Left Out

Shrub

• Shrub is an empty vessel into which the Neo-Con whackos pour their delusional policies.

  He (George W. Bush) has the confidence to ask questions that show he doesn't know very much.

  Richard Perle

  He [George W. Bush] was like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people.

  Paul O'Neill, former Secretary of the Treasury in the Bush Administration

  With his level of experience, I would not be able to support his level of conviction.

  Paul O'Neill, as quoted by Ron Suskind in The Price of Loyalty.

• The shadow government is an appalling assembly of utopian anarchists masquerading as conservatives who are transforming our republic into a plutocratic kleptocracy.

  I think this (Bush Administration) is the worst government the US has ever had in its more than 200 years of history. It has engaged in extraordinarily irresponsible policies not only in foreign and economic but also in social and environmental policy. This is not normal government policy. This is a form of looting.

  George A. Akerlof, Berlin Germany, July 29, 2003. (Nobel Prize in Economics, 2001)

• On Bush's state visit to the U.K.:

  In fact, Mr Bush is the first US president ever to be honoured with an invitation to a state visit. He can now count himself in the company of such figures as President Mobutu of Zaire, who visited the Queen in 1973, President Suharto of Indonesia, who came over in 1979, and the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, who visited in 1994.

  The Guardian, November 18, 2003.

• I'm shocked, shocked that so many people hate Shrub. " Call Me a Bush Hater " by Molly Ivins, The Progressive, November 14, 2003.

Letters

• Letter to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 16, 2003, regarding Colin Powell's testimony to the U.N.
• Letter to Rep. Henry A. Hyde (R, Illinois).

Perpetual War

• The war in Iraq is a fraud, a fiasco, a failure ... and a crime against humanity.

  From the start, we were building the case against Hussein and looking at how we could take him out and change Iraq into a new country. And, if we did that, it would solve everything. It was about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The President saying, "Fine. Go find me a way to do this."

  Paul O'Neill, as quoted by Ron Suskind in The Price of Loyalty.

  In the 23 months I was there, I never saw anything that I would characterize as evidence of weapons of mass destruction. There were allegations and assertions by people. But I've been around a hell of a long time, and I know the difference between evidence and assertions and illusions or allusions and conclusions that one could draw from a set of assumptions. To me there is a difference between real evidence and everything else. And I never saw anything in the intelligence that I would characterize as real evidence.

  Paul O'Neill, Time, January 10, 2004.

• The truth is stubborn, and will out.
  • WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications
  • Bounding the Global War on Terrorism. Dr. Jeffrey Record, Army War College, December, 2003.
  • Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources For a New Century. Project for a New American Century, September, 2000.
• Some recommended reading.
  • Bush's Desolate Imperium by Bernard Chazelle, December, 2003.
  • New York, You've Been Used by William Rivers Pitt. A concise analysis of the Project for a New American Century and its role in determining U.S. foreign policy. The signatories and their cronies form an unelected shadow government that threatens the future of the U.S.
  • To Lead, U.S. Must Give Up Paraoid Politics by Zbigniew Brzezinski.
  • Rumsfeld's Propaganda Ministry by James Ridgeway, Village Voice, November 14, 2003.

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