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George W. “The Shrub” Bush On Meet The Press

This is from the February 8, 2004 program of
Meet the Press
.
Okay, I’ve got this split up into two parts and 4 parts — in quicktime movies and MP3s.
The Parts 1 and 2s go together (The movies and audio). The 4 parters are split up more at random.
Okay this stuff should be uploaded now. Sorry for being a bonehead last night 😉
Quicktimes In Two Parts:

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 2
(Small – 69 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 2
(Small – 35 MB)
MP3s in Two Parts:

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 2
(MP3 – 44 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 2
(MP3 – 23 MB)
Quicktimes In Four Parts:

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 4
(Small – 25 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 4
(Small – 32 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 3 of 4
(Small – 25 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 4 of 4
(Small – 24 MB)
MP3s in Four Parts:

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 4
(MP3 – 20 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 4
(MP3 – 32 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 3 of 4
(MP3 – 25 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 4 of 4
(MP3 – 17 MB)















Daily Show On The Press Corps’ Waking Up To Shrub Vietnam AWOL Situation

This is from the February 10, 2004 program.
So the press are finally waking up to the fact that there are facts to support that the Shrub never reported for duty, and seemed to have gotten an honorable discharge anyway, but there are no facts to support otherwise.
These guys are finally asking questions like: “Why isn’t there one person who can say he served with George W. Bush?”
Says Jon to the Press:
“What I want to know is: Where the f**k have you guys been?”

Daily Show On Shrub’s Meet The Press Appearance
(Small – 4 MB)

Daily Show On Shrub’s Meet The Press Appearance
(Med – 7 MB)
















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Daily Show On The Shrub’s Meet The Press Interview

This is from the February 9, 2004 program. (Commenting on the February 8, 2004 Meet the Press.)
The Shrub was on message, as usual. Jon created a drinking game: a shot of tequila every time the Shrub says “Terror,” “Danger,” or “Madman.”
Here’s complete
video of the Shrub’s February 8, 2004 Meet The Press Interview
.
Daily Show On Shrub’s Meet The Press Appearance
(Small – 10 MB)
Daily Show On Shrub’s Meet The Press Appearance
(Med – 18 MB)









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Appeals Court Postpones New Crummy EPA Rules From Taking Effect


Weaker Clean Air Rules Blocked

By the Associate Press for Wired.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked new Bush administration changes to the Clean Air Act from going into effect, in a challenge from state attorneys general and cities that argued the changes would harm the environment and public health.
The Environmental Protection Agency rule would have made it easier for utilities, refineries and other industrial facilities to make repairs in the name of routine maintenance without installing additional pollution controls.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued an order that blocks the rules from going into effect until the legal challenge from the states and cities is heard, a process likely to last months.
The court’s decision stops, at least temporarily, one of the Bush administration’s major environmental decisions. The court’s justices said the challengers “demonstrated the irreparable harm and likelihood of success” of their case, which are required to stop the rule from taking effect.
The EPA proposed the rule a year ago December, the then-acting administrator signed it in August, and it was made final in October. It was due to have gone into effect this week.
Bringing suit were attorneys general for 12 states — Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin — and legal officers for New York City, Washington, San Francisco, New Haven and a host of other cities in Connecticut.

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More On The Shrub’s Attempt To Cover Up His Ever-changing Story About The Cost Of The War By Removing Web-based Evidence Of His Administration’s Lies

The Shrub is trying to cover his tracks by deleting hundreds of damning documents from the Internet. Nice try shrubby, but the built-in redundancy of the Web will hopefully save the day on this one.

White House Covers Tracks by Removing Information

In a high-tech cover-up, the Washington Post this morning reports the White House is actively scrubbing government websites clean of any of its own previous statements that have now proven to be untrue.1 Specifically, on April 23, 2003, the president sent his top international aid official on national television to reassure the public that the cost of war and reconstruction in Iraq would be modest. USAID Director Andrew Natsios, echoing other Administration officials, told Nightline that, “In terms of the American taxpayers contribution, [$1.7 billion] is it for the US. The American part of this will be $1.7 billion. We have no plans for any further-on funding for this.”
The president has requested more than $166 billion in funding for the war and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan this year. But instead of admitting that he misled the nation about the cost of war, the president has allowed the State Department “to purge the comments by Natsios from the State Department’s Web site. The transcript, and links to it, have vanished.” (The link where the transcript existed until it caused embarrassment was http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/nightline_042403_t.html).

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Shrub Attempts To Alter History By Removing Web Documents


White House Web Scrubbing

Offending Comments on Iraq Disappear From Site
By Dana Milbank for the Washington Post.

White House officials were steamed when Andrew S. Natsios, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said earlier this year that U.S. taxpayers would not have to pay more than $1.7 billion to reconstruct Iraq — which turned out to be a gross understatement of the tens of billions of dollars the government now expects to spend.
Recently, however, the government has purged the offending comments by Natsios from the agency’s Web site. The transcript, and links to it, have vanished.
This is not the first time the administration has done some creative editing of government Web sites. After the insurrection in Iraq proved more stubborn than expected, the White House edited the original headline on its Web site of President Bush’s May 1 speech, “President Bush Announces Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended,” to insert the word “Major” before combat.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, administration Web sites have been scrubbed for anything vaguely sensitive, and passwords are now required to access even much unclassified information. Though it is not clear whether the White House is directing the changes, several agencies have been following a similar pattern. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and USAID have removed or revised fact sheets on condoms, excising information about their effectiveness in disease prevention, and promoting abstinence instead. The National Cancer Institute, meanwhile, scrapped claims on its Web site that there was no association between abortion and breast cancer. And the Justice Department recently redacted criticism of the department in a consultant’s report that had been posted on its Web site.

