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John Dean - Bush administration worse than Watergate

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. Greg Palast Journalism and Film http://www.gregpalast.com/ Go/Left TV http://www.goleft.tv/ 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=26... 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... theREALnews network http://therealnews.com/web/ind...

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: THXl138

Length: 06:34
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