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[March 24 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The White House Easter Egg Roll... Has It Outlived It's "Practical Reality"? Ask The Secret Service Agents On The White House Lawn Dressed In Bunny Suits

by: Travus T. Hipp - Cabale News Service

Publication date: 2008-03-24

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In The News: It is believed there were Secret Service agents dressed in Easter Bunny suits on the lawn for the annual Easter egg roll at the White House as the U.S. military deaths in Iraq hit 4,000.

William Arkin @ the Wapo's Early Warning blog asks the question: "4,000 Deaths: Is It All About the Numbers?"

Da' Buffalo comments: "No William... It's about CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY."

"I (Craig Unger, author of The Fall of the House of Bush) traveled to Rome to investigate the fabrication and dissemination of the documents in regard to Niger 'yellowcake' nuclear material), and, as I report in my book, I found that both the documents themselves and the information in them were distributed by right wing elements of Italian intelligence and the neocons in a deliberate manner to make it appear as if there were multiple independent sources corroborating one another, when in fact the only source were the original phony documents.

When the White House wanted to use the documents to build the case for war in an October 2002 speech Bush gave in Cincinnati, the CIA intervened twice to say the information was not reliable.

As I also show in my book, these documents and/or the information in them were discredited by Western authorities(including the CIA and the State Department) on at least fourteen such occasions before Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address

But none of that stopped Bush from citing this information--or, rather, disinformation-- as a casus belli in his famous sixteen words in his 2003 SOTU Address. [ Col. Larry Wilkerson, chief of staff to Colin Powell, told me, if he took something out of Colin Powell's UN speech 47 times, the neocons would put in 48.]

X seems to suggest that all this could have been the result of mere ineptitude. However, I cite, on the record, no fewer than nine former officials in the military and intelligence worlds who characterize the Niger document episode as black propaganda or part of a disinformation campaign that was intentionally done to mislead the American people into supporting a war.
In full @ Juan Cole's Informed Comment

The provincial governor in an Opium growing area of Afghanistan is assassinated.

Caveat Emptor: Honduran cantaloupes contaminated with salmonella are on U.S. supermarket shelves.

Meanwhile, on the streets of Lhasa, Tibet:

The Nepalese government and police are apparently backing China's suppression of the Tibetan protests by suppressing their own citizen's protests in regard to the revolt as well.

In Greece, the Olympic torch lighting ceremony was disrupted by protests on the field.

Politics as sport: Senator McCain will be in San Francisco this week. Protests expected.

The Olympic torch will also pass through San Francisco, and the Mayor WILL NOT announce the route. It's San Francisco, someone will find out.

The Iraqi oil ministry is now offering oil development and operation contracts out for bid... 70 percent of the profits go to the operating companies.

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"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now."
Travus T. Hipp - Cabale News Service

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