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Impeach George Bush
Palast to Conyers - Don't Stop
Source: Greg Palast, 2005-06-18
Candidate: President George Bush
Chairman Conyers,
It's official: The Downing Street memos, a snooty New York Times "News Analysis" informs us, "are not the Dead Sea Scrolls." You are warned, Congressman, to ignore the clear evidence of official mendacity and bald-faced fibbing by our two nations' leaders because the cry for investigation came from the dark and dangerous world of "blogs" and "opponents" of Mr. Blair and Mr. Bush.
On May 5, "blog" site Buzzflash.com carried my story, IMPEACHMENT TIME: "FACTS WERE FIXED," bringing the London Times report of the Downing Street memo to US media which seemed to be suffering at the time from an attack of NADD -- "news attention deficit disorder."
The memo, which contains the ill-making admission that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed" to match the Iraq-crazed fantasies of our President, is sufficient basis for a hearing toward impeachment of the Chief Executive. But to that we must add the other evidence and secret memos and documents still hidden from the American public.
Other foreign-based journalists could doubtless add more, including the disclosure that the key inspector of Iraq's biological weapons, the late Dr. David Kelly, found the Bush-Blair analysis of his intelligence was indeed "fixed," as the Downing Street memo puts it, around the war-hawk policy.
Here is a small timeline of confidential skullduggery dug up and broadcast by my own team for BBC Television and Harper's on the secret plans to seize Iraq's assets and oil.
February 2001 - Only one month after the first Bush-Cheney inauguration, the State Department's Pam Quanrud organizes a secret confab in California to make plans for the invasion of Iraq and removal of Saddam. US oil industry advisor Falah Aljibury and others are asked to interview would-be replacements for a new US-installed dictator.
On BBC Television's Newsnight, Aljibury himself explained,
"It is an invasion, but it will act like a coup. The original plan was to liberate Iraq from the Saddamists and from the regime."
March 2001 - Vice-President Dick Cheney meets with oil company executives and reviews oil field maps of Iraq. Cheney refuses to release the names of those attending or their purpose. Harper's has since learned their plan and purpose -- see below.
October/November 2001 - An easy military victory in Afghanistan emboldens then-Dep. Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to convince the Administration to junk the State Department "coup" plan in favor of an invasion and occupation that could remake the economy of Iraq. And elaborate plan, ultimately summarized in a 101-page document, scopes out the "sale of all state enterprises" -- that is, most of the nation's assets, "
especially in the oil and supporting industries."
2002 - Grover Norquist and other corporate lobbyists meet secretly with Defense, State and Treasury officials to ensure the invasion plans for Iraq include plans for protecting "property rights." The result was a pre-invasion scheme to sell off Iraq's oil fields, banks, electric systems, and even change the country's copyright laws to the benefit of the lobbyists' clients. Occupation chief Paul Bremer would later order these giveaways into Iraq law.
Fall 2002 - Philip Carroll, former CEO of Shell Oil USA, is brought in by the Pentagon to plan the management of Iraq's oil fields. He works directly with Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith. "There were plans," says Carroll, "maybe even too many plans" -- but none disclosed to the public nor even the US Congress.
January 2003 - Robert Ebel, former CIA oil analyst, is sent, BBC learns, to London to meet with Fadhil Chalabi to plan terms for taking over Iraq's oil.
March 2003 - What White House spokesman Ari Fleisher calls "Operations Iraqi Liberation" (OIL) begins. (Invasion is re-christened "OIF" -- Operation Iraqi Freedom.)
March 2003 - Defense Department is told in confidence by US Energy Information Administrator Guy Caruso that Iraq's fields are incapable of a massive increase in output. Despite this intelligence, Dep. Secretary Wolfowitz testifies to Congress that invasion will be a free ride. He swears, "There's a lot of money to pay for this that doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money.
We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon," a deliberate fabrication promoted by the Administration, an insider told BBC, as "part of the sales pitch" for war.
May 2003 - General Jay Garner, appointed by Bush as viceroy over Iraq, is fired by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The general revealed in an interview for BBC that he resisted White House plans to sell off Iraq's oil and national assets.
