Diatribune - Bush vendettas: Clearing the way to attack Iran? - Comments

Mr. Fetzer, I wrote this

alexwierbinski — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:26:28 -0600

Mr. Fetzer, I wrote this piece that pertains to one of your points. The first aritcle is from the WP, the second is my perspective.

Six U.S. Attorneys Given 2nd Posting in Washington

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 10, 2007; A03

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/09/AR2007040901227_pf.html

A half-dozen sitting U.S. attorneys also serve as aides to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales or are assigned other Washington postings, performing tasks that take them away from regular duties in their districts for months or even years at a time, according to officials and department records.

THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

Gonzales has US Attorneys in Babylonian Captivity

Apparently Gonzales is running US Attorney Offices around the country by keeping the Attorneys in his Washington office.

There are three types of serving US Attorneys today. The first group includes “loyal Bushies,” who will play ball. They will kill corruption investigations against Bush allies, and pursue Bush enemies with the power of the Law.

The second group, also appointed by Bush, Dares to Be Independent Prosecutors. The bodies of the Fired US Attorneys have just been thrown onto their front lawns. A simple warning message sent by the Administration: Fuck with US and Die.

Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfield used the “Fuck with Us and Die” strategy in the Pentagon to quash solid military advice. They used it on the CIA to produce trash intelligence. Most of Bush's appointees don't need this lesson; they serve greed and power before all else. Bush is their guide. Not duty, and certainly not our Constitution.

The third group we just learned about. This group resides in the pocket of the Attorney General, where they have put their dirty duty to greed, power, and party before their duty to Country and Constitution. Hell, they put loyalty before their duty to do their jobs.

Law, our Lawmakers, and our Judiciary are illegitimate tools of powerful special interests and the politicians who represent them. This must change now.

There is only one peaceful cure for the disease of Corruption that has killed our democracy: We must choke it off at it's source. The feeding tube of special interest bribery must be pulled from the mouths of our corrupted political elite. Every elected official must depend on the money of their local voters, not the special interests, to run for office.

Also See:

Corruption Updates 31, 1^st article on page, ”GONZALES ATTACKS CONSTITUTION, JUDICIARY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS SIMULTANOUSLY”

Corruption Updates 46, 8th article on the page, "Prosecutor Posts Go To Bush Insiders:Bush packing US Attorney posts with biased insiders"

Read more articles About Abuse of the US Attorney

Fallon's departure appears

alexwierbinski — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:18:21 -0600

Fallon's departure appears to signal the outcome of a war within the pentagon: Fallon's firing may very well be the opening shot of the war on iran.

There has been an ongoing battle in the executive branch about how to deal with the realities of our military defeats in the middle east and pakistan. Bush has failed in iraq and afghanistan, and the neocons are looking to severely damage iran to prevent iran from enjoying advantage from our government's military and political failures.

Independent of our machinations, iran's regional influence is rising. The regional authority, let alone the domestic legitimacy of our bitch dictators across the middle east is sinking.

Pakistan is about to throw our dictator out of office, and into jail, if they can muster the power. The war crimes of the jews against gaza have reached new heights, driving arabs across the middle east to a fervor pitch.

At this critical juncture bush has again thrown out the military commander of our middle eastern armed forces. (The only modern leaders that have replaced generals at the rate bush has fired generals are hitler and stalin.) Bush did the same thing at the pentagon prior to launching his wars. Bush had to fire Shinseki when he based his hair-brained scheme to reassert american control over the middle east and their oil with a force insufficient for the task. Deja-vu?

In my opinion, it appears that Fallon's "retirement" indicates the neocons have won the shootout at the pentagon. It's looking more likely that a spring offensive against iran has been decided on. It's hard to tell how it will start.

Maybe the jews will stage a sneak attack by air. An incident between the navy and speedboats in the gulf may trigger a massive US air strike. Or maybe we will justify attacking iran by pulling some poor tortured soul out of our dungeons who was tortured into claiming to be an iranian terrorist sent directly by the ayatollah with orders to destroy iraq, Afghanistan, and the US too.

