Don't breathe.......The House of Cards of Bush might fall.....

[kentuck]

It is a house of cards. When one card collapses, the whole house will collapse. It's just a matter of time, I am convinced. They keep stacking another card on the house and everybody in the media steps back in awe...They are getting close to the end of the deck...Social Security was about card #51.... Shhh-hh...don't breathe....

[evlbstrd]

1. ahh...aaah....aaaaaah....

CHOOOOO!

[Jacobin]

2. psssst.....that house of cards?

they're superglued together by the media.

[deutsey]

21. Ding ding ding!

We have a winner.

:evilfrown:

[hiley]

3. kentuck

tis true !
IMPEACHMENT TIME: "FACTS WERE FIXED."
Special to BuzzFlash
Thursday, May 5, 2005
By Greg Palast

Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has "IMPEACH HIM" written all over it.

The top-level government memo marked "SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL," dated eight months before Bush sent us into Iraq, following a closed meeting with the President, reads, "Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

Read that again: "The intelligence and facts were being fixed...."

For years, after each damning report on BBC TV, viewers inevitably ask me, "Isn't this grounds for impeachment?" -- vote rigging, a blind eye to terror and the bin Ladens before 9-11, and so on. Evil, stupidity and self-dealing are shameful but not impeachable. What's needed is a "high crime or misdemeanor."

And if this ain't it, nothing is.

The memo uncovered this week by the Times, goes on to describe an elaborate plan by George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to hoodwink the planet into supporting an attack on Iraq knowing full well the evidence for war was a phony.

A conspiracy to commit serial fraud is, under federal law, racketeering. However, the Mob's schemes never cost so many lives.

Here's more. "Bush had made up his mind to take military action. But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbors, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran."

Really? But Mr. Bush told us, "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."

A month ago, the Silberman-Robb Commission issued its report on WMD intelligence before the war, dismissing claims that Bush fixed the facts with this snooty, condescending conclusion written directly to the President, "After a thorough review, the Commission found no indication that the Intelligence Community distorted the evidence regarding Iraq's weapons."

We now know the report was a bogus 618 pages of thick whitewash aimed to let Bush off the hook for his murderous mendacity.

Read on: The invasion build-up was then set, says the memo, "beginning 30 days before the US Congressional elections." Mission accomplished.

You should parse the entire memo -- reprinted below -- and see if you can make it through its three pages without losing your lunch.

Now sharp readers may note they didn't see this memo, in fact, printed in the New York Times. It wasn't. Rather, it was splashed across the front pages of the Times of LONDON on Monday.

It has effectively finished the last, sorry remnants of Tony Blair's political career. (While his Labor Party will most assuredly win the elections Thursday, Prime Minister Blair is expected, possibly within months, to be shoved overboard in favor of his Chancellor of the Exchequer, a political execution which requires only a vote of the Labour party's members in Parliament.)

But in the US, barely a word. The New York Times covers this hard evidence of Bush's fabrication of a casus belli as some "British" elections story. Apparently, our President's fraud isn't "news fit to print."

My colleagues in the UK press have skewered Blair, digging out more incriminating memos, challenging the official government factoids and fibs. But in the US press … nada, bubkes, zilch. Bush fixed the facts and somehow that's a story for "over there."

The Republicans impeached Bill Clinton over his cigar and Monica's affections. And the US media could print nothing else.

Now, we have the stone, cold evidence of bending intelligence to sell us on death by the thousands, and neither a Republican Congress nor what is laughably called US journalism thought it worth a second look.

My friend Daniel Ellsberg once said that what's good about the American people is that you have to lie to them. What's bad about Americans is that it's so easy to do.


Greg Palast, former columnist for Britain's Guardian papers, is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
Subscribe to his columns at www.GregPalast.com Media requests to contact(at)gregpalast.com Permission to reprint with attribution granted.
http://www.gregpalast.com/printerfriendly.cfm?artid=426

[quiet.american]

5. Saw this on CNN!

--Not.

