The Unknown Candidate: The Bush War on America

Monday, February 13, 2006

The Bush War on America

If it isn't clear to you yet, it should be. The War on Iraq is a pretext for The War on America.

It is evidenced daily in the headlines of slews of articles published in journals here and overseas: articles on the deficit, corruption, covert propaganda, the media, the war, torture, covert prisons, ad infinitum. If we can stop long enough to put aside our daily outrage, it becomes evident what they all add up to: The Bush White House has declared war on America.

Using 9/11 as a catalyst, Bushco was able to create the fear necessary to terrify us into giving up our constitutional rights, our ethics, our American values, and our very soul. In exchange for our losses, we got a new neo-con government based on lies, dominance, bullying, power, and elitism.

Bush's America doesn't care about poor people, or sick people, or even middle class people, or the environment, or education, or anything else we care about. The care about two things: money and power for themselves and their elite cronies.

Why is education so bad in America? It is to Bush's advantage to keep the majority of us as ignorant and uneducated and poor and powerless as possible--stupid, poor and trusting--allowing them to systematically manipulate the media, redefine reality and chip away at each and every one of our cherished American rights--with our seeming blessings.

Why is healthcare for Americans unimportant to the elite? THEY can afford healthcare. The rest of us don't matter. If we die, so what? It's not THEIR loss.

Why do polls show America as the number one least liked country on earth? Arrogant leaders don't promote friendships. They care only about military power and the resulting ability to strongarm other nations into submission. Other countries are important only in so far as they can be dominated, controlled and purged of their wealth by the United States government.

But don't take my word for it. Just begin reading and listening and adding up the facts yourself. These days, it doesn't take much work to see what is going on. It couldn't be more blatant.

For starters, just read the following few headlines. (The headlines alone are enough to illuminate how Bush is systematically destroying our country):

Some soldiers trying to get out of Army
Increasing numbers of men and women in uniform are seeking honorable discharges as conscientious objectors. Others are suing the military, claiming their obligation has been wrongfully extended. Many have simply deserted, refusing to appear for duty.
Support for Bush's Iraq policy drops among armed forces: Poll
"The support for the President's Iraq policy is only at 54 per cent or a drop from 63 per cent a year ago, according to the Military Times."
Justice to Try to Toss Gitmo Challenges

Bolton Testimony Revealed Domestic Spying
Jason Leopold: "This past spring, an explosive nugget of information slipped out during the confirmation hearings of John Bolton - nominated by President Bush to be the United States Ambassador to the United Nations - that in hindsight should have blown the lid off Bush's four-year-old clandestine spy program involving the National Security Agency."
Secret Surveillance May Have Occurred Before Authorization

Voting System Results Still Out
The maligned punch cards that snarled the 2000 count are all but gone. But with electronic machines under attack as unreliable and vulnerable to hackers, there is little consensus about what the new technology should look like.
Audit Describes Misuse of Funds in Iraq Projects

Your phone records are for sale

NSA acted on its own to expand surveillance

Big Brother Bush
I don't mean to scare you silly -- but there's a reason we have never given our government this kind of power.
Police-State Powers Are Our Biggest Threat

