George W. Bush

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هوشنگ اميراحمدی
به اميد رفتن "بوش"
5ر1سال بازی با زمان
ممكن نيست و حمله جدی است




هوشنگ اميراحمدى در مصاحبه ای فشرده با راديو آلمان – بخش فارسی- نقطه نظرات خود در باره نشانه های حمله نظامی به ايران بيان كرده است. از آنجا كه گفته می شود اميراحمدی با محافل مختلف امريكائی در تماس است و در موسسه "اينترپرايس" نيز فعاليت محوری دارد، آگاهی از نقطه نظرات او اهميت دارد.



«تا وقتی مسئله غنیسازی اورانيوم در ايران حل نشود تنش در روابط امريكا با ايران جدی است. متاسفانه بايد بگويم ممكن است حتا در آيندهای نزديك، اگر چارهای پيدا نشود، به گرفتاریهای ديگری هم بكشد. اينكه میگويند آمريكا درصدد ايجاد زمينههايی برای حمله به ايران است، اين را نبايد با سرسری و به آرامی از كنارش گذشت. واقعيت اين است كه در اين كشور نيروهايی هستند كه هدفشان جز جنگ با ايران چيز ديگری نيست. من اين خطر را جدی میدانم. متاسفانه طرف ايران به نظر نمیرسد كه جريان را آنقدر كه بايد جدی گرفته باشد و هنوز هم دارد سعی میكند با وقتگذرانی و با برنامههايی كه اصولا ريشهای نيست و به حل مشكل ريشهای برخورد نمیكند، نگاه میكند و در نتيجه هم برای خودش و هم برای كشور میتواند دردسر درست بكند.

هر دو طرف، مخصوصا آمريكايیها، جنگ و دعوا با ايران را واقعا بعنوان گزينهی اول يا گزينه مورد قبول نمیبينند. يك گزينهای نيست كه بخواهد اينها را خوشحال و راحت بكند. بنابراين طبيعیست كه دنبال گزينههای ديگری هم باشند و برای آن گزينهها معمولا جا باز میكنند و برايش حركت میكنند، ولی از آنطرف هم هر دو طرف متوجه میشوند كه نمیشود فقط در چارچوب صلح صحبت كرد، بايد با زور هم حرف زد، اين است كه گزينه زور و گزينه تشويق هميشه با هم قاطی میشود. در مورد ايران هم به همين دليل، ايرانیها هم گزينه جنگ با آمريكا را ندارند، گزينه آنها حتما گزينه صلح است، اما ضمنا میدانند كه آمريكا تا وقتی كه مشكل هستهای ايران حل نشود امكان حمله نظامی به ايران را در دستور كار خودش قرار داده است. بنابراين، ايران هم ضمن اينكه گزينه جنگ با آمريكا را ندارد سعی میكند هميشه مذاكره را به يك شكلی پيش ببرد و اين جريان را برايش وقت بگيرد و وقتكشی كند و در عين حال هم گاها متوجه میشود كه چارهای ندارد جز اينكه خودش را برای يك چنين آينده ناصوابی مثل جنگ هم آماده كند. و بنابراين آن تنش جنگ و صلح طرف ايران هم هست.

آمريكايیها اصولا هيچ اعتقادی به اين كه تحريمها كار مهمی انجام میدهد ندارند. اولا خود آمريكا الان ۲۰ و چندسال است كه روی ايران تحريم دارد. بنابراين اگر آمريكا هم به تحريم نگاه میكرده تا الان يا میكند، بيشتر بعنوان وسيلهای است كه از طريق آن كشورهای اروپايی، روسيه، چين و اينها را بطرف خودش بياورد. بنابراين جريان تحريم برای آمريكا يك جريان سمبليك است و برايش بعنوان سمبل عمل میكند. ولی در عين حال هم دولت بوش وقت زيادی ندارد و فقط يكسال و نيم ديگر وقت دارد و بعدش هم كارش تمام میشود. به همين دليل هم نيروهايی كه فكر میكنند اگر بوش برود ديگر مسئلهی ايران خوب حل نمیشود، دارند سعی میكنند قبل از اينكه بوش برود اين جريان را به يكجايی برسانند. بنابراين درون دولت بوش يك تنشی هست روی زمان، و اينكه با چه سرعتی اينكار انجام بشود. آنهايی كه میخواهند تا وقتی بوش سر كار است مسئلهی ايران را حل كنند، فشار میآورند برای حركتهای نظامی. آن كسانی كه برعكس نمیخواهند نظامیگری كنند يا فكر میكنند كه لازم نيست مسئلهی ايران زمان بوش حل بشود، سعی میكنند به جريان يك مقدار گستردهتر نگاه بكنند و حاضرند وقت زيادتری به ايران بدهند برای حل اين مشكل. اين است كه تنش هم در رابطه با زمان وجود دارد و من فكر میكنم كه متاسفانه در تحليل نهايی آنهايی كه دنبال فشردگی اين زمان هستند و میخواهند زمان برخورد با ايران را كوتاه كنند، شانس توفيقشان بيشتر است و اين نيرو بسيار نيروی خطرناك و بسيار قوی و در عينحال نيروی بسيار خشنیست.»

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جورج بوش، رئيس جمهور آمريکا، جمعه شب 22 سپتامبر، آغاز ماه رمضان را به مسلمانان آمريکا و ساير کشورهای جهان تبريک گفت.
در پيام تبريک او آمده رمضان مقدس ترين ماه مسلمانان است که در آن پيروان دين اسلام زمان ويژه ای را به عبادات، روزه و فداکاری های شخصی اختصاص می دهند.

