http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/16/204733/715/396/685080
On Jan 19, 4:24 am, VT Sean Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > UPDATE w/ comment from K.O.: Olbermann's Recap of the Bush Admin Must > Not Be Missed > by thereisnospoon > Fri Jan 16, 2009 at 06:27:25 PM PST > UPDATE: From Keith Olbermann himself, in the comments: > > Nobody Likes Kudos Better Than I Do > > But I'm passing all these on to my segment producer, Jonathan Larsen, > with whom I've worked on and off since we were at CNN in 2001-02. He > compiled and wrote this one; I honestly made about four small changes > in it. > > Monday we go gently after the Torture Prosecution... > > Thanks to all, and to all a good night. > > thereisnospoon's diary :: :: > Offered with as little commentary as possible: the most astonishing > and damning review of the Bush Administration ever seen, courtesy of > Keith Olbermann. And half of the administration's morally negligent > or even criminal activities didn't even make it into the 8-minute > summary; much of the other half was mentioned only briefly. > > Still, if you can bear to watch a replay of the misery through with we > have suffered these last eight years, it has never been done better > than this: > > Transcript provided by TrueBlueMajority: > > George Walker Bush. > 43rd president of the United States. > first ever with a criminal record. > our third story tonight, > his presidency: eight years in eight minutes. > > early in 2001 the U.S. fingered Al Qaeda > for the bombing of the USS Cole > Bush counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke > had a plan to take down Al Qaeda. > instead by February the NSC > had already discussed invading Iraq, > and had a plan for post-Saddam Iraq. > > by March 5 Bush had a map ready for Iraqi oil exploration > and a list of companies. > Al Qaeda? > Rice told Clarke not to give Bush a lot of long memos. > not a big reader. > > August 6, 2001 > a CIA analyst briefs Bush on vacation: > "Bin Laden determined to strike in U.S." > Bush takes no action tells the briefer—quote > all right, you've covered your ass now. > > next month Clarke requests > using new predator drones to kill Bin Laden > the Pentagon and CIA > say no. > > September 11th > Bush remains seated for several minutes > to avoid scaring school children > by getting up and leaving. > he then flies around the country > and promises quote a full scale investigation to find > those folks who did it > > Rumsfeld says Afghanistan does not have enough targets > we've got to do Iraq. > when the CIA traps Bin Laden at Tora Bora > it asks for 800 rangers to cut off his escape > Bush outsources the job to Pakistanis > sympathetic to the Taliban > Bin Laden > gets away > > in February General Tommy Franks tells a visiting Senator > Bush is moving equipment out of Afghanistan > so he can invade Iraq. > one of the men who prepped Rice for her testimony > that Bush did not ignore pre 9-11 warnings > later explains quote we cherry picked things > to make it look like the president > had been actually concerned about Al Qaeda > they didn't give a bleep about Al Qaeda > > July and Britain's intel chief says Bush is > fixing intelligence and facts around the policy to take out Saddam > January 03 > Bush and Blair agree to invade in March > Mr. Bush still telling us he has not decided > telling Blair they should paint an airplane in UN colors > fly it over Iraq and provoke a response > a pretext for invasion > > the man who said it would take several hundred thousand troops > fired > the man who said it would cost more than a hundred billion > fired > the man who revealed Bush's yellowcake lie > smeared > his wife's covert status > exposed > the White House liars who did it > and covered it up > not fired > one convicted > Bush commutes his sentence > > then in Iraq, stuff happens: > Iraq's army, disbanded > the government de-Baathified > 200,000 weapons, billions of dollars just > lost > foreign mercenaries immunized from justice > political hacks run the Green Zone > religious cleansing forcing one out of six Iraqis from their homes > Abu Ghraib > the insurgency > Al Qaeda in Iraq > > other stuff does not happen: > WMD > post-war planning > body armor > vehicular armor > > the payoff? > oil > and billions for Halliburton, Blackwater and other companies > while Mr. Bush denies VA healthcare to 450,000 veterans > tries to raise their healthcare fees > blocks the new G.I. Bill > and increases his own power with the USA PATRIOT Act > with the Military Commissions Act > public orders exempting himself from a thousand laws > and secretly from the Presidential Records Act > The Geneva Conventions > FISA > sparking a mass rebellion at the Justice Department > > secret star chambers for terrorism suspects, > overturned by Hamdan v Rumsfeld. > denying habeas corpus, > overturned by Boumediene v Bush. > 