"That's just one fight you don't want to take on," Garner told me. But apparently, the White House wanted that fight.
The general also disclosed that these invade-and-grab plans were developed long before the US asserted that Saddam still held WDM:
"All I can tell you is the plans were pretty elaborate; they didn't start them in 2002, they were started in 2001."
November/December 2003 - Secrecy and misinformation continues even after the invasion. The oil industry objects to the State Department plans for Iraq's oil fields and drafts for the Administration a 323-page plan, "Options for [the] Iraqi Oil Industry." Per the industry plan, the US forces Iraq to create an OPEC-friendly state oil company that supports the OPEC cartel's extortionate price for petroleum.
The Stone Wall
Harper's and BBC obtained the plans despite official denial of their existence, then footdragging when confronted with the evidence of the reports' existence.
Still today, the State and Defense Departments and White House continue to stonewall our demands for the notes of the meetings between lobbyists, oil industry consultants and key Administration officials that would reveal the hidden economic motives for the war.
What are the secret interests behind this occupation? Who benefits? Who met with whom? Why won't this Administration release these documents of the economic blueprint for the war?
To date, the State and Defense Department responses to our reports are risible, and their answers to our requests for documents run from evasive to downright misleading. Maybe Congress, with it's power of subpoena, can do better.
Blogs, the Media and Democracy
Let me conclude with a comment about those pesky "blogs" that so bother the New York Times. We should stand and offer a moment of quiet gratitude to the electronic swarm of gadfly commentators who make it so much harder for the US media to ignore news not officially blessed. Yes, Judith Miller's breathless reports for The Times that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction may have maintained "access" for the mainstream press to its diet of White House propaganda, but the blogs insure that, whatever nonsense the US press is biting on, the public need not swallow.
Chairman Conyers,
It's official: The Downing Street memos, a snooty New York Times "News Analysis" informs us, "are not the Dead Sea Scrolls." You are warned, Congressman, to ignore the clear evidence of official mendacity and bald-faced fibbing by our two nations' leaders because the cry for investigation came from the dark and dangerous world of "blogs" and "opponents" of Mr. Blair and Mr. Bush.
On May 5, "blog" site Buzzflash.com carried my story, IMPEACHMENT TIME: "FACTS WERE FIXED," bringing the London Times report of the Downing Street memo to US media which seemed to be suffering at the time from an attack of NADD -- "news attention deficit disorder."
The memo, which contains the ill-making admission that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed" to match the Iraq-crazed fantasies of our President, is sufficient basis for a hearing toward impeachment of the Chief Executive. But to that we must add the other evidence and secret memos and documents still hidden from the American public.
Other foreign-based journalists could doubtless add more, including the disclosure that the key inspector of Iraq's biological weapons, the late Dr. David Kelly, found the Bush-Blair analysis of his intelligence was indeed "fixed," as the Downing Street memo puts it, around the war-hawk policy.
Here is a small timeline of confidential skullduggery dug up and broadcast by my own team for BBC Television and Harper's on the secret plans to seize Iraq's assets and oil.
February 2001 - Only one month after the first Bush-Cheney inauguration, the State Department's Pam Quanrud organizes a secret confab in California to make plans for the invasion of Iraq and removal of Saddam. US oil industry advisor Falah Aljibury and others are asked to interview would-be replacements for a new US-installed dictator.
On BBC Television's Newsnight, Aljibury himself explained,
"It is an invasion, but it will act like a coup. The original plan was to liberate Iraq from the Saddamists and from the regime."
March 2001 - Vice-President Dick Cheney meets with oil company executives and reviews oil field maps of Iraq. Cheney refuses to release the names of those attending or their purpose. Harper's has since learned their plan and purpose -- see below.
October/November 2001 - An easy military victory in Afghanistan emboldens then-Dep. Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to convince the Administration to junk the State Department "coup" plan in favor of an invasion and occupation that could remake the economy of Iraq. And elaborate plan, ultimately summarized in a 101-page document, scopes out the "sale of all state enterprises" -- that is, most of the nation's assets, "
especially in the oil and supporting industries."
