Title: "Katrina and George, sitting in a tree..."
Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath have shaken the very foundations of New Orleans and the nation...
Though I live in the Bay Area, and it's been rumored that we may eventually fall into the Pacific Ocean or be blown off the map by a Korean 'nucular', or rather, excuse me, nuclear warhead, it's truly difficult to imagine such a thing happening to any of us. Nonetheless, when hundreds of thousands of people are out of a home, a job, a lifestyle, a life, family members and friends, not knowing what the next day has in store, there's no comprehending how emotionally distraught these people must feel.
In light of this, we must not dismiss the fact that the silver-spooned bubble boy George W. Bush, his immoral cabinet of puppeteers, and all of his amoral corporate buddies are greatly to blame for this happening and its aftermath. As with the war in Iraq and the attacks on the twin towers, these events were long ago foreseen. With the foresight that was made available, these events could have been prevented, or at least the destruction and loss of life could have been minimized with a contingency plan in place.
With regard to Bush's past actions and present inactions, why was Hurricane Katrina so much more devastating than it need be?
(1) Over the past year George W. Bush sent a significant percentage (I believe over 50%) of our National Guard to join the regular military in fighting an oil war, based on a set of well documented lies, to benefit his wealthy buddies, leaving the "homeland" mostly unattended. (2) A few years ago, the Bush administration "cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war". (3) "The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken". (4) "In early 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued a report stating that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City. But by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. (5) In 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent." (6) "The Bush administration's policy of turning over wetlands to developers almost certainly also contributed to the heightened level of the storm surge." (note - the statements in quotes are borrowed from Sidney Blumenthal's article in Spiegel titled, "No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming")
Anyhow, It took three to four days after Hurricane Katrina before assistance arrived to New Orleans in any noticible form, then on Friday, five days after Hurricane Katrina, what was to be a flight over New Orleans in Airforce One turned into Bush making a brief press photo appearance at Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner, fifteen miles from New Orleans. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of New Orleanians, most of whom were poor and black, and many who were old and infirmed or very young, were going on their fifth day without basic necessities, scraping for their very lives as they struggled to maintain their sanity. It was a travesty, as to my knowledge, there weren't even any efforts to drop fresh water, food, blankets, medical supplies, and perhaps a couple hundred Port-a-Johns at the Superdome.
Now maybe this is just my curiosity getting the best of me, but I wonder what might have been the response if the people standing outside the Superdome and the Convention Center were white, middle and upper classed Christian folk? And I also can't help wonder what the response would be if this were a terrorist attack on New Orleans? Wouldn't blowing up one of the levees have been a pretty good target for terrorists? What happened to the billions of dollars that were supposedly funneled to local and regional agencies to deal with such an emergency?
How many tragedies must happen and high crimes need be committed before the American People understand that George W. Bush doesn't have the best interests of the People who he supposedly leads and serves. In my estimation, he clearly only has the interests of acquiring resources, wealth, and power for his megalomaniacal friends and of inflating his ego. And he is more than simply unfit to lead, he is truly a terrible leader, and most certainly a most dangerous representative to the ideas set forth in our Constitution and Bill of Rights: ideals that he repeatedly proselytizes, using the words 'freedom' and 'Democracy' in the form of repetitive and simplistic soundbites to justify his position to the rest of the world. He, the neo-Conservatives, and increasingly much of America have confused Democracy with Laissez Faire Capitalism. To further provide a means to their power grabbing ends, his administration has created a new enemy to fill the vacant space left behind by the Soviets, yet making our nation even more fearful by declaring war on the noun "Terrorism", which is for all practical purposes impossible and signals a never ending war. With regard to Katrina and knowing George's propensity for saying and doing dumb things, it wouldn't surprise me if he now declared Mother Nature - greatly affected by Global Warming, a direct product of our irresponsibility - a terrorist...
After a semblance of peace is restored to the devastated deep South, it is my opinion that George W. Bush should be impeached. This impeachment would be on the grounds that he has clearly proven, beyond a reasonable doubt, that he is an inept and irresponsible leader. And being that he and many of his cohorts have committed high crimes, they should then be tried by an independent court as criminals and enemies of the American People. For has it not been well documented in the mainstream media that his administration has lied, deceived, misappropriated public funds, tortured prisoners, and perpetrated conscious conflicts of interest in an official capacity (ie. ignoring seperations of Church and State, participating in illicit dealings and gouging with corporations such as Enron) while misrepresenting the American people to the rest of the world and thumbing his nose at our allies on numerous occasions?
