George W. Bogus

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Bush's Bogus War
Published on Wednesday, June 25, 2003 by the Globe & Mail (Canada).
Bush's Bogus War. by Paul Knox. All governments shade the truth. ...
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Bush's Bogus Medicare Reform
by Robert Kuttner. ... Ideological zealots tend to overreach.
Bush's bogus Medicare reform could do useful damage at the ballot box. ...
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Bush's Bogus Budgeting - ReclaimDemocracy.org
Washington Post editorial February 3, 2004. The Bush administration's ...
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Salon.com | Bush's bogus "reverse racism" charge
Bush's bogus "reverse racism" charge How does a guy whose pedigree opened doors all the way to the White House get away with pretending to believe in ...
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Bush's bogus budget
You may have heard the line about how President Bush's new
budget, revealed on Monday, shrinks domestic discretionary spending, which ...
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Bush's Bogus Blackout Remedy
The president says the blackout was a 'wake-up call.'
But on energy policy, he's still asleep at the wheel. By Harvey Wasserman. ...
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The Lie Factory
... together." It was by turning such bogus intelligence into talking points for US officials‚ -- including ominous lines in speeches by President Bush and Vice ...
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Bush's Bogus Guestworker Program.
02/01/2004 @ 3:23pm. E-mail this Post. President Bush recently invited Latino immigration activists ...
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Bush's Bogus Guestworker Program
by Peter Rothberg Link to Article
President Bush recently invited Latino immigration activists ...
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Bush seeks a bogus investigation for a bogus war
by Randolph T. Holhut
Link to Article So the Bush administration is going to launch ...
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No War Blog: Dow Jones Newswire on Bush's bogus Budget
Tuesday | February 04, 2003. Dow Jones Newswire on Bush's bogus Budget. In his book The Best and The Brightest David Halberstam recounts ...
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Let's Call Bush on His Bogus Terror Threats.
The Propaganda of Anxiety. By KURT NIMMO. FEMA and Tom ...
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Bush's bogus law of averages
In a previous post, we derided as nonsense Bush's claim that his latest tax-cut plan ...
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Bush's bogus war.
By PAUL KNOX Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - Page A17, ...
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The Bush ad recycles a couple of bogus claims we've de-bunked before ...
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Bush Watch
... that a number of previous National Security Advisers have given sworn testimony in public to government panels, suggesting that the Bush position was bogus. ...
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Bush Successfully Shifts Media Attention With Bogus Story ...
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Did Bush Use 'Bogus' Info on Iraq?
Radioactive Mystery. How Did 'Bogus' Info about Iraq's Nuclear Plans Get Into Bush's Speech? ...
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So President Bush Thinks This is WW II and He's FDR?
... Another way in which Bush's bogus "war on terrorism" in unlike the real war of 1941-45 by Peter K. Clarke (June 7, 2004 at 6:20 PM): ...
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Bush's Cyberstrategery - The administration's war against a bogus ...
... else to explain the credulity with which the Bush administration's National ... security experts term "FUD"—geek shorthand for spreading bogus "fear, uncertainty ...
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the ABC's of Bush's bogus ad campaign. ...
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Comments: "Bogus" Bush Ads Busted by Media. Kerry campaigns in Louisiana to say he is not writing off the South. BY DAVID JACKSON. The Dallas Morning News. ...
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Capitol Hill Blue: Conned big time
On Tuesday, we ran a story headlined "White House admits Bush wrong about Iraqi nukes." For the first time, Wilkinson said he was willing to go on the record ...
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US Newswire - 'Bogus' Bush Ads Busted By Media Says Kerry Campaign
Brooks Jackson: Bush Uses "Bogus Number"& "Procedural Trickery". ...
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Bogus terror threats and Bush's police state.
By Kurt Nimmo, Dissident Voice Bomb Las Vegas, America's gambling Mecca and glittery ...
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Trinicenter.com - Bogus terror threats and Bush's police state
... Older Articles. World Focus: Bogus terror threats and Bush's police state Posted on Monday, December 29 @ 20:16:02 AST Topic: Bushwacked. ...
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IWR Photo Cartoon. Bush Admits His Iraq Facts Were Bogus. WASHINGTON
(IWR News Parody) - President Bush today acknowledged that his ...
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How Bush avoids blame for bogus claims
"I'm the president, and you're not.". Reply ...
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Let's Call Bush On His Bogus Terror Threats
By Kurt Nimmo.
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Bogus Terror Threats And Bush's Police State
By Kurt Nimmo 12-30-3.
Bomb Las Vegas, America's gambling Mecca and glittery ...
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Bush's bogus attack followed
shortly after the White House scored a major propaganda coup by getting The New York Times to do a Page One story on whether Kerry ...
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Bogus federalism - The Washington Times: Commentary - June 02 ...
By Bruce Fein. President Bush honors federalism more in the breach
than in the observance, contrary to his vocal celebration of states' rights ...
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News And Opinion
... Inc., Von Drehle The Day The Constitution Died, Ivins. Bush Bogus Terrorism Count Faulty report on terrorism is just a hint, sullivan ...
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Bogus Bush Ads Busted By Media.
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Bush Fuels Terrorism
... Project For the New American Century or PNAC) are based on this Bush terrorising other nations, and the supposed fighting of "terrorism." Bush's bogus "war on ...
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I Told You So: Bush Washington Times Letter Bogus The Washington
Times letter was brought up in a previous post. This is a form letter. ...
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The Left Coaster: Another Bogus Bush Proposal
Another Bogus Bush Proposal. George W Bush wants to spend $120,000,000 for job training grants through the community colleges of America. ...
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The Left Coaster. Comments: Another Bogus Bush Proposal. Bigger budget deficits? What are you talking about? You need to check out ...
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Bogus Stimulus
by Robert Kuttner. January 8 ...
"Bogus Stimulus Bush's plan will benefit the wealthy -- but not the economy.," The American Prospect Online, January 8, 2003 ...
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Hank Roth: Bogus Reasons for the war
... the Bush administration that it was wrong information and they knew it was wrong and George Bush used that wrong information anyway to make a bogus case for war ...
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Administration Exposed on Bogus Use of Intelligence
March 10, 2004. In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday, CIA director George Tenet exposed the Bush ...
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Consortiumnews.com
... But the alleged Iranian intelligence trap could only have been sprung because key Bush advisers were inclined to believe the bogus information in the first ...
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Bogus Blair, Bogus Bush - Independent Media TV
August 19, 2003. By the time the dossier got to Washington, the Bush team was treating this bogus claim as gospel. ...
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Bush Seeks Bogus 'Sovereignty' for Iraq by June 30
LABOR AND THE WAR — February 20, 2004 Bush Still Seeking Formula to
Give Iraqis Bogus 'Sovereignty' by June 30 Deadline. By Harry Kelber. ...
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AlterNet: Bogus Reasons For War On Iraq
By Michael T. Klare, Pacific News Service January 30, 2003. In his State of the Union address and other speeches, President Bush ...
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AlterNet: A Bogus Ban on Racial Profiling
... A Bogus Ban on Racial Profiling. ... For example, if you’re looking for a good critique of the Bush Administration's recent putative ban on racial profiling, you ...
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US misled by bogus pre-war intelligence?
They were fooled into a war they did everything Thursday, 28 August 2003 www.hypocrites.com/article14515.html - 18k - Cached - Similar pages