2002 - Grover Norquist and other corporate lobbyists meet secretly with Defense, State and Treasury officials to ensure the invasion plans for Iraq include plans for protecting "property rights." The result was a pre-invasion scheme to sell off Iraq's oil fields, banks, electric systems, and even change the country's copyright laws to the benefit of the lobbyists' clients. Occupation chief Paul Bremer would later order these giveaways into Iraq law.
Fall 2002 - Philip Carroll, former CEO of Shell Oil USA, is brought in by the Pentagon to plan the management of Iraq's oil fields. He works directly with Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith. "There were plans," says Carroll, "maybe even too many plans" -- but none disclosed to the public nor even the US Congress.
January 2003 - Robert Ebel, former CIA oil analyst, is sent, BBC learns, to London to meet with Fadhil Chalabi to plan terms for taking over Iraq's oil.
March 2003 - What White House spokesman Ari Fleisher calls "Operations Iraqi Liberation" (OIL) begins. (Invasion is re-christened "OIF" -- Operation Iraqi Freedom.)
March 2003 - Defense Department is told in confidence by US Energy Information Administrator Guy Caruso that Iraq's fields are incapable of a massive increase in output. Despite this intelligence, Dep. Secretary Wolfowitz testifies to Congress that invasion will be a free ride. He swears, "There's a lot of money to pay for this that doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money.
We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon," a deliberate fabrication promoted by the Administration, an insider told BBC, as "part of the sales pitch" for war.
May 2003 - General Jay Garner, appointed by Bush as viceroy over Iraq, is fired by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The general revealed in an interview for BBC that he resisted White House plans to sell off Iraq's oil and national assets.
"That's just one fight you don't want to take on," Garner told me. But apparently, the White House wanted that fight.
The general also disclosed that these invade-and-grab plans were developed long before the US asserted that Saddam still held WDM:
"All I can tell you is the plans were pretty elaborate; they didn't start them in 2002, they were started in 2001."
November/December 2003 - Secrecy and misinformation continues even after the invasion. The oil industry objects to the State Department plans for Iraq's oil fields and drafts for the Administration a 323-page plan, "Options for [the] Iraqi Oil Industry." Per the industry plan, the US forces Iraq to create an OPEC-friendly state oil company that supports the OPEC cartel's extortionate price for petroleum.
The Stone Wall
Harper's and BBC obtained the plans despite official denial of their existence, then footdragging when confronted with the evidence of the reports' existence.
Still today, the State and Defense Departments and White House continue to stonewall our demands for the notes of the meetings between lobbyists, oil industry consultants and key Administration officials that would reveal the hidden economic motives for the war.
What are the secret interests behind this occupation? Who benefits? Who met with whom? Why won't this Administration release these documents of the economic blueprint for the war?
To date, the State and Defense Department responses to our reports are risible, and their answers to our requests for documents run from evasive to downright misleading. Maybe Congress, with it's power of subpoena, can do better.
Blogs, the Media and Democracy
Let me conclude with a comment about those pesky "blogs" that so bother the New York Times. We should stand and offer a moment of quiet gratitude to the electronic swarm of gadfly commentators who make it so much harder for the US media to ignore news not officially blessed. Yes, Judith Miller's breathless reports for The Times that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction may have maintained "access" for the mainstream press to its diet of White House propaganda, but the blogs insure that, whatever nonsense the US press is biting on, the public need not swallow.
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User Originated Comments:
From: BEVERLY CATALANO
2005-06-21 06:35:13
thank you john conyers. i apreciate what you are
doing for our country.
From: BEVERLY CATALANO
2005-06-21 06:32:38
i am very much in favor of impeaching bush and
cheney, but looking at the numbers i am carefull
not to get my hopes up to high. it seems to me
that the majority of people who put that regeme in
power do not care about america and in their
little beady eyes bush can still do no wrong.
From: FemDem
2005-06-20 23:21:59
robbie
and i second that!
From: Robbie
2005-06-20 23:06:47
actually, i'm calling him the bravest man in
politics.
