foreign Service Officer

for 20 years,assigned to the U.S. Embassy

in Athens, Greece.

"Letter of Resignation I am resigning

because I have tried and failed to

reconcile my conscience with my ability to

represent the current U.S. administration.

I have confidence that our democratic

process is ultimately self-correcting, and

hope that in a small way I can contribute

from outside to shaping policies that

better serve the security and prosperity of

the American people and the world we share

." http://www.bluemud.org/article/23416
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/

exec/view.cgi?archive=1&num=61
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/

7413

Reijo Kemppinen European Executive

Comission Spokesman
"The commission strongly rejected

allegations that legitimate criticism by EU

institutions of the actions of Israel had

anything to do with anti-Semitism, he said.

"These two things are separate.".
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/08/

1073437413710.html

Michael Kinsley: Bush's Filtered News

"Bush doesn't really want people to get the

news unfiltered. He wants people to get the

news filtered by George W. Bush. Or,

rather, he wants everyone to get the news

filtered by the same people who apparently

filter it for him. It's an interesting

question how our president knows what he

thinks he knows and why he thinks it is

less distorted than what the rest of us

know or think we know. Every president

lives in a cocoon of advisers who filter

reality for him, but it's stunning that

this president actually seems to prefer

getting his take on reality that way. Bush

apparently thinks (if that is the word)

that the publicly available media

contaminate the news with opinion but Condi

Rice and Andy Card are objective reporters.

Anyone who has either been a boss or had a

boss will find it easier, knowing that Bush

believes this, to understand how he can

Michael Kinsley: Bush's Filtered News

"Bush doesn't really want people to get the

news unfiltered. He wants people to get the

news filtered by George W. Bush. Or,

rather, he wants everyone to get the news

filtered by the same people who apparently

filter it for him. It's an interesting

question how our president knows what he

thinks he knows and why he thinks it is

less distorted than what the rest of us

know or think we know. Every president

lives in a cocoon of advisers who filter

reality for him, but it's stunning that

this president actually seems to prefer

getting his take on reality that way. Bush

apparently thinks (if that is the word)

that the publicly available media

contaminate the news with opinion but Condi

Rice and Andy Card are objective reporters.

Anyone who has either been a boss or had a

boss will find it easier, knowing that Bush

believes this, to understand how he can

also believe that things are going

swimmingly in Iraq."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A

38769-2003Oct16?language=printer

Naomi Klein Writer

"The only way out for the administration is

to make sure that Iraq's next government is

anything but sovereign. It must be pliant

enough to ratify the CPA's illegal laws,

which will then be celebrated as the happy

marriage of free markets and free people.

Once that happens, it will be too late: the

contracts will be locked in, the deals done

and the occupation of Iraq permanent.Which

is why anti-war forces must use this fast-

closing window to demand that the next

Iraqi government be free from the shackles

of these reforms. It's too late to stop the

war, but it's not too late to deny Iraq's

invaders the myriad economic prizes they

went to war to collect in the first place.

It's not too late to cancel the contracts

and ditch the deals."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/

Column/0,5673,1079603,00.html

Paul Krugman: How Bush Gets Away With It

"A lot has happened in this country since

Bush took office - stock-market decline and

business scandal, energy crisis and

environmental backsliding, budget deficits

and recession, terrorism and troubled

alliances, and now, finally, war. Beyond

the headlines, however, there's a political

story that runs through much of what has

happened: the story of the rise and growing

dominance of a radical political movement,

right here in the U.S.A. I'm talking, of

course, about America's radical right - a

movement that now effectively controls the

White House, Congress, much of the

judiciary and a good slice of the media.

