How they ran against Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in the
Carolina primary should have told the "US Mainstream
News Media" and its propapunditgandists a lot. How
they came to power thru Fraudida and Supreme InJustice
should have told the "US Mainstream News Media" and
its propapunditgandists a lot. How they folded their
arms and did nothing during the phoney "California
energy crisis" should have told the "US Mainstream
News Media" and its propapunditgandists a lot. What
was revealed about Kenny Boy Lay and Enron should have
told the "US Mainstream News Media" and its
propapunditgandists a lot. The gutting of the Federal
surplus for a inappropriate, ill-timed tax cut for the
wealthiest of the wealthiest should have the "US
Mainstream News Media" and its propapunditgandists a
lot. How they blew off the Hart-Rudman commission, and
drove FBI counterterror expert John O'Neill out of the
government, and then fought the 9/11 Commission and
insisted on the 28 blanked out pages from the
Congressional 9/11 report should have told the "US
Mainstream News Media" and its propapunditgandists a
lot. How they have fought every important request from
the 9/11 Commission, despite the pleading of the 9/11
families, should have told the "US Mainstream News
Media" and its propapunditgandists a lot. How they
went to war unilaterally and pre-emptively without our
allies,on a pretext of lies and in contempt of
international law and the UN Security Council should
have told the "US Mainstream News Media" and its
propapunditgandists a lot. But the "US mainstream news
media" and its propapunditgandists kept carrying their
filthy water for them. Precious military and
intelligence resources that should have been focused
on Osama bin Laden have been squandered in Iraq. Not
even the deaths of over 700 US soldiers in this
foolish military adventure turned the "US
mainstream news media" and its propapunditgandists
against them. Not even the published denunciations of
Richard Clark (R-Reality), Paul O'Neill (R-Alcoa),
Joseph Wilson (R-Niger) and many other brave public
servants turned the "US mainstream news media" against
them. Have the war crimes and perversion perpetrated
at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere turned them against
the Bush Cabal? Maybe, maybe not. Will they
ask how high it goes? Will they bring every White
House press briefing to a standstill with peircing
questions about Abu Ghraib, the chain of command, the
cover-up and oh yes even more importantly will they
ask tenacious questions about the DAMNING statements
of high-ranking US military officers concerning the
facts on the ground in Iraq? Even now less ink and
less air waves have been spent on the Bush Cabal's
glaring INCOMPETENCE, disturbing CHARACTER and
utter lack of CREDIBILITY than on Monica Lewinsky's
blue dress. IF the "US mainstream news media" had lived
up to its responsibilities months or years ago, by
leveling with the US electorate about the kind of
people that had seized power, how they had seized
power and what they were even then signaling that they
were going to do with it, many hundreds of US soldiers
would be alive, tens of thousands of Iraqs would be
alive, and yes, even the three thousand victims of
9/11 itself as well as tens of thousands of Afghanis
killed in the aftermath might well be alive.
Here is yesterday's news. DON'T BOTHER TO CLICK ON THE
URL BECAUSE THE STORY HAS ALREADY BEEN RE-WRITTEN...Go
look at the web sites of the major networks news
organizations. Where are the explosive story lines
brought together in this CBS News posting from just last night?
Where is the Army Times editorial? Where is there any discussion of the "senior general" who told the WASHPs we are on the verge of DEFEAT in Iraq? What is happening in this country? Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mekong Delta) draws a powerful and explosive contrast between himself and the incredible shrinking _resident but you don't get to hear it. You only hear propapunditgandists saying, "Why isn't Kerry saying anything?" Remember, 2+2=4...
CBS News: A senior general at the Pentagon tells the Washington Post he believes the United States is on the path to defeat – and Rumsfeld and his advisers are to blame. The Post reports great anger is building at Rumsfeld and his top advisers among career Army officers.
“The current OSD [Office of the Secretary of Defense]
refused to listen or adhere to military advice," the
general said on the condition his name not be used, in
part out of fear of punishment. "It is doubtful we can
go on much longer like this," he added. "The American
people may not stand for it - and they should not."
