"The Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 BC to 2000 AD" by Dr. Chancellor Williams 

recruits from the sudanese people's liberation army from the thirty year struggle in southern sudan ...nancy soderberg of the International Crisis Group said today that there is no doubt the sudanese government is responsible for genocide in western sudan...she suggested the solution would be for the US to arm the victims of the janjaweed in the darfur region...i agree 

more from sudan...

excerpted from a news article today... the saddest thing about this all, is that this has been a part of the arab m.o. in africa for centuries...

`We Want to Make a Light Baby`

Arab Militiamen in Sudan Said to Use Rape as Weapon of Ethnic Cleansing

By Emily Wax Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, June 30, 2004; GENEINA, Sudan, June 29 --

At first light on Sunday, three young women walked into a scrubby field just outside their refugee camp in West Darfur. They had gone out to collect straw for their family`s donkeys. They recalled thinking that the Arab militiamen who were attacking African tribes at night would still be asleep. But six men grabbed them, yelling Arabic slurs such as "zurga" and "abid," meaning "black" and "slave."

Then the men raped them, beat them and left them on the ground, they said. "They grabbed my donkey and my straw and said, `Black girl, you are too dark. You are like a dog. We want to make a light baby,` " said Sawela Suliman, 22, showing slashes from where a whip had struck her thighs as her father held up a police and health report with details of the attack.

"They said, `You get out of this area and leave the child when it`s made.` " Suliman`s father, a tall, proud man dressed in a flowing white robe, cried as she described the rape.

It was not an isolated incident, according to human rights officials and aid workers in this region of western Sudan, where 1.2 million Africans have been driven from their lands by government-backed Arab militias, tribal fighters known as Janjaweed.

Interviews with two dozen women at camps, schools and health centers in two provincial capitals in Darfur yielded consistent reports that the Janjaweed were carrying out waves of attacks targeting African women. The victims and others said the rapes seemed to be a systematic campaign to humiliate the women, their husbands and fathers, and to weaken tribal ethnic lines. In Sudan, as in many Arab cultures, a child`s ethnicity is attached to the ethnicity of the father. "The pattern is so clear because they are doing it in such a massive way and always saying the same thing," said an international aid worker who is involved in health care.

She and other international aid officials spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they feared reprisals or delays of permits that might hamper their operations.

She showed a list of victims from Rokero, a town outside of Jebel Marra in central Darfur where 400 women said they were raped by the Janjaweed. "It`s systematic," the aid worker said. "Everyone knows how the father carries the lineage in the culture. They want more Arab babies to take the land. The scary thing is that I don`t think we realize the extent of how widespread this is yet."

Another international aid worker, a high-ranking official, said: "These rapes are built on tribal tensions and orchestrated to create a dynamic where the African tribal groups are destroyed. It`s hard to believe that they tell them they want to make Arab babies, but it`s true. It`s systematic, and these cases are what made me believe that it is part of ethnic cleansing and that they are doing it in a massive way."

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell flew to the capital, Khartoum, on Tuesday to pressure the government to take steps to ease the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. U.S. officials said Powell may threaten to seek action by the United Nations if the Sudanese government blocks aid and continues supporting the Janjaweed.

U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is due to arrive on Khartoum this week. The crisis in Darfur is a result of long-simmering ethnic tensions between nomadic cattle and camel herders, who view themselves as Arabs, and the more sedentary farmers, who see their ancestry as African. In February 2003, activists from three of Darfur`s African tribes started a rebellion against the government, which is dominated by an Arab elite. Riding on horseback and camel, the Janjaweed, many of them teenagers or young adults, burned villages, stole and destroyed grain supplies and animals and raped women...

*notice how last year , the US was in such a fever to get at iraq that they ignored the UN ...The US couldn't even wait for the UN to complete the weapons inspections it was trying to conduct before sending in the 'calvary' to rescue the world from saddam hussein...

Back then ,the US couldn't wait for , to use George W. Bush's words , "a permission slip to be signed" by the international community before acting .


NOW , with this looming catastrophe ,described as potentially the worst humanitarian disaster on the planet... suddenly the US needs to take this to the UN , when it has already been established , by eyes and ears , on the ground observations , as well as probably also satellite data , that the Sudanese government is not only allowing the genocide but also supplying the janjaweed militias with weapons ,and providing air support for their attacks on villagers .

From the painful vantage point of our own history , it is plain that the arab invaders continue to defile the motherland . This has been going on for thousands of years in Africa and has gone on also in what is now called the "middle east" ...Review "the Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a race 4500 bc to 2000 ad" by dr.Chancellor Williams to see the clear picture .

the arabs have done more to destroy black civilization than even the europeans have done , but both seem to try their best at their nefarious task.

the fact that the entire black world --one billion people globally and occupying some of the most minerally rich lands on the planet are powerless to stop this outrage and genocide in sudan , is even more evidence that Father Garvey was right about the URGENT need for Black people to politically and economically unite .

News reports reveal that 100 to 200 people are already dying per day from disease and malnutrition in the refugee camps and more than a million people in the region , are now at risk...In a world as obviously as anti-black as this one can be , we must unite and build our strength , or perish and be wiped from the earth forever

and from the land of the "other" interim government...

http://www.haitiprogres.com/eng06-23.html

from haiti progres.com whose subtitle i loosely translate in my less than infantine french as , "the journal that offers an alternative" , we ran across this article :

Giant Demonstration Rocks Capital

Some 15,000 opponents of the Feb. 29th coup d’état in Haiti marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince on Friday, June 18 to demand the removal of Haiti’s de facto authorities and foreign military forces, and the return to power of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

It was one of the largest demonstrations since the February coup but was not marred by any serious violence, like that of May 18 (see Haïti Progrès, Vol. 22, No. 10, 5/19/2004). Demonstrators denounced the campaign of arbitrary arrests, harassment and persecution against members of Aristide’s Lavalas Family party by the de facto government in concert with occupation forces.

Stepping off at about 10:30 a.m. from the Church of Perpetual Help in Bélair, the demonstration flooded through much of the capital including Delmas 2, Solino, Sans Fil, Fort National, and Montalais, Capois and Lalue streets. It ended up passing near the National Palace on its return to Bélair, the departure point. “We demand that the North American president George W. Bush roll back the coup d’état he carried out against our president Aristide,” demonstrators said. “Whether they like it or not, Aristide will return to the country to serve out the mandate we gave him on Nov. 26, 2000.”Demonstrators denounced de facto Prime Minister Gérard Latortue as illegitimate and said it was absurd that certain Lavalas Family leaders were negotiating with him to take part in the Provisional Electoral Council while there continues foreign military occupation, illegal arrests, political witch hunts, and mass firings of Lavalas partisans from state posts. On May 31, about 1000 people were fired from Teleco – the state phone company – and the National Palace.

