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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 08:12 PM
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"Richard Cheney <is> the prime suspect in the mass murders of 9/11"
A very interesting "coincidence" involving John Nichols, author of DICK; The Man Who Is President. Read all the way down.

On page 14 of his Address to the San Francisco Commonwealth Club, August 31, 2004, Michael C. Ruppert names Vice President Dick Cheney as the prime suspect for the government's role in the events of 9/11:
For me, the pivotal evidence absolutely demonstrating direct government complicity in, and management of, the attacks was found in a number of undisputed, yet virtually unaddressed war games that I will show were being conducted, coordinated and/or controlled by Vice President Dick Cheney or his immediate staff on the morning of September 11th. The names of those wargames are known to include: Vigilant Guardian, Vigilant Warrior, Northern Guardian, Northern Vigilance, and Tripod II. All have been reported on by major press organizations relying on undisputed quotes from participating military personnel. They have also been confirmed by NORAD press releases. All, except for Northern Vigilance and Tripod II, had to do with hijacked airliners inside the continental United States, specifically within the Northeast Air Defense Sector where all four 9/11 hijackings occurred.
snip

There are many, many areas where the official account and the findings of the Kean Commission are contradicted by hard evidence, official records, mainstream news investigations and even sworn testimony. Both the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times have noted some of the lesser, but no less glaring, inconsistencies. In my book <"Crossing the Rubicon"> I will provide you with many more.

In my book I will make several key points:

1. I will name Richard Cheney as the prime suspect in the mass murders of 9/11 and will establish that, not only was he a planner in the attacks, but also that on the day of the attacks he was running a completely separate command, control and communications system which was superceding any orders being issued by the NMCC, or the White House Situation Room. To accomplish that end he relied on a redundant and superior communications system maintained by the US Secret Service in or near the presidential Emergency Operations Center – the bunker to which he and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice were reportedly "rushed" after flight 175 struck the WTC's south tower. I will demonstrate that the Secret Service possessed radar screens which gave them, and the Vice President, whose side they never left, with real-time information as good as or better than that available to the Pentagon.

Full text of the address can be downloaded here:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/PDF/CWspeech.doc

INTERESTINGLY, today, quite by chance, I happened upon a book signing at Cody's Books in Berkeley, CA of John Nichols' DICK; The Man Who Is President

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565848403/qid=1096073066/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7297138-8255067?v=glance&s=books

http://tinyurl.com/6jjo8

And, in response to a question from one of those present as he completed his presentation, Mr. Nichols told a most curious story. I can not report it to you verbatim but, paraphrasing, it went something like this:
President Reagan was the most paranoid President ever to live in the White House. He actually believed he was going to die in a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union.

For this reason he established two separate, emergency chains of command to be implemented in case of a National emergency, headed by his two most trusted colleagues, Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Cheney.

Three times a year there would be "War Game" practices which would be a complete surprise to everyone. The participants would be notified that a Emergency National Security situation had arisen. The participants would then assemble their teams and begin organizing strategies for dealing with the emergency. These "War Games" would sometimes go on for days and would sometimes include the teams being loaded on board large flying command posts which could be kept in the air by in-flight refueling.

The point I'm making is that this is how these people think. It is truly "Dr. Strangelove" like scenarios.

I have emailed Mr. Nichols hoping to gain more details and documentation of this most interesting information.

BMU



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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 08:14 PM
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1. paranoids
Edited on Fri Sep-24-04 08:15 PM by NVwriter
...how reassuring to know that whack jobs like that can get into the White House and sink an entire nation into the depths of destruction.

Wake up and smell the damn coffee, America!!!
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 08:18 PM
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3. Paranoid AND delusional, apparently!
Oh, the burdens of state. :eyes:
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sufi Donating Member (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-04 10:29 PM
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40. Wow, I get it!
So many of the threads that have never made sense are coming together. Thanks, big weaver.
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knowbody0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 08:17 PM
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2. stand down
was the order;;;;;gee golly. never in air traffic control history did it take more than 12 minutes to launch air force defense.mmmm
where's the media?where is the 911 commission?
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 08:19 PM
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4. Actually, no, read Ruppert's assessment.
Edited on Fri Sep-24-04 08:22 PM by beam_me_up
He said that he made the mistake, as many did, of looking for some sort of "stand down" order. Turns out that wasn't necessary. What was necessary was a National Air Defense that was OVERWHELMED with War Game scenarios that included false blips of ersatz "hijacked aircraft" on NORAD and FAA screens.

