Downing In The Mainstream
Topic: State Of The Union
Look, I know the world is better off without Saddam Hussein in power and frankly I'm tired of hearing that as an excuse to allow our President to lie to us. The Downing Street Memo, the authenticity of which hasn't been disputed by the British government, details the minutes of a very high level governmental meeting in which the British were certain that the Bush administration was setting up the intelligence to make a case for war in Iraq and come hell or high water they were assured that we were going to war.

I just want to get a couple of things straight about what went on before the start of the war. First of all, nutcases like myself from all around this nation and the world were screaming that Iraq did not possess WMD. We repeatedly asked the question of how a country with such debilitating sanctions imposed against it by the world community to the point of causing death to untold numbers of people could create sophisticated weapons programs. We asked why the inspectors on the ground were continually unable to find any shred of evidence pointing to Iraq building up its weapons programs. We asked why Hans Blix was so adamant about the non-existence of WMD in Iraq and why George Bush was so impatient with the inspections that were successfully proceeding. We asked how a country that we walked all over in 1991, who wasn't a threat to us when it was at full strength could ever be a threat to us after the sanctions. We questioned the reasoning behind attacking a country that had absolutely no connection to 9/11 or American directed terrorism.

So please don't tell me that it is with hindsight that I am now aware of these things. I said it then, I say it now and I said it all along. We all said it. Me and billions of my closest friends.

I say this not to rehash the past but to point out that we cannot move forward until we address these major issues. The world won't let us, karma won't let us and the insurgents certainly won't let us.

Let's face the facts.

There has been something that I've wanted to get off my chest for quite some time. I AM NOT TRYING TO SELL YOU ANYTHING. I don't want your vote, I'm not peddling a product or service and frankly I don't even care if you like me. So why don't you believe me? I'm really not a kook. I do my homework. Maybe I have facts wrong at times but I ask you who's more likely to lie to you, The Indy Voice or a career politician? What would I have to gain by lying to you? What would a politician have to gain?

The fact is that I was right then and I'm right now. Trust me, I don't derive any satisfaction in telling you that this country went to war based upon false pretenses made up by an adminstration who had an ideology to further, campaign contributors to pay back and a divisive reelection to face. War solved all those problems for George W. Bush and it's about damn time this country was patriotic enough to face the truth.

So why is there just only brief mentionings (like this) of the Downing memo in the mainstream media? Why shouldn't everyday citizens of this country be aware of what poli-geeks like myself have been aware of for a month? Why isn't it front page news? Isn't there something wrong with a media that refuses to inform its citizens and a country that acts like it doesn't want to know about evidence that points to their President lying when he took us to war? If the memo's factual incorrect or a forgery shouldn't we at least have that discussion? Shouldn't we at least investigate the possibility?

Why isn't Downing in the mainstream?

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This is an absolutely fabulous clip that puts the flag atop the mountain of evidence:

Don't Believe Me? Ask Condi Rice and Colin Powell

Washington, We Have A Problem!
Topic: State Of The Union
This is how the takedown of an American President begins. First it was the Downing Memo which clearly showed that this administration was intent upon using violence and not pursuing diplomatic avenues in Iraq. Now the President's pick for U.N. ambassador has been shown to have illegally succeeded in stopping Jose Bustani from sending chemical weapons inspectors to Iraq prior to the start of the illegal and immoral war.

Why might a member of the Bush administration attempt to stop inspectors from checking to see if Iraq was in possession of huge caches of chemical weapons? The answer isn't that the administration was afraid what the inspectors would find, this administration was scared to death of what they wouldn't find.

Not finding WMD didn't stop this administration from attacking Iraq but the Bush administration didn't want more and more evidence that their case for war was a steaming pile of bullshit. In the words of the article chemical inspectors finding nothing "might have helped defuse the crisis over alleged Iraqi weapons and undermined a U.S. rationale for war." So Bush sends in his right hand man in all things evil, the good ole' chickenhawk himself, John Bolton (Bolton Said to Orchestrate Unlawful Firing)

If the law doesn't catch up with this administration, history will.

Turning The Corner?
Topic: Iraq
As you read this article I ask that you put familiar names to the dead, like John, Colleen, Nick, Ashley, Michael or Bill and conjourn up the images of what this would look like if it happened in your hometown. Think about you and your neighbors children, your nephews and nieces, and your grandkids in the place of children in this situation. Death Toll at 825 Since New Iraq Gov't.

Keep in mind that this carnage has taken place since February 1st 2005 in a country that has the same population as New York state. Remind yourself that this has been going on for over 2 years and there is no end in sight.