The masses of the Lavalas base who marched on June 18 taxed the Lavalas Family leaders wheeling and dealing with the coup government as opportunists. They emphasized their refusal to participate in any illegal and fraudulent elections organized by a coup government.

The demonstrators also denounced the brutal and illegal May 10 arrest of Annette “Sò Ann” Auguste, who remains imprisoned (see Haïti Progrès, Vol. 22, No. 9, 5/12/2004).

...interesting to note that one tenent commonly forced on nations seeking imf/world bank assistance is that state owned 'monopolies' in telecommunications , energy ,financial services and water treatment be dissolved and these 'markets' opened up to foreign investment .

As i tried to tell a rather bright and well educated , but equally ' zany ' internet personality and resident of a caribbean nation , the resulting effect is that when someone makes a phone call , or accesses the internet , turns on an electric light , makes a banking transaction , or drinks a glass of clean water , money leaves the developing world and goes to the pockets of the developed world . all i got in return from the guy was invectives and insults...none so blind as those who will not see...

on 6-18-04 an estimated 15,000 haitians peacefully protested against the february coup and failings of interim government to chants of "vive aristide !" 

meanwhile back at the ranch...

it appears that the rest of us were asleep as usual while the bush gang of desperados have been at it again...with a vengeance .

An internet acquaintance , mentioned this evening , that after viewing the film 'Fahrenheit 9-11' , by Michael Moore , the audience gave it a standing ovation .

She also commented that because of efforts of people like Moore in exposing to the public , the high crimes and misdemeanors connected with Papa Bush and the Baby bush regime ,that in November 2004, " Bush can only win the election by stealing it...again"

Well guess what?

Yup...you guessed right...according to BBC's award winning American journalist Greg Palast , that's exactly what the rightwinged bush bandits already have in the works for the election of 2004 . Here's an excerpt from an article Palast recently authored ...more of his work is available at Greg Palast.com

"VANISHING VOTES

Nation Magazine, May 17, 2004 Issue

by Greg Palast

On October 29, 2002, George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote Act
(HAVA).

Hidden behind its apple-pie-and-motherhood name lies a nasty
civil rights time bomb...

------------

First, the purges.

In the months leading up to the November 2000
presidential election, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, in
coordination with Governor Jeb Bush, ordered local election supervisors to
purge 57,700 voters from the registries, supposedly ex-cons not allowed
to vote in Florida. At least 90.2 percent of those on this "scrub" list,
targeted to lose their civil rights, are innocent. Notably, more than
half--about 54 percent--are black or Hispanic. You can argue all night
about the number ultimately purged, but there's no argument that this
electoral racial pogrom ordered by Jeb Bush's operatives gave the White
House to his older brother. HAVA not only blesses such purges, it
requires all fifty states to implement a similar search-and-destroy mission
against vulnerable voters. Specifically, every state must, by the 2004
election, imitate Florida's system of computerizing voter files. The law
then empowers fifty secretaries of state--fifty Katherine Harrises--to
purge these lists of "suspect" voters.

In fact Palast asserts his research has revealed that in "the land of the free and the home of the brave" of the 1.9 million votes faithfully cast , but somehow not counted during the 2000 presidential election , about 1 million of them were Black votes...American democracy proves once again , to be merely a very interesting belief...


ps. this is another good 'visual' by eric blumrich about former florida secretary of state katherine harris and her role in the theft of election 2000. http://www.ericblumrich.com/gta.html

was this on FOX or CNN?

http://www.ericblumrich.com/year.html take a look

we need something like this to help educate the public and crystalize opinion about the disasters ongoing in Sudan , and Nigeria , and Congo , and Sierra Leone , and Liberia ,and Cote d' Ivoire , and Haiti and ...unfortunately , the list seems to go on and on... ad nauseam

arrival of sudanese refugees in chad , fleeing janjaweed militias 

sudanese refugees on way to chad to escape murder and rape by arab janjaweed militias 

darfur , sudan  

The crisis in Darfur region , western Sudan

The slaughter continues in western Sudan as janjaweed militias with air support and arms from the Sudanese army commit genocide on black Africans .

according to satellite photo analysis reported in today's news , some 56,000 houses have been destroyed in over 400 villages of Dafur region western sudan . Over 400,000 forced to flee the area as the genocide intensifies .

the Sudanese government claims that the killing is being done by bandits out of government control that it is attempting to rein in , but the story that the refugees tell is one of being assaulted first by helicopter gunships and then attacked on the ground by the janjaweed in vehicles or on horseback as followup . The men and boys are killed . the women and girls raped . The looted villages are then put to the torch in a systematic program of ethnic cleansing .

in coverage by journalist edith lederer she reports :

"Andrew Natsios, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, blamed the devastation on Arab militias known as the Janjaweed which have killed and routed local Africans and are linked to the Sudanese government.

U.S. experts estimate that about 400,000 people once lived in the 56,000 mud brick houses with conical-shaped roofs known as tukels that were destroyed in Darfur, he said. Thousands more lived in 32 villages across the border in Chad that have been destroyed or damaged.
"There's no doubt that this is going on on a massive scale, and the Janjaweed are responsible," Natsios by telephone.


Natsios said no one knows how many of the people who lost their homes were killed, but between 10,000 and 30,000 Sudanese are estimated to have died in the fighting which began in February 2003.
He warned that time is running out to help 2 million Sudanese in desperate need of aid in Darfur."

The fighting broke out this past february when Black Sudanese rebelled over what they describe as a longterm pattern of discrimination against blacks , concerning distribution of land and resources by the government and Arab Sudanese .

The Arab government of Sudan's response has been a campaign of slaughter to ethnically cleanse the region rather than address legitimate grievances of the blacks .


Unlike the civil war that has raged for decades in southern Sudan , both sides in the conflict in the western region appear to be muslims ...Guess that it's more evidence that similar to the history of black and europeans relations ,once again racial differences outweigh the bonds of religion for the Arabs ...It somehow must be more practical for our "Arab brothers" to continue to kill , enslave ,or rape us than to treat us like human beings .

Garvey's Ghost

Our good friend , brother Sondjata , whose own blog , "Garvey's Ghost: Black Talk - a Garveyite's commentary on world events and other stuff" , found at http://garveys-ghost.blogspot.com/ , has greatly helped to inspire the creation of these 'chronicles' here .

Sondjata is a talented spoken words poet , visual media artist , entrepreneur , intellectual , athlete and most importantly , a stalwart patriot of the Afrikan Diaspora .

i have learned much over these past few years through reading this brother's thoughts opinions and ideas and highly recommend that folks listen to and consider carefully , the things that this brother has to say .

his blog can be found at Garvey's Ghost

you can't spin this... 

