To be a fly on the wall...
Ahh, so now we see George W. Bush sitting like a bump on a log, as terrified FEMA people and meteorologists warn him about the impending Katrina catastrophe... using his patented curiosity to ask absolutely no questions... and then assuring everyone that the federal government had things well in hand...
If there were tapes of the entire Bush administration, I am utterly convinced we would find...
- George W. Bush specifically authorized, encouraged, or joked about torture
We already know that when he was told a captured terrorist had been given pain medication for his life-threatening injuries, Bush asked, “who ordered that?” We also know that George W. Bush’s very first appearance in The New York Times, way back in 1967, shows him defending torture:
“as former president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter at Yale, Bush defended the fraternity's practice of branding its pledges with a red-hot coat hanger... deserves more national attention. ...In a Yale Daily News story the next day, Bush is quoted calling the branding “insignificant.” He said he did not understand how the News “can assume Yale has to be so haughty not to allow this type of pledging to go on.”
- George W. Bush knew perfectly well from early on that Karl Rove leaked the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame, at a time when he was denying knowledge and allowing special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to run himself ragged trying to figure it out...
We have the New York Daily News report that...
An angry President Bush rebuked chief political guru Karl Rove two years ago for his role in the Valerie Plame affair... But the President felt Rove and other members of the White House damage-control team did a clumsy job in their campaign to discredit Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson, the ex-diplomat who criticized Bush's claim that Saddam Hussen tried to buy weapons-grade uranium in Niger. A second well-placed source said some recently published reports implying Rove had deceived Bush about his involvement in the Wilson counterattack were incorrect and were leaked by White House aides trying to protect the President...
And, of course...
- George W. Bush was explicitly warned about the danger of attack by Osama Bin Laden in August 2001
Of course, we already have the famous PDB document that states:
“...FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York...”
That’s just a taste of what we’d find. No wonder George W. Bush has made it such a priority to change the laws so Presidential actions and papers stay secret far into the future. He doesn’t dare that we ever know how he’s been running this country.
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The problems with FEMA and the Ministry of Mutterland Security began with the beginning: the appointment of political cronies to run FEMA, replacing some decent professionals with Bush campaigners and lobbiests - then you take a guy like Mike Chertoff - a one-time fairly decent Assistant US Attorney in Hartford. Or maybe not so decent - in the Insurance and (former) Firearms Capital of America, he never went after the big wealthy institutions or maybe pushed for Colt or Winchester to be *responsible* for their product distribution, or any of that.
But it was politics that made him head Deputy US Atty. of that office, appointed by Reagan/Bush and kept over by Clinton, who really did not spend his time dealing with career civil servants who just never got to certain kinds of targets.
Trouble is, and take this from someone who is NO administrator, NO kind of people manager, Mike wasn't one either. That's NOT a bad thing - If You Stay In The Field and not at a big desk.
But Chertoff's politics in a post that is *supposed* to be free of them won him appointment to *RUN* Homeland Security, a bureaucratic nightmare that made the breakup of HEW into DofE and Dof HHS look trivial.
Remember, a guy who couldn't keep 20 or so semi-decent prosecutors out of conflict was given the job of keeping 20++ WARRING Previously Independent Agencies out of conflict.
So, don't blame Bush for screwing up Katrena - blame him for putting cronyism ahead of decent personel choices and destroying federal agency after federal agency: If you ran a campaign operation well, pick your post. If you were a good money man, pick your post. If you ever did me a favor, pick your post. AND if you ever tell me what I don't want to hear, you're fired!
Katrina was just one example, a MINOR example of the raping of the Treasury and taxpayers, the removal of the stable bureaucrats who have kept most government operations apolitical since Nixon's day, maybe since Harding's in some places...
...And their replacement by professional thieves who simply don't care what happens as long as something's in it for them .
Storm damage will look good on campaign spots, but look way beyond it if you want to know the whole story.