آقای بوش که در سال های اخير با گسترش احساسات ضد آمريکايی در بين مسلمانان مواجه بوده، در پيان خود يادآور می شود که رمضان و ساير تعطيلات مذهبی در آمريکا يادآور ارزش های مشترکی است که مردم آمريکا را به يکديگر نزديک می کند.

رئيس جمهور آمريکا همه ساله ميهمانی افطاری با حضور برخی شخصيت ها و رهبران اسلامی در کاخ سفيد برپا می کند.

در ميهمانی امسال که روز چهارشنبه برگزار می شود حامد کرزای رئيس جمهور افغانستان و پرويز مشرف رئيس جمهور پاکستان شرکت خواهند داشت.


پيام تبريک جورج بوش به مسلمانان در حالی مطرح می شود که برخی گزارش ها حاکی از افزايش جرايم عليه مسلمانان آمريکا بدنبال حملات يازده سپتامبر سال ۲۰۰۱ است

آقای بوش در نامه خود ايمان و تعهد شهروندان مسلمان را بيانگر وجود آزادی های مذهبی در آمريکا دانسته و گفته [حضور اين شهروندان] جامعه اين کشور را غنی تر کرده است.

پيام تبريک جورج بوش به مسلمانان در حالی مطرح می شود که برخی گزارش ها حاکی از افزايش جرايم عليه مسلمانان آمريکا بدنبال حملات يازده سپتامبر سال ۲۰۰۱ است.

برخی نظرسنجی ها نيز نشان می دهد که نگرانی و نگاه منفی مردم برخی ايالت های آمريکا از مسلمانان طی چند سال گذشته روندی صعودی داشته است.

جورج بوش در پايان نامه اش آورده است که، همراه با همسرش لورا، بهترين آرزوها را برای مسلمانان می فرستد.

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Bush Says He Is Unaware of Any US Pressure on Pakistan after 9/11

President Bush says he is unaware of any White House pressure to force Pakistan into joining the fight against terrorism following the 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says a senior Bush administration official threatened to bomb his country if it did not back action against the then-Taleban government in Afghanistan.

President Bush says he was taken aback by the harshness of the alleged U.S. threat which he says he first heard about in the morning's newspaper.

"I don't know of any conversation that was reported in the newspaper like that. I just don't know about it," he said.

In an interview to be aired Sunday on the U.S. television network CBS, President Musharraf says then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told the Pakistani intelligence chief that the United States would bomb his country back to the Stone Age if it did not join the fight against the Taleban. President Musharraf says it was a "very rude remark."

Armitage says he was not authorized to make such a threat.

Asked about it following White House talks with President Bush, President Musharraf said he could not discuss the issue because it is part of his new book.

"I am launching my book on the 25th, and I am honor-bound to Simon and Schuster not to comment on the book before that day," he said.

"In other words, buy the book. That's what he is saying," quipped Mr. Bush.

White House spokesman Tony Snow says the Bush administration did make clear to Pakistan that it had a choice to make following the September 11th terrorist attacks but it is not U.S. policy to issue bombing threats.

During their talks, President Bush and President Musharraf discussed relations with India, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Pakistan's deal with tribal leaders in its remote border region with Afghanistan. President Musharraf say tribal leaders have agreed to prevent Taleban and al-Qaida fighters from operating in the area, where the central government has little control.

That agreement has raised concerns among some U.S. lawmakers that it gives Taleban fighters greater freedom to operate in the area. President Musharraf says that is not so.


"This treaty is not to deal with the Taleban, it is actually to fight the Taleban," he said. "The misperception in the media I did clarify to the president."

President Musharraf says the agreement is part of his holistic approach to fighting terrorism in tribal areas by using political, military, and administrative resources. He has also called on Afghanistan to do more to fight terrorism on its side of the border.

President Bush meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the White House next Tuesday, then brings both President Karzai and President Musharraf together for a working dinner Wednesday.

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US President George W. Bush will stop the Iranians from getting a nuclear bomb, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stated with certainty during an interview with The Jerusalem Post on Monday.

Olmert's comments come amid a debate raging in Jerusalem about whether the US will eventually take military action to stop the Iranian march to nuclear capability, whether Israel might have to act on its own, and whether Jerusalem should reconcile itself to a nuclear Iran.

Asked whether he felt that Bush would, one way or another, stop Iran from going nuclear, Olmert replied succinctly, "I believe so."

Olmert said Bush was very determined on this issue. "First of all I think President Bush has the courage," he said during the interview in his Jerusalem office. "This is something that is very important. There is no one in the world today who has greater courage and determination, and a sense of mission about these issues, than President Bush, and I admire his determination and sense of mission."

Olmert's assessment is at odds with those inside the intelligence community who argue that the US president is too over-extended in Iraq and Afghanistan, and too politically weak at home, to take military action against Teheran.

As to whether Israel had a military option of its own regarding Iran, Olmert said, "Israel can't accept the possibility of Iranians having nuclear weapons and we will act together with the international forces, starting with America, in order to prevent it. And as I also said, I believe that President Bush is absolutely determined to prevent it, and America has the capabilities to actually prevent it."

Olmert, in the interview that will be published in its entirety in Friday's edition of the Post, said he did not feel Israel should begin getting used to the notion of living with a nuclear Iran.

"I don't think Israel can be reconciled [to this]," he said. "I don't intend to. This is a danger that is just one thing we can't afford."
Earlier this month, Vice Premier Shimon Peres said that if Iran were to develop a nuclear capability, Israel and the West would develop the means to deal with it. This was the first public indication from a cabinet minister that Jerusalem has been thinking about how to deal with a nuclear-armed Iran.

