Although, I too, am disappointed in the decrepitude of Congress in dealing with the havoc the Bush Administration in its entirety has wreaked upon the nation and the Constitution. Its crimes are of such magnitude, depth and enormity such as have never, ever been experienced in the history of the nation from its very inception. The “shock and awe” that Rumsfeld promised to visit upon Iraq in reality been overwhelming (and well designed and implemented) constant shock and awe of crime and corruption that has made it a situation so monstrous that dealing with is becomes almost beyond any means with which to cope. Imagine the earthquake/tsunami that battered Aceh in Indonesia in December 2004 happening on a weekly basis. This is the problem with which Congress has had to deal. Up until 2006, consider how many Administration Republicans enabllers were still members of that Congress. This comment should not be construed as excusing Congressional inactive where action should have or might have taken place, but it does serve to some degree as an explanation of why it didn’t happen.
This situation is not like attempting beak up a s*** fight in the monkey cage – the current is like a massive s*** storm encompassing Disney World and spreading into the Orlando environs. Where to start first?? It stinks every where!!

…think tanks and their neoconservative media mouthpieces published a number of policy papers that plainly call for regime change, border change, and demographic upheaval. In 1996 an influential Israeli think tank, the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, sponsored a document titled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” which proposed that the Netanyahu regime “should ‘make a clean break’ with the Oslo peace process and reassert Israel’s claim to the West Bank and Gaza. It presented a plan whereby Israel would ‘shape its strategic environment,’ beginning with the removal of Saddam Hussein . . . to serve as a first step toward eliminating the anti-Israeli governments of Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iran.”

The “study group” behind the policy included Douglass Feith, David Wurmser, and Richard Perle among others. The document was intended for the incoming Israeli government yet many of its planners went on to become influential with the Bush regime.

In an “Open Letter to the President,” dated February 19, 1998, a number of neocon lobbyists recommended “a comprehensive political and military strategy for bringing down Saddam Hussein and his regime.” Among the letter’s signers were Elliot Abrahms, Richard Armitage, John Bolton, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, David Wurmser, Richard Perle, William Kristol, Frank Gaffney, Joshua Muravchik, Martin Peretz, and Steven Solarz. The similarities between the two document’s recommendations draw a stark picture of loyalty to the interests of Israel first and foremost, with the interests of the military industrial complex being served in a secondary way. Many of the same sponsors went on to issue a report titled: “Rebuilding Americas Defenses” which called for an expanded US military presence in the Middle East using Iraq as a stepping stone for regional force application: “While the unresolved conflict in Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.”

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3561.shtml

I think the 935 lies easily comes under “treachery to one’s country”.

TREASON:

1. Treason, sedition mean disloyalty or treachery to one’s country or its government. Treason is any attempt to overthrow the government or impair the well-being of a state to which one owes allegiance; the crime of giving aid or comfort to the enemies of one’s government. Sedition is any act, writing, speech, etc., directed unlawfully against state authority, the government, or constitution, or calculated to bring it into contempt or to incite others to hostility, ill will or disaffection; it does not amount to treason and therefore is not a capital offense.

2. See disloyalty.

Let me argue that making false and misleading statements that create conditions which foment terrorism directed at one’s Nation IS a deliberate act that invites hostility back upon one’s Nation; An act of SEDITION… a lower crime to treason, yet still… are we safer now than we were 8 years ago?

Are we more liked in the Middle East now?

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Really I do. Really. Right !

Hmmmm, another forgery…where have I heard of a forgery being created and planted to justify invading Iraq?

Oh, right, the Niger document forgeries which alleged that Saddam Hussein was trying to acquire yellow-cake uranium from the French-controlled uranium mines in Niger. Forged documents that the Bush administration, and Feith’s Office of Special Plans, tried to keep anyone else from seeing, that is, until the IAEA saw them in early 2003 just before Bush ordered Iraq attacked, with the IAEA immediately recognizing them as forgeries.

I just wonder if the same people behind the Niger forgery are the same people behind this Habbush forgery? It just smells like the same modus operandi to me. The Niger document forgery tried to paint Hussein as a nuclear threat, while the Habbush forgery was intended to connect Hussein to al Qaeda. Therefore, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the same group of individuals that came up with the first forgery also came up with the second.

Intelligence fixed around the policy.

Proving what? That Feith acted alone in lying to Congress and the American people to take us into an unnecessary war? On the contrary, show us one high level government official who isn’t complicit in this disgrace.

http://progressiveworldreview.com

This is not true. There are laws against the DoD conducting any type of PSYOP against the American public. DoD gets around the law by aiming it’s information campaigns at foreign outlets. They know in the current information environment what is news at 9am eastern in London will be in the US news cycle by noon.