GEORGE W BUSH TOOK AN OATH AND LIED ~ NOW WHAT U.S. AMERICANS?

GEORGE W BUSH, OSAMA BIN LADEN AND DEATH

The USA under leadership of George W Bush bombed Iraq in March 2003. Bin Laden is the accepted leader behind the attack on the USA September 11, 2001. The point of the USA Iraq war is not one point, but ever-changing lies for stated reasons for doing it. What we have is a mess. What we have is hardly "liberator status". What we have is a President who has broken the law, ignored, not protected the United States Constitution as he took an oath to do. Twice.

Osama Bin Laden hates the USA. We know his point. He wanted to kill us. He wanted to frighten us.

Now Iraq and Iran appear to be coming together and talking with one another. Which one's plan, Bush or Bin Laden's does that work the best for? I gather for Bin Laden.

The numbers of those who died at the hands of Bin Laden in 2001 and at the hands of George W Bush's poorly planned purposes and war are worth noting.

Documented Iraqi civilian deaths from violence:

82,771 – 90,304 deaths

Deaths in each week from 2003–2007	Deaths per day from vehicle bombs
	Deaths per day from gunfire / executions

Source: Iraq Body Count

Casualites in Iraq

The Human Cost of Occupation

Latest Fatality Apr. 9, 2008

Page last updated 04/10/08 11:34 am EDT

Iraqi Casualties

USA deaths so far from USA's War in Iraq is over 4,032 since March 2003

September 11, 2001 Death List
Confirmed dead: 2948
Reported dead: 24
Reported missing: 24
Total: 2996
Source: Honorable Website of those killed September 11, 2001 ~ Victim List

Some websites about deaths from USA's War in Iraq:
Lives Killled in USA's War in Iraq

USA Iraq Casualty Count including Great Britain's casualties

Graph of Iraqi deaths

George W Bush has broken laws and I would like to see him tried.

Truth and justice are more important than George W Bush, Dick Cheney and all the "kings'" men and women.
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Bush Worse than Watergate Keith Olbermann and John Dean
April 11, 2008
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We Torture ~ USA Rationalizing Torture
From: Obamacitizens
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Part 1 of 11 parts of “Buying the War” from PBS' Bill Moyers Journal
From: biggesthoax of Singapore
Uploaded April 25, 2007

BILL MOYERS: FOUR YEARS AGO THIS SPRING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TOOK LEAVE OF REALITY AND PLUNGED OUR COUNTRY INTO A WAR SO POORLY PLANNED IT SOON TURNED INTO A DISASTER. THE STORY OF HOW HIGH OFFICIALS MISLED THE COUNTRY HAS BEEN TOLD. BUT THEY COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT ON THEIR OWN; THEY NEEDED A COMPLIANT PRESS, TO PASS ON THEIR PROPAGANDA AS NEWS AND CHEER THEM ON.

SINCE THEN THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE DIED, AND MANY ARE DYING TO THIS DAY. YET THE STORY OF HOW THE MEDIA BOUGHT WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE WAS SELLING HAS NOT BEEN TOLD IN DEPTH ON TELEVISION. AS THE WAR RAGES INTO ITS FIFTH YEAR, WE LOOK BACK AT THOSE MONTHS LEADING UP TO THE INVASION, WHEN OUR PRESS LARGELY SURRENDERED ITS INDEPENDENCE AND SKEPTICISM TO JOIN WITH OUR GOVERNMENT IN MARCHING TO WAR...
Bill Moyers Journal ~ watch the show at PBS and read the entire script of the show

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Countdown's Olbermann exposes 911 and the FISA bill
From: Obamacitizens

Tracking Why We Went to War
Article by William Raspberry
Monday, May 31, 2004; Page A23

Heard any good rationales for the war lately?

If not, maybe you ought to talk to Devon Largio, a new graduate of the University of Illinois, who says her research turned up 23 different rationales offered by the Bush administration in the year following the Sept. 11 attacks.