During the interview, Olmert also waged a spirited defense of the war in Lebanon, saying that even though Israel had no answer to the short-range missiles that rained down on the North, Israel's strategic deterrence was not harmed.


The second Lebanon war: JPost.com special report
"Everyone understands that this is something that has to be dealt with," Olmert said of the short-range Katyushas and Kassam rocket threats.
"It will be dealt with, we will find a technological answer, and once a technological answer is found we will be done with it. So it is just a matter of time. It is true that in the meantime it is a major nuisance, but it is not a strategic threat to the State of Israel."

He said it was a mistake to focus on the short-range missile threat, and that the IAF's ability to take out the long-range missiles, which it did in the first few hours of the war, was of greater significance "in terms of the degree of threat that the Arabs feel they can impose on Israel."

Regarding the widespread perception in the Arab world that Hizbullah won the war, Olmert said he had "a different perception of what their view is of Israel, based on knowledge from what I read and see."

He said that the perception that Hizbullah emerged with a victory was "one of the most dangerous perceptions," but that it was generated "entirely, completely, wholeheartedly here, not there, only because of political considerations, only because of a total lack of proportion. These perceptions are created here and they are spread from here to the outside."

As to the abducted soldiers, Olmert would not discuss whether he would be willing to release Fatah-Tanzim leader Marwan Barghouti in a deal to free Cpl. Gilad Shalit, but said that Barghouti was not one of the prisoners he had considered releasing before Shalit's abduction.

Olmert also would not say categorically that he would not release Samir Kuntar in a deal involving Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. Kuntar, the longest-serving confirmed Lebanese prisoner in jail in Israel, is serving multiple life terms for the killing of three members of the Haran family and policeman Eliahu Shahar in a raid on Nahariya in 1979.

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Senate Approves Detainee Bill Backed by Bush

Congress approved landmark changes to the nation's system of interrogating and prosecuting terrorism suspects last night, preparing the ground for possible military trials for key al-Qaeda members under rules that critics say will draw stiff constitutional challenges.

The Senate joined the House in embracing President Bush's view that the battle against terrorism justifies the imposition of extraordinary limits on defendants' traditional rights in the courtroom. They include restrictions on a suspect's ability to challenge his detention, examine all evidence against him, and bar testimony allegedly acquired through coercion of witnesses.
The Senate's 65 to 34 vote marked a victory for Bush and fellow Republicans a month before the Nov. 7 elections as their party tries to make anti-terrorism a signature campaign issue. Underscoring that strategy, the House last night voted 232 to 191 to authorize Bush's warrantless wiretapping program, with GOP leaders hoping to add it to their list of accomplishments even though it has no chance of Senate passage before this weekend's scheduled adjournment. On the final wiretapping vote, 18 Democrats joined 214 Republicans to win passage. Thirteen Republicans, 177 Democrats and one independent voted nay.

Democrats resisted both measures and nearly amended the detainee bill to allow foreigners designated as enemy combatants to challenge their captivity by filing habeas corpus appeals with the federal courts. But Republicans held fast, gambling that Democrats will fail in their bid to convince voters that the GOP is sacrificing the nation's traditions of justice and fairness in the name of battling terrorists and winning elections.

"As our troops risk their lives to fight terrorism, this bill will ensure they are prepared to defeat today's enemies and address tomorrow's threats," Bush said after the vote.

With control of both houses possibly at stake this fall, yesterday's debates were often impassioned and deeply partisan. House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) called Democrats "dangerous." Patrick J. Leahy (Vt.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the nation is losing its "moral compass."

The Senate approved the detainee legislation after Bush's allies narrowly fended off five amendments. The vote on final passage drew support from 53 Republicans and 12 Democrats, while 32 Democrats, one independent and one Republican -- Lincoln D. Chafee (R.I.) -- voted nay.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) voted for the bill after telling reporters earlier that he would oppose it because it is "patently unconstitutional on its face." He cited its denial of the habeas corpus right to military detainees. In an interview last night, Specter said he decided to back the bill because it has several good items, "and the court will clean it up" by striking the habeas corpus provisions.

The Supreme Court triggered the congressional action by striking down in late June Bush's earlier system for trying suspects in military commissions.

The new bill is designed to legalize military commissions and to clarify interrogation techniques that CIA officers may use on terrorism suspects considered "unlawful enemy combatants," who are granted fewer protections than are prisoners of war. Hundreds of such detainees have been held for several years without trial at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while others were held at secret prisons overseas.

The new measure, which the House approved 253 to 168 on Wednesday, rejects Bush's earlier bid to narrow U.S. obligations under the Geneva Conventions in the treatment of such detainees. But it grants the executive branch substantial leeway in deciding how to comply with treaty obligations regulating actions that fall short of "grave breaches" of the conventions.

It would bar military commissions from considering testimony obtained through interrogation techniques that involve "cruel, unusual or inhumane treatment or punishment," which the Constitution's Fifth, Eighth and 14th amendments prohibit. The bar would be retroactive only to Dec. 30, 2005 -- when Congress adopted the Detainee Treatment Act -- to protect CIA operatives from possible prosecution over interrogation tactics used before that date.

Yesterday's main drama involved Specter's bid to amend the bill to grant the habeas corpus right to foreign detainees. Habeas corpus appeals -- a legal cornerstone -- allow prisoners to ask a judge to rule on the legality of their detention.

Specter and his allies said the habeas corpus right must apply to all persons -- including noncitizens -- held in U.S. custody. Most other Republicans said foreigners designated by the military as "unlawful enemy combatants" do not deserve habeas corpus protections.

