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.
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