Thousands Protest War by Withholding Phone Tax
Peace activist Bill Sulzman in Colorado Springs protests the war in Iraq by refusing to pay the federal excise tax of about 50 cents on his monthly phone bill. The tax raises about $5 billion a year, which activists say goes to fund war efforts.
Bush Administration Going after Domestic Spying Whistleblowers
The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the leak of classified information about President Bush's secret domestic spying program, Justice officials said Friday. The officials, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the probe, said the inquiry will focus on disclosures to the New York Times about warrantless surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency since the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Bush Ignored 9/11 Warnings
Jason Leopold: The Bush administration ignored hard evidence from its top intelligence officials between April and September of 2001 about an impending attack by al-Qaeda on US soil. There's no chance that the National Security Agency's domestic wiretapping initiative would have saved the lives of 3,000 American citizens if an intelligence memo titled "Bin Laden determined to attack inside US" that President Bush received a month before 9/11 couldn't move Bush to take such threats seriously.
Voting Rights Under Siege
The Republican majority in the State House in Pennsylvania is pushing to pass one of the most odious felon-voting bans ever seen above the Mason-Dixon line.
White House Knew of Levee's Failure on Night of Storm
ERIC LIPTON: The Bush administration was alerted to broken levees and flooding in New Orleans hours after their collapse, documents show.
'Fool Me Once...'
Eric Alterman writes that the willingness of our most powerful media corporations to defer to this White House for reasons that relate far more to political embarrassment than national security is deeply disconcerting.
Bush Advisor Says President� Has Legal Power to Torture Children
John Yoo publicly argued there is no law that could prevent the President from ordering the torture of a child of a suspect in custody – including by crushing that child’s testicles.
Army won't try officer in Afghan abuse case
The U.S. Army has dropped its case against the only officer to face criminal charges in connection with the beating deaths of two prisoners held by the U.S. in Afghanistan, a military spokesman said....
Bush announces radical shift in foreign policy; No U.S. media report it
Sirotablog: Buried in the UK's Financial Times - and as far as I can tell, not reported anywhere else - are the details of a State Department briefing this week in which the Bush administration very publicly said it is essentially scrapping U.S. support for NATO and the United Nations. No joke.
Iraq Dispatches: US Propaganda vs. Iraqi Reality
Dahr Jamail points to the the Capital Hill Cabal who are desperate to paint the Iraq disaster in a glorious hue. Jamail says they are working their pundits and spokespeople overtime to convince the ill-informed they have not failed dismally in every aspect of their illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Our Presidential Era: Who Can Check the President?
Noah Feldman compares the Bush administration to the Nixon administration, pointing to the recent revelation that George W. Bush ordered secret wiretaps in the United States without judicial approval and thus set off the latest round of arguments over what the president can and cannot do in the name of the presidency.
Historical Truth
The Left Coaster: Yet another study has been concluded which indicates that the 2000 Election really did go to President Al Gore.
President Bush at Recess
President Bush, with his kingly crown glistening, has used the recess appointment power to rescue egregiously bad selections that would never pass muster on grounds of experience and competence.
How the US Press Squelches Bush Impeachment Drive
Dave Lindorff: Apparently in the editorial cloisters of our official Fourth Estate, where decisions as to what it is safe or appropriate for us in the public to know, it has been determined that we do not need to know that the notion of impeachment of the president is starting to grow.
Tough Interrogation Tactics Were Opposed
Memos indicate that even military units at Guantanamo Bay pushed back against the department's efforts to use new, aggressive tactics against detainees during the facility's first year. The military's top lawyers also warned that the approval of such tactics could lead to abuse and unlawful conduct.
Why We Can't Trust Our President
TalkLeft: The New York Times, in a single editorial, lays out the reasons Americans can't trust the man they elected President...
Men Intoxicated with Power and Courtiers Who Serve Them
Ray McGovern: Individually, the new "dots" supplied by revelations about the Iraq war in James Risen's "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration" are not very surprising. Collectively, though, they provide valuable insight into the peculiar way in which President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair prepared to launch an unprovoked war - shades of Germany and Quisling Austria two generations ago.
Army Does Not Criminally Charge Abusers for Torture
The Army closed a criminal investigation of abuse allegations by an Iraqi detainee last year, finding no reason to believe his claims, even though no Americans involved in the case were questioned.
The States Step In As Medicare Falters
Ceci Connolly, The Washington Post: Two weeks into the new Medicare prescription drug program, many of the nation's sickest and poorest elderly and disabled people are being turned away or overcharged at pharmacies, prompting more than a dozen states to declare health emergencies and pay for their life-saving medicines.
The Bugs in Our System
CAN we trust claims that the unregulated monitoring of telephone conversations by the executive branch does not threaten our privacy because the president has authorized spying only upon people linked to terrorist groups? One answer can be found in a little-remembered domestic spying scandal that took place four decades....
2002 Memo Doubted Uranium Sale Claim
A high-level intelligence assessment by the Bush administration concluded in early 2002 that the sale of uranium from Niger to Iraq was ''unlikely'' because of a host of economic, diplomatic and logistical obstacles, according to a secret memo that was recently declassified by the State Department.
Amnesty Releases New Gitmo Torture Testimony