Specter's amendment failed, 51 to 48. Senate Republicans voting for the habeas corpus amendment were Specter, Chafee, Gordon Smith (Ore.) and John E. Sununu (N.H.). Ben Nelson (Neb.) was the only Democrat who opposed the amendment. Four amendments drafted by Democrats also failed, mostly along party lines.

Republicans, especially in the House, plan to use the military commission and wiretapping legislation as a one-two punch against Democrats this fall. The legislative action prompted extraordinarily blunt language from House GOP leaders, foreshadowing a major theme for the campaign. Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) issued a written statement on Wednesday declaring: "Democrat Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and 159 of her Democrat colleagues voted today in favor of MORE rights for terrorists."

GOP leaders continued such attacks after the wiretapping vote. "For the second time in just two days, House Democrats have voted to protect the rights of terrorists," Hastert said last night, while Boehner lashed out at what he called "the Democrats' irrational opposition to strong national security policies."

Democrats tried to deflect such attacks by focusing on the newly released National Intelligence Estimate, partially leaked on Saturday, which concludes that the Iraq war has become a "cause celebre" for terrorists. But Republicans maneuvered their attacks toward that issue as well.

"The Democrats' jubilance with the national intelligence leak over the weekend underscores just how dangerous I think my friends on the other side of the aisle are when it comes to national security," Boehner said yesterday.

Democrats said they will take the high road. "There will be 30-second attack ads and negative mail pieces, and we will be called everything from cut-and-run quitters to Defeatocrats, to people who care more about the rights of terrorists than the protection of Americans," predicted Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). "While I know all of this, I'm still disappointed, and I'm still ashamed, because what we're doing here today -- a debate over the fundamental human rights of the accused -- should be bigger than politics."

Democratic leaders stressed that the attacks will not work. Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.), chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, cited polling that he said suggested that matters such as warrantless wiretapping and military commissions are "secondary issues," lagging well behind Iraq in the public's mind. Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) said it is "beyond [his] ability to comprehend" how a member of Congress could be accused of supporting terrorism.

But Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, a prominent Democratic polling firm, tried to raise alarms yesterday with the release of focus group findings that suggest that the attacks would work if not countered forcefully. "Attacks on Democrats for opposing any effort to stop terrorists . . . were highly effective," the pollsters' memo stated.

Under the House surveillance bill, the National Security Agency could conduct electronic surveillance of international communications for up to 45 days without a warrant, but the administration would then have to obtain permission from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and, in most cases, would have to notify lawmakers.

But the congressional intelligence committees could recertify any warrantless wiretapping repeatedly, in 45-day increments, without referral to the court. And restraints on the program could be suspended in the aftermath of a terrorist attack or when the president determines that the country is under "imminent threat." The "imminent threat" provision was added at the insistence of the Bush administration.

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جرج بوش رئيس جمهور آمريکا در يک سخنرانی راديويی که روز شنبه پخش شد گفت به تهاجم در اطراف جهان ادامه خواهد داد. اين بخش سخنان او چنين بود:" تنها راه محافظت از خودمان در داخل کشور اين است که به تهاجم عليه دشمن در سراسر جهان بپردازيم. وقتی تروريست ها روزگارشان را صرف آن کنند که گير نيفتند، کمتر می توانند به توطئه، برنامه ريزی و اجرای حملات جديد عليه مردم ما بپردازند. بنابراين ما در حالت تهاجمی باقی خواهيم ماند تا تروريست ها شکست بخورند و در اين جنگ برنده خواهيم بود."
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'Just a Comma' Becomes Part of Iraq Debate

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct. 4 -- When the president speaks, every word can be subject to scrutiny. Even the punctuation marks.

As he heads out on the campaign trail, haunted by an unpopular war, President Bush has begun reassuring audiences that this traumatic period in Iraq will be seen as "just a comma" in the history books. By that, aides say, he means to reinforce his message of resolve in the long struggle for Iraqi democracy.

But opponents of the war have seized on the formulation, seeing it as evidence that Bush is indifferent to suffering. To them, it sounds as if the president is dismissing more than 2,700 U.S. troop deaths as "just a comma." And a lively Internet debate has broken out about the origins of the phrase, with some speculating that Bush means it as a coded message to religious supporters, evoking the aphorism "Never put a period where God has put a comma."

Presidential utterances have long drawn enormous notice. But instant transcripts and the Internet have focused an even more powerful microscope on the nation's leader. The approaching midterm elections have intensified the already close scrutiny of the president's words as he sharpens his rhetoric.

As Bush wound up a three-day campaign swing out west on Wednesday, for example, he attacked Democrats for voting last week against legislation authorizing warrantless telephone and e-mail surveillance.

"One hundred and seventy-seven of the opposition party said, 'You know, we don't think we ought to be listening to the conversations of terrorists,' " Bush said at a fundraiser for Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) before heading to Colorado for gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez.

Asked about the president's statement, White House aides could not name any Democrat who has said that the government should not listen in on terrorists. Democrats who voted against the legislation had complained that it would hand too much power to the president and had said that they wanted more checks in the bill to protect civil liberties.

Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) called Bush's comment outrageous: "Every member of Congress, from both parties, supports listening in on terrorist communications, but the president still hasn't explained why we have to break the law to do it. It is time for the president to stop exploiting the terrorist threat to justify his power grab."

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino defended Bush's remark as a reasonable extrapolation of the Democratic position. "Of course, they aren't silly enough to say they don't want to listen in on terrorists, but actions speak louder than words, and people should know what the Democrats' voting record is," she said.

The comma remark, though, offers an especially intriguing case study in how a few words can trigger many interpretations. Bush used it in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer aired on Sept. 24 in talking about Iraq. He noted the bloodshed shown on television but hailed the resiliency of the Iraqi people and cited the election last December in which 12 million came to the polls despite the violence.