NYC 'smuggled nuke' threat bogus, Bush admin KNEW or should've ...
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Manufacturing Hysteria
Bogus Terror Threats and Bush's Police State. by Kurt Nimmo.
propagandamatrix, 31 December 3003. www.globalresearch.ca 31 December 2003. ...
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This War is Bogus
... This War is Bogus. ... up for Dick Cheney (now vice president), Donald Rumsfeld (defense secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeldís deputy), Jeb Bush (George Bushís ...
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This war on terrorism is bogus The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ... Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), Jeb Bush (George Bush's ...
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Dan Rather- Bush Issued Bogus Terror Alert to Cover Up 9-11 Bungle ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:51 am EDT. ...
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Bush Officials Have Bogus Degrees
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The Bogus POTUS Factor, by D. Osborne - Democratic Underground
... With all of that said, Mr. Bush still has to go to bed every night (6:00 pm) knowing that the majority of Florida voters ... Simply stated, this POTUS is bogus. ...
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Disproving Bush's Negative Attack Ads Against Kerry
"Bogus" Bush Ads Busted Bush Uses "Bogus Number"& "Procedural Trickery". ...
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Commentary: Bush’s 3 Bogus Rasons for War on Iraq
January 31, 2003.
By: Michael T. Klare PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE. In his State of the ...
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DeadBrain - Bush and officials to take turns accepting blame for ...
... that with the confusion they will forget that Mr. Bush used the bogus claim as part of his justification for the US-led invasion to liberate Iraq and its oil. ...
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The Science of Bogus Spin-Doctor Polls
MANIPULATING PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS With Fraudulent Tripe! ... if you ask a Respondent if he approves of Bush's handling of the ...
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Seattle is closer to France than to Texas
... This allowed them to brush aside Bush's bogus claims of an imminent Iraqi threat, but it has also led to a certain level of denial when it comes to the genuine ...
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Al Gore Democrats Forum - Another Bogus Budget
Bush plans increases, then cuts, in programs he plugs He praised Jobs for the 21st Century ...
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It’s the Bogus War in Iraq, Stupid
... attached to an immediate withdrawal of US troops because all the blame would be placed on the Bush administration for leading the nation into a bogus war. ...
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WorldNetDaily: Playing politics with security
... operative in an attempt to smear her husband, former US Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the first to blow the whistle on Bush's bogus uranium allegation against Iraq ...
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The Bush Cartel Takes the American Public for Fools: Now They Say ...
... only "bogus" defectors in this country are presently "squatting" in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. As one bumper sticker says, "In 2004, fire George W. Bush, before ...
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BILL GATES: KILLING AFRICANS FOR PROFIT AND PR -- MR. BUSH'S
BOGUS AIDS OFFER. by Greg Palast. Monday, July 14, 2003. ...
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Bush Administration Pays Actors to Pose as TV ...
Federal investigators are scrutinizing television segments in which the Bush administration paid people to pose as journalists ...
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Islam Online- News Section
... ElBaradei also rejected a key Bush administration claim -- made twice by the president in major speeches and repeated by Secretary of State Colin Powell Friday ...
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Bush Vs. Kerry 2004 Presidential Election - Another bogus ad
... What the Bush administration approved instead keeps drilling at least 100 miles from the coast. ... Full Story. Another independent ad that makes bogus claims. ...
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Bush s 9/11, Iraq actions: Bogus and misleading.
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Falls Church News Press - February 5, 2004
... threat to the US and its allies as a pretext for a preemptive and unilateral invasion of Iraq was based on "bogus use of intelligence" by Bush, and was not a ...
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General Stuff's Order of the Day
... January 23, 2004. Bush's Bogus Military Service Should Become What Conservatives Always Call a "Character" Issue. I hope the Democrats ...
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[TruthIsAll]

