Whistle Ass / George Bush 2004

Bush Campaign Is Making History With Often-Misleading Attacks

"The charges were all tough, serious -- and wrong, or at least highly misleading. Kerry did not question the war on terrorism, has proposed repealing tax cuts only for those earning more than $200,000, supports wiretaps, has not endorsed a 50-cent gasoline tax increase in 10 years, and continues to support the education changes, albeit with modifications. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3222-2004May30.html

Bush Allows Corperations To Take Over US Government

"Special interests have taken over our government from top to bottom, turning back years of progress on health, safety and the environment," concludes Special Interest Takeover: The Bush Administration and the Dismantling of Public Safeguards. "That this puts the public and our natural resources at significant risk seems to be of little concern to the Bush administration. Rather, the administration appears to view government as an instrument to enrich its political allies."

For example, the report cites Bush's stacking of the Department of Energy's transition team with large-scale donors to his campaign, the so-called "Pioneers" who gave more than $100,000 in individual contributions to help get him elected. Pioneers Ken Lay, former CEO of Enron, Thomas Kuhn, president of the Edison Electric Institute, and Anthony Alexander, president of FirstEnergy, each held seats on the agenda-setting team.
http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000125.php

A Patriot Act "Ooops" as FBI Exonerates Ore. Attorney

In a long and sometimes emotional statement, Mayfield compared the federal government to Nazi Germany in its treatment of him and other Muslims.
"I've been singled out and discriminated against because, I feel, I am a Muslim," he said, adding that there were other "material witnesses languishing away" in jails and detention centers nationwide.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-mayfield25may25,1,6126221.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

'I will always hate you people'

"The original US autopsy said he had died of a heart attack. It now appears he was suffocated during interrogation when a CIA officer put him in a sleeping bag and sat on him. "

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1223358,00.html

zinni joins the list of former bushies calling bullshit on the bush administration

Zinni feels that undertaking the war with the minimum of troops paved the way for the security problems the U.S. faces there now, the violence Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recently admitted he hadn't anticipated.

"He should not have been surprised," says Zinni. "There were a number of people who before we even engaged in this conflict felt strongly that we underestimated...the scope of the problems we would have in [Iraq]."

The fact that no one in the administration has paid for the blunder irks Zinni. "But regardless of whose responsibility [it is]...it should be evident to everybody that they've screwed up, and whose heads are rolling on this?"

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/21/60minutes/main618896.shtml

drip drip drip drip drip. bye bye whistleass.

wierd conspiracy theories about nicholas berg

why did his father blame rumsfeld and bush?

"If any incident lends itself to conspiracy theories, the murder of Nick Berg does. The Bush Cartel has only poured fuel on the fire by lying about key facts surrounding Berg’s detention and the videotape of his killing. Most curious is the rush to identify the killer as Abu Musab Zarqawi. They still haven’t found the Anthrax killer, but they claim to have identified a man wearing a ski mask within 24 hours. Preposterous. Especially since it appears that it wasn’t the elusive – and perhaps dead -- Zarqawi at all. Then who was it? Good question, indeed."

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/05/con04214.html

Bush & Rumsfeld Approved Use ofTorture

An article in the May 24 issue of Newsweek, titled “The Roots of Torture,” has revealed the bitter internal disputes triggered in the US government by the Bush administration’s decision to discard the Geneva Conventions and foster a general atmosphere of lawlessness with regards to detainees held by the US. Although Newsweek does not point this out, its article confirms that the Bush administration was conscious of the fact that the interrogation methods it was employing against prisoners captured in Afghanistan were in violation of US and international law, leaving US officials open to prosecution for war crimes...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/may2004/tort-m18.shtml

daily reason to dump bush - from mcsweeney's

DAY 37:

In January, 2003, the Bush administration chose Jerry Thacker to serve on the Presidential Advisory Commission on HIV and AIDS.

Thacker has described AIDS as the "gay plague," homosexuality as a "deathstyle" rather than lifestyle, and explained that, "Christ can rescue the homosexual."

The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS provides "recommendations on the US government's response to the AIDS epidemic." Thacker is also an alumni, and former member of the faculty at Bob Jones University, a school known for its ban on interracial dating. In September 2001, Thacker gave a speech at Bob Jones University, during which he spoke of the "sin of homosexuality."

Due to the controversy over his appointment, Thacker withdrew from the Commission shortly after his nomination.

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/bush/

rumsfeld should be fired - seymour hersh explains why

"According to interviews with several past and present American intelligence officials, the Pentagon’s operation, known inside the intelligence community by several code words, including Copper Green, encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in an effort to generate more intelligence about the growing insurgency in Iraq. A senior C.I.A. official, in confirming the details of this account last week, said that the operation stemmed from Rumsfeld’s long-standing desire to wrest control of America’s clandestine and paramilitary operations from the C.I.A. "

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040524fa_fact

You Can't Handle the Truth?

...Other U.S. soldiers are said to have involved themselves directly and enthusiastically in the "dirty work" of prisoner torture and the disposal of corpses. "The Americans did whatever they wanted," stated one Afghan witness. "We had no power to stop them. Everything was under the control of the American commander." click here to read the sad sad truth about the post-911 continuous tortuous policies of the Bush Administration