"Admittedly, it seems like a decade ago," Bush went on. "I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is -- my point is, there's a strong will for democracy." The president used a similar line at a campaign event last week in Alabama and again on Tuesday in Stockton, Calif.

Critics of Bush began e-mailing and blogging about the remark within minutes of the CNN interview. The Carpetbagger Report blog called it stunning "even by Bush's already-low standards" and added: "Everything we're seeing is 'just a comma.' I'm sure that will bring comfort to the families of those who have sacrificed so much for Bush's mistakes."

Then Ian Welsh, on his Agonist blog, postulated a theory about the hidden meaning of the comment, citing the "never put a period" saying and calling it a "dog whistle" comment that only some would understand: "He is constantly littering his speeches with code words and phrases meant for the religious right. Other people don't hear them, but they do, and most of the time it allows Bush both to say what those who aren't evangelical or born again want to hear, while still reassuring the religious right [what it] wants to hear."

But it turns out that the phrase "never put a period" originated not with a Christian conservative figure or biblical passage but with Gracie Allen, the comedienne wife of George Burns. And the phrase is a favorite not of the religious right but of the religious left. The United Church of Christ, which is devoted to fighting for what it calls social justice and opposes the war, adopted the phrase in January 2002.

"I needed something short and succinct," said Ron Buford, the marketing director who came up with it. "When I saw the Gracie Allen quote, I was up all night thinking about it -- God is still speaking, there's more for us to know."

When he heard about Bush's comment, Buford was stunned. "It's ironic that, as savvy as they are about using these quotes to strengthen their base, that he would use a quote that we've been using lately," Buford said.

Aides said it is ridiculous to believe Bush is sending subliminal messages. "People have too much time on their hands," said Bush counselor Dan Bartlett. "I can assure you, you don't need a secret decoder ring to decipher what he's saying."

All Bush means, he said, is the struggle to build Iraqi democracy will take years. "He's making a historical analysis -- that these brief periods seem long and protracted now, but when you look back at them in history, they won't seem that way. He's definitely not discounting the loss of life or the sacrifice people are making."

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Keith Olbermann: Bush unraveling the fabric of democratic values

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WWlWOesG5o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHuClOmOu4U

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Bush Rebukes North Korea; U.S. Seeks New U.N. Sanctions

The United States proposed tough new United Nations sanctions on North Korea on Monday after its reported test of a nuclear device, and President Bush warned the North that he considered its activity a potential threat to American national security.
At an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, the United States pressed for international inspections of all cargo moving into and out of North Korea to detect weapons-related material, and a ban on all trading in military goods and services with the country.
At the White House, President Bush called the North Korean test a threat to international peace and security and condemned it as a provocative act.
But Russia and China, which have veto power and have consistently opposed tough sanctions, did not signal that they were ready to go along with the American proposal. Britain, France and Japan said they were also pressing for strong sanctions, which the Council is expected to debate in the coming days.
Coming just a month before the November elections, North Koreas reported test on Monday morning had immediate political ramifications. Democrats were already using their campaigns to argue that the Iraq war had made the United States less secure by diverting attention away from threats like North Korea; now they are using the Norths claim to hammer away at their theme.
Mr. Bush also issued a pointed, albeit carefully worded, warning to the North not to export any nuclear technology it might have. In the past, North Korea has sold its weapons systems to other countries.
The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or nonstate entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, Mr. Bush said. And we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action.
The president has not used the phrase grave threat in the past with respect to North Korea, and analysts interpreted the remark as a signal that the White House was, in effect, stating new boundaries for what it would accept from the North, given that diplomacy has not worked.
He has finally drawn a very clear red line, which is essentially: we know you have nukes, dont even think about proliferating, said Mike Chinoy, an expert on Korean security at the Pacific Council on International Policy, a research institution in Los Angeles.
Its kind of always been the unspoken administration red line, Mr. Chinoy said, because the reality is that, whatever the harshness of their rhetoric, the Bush administration has not been able to actually stop North Korea from staging this nuclear breakout.
Democratic Party strategists quickly circulated a talking points memorandum to Democratic candidates, urging them to cast the reported North Korean nuclear test as a colossal foreign policy failure of the Bush administration. Several picked up on that theme.
Claire McCaskill, a Democratic candidate for the Senate from Missouri, convened a previously scheduled conference call with Richard Ben-Veniste, a member of the commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks, and used it to raise the issue of North Korea. Representative Harold E. Ford Jr., the Democratic Senate candidate in Tennessee, issued a statement to reporters, as did Senator Robert Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat in a tough re-election fight.
Todays nuclear test by North Korea confirms our worst fears and illustrates just how much the Bush administrations incompetence has endangered our nation, Mr. Menendez said in the statement, adding, While George Bush bogged our military down to topple a regime that had no weapons of mass destruction, a brutal dictator in North Korea has strengthened a nuclear arsenal that has the potential to threaten the West Coast of the United States.
Republicans were more muted in their reactions; Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican whip, issued a brief statement calling North Koreas claim a confrontational move designed only to destabilize the region.
White House officials insisted that despite the talk of sanctions at the United Nations, the administrations goal remains persuading North Korea to return to the six-nation talks and give up its nuclear program. Those negotiations have dragged on for more than two years with no substantive results, and North Korea left them 13 months ago.
Mr. Bush spent more than an hour on the telephone Monday morning in separate calls to leaders of the four nations, aside from the United States and North Korea, that are participating in those talks: Japan, China, South Korea and Russia.