Neither did I see it on MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, FAUX (duh), UPN, WP11, or in USA TODAY, NEW YORK POST, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS OR EVEN THE NEW YORK TIMES -- although I think it was released in NYT under "Election Eve Antics" or something like that.

If I asked anyone I knew today, even amongst my completely lefty, liberal friends, I would wager absolutely no one would have known what I was talking about, and further would have followed their ignorance with the usual "is that important?"

My opinion -- absolutely nothing will happen out of this -- not in this country. The Brits might force "Uncle Tony" out (after Labour wins the election) since the story is getting play there.

[hiley]

7. so does that mean we should just give up and wait

for "them" to destroy everything ?
please,do not watch those channels, we know already all they show is propaganda .
http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/fscm2/genx.php?name=home
http://www.innworldreport.net/index.htm
http://linktv.org/

[quiet.american]

10. No, my friend

Thanks, but no need to point me to real news sources -- my point is, the only "play" this story is getting is on the blogs and places like Buzzflash -- in the States, that is.

Without even watching CNN et al., I already know this story just isn't on there.

The battle of course has to be fought citizen by citizen, picking up the phone, making the call to the reprehensible Repubs' offices, our own Democratic representatives, LTTE's, calling in to the radio shows, signing the petitions, protesting in the streets, financially supporting those who are on the front lines -- you know the drill.

[hiley]

15. quiet.american

i understand the frustration but hopefully you saw that Knight Writer is reporting this now, i googled tonight and 42 stories, not enough but maybe it will build.
i really hope this won't get buried like everything else with this shameful administration does.
apology if i offended, not my intention.
hiley
:)

[quiet.american]

16. Did see it's getting a little play

-- on a Friday, of course.... :)

Wasn't offended at all -- just wanted to be clear about where I'm coming from.

Cheers!

[hiley]

22. quiet.american

my friend dzika showed me a tiny, little clip from CNN this morning about this story. the clip was less than 1 minute...
so discouraging and encouraging at the same frickin' time , do you know how I mean ?
talks about the dems letter signed by 90 lawmakers to bush.
hmm, I want more !!
hiley
:shrug:

so pleased you were not offended,
peace

[KoKo]

11. And this latest about Abramoff/DeLay/Scalia and 2000 Selection plus

the Lobby money for Indian Gaming:

Abramoff partners bragged of recount role

Indeed, some members of the firm mention their roles in the recount in their biographies to this day. In a release last year, Greenberg dubbed themselves “the international law firm that successfully represented President George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election litigation.”

Four of Abramoff’s colleagues—all of whom have left Greenberg in the wake of investigations surrounding Abramoff’s activities—were foot soldiers in the Florida recount. Two of them bragged of their recount work on their official online Greenberg biographies, which have since been removed.

Shawn Vasell noted that he was a “team leader” in Broward and Duval counties in his bio; Duane Gibson was photographed in the acclaimed “Brooks Brothers riot” of Republican operatives outside the Miami-Dade County polling headquarters; Todd Boulanger boasted of being on the Broward and Duval recount team in his profile. Also on the ground was former DeLay deputy chief of staff Tony Rudy.

Boulanger drafted a letter DeLay signed urging the Interior Department to favor Abramoff’s client in June 2003—a letter cosigned by the House Republican leadership, including Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO).

Boulanger married Blunt’s press secretary earlier this year.

Bush’s decision to employ Greenberg took flak from some Democrats at the time. Shortly before the case came before the Supreme Court, the firm announced the hire of John Scalia, son of Justice Antonin Scalia. Gore’s attorneys and ethics experts didn’t press the issue at the time, saying John Scalia wasn’t directly connected to the case.

The formal announcement of Scalia’s hire came on Jan. 9, 2001, after the court had ruled. Abramoff’s hire was announced two days before—along with the former DeLay deputy Rudy, Vasell, and Boulanger.