1. The bogus pResidency- selected 5-4 by the SCOTUS crooks

TIA

[Octafish]

2. Bogus is the word! Great post, TIA!

Bogue is the bedwetting Little Turd from Crawford. That is one angry and small monkey of a man, barely able to scrape a four-word sentence together, on occassion, when attempting to read or speak. A foul poseur, the man selected residunce by five corrupt judges, who'll one day have to face all those he's wronged, withouth Dick Cheney.



Monkey and Bogus POTUS.

[Octafish]

3. Hey, DU! Bookmark this thread! It's for the Future's good!

[Octafish]

4. BOGUS POTUS does this for US...

Ban on Coverage of War Dead Upheld

From Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Senate refused on Monday to change a Pentagon policy banning media coverage of America's war dead as their remains arrive in flag-draped caskets.

"It's an outrage," said Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.), who had sponsored legislation to allow coverage of homecoming ceremonies at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

Lautenberg said the Pentagon directive that requires strict censorship, "issued just as the Iraq war began … prevents the American people from seeing the truth about what's happening."

SNIP...

Banning media and public access to the arrival of casualties at Dover was started during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, under President George H.W. Bush. The policy continued under President Clinton, although it was not strictly enforced.

CONTINUED...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-wardead22jun22,1,1570902.story?coll=la-news-politics-national

[TruthIsAll]

5. Bogus kick

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

6. The Bogus uranium claim that led to Plame's outing will toast Bush...

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/World/iraq030612_uranium.html

Radioactive Mystery

How Did 'Bogus' Info about Iraq's Nuclear Plans Get Into Bush's Speech?