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The lion prowls

What I want to say is that he was never an extremist, neither in his private nor political life. He believed that a modern moderate Islam could work in Afghanistan. He said that the extreme left or right failed in Afghanistan, since both had neglected the needs of the people. Therefore, we could not govern Afghanistan like any traditional Muslim country.
-- Ahmad Wali Massoud on the late Ahmed Shah Massoud of the Northern Alliance

In 1996, funded financially and backed morally by their allies in Pakistan, the Taliban ("Students of Islamic Knowledge Movement") emerged as the prominent force in Afghanistan after the war against the Soviet Union and the fall of the corrupt communist dictatorship. In a campaign of failed promises, the Taliban unified various ethnic and religious groups in their attempt at stifling power.

Originally the Afghani people, who were exhausted and weary due to decades of civil war, supported what they saw as a unified force that would be able to bring stability to the nation. On the global platform, Pakistan was able to convince the Clinton Administration, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom that the Taliban was the ideal choice of governance for Afghanistan. Having the desire to consolidate their own power while dismissing US-calls for the return of King Mohammad Zahir Shah they solidified the most fundamentalist elements of the regime.

Foreign government subsistence for the Taliban was thoroughly tied to economic self-interest. Pakistan and others wanted to protect a convoy of open trade between Pakistan and Central Asia. So that Afghani nationalists could not procure power, a Shar'ia led Sunni fundamentalist regime was implemented. Viable opposition groups such as the Northern Alliance led by The Lion of Panjshir, Ahmed Shah Massoud, fought against the regime from the north and controlled about 30% of the territory. Nevertheless, countries neglected morally or economically supporting these groups instead maintaining their support for the extremist regime. During the next couple of years, the Taliban ruthlessly oppressed the Afghani people, initiating a radical form of Wahhabist Sunni Islam in the nation.

Some of the crimes of Taliban government were the jailing or beating of men for shaving their beards, execution of women in stadiums, executing homosexuals with excessively large bricks, stoning of adulteresses, shooting of criminals by family members, banning of television and music, destruction of religious minority holy sites, requiring religious minorities to wear badges, forbidding women to attend school or hold a job, and requiring women to wear the burqa, among others.

After the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and The Pentagon, the Bush administration initiated the 'Bush Doctrine,' implemented with the objective of spreading democracy throughout the Middle East. The basic theory behind the doctrine may be solidified by Historian Spencer R. Weart, "democracies will not fight each other." The trumpeted conclusive objective of the doctrine is the implementation of a democratic region that respects human rights, religious and ethnic minorities, and the basic foundations of freedom.

In Afghanistan, the Bush Doctrine has been a monumental success. During presidential elections, 10.5 million Afghanis registered to vote, 40.3% percent of them women. Afghanis were given a diverse list of eighteen presidential candidates to choose from while being given access to 25,000 poll stations across the country. In December's parliamentary elections the country elected its first parliament since the late 60's. A variety of ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds were represented by the three hundred fifty one elected. The spurring turnout surprised most pundits, the thought of one of the poorest nations in the world where there's more illiterates than literates embracing democracy was a mandate.

In 2005, ABC conducted the first nation-wide poll inside of Afghanistan, showing the enthusiasm and confidence of the average Afghani. According to the poll ninety one percent said that they supported Karzai's government while only one percent said they supported Taliban. When asked their sentiments towards the United States overthrow of the Taliban, eighty seven percent said it was a good thing while only nine percent said it was a bad. When asked if women should be allowed to hold office, sixty four percent said yes. When asked if Afghanistan is going in right direction seventy seven percent said yes. When asked for approval of current living conditions, eighty five percent agreed. When asked what the greatest danger to Afghanistan is, forty one percent said the Taliban only four percent said the United States.

In a 2005 report, The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said "under the post-Taliban interim Government, Afghanistan's economy has recovered significantly. Non-drug gross domestic product (GDP) rose to about over $4 billion in 2002, and economic growth for 2003 was estimated at 16 per cent. Considerable progress has been made on the education front. By 2004, 54.4 percent of primary age children were in school. Since 2002, a record four million high school students have enrolled. But Afghanistan still has "the worst education system in the world," and one of the lowest adult literacy rates, at just 28.7 per cent of the population, according to the report." These results show the dynamics of the Afghani nation and their proud push towards a modern, progressive democracy.

Many Americans have been false-heartedly led by the mainstream media to believe that the doctrine has become an unmitigated disaster. This form of distorting reality frames a deceptive image of the conditions in Afghanistan. Propaganda wars aside, the truth emanating from Afghanistan is that the Asian country is progressing in remarkable fashion and the tremendous majority of Afghanis are supportive of both the Karzai government and are grateful to The Bush Administration. The Afghanis understand that it takes time to progress toward an independent, proud modern democratic nation, but they also understand that Afghanistan will eventually emerge as one of the seats of progress in the Middle East because the spirit of the The Lion of Panjshir lives on.

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Bush hails N. Korea accord

WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush said Saturday that the UN Security Council had sent a "swift and tough" message to North Korea that its claimed detonation of a nuclear bomb was unacceptable to the world.

Bush spoke shortly after the council unanimously approved a resolution penalizing the reclusive communist nation for its announcement of the test last Monday.

"This action by the United Nations, which was swift and tough, says that we are united in our determination to see to it that the Korean peninsula is nuclear-weapons free," the president told reporters in brief remarks from the White House's South Lawn. He then left for the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland.

Bush said North Korea still had a chance for "a better way forward" and promised economic assistance to the impoverished country from the United States and others if it would verifiably end its nuclear weapons program. The president never referred by name to Kim Jong Il, whose country Bush had branded a member of an "axis of evil."