Some things Condie , you just cannot spin... 

condoleezza spins juan

after listening to the recent npr interview of condoleezza rice by juan williams , i concluded that condie must have spun juan in circles...

To his credit , he DID try to ask the difficult questions ...for instance , since we went to war on bullcrap excuses, is an apology due ?

the sad part is that he accepted the curveballs she threw as answers . "Apologise for what?" punctuated her smugly mouthed reply.

Perhaps miss Rice , you should apologise for blatantly lying about threats of "mushroom clouds" and misleading the american people into a war that has made the US hated around the world like never before?

Perhaps you should apologise for killing ten to twenty thousand iraqi civilians --is the pentagon still keeping count ? ---they rarely , if ever , mention the civilian totals anymore .

Perhaps you should apologise for the 200 billion dollars wasted on this war when no nation in the region ,except maybe israel , believed saddam hussein to be a threat anymore .

Perhaps , my dear miss Rice, you should apologise for dumping four million pounds of depleted uranium on iraq with the biological , ecological and genetic effects yet to be seen , but if the cancers and horribly deformed babies that resulted from the first Gulf war are any indication , significant portions of iraqi air ,land and water will be contaminated for how many tens of thousands of years ?



her smugness is even more rotten-egg indictment smeared on the bush administration's collective face .

despite condoleezza's attempts at spinning off juan williams' questions in the npr interview , a galaxy of spin wouldn't be sufficient camouflage .

To his credit , williams tried , but just did not try hard enough to pin condie down on the bush administrations "al qaeda /saddam " linkage claims .

the bush administration appears to be basing their "al qaeda/saddam" linkage claims largely on one "abu musab al zarqawi" a nom de guerre for an al qaeda "associate" who was named in the video of the beheading of nicholas berg .

the 'training camp" that the infamous jordanian "al zarqawi"
is supposed to have setup in iraq , was in northern iraq ..."kurdistan" in fact , a region that because of the US imposed no-fly zones , was not under saddam's control .

zarqawi is accused of being the beheader of nicholas berg ,but even this is disputed by some locals who say zarqawi had a wounded leg from the recent Afghan/US war amputated in baghdad and because of a prosthetic devise , walked with a limp not noticed in the berg beheading video .

other sources say zarqawi is long dead --killed during the bombings in northern iraq at the outset of the american invasion .

i found this article posted at a website messageboard and attributed to the political commentator fred kaplan , may 20 2004 titled , "Why Did Bush Spare Zarqawi ?"


"Apparently, Bush had three opportunities, long before the war, to destroy a terrorist camp in northern Iraq run by Abu Musab Zarqawi, the al-Qaida associate who recently cut off the head of Nicholas Berg. But the White House decided not to carry out the attack because, as the [NBC News] story puts it: "the administration feared [that] destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam."

The implications of this are more shocking, in their way, than the news from Abu Ghraib. Bush promoted the invasion of Iraq as a vital battle in the war on terrorism, a continuation of our response to 9/11. Here was a chance to wipe out a high-ranking terrorist. And Bush didn't take advantage of it because doing so might also wipe out a rationale for invasion.

The story gets worse in its details. As far back as June 2002, U.S. intelligence reported that Zarqawi had set up a weapons lab at Kirma in northern Iraq that was capable of producing ricin and cyanide. The Pentagon drew up an attack plan involving cruise missiles and smart bombs. The White House turned it down.

In October 2002, intelligence reported that Zarqawi was preparing to use his bio-weapons in Europe. The Pentagon drew up another attack plan. The White House again demurred.

In January 2003, police in London arrested terrorist suspects connected to the camp. The Pentagon devised another attack plan. Again, the White House killed the plan, not Zarqawi.

When the war finally started in March, the camp was attacked early on. But by that time, Zarqawi and his followers had departed.

This camp was in the Kurdish enclave of Iraq. The U.S. military had been mounting airstrikes against various targets throughout Iraq-mainly air-defense sites-for the previous few years. It would not have been a major escalation to destroy this camp, especially after the war against al-Qaida in Afghanistan.

The Kurds, whose autonomy had been shielded by U.S. air power since the end of the 1991 war, wouldn't have minded and could even have helped.

But the problem, from Bush's perspective, was that this was the only tangible evidence of terrorists in Iraq. Colin Powell even showed the location of the camp on a map during his famous Feb. 5 briefing at the U.N. Security Council. The camp was in an area of Iraq that Saddam didn't control. But never mind, it was something. To wipe it out ahead of time might lead some people-in Congress, the United Nations, and the American public-to conclude that Saddam's links to terrorists were finished, that maybe the war wasn't necessary. So Bush let it be.

In the two years since the Pentagon's first attack plan, Zarqawi has been linked not just to Berg's execution but, according to NBC, 700 other killings in Iraq. If Bush had carried out that attack back in June 2002, the killings might not have happened. More: The case for war (as the White House feared) might not have seemed so compelling. Indeed, the war itself might not have happened.

One ambiguity does remain. The NBC story reported that "the White House" declined to carry out the airstrikes. Who was "the White House"? If it wasn't George W. Bush-if it was, say, Dick Cheney-then we crash into a very different conclusion: not that Bush was directly culpable, but that he was more out of touch than his most cynical critics have imagined.

It's a tossup which is more disturbing: a president who passes up the chance to kill a top-level enemy in the war on terrorism for the sake of pursuing a reckless diversion in Iraq-or a president who leaves a government's most profound decision, the choice of war or peace, to his aides."



the article if correct , raises important unspinable charges that could bring the bush administration tumbling downward in a fatal tailspin ...

hmmmmm....?

*a long read but WORTH it... if Mike Ruppert, publisher of From the Wilderness is correct once again ...this is a bombshell...

Has Saudi oil production peaked prematurely and is the world's largest supplier of oil now entering a stage of long decline ?

If so , iraq's oil becomes even more vital and 'iraqi sovereignty' is a moot question to be brushed off the chessboard despite the growing insurgency...

Places like Venezuela, Colombia , West Africa , Angola become even more strategic to the US...Where would the EU and NATO line up militarily in a grab to secure dwindling global oil supplies ?

If the Saudi oil reserves have peaked , what does this mean for the world's economy ? a Great and deep deep depression ?