And is it not clear that the crimes George W. Bush has committed are infinitely worse than the so-called crimes of former president Clinton: who was caught in an extramarital affair with a consenting adult, possibly a shill, then caught for telling a lie to a question there was never a legitimate reason for asking in the first place? What had this to do with leadership?
After Bush's impeachment, I then ask, would it be unreasonable to open an independent investigation as to the elections in 2000 and 2004, where voter fraud is suspected? Then should we perhaps appoint an independent commission to further investigate the many and various unanswered questions with regard to 9-11? Then, should we allow Bush and his officers to be tried, as have many an abusive world leader, by the International Criminal Court system in the Hague, as war criminals and violators of human rights? For isn't it true that many of our own troops and the troops of our allies along with hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis been killed, maimed, or subjugated to inhumane treatment? The list seemingly goes on and on...
For the time being though let me come back to the present... please consider sending donations of money, food, and clothing to reputable non-profits, and consider opening your homes to these refugees, then, after things calm down a bit, if you're able, go to New Orleans to help people restore their homes and their lives... but please, don't forget what has been happening before our very eyes. Because when the drama resulting from Hurricane Katrina is over, many of the fast food eating, short-attention spanned people from middle America and the mainstream public, who aren't directly affected by or involved in this catastrophe, will simply change the channel and go back to their mind numbing daily routine, choosing to forget, because it's just too uncomfortable to consider any real change.
We're at a crossroads, for at this time the People of this nation must either choose to see beyond the veil of lies and mistruths that the corporate media and this administration's propaganda demands we believe, or simply acquiesce and therefore morally and financially bankrupt our nation. Bush and his friends must no longer have their way with our Constitutional rights, our civil liberties, our public monies, and our defensive forces.
We must choose, with a passion, to impeach George W. Bush and the entirety of the Bush administration, then we must systematically remove the people in high ranking and highly affective areas who he has put in place while declawing the corporate interests that have demonstrated that they have no one's well being in mind except for that of the stock holder.
Thank you for taking a moment to consider this... then please read the following article published in the German magazine, Speigel by Sidney Blumenthal, a former Clinton advisor.
Voice of Eye
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"No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming"
In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.
Biblical in its uncontrolled rage and scope, Hurricane Katrina has left millions of Americans to scavenge for food and shelter and hundreds to thousands reportedly dead. With its main levee broken, the evacuated city of New Orleans has become part of the Gulf of Mexico. But the damage wrought by the hurricane may not entirely be the result of an act of nature.
A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken. After a flood killed six people in 1995, Congress created the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, in which the Corps of Engineers strengthened and renovated levees and pumping stations. In early 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City. But by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. In 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent. Additional cuts at the beginning of this year (for a total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since 2001) forced the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring freeze. The Senate had debated adding funds for fixing New Orleans' levees, but it was too late.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which before the hurricane published a series on the federal funding problem, and whose presses are now underwater, reported online: "No one can say they didn't see it coming ... Now in the wake of one of the worst storms ever, serious questions are being asked about the lack of preparation."
The Bush administration's policy of turning over wetlands to developers almost certainly also contributed to the heightened level of the storm surge. In 1990, a federal task force began restoring lost wetlands surrounding New Orleans. Every two miles of wetland between the Crescent City and the Gulf reduces a surge by half a foot. Bush had promised "no net loss" of wetlands, a policy launched by his father's administration and bolstered by President Clinton. But he reversed his approach in 2003, unleashing the developers. The Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency then announced they could no longer protect wetlands unless they were somehow related to interstate commerce.
In response to this potential crisis, four leading environmental groups conducted a joint expert study, concluding in 2004 that without wetlands protection New Orleans could be devastated by an ordinary, much less a Category 4 or 5, hurricane. "There's no way to describe how mindless a policy that is when it comes to wetlands protection," said one of the report's authors. The chairman of the White House's Council on Environmental Quality dismissed the study as "highly questionable," and boasted, "Everybody loves what we're doing."
"My administration's climate change policy will be science based," President Bush declared in June 2001. But in 2002, when the Environmental Protection Agency submitted a study on global warming to the United Nations reflecting its expert research, Bush derided it as "a report put out by a bureaucracy," and excised the climate change assessment from the agency's annual report. The next year, when the EPA issued its first comprehensive "Report on the Environment," stating, "Climate change has global consequences for human health and the environment," the White House simply demanded removal of the line and all similar conclusions. At the G-8 meeting in Scotland this year, Bush successfully stymied any common action on global warming. Scientists, meanwhile, have continued to accumulate impressive data on the rising temperature of the oceans, which has produced more severe hurricanes.
