Why George W. Bush is WRONG for America
Bush Campaign Emails Detailing Campaign Tactics
OCTOBER, 2004: Recently, we at GeorgeWBush.org happened to notice that our mail server had a default "catch-all" mailbox, which for the past several months had been quietly gathering any and all e-mails addressed to [INSERT-ANYTHING-HERE]@georgewbush.org. We felt the need to share.
PLEASE NOTE: Full e-mail headers have not been included on all e-mails below purely for the sake of readability. In response to requests however, sample headers have been added here and here and here and here.
10.26.2004: Readers may be interested to learn that the "caging" e-mails below (one and two) are indeed the same documents referenced in Greg Palast's latest BBC Newsnight investigation. We sent them to him last week prior to assembling this page.
The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration
List of Bush Flip-Flops
List of Bush Flip-Flops - Part 2
Exposing the lies of the Swiftboat Veterans
Unveiling the horrors of the Prisoner Abuse (Abu Ghraib timeline as it unfoled)
Bush: He Just Doesn't Get It
"Let's be honest with the American people" (Rep. Tim Ryan in Congress speaking about forgiving students for believing in the draft rumors from the Internet)
The following articles detail how the Bush White House and its appointees in the administration and the Pentagon
distorted, fabricated, exaggerated, and altered intelligence in order to justify an invasion of Iraq. Seymour Hersh
is the last of a dying breed. He's one of the last truly respectable investigative journalists. Seymour Hersh
uncovered the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and also publicly broke the Abu Ghraib scandal. A video interview with Mr.
Hersh is linked below.
Also listed below is an article from Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski. She worked in the Pentagon and was
transferred to work in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans. Yes, that Office of Special Plans under the control
of Douglas Feith who was just exposed by Senator Levin on 10/21/2004 before a Senate Committee for having altered
intelligence data. There is also a highly recommended video called Hijacking Catastrophe linked
below. This shows how much control the ideologues have over our current foreign policy.
These members of the Project for a New American Century Find out about the PNAC here
have been exerting control over the U.S.'s foreign policy since the Reagan administration. They are the ones
responsible for our generation's Vietnam - a war waged for purely ideological and political purposes.
The following represents a lot of information to read and to view and I know there isn't much time
before the election. However, from the bottom of my heart, I implore everyone to fully read these articles
and watch these videos. The national media has given President Bush a veritable free pass ever since 9/11.
It's time to start holding these people accountable for their gross negligence that has currently cost 1,589 brave
American men and women their lives in a war waged based on lies and distortion.
An Audience with Seymour M. Hersh (Essay on Hersh's speech at Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY on March 3, 2005
(Click here for a Microsoft Word version)
THE COMING WARS by Seymour M. Hersh
What the Pentagon can now do in secret.
THE STOVEPIPE by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
How conflicts between the Bush Administration and the intelligence community marred the reporting on Iraq’s weapons.
SELECTIVE INTELLIGENCE by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Donald Rumsfeld has his own special sources. Are they reliable?
The new Pentagon papers - By Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski
Hijacking Catastrophe - by Karen Kwiatkowski (Lt. Col. USAF retired)
Hijacking Catastrophe is powerful, understated, straightforward and educational. In a single meticulously organized hour of evidence and analysis, viewers are treated to a thoughtful explanation of modern American empire, neo-conservatism as a driving force for the current Bush administration.
Video (right-click and Save As)...this requires Real Player (I use Real Alternative) to view
Or, read the book!
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh spills the secrets of the Iraq quagmire and the war on terror
Watch the Webcast of the Seymour Hersh interview (Requires Real Player...or Real Alternative)
IRAQ ON THE RECORD - THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S PUBLIC STATEMENTS ON IRAQ (PDF)
This report, which was prepared at the request of Rep. Henry A. Waxman, is a comprehensive examination of the statements made by the five Administration officials most responsible for providing public information and shaping public opinion on Iraq: President George Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. It finds that the five officials made
misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq in 125 public appearances. The report and an accompanying database identify 237 specific misleading statements by the five officials.
More about the Iraq on the Record Report
The Fifth Estate: The Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney
Cheney's remarkable life story involves the relentless accumulation of power in every form and regardless of the outcome of this fall's election, he will continue to be one of the most powerful and well-connected men in the world. The fifth estate will show how he accomplished this, what it involved in terms of costs for others and what history's judgement could be.
