26 mai, 2006 21:34

Update 5: FDA Approves Merck's Shingles Vaccine

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If Judith Miller Knew 9/11 Was Likely, Don't You Think Bush Did?

ink Bush did?

But that connection was obviously too intellectually challenging for Bush and Rice to make, so they took no measures to stop hijackings, which might have prevented 9/11 had they done so.

Okay, now we are up to date (at least in summary form). Now comes a story by Rory O'Connor -- president and co-founder of the international media firm Globalvision, Inc, and MediaChannel.org -- that the infamous Judith Miller was tipped off by a "senior White House official" (where have we heard that expression before?) in the summer of 2001 that U.S. "intelligence indicated that Al Qaeda was planning a major attack on the United States."

Excuse us, Judith Miller knew, but George W. Bush claims that he didn't know? Uh, isn't this a front-page story? The implications of this information are potentially mind-boggling in terms of Bush Administration negligence -- or worse, a decision to do nothing to stop the attack -- but no mainstream media outlet, including the New York Times (which passed on a story covering the original tip to Miller), is covering O'Connor's bombshell.

As Lily Tomlin said: "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up."

No, try as we do, even BuzzFlash just can't keep up.

O'Connor's story is posted below.

(Excerpt)

The years of Kennedy's presidency were truly the optimistic years of America. Reagan's phony rip-off of JFK's "city on a hill" speech (which is on the CD in this book) barely concealed the fact that he borrowed and dumped into the economy trillions of dollars to make the economy look good for his re-election, or that Bush Jr. has done the same. There are times when reading this book - and particularly when listening to JFK's speeches that come with it - that it's hard not to shed a tear for the idealism and hope we've lost in the Nixon/Reagan/Bush/Bush death cult that has clung like a pall to this nation in the years since JFK's death.

And yet the book also inspires optimism. It reminds us what it means to be an American. To be hopeful and forward looking. To believe that government really can be a force for good, and really can make a better world for all. And to act on that belief, whether in the Peace Corps or the voting booth, in the streets or in the newsrooms, in our daily lives and in our political lives.

By bringing forward the voice of a president who half the people alive in America today can't remember, this book and its attached CD may help introduce an entirely new generation to the ideals that once animated this nation, that took us to the moon and back, that took us to Africa and Asia to feed bodies and minds, that took us into the depths of our psyches and our ghettos to cleanse and to heal.