In February 2004, 60 of the nation's leading scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, warned in a statement, "Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policymaking": "Successful application of science has played a large part in the policies that have made the United States of America the world's most powerful nation and its citizens increasingly prosperous and healthy ... Indeed, this principle has long been adhered to by presidents and administrations of both parties in forming and implementing policies. The administration of George W. Bush has, however, disregarded this principle ... The distortion of scientific knowledge for partisan political ends must cease." Bush completely ignored this statement.
In the two weeks preceding the storm in the Gulf, the trumping of science by ideology and expertise by special interests accelerated. The Federal Drug Administration announced that it was postponing sale of the morning-after contraceptive pill, despite overwhelming scientific evidence of its safety and its approval by the FDA's scientific advisory board. The United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa accused the Bush administration of responsibility for a condom shortage in Uganda -- the result of the administration's evangelical Christian agenda of "abstinence." When the chief of the Bureau of Justice Statistics in the Justice Department was ordered by the White House to delete its study that African-Americans and other minorities are subject to racial profiling in police traffic stops and he refused to buckle under, he was forced out of his job. When the Army Corps of Engineers' chief contracting oversight analyst objected to a $7 billion no-bid contract awarded for work in Iraq to Halliburton (the firm at which Vice President Cheney was formerly CEO), she was demoted despite her superior professional ratings. At the National Park Service, a former Cheney aide, a political appointee lacking professional background, drew up a plan to overturn past environmental practices and prohibit any mention of evolution while allowing sale of religious materials through the Park Service.
On the day the levees burst in New Orleans, Bush delivered a speech in Colorado comparing the Iraq war to World War II and himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt: "And he knew that the best way to bring peace and stability to the region was by bringing freedom to Japan." Bush had boarded his very own "Streetcar Named Desire."
Sidney Blumenthal, a former assistant and senior advisor to President Clinton and the author of "The Clinton Wars," is writing a column for Salon and the Guardian of London.
Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath have shaken the very foundations of New Orleans and the nation...
Though I live in the Bay Area, and it's been rumored that we may eventually fall into the Pacific Ocean or be blown off the map by a Korean 'nucular', or rather, excuse me, nuclear warhead, it's truly difficult to imagine such a thing happening to any of us. Nonetheless, when hundreds of thousands of people are out of a home, a job, a lifestyle, a life, family members and friends, not knowing what the next day has in store, there's no comprehending how emotionally distraught these people must feel.
In light of this, we must not dismiss the fact that the silver-spooned bubble boy George W. Bush, his immoral cabinet of puppeteers, and all of his amoral corporate buddies are greatly to blame for this happening and its aftermath. As with the war in Iraq and the attacks on the twin towers, these events were long ago foreseen. With the foresight that was made available, these events could have been prevented, or at least the destruction and loss of life could have been minimized with a contingency plan in place.
With regard to Bush's past actions and present inactions, why was Hurricane Katrina so much more devastating than it need be?
(1) Over the past year George W. Bush sent a significant percentage (I believe over 50%) of our National Guard to join the regular military in fighting an oil war, based on a set of well documented lies, to benefit his wealthy buddies, leaving the "homeland" mostly unattended. (2) A few years ago, the Bush administration "cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war". (3) "The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken". (4) "In early 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued a report stating that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City. But by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. (5) In 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent." (6) "The Bush administration's policy of turning over wetlands to developers almost certainly also contributed to the heightened level of the storm surge." (note - the statements in quotes are borrowed from Sidney Blumenthal's article in Spiegel titled, "No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming")
Anyhow, It took three to four days after Hurricane Katrina before assistance arrived to New Orleans in any noticible form, then on Friday, five days after Hurricane Katrina, what was to be a flight over New Orleans in Airforce One turned into Bush making a brief press photo appearance at Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner, fifteen miles from New Orleans. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of New Orleanians, most of whom were poor and black, and many who were old and infirmed or very young, were going on their fifth day without basic necessities, scraping for their very lives as they struggled to maintain their sanity. It was a travesty, as to my knowledge, there weren't even any efforts to drop fresh water, food, blankets, medical supplies, and perhaps a couple hundred Port-a-Johns at the Superdome.