June 12, 2003 — Lawmakers investigating why the United States went to war are expected to look into how false information about Iraq trying to buy uranium for nuclear weapons made it into President Bush's State of the Union speech.

In the Jan. 29 speech, Bush made his case for war on Iraq, in part stating that "the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." But some U.S. officials say American intelligence indicated that was not true.

The mystery about the uranium information is the latest question in a growing controversy over what the Bush administration really knew about Iraqi weapons programs and whether officials manipulated intelligence.

A former ambassador told ABCNEWS that almost a year before Bush's speech, he informed the CIA the information was not credible. The ambassador, who asked not to be identified, said that the CIA asked him in February 2002 to investigate reports that Iraq was trying to buy uranium from Niger.

After spending eight days in the west-central African nation, the ambassador said he told the CIA that the information about the uranium was "bogus and unrealistic."

A CIA official told ABCNEWS that the agency "disseminated the report broadly."

Yet almost a year after the findings, Bush used the information in the State of the Union by citing British intelligence.

more..

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7. TIA, I believe you're correct.

My son's Little League team has a coach who's a county prosecutor. He seems like a Republican, but I know he's a good 'puke. The thing is: He says there's no one in law enforcement who isn't furious with what Bushler did to Valerie Plame. It's worse than just ratting on someone. Bush gave out her home address and phone number and driver's license with her pitcher on it and everything.

The guy is livid. Bush is in deep doo-doo when the law and order types are talking like this.

[TruthIsAll]

8. Disinformation and bogus intelligence led the nation into war...

www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_405.html

The Lie Factory

Late last year, a special Mother Jones investigation detailed how, only weeks after 9/11, the Bush administration set up a secret Pentagon unit to create the case for invading Iraq. Here is the inside story of how they pushed disinformation and bogus intelligence and led the nation to war.

By Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest
January/February 2004 Issue

The Intelligence Chain
How a Pentagon intelligence unit created to build the case for war against Iraq funneled faulty information up the chain of command, often all the way to the White House.

It's a crisp fall day in western Virginia, a hundred miles from Washington, D.C., and a breeze is rustling the red and gold leaves of the Shenandoah hills. On the weather-beaten wood porch of a ramshackle 90-year-old farmhouse, at the end of a winding dirt-and-gravel road, Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski is perched on a plastic chair, wearing shorts, a purple sweatshirt, and muddy sneakers. Two scrawny dogs and a lone cat are on the prowl, and the air is filled with swarms of ladybugs.

So far, she says, no investigators have come knocking. Not from the Central Intelligence Agency, which conducted an internal inquiry into intelligence on Iraq, not from the congressional intelligence committees, not from the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. All of those bodies are ostensibly looking into the Bush administration's prewar Iraq intelligence, amid charges that the White House and the Pentagon exaggerated, distorted, or just plain lied about Iraq's links to Al Qaeda terrorists and its possession of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. In her hands, Kwiatkowski holds several pieces of the puzzle. Yet she, along with a score of other career officers recently retired or shuffled off to other jobs, has not been approached by anyone.

Kwiatkowski, 43, a now-retired Air Force officer who served in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia (NESA) unit in the year before the invasion of Iraq, observed how the Pentagon's Iraq war-planning unit manufactured scare stories about Iraq's weapons and ties to terrorists. "It wasn't intelligence‚ -- it was propaganda," she says. "They'd take a little bit of intelligence, cherry-pick it, make it sound much more exciting, usually by taking it out of context, often by juxtaposition of two pieces of information that don't belong together." It was by turning such bogus intelligence into talking points for U.S. officials‚ -- including ominous lines in speeches by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, along with Secretary of State Colin Powell's testimony at the U.N. Security Council last February‚ -- that the administration pushed American public opinion into supporting an unnecessary war.

Until now, the story of how the Bush administration produced its wildly exaggerated estimates of the threat posed by Iraq has never been revealed in full. But, for the first time, a detailed investigation by Mother Jones, based on dozens of interviews‚ -- some on the record, some with officials who insisted on anonymity‚ -- exposes the workings of a secret Pentagon intelligence unit and of the Defense Department's war-planning task force, the Office of Special Plans. It's the story of a close-knit team of ideologues who spent a decade or more hammering out plans for an attack on Iraq and who used the events of September 11, 2001, to set it into motion.