Edited to add, from the Ruppert speech:
According to a clear record, some of these exercises involved commercial airline hijackings. In some cases, false blips were deliberately inserted onto FAA and military radar screens and they were present during (at least) the first attacks. This effectively paralyzed fighter response because, with only eight fighters available in the region, there were as many as 22 possible hijackings taking place. Other exercises, specifically Northern Vigilance, had pulled significant fighter resources away from the northeast U.S. – just before 9/11 – into northern Canada and Alaska. In addition, a close reading of key news stories published in the spring of 2004 revealed for the first time that some of these drills were "live-fly" exercises where actual aircraft, likely flown by remote control – were simulating the behavior of hijacked airliners in real life. All of this as the real attacks began. The fact that these exercises had never been systematically and thoroughly explored in the mainstream press, or publicly by Congress, or at least publicly in any detail by the so-called independent 9/11 Commission, made me think that they might be the holy grail of 9/11.

That's exactly what they turned out to be. Only one wargame exercise, Vigilant Guardian, was mentioned in a footnote to the Kean Commission report and then it was deliberately mislabeled as an exercise intended to intercept Russian bombers instead of a hijack exercise in the northeast sector. Even then, a deliberate lie was told to the American people as NORAD commander Ralph Eberhart testified to the Commission that the exercise actually expedited US air force response during the attacks.

When Michael Kane, a brilliant young New York activist and budding investigative reporter, approached General Eberhart on an FTW assignment at the conclusion of the Commission's last public hearing and asked for information on the other exercises, Eberhart's only response was, "No comment."

And an additional nonmilitary biowarfare exercise called Tripod II, being "set up" in Manhattan on September 11th was under the direct coordination of FEMA and – by White House directive – the immediate control of the Vice President. The setup for that exercise conveniently placed a fully staffed FEMA, New York City and Department of Justice command post on Manhattan's Pier 29 in time for it to be conveniently used as the command post after the Twin Towers had collapsed.

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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 08:34 PM
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5. Well, the FEMA thing was considerate.
Nice of them to be so thoughtful.
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 08:36 PM
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6. The 19 were fooled?
They thought that their mission was actually for al Q?
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 08:53 PM
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8. Who knows what the "19" were.
Let me ask you this.

Were you persuaded that there were WMD in Iraq? What evidence did this administration use to persuade you of that?

Other than the fact that government and media talking heads have repeated it a gazillion times, what EVIDENCE has ever been presented that the "19" were, indeed, HIJACKERS? I'll bet you, if you think about it, it was FAR LESS than was used to convince us of WMD in Iraq.

Read Daniel Hopsickers, "Welcome to Terrorland." Mohamad Atta wasn't a fundamentalist Muslim kamakazi. He was an undercover agent with multiple identites who ate pork, had a fluzi girl friend, and snorted coke.

WE, the minds and sense of reality of the masses of people of the United States, WERE THE REAL, STRATEGIC, TARGET OF THE 9/11 EVENTS. We were and continue to be told PROFOUND LIES by a Cabal of murderers who profit from war and oil.

It wasn't GWB. It was the people who are using him. Traitors, all.
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 08:56 PM
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9. that made the responce even QUICKER
according to a gen. quoted by RM.

i see being confused INITIALLY but for almost 2 hours, come on, thats hard to swallow... maybe there was no stand down order given because it wasn't necessary since the planes were scrambled to the wrong locations :shrug:

peace
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 09:00 PM
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10. We're not only talking about RESPONSE TIME
We're talking about command decisions. And, yes, the deployment. Where were the air defense? If you read the quote provided, mostly over Canada and Alaska -- IOW, away from the Eastern seaboard.
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 09:22 PM
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11. bpilgrim, you may want to read Chapter 19 of Ruppert's book
which can be downloaded in PDF from here:

http://www.newsociety.com/News/rub_war.pdf
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:26 PM
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12. thank you
i will :toast:

peace
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Nordic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 03:54 AM
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15. "false blips were deliberately inserted onto ...radar screens"
Sorry, I'm a MIHOPer but this sounds over-the-top to me.

HOW would anybody do that?

That doesn't pass the smell test.
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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 04:22 AM
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17. technical provisions to make excersises possible.
and apparently some "live-fly" exercises whith actual aircraft.

so the "how" wouldn't be part of the conspiracy, just the fact that these excersises took place that day.
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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 08:48 PM
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7. It didn't take them twelve minutes to launch the Air Defense! Only 5!
Remember, Bush was deeply involved in 'My pet Goat' for SEVEN minutes after we were attacked, so you should only count it as five.