Now maybe this is just my curiosity getting the best of me, but I wonder what might have been the response if the people standing outside the Superdome and the Convention Center were white, middle and upper classed Christian folk? And I also can't help wonder what the response would be if this were a terrorist attack on New Orleans? Wouldn't blowing up one of the levees have been a pretty good target for terrorists? What happened to the billions of dollars that were supposedly funneled to local and regional agencies to deal with such an emergency?
How many tragedies must happen and high crimes need be committed before the American People understand that George W. Bush doesn't have the best interests of the People who he supposedly leads and serves. In my estimation, he clearly only has the interests of acquiring resources, wealth, and power for his megalomaniacal friends and of inflating his ego. And he is more than simply unfit to lead, he is truly a terrible leader, and most certainly a most dangerous representative to the ideas set forth in our Constitution and Bill of Rights: ideals that he repeatedly proselytizes, using the words 'freedom' and 'Democracy' in the form of repetitive and simplistic soundbites to justify his position to the rest of the world. He, the neo-Conservatives, and increasingly much of America have confused Democracy with Laissez Faire Capitalism. To further provide a means to their power grabbing ends, his administration has created a new enemy to fill the vacant space left behind by the Soviets, yet making our nation even more fearful by declaring war on the noun "Terrorism", which is for all practical purposes impossible and signals a never ending war. With regard to Katrina and knowing George's propensity for saying and doing dumb things, it wouldn't surprise me if he now declared Mother Nature - greatly affected by Global Warming, a direct product of our irresponsibility - a terrorist...
After a semblance of peace is restored to the devastated deep South, it is my opinion that George W. Bush should be impeached. This impeachment would be on the grounds that he has clearly proven, beyond a reasonable doubt, that he is an inept and irresponsible leader. And being that he and many of his cohorts have committed high crimes, they should then be tried by an independent court as criminals and enemies of the American People. For has it not been well documented in the mainstream media that his administration has lied, deceived, misappropriated public funds, tortured prisoners, and perpetrated conscious conflicts of interest in an official capacity (ie. ignoring seperations of Church and State, participating in illicit dealings and gouging with corporations such as Enron) while misrepresenting the American people to the rest of the world and thumbing his nose at our allies on numerous occasions?
And is it not clear that the crimes George W. Bush has committed are infinitely worse than the so-called crimes of former president Clinton: who was caught in an extramarital affair with a consenting adult, possibly a shill, then caught for telling a lie to a question there was never a legitimate reason for asking in the first place? What had this to do with leadership?
After Bush's impeachment, I then ask, would it be unreasonable to open an independent investigation as to the elections in 2000 and 2004, where voter fraud is suspected? Then should we perhaps appoint an independent commission to further investigate the many and various unanswered questions with regard to 9-11? Then, should we allow Bush and his officers to be tried, as have many an abusive world leader, by the International Criminal Court system in the Hague, as war criminals and violators of human rights? For isn't it true that many of our own troops and the troops of our allies along with hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis been killed, maimed, or subjugated to inhumane treatment? The list seemingly goes on and on...
For the time being though let me come back to the present... please consider sending donations of money, food, and clothing to reputable non-profits, and consider opening your homes to these refugees, then, after things calm down a bit, if you're able, go to New Orleans to help people restore their homes and their lives... but please, don't forget what has been happening before our very eyes. Because when the drama resulting from Hurricane Katrina is over, many of the fast food eating, short-attention spanned people from middle America and the mainstream public, who aren't directly affected by or involved in this catastrophe, will simply change the channel and go back to their mind numbing daily routine, choosing to forget, because it's just too uncomfortable to consider any real change.
We're at a crossroads, for at this time the People of this nation must either choose to see beyond the veil of lies and mistruths that the corporate media and this administration's propaganda demands we believe, or simply acquiesce and therefore morally and financially bankrupt our nation. Bush and his friends must no longer have their way with our Constitutional rights, our civil liberties, our public monies, and our defensive forces.
We must choose, with a passion, to impeach George W. Bush and the entirety of the Bush administration, then we must systematically remove the people in high ranking and highly affective areas who he has put in place while declawing the corporate interests that have demonstrated that they have no one's well being in mind except for that of the stock holder.
Thank you for taking a moment to consider this... then please read the following article published in the German magazine, Speigel by Sidney Blumenthal, a former Clinton advisor.