Watch the Video 110MB (Requires Quicktime Player)
Note: This video also shows the LIE involved in justifying the Gulf War in 1991 wherein the U.S. gave fake satellite photos to the Saudis to get them to invite our military into their country. They (the CBC) obtained Russian sat. photos from the same day that did not show Iraqi troops and tanks amassing on the Kuwait/Saudi border. The St. Petersburg Times (FL) and the Christian Science Monitor also have articles discussing these faked satellite photos.
This film also uncovers what was going on in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans (OSP). They interview Seymour Hersh who wrote Selective Intelligence and also The Stovepipe and they interview Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski who wrote The New Pentagon Papers and worked in the OSP run by Wolfowitz/Feith.
380 Tons of High Yield Explosives stolen in Iraq because Bush failed to protect it
Kerry's Response
PBS Frontline Documentary - Rumsfeld's War
In "Rumsfeld's War," FRONTLINE and The Washington Post join forces for the first time to investigate Donald Rumsfeld's contentious battle with the Pentagon bureaucracy to assert civilian control of the military and remake the way America fights.
This report traces Donald Rumsfeld's career from his time as an adviser to President Nixon to his rise as the oft-seen and well-known face of the George W. Bush administration during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In interviews with key administration officials, military leaders, and reporters from The Washington Post, the documentary examines how a secretary of defense bent on reform became a secretary of war accused of ignoring the advice of his generals.
Secrecy in the Bush Administration
Rep. Henry A. Waxman has released a comprehensive examination of secrecy in the Bush Administration. The report analyzes how the Administration has implemented each of our nation’s major open government laws. It finds that there has been a consistent pattern in the Administration’s actions: laws that are designed to promote public access to information have been undermined, while laws that authorize the government to withhold information or to operate in secret have repeatedly been expanded. The cumulative result is an unprecedented assault on the principle of open government
Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election
"It is shocking: The Bush administration is suppressing a cia report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names
"names. Although the report by the inspector general's office of the cia was completed in June, it has not been made
"available to the congressional intelligence committees that mandated the study almost two years ago.
"It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner
before 9/11 is being suppressed," an intelligence official who has read the report told me, adding that "the report is
potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren't interested in
terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward."
When I asked about the report, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice), ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence
Committee, said she and committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) sent a letter 14 days ago asking for it to be
delivered. "We believe that the cia has been told not to distribute the report," she said. "We are very concerned."
Note: Porter Goss, Republican from Florida, is named replacement Director of Central Intelligence. Immediately thereafter, this scathing report from the CIA that will actually name names for those who failed to perform their duties properly before 9/11 is being suppressed until after the election
What is the Bush administration afraid of showing to the public?
American Conservative Mag: Cheney reacted with fury, screaming at the briefer that CIA was trying to get Kerry elected
Cheney reacted with fury, screaming at the briefer that CIA was trying to get John Kerry elected by contradicting the
president's stance that Saddam had supported terrorism and therefore needed to be overthrown. The hapless briefer was
shaken by the vice president's outburst, and the incident was reported back to Goss, who indicated that he was reluctant
to confront the vice president's staff regarding it.
Note: Related links
justinlogan.com
The American Conservative Magazine
The Daily Show - clips from the best damn political commentary on TV! (Requires Quicktime Player) Just right-click and select Save As... to save and watch these clips
Rumsfeld dumbfounded and contradicting himself
And how about Condi Rice looking like an idiot? (With bonus footage of Bush)
Remember back in early 2003 when the Republican party was determining the location of their 2004 Convention?
Remember how they picked New York City over Tampa but promised to NOT politicize 9/11? Hmm....I guess they forgot:
The RNC in 60 seconds (Requires Quicktime Player)
Secondary link
Tax revenues are the lowest % of GDP they've been in over 40 years
Federal Deficit/Surplus (1980 - 2004)
Note: Clinton in dark blue; Bush in red
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Bush's inauguration: 10,587.60
Bush's 2nd inauguration: 10,586.03
0.00% change!
Why was Eli Lilly given a free pass from lawsuits re:Thimerasol in a rider to the Patriot Act? Just more of Bush's pandering to the drug companies and corporate special interests. If there is no merit to any lawsuits, that's for our courts to decide, not the President!
Eli Lilly Benefits Directly from the Patriot Act