The resolution demands that North Korea eliminate all its nuclear weapons and come back to six-party talks, which include the United States, aimed at ending its program.

"This is the strongest resolution, the strongest set of sanctions ever passed on North Korea," said Kristen Silverberg, assistant secretary of state for international organizations.

The United States and Japan made several concessions to win support from skeptical council members, particularly China and Russia.

And the resolution expressly rules out military action against North Korea.

Despite softer provisions and no threat of military action to enforce them, Bush pronounced the measure "a clear message" to North Korea.

North Korea immediately rejected the resolution, and its UN ambassador walked out of the council chamber. Ambassador Pak Gil Yon said North Korea wants talks but warned it would consider increased U.S. pressure a declaration of war.

The United States has refused to talk one-on-one with North Korea except on the margins of six-nation disarmament talks that also include China, South Korea, Japan and Russia.

Bush is sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to China, South Korea and Japan this week to try to ensure no fissures exist between North Korea's neighbors and the United States.

Rice and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, were set to appear on TV talk shows this morning to bolster the U.S. case.

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The Amish response to the brutal slaying of five of their own offspring in an old fashioned, one-roomed school house was a blueprint for how President George Walker Bush should have responded to the slaughter of nearly 3,000 of our own citizens in the tragedy of September 11, 2001.

The merciful decision to forgive a deranged man who, for whatever reason, chose to project a self-inflicted sense of hate upon a classroom of nothing but innocent children was exactly as God would have had it, exactly how he would have responded if it had been one of his own children who had been slain.

Something like that of “the cross” when his son, Jesus, spoke the immortal words, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do!” A message for the ages, one for all of mankind to hear, even to understand. A reminder that hate might well rule the day, but, in the end, only love has the genuine capacity to heal a world caught up in the agonizing grip of pain and suffering.

However, such was not to be the case for our president as he chose not to travel the path of peace, but rather a way traversed by men determined to mete out justice according to an eye-for-an-eye, clenched-fist law of lex talionis, one that led a world of onlookers to condemn what turned out to be a shameful display of “shock and awe,” a merciless attack (by the greatest military power the world has ever seen) upon a country of folks preveniently bombed into a near stone-age existence, proving our country to be that of a true bully, one motivated by national glory and corporate greed, all in order to prove to the world who the boss really is, who it is that shall have “the last say.”

However, as it turns out, having “the last say” depends not so much upon who is able to throw the final punch, but rather who it is that is most wise, who is able to impel folks to be a friend of he who happens to be crowned as victor.

Almost as if the world had been caught short in some sort of sleeping (counting its peace dividend) slumber, 9/11 pounced upon the body-politik as if slapped in the face. Everyone, except for those of Al-Qaeda (and a complement of heedlessly, inattentive Bush administration officials), was shocked, stricken to the core of their being, put on notice that the world had been irrevocably changed, modified to such an extent that nothing would ever be the same, that a new world order would from this point on be required.

If only the Bush administration had done its homework. If only they had been prepared. If only George Walker Bush had been, as he had so routinely claimed to be, that of a true Christian, a resolute, born-again believing follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, the world may have been spared the unfathomable travesty of a “nation of believers” driven insane by an uncontrollable urge to kill in the name of an all-loving (yet, no doubt, rather ill-tempered) God.

If only George Walker Bush had taken the time to read the same Bible as that of the Amish, a simple pastoral community wanting to carry out the merciful requests of a loving God, a people who took to heart the words of one who so clearly taught that the wisdom of the world is no more than mere foolishness to God, that the urge to take revenge upon those who might choose to hurt another is nothing short of folly, that the decision to strike back is like pouring kerosene on a lighted fire, a catalyst that transforms enmity to into a certain desire to kill.

If only our president would have had the capacity to comprehend that having been attacked, the world, for the first time since the days of Pearl Harbor, seemed to feel sorry for us, were more than ready to help us. We had the world in the very palm of our hand, and all that was required was to simply place the so-called terrorist problem in that of their own lap, and, out of an empathic concern for us as a people, they would have immediately come to our rescue.

The United Nations had placed inspectors in Iraq, no weapons of mass destruction had been found, and, for the cost of merely one week of war in Iraq, we could have financed the work of a phalanx of inspectors for decades to come. And with the balance of money having been spent on a war lasting longer than that of our involvement in World War II (an amount nearing one half trillion dollars!) we could have paved “the roads of the world” with the glittering gold of gracious and benevolent concern for others by constructing medical clinics for the sick, schools for those without education, water wells for those living in parched lands, and by feeding the tens of millions of staving children around the world... random acts of kindness that would have generated enough good will to last until the end of time.

And all of such while having pretended to be a noble, Christ-centered, nation, aided and abetted by a sanctimonious undercurrent of jack-booted, xenophobic apologists having marched their way into the bloodstained jaws of empire, we will one day be taken to task, forced, by all of humanity, to take responsibility for having allowed ourselves to have become a venerable “den of thieves,” a nation condemned for having led the world into an apocalypse of horrors, an astonishingly brutal abolition of the world... as we now know it.”

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بوش666

بوش پدر نام فرزندش راجرج واكر بوش نهاد؛ چرا كه اين اسم معادل است با عدد 666 كه در انجيل تعبير به ديكتاتور آخرالزمان شده است.


دو نوع يهوديت داريم يك نوع آن به مسيحيت و ديگري به يهوديت معروف است، منظور از اين تقسيم بندي اين است كه مسيحيت نشات گرفته از يهوديت و شاخه اي از آن است.