In any case, it appears that the administration will find some pretext to say they were forced into attacking iran.

these links may be of interest:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Shinseki fired as Chief for honest analysis of Iraq war plans

BBC NEWS, 1-17-06; US special forces 'inside Iran'

Pentagon ready for spring attack on Iran, guardian, 2-10-07

Would Pace Attack Iran if Bush Ordered It? commondreams.org, 2-22-07

US generals ‘will quit’ if Bush orders Iran attack, Washington times on line, February 25, 2007

Bush Administration War Plans Directed Against Iran, STWR, 9-17-07

Pace fired for disputing attack on Iran? stwr 9-19-07

Uneasy allies in historic summit: Iran Secures Northern Border with Russia Anticipating hostilites from all other Quarters, BBC News, Oct 15, 2007

Corruption Updates 126, 2nd article on the page, US Actually declared Iranian Defense Department a Terrorist Organization: The whole Iranian Military, and Industrial Complex of Iran is declared a "Terror" Organization!

Corruption Updates 126, article 2b on the page, China not Down with US Sanctions

Corruption Updates 126, 3rd article on the page, Putin not Down with US Sanctions

Corruption Updates 127, 2nd article on the page, Iran Steps up Preparations for US War

Iran and Russia cooperating on mutual defense, BBC, Nov 13, 07

Chavez: us cut off, and Oil to 200 a barrel if us attacks iran, pravda, 11-15-07

Report contradicts Bush on Iran nuclear program, reuters, Mon Dec 3, 2007

Bush accuses Iran of thought crime, global security, 12-4-07

Iran stops accepting U.S. dollars for oil, ria novosti, 12-8-07

Iran-Russia talks, iran times, 12-11-07

Bush guns up the whole middle east, ISN Security Watch (14/12/07)

S faking iran gunboat incident? Democracy Now, 1-11-08

Is Israel Planning a Nuclear Strike on Iran? der spiegel, 1-8-07

Israel ready to attack Iran, ap, 1-14-08

essay: the saudi shift, committee, 2-04-08

the full link lists are available at russia and iran

I basically agree with your

Jacob Freeze — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:41:39 -0600

I basically agree with your article about Fallon and Spitzer. The FBI doesn't usually waste a whole lot of time busting escort services, and the style of their announcement about Spitzer, with a very uncharacteristic supply of details in the transcript of seven or eight phone calls, is another red flag. Similar transcripts are usually reserved for evidentiary proceedings in the courts, rather than an announcement of charges.

The dismissal of Fallon is much more serious, as you say, and I can't understand why the Democrats aren't ringing alarms all over Washington.

The Pentagon's arrogant refusal to allow Fallon to testify before Congress just adds insult to injury.

(Apologies for the screaming cliche' about "adding insult to injury," but it really seems to describe the basic style of the Bush administration better that anything else I can think of at the moment.)

All sorts of commentators in the Washington press corps approved of Fallon's dismissal, even a few, like Slate's Fred Kaplan, who aren't totally sold out to Bush.

If Lincoln had dismissed every general who advertised his own agenda, the Union Army would have been commanded by sergeants, and as soon as you gave a sergeant a star...

You get the idea.

But standards have changed for the worse in the realm of open discussion at all levels of power in the United States, even at the very top. When is the last time a President or CEO admitted any kind of mistake, unless allocution in open court was part of his sentence?

I caught that, too, Jacob.

Jim Fetzer — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:31:32 -0600

I caught that, too, Jacob. Let's hope it doesn't happen now.

I think the author may be

Jacob Freeze — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:10:39 -0600

I think the author may be mistaken about the immediate consequences of Admiral Fallon's dismissal. There was a similar story here about an attack on Iran planned for April 6, 2007.

Bush vendettas

Jim Fetzer — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:49:04 -0600

Bush vendettas

Bush vendettas: Clearing the way to attack Iran?

Jim Fetzer — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:29:35 -0600

Abstract. The outing of Eliot Spitzer might exemplify the pattern of outing Valerie Plame and deposing Admiral Fallon if there were a precipitating cause, as in these other instances. Although we have been told that Spiter’s transgressions were discovered as the result of a “routine tax inquiry”, an article he authored – which appeared in The Washington Post a month earlier – hints otherwise. There appears to be a pattern here, where the Fallon case may be the most serious.