The 9/11 Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket
By Robert Scheer
Columnist
The Los Angeles Times
October 19, 2004 (796 words) More …
14 entries filed this month:
By Robert Scheer
Columnist
The Los Angeles Times
October 19, 2004 (796 words) More …
VANCOUVER (CP) – Vancouver residents took to the polls in record numbers Saturday and voted not to adopt a ward system used by every other major Canadian city to elect its municipal politicians. (205 words) More …
Like the tax cuts, Mr. Bush’s obsession with Saddam Hussein seemed closer to zealotry than mere policy. He sold the war to the American people, and to Congress, as an antiterrorist campaign even though Iraq had no known working relationship with Al Qaeda. His most frightening allegation was that Saddam Hussein was close to getting nuclear weapons. It was based on two pieces of evidence. One was a story about attempts to purchase critical materials from Niger, and it was the product of rumor and forgery. The other evidence, the purchase of aluminum tubes that the administration said were meant for a nuclear centrifuge, was concocted by one low-level analyst and had been thoroughly debunked by administration investigators and international vetting. Top members of the administration knew this, but the selling went on anyway. None of the president’s chief advisers have ever been held accountable for their misrepresentations to the American people or for their mismanagement of the war that followed.— New York Times Editorial Board (286 words) More …
“a blind man in a room full of deaf people” (229 words) More …
The Green Zone is a little America embedded in the heart of Baghdad. It is the former preserve of Saddam Hussein and his favored associatesÂan uncrowded district of villas, palaces, and monuments set in a parklike expanse that spreads for four square miles inside a meander of the Tigris River at the center of the ruined city. (190 words) More …
”“I feel we’re going to be here for years and years and years,” said Lance Cpl. Edward Elston, 22, of Hackettstown, N.J. “I don’t think anything is going to get better; I think it’s going to get a lot worse.” (129 words) More …
Kerry was not stiff or wooden, and in general carried himself in an open and engaging manner. Given that the townhall format was to have aided Bush the most, anyone listening to that pariticular pre-spin will walk away from the debate thinking that Kerry did very well indeed. The science of setting expectations low… politics 101. (261 words) More …
“The sanctions were working; they were keeping Saddam Hussein in his box.” (320 words) More …
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 â Iraq now appears to have destroyed its stockpiles of illicit weapons within months of the Persian Gulf war of 1991, and by the time of the American invasion in spring 2003, its capacity to produce such weapons was continuing to erode, the top American inspector in Iraq said in a report made public today. (320 words) More …
The Bush/Cheney campaign, indeed their entire presidency post-9/11, has used fear as their principal campaign weapon. Make no mistake about it, the campaign for 2004 started on September 12, 2001. (191 words) More …
October 1, 2004
OTTAWA—The last of four diesel electric submarines purchased for Canada’s Navy will be accepted formally this weekend by the Canadian Forces from the British Ministry of Defence at an official ceremony in Faslane, Scotland. “Despite the delays in getting all four submarines to Canada they represent a vital national asset. These vessels are cost effective and essential to the Navy and its mandate to defend Canada and its interests,” said Vice-Admiral Bruce MacLean, the commander of Canada’s Navy. “Two of our submarines, HMCS WINDSOR and HMCS VICTORIA, are already taking on taskings off our East and West Coasts.” (261 words) More …
… after a glorious ride today, the odometer reads 2,359, the number of kilometers we’ve put on the tandem so far this year. Suspect we’ll hit something between four to five thousand before the end of the year.
A new brand of U.S. exiles may be headed our way—In New York a couple of weeks ago, I saw another, which may be of specific interest to you, and to all Canadians living in this fair land devoid of many Americans: (141 words) More …
In a speech to veterans that August, Vice President Dick Cheney said Mr. Hussein could have an atomic bomb “fairly soon.” The next month, Mr. Cheney told a group of Wyoming Republicans the United States had “irrefutable evidence” – thousands of tubes made of high-strength aluminum, tubes that the Bush administration said were destined for clandestine Iraqi uranium centrifuges, before some were seized at the behest of the United States. (582 words) More …