They're all laid out in her 212-page senior honors thesis, "Uncovering the Rationales for the War on Iraq: The Words of the Bush Administration, Congress and the Media from September 12, 2001, to October 11, 2002."

The work is largely a computer-driven analysis of the available public statements of Bush administration officials and key members of Congress during the run-up to war. By searching key words, she was also able to map the administration's shifting interest from Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein and Iraq -- and also the news media's response to that shift...

...And did she ever "figure out why we went to war"?

"I didn't include this in my paper," she said, "but I'm as torn now as I was when I started. I tend to accept the good intentions of the president, and it's tempting to say that if they have 23 reasons for going to war, we probably should have gone. On the other hand, I find myself thinking that if they had to keep coming up with new reasons for going to war, we probably shouldn't have done it. It's almost like the decision came first, then the rationales.

All 23 of them..."

George W Bush Administration worse than Nixon's Watergate by John Dean

BBC UK Video Nation featuring People's video about Iraq

News about the Iraq War from the BBC UK

Audio Slideshow: One Woman's War

Iraq war show limits of US Power

U.S. SENATE BETRAYS THE CONSTITUTION ~ HAVE WE SYMBOLICALLY "BURNED" THE CONSTITUTION? THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS

Our government got more incensed at Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee today than they do about our civil liberties, the U.S. Constitution and JUSTICE. You can break the law and be the President of the United States and Senate gives immunity for you and your partners in crime. This is so out of balance. It is outrageous.

The Senate approved new rules for government eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails today, giving the White House much of the latitude it wanted and granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies ...

WASHINGTON: President Bush, at loggerheads with House Democrats over how closely the government can eavesdrop on U.S. citizens, warned Wednesday that terrorists were planning fresh assaults that would make the Sept. 11 attacks "pale by comparison."

Bush called on the image of planes crashing into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in 2001 as he pressured lawmakers to rewrite the intelligence rules governing how phone calls and e-mails are monitored for terrorist activity. Democrats and others fear the changes Bush and his Republican allies support would unduly encroach on civil liberties.

The House is considering the Senate version of the bill that Bush favors, one that includes retroactive protection from lawsuits for telecommunications companies that cooperated with government eavesdropping following the Sept. 11 attacks. The House bill does not provide telecom immunity.

Rather than wait for the House and Senate to negotiate differences in their versions of the intelligence legislation, Bush wants a rubber-stamp of the Senate bill so he can sign it into law immediately. The current law expires at midnight Saturday, and Bush said he wouldn't approve another extension. The House wouldn't either — Republicans led a 229-191 vote turning down a 21-day extension.

"At this moment, somewhere in the world, terrorists are planning new attacks on our country," the president said. "Their goal is to bring destruction to our shores that will make September the 11th pale by comparison."

About 40 lawsuits have been filed against telecom companies by people alleging violations of wiretapping and privacy laws.

"In order to be able to discover ... the enemy's plans, we need the cooperation of telecommunication companies," Bush said. "If these companies are subjected to lawsuits that could cost them billions of dollars, they won't participate. They won't help us. They won't help protect America."

Caroline Fredrickson, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's legislative office in Washington, accused Bush of "fear mongering," and she urged the House not to pass the Senate bill. The ACLU is particularly opposed to the Senate bill's immunity to phone companies.

......The 68-29 Senate vote Tuesday to update the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act belied the nearly two months of stops and starts and bitter political wrangling that preceded it. The two sides had battled to balance civil liberties with the need to conduct surveillance on potential adversaries.......

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Keith Olbermann Special Comment FISA

Here's an excerpt:

In a Presidency of hypocrisy, an Administration of exploitation, a labyrinth of leadership, in which every vital fact is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma hidden under a claim of executive privilege supervised by an idiot, this one is surprisingly easy.

President Bush has put, protecting the Telecom giants from the laws...ahead of protecting you from the terrorists.

He has demanded an extension of the FISA law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but only an extension that includes retroactive immunity for the Telecoms who helped him spy on us.