Did CIA plant the phoney Niger yellow cake uranium documents as a fatal trap for bush and the neo-cons ?

also this quote "the only nation that is quickly becoming America's major world competitor for ever-diminishing supplies of oil: China." ties DIRECTLY in to what 'someone' here has been repeatedly saying about one of the REAL reasons for the post 9-11 american military moves into central asia and now the middle east-- control over oil vital to china , eventually forcing the US vrs China showdown some pentagon planners predicted (and hoped for ) since the 60s




"COUP D'ETAT:
The Real Reason Tenet and Pavitt Resigned from the CIA on June 3rd and 4th

Bush, Cheney Indictments in Plame Case Looming

by
Michael C. Ruppert

additional reporting by
Wayne Madsen from Washington

© Copyright 2004, From The Wilderness Publications, www.fromthewilderness.com. All Rights Reserved. May be reprinted, distributed or posted on an Internet web site for non-profit purposes only.

JUNE 8, 2004 1600 PDT (FTW) - Why did DCI George Tenet suddenly resign on June 3rd, only to be followed a day later by James Pavitt, the CIA's Deputy Director of Operations (DDO)?

The real reasons, contrary to the saturation spin being put out by major news outlets, have nothing to do with Tenet's role as taking the fall for alleged 9/11 and Iraqi intelligence "failures" before the upcoming presidential election.

Both resignations, perhaps soon to be followed by resignations from Colin Powell and his deputy Richard Armitage, are about the imminent and extremely messy demise of George W. Bush and his Neocon administration in a coup d'etat being executed by the Central Intelligence Agency. The coup, in the planning for at least two years, has apparently become an urgent priority as a number of deepening crises threaten a global meltdown.

Based upon recent developments, it appears that long-standing plans and preparations leading to indictments and impeachment of Bush, Cheney and even some senior cabinet members have been accelerated, possibly with the intent of removing or replacing the entire Bush regime prior to the Republican National Convention this August.

FTW has been documenting this Watergate-like coup for more than fifteen months and almost everything we will discuss about recent events was predicted by us in the following pages: Please see our stories "The Perfect Storm - Part I" (March 2003); "Blood in the Water" (July 2003); "Beyond Bush - Part I" (July 2003); "Waxman Ties Evidentiary Noose Around Rice and Cheney" (July 2003); and "Beyond Bush - Part II" (October 2003).

There were two things we didn't get right. One was the timing. We predicted the developments taking place now as likely to happen after the November election, not before. Secondly, we did not foresee the sudden resignations of Tenet and Pavitt. Understanding the resignations is the key to understanding a deteriorating world scene and that America is on the precipice of a presidential and constitutional crisis that will ultimately dwarf the removal of Richard Nixon in 1974.

So why did Tenet and Pavitt resign? We'll explain why and we will provide many clues along the way as we make our case.

HIGH CRIMES AND REALLY STUPID MOVES

Shortly after the "surprise" Tenet-Pavitt resignations, current and former senior members of the U.S. intelligence community and the Justice Department told journalist Wayne Madsen, a former Naval intelligence officer, that they were directly connected to the criminal investigation of a 2003 White House leak that openly exposed Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA officer. What received less attention was that the leak also destroyed a long-term CIA proprietary intelligence gathering operation which, as we will see, was of immense importance to US strategic interests at a critical moment.

The leak was a vindictive retaliation for statements, reports and actions taken by Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, which had deeply embarrassed the Bush administration and exposed it to possible charges for impeachable offenses, including lying to the American people about an alleged (and totally unfounded) nuclear threat posed by Iraq's Saddam Hussein. Conservative columnist Robert Novak, the beneficiary of the leak, immediately published it on July 14, 2003 and Valerie Plame's career (at least the covert part) instantly ended. The actual damage caused by that leak has never been fully appreciated.

Wilson deeply embarrassed almost every senior member of the Bush junta by proving to the world that they were consciously lying about one of their most important justifications for invading Iraq: namely, their claim to have had certain knowledge, based on "good and reliable" intelligence, that Hussein was on the brink of deploying a nuclear weapon, possibly inside the United States. It was eventually disclosed that the "intelligence" possessed by the administration was a set of poorly forged documents on letterhead from the government of Niger, which described attempts by Iraq to purchase yellowcake uranium for a nuclear weapons program.

It has since been established by Scott Ritter and others that Iraq's nuclear weapons program had been dead in the water and non-functioning since the first Iraq war.

Wilson was secretly dispatched in February 2002, on instructions from Dick Cheney to the CIA, to go to Niger and look for anything that might support the material in the documents. They had already been dismissed as forgeries by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the CIA, and apparently everyone else who had seen them. The CIA cautioned the administration, more than once, against using them. Shortly thereafter, Wilson returned and gave his report stating clearly that the allegations were pure bunk and unsupportable.

In spite of this, unaware of the booby traps laid all around them, the entire power core of the Bush administration jumped on the Niger documents as on a battle horse and charged off into in a massive public relations blitz. Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, Wolfowitz and others - to varying degrees - insisted, testified, and swore that they knew, and had reliable, credible and verified intelligence that Saddam was about to deploy an actual nuclear device built from the Niger yellowcake.

It was full court media press and they successfully scared the pants off of most Americans who believed that Saddam was going to nuke them any second.

George Bush made the charge and actually cited the documents in his 2003 State-of-the-Union address, even after he had been cautioned by George Tenet not to rely on them. In a major speech at the United Nations, Colin Powell charged that Iraq was on the verge of deploying a nuke and had been trying to acquire uranium. Dick Cheney charged in several speeches that Saddam was capable of nuclear terror. And shortly before the invasion, when asked in a television interview whether there was sufficient proof and advance warning of the Iraqi nuclear threat, a smug and confident Condoleezza Rice quipped, "If we wait for a smoking gun, that smoking gun may be a mushroom cloud over an American city." Rice was lying through her teeth.

By July of 2003, as the Iraqi invasion was proving to be a protracted and ill-conceived debacle, executed in spite of massive resistance from within military, political, diplomatic and economic cadres, there was growing disgust within many government circles about the way the Bush administration was running things. The mention of Wilson's report came in July though his name was not disclosed. It suggested corroborative evidence of criminal, rather than stupid, behavior by the administration. The San Francisco Chronicle reported:

A senior CIA official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the intelligence agency informed the White House on March 9, 2002 - 10 months before Bush's nationally televised speech - that an agency source who had traveled to Niger could not confirm European intelligence reports that Iraq was attempting to buy uranium from the West African country.

Note the reference to an Agency source.

It was inevitable that Wilson would move from no comment, to statements given on condition of anonymity, and finally into the public spotlight. That he did, in a July 6th New York Times Editorial titled "What I Didn't Find in Africa." Soon he was giving interviews everywhere.

On July 14th Novak published the column outing Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame. As a result, any criminal investigation of the Plame leak will also go into the Niger documents and any crimes committed which are materially related to Plame's exposure.