Voice of Eye
---
"No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming"
In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.
Biblical in its uncontrolled rage and scope, Hurricane Katrina has left millions of Americans to scavenge for food and shelter and hundreds to thousands reportedly dead. With its main levee broken, the evacuated city of New Orleans has become part of the Gulf of Mexico. But the damage wrought by the hurricane may not entirely be the result of an act of nature.
A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken. After a flood killed six people in 1995, Congress created the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, in which the Corps of Engineers strengthened and renovated levees and pumping stations. In early 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City. But by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. In 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent. Additional cuts at the beginning of this year (for a total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since 2001) forced the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring freeze. The Senate had debated adding funds for fixing New Orleans' levees, but it was too late.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which before the hurricane published a series on the federal funding problem, and whose presses are now underwater, reported online: "No one can say they didn't see it coming ... Now in the wake of one of the worst storms ever, serious questions are being asked about the lack of preparation."
The Bush administration's policy of turning over wetlands to developers almost certainly also contributed to the heightened level of the storm surge. In 1990, a federal task force began restoring lost wetlands surrounding New Orleans. Every two miles of wetland between the Crescent City and the Gulf reduces a surge by half a foot. Bush had promised "no net loss" of wetlands, a policy launched by his father's administration and bolstered by President Clinton. But he reversed his approach in 2003, unleashing the developers. The Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency then announced they could no longer protect wetlands unless they were somehow related to interstate commerce.
In response to this potential crisis, four leading environmental groups conducted a joint expert study, concluding in 2004 that without wetlands protection New Orleans could be devastated by an ordinary, much less a Category 4 or 5, hurricane. "There's no way to describe how mindless a policy that is when it comes to wetlands protection," said one of the report's authors. The chairman of the White House's Council on Environmental Quality dismissed the study as "highly questionable," and boasted, "Everybody loves what we're doing."
"My administration's climate change policy will be science based," President Bush declared in June 2001. But in 2002, when the Environmental Protection Agency submitted a study on global warming to the United Nations reflecting its expert research, Bush derided it as "a report put out by a bureaucracy," and excised the climate change assessment from the agency's annual report. The next year, when the EPA issued its first comprehensive "Report on the Environment," stating, "Climate change has global consequences for human health and the environment," the White House simply demanded removal of the line and all similar conclusions. At the G-8 meeting in Scotland this year, Bush successfully stymied any common action on global warming. Scientists, meanwhile, have continued to accumulate impressive data on the rising temperature of the oceans, which has produced more severe hurricanes.
In February 2004, 60 of the nation's leading scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, warned in a statement, "Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policymaking": "Successful application of science has played a large part in the policies that have made the United States of America the world's most powerful nation and its citizens increasingly prosperous and healthy ... Indeed, this principle has long been adhered to by presidents and administrations of both parties in forming and implementing policies. The administration of George W. Bush has, however, disregarded this principle ... The distortion of scientific knowledge for partisan political ends must cease." Bush completely ignored this statement.
In the two weeks preceding the storm in the Gulf, the trumping of science by ideology and expertise by special interests accelerated. The Federal Drug Administration announced that it was postponing sale of the morning-after contraceptive pill, despite overwhelming scientific evidence of its safety and its approval by the FDA's scientific advisory board. The United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa accused the Bush administration of responsibility for a condom shortage in Uganda -- the result of the administration's evangelical Christian agenda of "abstinence." When the chief of the Bureau of Justice Statistics in the Justice Department was ordered by the White House to delete its study that African-Americans and other minorities are subject to racial profiling in police traffic stops and he refused to buckle under, he was forced out of his job. When the Army Corps of Engineers' chief contracting oversight analyst objected to a $7 billion no-bid contract awarded for work in Iraq to Halliburton (the firm at which Vice President Cheney was formerly CEO), she was demoted despite her superior professional ratings. At the National Park Service, a former Cheney aide, a political appointee lacking professional background, drew up a plan to overturn past environmental practices and prohibit any mention of evolution while allowing sale of religious materials through the Park Service.
On the day the levees burst in New Orleans, Bush delivered a speech in Colorado comparing the Iraq war to World War II and himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt: "And he knew that the best way to bring peace and stability to the region was by bringing freedom to Japan." Bush had boarded his very own "Streetcar Named Desire."
Sidney Blumenthal, a former assistant and senior advisor to President Clinton and the author of "The Clinton Wars," is writing a column for Salon and the Guardian of London.
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