THE FOLLOWING HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING, BUT MAY MAKE THE SKIES SEEM A LITTLE LESS GREY:
Try to "prove your Patriotism" Play Don't Burn that Flag, Pass me the Lighter, by our old Firesign Friends.
http://www.firesigntheatre.com/flag/index.html
Speaking of Burning Things....
We ALSO should recall that GWB has made our National Depository Library system one of the nation's largest users of Memory Holes.
For those of you who never prowled around the stacks of a large city or campus library - it used to be that a copy of EVERYTHING printed by the Government Printing Office + a wide range of other government documents were not only considered Born Public and free of all copyright burdens for US citizens - but a copy was placed in each Government Depository Library site.
These libraries helped citizens decide on the soundness of a policy: When Prez Ron said the only thing you needed to avoid a Full Fledged Nuclear Holocaust was a screen door and a shovel, and spent BILLIONS on a plan to evacuate our cities to unprepared country land around them, I was able to get all the documents about the program, down to the two smoking guns about what the deal was really about.
The first said the *BEST* way to ruin a superpower's economy for 4-7 years was to disrupt it by forcing it to evacuate its cities - so if WE could get THEM to evacuate, we could win without firing a shot.
They would starve to death and be forced to live under a stringent millitary dictatorship until the financial avalanche created by two weeks in the wilderness was cleared up.
Of course, if WE evacuated first, we had plans on file to establish that dictatorship!
The second smoking gun was the book containing all the special forms and coupons needed to run the evacuation and allow any goods left on the shelves or in the fuel tanks to go to the privileged few. I even made myself a few sets. Connecticuit's head of Civil Defense told me that when it came time to evacuate, of course all the press owners, like newspapers would gladly turn their gear over to the government to print required instructions.
Old boy went nuts when I said "and miss the story of the century" followed by "you know newspaperfolks would BLOW UP their presses rather than turn them over to the government, no matter what.
But the truth came out in a little Connecticuit daily paper with a circulation of 10,000 - and got picked up by UPI - and papers across the country who sent reporters to get the same documents and their local evacuation plans, about either evacuating a city the size of, say The Big EZ in 12 hours, or to the "host areas" where they would move into buildings, some structurally unsound, some nonexistent for 30 years, and be given their 6.3 square feet of space to ride out war or peace.
Now a classified document or two always got dropped into the pile going to the libraries, and, according to one GDL Librarian I know well, a quiet order would go out to shread some manual on a weapons system or bomb deployment.
Chanting the mantra of 9-11, the feds have slowed delivery of new documents to a trickle, and ordered the gutting of the collections. I remember first to go were anything to do with water supplies - not the piping of New York City, but the sustainability of city aquifers around the country, water quality, everything!
Ask a question? 9-11! Can we have photos of our troops coming home in boxes? 9-11! (oh, remember how Bill Clinton made it a point to be on hand or have a high-level entorage, including the press meet each plane returning from our war to save Muslim Serbians from the Christians who had declared a crusade against them?)
Even the President's past life has been sealed, along with the records of every presidency beginning with Reagan I. That was one of the first Executive Orders issued by W when he walked into office.
I guess he learned early about burying the truth, his "millitary service record" that should have knocked his dad out of office during the Viet Nam War [Yes, anybody's kid but MINE] and his own personal embarrassments,drug use? his wife's pre-marriage vehicular homicide? Now the vice president's current medical condition and ability to see through the sights of a 28-gauge shotgun...
Instead of releasing anything, we are living again in the world of the Big Lie - repeat the same story enough times, and, well most of us are buying it, still most of the time. More than a third of the nation still give him positive job ratings, folks!
And they still BELIEVE Iraq was worth hundreds of thousands dead, 2,500 or so US military (note on the figure: notice they don't seem to include people who die "out of theater" at German or US hospitals?) and BILLIONS of borrow-and-spend dollars along with an extra $1.50 a gallon for Big Oil every time you fill up.
-wtp
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