200 renditionings > sleep deprivation > abuse > > Rumsfeld warned in 2002 that he was torturing > that it would jeopardize convictions > out of 550 at Gitmo > hundreds ultimately go free with no charges > dozens are tortured > eight fatally > three are convicted > > on U.S. soil twelve hundred immigrants rounded up > without due process > without bail > without court dates > without a single charge of terrorism > > it wasn't just Mr. Bush no longer subject to the rule of law > he slashed regulations on everyone from banks to mining companies > appointed 98 lobbyists to oversee their own industries > weakening emission standards for mercury > and 650 different toxic chemicals > regulators shared drugs > and their beds > with industry reps > the Crandall Canyon mine owner told inspectors to back up > because his buddy, Republican Mitch McConnell > was sleeping with their boss > McConnell's wife is Bush Labor Secretary Elaine Chao > her agency overruled engineer concerns about Crandall Canyon > and was found negligent > after nine miners died in the collapse there > > Mr. Bush's hands off > as Enron blacks out California > doubling electric bills > after months of rejecting price caps Mr. Bush bows to pressure > > the blackouts end > > Mr. Bush further deregulates commodity futures > midwifing the birth of unregulated oil markets > which just like Enron jack up prices to an all time high > until Congress and both presidential candidates call for > regulations > > and the prices fall > > deregulating financial services and lax enforcement of remaining > rules > created a housing bubble > creating the mortgage crisis > creating then a credit crisis > devastating industries that rely on credit > from student loans to car dealers > > firms that had survived the Great Depression could not survive > Bush > those that did got > seven hundred billion dollars > no strings, no transparency > no idea whether it worked > > unlike the auto bailout > which cut workers' salaries. > a GOP memo called it > a chance to punish unions > > but Bush failed even when his party and his patrons > did not stand to profit > investigators blamed management cost cutting communication > for missed warnings about Columbia > Bush administration convicts include > sex offenders at Homeland Security > convicted liars > every kind of thief in the calendar > and if you count things that were not prosecuted > the vice president of the United States actually > shot a man in the face > > the man apologized. > > Mr. Bush faked the truth > with paid propaganda in Iraq > on his education policy > > tried to silence the truth about global warming > rocket fuel in our water > industry influence on energy policy > > politicized the truth of science at NASA, the EPA, > the National Cancer Institute, Fish and Wildlife > and the FDA > > his lies > exposed by whistleblowers from the cabinet down > "complete BS" the treasury secretary said > of Mr. Bush on his tax cuts. > > Rice's mushroom cloud > Powell's mobile labs > Iraq and 9-11 > Jack Abramoff > Jessica Lynch > > Pat Tillman > Pat Tillman again > Pat Tillman, again. > > the air at Ground Zero > most responders still suffering respiratory problems. > > global warming > carbon emissions > a Clear Skies initiative lowering air quality standards > the Healthy Forests initiative increasing logging > faith based initiatives > the cost of medicare reform > fired US attorneys > politically synchronized terror alerts > > the surge causing insurgents to switch sides > that abortion causes breast cancer > that his first recession began under Clinton > that he did not wiretap without warrants > that we do not torture. > > that American citizen John Walker Lindh's rights > were not violated > that he refused the right to counsel > > heckuva job Brownie > some survivors still in trailers > New Orleans still at just two-thirds its usual population > > the lie that no one could have predicted the economic crisis > except > the economists who did > no one could have predicted 9-11 except > one ass-covering CIA analyst > or thirty > no one could have predicted the levee breach > except literally > Mr. Bill > in a PSA that aired on TV a year before Katrina > > Bush actually admitted that he lied about not firing Rumsfeld > because he did not want to tell the truth. > look it up. > > all of it > all of it and more leaving us with > ten trillion in debt > to pay for 31% more in discretionary spending > the Iraq War > a 1.3 trillion dollar tax cut > > median income down two thousand dollars > three-quarters of all income gains under Bush > going to the richest one percent > unemployment up from 4.2 to 7.2 percent > > the Dow, down from ten thousand five hundred eighty seven > to eighty two hundred seventy seven > six million > ... > > read more » --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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