If anything should adorn the front of President George W. Bush’s Presidential Library is should be - got away with it… “Claims by U.S. President George W. Bush and other top administration officials before the 2003 invasion of Iraq regarding Baghdad’s ties to al Qaeda and its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programmes were generally not supported by the evidence that the U.S. intelligence community had at the time, according to a major new report by the Senate Intelligence Committee released Thursday. The long-awaited report, the last ...More »

A reader, Kevin Mejlholm, recommended the following lecture (*See update below) by David Ray Griffin regarding 9/11. I am posting this not to promote the ideas presented by Griffin, but rather to simply present information that I think should be presented. Therefore, if you want to spend the time watching this lecture, which is one hour and thirty-eight minutes in length, I would be interested to hear your views in the comments as an exercise in open public debate. The video is too large to ...More »

Well, it doesn’t look like President Bush or Vice President Cheney will be visiting Brattleboro, Vermont, after they leave office. The residents of Brattleboro directed town officials to draft indictments against both Bush and Cheney for violating their oaths of office. A vote was then held, with 2012 citizens supporting the indictment and 1795 voting against it. The draft read… "Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictments ...More »

When, in 2001, President Bush announced the adoption of what is now known of The Bush Doctine as official US foreign policy, those who were aware of the policies promoted by a cabal of US neoconservatives throughout the 1990’s knew that it was, in truth, simply The Wolfowitz Doctine, the roots of which lay in Paul Wolfowitz’s 1992 draft of The Defense Planning Guidance commissioned by Dick Cheney, then Secretary Of Defense. Excerpts of the draft were leaked to The New York Times in March ...More »

Despite the fact that they should have known better, you have to feel some sympathy for those that have served as White House Press Secretary during the Bush administration. Let’s face it, a great deal of scorn is heaped on those that have to stand at that microphone and push bullshit on a routine basis. Thus, it comes as no surprise to me that Scott McClellan has made some rather damning accusation in his memoirs which are about to be published. From Politico… “Former White House ...More »

For those looking for my reflections on Remembrance Day, go here. Moving on… There have been reports that Vice President Dick Cheney worked to suppress a National Intelligence Estimate regarding Iran because it contains “dissenting judgments on the Iranian nuclear programme” that would complicate the administration’s position on the use of force. According to the Inter Press Service… “A National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran has been held up for more than a year in an effort to force the intelligence community to remove dissenting judgments on the ...More »

It’s been a question in the US for some time now – is waterboarding a form of torture? The Bush administration claims that it isn’t. The former US Attorney General claimed that it wasn’t. The newly confirmed US Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, claimed that he wasn’t even aware of what it was during his confirmation hearing – and this is a man that has presided over several high-profile terror trials. In truth, waterboarding is a practice that dates back centuries, to the Spanish Inquisition in fact, ...More »

When it comes to fantastic shit disturbers, Antiwar.com’s Justin Raimondo ranks among the best. His entry today entitled The Lobby, Unmasked - The Israel lobby: "We have an 'unwritten contract' with the American media" employs Raimondo’s enjoyably brash style, one that is refreshing in a world filled with tempered analysis. The hot topic of late continues to be Iran and what is, and is not, happening with regards to US internal deliberations regarding military action against it. There is little question that in the event ...More »

Mr. Bush and company have roughly one year and five months left before vacating the halls of power. As was the case in 1968, the President will exit the White House with the nation at war, leaving the problem for another to solve. In the meantime, more American fighting men and women will perish, more Iraqis will perish, the world will become more insecure, and the divisions between its peoples will grow. Over the next year and five months, one vital question remains with regards ...More »

Six years ago today we all know where we were and what occurred. In fact, we will never forget, and efforts will be made to ensure that. What happened six years ago today opened the flood gates, and we are, all of us, now up to our necks in it. For today, the 11th of September, is the Bush administration’s 4th of July. Does it seem timely that General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker’s testimony before Congress with regards to the supposed success of the surge in ...More »