Memorial Day
Topic: State Of The Union

me?mo?ri?al (m-mor-l, -mr-)

adj.
1. Serving as a remembrance of a person or an event; commemorative.
2. Of, relating to, or being in memory.

day

1. A 24-hour period or a portion of it that is reserved for a certain activity.

PEACE TAKES COURAGE

Self-Defense?
Topic: Iraq
I pray to God that this stuff finally catches up to this administration, U.S. AND RAF bombing raids tried to goad Saddam into war.

Apparently when our forces were only "entitled to use force in self-defence where such a use of force is a necessary and proportionate response to actual or imminent attack from Iraqi ground systems," someone ordered our military in 2002 to drop bombs at twice the rate dropped in 2001, not in response to any perceived threat or actual attack and "six months before the United Nations resolution that Tony Blair and Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, argued gave the coalition the legal basis for war."

If you don't believe that the Bush administration had Iraq in it's sights well before 9/11 and was going to war no matter what transpired you simply must remove your head from your ass.

P.S. The most unfortunate part about all this overwhelming hard evidence that proves that the Bush administration lied about everything regarding Iraq is that you'll probably only hear about it on The Indy Voice and a few other "liberal" sites. The "mainstream" media is too busy reporting on the important things like Michael Jackson and the runaway bride and the "conservatives" are too busy blaming liberals for everything evil in the world which is an utterly amazing accomplishment for a group that while receiving slightly under 50% of the popular vote has neither the money, the power or the voice, not to mention control of our 3 branches of government on their side to accomplish all this evil.

No News Is Good News With Bush Loose
Topic: Bush
Bush: Money Being Wasted on Unneeded Bases

You know he's right, if he stops making war we won't need any more bases. There's 14 permanent bases, a 120 forward operating bases and hundreds of expeditionary and temporary bases we don't need in Iraq right now.

Why don't we start there?

Do you know why the President won't give a date for our troop withdrawal?

...ready for the rude awakening?

WE ARE NEVER LEAVING!!!

I Call It Slinging Bullshit
Topic: Iraq
... but hey, the President can call it whatever he wants: Catapulting the Propaganda

I think this time he's telling the truth.

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Even more powerful than the President telling the truth is a Senator on the floor of the Senate literally crying to try to appeal to other Republicans not to vote for John Bolton for fear of what the future will hold if Bolton nomination is passed and he represents the U.S. at the U.N.

Ease His Pain

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What's the matter Mr. President, going down?

Holy Deflated Ego Batman!

Leap Of Faith
Man Leaps From Car to Retrieve Cigarette

...I can empathize.

Accountability Era
Topic: State Of The Union
A snippet from a Washington Post editorial,

"Since this is the accountability era, and it is widely agreed upon that Newsweek should account for its errors and apologize for its mistakes, perhaps we can get back to applying similarly stringent requirements on the elected officials who make grave decisions, such as whether to go to war.

When the media finish scrutinizing Newsweek, it should get back to asking tough questions of the Bush administration. Questions like:

Who should be held responsible for the faulty intelligence on weapons of mass destruction that led the United States to declare war against Iraq?

Why has the president not apologized for warning America that Iraq presented an imminent threat, when that turned out to be the case?

Will Rumsfeld, who claimed prior to the war to know the precise locations of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, personally apologize to the families of the troops who died in the search for those weapons?

Given that McClellan has suggested that Newsweek editors need to go on Arab TV and explain and apologize for their errors, will Bush also go on Arab television to explain and apologize for the mistakes made in gathering and analyzing the pre-war intelligence?

Will the administration, which downplayed the costs of the war in Iraq, publicly apologize to taxpayers now that the costs have already exceeded $300 billion?"

To read more, click Drowning Out the Real Issues

I couldn't have said it any better.

It's About F@&king Time!
I don't care what he did or didn't do and I don't care what his past is because this is just about the best thing I haven't seen on TV and the closest thing to the truth that I have ever seen anyone say in a Congressional session:
British MP George Galloway blisters US policy on Iraq on MSNBC

The full video is here: British MP George Galloway Testimony, Kicking Ass!

P.S. If you watch this interview in it's entirety you will see that this is exactly how a man accused of a crime would respond if he was not guilty. This man is entirely forthcoming, answering every single question clearly and concisely so as to leave no stone unturned or leading one to believe that he has something to hide. He's just pissed off that the men that are questioning him are the same men that SHOULD be on trial!

Watch any of the neocons (especially Bush - the man has NEVER answered a direct question with a direct answer) testifying in congress or speaking publicly and any objective 3rd party would come to the conclusion that their behavior is a case in point of someone looking to hide, evade and spin the truth.

If George Galloway's guilty I'll eat my feet while their still attached to my ankles.