Instead of retreating, Wilson advanced. In Septmeber he went public, writing editorials and granting interviews which thoroughly exposed the Bush administration's criminal use of the documents, Cheney's lies about the mission, and all the other lies used to deceive the American people into war.

At the moment he went on the record, Wilson became another legally admissible, corroborative evidentiary source; a witness available for subpoena and deposition, ready to give testimony to the high crimes and misdemeanors he has witnessed.

First Clue: James Pavitt was Valerie Plame's boss. So was George Tenet.

HOW THE TRAP WAS SET

Conflicting news reports suggest that perhaps several sets of the documents were delivered simultaneously to several recipients. I could find only one news story (out of almost 60 I have reviewed) which indicated just when the Niger papers were first put into play. One of the most fundamental questions in journalism, "when?" was omitted from every major press organization's coverage except for a single story from the Associated Press on July 13th.

… [T]he forged Niger government documents, showing attempts by Iraq to purchase yellowcake, were delivered by unknown sources to a journalist working for Italy's Corriere della Sera which then gave them to the Italian intelligence service. She then reportedly gave them to Italian intelligence agents who gave them to the US embassy. Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker also offered this version indicating that the documents had surfaced in Italy in the fall of 2001.

The fall of 2001. That means that the documents were created no more than three and a half months after September 11th.

The earliest press report mentioning the documents was a March 7, 2003 story in The Financial Times. On that day, Mohammed El Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency reported to the UN Security Council that the documents were forgeries. The story contained a revealing paragraph.

"The allegation about the uranium purchase first surfaced in a UK government dossier published on September 24 last year about Iraq's alleged weapons programmes, though it did not name Niger. Niger was first named when the US State Department elaborated on the allegations on December 19 [2002]…

Canada's Globe and Mail reported on March 8, 2003:

…[T]he forgeries were sold to an Italian intelligence agent by a con man some time ago and passed on to French authorities, but the scam was uncovered by the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] only recently, according to United Nations sources familiar with the investigation. The documents were turned over to the IAEA several weeks ago.

"In fact, the IAEA says, there is no credible evidence that Iraq tried to import uranium ore from the Central African country in violation of UN resolutions.

"Based on thorough analysis, the IAEA has concluded, with the concurrence of outside experts, that these documents, which formed the basis for the reports of these uranium transactions between Iraq and Niger, are, in fact, not authentic," Mr. El Baradei told the UN Security Council Friday….

The Chicago Tribune reported on March 13, 2003, "Forged documents that the United States used to build its case against Iraq were likely written by someone in Niger's embassy in Rome who hoped to make quick money, a source close to the United Nations investigation said.

The Washington Post gave yet a different story, also on March 8, 2003:

…Knowledgeable sources familiar with the forgery investigation described the faked evidence as a series of letters between Iraqi agents and officials in the central African nation of Niger. The documents had been given to the U.N. inspectors by Britain and reviewed extensively by U.S. intelligence. The forgers had made relatively crude errors that eventually gave them away - including names and titles that did not match up with the individuals who held office at the time the letters were purportedly written, the officials said…"

…The CIA, which had also obtained the documents, had questions about "whether they were accurate," said one intelligence official, and it decided not to include them in its file on Iraq's program to procure weapons of mass destruction.

In a follow-up story on March 13th the Post reported:

It's something we're just beginning to look at," a senior law enforcement official said yesterday. Officials are trying to determine whether the documents were forged to try to influence U.S. policy, or whether they may have been created as part of a disinformation campaign directed by a foreign intelligence service...


…The phony documents - a series of letters between Iraqi and Niger officials showing Iraq's interest in equipment that could be used to make nuclear weapons - came to British and U.S. intelligence officials from a third country. The identity of the third country could not be learned yesterday.

What if it wasn't a foreign intelligence service? I had been suspicious that a Watergate-like coup was forming immediately after reading the first few stories about the documents. I was convinced when the AP reported on March 14, 2003 (just days before the Iraqi invasion) that the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee had called for an FBI investigation of the documents' origins. The Boston Globe reported two days later that the Senator was specifically seeking to determine whether administration officials had forged the documents themselves to marshal support for the invasion.

The request was not nearly as significant to me as who it had come from - Jay Rockefeller of the Standard Oil Rockefellers. An oil dynasty was calling for an investigation of a bunch of oil men. Somebody was screwing up big time.

Seymour Hersh dropped a major bombshell that went virtually unnoticed, 54 paragraphs deep into an October 27, 2003 story for the New Yorker titled "The Stovepipe."

Who produced the fake Niger papers? There is nothing approaching a consensus on this question within the intelligence community. There has been published speculation about the intelligence services of several different countries. One theory, favored by some journalists in Rome, is that [the Italian intelligence service] Sismi produced the false documents and passed them to Panorama for publication.

"Another explanation was provided by a former senior C.I.A. officer. He had begun talking to me about the Niger papers in March, when I first wrote about the forgery, and said, 'Somebody deliberately let something false get in there.' He became more forthcoming in subsequent months, eventually saying that a small group of disgruntled retired C.I.A. clandestine operators had banded together in the late summer of last year and drafted the fraudulent documents themselves. [emphasis added]

Hersh's revelation provided corroboration for something I and others, like the renowned political historian Peter Dale Scott, had been suspecting for a long time. The CIA was fighting back. This was a well orchestrated, long-term covert operation - exactly what the CIA does all over the world.

POINT OF NO RETURN

Willing disclosure of the identity of a covert operative is a serious felony under Federal law, punishable by fine and/or imprisonment. The Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 makes it a crime for anyone with access to classified information to intentionally disclose information identifying a covert operative. The penalties get worse for doing it to a deep cover Direcorate of Operations (DO) case officer (as opposed to an undercover DEA Agent).

After John Ashcroft was forced to recuse himself from the case, Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, was transferred to Washington and appointed special prosecutor in the Plame case.

Robert Novak, rightly standing by the journalistic code of ethics, has steadfastly refused to identify his White House source. We would do the same thing in his shoes. The investigation is nearing a climax with pending issuance of criminal indictments. Press reports citing sources close to the investigation have directly and indirectly pointed fingers at Dick Cheney and his Chief of Staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, as suspects.

Second clue: The criminal investigation of the Plame leak was investigated after a September 2003 formal request from the CIA, approved by George Tenet.

Not only was Plame's cover blown, so was that of her cover company, Brewster, Jennings & Associates. With the public exposure of Plame, intelligence agencies all over the world started searching data bases for any references to her (TIME Magazine). Damage control was immediate, as the CIA asserted that her mission had been connected to weapons of mass destruction.

However, it was not long before stories from the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal tied Brewster, Jennings & Associates to energy, oil and the Saudi-owned Arabian American Oil Company, or ARAMCO. Brewster Jennings had been a founder of Mobil Oil company, one of Aramco's principal founders.

According to additional sources interviewed by Wayne Madsen, Brewster Jennings was, in fact, a well-established CIA proprietary company, linked for many years to ARAMCO. The demise of Brewster Jennings was also guaranteed the moment Plame was outed.

It takes years for Non-Official Covers or NOCs, as they are known, to become really effective. Over time, they become gradually more trusted; they work their way into deeper information access from more sensitive sources. NOCs are generally regarded in the community as among the best and most valuable of all CIA operations officers and the agency goes to great lengths to protect them in what are frequently very risky missions.


By definition, Valerie Plame was an NOC. Yet unlike all other NOCs who fear exposure and torture or death from hostile governments and individual targets who have been judged threats to the United States, she got done in by her own President, whom we also judge to be a domestic enemy of the United States.

Moreover, as we will see below, Valerie Plame may have been one of the most important NOCs the CIA had in the current climate. Let's look at just how valuable she was.

ARAMCO

According to an April 29, 2002 report in Britain's Guardian, ARAMCO constitutes 12% of the world's total oil production; a figure which has certainly increased as other countries have progressed deeper into irreversible decline.

ARAMCO is the largest oil group in the world, a state-owned Saudi company in partnership with four major US oil companies. Another one of Aramco’s partners is Chevron-Texaco which gave up one of its board members, Condoleezza Rice, when she became the National Security Advisor to George Bush. All of ARAMCO’s key decisions are made by the Saudi royal family while US oil expertise, personnel and technology keeps the cash coming in and the oil going out. ARAMCO operates, manages, and maintains virtually all Saudi oil fields – 25% of all the oil on the planet.

It gets better.

According to a New York Times report on March 8th of this year, ARAMCO is planning to make a 25% investment in a new and badly needed refinery to produce gasoline. The remaining 75% ownership of the refinery will go to the only nation that is quickly becoming America's major world competitor for ever-diminishing supplies of oil: China.

Almost the entire Bush administration has an interest in ARAMCO.

The Boston Globe reported that in 2001 ARAMCO had signed a $140 million multi-year contract with Halliburton, then chaired by Dick Cheney, to develop a new oil field. Halliburton does a lot of business in Saudi Arabia. Current estimates of Halliburton contracts or joint ventures in the country run into the tens of billions of dollars.

So do the fortunes of some shady figures from the Bush family's past.

As recently as 1991 ARAMCO had Khalid bin Mahfouz sitting on its Supreme Council or board of directors. Mahfouz, Saudi Arabia's former treasurer and the nation's largest banker, has been reported in several places to be Osama bin Laden's brother in law. However, he has denied this and brought intense legal pressure to bear demanding retractions of these allegations. He has major partnership investments with the multi-billion dollar Binladin Group of companies and he is a former director of BCCI, the infamous criminal drug-money laundering bank which performed a number of very useful services for the CIA before its 1991 collapse under criminal investigation by a whole lot of countries.

As Saudi Arabia's largest banker he handles the accounts of the royal family and - no doubt - ARAMCO, while at the same time he is a named defendant in a $1 trillion lawsuit filed by 9/11 victim families against the Saudi government and prominent Saudi officials who, the suit alleges, were complicit in the 9/11 attacks.

Both BCCI and Mahfouz have historical connections to the Bush family dating back to the 1980s. Another bank (one of many) connected to Mahfouz - the InterMaritime Bank - bailed out a cash-starved Harken Energy in 1987 with $25 million. After the rejuvenated Harken got a no-bid oil lease in 1991, CEO George W. Bush promptly sold his shares in a pump-and-dump scheme and made a whole lot of money.

Knowing all of this, there's really no good reason why the CIA should be too upset, is there? It was only a long-term proprietary and deep-cover NOC - well established and consistently producing "take" from ARAMCO (and who knows what else in Saudi Arabia). It was destroyed with a motive of personal vengeance (there may have been other motives) by someone inside the White House.

From the CIA's point of view, at a time when Saudi Arabia is one of the three or four countries of highest interest to the US, the Plame operation was irreplaceable.

Third clue: Tenet's resignation, which occurred at night, was the first "evening resignation" of a Cabinet-level official since October 1973 when Attorney General Elliott Richardson and his deputy, William Ruckelshaus, resigned in protest of Richard Nixon's firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Many regard this as the watershed moment when the Nixon administration was doomed.

SAUDI ARABIA

Given that energy is becoming the most important issue on the planet today, if you were the CIA, you might be a little pissed off at the Plame leak. But there may be justification to do more than be angry. Anger happens all the time in Washington. This is something else.

One of the most important intelligence prizes today - especially after recent stories in major outlets like the New York Times reporting that Saudi oil production has peaked and gone into irreversible decline - would be to know of a certainty whether those reports are correct. The Saudis are denying it vehemently but they are being strongly refuted by an increasing amount of hard data. The truth remains unproven. But the mere possibility has set the world's financial markets on edge. Saudi Oil Minister Ali Naimi came to Washington on April 27th to put out the fires. It was imperative that he calm everybody's nerves as the markets were screaming, "Say it ain't so!"

Naimi said emphatically that there was nothing to worry about concerning either Saudi reserves or ARAMCO's ability to increase production. There was plenty of oil and no need for concern.

FTW covered and reported on that event. Writer and energy expert Julian Darley noted that there were some very important ears in the room, listening very closely. He also noted that Naimi's "scientific" data and promises of large future discoveries did not sit well many who are well versed in oil production and delivery.

[See FTW's June 2nd story, "Saudi's Missing Barrels" and our May 2003 story, "Paris Peak Oil Conference Reveals Deepening Crisis." In that story FTW editor Mike Ruppert was the first to report on credible new information that Saudi Arabia had possibly peaked.]

If anybody has the real data on Saudi fields it is either ARAMCO or the highest levels of the Saudi royal family.

The answer to the Saudi peak question will determine whether Saudi Arabia really can increase production quickly, as promised. If they can't, then the US economy is going to suffer bitterly, and it is certain that the Saudi monarchy will collapse into chaos. Then the nearby US military will occupy the oilfields and the U.S. will ultimately Balkanize the country by carving off the oil fields - which occupy only a small area near the East coast. That U.S. enclave would then provide sanctuary to the leading members of the royal family who will have agreed to keep their trillions invested in Wall Street so the US economy doesn't collapse.

So far the Saudis haven't had to prove that they could increase production due to convenient terror attacks at oil fields, and more "debates" within OPEC.

Fourth clue: Bush and Cheney have both hired or consulted private criminal defense attorneys in anticipation of possible indictments of them and/or their top assistants in the Plame investigation. On June 3, just hours before Tenet suddenly resigned, President Bush consulted with and may have retained a criminal defense attorney to represent him in the Plame case.

