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Published: Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005
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Volume 4, Issue Number 48
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This Week You Need To Know:
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This article is reprinted from The New Federalist of Nov. 28.
Nov. 25 (EIRNS)—Vice President Dick Cheney has spent the past week delivering a series of rants against Administration critics who dare accuse him of lying the United States into a disastrous war with Iraq. Speaking on Nov. 21 at the American Enterprise Institute, Cheney snarled that anyone making such accusations is "reprehensible" and practically guilty of high treason. His scheduled 90-minute appearance at the primo neocon thinktank in Washington, where his wife Lynne is a resident fellow, lasted a total of 19 minutes. Cheney came, he ranted, and he departed, without taking a single question.
The Vice President is a man with something to hide.
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The simple truth is: Cheney did lie, repeatedly, to bludgeon the U.S. Congress into approving an unnecessary and disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq. According to several eyewitness accounts, Cheney personally lied to members of the U.S. Senate, claiming that the White House had rock-solid proof that Saddam Hussein was close to building a nuclear bomb, and that war was the only option. No such evidence existed.
Now, despite Cheney's campaign of obstruction, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) is scheduled to produce a Phase II report on the role of policymakers, starting with the Vice President, in the so-called "intelligence failures" leading up to the Iraq invasion. No doubt, there were some significant intelligence failures—mostly failures of nerve by senior intelligence community bureaucrats, to resist White House pressure to spin the intelligence to justify invasion.
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This Week in History
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When the District of Columbia became an armed camp at the start of the Civil War, many of the public buildings had to be used for military purposes. One of these was the Capitol building itself, where soldiers camped in the halls and bread ovens were installed in the basement. The ongoing construction project for enlarging the Capitol into the building we recognize today ground to a halt for about a year, but President Lincoln recognized that during war you must also plan for peace. He convinced Congress to provide the funding for finishing the construction, saying that, "if people see the Capitol going on ... it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on."
Senator Solomon Foot of Vermont agreed, and told the Senate that leaving the Capitol incomplete would be "a humiliating confession, to the country and to the world, of a national weakness and imbecility, of a national impoverishment and bankruptcy. We are strong enough yet, thank God, to put down this rebellion and to put up this our Capitol at the same time."
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Latest From LaRouche
What follows is the text of Lyndon LaRouche's public letter to Ford Motor Company chairman and CEO Bill Ford. See this week's InDepth article "Which Will It Be in America's Auto Crisis: Conversion or Wipeout?" by Richard Freeman, for more on the crisis in the auto industry.
RE: Reorganizing the Auto Industry
Dear Chairman Ford:
I not only wish to express my hearty agreement with the statement of Nov. 22, 2005, which you delivered to the National Press Club, but to indicate the emergency measures which are both feasible and necessary. These are measures which our government must undertake as essential measures of assistance, to prevent a looming catastrophe for the economic future of a U.S.A. which remains, despite everything, still today, the pivot and hope of a general economic recovery for a crisis-wracked world at large.
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Articles from the New Federalist of Nov. 28, 2005
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Economics:
Which Will It Be in America's Auto Crisis: Conversion or Wipeout?
by Richard Freeman
Nov. 25 (EIRNS)—Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Nov. 22, Ford Motor Co. chairman and CEO Bill Ford urged the U.S. Congress to provide tax credits for the conversion of auto factories, and the retraining of the auto workforce. He urged "a collaboration between government and business."
Ford's proposal would head the auto sector in a different direction than that offered by General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner, who announced Nov. 21 that he would close all or part of 12 GM production facilities in the U.S. and Canada, and fire 30,000 production workers—slashing GM's production workforce by 30%.
International:
The Peretz Effect Melts Down the Likud
by Dean Andromidas
Nov. 25 (EIRNS)—The latest aftershock from the political earthquake generated by the election of Amir Peretz as chairman of the Israeli Labor Party, and the simultaneous weakening of the neo-con Cheney cabal in Washington, has collapsed the biggest political house in Israel, the right-wing Likud Party.
LaRouche Says Cheney's 'Shared Sovereignty' Plan Means Fascism
by Gretchen Small
Nov. 25 (EIRNS)—General Bantz Craddock, head of the U.S. military's Southern Command, is on a rampage in South America, insisting that the war on terrorism has made the classic concept of sovereignty outmoded, and therefore U.S. neighbors must accept a new doctrine of so-called "cooperative sovereignty."
New German Gov't Threatened By Int'l Bankers on Austerity Program
by L. Wolfe
...[B]efore the Coalition formally took office, the international banking community had already delivered a stern warning that its compromise social and economic policy program, adopted two weeks ago after months of discussion, did not go far enough in imposing austerity on a population that is already suffering unemployment worse than at any time since the 1930s, in the period right before Hitler took power.
In Mexico: Real Security Against Bird Flu Requires Ending Farm, Food Free Trade
Nov. 25 (EIRNS)—Mexico is the fourth-largest producer of chicken meat in the world, and fifth-largest producer of hen eggs. Some 588,000 persons are involved in the poultry industry, and the average Mexican diet relies on chicken and eggs as a principal source of animal protein, with average annual per capita chicken consumption in the range of 23 kilos.
Fitzgerald Indicts Neo-Con Piggy Bank Conrad Black on Fraud
Nov. 25 (EIRNS)—Patrick Fitzgerald, the no-nonsense Special Prosecutor in the "Plamegate" case, in his other capacity as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois has indicted neo-con piggy-bank Conrad Black and other former top executives of the Hollinger International, Inc. (HII) media empire on Federal fraud charges. The indictment, unsealed on Nov. 17, supersedes an August 2005 indictment that charged Black, who formerly headed the international corporation, and others with fraudulently diverting more than $32 million from the U.S.-based holding company, Hollinger International Inc.
National:
War Hero Says Get U.S. Troops Out of Iraq
by Michele Steinberg
On Nov. 17, 2005, a press conference and resolution in the House of Representatives, introduced by Democratic Congressman John Murtha (Pa), created a political explosion which is still shaking Washington, D.C. In a few sentences, Murtha gave the U.S. the opportunity for an honorable end to the Iraq war—which had a dishonorable beginning, in the lies and false intelligence used by the Bush Administration to mislead the American people, the U.S. Congress, and the world.
SCANLON PLEA TORPEDOES DELAY, INC.
by Anton Chaitkin
Nov. 25 (EIRNS)—The end is coming near for Dick Cheney's political thug machine headed by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas): A top DeLay aide who knows where all the bodies are buried, so to speak, has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in ongoing Federal and Texas state probes.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
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