A hard hitting special report into the "war on terror"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pilger_breaking_the_silence_35mb.htm

He goes further and reintroduces the red herring that it was possible that Saddam had something to do with 9/11. And he did this last night, like a drunk who can’t quit the bottle...

http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/002078.html


From Information Clearing House

The Bush administration routinely bypassed or overruled Pentagon experts on international law and the Geneva convention to construct a sweeping legal justification for harsh tactics in the war on terror...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6295.htm

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=716&e=28&u=/latimests/20040609/ts_latimes/uswillrevisedataonterror


Informant: kevcross5

An important question remains for Americans to ponder: Why have most people submitted so willingly to a new political order organized around fear? Other nations have confronted terrorism of a more sustained nature without coming thoroughly unhinged...

http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20040621&s=greider


From Information Clearing House

Nine days following the terror attacks of 9-11, President George Bush gave an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people that was widely lauded in the corporate media. Bush said the US had been “called to defend freedom … [against] a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations known as al Qaeda.” Two-and-a-half years later when deeds are compared to rhetoric, the inescapable conclusion is that Bush’s mission to defend freedom was a cruel hoax....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June04/Petersen0605-2.htm

It's very important to note that the criminal charges faced by senior Pentagon and White House officials are not trivial charges. They're far beyond breaking into the opposition's political headquarters. The charges go beyond simple traditional political malfeasance. The high crimes committed in the Pentagon and White House that are being investigated by the Department of Justice are, legitimately, high crimes. They go to the heart of American military and intelligence capability. They were, in essence, acts of espionage, acts of treason...

http://www.warblogging.com/archives/000860.php#000860


Informant: Jackie

by William Greider

The Nation

06/03/04

"When President Bush called Americans to enlist in his 'war on terror,' very few citizens could have grasped the all-encompassing consequences of the proposition. The terrifying events of 9/11 were like a blinding flash, benumbing the country with a sudden knowledge of unimagined dangers. Strong action was recommended, skeptics were silenced and a shallow sense of unity emerged from the shared vulnerabilities. Nearly three years later, the enormity of Bush's summons to open-ended 'war' is more obvious. It overwhelmed the country, in fact deranged society's normal processes and purposes with a brilliantly seductive political message: Terror pre-empts everything else."...

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040621&s=greider


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp