- 'The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War
on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals' By Jane Mayer
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- Few Americans notice how easily media molds, shapes and
creates public opinion. Fewer still understand the power of a president
to create a lie that changes history. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Baines
Johnson and George W. Bush stand in the pantheon of presidents that lied
to the American public. All of them sent uncounted tens of thousands to
their deaths.
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- Back in high school, rumors 'planted' by an individual
or group caught fire with horrendous consequences to the victim. Once
the rumor started, the targeted person could never recover his/her honor.
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- Historians understand that FDR knew about the imminent
attack on Pearl Harbor, but made sure no one raised a finger to prepare
for or repel it. Much like the 'rumor' of the "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution"
that drew the United States into the Vietnam War, it proved to be a fraud,
or an excuse to send 58,000 young men to their deaths and 350,000 into
lives of horror from their wounds. As reported in a previous column, more
than 150,000 U.S. veterans committed suicide-thus the Vietnam War killed
well beyond its ending. Additionally, thousands upon thousands of veterans
died from cancers created by exposure to Agent Orange and other toxic chemicals.
When you think of the several million Vietnamese who died in that 10 year
horror, it's a wonder how George Bush created another 'rumor' 30 years
later that kills so many for nothing.
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- Today, while few defend Bush's outright lie of "Weapons
of Mass Destruction" in Iraq, his 'rumor' killed 4,000 young men,
women, kids, fathers, mothers and wounded 32,000 thus far.
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- Yet, some defend him. "We better get them over there
before they come over here," spout Bush supporters.
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- Douglas Feith, Denver, Colorado, sees the only problem
with Bush's Iraq saga as a failure of the administration to, "do as
good a job as it should have done in explaining to the public what it was
doing and why."
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- To that ridiculous comment, Sam Domenico, Golden, Colorado,
said, "In other words, Bush's only problem was an error in advertising.
The problem wasn't the sales job. The problem was the war. The problem
is killing 4,000 U.S. troops and 60,000 or more Iraqi civilians, and displacing
millions more, while totally discrediting the United States and its principles."
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- At this point, after the toothpaste squeezed out of the
tube, and after all those deaths for a 'rumor', or for what historians
already proved, a 'lie', a new book surfaced this month that spells it
out about the fraud of the Iraq War.
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- Jane Mayer wrote, "The Dark Side: The Inside Story
of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals."
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- She addresses Bush's brain, Vice President Dick Cheney,
the ultimate slinking coward who engineered the Iraq War.
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- "Dick Cheney made no secret of his disdain for international
law following 9/11," The Week editors said, 9/1/08. "Five days
after the attacks, Cheney appeared on "Meet the Press" and announced
that U.S. intelligence officials would 'have to work sort of on the dark
side.'"
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- Last year, the Red Cross issued a report declaring some
of the highest officials in the Bush administration might be in jeopardy
for prosecution for war crimes. Under the guise of being Americans, they
authorized torture, "What amounts to an American gulag."
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- Cheney proves a uniquely malevolent man. The New York
Observer said, "A smart, ruthless, driven man, he can be seen erecting
something new in American history: an imperial vice presidency."
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- When a few White House staffers tried to counter Cheney,
the VP drove them out according to Mayer.
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- When Bush escapes from the presidency in five months,
his 'rumor' saturates Iraq with death and destruction. Over 2.5 million
refugees languish in misery.
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- Bush's rumor assures that thousands of U.S. families
no longer enjoy a father or mother, or thousands of fathers and mothers
no longer stand proud for their dead child soldiers.
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- America staggers forward with this horrendous legacy
of unending death, senseless lies and fraud as well as incompetence at
the highest level. Americans suffer a loss of honor for the
United States of America that transcends reason. We pay an accelerating
price in the world community for decades to come.
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- Like all rumors, somebody started it--created the damage-caused
the heart ache and pain-messed up somebody's life-while creating anguish
in a small setting. But in the case of the Iraq War, Bush carried it to
the ultimate: he destroyed a functioning society while forcing humanity
to regress into the senseless slaughter of war.
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- "If you intend to vote in November and read only
one book between now and then, this should be it," said Geoffrey Wheatcroft
in the New York Observer.
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- Like David Halberstam's "The Best and the Brightest"
that exposed the fraud of the Vietnam War, I second that.
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- Attention: I'm looking for several typists/secretary
types to volunteer a few hours a month to email press releases in order
to invite top TV and radio station hosts to interview national figures
on America's overpopulation crisis being driven by legal and illegal immigration.
I'll send you pre-written letters and over 200 addresses of top network
producers. If you have questions, they will be answered. <mailto:frostyw@juno.com>frostyw@juno.com
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- Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning
the future of our planet. Go to <http://www.earth2100.tv/>www.earth2100.tv
for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been
writing about for the past 20 years. Our 'window' to change to a balanced
population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we ignore the
symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.
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- To take action: www.numbersusa.com
- www.thesocialcontract.com
- www.fairus.org
- www.proenglish.org
- www.capsweb.org
- www.vdare.com
- www.firecoalition.com
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- Final note: I am looking for thinkers, writers and advocates
to add to my monthly "Master Mind Think Tank." In reality, our
politicians foment the problems that they campaign to solve. They never
solve them; thus we spiral into deeper national chaos. I need new ideas
and new creative thinkers to help me bring our most pressing issues onto
the front burner: overpopulation in America caused by ceaseless legal and
illegal immigration. As you know, the recent PEW report shows immigration
adding 100 million people to our country in 30 years. We need to stop it
and we need to stop it now. Join me in saving our civilization. frostyw@juno.com
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- Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents
- from the Arctic to the South Pole - as well as six times across the USA,
coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic
Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents "The Coming Population
Crisis in America: and what you can do about it" to civic clubs, church
groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world
population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
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- From: Frosty Wooldridge
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- This three minute interview with Adam Schrager on "Your
Show" May 4, 2008, NBC Channel 9 News, addresses the ramifications
of adding 120 million people to USA in 35 years and six million people
to Colorado as to water shortages, air pollution, loss of farmland, energy
costs and degradation of quality of life. In the interview, Frosty Wooldridge
explains the ramifications of adding 120 million people to the USA in 35
years. He advances new concepts such as a "Colorado Carrying Capacity
Policy"; "Colorado Environmental Impact Policy"; "Colorado
Water Usage Policy"; "Colorado Sustainable Population Policy".
Nationally, the USA needs a "National Sustainable Population Policy"
to determine the carrying capacity of this nation for the short and long
term. Wooldridge is available for interviews on radio and TV having interviewed
on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX.
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- Click the link to view the 3 minute interview with NBC's
Adam Schrager:
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- http://www.9news.com/video/player.aspx?aid=52364
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- Frosty Wooldridge
- www.frostywooldridge.com
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