بعضي معتقدند شكاف ميان اين دو دين تنها به خاطر اشتباه در تاويل و ناشي از نگرش هاي سياسي و نژادي امپراتوري روم قديم بوده است.

مسلمانان اعتقاد دارند كه مسيحيت ديني جدا از يهوديت از لحاظ منابع ديني است يعني انجيل كتابي جدا از تورات است و با آمدن تورات انجيل نسخ شده است، اين بينش به دليل اين است كه با آمدن اسلام دين هاي قبلي نسخ شده است؛ بخصوص اگر اولي دچار تحريف و تغيير شده باشد.منابع مسيحيت تنها خلاصه در انجيل نمي شود؛ بلكه شامل تورات نيز مي شود.به همين علت است كه تورات را عهد قديم وانجيل را عهد جديد مي نامند.چون حجم عهد قديم بيشتر از عهد جديد است لذا تاثير يهوديت از مسيحيت امري ممكن و منطقي است.

در عهد قديم به جنگ و ويرانگري دعوت مي كند؛ اما عهد جديد به صلح و آشتي.عهد قديم يهوديان را امت برگزيده خداوند تا ابد مي داند؛اما عهد جديد آن ها را امت ملعون تا ابد مي داند.

آنچه كه امروز به عنوان راست مسيحي يا صهيونيسم مسيحي و يا بنياد گرايي مسيحي ياد مي شود. جنبشي است كه اوج آن را در جريان هاي سياسي آمريكا مي توان ديد.

مهمترين اصول اعتقادي صهيونيسم مسيحي بر پايه جنگ آخرالزمان و آرماگدون و ظهور دوباره مسيح است كه از آن به عنوان خدا شناسي هار مجدون نيز ياد مي شود.

نظام اعتقادي كساني كه خدا شناسي هارمجدون را تبليغ مي كنند متمركز است بر روي سرزمين انجيل، صهيون و دولت اسرائيل كه اين دو را در بر مي گيرد.

اينان چون اعتقاد دارند اسرائيل بايد در مقر فرود آمدن دومين ظهور مسيح باشد لذا سعي دارند سرزمين اسرائيل را به يك آئين مذهبي بدل سازند.
در اين ميان اسرائيل به عنوان مجري اراده الهي حق انجام هر كاري براي تصرف سرزمين موعود را دارد و همين تفكر است كه باعث سرازير شدن پول و اسلحه به اسرائيل شده است.

در سال 1985 اولين همايش صهيونيسم هاي مسيحي برگزار گرديد آنان در آن همايش دعاي تهليدار مي خواندند كه اين جمله تشهد هرتزل را تكر ار مي كردند كه همه جهان از يهوديان نفرت دارند.پس يك راه باقي مي ماند و آن اين است كه يهويان بايد منحصرا در ميان خودشان زندگي كنندو از نظر نظامي نيرومند شوند.

صهيونيست هاي مسيحي در يكي از قطعنامه هايشان از همه يهوديان كه در بيرون از اسرائيل زندگي مي كنند خواستند كه در اسرائيل سكونت پيدا كنندو گفتند كه بر هر مسيحي لازم است كه در رفتن آنان تسريع كند.

در طي قرن هاي شانزدهم و هفدهم مسيحيان براي نخستين بار شروع به خريدن كتاب مقدس و تفسير وتاويل مطالب آن كردند كه تعالي بخشيدن به دو تصور ذهني اسرائيل و يهود به عنوان دو عامل كليدي، پيشگويي هاي كتاب مقدس را تشكيل مي داد .

در طي 150 سال مسيحيان و بيش از همه انگليس و نيز ديگر كشورهاي اروپايي و بعد ها امريكا تنها و سرسخت ترين مدافعان صهيونيسم بودند.

راست مسيحي تاثير بسزايي در سردمداران آمريكا داشتند و نقش برجسته اي در انتخاب جرج بوش ايفا نمودند.

انتخاب جرج بوش به اين معنا بود كه دست خدا به نوعي در كار بوده؛ يعني كسي انتخاب شده است كه زندگي اش با پذيرش عيسي مسيح متحول شده و وارد كاخ سفيد شده است.

بعد از 11 سپتامبر اين احساس وجود داشت كه با وقوع چنين حادثه هولناكي خدا با قرار دادن چنين مردي در كاخ سفيد بارديگر ما را تبرك كرد بعد از آن بود كه بوش مجري طرح جنگ با تروريسم شدحمله به عراق در راس اين انديشه بود.

جري فالون يكي از سرشناس ترين سردمداران راست مسيحي و صهيونيسم مسيحي در اكتبر سال 2002 طي نشست تلويزيوني گفت: من فكر مي كنم محمد تروريست بود.

آخرين مرحله اين پروزه تخريب چهره اسلام با ساختن شخصيت هايي همچون بن لادن بود كه در ذهن مردم جهان اسلام تروريسم را مجسم مي كرد.

اعتقاد بوش پسر به جنگ آخرالزمان تلاش براي حمايت از اسرائيل و ايجاد آمادگي هاي لازم براي وقايع و نبرد معروف در عملكرد دولتمردان آمريكايي در طول يك قرن گذشته نهفته است.

اصلا بوش پدر در كتاب خاطراتش در زمان به دنيا آمدن بوش نام او را جرج واكر بوش گذارد ؛چرا كه معتقد بود كه فرزند او همان ديكتاتوري آخرالزمان است كه به مدت هفت سال بر زمين حكومت خواهد كردهمان ديكتاتوري كه در انجيل معرفي مي كند و معروف به عدد 666 است واين عدد معادل اسم جرج و اگرا بوش است پس بوش همه به همين اعتقاد بزرگ شد.