[KoKo]

12. And this latest about Abramoff/DeLay/Scalia and 2000 Selection plus

the Lobby money for Indian Gaming:

Abramoff partners bragged of recount role

Indeed, some members of the firm mention their roles in the recount in their biographies to this day. In a release last year, Greenberg dubbed themselves “the international law firm that successfully represented President George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election litigation.”

Four of Abramoff’s colleagues—all of whom have left Greenberg in the wake of investigations surrounding Abramoff’s activities—were foot soldiers in the Florida recount. Two of them bragged of their recount work on their official online Greenberg biographies, which have since been removed.

Shawn Vasell noted that he was a “team leader” in Broward and Duval counties in his bio; Duane Gibson was photographed in the acclaimed “Brooks Brothers riot” of Republican operatives outside the Miami-Dade County polling headquarters; Todd Boulanger boasted of being on the Broward and Duval recount team in his profile. Also on the ground was former DeLay deputy chief of staff Tony Rudy.

Boulanger drafted a letter DeLay signed urging the Interior Department to favor Abramoff’s client in June 2003—a letter cosigned by the House Republican leadership, including Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO).

Boulanger married Blunt’s press secretary earlier this year.

Bush’s decision to employ Greenberg took flak from some Democrats at the time. Shortly before the case came before the Supreme Court, the firm announced the hire of John Scalia, son of Justice Antonin Scalia. Gore’s attorneys and ethics experts didn’t press the issue at the time, saying John Scalia wasn’t directly connected to the case.

The formal announcement of Scalia’s hire came on Jan. 9, 2001, after the court had ruled. Abramoff’s hire was announced two days before—along with the former DeLay deputy Rudy, Vasell, and Boulanger.

http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/abramoff_florida_recount_bush_505.htm

[magellan]

13. This is how ethical and full of values Republicans are

They hounded Clinton mercilessly and then impeached him for lying about "that woman"...They would have CRUCIFIED CLINTON AND THE REST OF HIS ADMINISTRATION ON THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN OVER THE LIES REVEALED BY THIS LEAKED MINUTE.

Bush** gets roasted by his darling wife at a journalists' dinner.

What more can possibly be said.

[Jade Fox]

4. I agree....

but I'm afraid of being too optimistic.

The Neocons are doomed to failure. They are trying to impose minority
values on the majority, and trying to turn back the hands of time. Niether
will ever work. It's just a matter of how much damage they will do before
going down.

[peacebird]

6. love your sig, JadeFox

I also believe the neocons are going to fail - eventually - my fear is that by the time they are thrown out of office we won't recognize our country anymore.

How long will it take to repair the damage they are doing to America and our reputation in the world, as well as damage to our country environmentally and socially?

I think (sad but true) that we are in for very dark days before the end of this disaster. There will be many intentional (end of social programs) and unintentional reactions to the neocons foolish actions.

[Jade Fox]

8. Thanks, I just added that sig...

Yes, unfortunately some serious damage may have to be done before
those lulled by the media get that things are seriously wrong. Seymor
Hersh says it will probably be the economy.

[Clark2008]

9. Isn't the economy already stagnent?

I mean, there are still millions looking for work.

You'd think that would wake at least some folks up!

[David Zephyr]

14. Breathe? Hell, Kentuck, I wanna huff and puff and blow...

I think there's super glue on the damned cards myself. :hi:

[Must_B_Free]

17. This thing is ballooning like a mofo under the surface.

no matter what, this goes down in history - it's already written: this
is the reason Blair lost so much support in the British election.

It's going to blow big.

[high density]

18. Bush? Huh? Bad things?

What about that poor woman in Duluth, GA? I desperately want to hear more about her.




:sarcasm:

[harpo]

19. where's my bat? time to take some swings and undo the superglue

:nuke:

[earth mom]

20. We need a major wind storm or tornado to rip their house apart! nt