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George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography — by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
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I encourage everyone to download and read this free book about George HW Bush. It explains how George Junior grew up as well as all of his misgivings then and now.

It is available in .htm and .zip format

EVERY dirty little secret is revealed. It is a GREAT recent history text.

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To: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
cc: Chairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and House Committee on International Relations

We, the undersigned, vehemently oppose any U.S. military action against Iran. Such military action would inevitably kill large numbers of innocent people, foster even more hatred and international condemnation of the U.S., and dramatically increase the instability of the region. Our own intelligence agencies have concluded the Iraq war has worsened the terrorist threat, and a war against Iran would add immeasurably more fuel to the fire.

Even if Iran decided to build a nuclear weapon, experts agree that it would take several years. There is no crisis, and our government should not create one with inflammatory rhetoric or military threats. The U.S. has both the time and obligation to work with the international community to fashion a diplomatic resolution to the situation, and the current refusal of U.S. officials to talk directly with Iranian officials cannot possibly help resolve the nuclear standoff, nor contribute to peace in Iraq and the Middle East.

Therefore, we urge you to take all steps necessary to reach a peaceful resolution to the current situation, including direct negotiations without pre-conditions. This is the only way to prevent yet another war, one that would be a calamity of truly global proportions.
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No War with Iran!
President Bush is now regularly accusing Iran of supporting attacks on U.S. troops, without any evidence, – remember the WMD’s in Iraq, anyone? – adding that “we will seek out and destroy” these networks. Bush has authorized U.S. forces to kill Iranian “operatives” in Iraq, and he is sending nuclear aircraft carriers and missile defense batteries to the Persian Gulf. The unthinkable – a wider war in the Middle East – is unfolding.

John D. Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that any U.S. military move into Iran would be “catastrophically stupid” and “unleash a conflagration like we’ve never heard of before.” We could not possibly agree more.

Resistance to a Bush planned military strike on Iran is growing in Congress, but it needs your help! Sign the petition to Congress below – No War with Iran! House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said recently that she would introduce legislation to stop such a strike, so our demand is beginning to get through. But the pressure needs to be much, much stronger to stop a President who has apparently gone mad with war and his own power.

Please know that your email address is for internal purposes only; we will not send it to the petition recipients nor share it with any other organization for any purpose. Thanks also for forwarding this to your friends, colleagues and listserves. We need everyone who wants to bring peace to the Middle East and prevent a war with Iran to join the effort now!
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http://www.peace-action.org/

approved by WH
(sry bad 2nd link last time)

approved by WH

Imagine if Bill Clinton was found to be funding the terrorists who, we are told, were responsible for knocking down the World Trade Centers and killing 3000 Americans?

Um… okay. I imagine that you would remain ignorant of this for more than a decade, either willingly or not, then when another president does the same thing, present this as something new.

In the 1980s there were Russians in Afghanistan. In 2007 there is now Iranians in Iraq. There were conflicts in between these two where jihadists were serving US interests and received support from the US for doing so.

In fact you would have to put a lot of effort into willfully ignoring this to claim suprise, given that the post-Afghanistan operations of jihadists have been well documented in the past decade.

The only difference is apparently that under Clinton, unlike under Bush, this support was intentional. Awesome. Bold that.

Not only has it ejected peaceful protesters – not violent ones, mind – because they were not fawning supporters of Dubya, it has routinely sent peaceful protesters to “Free Speech Zones” miles away from his “public” appearances and cameras. It did that for years, most frequently in the run up to the 2004 election.

Those who refused to go have been accused of crimes and jailed, for exercising their constitutionally protected rights, of course. The Justice Dept has fought these bogus criminal actions at the appellate as well as district court. They could not reasonably have expected to win. But they did succeed in needlessly intimidating peaceful citizens.

Let’s not forget the father that Cheney’s secret service arrested in front of his grade school son because he peacefully told Mr. Cheney, in a public park, that he disagreed with his views about the war. Local officials quickly threw out the charges, but only after Mr. Cheney left town.

Not at all presidential and he is not at all presidential as well.

What kind of Government stifles dissent?

BUSH: “If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” December, 2000.

Comment by skeptic — March 2, 2007 @ 7:49 pm

No, no, no. He was being the CORPORATE, FASCIST, SCREW REAL CONSERVATIVES, NEOCON PRESIDENT!!!

Of the four Democratic senators who are running for president, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) had the most liberal score in 2006. He was followed by Sens. Christopher Dodd (D-CT), Joseph Biden (D-DE) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY).

Key takeaway: “Clinton was markedly more moderate in 2006 than Obama, who was the 10th-most-liberal senator overall.”

from political wire