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Dear Friend and Reader:
Ah, is there anything better than a warm weekend in August?
Today, I have an article for you by Steve Bergstein, Planet Waves’ civil rights expert and blogger: you can find his page here.
He’s uncovered some more startling information about the Bush administration: this time there’s proof that the administration plagiarized a letter to Saddam Hussein from the head of Iraqi intelligence. Read below for the full details, and scroll below that for the weekend’s Oracle and aspects.
Cheers,
What’s a Guy Gotta Do to Get Impeached Around Here?
By Steve Bergstein
The latest Bush scandal is something of a bombshell. A very good and highly regarded investigative journalist who used to write for the conservative Wall Street Journal has recently published a book alleging that the Bush administration “ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein. Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday, that the alleged forgery – adamantly denied by the White House – was designed to portray a false link between Hussein’s regime and al Qaeda as a justification for the Iraq war. The author also claims that the Bush administration had information from a top Iraqi intelligence official “that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq – intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion.”
This story has been going around the blogosphere like wildfire. Thank God for the blogosphere, because the regular media is not focusing on this story at all. I’m still waiting for the New York Times to cover the story. Maybe they think it’s old news because everyone knows that Bush was full of it on Iraq and wanted war so badly that he would do anything to justify it,and we’re all just sick and tired of these kinds of stories.
Well, I’m not sick and tired of these stories. They represent just another layer of evidence showing that the American people were bamboozled for years about the so-called Iraqi threat. The best part is the Bush administration’s response to this story:
The White House flatly denied Suskind’s account. Tony Fratto, deputy White House press secretary, told Politico: “The allegation that the White House directed anyone to forge a document from Habbush to Saddam is just absurd.”
The White House plans to push back hard. Fratto added: “Ron Suskind makes a living from gutter journalism. He is about selling books and making wild allegations that no one can verify, including the numerous bipartisan commissions that have reported on pre-war intelligence.”
Gutter journalism? Then call me a fan of gutter journalism.
Today’s Oracle takes us to the Capricorn weekly of November 29, 2002
(The Oracle is a random daily selection from among 10,000 horoscopes written by Eric Francis)
Before you decide that you can’t have what you want the very most, take a look at the whole situation, and also consider what happened when you’ve found yourself in a similar situation before. A healthy measure of doubt would be a good thing now, particularly doubting your own propensity to be negative. It’s vital that you sort out your actual feelings from what you think is going on in someone else’s mind, and to find out from them what’s really unfolding in their world. The most intense astrological activity is brewing, boiling and all but exploding in the corner of your chart where you are the most easily blindsided but most genuinely need to look. Dream activity in the hours just after sunrise will reveal a lot.
Saturday 09 August 2008
Psyche (15 Scorpio) sesquiquadrate Aries Point (0 Aries)
Apollo (0+ Virgo) quintile Pandora (12+ Scorpio)
Sun (17+ Leo) trine Quaoar (17+ Sagittarius Rx)
Mars (23+ Virgo) septile Psyche (15+ Scorpio)
Mercury (28+ Leo) sextile Hades (28+ Gemini)
Eros (23+ Leo) trine 1992 QB1 (23+ Aries Rx)
Ceres (25+ Cancer) sextile Admetos (25+ Taurus)
Mars (23+ Virgo) sesquiquadrate Asbolus (8+ Taurus)
Varuna (19+ Cancer) sextile Logos (20+ Virgo) – Near Miss Only
Saturn (8+ Virgo) trine Asbolus (8+ Taurus)
Mars (23+ Virgo) quincunx 1992 QB1 (23+ Aries Rx)
Eros (24+ Leo) quintile Chariklo (6+ Scorpio)
Mercury (28+ Leo) trine Pluto (28+ Sagittarius Rx)
Mercury (28+ Leo) sesquiquadrate Jupiter (13+ Capricorn Rx)
Venus (4+ Virgo) sextile Kronos (4+ Cancer)
Sunday 10 August 2008
Mercury (29+ Leo) conjunct Orcus (29+ Leo)
Venus (4+ Virgo) semisquare Varuna (19+ Cancer)
Mars (24+ Virgo) quintile Pholus (6+ Sagittarius Rx)
Pallas (2+ Gemini) opposite Hylonome (2+ Sagittarius Rx)
Hylonome stations direct (2+ Sagittarius)
Eros (24+ Leo) sextile Atlantis (24+ Libra)
Saturn (8+ Virgo) sesquiquadrate 1992 QB1 (23+ Aries Rx)
Mercury enters Virgo (direct)
Mercury (0 Virgo) quincunx Aries Point (0 Aries)
Sun (18+ Leo) sextile Sisyphus (18+ Libra)
Eros (24+ Leo) quintile Hidalgo (6+ Scorpio)
Pandora (13+ Scorpio) sesquiquadrate Hades (28+ Gemini)
Sun (18+ Leo) opposite Chiron (18+ Aquarius Rx)
Arachne (16+ Libra) quintile Pluto (28+ Sagittarius Rx)