Notes for History May 2007

Notes for history-May 2007

1. George Tenet and his book of self-exculpations both need to be consigned to the scrap heap of history. The eminently forgettable Tenet, if remembered for anything, should be recorded as one of our nation’s leading sycophants and should be looked at as only a case study why administrations must resist filling their inner circles with yes-men and yes-women. The groupthink resulting from Bush and Cheney’s circle has lead to the worst presidential administration in our history and Tenet was a key to this colossal failure.

2. America’s mainstream media is either cowed by the Bush Gang, or simply is not up to the task of making plain to the American people the incredible range, scope, and depths of the outright lawless behavior of this White House. How else can one explain the fact there are not scores of journalists investigating the apparent connection between Cheney’s ultra-secret White House conference with powerful energy players in 2001, and the invasion of oil-laden Iraq? Documents have surfaced clearly indicating full scale plans for oil companies to divide Iraqi oilfields, and can only have been meant for use in a post-war, post-Saddam Iraq. The glaring fact Dick Cheney has outright ignored one court order after another demanding the release of meeting details should be enough to spark a bonfire of interest.

How is it the fact the State Department and the CIA have lost scores of career officers disgusted by the avarice and hubris emanating from this White House escapes the attention of our media?

While the incredibly horrid work of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have received media spotlight, how can it be that even while more and more evidence has emerged proving an absolute political corruption of our Justice Department, the media has moved on and has lost interest in this most heinous perversion of justice experienced in over 100 years?

How can it be that no matter how many retired generals and colonels, not matter how many ex-CIA officers and former State Department officials all come forward announcing massive misdoings, failures, lies, and cover-ups, and denouncing the misbegotten policies and decisions of the Bush White House, the media never ties them all together and still happily plays along as though every day is Day One at a White House with no track record of lies and crimes?

Our media does a horrible job of informing the public because our media is not independent of those they are charged to watch, but are, in fact, dependent on those they are charged to watch.

3. Congressional Democrats have failed in spectacular fashion on the one element of our political system most designed to protect against domination by a single party. Democrats have officially shied-away from investigating election fraud and electioneering chicanery wrought by the GOP on federal and state levels.

4. Lifelong Republican and former Chrysler president Lee Iacocca has a new book out part of which is a thorough condemnation of the Bush White House. The daughter of Dwight Eisenhower is seriously considering leaving the Republican Party. The GOP has been shot-through with one scandal after another for years now. How is it people can even talk about their legitimacy? The answer is race. Not a voter with an IQ over 75 exists who doesn’t realize only the GOP will pull out all the stops to protect the supremacy of a predominantly Caucasian establishment. Only the GOP may be counted on to cut programs aimed at lifting the lives of the poor. Only the GOP may be counted on to cut milk for kids but drive up debt to pay billions to defense contractors.

5. During her recent visit, Her Royal Highness, the Queen of England, proved herself an intellectual beyond reproach by her deft handling and underlying meanings in the way and words she used on President Bush. Without saying so, the Queen left no room for doubt her low regard of Bush.
Lrobby99

Two comments On Condi Rice

I keep wondering when the media will tell the obvious truth about Kindofsleezy Rice. So far only Keith Obermann, and he only once, has pointed out her total lack of both honesty and knowledge.

What I have observed about Kindofsleezy is that she is a compulsive liar. That is she not only lies when it suits her, she lies even when the truth would serve her purpose equally.

But the one most obvious fact about Kindofsleezy is that she makes no decisions and has no influence on policy. Rather like George Bush her job is to sell the decisions and policies set by others.

Like Bush, as sales person facts have no meaning to her. That is because she is not involved in policy decisions facts are irrelevant to her. She does not care if what she is saying is factual or not and merely repeats the same lies with a smile over and over like any salesman.

I mean look at her performance before 911 and her comments since. She was briefed by many about the dangers and did nothing. In response to Richard Clarke she claimed Clarke was not aware of any Bush anti terrorist actions because as Bush’s terrorist Czar he was “out of the loop”. Her comments about no on could imagine that someone could fly a plan into a crowded area when most children imagine this possibility before the age of 7 and she was briefed on exactly this possibility.

The reason for Kindofsleezy’s inaction and stupidity is that as no one important with in the Bush administration takes her opinion seriously, there was little she could do. And because she herself seems to like her role as second to Bush as sales person for Dick Cheney, there was even less she tried to do.

The only real role Kindofsleezy has in the Bush administration is public relations. As evidenced by the results of her meetings with foreign diplomats and those diplomats attitude toward her it is obvious that all of the world leaders realize that Kindofsleezy is only about public relations.

The question is when the American media will realize what most Americans and the entire rest of the world realize: that Kindofsleezy Rice has no policy role in the Bush administration, is purely in the job of sales and everything she says bears little resemblance to the facts.

by Dan Goodbar
**********************************************************************************

Rice is doing a perfect job. The State Dept was made irrelevant long ago. There were far too many foreign policy and diplomacy professionals inside State for Cheney to bend them to his hellbent for war will. They would not willingly carry all Cheney's water, so State was chopped off and turned into a sideshow. SecState Powell worked under that cloud as long as he could, then quit. He carries that shame to this day.

Rice is doing a superb job of playing SecState, while concentrating 100% of her efforts at protecting Bush. This is what she has always done for Bush. Rice certainly loves George W. Bush passionately as evidenced by her slip of the tongue when she referred to Bush as her husband.

The same thing happened at CIA in that one professional after another parted company rather than lie for Cheney. To achieve the lies Cheney and Libby needed, the WH circumvented CIA and formed the Office of Special Plans. Among this group's accomplishents was selling the lie of a Saddam-al Qaeda conspiracy. Wolfowitz and Libby were the main lieutenants there, working for their master Cheney.
by Lrobby99