From: FemDem
2005-06-18 21:00:56
john conyers rocks !!!!!
'bout time we had
some intelligent life-form in the oval office.
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| Cheney vs Kay | 1-22-2004
| Bush is Out in the Cold | 1-20-2004
| If You're So Smart... | 1-20-2004
| The New Poll | 1-19-2004
| State of the Union - 2004 | 1-17-2004
| Bush and Scott | 1-14-2004
| The Outrage Gap | 1-10-2004
| Bush Planned Iraq Invasion Before 9/11 | 1-8-2004
| So Bush Had To Reform Medicare, Huh? | 1-7-2004
| FOUND! WMDs! | 1-7-2004
| The Old Bait and Switch, Again | 1-4-2004
| That was Then, This is Now? | 1-3-2004
| God's Blessing Him | 1-1-2004
| Bush Lies About Sex | 12-30-2003
| Lest We Forget | 12-29-2003
| And the Administration Goes on Lying | 12-19-2003
| 9/11 Kean Preliminaries - Administration Delay Hinders Progress | 12-18-2003
| Jose Padilla Held Hostage - Officially | 12-16-2003
| Thanksgiving Leaves a Bad Taste in the Mouths of the Troops | 12-16-2003
| The Bush Administration Repudiates International Law | 12-13-2003
| I'll Take Carni Games for $200, Alex | 12-13-2003
| We've Got 'im | 12-11-2003
| Stop The Count | 12-11-2003
| Rumsfeld using Israeli Advisors in New Offensive | 12-9-2003
| Brainiac Strikes Again | 12-7-2003
| White House Wants Kerry to Apologize for Profanity | 12-7-2003
| Bush Sells Iraq | 12-4-2003
| 9/11 In Neverland | 12-4-2003
| Excuses, Excuses, Excuses | 12-3-2003
| Good-bye, Mr. President: The Secret Resignation Letters | 11-27-2003
| Better Watch Out | 11-26-2003
| Bush Family Business II | 11-24-2003
| Bush Brings Midland to Buckingham | 11-20-2003
| Is Bush Beyond the Law? | 11-20-2003
| Mr Blair: "We stay until the job gets done." | 11-17-2003
| A Safer and More Peaceful World | 11-16-2003
| CIA Finds No Evidence Hussein Sought to Arm Terrorists | 11-16-2003
| The President In His Own Words | 11-16-2003
| The President In His Own Words Part II | 11-16-2003
| The President In His Own Words Part III | 11-16-2003
| Unable to Establish an Iraq/Al Qaeda Connection, Bush Builds One | 11-15-2003
| A Parable | 11-14-2003
| Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave... | 11-8-2003
| Bombs Over Baghdad - Again | 11-8-2003
| U.S. Closes Diplomatic Missions in Saudi Arabia | 11-6-2003
| Americans RIPPED OFF Again | 11-5-2003
| One in Seven - Flailing Support | 11-1-2003
| Bush's Other Wars | 11-1-2003
| There's Only One Issue in this next election - Abortion | 11-1-2003
| Piling On | 10-30-2003
| The Lying Spreads to Condoleezza Rice | 10-28-2003
| Two Words: Emperor's Clothes | 10-27-2003
| The 9/11 StoneWall | 10-27-2003
| 140,000 Voters in Iraq Will Vote to Rid Us Of Our Madman | 10-20-2003
| Charity Begins at Home | 10-17-2003
| Bush Looting Our Future | 10-16-2003
| Did Someone Say "Crusade" | 10-16-2003
| White House Officials Leak Bush's Order to Stop Leaks | 10-11-2003
| KISS | 10-11-2003
| Bush Administration Set to Gut Endangered Species Act! | 10-5-2003
| BUSH LEAVE HIS FOOTSTEPS IN THE SAND | 10-3-2003
| Bush - I lied - Again - So What? | 10-2-2003
| David Kay - Sorry about the Progress Leaks, I was Wrong | 10-1-2003
| Different Lies - Same Story | 9-29-2003
| Why All The Fuss | 9-27-2003
| What If? | 9-26-2003
