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Issue 8 AFP Master 2004 WEEKLY PAPER: DO NOT DELAY—MAILED: 2-13-04 ★ American Free Press AFP Volume IV #8 February 23, 2004 americanfreepress.net $1.50 Will Bush Be Censured? Big Shots Call for Bush to Pay for Lying About Iraq By James P. Tucker Jr. ormer high officials of the CIA and State Department and a former congressman have called on Congress to censure President George W. Bush for misleading the nation into war. Such Fan action would be the harshest punishment possible, short of impeachment. “This is not about a failure in intelligence—it’s a fail- ure of integrity,” Tom Andrews, national director of Win Without War and a former congressman from Maine, said during a Washington press conference Feb. 10. Andrews was joined by a former CIA analyst and a State Department terrorism expert. Patriots Score “Each day new evidence dribbles out that the presi- dent knew,” Andrews said. “He knew the evidence was- n’t sufficient to support his claims that Iraq posed an Partial Victory ‘imminent threat’ to the American people.” Former Rep. Tom Andrews made an impassioned The White House said Bush never said Iraq “was” an speech in Washington Feb. 10 calling on Congress imminent threat but action was necessary to “prevent” to censure President George W. Bush for willfully Government Drops Effort to Iraq from becoming an “imminent threat.” misleading the American people in order to go to Improperly Use Anti-Terrorism See WHAT WE HAVE, Page 10 war against Iraq. Laws Against Peace Activists White House Tap Dances Over 9-11 By John Tiffany By Pat Shannan n what may only be a temporary move, a federal prosecutor has withdrawn subpoenas against n a showdown with the White House, panel members Quakers, Catholics, Mennonites and others who on the independent commission investigating 9-11 attended a conference at Drake University in Des have been given access to edited intelligence docu- IMoines, Iowa, to demonstrate against the ongoing wars in ments prepared daily for the president. However, Iraq and Afghanistan. Iinvestigators have expressed concerns that the redacted ver- While some are calling it a victory for the First sions may cover up vital information the group needs in Amendment, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in order to conclude just what top officials knew prior to the Iowa has warned that a grand jury investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks. protest is not over. In early February, President George W. Bush reversed his On Feb. 3, Detective Jeff Warford of the Polk County course, amidst public pressure, and agreed to extend a May Sheriff’s Office-FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force visited the deadline for the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Catholic Peace Ministry’s office in Des Moines with a sub- Upon the United States to finish its investigation. The poena for Brian Terrell, executive director of the peace See SEPT. 11 INVESTIGATORS, Page 5 Kowtowing to Alan See ANTI-TERRORISM, Page 4 The world’s top bankers and finance ministers met AREA BELOW FOR MAILING ADDRESS The Inside Scoop: in early February at the annual Group of 7 meetings • Kerry, Bush have secret society in common. Page 6. held this year in Boca Raton, Fla. The issue that • Spotlight on Congress. Page 8. topped the agenda this time around was the declin- • Ron Paul: Blame it on Congress. Page 9. ing value of the U.S. dollar and its impact on the • Shiites pushing for power in Iraq. Page 10. world economy. Pictured left to right are: Ger- • Giving Iraq Back to Iraqis: Page 12. many’s president of the Deutsche Bank, Ernst • Iraq’s neighbors leery of Kurdish presence: Page 13. Welteke; Japan’s governor of the Bank of Japan, • Charley Reese: Democracy for Mideast? Page 15. Toshihiko Fukui; chairman of the Federal Reserve • Cheney a Liability for Bush? Page 16. Bank, Alan Greenspan; David Dodge, governor of • Paul Craig Roberts: Propaganda becomes truth. Page 18. the Bank of Canada; and Francis Mer, France’s min- • The Ryan Report: “Justifying” war. Page 19. ister of economy and finances. 