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[TruthIsAll]

9. Bush's Bogus Blackout Remedy

www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2003/08/we_533_01.html

Bush's Bogus Blackout Remedy
The president says the blackout was a 'wake-up call.' But on energy policy, he's still asleep at the wheel.

By Harvey Wasserman

August 22, 2003

George Bush has told reporters he views the Great Blackout of 2003 as a "wake-up call...an indication we need to modernize the electricity grid."

What's clear is that Team Bush sees this latest crisis as yet another golden opportunity. The September 11 attacks delivered a "trifecta," allowing George W. to boost his popularity (since squandered), rev up the military (now in quicksand) and shred the Bill of Rights (definitely shredded). The Blackout puts Bush in the hunt for another triple coup of wrong-headed policies: deliver more money to his favorite campaign contributors in the energy business, continue pushing deregulation, and hype fossil and nuclear fuels.

The vehicle for doing all this is the Bush Energy Bill -- a true legislative SUV. The 2003 model featured big handouts to the utilities, the nuclear power industry and the gas-coal-oil drillers. The nuclear subsidy was about $8.5 billion in guaranteed loans for new construction. Showing rare backbone, Senate Democrats had this nightmare all but killed. But then they inexplicably agreed to pass last year's Energy Bill -- which is only slightly worse than the 2003 model. And, since some form of Energy Bill had passed both the House and the Senate, the whole mess was thrown to a Congressional conference committee.

Even before the blackout, Sen. Pete Domenici, the Republican chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the GOP kingpin of the conference committee, had proclaimed that he would use the process to deliver a GOP wish list. Then, right on schedule, the grid crashed, compliments, it seems, of FirstEnergy Corp.

Based in Akron, FE is now the nation's fourth-largest utility, selling electricity to about 4.5 million people in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. FE also owns and operates the Ohio Legislature, from which it took nearly $9 billion in subsidies in the late 1990s thanks to deregulation. FirstEnergy is the successor to Cleveland Electric Illuminating, the utility that attempted to strong-arm then-mayor Dennis Kucinich into selling off the city's municipal light system. When Kucinich refused, CEI and its banker allies pushed the city into default. Kucinich held firm, and the people of Cleveland still own Muny Light.

That FirstEnergy may have sparked the August 14 Blackout is pure political poetry. Company execs held a $600,000 Bush fundraiser in June, attended by none other than Dick Cheney. FirstEnergy President Anthony Alexander personally gave $100,000 for the Bush-Cheney inauguration, and served on the Energy Department's Transition Team.

Trifecta Point 1: More Money for the Grid

In Bush's spin, the technical culprit at the top of the list is the transmission grid. "The grid is old. It's aging. And the growth in electricity demand is tremendous, and we're not keeping up with it," Spencer Abraham told "Fox News Sunday."

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Trifecta Point 2: Defend Deregulation

Blackouts in general cannot be blamed on deregulation alone -- the preservation of which is next on Bush's agenda. Prior to the (deliberately choreographed) California rolling blackouts of 2000-2001, the worst failures happened while the industry was still regulated. But a blackout of this astounding size and scope could only have come in a deregulated world. For so many utilities to let their systems crash over such a huge geographic area could only be accomplished by an absolutely dedicated lack of concern for anything except short term profits.

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Trifecta Point 3: More Mining, More Drilling, More Nukes

Finally, Bush is spinning this crisis to get more taxpayer dollars for his friends in the fossil/nuclear generating business. More supply is needed, they say, to satisfy ever-growing demand.

Never mind that coal is a massive polluter with a wide range of problems, and natural gas is in increasingly short supply. Never mind that nuclear plants are utterly worthless in this kind of crisis. Because they need back-up power to operate, nine reactors hooked up to the blacked-out grid were forced to shut down precisely when their energy was needed most. Bush's fortunes are thoroughly tied to the big utility companies, and to the mining and drilling companies that produce the fuel they burn, so the administration will continue to use the crises they generate to reward the guilty parties.

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10. I Luv it: The Bogus Potus

I should laugh but I having a hard time. He is such a fool; how in the world did this happen?

