Posted on 07/12/2004 11:19:44 AM PDT by Nasty McPhilthy
One by one the conspiracy theories and allegations of lying, made by a coalition of liberals, Communists, and Democrats (LCD), and ironically Buchananites, have been debunked and discredited. The investigations, so desired by them have exonerated President Bush.
The major allegations, the names - in parentheses - of notable proponents, and the truth are:
· The 2000 election was stolen with the help of the Supreme Court. A corollary to this was blacks disenfranchised. (Congressional Black Caucus, Michael Moore, the Trotskyite World Socialist Web Site).
The truth is independent audits by newspapers, antipathetic to Bush being president, revealed that he would have won the election if the recount continued. An investigation by the U.S. Commission for Civil Rights reported, “ ( The Commission) does not find that the highest officials of the state conspired to disenfranchise voters.” [1]
· Bush knew about 9-11 in advance and did nothing to prevent it because he wanted to invade Iraq (Howard Dean, former Georgia Congresswomen Cynthia McKinney).
This one is so bizarre that – to quote Orwell, “One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.”
This is merely a recycled conspiracy theory from World War II. Then people claimed FDR knew about Pearl Harbor and did nothing because he wanted an excuse to enter World War II.
· The war was meant to distract from a bad economy (Democratic National Committee).
The economy improved - independently of events in Iraq.
· Bush secretly conspired to whisk Saudis out of the country by authorizing them to fly in the days following 9-11 when no one else, “not even the FBI,” could fly (Michael Moore, Vanity Fair).
The 9-11 commission and independent investigations by some journalists – including one by this author - have invalidated this.
· Bush and Cheney encouraged the CIA to exaggerate the intelligence about Iraq to in favor of war (Chris Matthews).
The Senate Select Intelligence Committee – and other sources - said that this was not the case. Only Senator Carl Levin, ironically, a hawk about Iraq during the Clinton years, is still trying to insist this is true.
· Bush lied when he claimed during his 2003 State of the Union address, “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa” (Joe Wilson, Tom Daschle)
Recently, the Financial Times reported that European intelligence units stated that Iraq was seeking uranium. An independent inquiry about this by a British commission confirmed that there was an attempt by Iraq to purchase uranium from Niger. The Senate Select Intelligence Committee confirmed that this was true as well.
· The Bush administration is in league with Enron and Halliburton and invaded Iraq to annex their oil reserves (Ted Kennedy, Workers World Party, Revolutionary Communist Party).
It was well known that the Clinton administration’s Treasury Secretary Paul Rubin made the call to Paul O’Neill, the Bush administration Treasury Secretary, to do a favor for Enron. It is the Bush administration that is prosecuting major white–collar crime by corporations, such as Enron, for crimes committed during the Clinton years. Even more ironic is that the only people profiting from Iraqi oil were those who opposed the war. Hussein was paying the French, the Russians and others who opposed the war bribes by funds from the UN Oil-for-Food program instead of paying for food and medicine for sick and starving Iraqi kids.
· The Iraq war was a personal vendetta by George W. Bush because of Saddam Hussein’s attempt to assassinate his father in 1993 (LA Times Robert Scheer).
Considering all the other reasons proffered this is rather a non sequitur. However, even if true would not another states plot to assassinate the President of the United States be considered an act of war?
· Bush lied about a relationship between Al-Qaeda and Iraq (MoveOn.org, Michael Moore, Revolutionary Communist Party, Workers World Party).
There have been reports of cooperation between the two in the media and by government for years. Knight-Ridder, ABC, Newsweek all previously reported this during the 1990’s. Clinton’s CIA Directors James Woolsey, John Deustch and George Tenet said so.
The 9-11 Commission said there were contacts. The Democratic Vice Chair of the Commission said that there was no discrepancy between what Cheney said and the Commission’s preliminary report. There were reports that Iraq sent instructors to Afghanistan to teach Al-Qaeda terrorists. It is intrinsically a fallacy to claim Bush lied when years of evidence by various sources told him AL-Qaeda and Iraq were linked.
· The war is a plot by a cabal of Neocon imperialists to develop an American empire and protect Israel (Columnists Pat Buchanan and Georgie Anne Geyer, Atlanta Journal and Constitution).
This theory is another redux of a World War II conspiracy theory - the Jewish cabal-FDR theory.
The LCD propaganda machine began manufacturing lies about the president since the 2000 election. They are every bit as sophisticated at disinformation as the KGB was during the Cold War. All the investigations discredited these absurd allegations. Unfortunately, these inquiries diverted resources from the war on terror.
One can only wonder what future catastrophe will be the result of this obsession for political power by the president’s critics.
[1] Ret fm w/s http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/exesum.htm 7-11-04
Michael P. Tremoglie
FDR was trying to provoke the Japanese?
Do you get your history from Hollyweird? Must be. Same place most Ivy League History professors get it.
The fact is FDR was not trying to provoke the Japanese. He was trying to get them to stop committing genocide in China.
Shheeeshh
Excellent point!
How about this?
Should he meet up with FDR, and they are in Hell, he needn't ask him, he'll know. ;)
Excellent article......BUMP
I've never heard of him before. Hope to see more articles by him if they are of this quality.
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major bump
Gotta give Jellybean credit on this one.
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btt
As much as I hate to say it, you had better rethink your statement about the Toon losing the popular vote, he beat his closest competitors by 9000+ votes in both elections. Of note though is that had the Perot Votes been elimated, Bush would have won, and Dole would have come very close to winning. May Perot burn in hell for foisting the toon on us.
Sorry folks, that should have read 9,000,000+. Been a long day.
We need to demand apologies from Joe Wilson, Chris Lehane and John Kerry for the Bush lied campaign. John Kerry's campaign is still paying for Joe Wilson's website.
Thank you.
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