Congress has given him, and he has today signed, a fifteen day extension, which simply kicks the time bomb down the field, and has changed nothing of his insipid rhetoric, in which he portrays the Democrats as 'soft on terror' and getting in the way of his Superhuman efforts to protect the nation... when, in fact, and with bitter irony, if anybody is 'soft on terror' here it is Mr. Bush.
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WATCH THIS on Countdown with Keith Olbermann
"Congress's Cover-Up" of February 13, 2008, aired show

Senate OKs immunity for telecoms in intelligence bill
another article FISA

While our elected officials care more about Roger Clemens' lying than President Bush's lies, I have just cause to be very angry.

Priorities, please!

House Defeats FISA Extension

By Daniel W. Reilly

FEB. 13, 2008

(The Politico) House Democrats were unable to hold together their caucus on a key intelligence vote on Wednesday, as a coalition of Republicans, Blue Dog Democrats and liberals helped defeat a measure to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as the deadline approaches.

The measure, which failed 191 to 229, would have extended the bill an additional three weeks to work out differences with the Senate on the issue of granting immunity to telecom companies which aided the federal government in wiretapping.

The Democratic bill was undone by strong opposition from Republicans and 34 Democrats, including both members of the moderate Blue Dog Coalition who want to see a bill passed, and liberal members who oppose many other aspects of the wiretapping program.

Now Democratic leaders are left scrambling as they try to find a solution before the law expires on Friday. The temporary extension also faced a veto threat from President Bush and strong Republican opposition in the Senate, so it had little chance of becoming law. The Senate passed a broad FISA bill with telecom immunity provisions on Tuesday, 68-29.

"We have a situation where our members have to understand we have very limited options," said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas).

"I was surprised at the number of members that voted against [the extension] but different members had different reasons," he added.

The vote was a defeat for House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who worked furiously behind the scenes for an extension, saying President Bush is trying to "foment fear" by claiming that another extension would harm intelligence gathering capabilities.
Source

And a Reuters article, too

Bush May Win on Eavesdropping by Evoking Terror Fears (Update2)
By James Rowley
Bloomberg

US House defeats stopgap extension of spy program

Bush opposes extension of spy program

This story is being reported around the world.

By the way....
Section 1, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution:

Before he (the President) enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

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* Find out how Barack Obama Votes in Senate
Apparently, Hillary Clinton didn't come to the Senate to vote on FISA.

View the record for the previous 109th Congress.

Senator Obama's Voting Record February 12, 2008:
Vote No.	Session	Date	Vote Question Description	Result	Position
20	2	2/12/08	On Passage of the Bill S. 2248 An original bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, to modernize and streamline the provisions of that Act, and for other purposes.	Bill Passed (68-29)	Not Voting
19	2	2/12/08	On the Cloture Motion S. 2248 An original bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, to modernize and streamline the provisions of that Act, and for other purposes.	Cloture Motion Agreed to (69-29, 3/5 majority required)	Nay
18	2	2/12/08	On the Amendment S.Amdt. 3919 to S.Amdt. 3911 to S. 2248 (FISA Amendments Act of 2007) To provide for the review of certifications by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.	Amendment Rejected (41-57, 3/5 majority required)	Yea
17	2	2/12/08	On the Amendment S.Amdt. 3927 to S.Amdt. 3911 to S. 2248 (FISA Amendments Act of 2007) To provide for the substitution of the United States in certain civil actions.	Amendment Rejected (30-68)	Yea
16	2	2/12/08	On the Amendment S.Amdt. 3912 to S.Amdt. 3911 to S. 2248 (FISA Amendments Act of 2007) To modify the requirements for certifications made prior to the initiation of certain acquisitions.	Amendment Rejected (37-60)	Yea
15	2	2/12/08	On the Amendment S.Amdt. 3907 to S.Amdt. 3911 to S. 2248 (FISA Amendments Act of 2007) To strike the provisions providing immunity from civil liability to electronic communication service providers for certain assistance provided to the Government.	Amendment Rejected (31-67)	Yea
14	2	2/12/08	On the Amendment S.Amdt. 3979 to S.Amdt. 3911 to S. 2248 (FISA Amendments Act of 2007) To provide safeguards for communications involving persons inside the United States.	Amendment Rejected (35-63)	Yea
13	2	2/12/08	On the Amendment S.Amdt. 3910 to S.Amdt. 3911 to S. 2248 (FISA Amendments Act of 2007) To provide a statement of the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance and interception of certain communications may be conducted.	Amendment Rejected (57-41, 3/5 majority required)	Yea