The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Times, the
civilian-owned trade papers of the military sold at
every U.S. military installation, accuse Rumsfeld and
Myers of professional negligence in their handling of
Iraqi detainees in a new editorial. “Accountability
here is essential - even if that means relieving top
leaders from duty in a time of war.”
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/09/iraq/main616398.shtml?cmp=EM8707
‘On The Edge’ In Iraq
May 9, 2004
A senior general and a Republican senator say the
United States could lose in Iraq, and are pointing the
finger at Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
“I think we are right on the edge in Iraq right now,”
says Sen. Chuck Hagel.
Rumsfeld and his staff didn’t listen to military
planners, and now the United States is “in a mess,”
the Nebraska Republican said on CBS News’ Face The
Nation.
“What is our policy? What are we doing? What is the
possibility of us winning? That's all still in
question,” said Hagel, a member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. “I think it's still in question
whether Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and, quite
frankly, General [Richard] Myers, [the chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff,] can command the respect and
the trust and the confidence of the military of the
American people to lead this country.”
A senior general at the Pentagon tells the Washington
Post he believes the United States is on the path to
defeat – and Rumsfeld and his advisers are to blame.
The Post reports great anger is building at Rumsfeld
and his top advisers among career Army officers.
“The current OSD [Office of the Secretary of Defense]
refused to listen or adhere to military advice," the
general said on the condition his name not be used, in
part out of fear of punishment. "It is doubtful we can
go on much longer like this," he added. "The American
people may not stand for it - and they should not."
The top U.S. commander in the war told the Post that
the United States is winning tactically. However, Army
Gen. John Abizaid stopped short of projecting an
overall victory. Rather, he said, "strategically, I
think there are opportunities."
The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Times, the
civilian-owned trade papers of the military sold at
every U.S. military installation, accuse Rumsfeld and
Myers of professional negligence in their handling of
Iraqi detainees in a new editorial. “Accountability
here is essential - even if that means relieving top
leaders from duty in a time of war.”
Earlier in the week, a senior State Department
official indicated that Secretary of State Colin
Powell repeatedly warned the Pentagon about the
treatment of detainees, but to no avail.
Sen. Joseph Biden, the ranking Democrat on the Foreign
Relations Committee, called for Rumsfeld’s resignation
on Face The Nation and warned the United States would
“lose Iraq” unless the Bush administration shifts
gears and starts working closely with the United
Nations and other countries.
Democrats John Kerry, House minority leader Nancy
Pelosi, and Sen. Tom Harkin have also called for
Rumsfeld’s resignation.
President Bush has supported Rumsfeld, saying last
week, "He'll stay in my Cabinet." Mr. Bush ordered his
press staff to squelch chatter about Rumsfeld getting
fired, Newsweek reports. But the president and
Rumsfeld are "not buddies," a senior administration
official tells Newsweek, and if Rumsfeld hurts the
president’s re-election chances, those orders could
change.
Sen. John McCain says it’s too early to call for
Rumsfeld’s resignation, but he did not rule out the
idea.
The former prisoner of war was among the most forceful
interrogators of Rumsfeld at a Senate hearing last
week that examined reports of abuse of Iraqi
prisoners.
The Arizona Republican pressed Rumsfeld to lay out the
line of authority through which procedural rules were
laid down. When Rumsfeld started to say the documents
were left at the Pentagon, McCain interrupted, told
Rumsfeld a telephone call could get the information,
and said: “You have to answer this question.”
McCain said on a Sunday morning talk show that he
still has no answers to all the questions he asked but
said it would be premature to demand Rumsfeld's
resignation.
“I did not get answers to some fundamental, and
perhaps, the fundamental aspect of this, and that is,
what was the chain of command that allowed the abuse
at Abu Ghraib to occur?”
“We can make a much better judgment after we have
gotten a lot of the answers,” McCain said, “but I
certainly think it would be terribly premature to call
for his resignation at this time.”
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