The neocons have, during their 24 years in power, harvested a ton of questions
WHO OUTED VALERIE PLAME?
Cheney Could Not Recall Key Events About His Role in CIA Leak
Truthout
October 31, 2009
by Jason Leopold, truthout October | Report
A month before Valerie Plame Wilson’s covert status as a CIA operative was revealed, Vice President Dick Cheney told his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, and his press secretary, Cathie Martin, that Plame Wilson worked at the spy agency.
But according to a 28-page summary of Cheney’s May 8, 2004 interview with the special prosecutor probing the leak, Cheney did not recall having that conversation.
“Cheney has no recollection of Cathie Martin entering his office at some point while Scooter Libby was present and advising both of them that [Plame Wilson] was employed by the CIA,” states the interview summary, released late Friday by the FBI after a lengthy court battle between the Bush and Obama administrations and the government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
Why was Iraq attacked?
“The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
What happened to allies protection for Iraq’s noncombatants after the “shock and awe” of allied air attacks?
In the starkest language concerning the failure of the government to anticipate the insurgency, Mr. Greenstock said, “In the days following the victory of 9 April [2003], no one, it seems to me, was instructed to put the security of Iraq first. To put law and order on the streets first. There was no police force. There was no constituted army except the victorious invaders. And there was no American general that I could … establish who was given the accountable responsibility to make sure that the first duty of any government — and we were the government — was to keep law and order on the streets. There was a vacuum from the beginning, in which looters, saboteurs, the criminals, the insurgents moved very quickly.”
http://www.nysun.com/foreign/top-british-envoy-says-blair-took-his-eye-off/49066/
When did America’s Recession Start?
NEW ORLEANS, April 22 (Reuters) – President George W. Bush on Tuesday said the U.S. economy was not in a recession but was experiencing a slowdown.
“We’re not in a recession, we’re in a slowdown,” Bush said at a news conference at the end of a two-day summit with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. …
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2231537320080422
Business Cycle Dating Committee
The committee identified December 2007 as the peak month, after determining that the subsequent decline in economic activity was large enough to qualify as a recession.
Anyone observing neocon ‘performance’ knows that they define and redefine things on the fly. When the neocons wanted to attack Iraq, aggression became “pre-emptive self defense”. It all depends on what the neocons hope to achieve.
But if Congressman Joe Wilson believed Mr. Bush’s definition of the economic “thingee” afflicting America, then the Business Cycle Dating Committee must have lied.
If Congressman Joe Wilson believed the Business Cycle Dating Committee then a different American President should have qualified for his “YOU LIE”.
What happened to the evidence that linked Guantanamo inmates to terrorism?
The U.S. military has dismissed war crimes charges against five Guantanamo Bay detainees after a prosecutor for another detainee resigned in September, alleging the military was suppressing evidence favourable to the defence.
Why is selling cocaine to fund a war ok while selling opium to fund a war is not ok?
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