A discussion of how
this century has gotten off to such a bad start. In other words: A discussion of The Dark Age of Bush and the Neo Cons, and the long road of recovery before us.
- Wednesday, March 04, 2009 -
When it comes to the Anthrax investigation, no tin foil is needed: Something is amiss.
Atrios over at Eschaton has pointed this out many times. The anthrax attacks are what really freaked America after the 9/11 attacks. It came right on the heels of the attack, and suddenly people in the rest of the nation felt unsafe (NYC and DC are far away in mind and body for much of America).
Yet now we hear that there have been no attacks since 9/11. But at the time the anthrax attacks were just another sign that terror and terrorists were everywhere and now a part of our every day life.
It was reported at first that they were weaponized anthrax spores from Iraq. Then from our own labs. Then after a few years the FBI said that they were definitely of amateur creation. And then they say a professional army research did it and killed himself. The FBI was happy to say "all done" even though I doubt anyone thinks they are.
One of the best and smartest members in the U.S. Congress, Rep. Rush Holt, has rejected the "look to the future - not the past" Orwellian mantra, at least when it comes to the highly consequential though still unresolved anthrax attack:
HOLT INTRODUCES ANTHRAX COMMISSION LEGISLATION
Bill Would Create 9/11 Commission-Style Panel to Investigate
Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12) today introduced the Anthrax Attacks Investigation Act of 2009, legislation that would establish a Congressional commission to investigate the 2001 anthrax attacks and the federal government’s response to and investigation of the attacks. . . . Holt has consistently raised questions about the federal investigation into the attacks.
Good.
Make it happen. We need to know what happened. America deserves answers, we've just lived through 8 years of lies.
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Americans, whose rising distress in Bush's decisions brought us together to make this site.
As Bush said, he was a "uniter." Many of us have never even met.
That's the internet for you.
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president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the
American people."
- Teddy Roosevelt
"Government has a final responsibility for the well-being of
its citizenship. If private cooperative endeavor fails to provide work
for willing hands and relief for the unfortunate, those suffering
hardship from no fault of their own have a right to call upon the
Government for aid; and a government worthy of its name must make
fitting response."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions, but laws must and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."
"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain
degree."
- James Madison
"I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas. It is, I believe, the faith in our fellow citizens as individuals and as people that lies at the heart of the liberal faith. For liberalism is not so much a party creed or set of fixed platform promises as it is an attitude of mind and heart, a faith in man's ability through the experiences of his reason and judgment to increase for himself and his fellow men the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves." - John F. Kennedy
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are [a] few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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