;-)
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Pallas180 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 12:16 AM
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13. Reagan paranoid-it fits with having North draw up the FEMA detention camps
and martial laws.

Rumsfeld and Cheney - his two most "trusted" aides.

How these people think?

Reagan turned in "friends" to the McCarthy committee.

And as I remember from history, he was around and friends with Hearst,
Hearst Newspapers, the most powerful man in the country at the time.

Hearst I think was another Nazi sympathizer.....

Apparently this country has always had a battle against Fascism -
but none so serious as this, I dont think.
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:14 AM
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14. I don't know.
Edited on Sat Sep-25-04 01:35 AM by beam_me_up
Looked at from a certain perspective, the whole enterprise of Western Civilization has been 'fascistic.' Western ideas and imperialism was spread round the world by 'industries of trade.' This Continent was "discovered" by explorers looking for better far eastern trade routes. Of course it was already inhabited, but we didn't let that stop us from moving in. Western Civilization gained global dominance as much because of the use of the cannon, for example, as anything emanating from the higher reaches of Western moral accomplishment.

This is my opinion, and it may be too critical. Perhaps Western man has truly respected and tried to understand and build equitable social relations with the many diverse peoples around the world. Obviously individual men within Western civilization have done so -- but I think it is equally obvious there has been little egalitarianism embodied within actual policy.

The whole of Western Civilization as we know it is less than 500 years old. I can remember when I thought that was a "long" time. I no longer do.

The challenge before us is not merely an American challenge. Ultimately, it is a HUMAN challenge. Either humanity as a whole will put an end to this madness or it will not; and clearly if it does not, the world shall go mad; and in an age where weapons of mass destruction are stockpiled like chord wood just waiting for a madman's hand . . .

Edit to add:

Perhaps someday when this is all over and humanity is once again existing in direct contact with the forces of nature of which it is a part, stores will be told about a once terrible civilization of magicians that sucked from the ground vast quantities of the dark blood of an evil god that filled them with magical powers that sent them twirling through space and time dazzled by light and glitter and every tantalizing delight. Then one day the blood began to dry up and within a matter of years their world of magic spells came crashing down around them, releasing the most hideous of horrors upon them all.

Or, maybe this story will have a different ending. Perhaps some Heroic Force will yet be called forth from within the hearts of Man and a very great wrong will at long last be righted.
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Nordic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 03:56 AM
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16. Book of Revelations
I've always thought the antichrist was technology itself.

It kinda fits.

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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 06:48 AM
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18. i have no doubts that dick cheney and pals would gladly sacrifice
the lives of 3000 US citizens to achiieve their sick goals. witness the 1000+ soldiers who've died for halliburton to gain massive war-profiteering contracts.

bush and cheney and their cabal aren't patriots, they are global power mongers. the US isn't a country to them, just another demographic to be exploited
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 10:25 AM
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19. DICK Cheney began military privitization:
Edited on Sat Sep-25-04 10:33 AM by beam_me_up
In 1992, Dick Cheney's Department of defense paid Halliburton's construction subsidiary, Brown & Root Services, $3.9 million to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the argument for permitting private firms, such as, er, Brown & Root, to provide logistical support for U.S. military operations in hot spots around the world. Cheney and his aids were apparently impressed by the classified report they received from Brown & Root. Before the year was out, they allocated another $5 million to have the firm beef up its study. "In effect," explained the New Yorker's Jane Mayer in a perceptive study of the vice president and his former employer, "The company was being asked to create its own market." Within a decade, that "market" would be worth more than $150 billion a year to defense contractors. But the first critical step in opening it for business was taken almost without notice. Even as the Brown & Root studies were being reviewed and updated, Cheney's Department of Defense was moving to implement their recommendations. In the months before they turned over the Pentagon to the incoming Clinton administration, the Cheney-led Pentagon performed a sweeping reinvention of government. In August 1992, Brown & Root was quietly awarded a logistics contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that would permit it to work alongside soldiers in Haiti, Somalia, the Balkans, and everywhere else the military came ashore.

Edit to add:
In those recessionary days when many construction firms were struggling to keep afloat, it appeared that business was going to be very good for Brown & Root and, by extension, Halliburton. For its work in the Balkans alone, the firm's contract with the Department of Defense yielded &2.2 billion in payments from the U.S. Treasury during the mid-1990s. Even the disastrous U>S> experience in Somalia, which formed the basis for the film Black Hawke Down, was good for Halliburton. The company pocketed $109 million for providing troop support and preparing the bodies of the dead for burial. With the Pentagon pipeline open, Halliburton went from strength to strength.