2 AMERICAN FREE PRESS • February 23, 2004 appropriate funds for the wars, mili- SUITED FOR PERSONAL New York City tary officials say they will have to dip COMBAT NEWS into money allocated to run the mas- Says Patriot Act YOU MAY sive military machine. From the Editor HAVE MISSED POLITICALLY CORRECT ARMY This week, a group of retired U.S. officials ‘Unpatriotic’ Secretary of Defense Donald Rums- gathered in Washington to publicize their feld, when he’s not trying to explain demand that President George W. Bush be cen- New York City, site of the nation’s away faulty intelligence that led to his sured for lying about Saddam Hussein’s stockpiles most horrific terrorist attack, has NO AFP ISSUE devastation of Iraq, acts surprised at of weapons of mass destruction and frightening become the latest in a long list of NEXT WEEK! the many instances of alleged rapes Americans into supporting an invasion of Iraq. cities and towns that have formally of female “soldiers” by male GIs. The But really, when you think about it—that’s opposed the expanded investigative AFP will not be putting out a military is not a social experiment; its powers granted to law enforcement paper next week in honor of not the worst of what’s been done. sole function is to effectively and effi- agencies under the U.S.A. Patriot Act. Washington’s birthday. But American taxpayers have already spent more ciently use force when diplomacy The city council approved a resolution we will be in the office work- doesn’t work. Iraq is still a battlefield. than $100 billion to fight this war that we now Many soldiers and their families condemning the law in its chamber a ing hard on our next issue Rumsfeld should not be surprised know was not necessary. Almost 600 U.S. sol- are having to purchase their own few blocks from the gaping hole at which will be an expanded that, when women are introduced diers have been killed and an estimated 12,000 combat equipment because the Ground Zero. “The Patriot Act is real- double issue. —EDITOR into chaotic combat zones, sexual military is short of such supplies. have been injured—often seriously—since com- ly unpatriotic, it undermines our civil relations—both wanted and unwant- Pene Palifka spent $1,100 of her bat began in March 2003 and it shows no sign of rights and civil liberties,” said Bill ed—will occur. It’s human nature own money to buy armored abating. In addition, an estimated 10,000 inno- Perkins, the bill’s sponsor. rejected the measure by a 3-2 margin and it’s a good argument against put- chest plates for her son, Billy, cent Iraqis were needlessly killed as a result of on Feb. 3. This automatically triggers ting women on the frontlines. who is currently deployed with the fighting. OREGON VOTERS NIX TAX HIKE $544 million in spending cuts on May 1. the National Guard to Iraq. Rep. So, the real question that should be asked is: Oregon voters rejected an $800 mil- IMAGE ABROAD lion tax increase approved last year by John Larson (D-Con.) has intro- Should we consider censure enough of a pun- In an interview with The New York the state legislature, which bodes well TAX DEBTS Times, Margaret Tutwiler, the State duced legislation to reimburse ishment for what has been done? In the worst for opponents of tax increases in New We all know what happens to indi- Department’s official in charge of them. case, Bush would suffer in the upcoming elec- Hampshire, Ohio and Nevada. Voters vidual Americans who fail to pay public diplomacy, has acknowledged tions as a result of the official dressing-down. their taxes. However, an estimated that America’s standing abroad has make such routine business as going What about all those American families who 27,000 Defense Department contrac- FEDERAL AGENTS deteriorated to such an extent, “it will to the bathroom or getting a cup of have lost their sons and daughters in this need- tors owe at least $3 billion in back take us many years of hard, focused coffee “the most threatening time” in less war? And what of those widows who have NEED HELP taxes to the government and little is work” to rehabilitate it. “Unfortun- a flight, he said. The TSA has effective- being done to collect on them, re- lost husbands? Children who have lost fathers? Federal agents need help in cap- ately, our country has a problem in ly told terrorists they need only buy a ports the General Accounting Office. We don’t presume to know what kind of justice turing thousands of convicted far too many parts of the world, a first-class ticket, wait until the cockpit The Pentagon could have taken at they could get for their supreme sacrifices. But aliens now on the problem we have regrettably gotten is opened and then rush in. least $100 million from contractors we do know this: There should be more than just loose in the United into over many years through both under procedures that allow officials States, says Rep. Democrat and Republican adminis- GOOD GUN CONTROL an official condemnation or a few bureaucrats to take back up to 15 percent of each Charlie Norwood trations, and a problem that does not Norman Woodall shot and killed one losing their jobs for what’s been done here. contract for tax debts, but only col- (R-Ga.), right, who lend itself to a quick fix or a single of two men who broke into his home lected $687,000.
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