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Lovely Comprehensive Page On The Saddam Capture Cover-up Links

Knitwitology has just posted a great page with all the information on it I was just about to take the time to create links for:

Of Spiderholes and Spiderwebs

Thanks, Morgan for letting me off the hook!
Remember to not let any of this stuff get you down people! Things just keep getting stranger and stranger. But we’re all in this together, and we’re gonna get out of it together!
Happy Holidays and Remember to Be Careful About Driving Tired, Wasted or in Bad Weather. When in doubt – chill out and wait till later.
Peace and Love Ya’ll!
(I’m probably out for the next few days…connectivity uncertain.)

More On The Real Story Behind Saddam’s Capture


Saddam ‘captured weeks ago’

An intelligence website has reported that former Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, might have been a prisoner at the time of his arrest.
According to Debkafiles there is a possibility that Saddam was held for up to three weeks in the underground pit by a Kurdish splinter group while they negotiated a handover to the Americans in return for the US$25m reward.
The website, edited by former Israeli intelligence agents reports that this is the only answer to questions on why Saddam looked dishevelled and disorientated when captured.
The website reported that it was clear Saddam had not shaved for weeks nor had he washed his hair. He was also starved and looked neglected.
The opening of the underground pit was camouflaged with rocks and mud and it was accessible for above ground only. As a result it was impossible for Saddam to leave his underground cell.
No information has been released on the two men captured at the site except for the fact that they tried to escape during the American operation.
The other question asked is where did the US$750 000 found at the scene come from. It is possible that the new notes were a down payment of a ransom.
The possibility that Saddam was drugged has also emerged. This could have been why he appeared so disorientated, read the report. This would also explain why Saddam did not use the firearm found in the pit.


Kurds claim Saddam capture

SADDAM Hussein was found by US troops only after he had been taken prisoner by Kurdish forces, drugged and abandoned ready for American soldiers to recover him, a British newspaper reported yesterday.
Saddam came into the hands of the Kurdish Patriotic Front after being betrayed to the group by a member of the al-Jabour tribe, whose daughter had been raped by Saddam’s son Uday, leading to a blood feud, reported the Sunday Express, which quoted an unnamed senior British military intelligence officer.
The newspaper said the full story of events leading up to the ousted Iraqi president’s capture on December 13 near his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq, “exposes the version peddled by American spin doctors as incomplete”.
A former Iraqi intelligence officer, whom the Express did not name, told the paper that Saddam was held prisoner by a leader of the Kurdish Patriotic Front, which fought alongside US forces during the Iraq war, until the leader negotiated a deal.
The deal apparently involved the group gaining political advantage in the region.
An unnamed Western intelligence source in the Middle East told the Express: “Saddam was not captured as a result of any American or British intelligence”.

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Saddam Actually Captured By The Kurds

Can’t the Shrub Administration tell the truth about anything?
Would it have really been so bad to just tell the truth on this one? We still have him in custody and all. The Kurds could have gotten their proper credit — we could have bonded with a persecuted people, and then we all could have held hands and hated Saddam together. (These are the Kurds, remember? The ones that were gassed ten years ago that the Administration likes to bring up all the time as justification for the Shrub War’s unfound WMD!)
But no.
Instead we have to find out a week later that we were lied to yet again.
I hope this is getting as old for you as it is for me. I want a President that can tell the truth at least part of the time. How about once. I’d like to go a day or two, or maybe a week even, without hearing a lie from my President. I don’t think it’s too much to ask.
Well, at least now we know what the new terror alert level is all about. It’s all about diversion: “Pay no attention to the information coming in from the rest of the world. Just be afraid and keep watching the box for further instructions.”

Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops

Saddam Hussein (news – web sites) was captured by US troops only after he had been taken prisoner by Kurdish forces, drugged and abandoned ready for American soldiers to recover him, a British Sunday newspaper said.
Saddam came into the hands of the Kurdish Patriotic Front after being betrayed to the group by a member of the al-Jabour tribe, whose daughter had been raped by Saddam’s son Uday, leading to a blood feud, reported the Sunday Express, which quoted an unnamed senior British military intelligence officer.
The newspaper said the full story of events leading up to the ousted Iraqi president’s capture on December 13 near his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq (news – web sites), “exposes the version peddled by American spin doctors as incomplete”.
A former Iraqi intelligence officer, whom the Express did not name, told the paper that Saddam was held prisoner by a leader of the Kurdish Patriotic Front, which fought alongside US forces during the Iraq war, until he negotiated a deal.
The deal apparently involved the group gaining political advantage in the region.
An unnamed Western intelligence source in the Middle East told the Express: “Saddam was not captured as a result of any American or British intelligence. We knew that someone would eventually take their revenge, it was just a matter of time.”

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Terror Alert Level High: Happy Holidays Everyone

So they won’t say exactly why, and they won’t say exactly what they’re doing as a result of it, but the terror alert level has been raised to “high.”
Tom Ridge, chief Dept of Homeland Security dude, was on the tube saying absolutely nothing, over and over again.
It was all very surreal. Like a chapter in a book… (called 1984).’
Peace everybody!