| The Marshall Plan? | 9-24-2003
| Wouldn't Recognize the Truth if it Bit Him On His Ass | 9-22-2003
| Bush Takes His Case to FOX | 9-21-2003
| Ivins Hits Another Homer | 9-20-2003
| CNN Poll | 9-17-2003
| This Is Not A War, We Were Never Here | 9-14-2003
| Roadmap Dead - Isreal Puts out the Hit Palestinian Leadership | 9-12-2003
| The Lie was a Lie | 9-4-2003
| White House Admits Letting Bin Laden's out of the Country on 9/12 | 9-4-2003
| The Bush Defense | 9-4-2003
| Blair Lied, so Bush Lied | 9-3-2003
| Pointing Fingers at Bush | 9-3-2003
| Duped? Doped? Bush as the Victim | 9-3-2003
| Right and Left Meet in Opposition to Bush Imperialism | 9-3-2003
| The Worm Turns | 9-1-2003
| Can This Fight Be Won? | 8-26-2003
| More Lies from the White House | 8-25-2003
| US/Pakistan Agree NOT to Capture Bin Laden | 8-24-2003
| Losing the Peace - As in Afganistan, Iraq is Proving an Intractable Problem for the Bush Administration | 8-24-2003
| Bush's Other Unemployment Problem | 8-21-2003
| Shame on Bush - No Welcome mat In Oregon | 8-7-2003
| Al Gore Remarks to MoveOn.org at New York University | 8-5-2003
| More UnDiplomatic Diplomacy Towards North Korea | 8-5-2003
| Building a House of Cards | 8-1-2003
| Often-Wrong Cheney | 8-1-2003
| David Kay Leaks Progress | 7-31-2003
| Poindexter Goes Down Again | 7-30-2003
| I lied, too Bad | 7-29-2003
| As Ridiculous as it is Grotesque | 7-28-2003
| The Rumor Mill | 7-26-2003
| Bush's Consistent Failing - No Concern for the American Economy | 7-24-2003
| Tough-Guy Stance Not Working In Korea | 7-22-2003
| Hadley Did It | 7-21-2003
| No CIA Consultation on Bush WMD State of the Union Speech | 7-18-2003
| Cliff-Notes Style Reading Gets Bush D- on State of the Union Address | 7-17-2003
| Why won't this go away? Durbin Charges that WhiteHouse Pushed for Niger Uranium Claims | 7-17-2003
| CIA Officials Didn't get Copy of State of the Union Address | 7-17-2003
| Who is Robert Joseph | 7-15-2003
| Taliban is the Key to Iran | 7-15-2003
| 16 Words Just the TIP of the Iceberg | 7-14-2003
| Bush Told Tenet to Keep the Niger Claims In | 7-14-2003
| Veteran Intelligence Community Calls for Cheney''s Head | 7-13-2003
| Bush Credibility Crisis - Al Quaeda to the Rescue | 7-11-2003
| How the Land of the Free Became the Dinosaur in the Tar Pit | 7-11-2003
| The Hard Questions If Tenet Told Blair Why didn't he tell Bush | 7-10-2003
| 150,000 Soldier Security Force | 7-10-2003
| More DoubleSpeak | 7-3-2003
| BRING 'EM ON! | 7-2-2003
| The Anonymous Reuters Lie | 7-1-2003
| Iraq War is Over, but the Fighting Goes On | 7-1-2003
| What Joseph Wilson Didn't Find in Africa | 6-27-2003
| Waxman - Why did Bush Lie? | 6-27-2003
| Ten Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq | 6-25-2003
| AP - US Didn't kill Bin Laden when they had the Chance | 6-19-2003
| Cynthia McKinney - Bush didn't know about 9/11 | 6-16-2003
| Write Your Congressman, and while you're at it, Sign the Impeachment Petition | 6-13-2003
| Gosh, D'ya Think They Might Have Lied | 6-13-2003
| Call for Impeachment Widens | 6-13-2003
| Bush Lied | 6-13-2003
| Here's The Point | 6-12-2003
| UN - No War Crimes Trials for US Soldiers | 6-11-2003
