Thursday, February 12, 2004

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More from MoveOn.org:

    Help us get our Polygraph ad on the air. If you donate $30 or more to the Voter Fund today, you'll also receive our new Bush in 30 Seconds video featuring the awards show with Michael Moore, Al Franken, Moby, Janeane Garofalo, and others, as well as the 26 finalists and 30 more great ads. Watch Polygraph and get the video.

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Look at this here from MoveOn.org:

    Please forward this note to friends and colleagues who would share your concern.
    Dear MoveOn member,

    The response to our "Censure" campaign has been incredible. In just days, more than 250,000 people have joined our call on Congress to censure President Bush for misleading us in his rush to war -- a response among the strongest we've ever seen. True Majority, Working Assets, and the Win Without War coalition are also joining us in this campaign.

    Tomorrow, we'll present our campaign to Congress at a press conference in Washington. We'll be joined by former top intelligence officers and by parents whose children have been injured and killed while serving in the military in Iraq.

    With your help, we can make our statement even more powerful -- we're aiming for 300,000 signatures on our petition by tomorrow. We can also reach a major milestone in MoveOn's history: our two-millionth U.S. member.

    Please send the note below along to people you know who would share your concern that President Bush deliberately deceived us in making the case for war.

    President Bush's interview with Tim Russert yesterday showed that our campaign is more important than ever. Bush is still trying to mislead us with statements like, "I expected to find the weapons [because] I based my decision on the best intelligence possible." The facts show the opposite, of course, as outlined below.

    There must be consequences when a President takes us to war based on assertions he knows are untrue. We've simply got to demand it.

    Thank you. Together, our voices really will make a difference.

    Sincerely,

    - Adam, Carrie, Eli, James, Joan, Laura, Noah, Peter, Wes, and Zack

      The MoveOn.org Team
      Monday, February 9, 2004

    P.S. Why not give your Senators and Representative a call too, and ask them to censure President Bush for misleading us?:

    Senator Dianne Feinstein
    DC Phone: 202-224-3841
    Local Phone: 310-914-7300

    Senator Barbara Boxer
    DC Phone: 202-224-3553
    Local Phone: 415-403-0100

    Representative Xavier Becerra
    DC Phone: 202-225-6235
    Local Phone: 213-483-1425

    Please let us know you're calling, by clicking here.    Dear friend,

    During the buildup to war, President Bush said the United States "must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.... We have every reason to assume the worst, and we have an urgent duty to prevent the worst from occurring." 1

    On the eve of sending troops into battle, Bush asserted that "intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." 2

    Now David Kay, the CIA’s chief weapons inspector, has testified before Congress that these weapons do not exist.

    In an attempt to evade responsibility for the misleading statements that pushed the nation into war, Bush has announced plans to form an independent inquiry to look into what went wrong. An inquiry would serve the Bush administration well: it would envelop the issue in a fog of uncertainty, deflect blame onto the intelligence services, and delay any political damage until 2005, after the upcoming election. 3

    But the facts need no clarification. Despite repeated warnings from the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency, President Bush and his administration hyped and distorted the threat that Iraq posed. 4 And now that reality is setting in, the President wants to pin the blame on someone else. We can't let him.

    Congress has the power to censure the President -- to formally reprimand him for betraying the nation's trust. If ever there was a time for this, it's now. Join our call on Congress to censure President Bush at:


       http://www.moveon.org/censure/

    It's clear that we’ve been misled:

    • David Kay said last week, "I'm personally convinced that there were not large stockpiles of newly produced weapons of mass destruction," and "We don't find the people, the documents or the physical plants that you would expect to find if the production was going on." 5 Kay said these things shortly after resigning from his post as Bush's chief weapons inspector in Iraq.

    • Bush, in his 2003 State of the Union address, said, "the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." 6Yet Ambassador Joe Wilson, who was sent to Niger in February 2002 to determine whether Iraq was trying to purchase uranium materials there, concluded that "intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat." 7

    • A CIA report in February 2003 said: "We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since [1998] to reconstitute its Weapons of Mass Destruction programs." 8


    It's also clear that the misleading was deliberate:

    • The respected Carnegie Endowment for International Peace recently found that the administration "systematically misrepresented the threat" from Iraq. 9

    • The basis for President Bush's African uranium claim was known at the time to be forged and not credible.10"Top White House officials knew that the CIA seriously disputed the claim that Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium in Africa long before the claim was included in Bush's January address to the nation," according to the Washington Post.11

    • Secretary of State Colin Powell became alarmed at the level of intelligence distortion. When he read the first draft of his speech to the UN -- prepared for Powell by Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff -- he was so upset that he lost his temper, throwing several pages in the air and declaring, "I'm not reading this. This is bullsh--."12

    Our democracy only works when we know the truth. We now know President Bush and his administration deliberately misled Congress and the American people. Censure is the least we should expect in response.

    The independent inquiry will need a year or more to come to a conclusion, according to the Bush administration. It took less time than that for the country to go to war. We don't need more investigation, we need accountability, and we need it now.

    Join our call on Congress to censure President Bush at:

       http://www.moveon.org/censure/

    We'll be holding a press conference in Washington on Thursday, announcing our campaign for Censure. If you sign on now, we can count your signature at the press conference. Please sign on right away.

    Thank you.

