What just happened? Evidence. A secret that has been judiciously kept for five years just spilled out. All of what follows is new, never reported in any way:
The Iraq Intelligence Chief, Tahir Jalil Habbush -- a man still carrying a $1 million reward for capture, the Jack of Diamonds in Bush's famous deck of wanted men -- has been America's secret source on Iraq. Starting in January of 2003, with Blair and Bush watching, his secret reports began to flow to officials on both sides of the Atlantic, saying that there were no WMD and that Hussein was acting so odd because of fear that the Iranians would find out he was a toothless tiger. The U.S. deep-sixed the intelligence report in February, "resettled" Habbush to a safe house in Jordan during the invasion and then paid him $5 million in what could only be considered hush money.
In the fall of 2003, after the world learned there were no WMD -- as Habbush had foretold -- the White House ordered the CIA to carry out a deception. The mission: create a handwritten letter, dated July, 2001, from Habbush to Saddam saying that Atta trained in Iraq before the attacks and the Saddam was buying yellow cake for Niger with help from a "small team from the al Qaeda organization."
The mission was carried out, the letter was created, popped up in Baghdad, and roiled the global newcycles in December, 2003 (conning even venerable journalists like Tom Brokaw). The mission is a statutory violation of the charter of the CIA, and amendments added in 1991, prohibiting the CIA from conducting disinformation campaigns on U.S. soil.
So, here we go again: the administration is in full attack mode, calling me names, George Tenet is claiming he doesn't remember any such thing -- just like he couldn't remember "slam dunk" -- and reporters are scratching their heads. Everything in my book is on the record, with many sources. And so, we watch and wait....
~ 1984, George Orwell
If your witnesses will make statements under oath, this is more important than Clinton's lie to the grand jury or Nixon's destruction of evidence. This is part of the package which has cost over 4,000 coalition troop lives and at least 100,000 Iraqi lives.
This is not just some smear or just another scandal. It's a war crime which has cost at least 25 times as many lives as the attacks of 9/11.
I urge you to arrange for sworn statements. And then find a way to present the evidence to a court which can act.
Don
What we know from all this is that America has been successfully subjugated by a fascist cabal.
It'll cost two dollars in stamps... but I will not have been silent.
Mr. Suskind projects an air of complete confidence regarding his evidence. When and if others begin to do the same, that might yet be a reason for hope.
It's Cheney, isn't it? It's always been Cheney. The man behind the curtain manipulating Bush, feeding his ego, saying what Bush wants to hear, but always, ALWAYS Cheney pulling the strings.
We've had a shadow government for 8 years, with a cardboard leader run by a scheming, manipulative, thoroughly evil puppetmaster.
And all the time that perpetual sneer on his face and that arrogant "So?" response to those who dare to question him.
How could we have been so STUPID ???????
Uh-huh. Richard Bruce Cheney, one of the truly evil men of American political history, has been longing for the return of the Imperial Presidency ever since his hero Tricky Dick was forced to resign. He knew he could never become president himself because of his slimy associations and his generally repugnant appearance and personality, so he found himself a complacent clown whom he could manipulate and managed to manipulate him into the White House with the help of a corrupt Supreme Court.
Richard Bruce Cheney should be indicted and tried for multiple crimes, including treason, but it will never happen because the Democrats in Congress have no huevos.
I had forgotten that he was a Nixon crony.... although, had I thought about it, I should have guessed. Those kinds of people never really disappear, do they?
Are we DEVO? Why yes we are.
Time to move away from this god forsaken country of Idiots and Ignorance.
I am outta here before military rule sets in.... Oh, you can believe its coming... Right after the next 911 that the GOP is planning right before election time... Unless they are sure that McBush is getting in..
Oh, i forgot, DIABOLD, the company that makes our paperless voting machines, is one of the GOPs larger endorsers...
This country is so sunk.
I'm willing to give it one last chance, but if Americans are stupid enough to elect McBush I am joining you.
The powers that be are so well entrenched... We should have stopped this insanity back in 2004, and not let the GOP tamper with our voting process... We should have nipped it in the bid then...
At least if we can have an overwhelming blowout vote and purge ourselves of these horrendous, evil people, maybe, just maybe, we can regain some respect from the rest of the world.
The American people are not as we have been portrayed in recent years. We are, in most part, a decent and charitable population. We often send more money in disaster relief than the rest of the world combined. And yet, look what these "evildoers" have done to us. Bush has only to look in the mirror to find the real "evildoer".
They may actually have to do something on accountabilty.
They will find some loop hole to keep giving them a free pass.
They are above the law ya know.
So, what's it like to carry the water for the sociopathic party?