Bush is Funding al-Qaeda, Making Him an Unlawful Combatant

[kpete]

Bush is Funding al-Qaeda, Making Him an Unlawful Combatant
By Dave Lindorff

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Now we learn from ace investigative reporter Sy Hersh, speaking on CNN that Bush and his criminal crew have been using this illicit, stolen cash to fund covert attacks on Iranian targets, and that much of the money has been going--get this--to Sunni jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda--the very people we're fighting in Iraq!

Now, it should be pointed out that under anti-terrorism legislation submitted by the administration and passed into law by the Congress, providing aid to Al-Qaeda or to organizations in any way linked to terrorism is a federal crime and classifies the perpetrator as an abettor of terrorism and even as an "unlawful combatant," subject to loss of citizenship rights, and suitable for rendition to Guantanamo or some other secret torture hell-hole.

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I suppose the proper thing at this point would be for some patriotic prosecutor or some general to march into the White House and haul the president off to be waterboarded until he lays out all the details of his treasonous actions. (Sure he is the president and is immune from prosecution, but if he's an "unlawful combatant," none of that applies. The president has declared this to be so.)

For make no mistake: secretly providing money to terrorist organizations that are daily attacking Americans in Iraq, in order to ignite a new war against Iran, especially at a time that the US military is stretched beyond the limit in Iraq, is nothing short of treason. Even viewed in a more minimalist way, absconding with public funds and diverting them to illegal purposes is criminal fraud.

If Congress does not jump on this immediately, its members will have betrayed their oaths and the nation.

more at:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/18985

[BlackVelvet04]

1. I have no doubt this is true

but proving it is going to be difficult......that is if anyone even bothers to try and prove it.

I have to wonder why this isn't all over the news.

[Kagemusha]

4. Hmm.. because there's no proof?

That might be a factor.

[CJCRANE]

7. Who made you judge, jury and

prosecutor?

[Kagemusha]

8. None of the 3 have anything to do with media stories

It's Hersh's scoop, based on Hersh's sources, which aren't sources for everyone else. So everyone else isn't reporting his story as if it's the Bible truth. It's not complicated.

[The Count]

9. For Sy Hersh to come out with it, it means there's enough proof to investigate

and very likely, to indict. Definitely more proof than say, Padilla's case - or the 1000+ people Aschroft arrested after 9.11.

[Kagemusha]

10. Okay, I think people misunderstood my response a bit...

I was responding to the "why isn't this all over the news" part...

And I'm saying because the media sure as hell can't prove it's true.

Now Congress investigating is another matter completely. A very different matter. (Having said that, good luck proving it's true with Congress too. Good luck proving it before the Iran War is long over.)

[redacted]

20. But it IS all over the news. . .in Europe

see for example:

US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran
By William Lowther in Washington DC and Colin Freeman,
Sunday Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/25/wiran25.xml

US Funding Terrorism
http://karmabanqueradio.com/?p=379

[pberq]

2. Thanks, kpete! - K&R

[WiseButAngrySara]

3. Dick of Death Cheney's own words regarding Pelosi ...

"I think if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we'll do is validate the al Qaeda strategy," Cheney told ABC News.

TREASONOUS B-TARDS!

k(pete)nr

[sutz12]

5. "Validating al-Qaeda" would be bad....

Funding them.................maybe not so much.

:sarcasm:

[The Count]

15. John Oliver on TDS explained this: Al Quaeda have a very fragile ego - need

validation all the time. They were very depressed at one point, and about to give it all up, but then, the November election came, and as Dick observed - that too, got them on their feet. Money? It doesn't bring happiness (that's mine)

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. Well , either that or *congress*.

>>>I suppose the proper thing at this point would be for some patriotic prosecutor or some general to march into the White House and haul the president off to be waterboarded until he lays out all the details of his treasonous actions. (Sure he is the president and is immune from prosecution, but if he's an "unlawful combatant," none of that applies. The president has declared this to be so.)>>>>

That's what the 2006 elections were about. No?

We now have the committee chairmanships and subpoena power.