[TruthIsAll]

11. Let's Call Bush on His Bogus Terror Threats.

www.counterpunch.org/nimmo02132003.html

FEMA and Tom Ridge say I need to be prepared.

This is what they tell me I need to do: rush out to the local hardware store and buy duct tape, plastic sheeting, and batteries for the radio. Next run over to the grocery store and stock up on bottled water and food. FEMA says I should keep some of this stuff separated in a backpack just in case we need to evacuate quickly.

Bush elevated the color-coded terrorism threat level to orange last week in response to the possibility of a chemical or biological attack. Ridge told reporters the other day the terrorism alert issued last week is "the most significant" since 911. "The threat is real," he warned.

Yeah, right.

I'm not rushing out to the store. I'm not buying into Bush's propaganda war. I don't think al-Qaeda is capable of launching a chemical or biological assault of any measurable significance against America. In fact, I don't think al-Qaeda is anywhere near as organized and ominous as Bush and Ridge and the corporate media keep telling us it is. It's nothing more than a terrifying and mostly imaginary monster used to frighten the people into acquiescence.

Are there pissed off Muslims who'd kill Americans if given half the chance?

You bet.

There's also pissed of Israelis who'd kill Palestinians, pissed off Hindus who'd kill Muslims, and pissed off drivers who'd run you down for making a lane change. I'm more worried about this last category than I am about anything Osama bin Laden may or (more likely) may not do. I'm more worried about some nut with a gun freaking out while I'm shopping for my plastic sheeting and duct tape than I am about becoming a "soft" target for al-Qaeda. I'm more worried about Tom Ridge and the Ministry of Homeland Security, John Ashcroft and the Justice Department, and what FEMA may have in mind for me and others who not only think these so-called terrorists alerts are pure and unadulterated bullshit, but who also think Bush is an illegitimate poseur and the invasion of Iraq will be an immense crime perpetuated against humanity.

Now don't get me wrong. I think there's a good chance there will be some kind of "terrorist" attack in the near future.

Bush needs a terrorist attack, so there will be one.

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[TruthIsAll]

12. The Science of Bogus Spin-Doctor Polls

www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/polls.html

Conducting valid polls is an exacting science with strict protocols which Spin Doctors violate in order to manipulate it for the desired results. Two criteria are critical, indispensable to a valid poll result.

One criteria relates to How the poll questions are posed. For example, If they are leading questions or if they pose false "either-or" multiple choice propositions they are completely invalid.

The second criteria relates to the over-all body of information the Respondent has available to him when pronouncing his poll opinion. For example, if you ask a Respondent if he approves of Bush's handling of the War, his answer is only as meaningful as the body of information he is basing it on. If he has been pummeled with misinformation for the past few years, his opinion has no meaningful significance. It is common knowledge how few people in the U.S. know who the Vice President is. Or know where Iraq is located.



Over the past five years I have been called by pollsters four or five times. Not one of the polls was scientifically valid. The questions were invariably loaded and leading, suggesting the answer that should be given. The surveys were permeated with false "either-or" multiple choice dilemmas. The last pollster to call was a pro-Bush pollster. All of the questions forced me to either answer in a way favorable to Bush or to refuse to answer the question, thereby invalidating the poll as to me, on that issue. Thus the poll results would have to favor Bush by necessity, because of the way it was conducted. All negative, unfavorable Bush responses would be discarded because they would appear as "no response" answers that invalidate that poll issue only for respondents unfavorable to Bush.

The Bush poll above was riddled with schemes which rendered it completely invalid. One question asked, "Which would you prefer: A) Limitation of rights or ... B) An Environment Safe From Terrorists? This is a false "either-or" multiple choice dilemma which did not offer a "no response" option. One could legitimately want a safe environment without losing precious rights in the process. There were at least 7-8 questions just like this.

Another pro-Bush poll question read, "Do you agree with Bush efforts to pursue and prosecute terrorists?" Remember, the pollster asking the question is not permitted to clarify the question posed. This question is utterly ambiguous. It is not at all clear whether the question wants to know if I approve of the "methods" Bush is using or whether it wants to know if I approve of the "objective." Many Respondents are not astute enough to realize the invalidity of the question. Most people approve of the objective but do not approve of the means used to accomplish it. By answering 'yes' as to the objective, the poll will later be used to state that the Respondent approved of the means Bush is employing.

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