The dominance of that movement changes

everything: Old rules about politics and

policy no longer apply. Most people have

been slow to realize just how awesome a sea

change has taken place. During the 2000

election, many people thought that nothing

much was at stake; during the first two

years of the Bush administration, many

pundits insisted that its radically

conservative bent was only a temporary

maneuver, that Bush would tack back to the

center after solidifying his base. And the

public still has little sense of how

radical our leading politicians really are

."
http://www.adabyron.net/

howbushgetsawaywithit.html

Dennis J. Kucinich Congressman opposition

leader to thewar in Iraq

"This Administration deliberately led this

nation to war based on based on false

premises. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11;

with Al-Queda�s role in 9/11; or with the

Anthrax attack on this nation. Iraq did not

present an imminent threat to the United

States. Iraq had no usable weapons of mass

destruction. That�s why the weapons of

mass destruction cannot be found.This

Administration�s deception made America

less secure. It has cut off the US from

the world community. It violated the US

Constitution. It violated the UN Charter.

It violated the Geneva Convention. It

continues to cost the lives of our men and

women in uniform. It has cost the lives of

countless innocent Iraqis. It will cost

the American taxpayers well over $100

billion. It has caused tens of billions of

dollars in damage to Iraq. It has

strengthened religious fundamentalists who

now threaten the freedom of women in Iraq

society.This manufactured catastrophe

called foreign policy represents not only a

failure of truth, a great credibility gap,

but more than that, America faces a crisis

of the legitimacy of the government itself,

which lied to the American people to get

approval for a war.�
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/oh10

_kucinich/0306241min.html

Emile Lahoud President of the Republic of

Lebanon

�In the absence of justice and development,

oppression and backwardness prevail.A

commitment to fighting terrorism was not

enough.A �clear definition of terrorism,�

was essential to fighting it.It is not

possible for every country to lay down �its

own definition of terrorism in the absence

of an international explanation of the word

accepted by the international community.The

Middle East is full of examples of

international double standards.We need an

�international re-awakening aimed at

finding the right solutions to Middle East

problems before it is too late. It is not

appropriate for some great powers to impose

their own definition of terrorism.Israel is

to blame for most of the injustice and

extremism in the region.Israel possessess

weapons of mass destruction and continuing

to occupy Arab land in complete disregard

of international resolutions calling on it

to withdraw.

Israel is constantly expanding its

settlements and �oppressively denying the

Palestinians their fundamental rights.So

what kind of international justice is

this,and what kind of logic is behind it?�

Rebelling against injustice is legitimate

and not terrorist in any way!Is resistance

to foreign occupation a form of terrorism?

Backwardness breeds poverty and poverty

undermines freedom.Is an intifada against

backwardness and poverty terrorist?Israeli

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was trying to

make as many gains on the ground as he

could in the lead-up to the US presidential

elections.Sharon had stymied all

international efforts to achieve peace,

including the US-backed �road map� for

peace."
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?

Cat=&Board=news_news&Number=1195607&page=0

&view=&sb=&o=&part=1&vc=1#Post1195607

Saul Landau: Bully goes to war--blames God,

Znet, December 25, 2003
" [T]he born-again bully occupies the White

House. He picks on weak targets, taunts

them--"bring �em on" gets others to fight

for him and then serves turkey to his proxy

warriors on Thanksgiving. But worse than

his addiction for playing dress up for

photo ops, he has made bullying into

official U.S. policy. As president, you

have the forum to conjure up threats,

report them as certainties and then order

the armed forces to fight them."
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/

2003-12/25landau.cfm

Lyndon H. LaRouche,Jr.,Democratic

Presidential pre-candidate for 2004

"The Bush Administration must not make any

excuses for what Israeli Prime Minister

Ariel Sharon is doing in the Dec. 2-8

attacks on Palestinians.Sharon and the IDF

[Israeli Defense Forces] are determined to

kill Arafat and to destroy the Palestinian

Authority. We will not tolerate this.The

present government in Israel represents

currents inside Israel and abroad that must

be judged as clinically insane. Even after

the intervention by the late Prime Minister

Yitzhak Rabin�who warned that unless there

was a fundamental change in Israeli policy,

the nation would soon cease to exist�those

same suicidal policies were continued, and

were, in fact, the driving factor behind

Rabin's assassination.A government that

pursues suicidal policies cannot be treated

as sane. If Israel persists in its current

policies, somewhere down the line, the

result will be the destruction of Israel,

and its vilification as a Hitler-like

state.The Bush Administration should tell

Sharon: Stop this Nazi-like policy toward

the Palestinians, or the United States will

come at you full force and crush you; such

unequivocal action could stop Sharon's

madness."
http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2001/2848

lar_bush_me.html

Terje Roed Larsen Oslo Accords architect

Norway's Minister of Planning

"Fight the Zionistic State of Israel, US

imperialism, and the enemies of the

Palestinian people in the Arab world.'No'