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. Hope Rockefeller kicks some ass on this today

http://www.senate.gov/galleries/radiotv/list.htm
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
2:30PM-CLOSED: On compartmented programs.
Room SH-219
Chairman Rockefeller


They're meeting in closed session this afternoon. Senate Armed Services Cmte is on CSPAN1 airing now.

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Indeed! There needs to be HUGE noise over ** being a collaborator

[merh]

12. K&R

:kick:

[napi21]

13. Hersh is going to be a guest on cspan WJ tomorrow morning~

A caller this morning sked about this story, and the host said Hersh was going to be on the show tomorrow to discuss this. That'sa GOOD thing, even if it's only the political junkies who watch the WJ every day.

BTW, it was also discussed last night on Hardball & Scarboro.

This is TREASON folks! IF there's enough interest generated, some reporters will find the proof, and THERE is your "High cromes & Misdemeanors!"

[Kurovski]

16. K&R.(nt)

[earth mom]

17. K & R! eom

[godless]

18. Friggin' DUH! Our Arch-Nemisis; Osama, is the son of his former

business partner! Now, I ask you, what are the chances of that naturally occurring? One in two gazillion? consider it this way, You're employed by a large and successful firm for a number of years and then you accept a position with another company. You work there for a while when, one day, out of the blue, the son of your former employer shows up at your office and starts blowing people away. What are the chances that his assault on your workplace is totally unrelated to you?? Out of the hundreds, even thousands of business offices he could have chosen to wreck havoc upon, he just happened to choose the very office you were employed at? Wouldn't you agree that somehow you were connected to his decision to attack your office?

Now, consider the fact that this strange anomaly has happened to the Bush family not just once, but twice in 30 years! As it turns out, John Hinckley,the would-be assassin of President Reagan, was also the son of a business partner of Jeb's! Hmmmm and DUH! Seems like enemies and the Bush family kind of coincide in a big time way.

[Cobalt-60]

19. click

It's the last piece of the puzzle.
I originally thought the attempt on Reagan was a fake.
The conventional explanation made no sense, a little rich boy firing on Reagan, best friend of little rich boys everywhere.
Much later I heard speculation that it was some sort of cabal trying to get old shrub into the white house early.
Now the connection is revealed.

[Hubert Flottz]

21. I think it was the other way around.

Didn't the Saudis give money to both Poppy and Junior's campaigns? I know Bush gave the Taliban over 40 million dollars the summer before 9/11 happened.

Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban

http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/01_columns/052201.htm

Bush Gives Taliban $10 Million To Fight Opium
Run Date: 05/26/01



(WOMENSENEWS)—The Bush administration has given Afghanistan $43 million including $10 million for “other livelihood and food security programs,” a reference to the ruling Taliban's ban on poppy cultivation that dramatically changed the economy of the war-torn nation. The poppy is the source of opium and the crop had provided significant revenues to Afghan farmers. The aid was described as humanitarian.********More

http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/561/context/outrage

The Bush-Bin Laden Connection
by HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Feds Looked Into G.W. Bush-Bin Laden Connection In '92.
Part One -- Bush Said Friend's Arbusto Investment Was His Own, Not Saudi Money. Friend "Declined To Comment For The Record."

(Houston Chronicle. June 4, 1992) "Federal authorities are investigating the activities of a Houston businessman -- a past investor in companies controlled by a son of President Bush -- who has been accused of illegally representing Saudi interests in the United States.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network -- known as FinCEN -- and the FBI are reviewing accusations that entrepreneur James R. Bath guided money to Houston from Saudi investors who wanted to influence U.S. policy under the Reagan and Bush administrations, sources close to the investigations say.

FinCEN, a division of the U.S. Department of Treasury, investigates money laundering. Special agents and analysts from various law enforcement agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Customs Service, are assigned to work with the FinCEN staff. MORE...

http://www.meta-religion.com/Secret_societies/Conspiracies/George_Bush/bush-bin_laden_connection.htm

[Disturbed]

22. Maybe $Millions were and still are being funneld via

the Saudi Royals to the Sunni Insurgency in Iraq. $9 Billion that was supposed to be spent on Iraq Reconstruction is gone and not accounted for.

[PhilipShore]

23. Bush funds al-Qaeda= Worldwide mysterious computer attacks, causing the stock market crash -- n/t