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John Dean Video - Bush Admin Worse Than Watergate
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John Dean
Video (6min 34sec) of Nixon's white house council John Dean Video describing why the Bush Administration is Worse Than Watergate, the misdeeds that brought down Nixon.
Bush
administration has governed worse than Watergate - says Richard Nixon's
former counsel, John Dean.
The
use of 9/11 as a punctuation point, as a defining moment for this
presidency is true and untrue. What they've done is they have taken a
very tragic event and used it for their maximum political advantage.
What they've done with 9/11 is they've taken it and used it and done
everything in their power to keep the "terror" in terrorism.
Cheney opened the door for some real Washington pros who call themselves
neoconservatives, and they have an agenda that they've had in the works
long before George Bush arrived. They just, as they wrote in their
reports, needed a "trigger event" like Pearl Harbor. They got it with
9/11, and they have imposed their policies as a result -- and not for
the better of the nation, or the world.
Why the public doesn't react? It beats me. I guess the best example of how secrecy can affect them and they don't even realize it is just a very simple example. It's one of the first acts that Bush does when he becomes president. At
Cheney's request, obviously, he makes Cheney the chairman of an energy
task force, that will decide the nation's energy policy. This is an
industry that has given about $100 million in contributions. It is as
close to legalized bribery as you can ever get.
How does it
affect you? Well, Tony Blair's science adviser, in looking at the
overwhelming evidence, has said, openly, that George Bush, and his
policies, and what he's doing to the globe and the earth, in global
warming, will cause far more damage to the species than all the
terrorists in the world can ever cause us.
I barely recognize
the Republican Party today. In the Republican Party that I was active
in, it was really a party of moderation. What I think the party is
dominated by now is a radical philosophy.
This is a good
government issue, not a right-left, Republican versus Democrat [issue].
Therefore in the book, I cite one Republican after the other who are
complaining about Bush's secrecy. Now these people don't think this is
good Republican politics, they don't think it's good conservative
politics; they think it's bad government.
If Bush and Cheney are
reelected, what I think they'll do is not dissimilar from what they did
in their first term, where their goal was to get reelected. It would be
to indeed infuse the government with their radical-type thinking.
They're not about to send the neoconservatives home. They're not about
to change their radical environmental policies. And it'll really be a
difficult time for the country. Damage could be done that we'll never
unwind.
Go/Left TV
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of GoLeft.tv and Air America's Ring of Fire gives
a speech at the 2007 Live Earth concert in New Jersey. http://goleft.tv/view.asp?v=260
Go/Left TV: Mainstream Media is Dead
Mike Papantonio talks about how Mainstream Media is dead, but there is
a new rise of the "citizens' media". http://goleft.tv/view.asp?v=36
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