to a two-state solution - support the

battle for the liberation of all of

Palestine."
Right now, Larsen is battling for his young

political life!
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/

archive.cgi?read=19401

Mark Latham,Prominent opposition Labor MP

in Australia

"Bush himself is the most incompetent and

dangerous President [sic] in living memory

."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/

2741421.stm

Carlos Latuff

"We are ALL Palestinian"
http://www.sinkers.org/latuff/waap7.gif

Peter Lee

"The Republicans are right. Hating George

Bush makes us look bad. The proper tone is

contempt. Amused contempt. It's time to

twist the nose of the little man who's

making such a big mess of the world these

days. We've done a pretty good job of

broadcasting the magnitude of Bush's errors

and the disastrous consequences for

America. But we've also paid Bush the

backhanded compliment of making Bush appear

as big a monster as the monstrosities he's

committed. ... He's trying to be Mr. Rocket

in His Pocket, Tough on Homeland Security.

But all he's got is a sock in his

flightsuit. And it's time to start getting

the word out."
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?

sid=14503

Dave Lindorff: The meaning of 'Mission

Accomplished'

"Remember when George Bush the candidate

said he would restore integrity to the

White House? ...The "mission accomplished"

line, like the "Bring 'em on" line, is

returning to haunt him. But this time,

instead of just showing him to be out of

touch, we see the real character of the

man. Caught in an embarrassing situation,

he'd prefer to lie his way out than face up

to his responsibility. If he'd gone to law

school instead of business school, Bush

might have said it all depends upon what

your definition of "mission" is. As it is,

though, he's stuck looking very much like

the little boy with cookie crumbs on his

lips who denies that he broke the cookie

jar. This incident could prove to be Bush's

undoing."
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff

10302003.html

Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London

"George Bush is just about everything that

is repellent in politics
President George Bush is the greatest

threat to life on this planet that we've

most probably ever seen. This really is a

completely unsupportable government and I

look forward to it being overthrown as much

as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being

overthrown.You have got this super-

patriotic hawk who was a coward when his

country was actually involved in a war and

has the most venal and corrupt

administration since President Harding in

the 20s. He is not a legitimate president.�
http://rense.com/general44/threaat.htm
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.

cfm?objectid=12938917&method=full&siteid=

50143

Al Martin Bestselling Author

Bushonianism: Creating a Surreal America
"The purpose of Bushonomics, in the

unforgettable words of George Bush Sr., is

�the continuous consolidation of money and

power into higher, tighter and righter

hands�. But once you have been on a binge,

like the Cabal has been, over the last

three years, and you have transferred $6

trillion of wealth from the American people

into your hands, you have to take a

respite. That transfer mechanism, i.e.

Bushonomics, however, cannot continue

indefinitely. It has to be punctuated with

regimes that will act with fiscal restraint

and economic prudence to allow the economy

to at least stabilize. Then when the

economy is stabilized, you put a Bush or a

Cabalist back in to re-rape and re-pillage.

This is why I have always maintained that

the long-term agenda of the Cabalists is

the economic collapse of the United States

Hagai Matar, Adam Maor, Shimri Tsameret and

Matan Kaminer Noam Bahat AND 583 Israeli

Refuseniks

Matar never expected that his sentence

would be so harsh. But as the teenage

refusenik reports to a military prison

today, he says he will draw comfort from

the judges' description of him as a threat

to the survival of Israel. Mr Matar is one

of five young men starting one-year

sentences at No 6 military prison near

Haifa.They all refused to serve because

they object to the occupation.