| Bush Administration Says No Probe into Faked Intelligence on Iraqi WMD | 6-11-2003
| It depends on what you mean by -HAS- George has some splainin to do. | 6-11-2003
| David Kay - it's not about the smoking gun | 6-10-2003
| Dumbing Down the War | 6-9-2003
| Damage Control and Spin | 6-2-2003
| Powell - I'm not Reading this Bullshit | 5-30-2003
| "Inalienable Rights" at the Pleasure of the Bush Administration? | 5-29-2003
| Lynch Rescue Ruse | 5-27-2003
| Read it Here First | 5-25-2003
| Israeli Intelligence Leaks Knowledge of Iraqi Weapons Moved to Lebanon before US Invasion | 5-22-2003
| Whitman Resigns Citing Bush Administration's Environmental Failures | 5-19-2003
| Excuse - who can count them? Stopping Terrorism | 5-16-2003
| International Criminal Court Preferred Venue for Tommy Franks War Crimes | 5-13-2003
| We Give Up - There're No Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq | 5-12-2003
| Will the real Paul Bremmer please stand up? | 5-9-2003
| 9/11 Inquiry Access Stalled by White House - Victims Reach out to Community for Help | 5-7-2003
| Tommy Franks and Others to be Tried for War Crimes in Belgium | 5-6-2003
| The Blade Cut Loose - Mitch Daniels Resigns | 4-26-2003
| John Bolton Warns Syria, Libya, Cuba on Weapons of Mass Destruction | 4-24-2003
| Trickle Down Tax Cut | 4-24-2003
| Oil For Food - US to Manage Iraqi Food Supply | 4-22-2003
| No International Oversight for Weapons Inspectors | 4-18-2003
| Rumsfeld - I don't think we'll find any. | 4-17-2003
| Bechtel Rumsfeld Bush | 4-16-2003
| Excuses Are like Abu Abbas | 4-14-2003
| Three Excuses - Oops, did I say Iraq, I meant Syria | 4-11-2003
| Liberation Anarchy Iraq | 4-11-2003
| so that's it, no weapons, no saddam, no liberation | 4-10-2003
| Three Diplomatic Mistakes | 4-9-2003
| Syria - the new Iraq | 4-9-2003
| Wow, that was easy - Iraq War Over | 4-6-2003
| Turn Left at Bagdad - There's Syria | 4-6-2003
| Ooops - forgot to look at the Airport | 4-5-2003
| Victory with Victory - How to Win a War without objectives. | 4-5-2003
| Excuse IV - Saddam Might Be The Next Hitler | 4-4-2003
| Bush to Rule Iraq | 4-3-2003
| Mourning the Dead | 4-3-2003
| April Glaspie - US Ambassador to Iraq, 1990 | 3-27-2003
| Mandela on Bush | 3-26-2003
| Excuse Number II - Liberating the Iraqi People | 3-25-2003
| Haliburton Awarded Massive Iraqi Oil Reconstruction Deal | 3-25-2003
| War Crimes | 3-22-2003
| Will they plant evidence? | 3-21-2003
| Why Do They Hate US? | 3-21-2003
| If they had'em, they'd use 'em? | 3-20-2003
| The Nations of the World Rally | 3-20-2003
| Washington Times: Will Bush Be Impeached for Starting a War? | 3-20-2003
| Global Dispatches | 3-19-2003
| With Thanks To Michael Moore | 3-17-2003
| Bush's St. Patrick's Day War? | 3-17-2003
| Congressman: President Misled UN, Congress, and People | 3-16-2003
| Diplomacy Does Not Equal Extortion | 3-14-2003
| The Evolution of a War Strategy | 3-13-2003
| The Bush Tragedy - The Fatal Flaw | 3-9-2003
| Bush and Christ | 3-6-2003
| TIP Press Conference | 3-5-2003
| U.S. General Jay Garner - EX Star Wars Chief Appointed Head of Iraq | 3-3-2003
| Proposed National Forest Management Act Rules Changes | 2-27-2003
| Bush - Analyzing the Rhetoric | 2-20-2003
| Riding With Bill Maher | 2-15-2003
