Blowback Bros., financial giant behind the regimes of Hitler, Saddam Hussein and Islamic Jihad, will merge with Quagmires R Us to form Permanent WarMart, a war services and reconstruction firm. Recent failure of Blowback to prevent revelation of its connection to terrorist states proves the company profits in times of high visiblity of its criminal history and solidifies its reliance on its stock in trade, the gullibility of the American taxpayer. Blowback investments and operations are underwritten entirely by the taxpayers of the United States, who seem incapable deciphering their own liabilities.
Blowback, which controls most oil investment, transport, and communications services in the world, relies heavily on war and drug running for its base. Quagmires, which rebuilds after the catastrophes created by Blowback, provides what is seen as a perfect fit for hope, fear, and debt creation, conditions favorable to increased confusion on the part of the American taxpayer. Wholly owned subsidiaries of the new conglomerate will include the Federal Reserve Bank, ChevronTexaco, Saddam'sDebt.com, and the nation of Pakistan.
This May 12, 2003 FORTUNE Magazine article about Rumsfeld's membership on the board of directors of ABB, a Swiss company that took part in building the North Korean nuclear reactors, and Rumsfeld's lobbying for the contract, includes the following paragraphs:
Reason? Iran causes the Saudis to export Wahhabi Islam. How exquisitely and ineptly the focus of the neocon mouthpiece is shifted to evade responsibility for failure. Now the whole "Al Qaeda" thing is really explained: Iran made Saudi Arabia do it.
The Third World is not poor. The Third World is rich in resources. The PEOPLE of the Third World are poor at the point of a gun. Every lowlife death squad dictatorship on this planet receives direct support of arms, or funding for the purchase of arms, or financing in the form of guaranteed loans for arms, from our government. The socialist democracies do not yield escaping populations desperate enough to endure the dangers and hardship of illegal immigration. Only our pet psychopaths produce that suffering. We need to get out of the business of oppressing labor in the Third World. We need to stop allowing our government to support the human suffering, the corruption, and the sleaze that are the result of our support, our maintenance, and our outfitting of dictatorships.
Gen. Hayden is reported now to be "willing to consider trying to bring the NSA wiretap program, as it exists now, under federal law." Where is it now? Under Uzbekistan law?
60 Minutes had a report on the Hanford Nuclear site leaking radioactive waste into ground water in Washington state last night, and Washington's governor, Christine Gregoire, looked like a no-nonsense, straight-talking, truth-speaking powerhouse to me. I would vote for her for president if the election were held today.
Are there readers here who can comment on her strengths and weaknesses?
Gary Milhollin of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control makes the clear point that Bush's deal with India allows just the sort of nuclear proliferation that Iran can take advantage of, thereby necessitating a military solution on Bush's part, a United States proliferation-to-bombing policy:
The president and the vice president are lying in their statements this week. The 9/11 Commission reported that the San Diego hijackers, al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi, were traceable and in longterm contact with an FBI informant. The failures to prevent them from entering the country and the failures to monitor them once they were known to be in the country are unexplained in the report, but there was clearly time and more than enough information to warrant their surveillance.
BUSH: I mentioned in my radio address -- my live TV radio address -- that there were two killers in San Diego making phone calls prior to the September the 11th attacks. Had this program been in place then, it is more likely we would have been able to catch them.
CHENEY: If we had been able to do that before 9/11, we might have been able to pick up on two of the hijackers who were in San Diego in touch overseas with al Qaeda.
I love the renditions of Scott McClellan's tortured press conferences, but here's what I see in the behavior of Cheney and McClellan in their efforts to provide LEGALITY for torture: they want to imply that terrorism suspects may or may not have been tortured during interrogation. Why? Because if torture is legal but information gathered under torture is inadmissable in a court of law, these individuals will never see a court of law. And that is consistent with efforts by the Bush administration to keep such suspects out of court.
My consciousness about this was raised by a Dailykos diary which linked to the following Fitzgerald Judith Miller case involving torture:
In a recent diary it was reported that Judith Miller has yet another case pending with Fitzgerald, this one concerning torture. It occurs to me that one of the most shocking things about the Norquist connection to terrorist fundraisers is that George W. Bush publicly pledged during his 2000 campaign to forbid the use of secret evidence in terrorism cases in exchange for campaign funds from individuals, now indicted for terrorism funding, linked to Norquist's Islamic Institute. Could it be that another way to disallow evidence would be to fake documentation that someone has been "tortured?" That would be one explanation for the efforts on Cheney's part to allow torture.
Grover Norquist's association with suspected and indicted terrorist fundraising organizations is the most confounding, brazen example of Bush administration criminal activity in plain view. The question of why Norquist has not been arrested as a paid operative of this group goes unanswered, except that his close friendship with Karl Rove is cited alongside the question.
Arch-conservative Frank Gaffney's article on Norquist's work for terrorist organizations should be standard reading here.