"We, who know that the Territories are not

Israel, and that all settlements are bound

to be evacuated in the end.We hereby

declare that we shall not continue to fight

this War of the Settlements.We shall not

continue to fight beyond the 1967 borders

in order to dominate, expel, starve and

humiliate an entire people.We hereby

declare that we shall continue serving in

the Israel Defense Forces in any mission

that serves Israel�s defense.The missions

of occupation and oppression do not serve

this purpose-- and we shall take no part in

them."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,

2763,1117573,00.html
http://www.seruv.org.il/defaultEng.asp

Chris Matthews: Simpleton Bush Not Chief

"In a speech to university students, MSNBC

host Chris Matthews characterized President

Bush as a shallow-thinking, unlearned man

who when confronted by aides with the

decision about going to war with Iraq was

given something to think about for the

first time in his life...'The ideologues

started circling around the president,'

Matthews said, according to The Call. 'They

saw a man who never read any books, who

didn't think too deeply and they gave him

something to think about for the first time

in his life. This thing called pre-emption,

the Bush Doctrine. They put it in his head

and said 'Iraq, Iraq, Iraq'."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.

asp?ARTICLE_ID=35378

Cynthia McKinney Former Congresswoman

"Ever since I came to Congress in 1992,

there are those who have been trying to

silence my voice. I've been told to "sit

down and shut up" over and over again.

Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up

until the full and unvarnished truth is

placed before the American people."
placing troops in Cincinnati Ohio or in

Benton Harbor to restore calm and "protect

property" is about as helpful for the

resolution of the problems of Ohio, or

Michigan, or for that matter Black America

as it is to place US troops in Liberia to

resolve the problems on West Africa's oil-

rich shore.Or, for that matter, in the hot,

oil-rich desert sands of Iraq.America must

be held accountable for the sick and

depraved conditions under which millions of

our people now live.I wonder, have I ever

seen that word in the corporate press when

describing the Bush Administration?Now it

is a fact that it was the Ashcroft Justice

Department that gave law enforcement

officials authority to use the no-knock

warrant But, I'm wondering where are the

no-knock warrants for the Carlyle Group,

Enron, DynCorp, Halliburton, Worldcom,

HealthSouth, all the off-shore companies

that fled our country to avoid paying taxes

yet continue to get billions in federal

contracts? Where are their no-knock

warrants?"
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0516-

09.htm
http://www.votemckinney.org/news
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/

biodisplay.pl?index=M000523
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/

080503_take_it_back.html

Norman Mailer World Acclaimed American

Author

"Gaining an Empire, Losing Democracy?
There is a subtext to what the Bushites are

doing as they prepare for war in Iraq. My

hypothesis is that President George W. Bush

and many conservatives have come to the

conclusion that the only way they can save

America and get if off its present

downslope is to become a regime with a

greater military presence and drive toward

empire. My fear is that Americans might

lose their democracy in the process.The

dire prospect that opens, therefore, is

that America is going to become a mega-

banana republic where the army will have

more and more importance in Americans'

lives. It will be an ever greater and

greater overlay on the American system. And

before it is all over, democracy, noble and

delicate as it is, may give way. My long

experience with human nature - I'm 80 years

old now - suggests that it is possible that

fascism, not democracy, is the natural

state."
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0225-

07.htm

Nelson Mandela Former South African

president

"U.S. wants holocaust Mandela has slammed

the U.S. stance on Iraq, saying that "one

power with a president who has no

foresight, who cannot think properly,is now

wanting to plunge the world into a

holocaust."
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/01/30/

sprj.irq.mandela/index.html

Ellen Mariani Widow of 911 Victim

9-11 widow Ellen Mariani in her Racketeer

Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (

RICO) suit seeking to hold President Bush

and various government officials

accountable for the September 11 attacks,

served Bush and top officials in his

Administration with a personal summons, the

original complaint and the first amended

complaint via a federal process server, as

required by the Federal Rules of Civil

Procedure.Among those served besides the

President, were Vice-President Richard