THIS BELONGS TO YOU ~ THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

In the United States, the oath of office for the President of the United States is specified in the U.S. Constitution (Article II, Section 1):

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

I am a campaign volunteer for Senator Barack Obama for President. I am committed to Obama for ’08.

At the same time, I am impressed with other democrats who are also running for President. I can’t remember a time in my lifetime when we have had such a good selection of people giving us a choice for electing a leader to lead us. Except, for Hillary Clinton, who I have recently turned against. I no longer trust her.

Senator Dodd said that he would filibuster FISA Bill today (December 17) "as long as I can". www.msnbc

Earlier today when asked whether the Senators running for President ~ Hillary, Obama, Biden ~ would be on hand to support Chris Dodd's planned filibuster of the Senate FISA bill containing telecom immunity. First out of the box with a statement was Obama:

"Senator Obama unequivocally opposes giving retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies and has cosponsored Senator Dodd's efforts to remove that provision from the FISA bill. Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect. Senator Obama supports a filibuster of this bill, and strongly urges others to do the same. It's not clear whether he can return for the vote, but under the Senate rules, the side trying to end a filibuster must produce 60 votes to cut off debate. Whether he is present for the vote for not, Senator Obama will not be among those voting to end the filibuster."

Senators Edward Kennedy and Russ Feingold assisted Senator Chris Dodd with his filibustering effort for our U.S. Constitutional rights to be upheld against the Bush administration providing retroactive immunity to Verizon and AT&T.

"My longstanding concerns were over this retroactive immunity" for telecommunications companies, Dodd said after Reid declared the FISA bill would be set aside. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled the Senate FISA renewal bill containing telecom immunity off the floor.

Senator Whitehouse is in the blue shirt and red tie. This is May 28, 2007 in his Providence, Rhode Island office for a Darfur lobby meeting.
I am in the green t-shirt that reads
INSTEAD OF MOURNING A GENOCIDE ~ STOP ONE

I am, also, impressed with freshman Senator Sheldon Whitehouse from my state of Rhode Island, who replaced Senator Lincoln Chafee January 2007. Senator Whitehouse has not only voted well on behalf of the people of Darfur, but he has been outspoken at times when others have not. Senator Whitehouse asked appropriate and pointed questions of the former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and asked the right question of the then nomination candidate Michael Mukasey for Attorney General:

SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE (D), Rhode Island: So is waterboarding constitutional?

MICHAEL MUKASEY: I don't know what's involved in the technique. If waterboarding is torture, torture is not constitutional.

SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE: If it's torture? That's a massive hedge. I mean, it either is or it isn't. Do you have an opinion on whether waterboarding, which is the practice of putting somebody in a reclining position, strapping them down, putting cloth over their faces, and pouring water over the cloth to simulate the feeling of drowning, is that constitutional?

MICHAEL MUKASEY: If it amounts to torture, it is not constitutional.

SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE: I'm very disappointed in that answer. I think it is purely semantic.
Source: mukasey

Today, a Press Release of Senator Whitehouse on FISA was released.
Senator Whitehouse Fights for Court Oversight for Americans Traveling Abroad
Monday, December 17, 2007
At whitehouse.senate you can hear his speech (Surveillance Bill Must Protect Americans' Civil Liberties "Latest News" ~ "Watch the Video")and at whitehouse you can read the speech. This is vitally important to the United States keeping its freedoms.

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