According to various press reports Bush has either retained or consulted with powerhouse attorney Jim Sharp, who represented Iran-contra figure retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord; Enron's Ken Lay; and Watergate co-conspirator Jeb Stuart Magruder. All three were facing criminal rather than civil charges. Either way, a clear signal has been sent that Bush expects to be either called to testify (which was a precursor in Watergate to a criminal indictment of Richard Nixon) or be named as a defendant. Either way, the President's men are falling faster than their counterparts fell in Watergate, and the initial targets are much higher up the food chain.

Cheney's attorney is Terrence O'Donnell, a partner of the Williams and Connolly law firm. O'Donnell worked for then White House chief of staff Cheney in the Ford administration and as General Counsel for the Pentagon when Cheney was Defense Secretary under the first President Bush. He has been representing the Vice President in criminal and civil cases involving Cheney's chairmanship of Halliburton. These include a Justice Department investigation of Halliburton for alleged payment of bribes to Nigerian political leaders and a stockholders' fraud law suit against Halliburton. O'Donnell also represented former CIA director John Deutch when he was accused of violating national security by taking his CIA computer home and surfing the Internet while it contained hundreds of highly-classified intelligence documents.

SPRINGING THE TRAP

Now, seemingly all of a sudden, Bush and Cheney are in the crosshairs. Cheney has been questioned by Fitzgerald within the last week.

The CIA Director's job by definition, whether others like it or not, is to be able to go to his President and advise him of the real scientific data on foreign resources (especially oil); to warn him of pending instability in a country closely linked to the US economy; and to tell him what to plan for and what to promise politically in his foreign policy. In light of her position in the CIA's relationship with Saudi Aramco, the outing of Valerie Plame made much of this impossible. In short, the Bush leak threatened National Security.

Former White House Counsel and Watergate figure John Dean, writing for the prestigious legal website findlaw.com on June 4th made some very ominous observations that appear to have gone unnoticed by most.

This action by Bush is a rather stunning and extraordinary development. The President of the United States is potentially hiring a private criminal defense lawyer. Unsurprisingly, the White House is doing all it can to bury the story, providing precious little detail or context for the President's action…

…But from what I have learned from those who have been quizzed by the Fitzgerald investigators it seems unlikely that they are interviewing the President merely as a matter of completeness, or in order to be able to defend their actions in front of the public. Asking a President to testify - or even be interviewed - remains a serious, sensitive and rare occasion. It is not done lightly. Doing so raises separation of powers concerns that continue to worry many…

…If so - and if the person revealed the leaker's identity to the President, or if the President decided he preferred not to know the leaker's identity. - Then this fact could conflict with Bush's remarkably broad public statements on the issue. He has said that he did not know of "anybody in [his] administration who leaked classified information." He has also said that he wanted "to know the truth" about this leak.

If Bush is called before the grand jury, it is likely because Fitzgerald believes that he knows much more about this leak than he has stated publicly.

Perhaps Bush may have knowledge not only of the leaker, but also of efforts to make this issue go away - if indeed there have been any. It is remarkably easy to obstruct justice, and this matter has been under various phases of an investigation by the Justice Department since it was referred by the CIA last summer…

…On this subject, I spoke with an experienced former federal prosecutor who works in Washington, specializing in white collar criminal defense (but who does not know Sharp). That attorney told me that he is baffled by Bush's move - unless Bush has knowledge of the leak. "It would not seem that the President needs to consult personal counsel, thereby preserving the attorney-client privilege, if he has no knowledge about the leak," he told me.

What advice might Bush get from a private defense counsel? The lawyer I consulted opined that, "If he does have knowledge about the leak and does not plan to disclose it, the only good legal advice would be to take the Fifth, rather than lie. The political fallout is a separate issue."

I raised the issue of whether the President might be able to invoke executive privilege as to this information. But the attorney I consulted - who is well versed in this area of law - opined that "Neither 'outing' Plame, nor covering for the perpetrators would seem to fall within the scope of any executive privilege that I am aware of."

That may not stop Bush from trying to invoke executive privilege, however - or at least from talking to his attorney about the option. As I have discussed in one of my prior columns, Vice President Dick Cheney has tried to avoid invoking it in implausible circumstances - in the case that is now before the U.S .Supreme Court. Rather he claims he is beyond the need for the privilege, and simply cannot be sued. [Emphasis added]

Suffice it to say that whatever the meaning of Bush's decision to talk with private counsel about the Valerie Plame leak, the matter has taken a more ominous turn with Bush's action. It has only become more portentous because now Dick Cheney has also hired a lawyer for himself, suggesting both men may have known more than they let on. Clearly, the investigation is heading toward a culmination of some sort. And it should be interesting.

Last and final clue: Under Executive Privilege, a principle intended to protect the constitutional separation of powers, officials in the Executive Branch cannot give testimony in a legal case against a sitting President. The Bush administration has invoked or threatened to invoke the privilege several times. Dick did it over the secret records of his energy task force and George Bush tried to use it to prevent Condoleezza Rice from testifying before the "Independent" Commission investigating September 11th.

Former officials of the Executive Branch are, however, free to testify if they are no longer holding a government office when subpoenaed or when the charges are brought.

[To learn more about Executive Privilege visit www.findlaw.com]

The Bush administration has proved itself to be an insular group of inept, dishonest and dangerous CEO's of the corporation known as America. They have become very bad for business and the Board of Directors is now taking action. Make no mistake, the CIA works for "The Board" - Wall Street and big money. The long-term (very corrupt and unethical) agenda of the Board, in the face of multiple worsening global crises, was intended to proceed far beyond the initially destructive war in Iraq, toward an effective reconstruction and a strategic response to Peak Oil. But the neocons have stalled at the ugly stage: killing hundreds of thousands of people; destroying Iraq's industrial and cultural infrastructure as their own bombs and other people's RPGs blow everything up; getting caught running torture camps; and making the whole world intensely dislike America.

These jerks are doing real damage to their masters' interests.

But (not surprisingly) Tenet and the CIA were and remain much better at covert operations and planning ahead than the Bush administration ever was. Tenet and Pavitt actually prepared and left a clear, irrefutable and incriminating paper trail which not only proves that they had shunned and refused to endorse the documents, the CIA also did not support the nuke charges and warned Bush not to use them.

Where are those documents now? They're part of the Justice Department Plame investigation - and they're also in the hands of the Congressman who will most likely introduce and manage the articles of impeachment, if that becomes necessary: Henry Waxman (D), of California. If you would like to see how tightly the legal trap has been prepared, and how carefully the evidence has been laid out, I suggest taking a look around Waxman's web site at: http://www.house.gov/waxman/.