Fortune shined, as well, on Dick Cheney, who in short order would move from dispensing Department of Defense checks to collecting them as Halliburton's chairman and chief executive officer.


From DICK; The Man Who Is President Page 132-133.
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Monkey see Monkey Do Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 11:23 AM
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20. see James Mann's article "The Armageddon Plan"
it was here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200403/mann

but I've found a copy of the full text here:

http://p066.ezboard.com/fhoodlumsy2krumorsandpreparations.showNextMessage?topicID=868.topic

I believe that he expands on this in "The Rise of the Vulcans"

hope this helps!
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 11:58 AM
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21. YES! Thank you, this is VERY helpful.
Edited on Sat Sep-25-04 12:04 PM by beam_me_up
Ronald Reagan established the continuity-of-government program with a secret executive order. According to Robert McFarlane, who served for a time as Reagan's National Security Adviser, the President himself made the final decision about who would head each of the three teams. Within Reagan's National Security Council the "action officer" for the secret program was Oliver North, later the central figure in the Iran-contra scandal. Vice President George H.W. Bush was given the authority to supervise some of these efforts, which were run by a new government agency with a bland name: the National Program Office. It had its own building in the Washington area, run by a two-star general, and a secret budget adding up to hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Much of this money was spent on advanced communications equipment that would enable the teams to have secure conversations with U.S. military commanders. In fact, the few details that have previously come to light about the secret program, primarily from a 1991 CNN investigative report, stemmed from allegations of waste and abuses in awarding contracts to private companies, and claims that this equipment malfunctioned.

The exercises were usually scheduled during a congressional recess, so that Cheney would miss as little work on Capitol Hill as possible. Although Cheney, Rumsfeld, and one other team leader took part in each exercise, the Cabinet members changed depending on who was available at a particular time.
>snip<

The plans were carried out with elaborate deception, designed to prevent Soviet reconnaissance satellites from detecting where in the United States the teams were going. Thus the teams were sent out in the middle of the night, and changed locations from one exercise to the next. Decoy convoys were sometimes dispatched along with the genuine convoys carrying the communications gear. The underlying logic was that the Soviets could not possibly target all the makeshift locations around the United States where the Reagan teams might operate.

The capstone to all these efforts to stay mobile was a special airplane, the National Emergency Airborne Command Post, a modified Boeing 747 based at Andrews and specially outfitted with a conference room and advanced communications gear. In it a President could remain in the air and run the country during a nuclear showdown. In one exercise a team of officials stayed aloft in this plane for three days straight, cruising up and down the coasts and back and forth across the country, refueling in the air.

Edit to add emphasis.
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 02:11 PM
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29. More from Mann:
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet collapse, the rationale for the exercises changed. A Soviet nuclear attack was obviously no longer plausible-but what if terrorists carrying nuclear weapons attacked the United States and killed the President and the Vice President? Finally, during the early Clinton years, it was decided that this scenario was farfetched and outdated, a mere legacy of the Cold War. It seemed that no enemy in the world was still capable of decapitating America's leadership, and the program was abandoned.

There things stood until September 11, 2001, when Cheney and Rumsfeld suddenly began to act out parts of a script they had rehearsed years before. Operating from the underground shelter beneath the White House, called the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, Cheney told Bush to delay a planned flight back from Florida to Washington. At the Pentagon, Rumsfeld instructed a reluctant Wolfowitz to get out of town to the safety of one of the underground bunkers, which had been built to survive nuclear attack. Cheney also ordered House Speaker Dennis Hastert, other congressional leaders, and several Cabinet members (including Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman and Interior Secretary Gale Norton) evacuated to one of these secure facilities away from the capital. Explaining these actions a few days later, Cheney vaguely told NBC's Tim Russert, "We did a lot of planning during the Cold War with respect to the possibility of a nuclear incident." He did not mention the Reagan Administration program or the secret drills in which he and Rumsfeld had regularly practiced running the country.

