Boston Globe

by Thomas Oliphant

06/20/04

Now that President Bush and co-president Cheney have backed themselves into a corner with statements about Iraq and terrorism that aren't credible, it's interesting to watch them squirm. Bush has an entertaining habit of confusing assertion with argument. For example: 'The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and Al Qaeda is because there was a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda.' The logic here is breath-taking. Cheney is, as ever, more elliptical. Cornered for a change, he is striking out at the press, preferring not to take on the 9/11 Commission whose evidence (more to the point, its absence of any) exposes his pre-invasion and post-invasion hype and, shall we say, misstatements...

http://tinyurl.com/3bxur


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

WorldNetDaily

by Vox Day

06/21/04

For the last three months, contrarian economists have been looking at the Fed's wild and crazy increase of the M3 money supply, which has been jacked up by $1.4 trillion since January, and wondering what in the world is going on. It has led some to conclude that the Fed is aware of an imminent disaster approaching as the Fed usually only cranks the printing presses up to high after an event like 9-11 or the 1987 Long-Term Capital Management disaster. But what sort of event can you expect and plan for months in advance? Consider the other evidence...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39063


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.iht.com/articles/525602.html


Informant: kevcross5

It is just one lie after another, one cover-up after another, one egregious tromping of our Constitution after another, and yet almost half the population supports the Bush Regime...

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/061804Wolf/061804wolf.html


From Information Clearing House

The biggest single problem the federal government has is its hypocrisy. It talks one way and acts another. It talks of spreading democracy while supporting dictators; it blathers about human rights while violating them; and it claims to promote the rule of law while scoffing at laws it considers inconvenient...

http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20040618/index.php


From Information Clearing House

What jumped out at me was that the war had little to do with weapons of mass destruction and almost nothing to do with al-Qaeda. We were on the cusp of waging an unjustified war on the basis of a preposterous lie. Blair and Howard knowingly recycled the US's case for invading Iraq so as to stay in step with Bush. They understood the broader US agenda and were sympathetic to much of it...

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/18/1087245110240.html?oneclick=true


From Information Clearing House

The Halliburton subsidiary KBR has so far received $4.5 billion for activities in Iraq and Kuwait. The company, based in Houston, has received more than $3 billion more to import fuel and repair oil fields. "We saw very little concern for cost considerations," Walker said...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/177986_rebuild16.html


From Information Clearing House

Vice President Cheney's wild and wacky misadventures with the truth continue, much to the consternation of everyone who values transparency and accountability in government. What will it take for him to come clean?...

http://www.americanfamilyvoices.org/projects/DailyRealityCheck.asp?ID=164


From Information Clearing House

As Bush Sr.'s secretary of defense, Dick Cheney steered millions of dollars in government business to a private military contractor -- whose parent company just happened to give him a high-paying job after he left the government...

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/08/cheney.html


From Information Clearing House

Fresh concern has been raised that the American vice-president, Dick Cheney, may have played a role in the decision to award his former company Halliburton a $7bn contract for work in postwar Iraq...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1239065,00.html


From Information Clearing House