THE SWARM

There are a multitude of signs that the Bush administration is being "swarmed" in what is becoming a feeding frenzy as opposition is surfacing from many places inside the government, including the military. The signs are not hard to find.

The June 3rd issue of Capitol Hill Blue, the newspaper published for members of Congress, bore the headline "Bush Knew About Leak of CIA Operative's Name". That article virtually guaranteed that the Plame investigation had enough to pursue Bush criminally. The story's lead sentence described a criminal, prosecutable offense: "Witnesses told a federal grand jury President George W. Bush knew about, and took no action to stop, the release of a covert CIA operative's name to a journalist in an attempt to discredit her husband, a critic of administration policy in Iraq."

A day later, on June 4th Capitol Hill Blue took another hard shot at the administration. Titled "Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides", the story's first four paragraphs say everything.

President George W. Bush's increasingly erratic behavior and wide mood swings has the halls of the West Wing buzzing lately as aides privately express growing concern over their leader's state of mind.

In meetings with top aides and administration officials, the President goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as "enemies of the state."

Worried White House aides paint a portrait of a man on the edge, increasingly wary of those who disagree with him and paranoid of a public that no longer trusts his policies in Iraq or at home.

"It reminds me of the Nixon days," says a longtime GOP political consultant with contacts in the White House. "Everybody is an enemy; everybody is out to get him. That's the mood over there."

The attacks have not stopped. On June 8th, the same paper followed with another story headlined, "Lawyers Told Bush He Could Order Suspects Tortured".

Journalist Wayne Madsen, a Washington veteran with excellent access to many sources has indicated for this story that the Neocons have few remaining friends anywhere. All of this is consistent with a CIA-led coup.

Ahmed Chalabi

Madsen reported that the Plame probe comes amid another high-level probe of Pentagon officials for leaking classified National Security Agency cryptologic information to Iran via Iraqi National Congress head Ahmed Chalabi. FBI agents have polygraphed and interviewed a number of civilian political appointees in the Pentagon in relation to the intelligence leak, said to have severely disrupted the National Security Agency's ability to listen in on encrypted Iranian diplomatic and intelligence communications.

Chalabi's leak has once again forced Iran to change equipment, resulting in impaired U.S. intelligence gathering of Iran's sensitive communications. The probe into the Chalabi leak is centering on Pentagon officials who have been close to Chalabi, including Office of Net Assessment official Harold Rhode, Director of Policy and Plans officials Douglas Feith and William Luti, Undersecretary for Intelligence Stephen Cambone, and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. In addition, some former Pentagon advisers are also targeted in the probe.

Many press reports throughout 2003 indicated that Chalabi, distrusted and virtually discarded by the CIA, had been resurrected and inserted into the Iraqi political mix on the orders of Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and the other Neocons listed above.

Abu Ghraib and Torture

A former CIA official told Madsen that between the Plame leak and the Abu Ghraib torture affair, the Bush administration is facing something that will be "worse than Watergate."

PLANNING FOR SUCCESSION

If both Bush and Cheney are removed or resign, what happens? Madsen reported that lobbyists and political consultants in Washington are dusting off their copies of the Constitution and checking the line of presidential succession.

One lobbyist said he will soon pay a call on Alaska Republican Senator Ted Stevens, who, as President pro tem of the Senate, is second in line to House Speaker Dennis Hastert to become President in the event Bush and Cheney both go.

It is one of the greatest ironies of the Plame affair that the Bush administration, spawned and nurtured by oil, might have committed suicide by vindictively, cruelly and unthinkingly exacting personal retribution on an intelligence officer who had committed no offense, and who was, quite possibly, providing the administration with critical oil-related intelligence which the President needed to manage our shaky economy and affairs of state for a while longer to squeak through to re-election. In our opinion, nothing better epitomizes the true nature of the Neocons.

That being said, they have to go. FTW wishes that it was as certain that what will come after them will be better."

here she is again on her album cover ...thinking she's italian...'bella mafia' ? real mafioso laugh at negroes pretending to be them... li'l kim seems "li'l confused" 

interesting that the last three pics are all the same woman , "li'l Kim" the rapper...we know she's had a few plastic surgeries , but has somebody also been dippin in the bleach? 

and this..."kitty on the loose" ...guess the dress was just too short AND she also forgot her underwear that day ..ok chalk it up to coincidence ...accidents like that can happen... 

speaking of lost dignity...Well it was a "wardrobe malfunction" 

now this man's photo on the otherhand , speaks volumes in terms of character...a storeowner's father in sao tome , an island off the coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea...it's got to be extremely hot -- as in "tropical" over there , but this elderly gent doesn't break a sweat...Though not attired in the latest Sean John fashions or other designer duds and obviously not in a high tech environment , the man still seems to have a certain quiet inner dignity and self respect we Children of the African Diaspora here in the US have lost... 

So T-Boz from the girl rap group TLC is divorcing her husband rapper "Mac-!0" for threatening her life and pushing her down etc etc...well T-Boz , here's a bolt of light from the blue...men who go around dressed like this in public USUALLY ,not always , but USUALLY , DO NOT MAKE GOOD HUSBAND AND DADDY MATERIAL ! i'm sure you can do better , darlin ...You're not a bad looking woman , did i mention my availability ?  

This little guy could be the next hollywood celebrity...physically repulsive ,yet equally captivating and also with a glint of obvious intelligence ...wonder if disney has any characters based on wombats ? this little fellow could be an instant hit...  

Laura Bush secretly rubs Bill's willy while her husband wows the crowd with his dramatic reading from the children's book "Walter the Farting Dog "  

in a private moment , democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry asks, "C'mon Bill , did you really bang Laura Bush ? You can tell me . " 

"How many interns? You're kidding? " 

"...bet i banged more interns than both of you punks !" 

George W's own recurring alzheimers inspires yet another embarassing moment , "Hey Bill , who's the blind dude in the grey suit ?" 

Bill wonders , "Who the fluck is this guy...Tony Randall's bastard son?" while being hugged by Gerhard Schroeder 

"the soul brothers up in harlem taught me this one" 

Betty Ford whispers invitingly , " i hear you're a real stud Bill ! Why don't you stop by the 'clinic' sometimes ? " . Meanwhile , her husband Gerald dozes off trying again unsuccessfully to grope Hillary's breasts  

Bill at Reagan's funeral checking out Barbara Bush while Jimmy Carter gives Hillary the eye 

Bill Clinton and Colin Powell shake hands over a comatose Gerald Ford and a petrified Roselynn Carter , while Betty Ford wonders ,"Who is this negro and why is he here at Ron's funeral?"