Their participation in the extra-constitutional continuity-of-government exercises, remarkable in its own right, also demonstrates a broad, underlying truth about these two men. For three decades, from the Ford Administration onward, even when they were out of the executive branch of government, they were never far away. They stayed in touch with defense, military, and intelligence officials, who regularly called upon them. They were, in a sense, a part of the permanent hidden national-security apparatus of the United States--inhabitants of a world in which Presidents come and go, but America keeps on fighting.
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HEIL PRESIDENT GOD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 12:03 PM
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22. I know a lot of you are vs. capital punishment
So am I, as it's done now...

But I sure want to see these traitors face the firing squad on CourtTV if this is proven to be true.
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 12:08 PM
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23. THAT would certainly SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE to would be TYRANTS
But I'll tell you what, if these charges are not investigated and, if found credible, these men are NOT held accountable, that TOO will send a very CLEAR message to would be tyrants. America, its wealth and military might are YOURS FOR THE TAKING. All you have to do is be DECEPTIVE enough and SAVAGE enough to steal it.

So much for the Constitution.

Bastards!
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gordianot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:45 PM
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27. No not for these people
Edited on Sat Sep-25-04 01:47 PM by gordianot
No Capital punishment. If these kind of allegations are ever proven they should be placed in the general population of a Federal Prison (a State Prison in Texas would be even better). Capital Punishment would never need to be implemented as the prison system inmates take care of their own.

Some things are worse than immediate semi painless death.
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:58 PM
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28. Sounds good BUT
People with this much power and influence wouldn't lose it simply because they were "incarcerated." A prison can be a prison, or it can be a fortress of protection.

DICK has built himself a fortress underground, as I understand it. They have no intention of leaving their offices peacefully under any circumstances, I assure you. They did not steal an election, murder 3,000 citizens in broad daylight and use that as a pretext for putting in place an infrastructure that will allow them to gut the Constitution and launch a two front, never ending war in the ME, just to give up because a majority of US don't like their policies.

THEY FULLY ANTICIPATE that at some point there will be massive civil unrest. They are banking on it.

If those in positions of authority who understand the consequences of these bold moves can not find a way to EXPOSE THEM for the Nazis that they are, this nation, and much of the world, is doomed.
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bear425 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-04 09:14 AM
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37. Will the civil unrest come on November 3rd
methinks?
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HEIL PRESIDENT GOD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 04:40 PM
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31. As lovely a thought as that is...
I think it needs to be done legally and on-camera. Burn that image into the minds of every little preppie shit at Andover.
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NervousRex Donating Member (958 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-04 09:17 AM
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38. Naw....
I'd like to see them thrown naked into the streets of Baghdad chained together...let the crowd tear the flesh from their bones...
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 12:52 PM
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NecessaryOnslaught Donating Member (691 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:02 PM
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25. Your post has changed my life
:eyes:
Beat it kid.
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:05 PM
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26. And this addresses the acusation re Cheney how, exactly?
Moreover, I have no idea whether what you've posted represents YOUR OPINION or whether you are commenting on something copied from elsewhere. In any case, this probably merits the forthcoming "alert."

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Blaze Diem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 02:46 PM
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30. Thank You for this Post. Outstanding Work. beameup!
Now THIS is the Dick Cheney I have always supposed him to be. There's a reason human beings cringe at the sight of the man. Gut instincts are not deceiving.

I applaud your work and all who've contributed tireless hours in the name of Planet Earth.

I fear, also what you say about under no circumstances will these societal disconnects step away from their stolen places in America's government because the masses shout for change. The Patriot Act and John Ashcroft are their shield. I believe Diebold will be rewarded handsomely for this election, which to Bush/Cheney will be just a blip in the month of November. God forbid, I wish my suspicions will be proven wrong.
Team Cheney has set in motion, secretly and swiftly, nothing short of a coup on America, & all who dare to stop him along the way.
He is much farther ahead in his plans for a New World Order than any of us think, and what happens on election day, a few weeks from now will tell all.
We will need more than a John Kerry win, my friends, a huge shift in power in our House and Senate is key.
Without that the World is theirs for the taking.

Perhaps it is time again to email this report from beam-me-up to evert news agency around the world. Where is that very long compiliation of news e-mail listings I saw the other day. I really need to locate and "save" it.