    Sincerely,

    - Adam, Carrie, Eli, James, Joan, Laura, Noah, Peter, Wes, and Zack
    The MoveOn.org Team
      Monday, February 9, 2004

    Footnotes:

    1. Washington Post, January 28, 2004

    2. Official White House transcript, March 17, 2003

    3. Washington Post, February 2, 2004

    4. An excellent, comprehensive rundown on the Bush administration's deliberate distortion of intelligence is available from the Center for American Progress

    5. New York Times, January 26, 2004

    6. Official White House transcript, January 28, 2003

    7. Joseph Wilson Op-Ed, New York Times, July 6, 2003
        Note: Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, had her CIA cover blown, possibly by the White House, in apparent retaliation for Wilson's contradicting the White House's line on WMDs.

    8. MSNBC News, Oct. 24, 2003

    9. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace report, "WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications", January, 2004

    10. New York Times, July 8, 2003


    11. Washington Post News Service, July 23, 2003

    12. US News & World Report, June 9, 2003

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Wednesday, February 11, 2004

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    MOSSBACK A Boob Exposed Though the real Bush agenda is cover-up.
    by Knute Berger, Seattle Weekly, February 11 - 17, 2004
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Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Here is CURSOR's content for today:

    10 February 2004

    Media Patrol


    Michael Massing offers a devastating critique of pre-war reporting -- especially by the New York Times -- on Iraq's alleged WMD: "Despite abundant evidence of the administration's brazen misuse of intelligence in this matter, the press repeatedly let officials get away with it. As journalists rush to chronicle the administration's failings on Iraq, they should pay some attention to their own."

    The Washington Post reports -- on page A17 -- that not only did President Bush and his top advisers ignore many of the caveats and qualifiers included in the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, "In fact, they made some of their most unequivocal assertions" about Iraq's unconventional
    weapons before the report was completed.

    Under fire for claiming that Iraq posed an imminent threat, President Bush said during his "Meet the Press" interview, that he must deal with threats "before they become imminent."

    The Center for American Progress annotates the interview transcript and takes issue with 17 assertions that Bush made, in a "Claim vs. Fact" analysis. Plus: Numbers counts for "terror" and "terrorist" and "war" and "peace."

    Peggy Noonan says Bush's performance was "not impressive" because he "cannot remember talking points." Calpundit rounds up reaction to the interview by other conservative commentators, one of whom observes that "If he loses this year, this will be the day he lost it"

    Calpundit also looks into Bush's military service records, solving one mystery and uncovering a new one involving Bush's possible transfer to a "paper unit" in Denver for disciplinary reasons.

    Slate's William Saletan writes that "The joke is that Bush accomplished exactly what he set out to do in this interview: He showed you how his mind works."

    Joshua Claybourn says Bush was being "deceptive and false" when he claimed that discretionary spending has declined steadily under his administration. Introducing Claybourn's analysis, Andrew Sullivan writes that on the budget, Bush is either "frighteningly unaware" or "lying."

    In a brief history of 'Bush family values,' Kevin Phillips says that while "They know what they're in politics for," their problem is that "The American people are also starting to find out." Plus: Paul Krugman reviews Phillips' "American Dynasty" and Ron Suskind's "The Price of Loyalty."

    The Revision Thing On the same day that Bush told Tim Russert that Saddam "had the ability to make weapons at the very minimum," Vice President Cheney told a group of Republican donors that Saddam "had the intent to arm his regime with weapons of mass destruction."

    That's the Ticket? Jim Lobe on the day that Cheney 'was rocked to the core,' and Newsweek examines 'A problem in the bunker.'

    Cheney's Bubble "Whatever one might say about the rarefied air of the World Economic Forum," writes Orville Schell, "no one in the Davos bubble is in an individual bubble as well -- or at least that was true until Vice President Dick Cheney descended on Davos." Earlier: Davos presenter puts America on the couch. The prognosis?

    The Observer reports that Great Britain helped the U.S. spy on other U.N. Security Council members prior to Secretary of State Powell's U.N. presentation.

    Brendan O'Neill asks "what if Iraq did have WMD? What if the coalition does discover some old but potentially lethal stockpiles of mustard gas, carefully hidden away? What if it had been true that Saddam was building a nuclear bomb?... Would the war have been justified then?"

    The Independent reports that Iraq Body Count's high-end estimate of civilian deaths has surpassed 10,000, a milestone that is getting little play in the U.S.A.

    Defense Secretary Rumsfeld blames "shocking" media coverage for harming America's image in the world, and blames Al-Jazeera for "causing Iraqi people to be killed."

    Clips Clipped? Senior Pentagon managers are said to have repeatedly ordered the department's clipping service to exclude articles critical of the military and Rumsfeld.

    Stars and Stripes reports that the Pentagon has ordered an investigation after almost 90 reports of sexual assault among troops in Kuwait and Iraq.

    The New York Times reports on white collar killings in Iraq, where government officials estimate that hundreds of intellectuals and midlevel administrators have been assassinated since May in a "widening campaign" against the country's professional class.

    An AP article on the hunt for Saddam's money, notes that while the U.S. may have found $300 million that he hid in banks, the amount is nowhere his estimated stash of $40 billion.
    Officials cite "weak U.S. intelligence and slow-moving investigators" for allowing "insurgents time to empty accounts and transfer funds."

    The Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat, says that Al-Qaeda has possessed suitcase-sized tactical nuclear weapons since 1998.

    The AP reports that on the day a ricin scare closed Senate offices, President Bush asked Congress to end a research program on how to get toxins out of buildings.

    TV news execs respond to their incessant showing of Howard Dean's "scream" clip, which the political newsletter Hotline says was aired on cable and broadcast news networks 633 times in four days, even though an ABC report showed that the "scream" was barely audible to Dean's live audience.

    A Globe and Mail columnist speculates on why the 'media disappeared Dean.'

    A soccer crowd in Mexico chanted "Osama! Osama! Osama!" as the U.S. team left the field after defeating Canada.

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