| world to bush - NO WAR | 2-13-2003
| Military and Congress Sue Bush Over Iraqi War | 2-11-2003
| Poets United Against The War | 2-7-2003
| Colin Powell and the Smokeless Gun | 2-3-2003
| White House Defends Bush's Guard Service During War | 1-30-2003
| Bush Shortsighted and Arrogant - Mandela | 1-30-2003
| Bush Crime Family | 1-29-2003
| Bush 2003 State of the Union Address | 1-24-2003
| U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton Protecting the Iraqi Oil Fields First | 1-22-2003
| Bush Backs SUV's - More Oil for the Mile | 1-22-2003
| Borrow and Spend - No Fiscal Restraint on Iraq | 1-16-2003
| The Iraqi Charade | 1-12-2003
| McLellan Lies about Iraq | 1-5-2003
| US Developing Low Yield Nukes | 1-1-2003
| The Buck Never Stops | 12-30-2002
| Bush gets ready for an Extra 100 Billion in Spending | 12-25-2002
| Bankers running for cover in Government Debt turn to Bush for help. | 12-22-2002
| Taxpayers Gave Bush 67 Million to Steal the Election | 12-16-2002
| The $100,000,000 Man | 12-16-2002
| Thomas Kean, Co-Chair of Homeland Security Organization Chosen to lead investigation of Homeland Security | 12-13-2002
| Sabbotaging an Investigation? | 12-10-2002
| Godzilla and Mothra are watching the Henhouse | 12-4-2002
| Kissinger's Refusal | 12-4-2002
| Kissinger should be answering questions - not asking them. | 12-1-2002
| SMOKING GUN: The Evidence that May Hang G.W. Bush | 11-18-2002
| CNN Report on the Toothless Watchdog SEC | 11-12-2002
| US Military in Iraq for months, finally the press picks it up. | 11-6-2002
| American Oil Companies Meet to Divvy Up the Spoils | 11-4-2002
| George Bush - Cocaine Addict? | 10-31-2002
| William Webster - A Bush Sr. Cronie for a do-nothing SEC | 10-25-2002
| Bush AWOL - Deserter | 10-24-2002
| Sniper - GW's Shootist Diversion | 10-21-2002
| The Korean War II - Will Bush Take Them ALL OUT? | 10-14-2002
| The White House Shell Game | 10-13-2002
| World Domination IV - Inspections a Prelude to War | 10-12-2002
| National Emergency Act Continues to Grant Bush Generalized War Powers | 10-4-2002
| Klamath Falls Wildlife - Bush Breaks the LAW again. | 9-29-2002
| The President's Real Goal in Iraq | 9-27-2002
| Bush' Campaign Money Blitz | 9-25-2002
| Bush Preemption Strategy a Recipe for Disaster | 9-25-2002
| American Military Action on Iraqi Soil Increases in Last 2 Weeks | 9-25-2002
| MASSACHUSETTS COURT CASE HINTS AT MAJOR BREAK IN CIA DRUG STORY | 9-24-2002
| FBI Foreknowledge - But The Buck Stops Where? | 9-21-2002
| Reuters Reports CIA Foreknwoledge of Sept. 11 Attacks | 9-20-2002
| World Domination III - No Support from UN? | 9-20-2002
| George Bush Prevented FBI Action Leading to 9-11 Attacks | 9-20-2002
| Jose Padilla - American Citizen Taken Hostage by US Government | 9-20-2002
| Impeach George Bush | 9-20-2002
| Impeach George Bush | 9-7-2002
| Bush War Double-Speak | 9-3-2002
| Bush And CIA Complicit in WTC Disaster | 9-3-2002
| Bush Provokes Iraq | 9-2-2002
| Dubya Created our So-Called Recession | 9-2-2002
| Is Bush Pro Democracy? | 9-2-2002
| The Carlylye Group | 9-2-2002
| Help Prevent War | 8-16-2002
| WTC Evidence - AMEC, FEMA | 8-2-2002
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