We just cannot give up now..too much work has been done just revealing a small part of the Cheney/Bush power grab. Carry On & Thanks DU.
Blaze
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 06:36 PM
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32. Thanks, Blaze. Here's more from Nichols:
The U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Export-Import Bank were set up to help American firms expand their business abroad, in hopes that such expansion would create jobs at home while building goodwill around the world. Those intended benefits served the justification for using tax dollars to guarantee investments in potentially risky overseas endeavours. But the projects in which Halliburton involved itself often seemed to lack the noble purpose that the OPIC and Export Import Bank brochures describe. For instance, that Russian project involved a scheme to refurbish a Siberian oil field that was owned by the Tumen Oil Co., which in turn is controlled by a Russian conglomerate known as the Alfa Group. The Center for Public Integrity, which obtained documents regarding the deal and Tyumen, published a report describing Halliburton's Russian partner as a "company whose roots are imbedded in a legacy of KGB and Communist Party corruption, as well as drug trafficking and organized crime funds." The Russian company has hotly disputed the claims.

But meanwhile, others were saying that the recipients of the Export-Import Bank loans to support the oil filed project--and to guarantee an infusion of $292 million into Halliburton's accounts--Were shady. Who was saying that, exactly? Well, BP Amoco, for one. According to the CIA report, the giant oil and gas production company charged that Tumen committed fraudulent acts and corrupted a bankruptcy proceeding to steal an oil field from the legitimate owners, which included BP-Amoco. BP-Amoco was so exercised about Tumen's actions that it passed details of the company's alleged links with Russian organized crime interests to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA classified the materials as "secret." But when the CIA briefed the Export-Import Bank about Tyumen, it reportedly told the bankers that the information contained in the BP-Amoco materials "tracked" with information the agency had obtained separately regarding the Russian firm.

It would seem that a project involving Tyumen might not have looked like the safest investment. And, indeed, that was how most bankers saw it. That was also how the U.S. State Department saw it. The State Department took a dim view of the Siberian project, arguing that the deal ran against the "national interest." The CIA agreed. That should have doomed the deal. But Halliburton played the Cheney card. After he came to the company, Cheney dramatically ramped up the firms D.C. lobbying operations--doubling Halliburton's influence-peddling budget to $600,000 by 1999--and according to the records of Dave Gribben, who headed Halliburton's Washington office, the focus was on nontraditional pressure points, such as OPIC and the Export-Import Bank. Gribben was not Halliburton's lobbyist in chief, however; that was Cheney's job. Cheney reportedly made personal trips to Washington to lobby on behalf of the Tyumen project, cozying up to Export-Import Bank chairmen James Harmon, who in April 2000 overrode the recommendations of the State Department and the CIA and agreed to front Tyumen $489 million. That was the largest amount of money ever loaned by the bank to a Russian company, but most of it would be coming home--in the form of $292 million in U.S. taxpayer-guranteed payments to Halliburton.

The Tyumen loan guarantee would be the last big catch reeled in by Cheney for the company he had joined after that fateful fly-fishing trip to New Brunswick five years earlier. The time had come to go back through the revolving door. HE had served tree White Houses, in progressively more powerful positions. Now, he wanted to be in charge. Cheney knew voters would never give him the title he craved, but he knew how to get the power that went with it. He had arrived in Texas at a convenient moment, just after George W. Bush assumed the governorship in 1995, and he had insinuated himself into the inner circles of the boy and his father. Cheney was certain that the family could deliver the Republican nomination to George W. and he thought there was a reasonable chance that Bush could win in November. There would be many more opportunities like this one. Cheney had to be on board. As in the past, he let it be known that he was willing to perform the scut work of the campaign. He gladly accepted the time-consuming, high-pressure, and holistically ego-crushing job of selecting Bush's running mate. Halliburton's board graciously allowed its chief executive to cut back on his duties briefly in order to perform a little service to the Republican Party--which in their eyes was synonymous with the country. After all, helping out the next president could only make Cheney more valuable to the company. But Cheney knew he was not coming back. In May, he quietly sold Halliburton stock holdings worth $5 million. The sale should have been a signal, but no one recognized that he was cashing out. It would be two more months before Dick Cheney would nominate himself for vice president.

From DICK; The Man Who Is President Page 162-163.
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Blaze Diem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 06:53 PM
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33. Sick Fuck...May his soul burn, for those who've lost their lives on
Dick Cheney's greed driven psycotic behalf.

The mind of Adolf Hitler indeed.
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Meanwhile our should-be president is a miserable, chicken sh*t of a faliure.
What has happened to our beautiful United States of America.

Anyone but Bush/Cheney!
Please-Stop This Madness....
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-04 10:12 AM
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34. Sunday morning kick
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-04 12:00 AM
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35. A Monday Evening Kick to keep it in the go round for a while
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-04 08:31 AM
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36. one last boot
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bear425 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-04 12:40 PM
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39. kickie
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