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January
14, 2002
Mokhiber/Weissman
Enron's
Accountants:
When In Doubt, Shred It
January
13, 2002
C.G. Estabrook
Why
We Kill People
January
12, 2002
Cockburn/St.
Clair
Forbidden
Truths
January
11, 2002
Lee Balllinger/Dave
Marsh
Neil
Young's Duet with Ashcroft
January
10, 2002
Tom Turnipseed
Bush,
Enron, UNOCAL
and the Taliban
St. Clair/Cockburn
Greenpeace
to Greenwash?
Hans von
Sponek
Iraq:
Is There an Alternative
to Military Action?
Jim Lobe
Israeli
Human Rights Group Assails Army
Marina Mayakova
Russia's
Top Military Astrologer Predicts More Attacks from OBL
January
9, 2002
David
Vest
The
Super-Burqa
and the Big Tent
ND Jayaprakash
Winnable
Nuclear War?
Rafiq
Kathwari
Kashmir
Will Make Ground Zero Look Like a Bonfire
January
8, 2002
Prudence
Crowther
Sting
Like a B-52
Nelson
Valdés
Al-Qaeda
at Guantanamo Bay
John Chuckman
Dark
Tales from the
Ministry of Truth
Richard
Corn-Revere
Do
We Fear Freedom?
Joan Hoff
The
Nixon You Haven't Heard
January
7, 2002
Lawrence
McGuire
Confusing
Economic Tales About Argentina
Wael Masri
They
Are Taking
Our Rights Away
Philip
Farruggio
Better
Medicine
January
6, 2002
Ralph
Nader
Students
Put the Heat on Foreign Sweatshops
Tariq
Ali
Battleground
Kashmir
January
5, 2002
Mark Schneider
Kifah:
The Movie Star
Israel Killed
Edward
Said
Is
Israel More Secure Now?
January
4, 2002
CG Estabrook
Anti-War
= Anti-Globalization
Jordan
Green
What's
Changed in New York
January
3, 2002
Walt Brasch
Exit
Cheney, Enter Ridge
Mokhiber
and Weissman
The
10 Worst Corporations
of 2001
Robert
Hunter Wade
America's
Empire Rules an Unbalanced World
Shahid
Alam
Is
There an Islamic Problem?
January
2, 2002
Ross Regnart
Patriot
Act Redefines the Mob as "Terrorist Associates"
John Chuckman
The
Republicans' Secret Plan X
David
Vest
Turn,
Turn, Turn
January
1, 2002
Kathy
Kelly
Iraq's
New Year
December
31, 2001
John Absood
An
Alternative to War in Iraq
Ramzi
Kysia
Iraq
Goes Radioactive
December
28, 2001
John Chuckman
Observing
George Bush
Suren
Pillay
Civilian
Bodies
Aaron
Lehmer
Inviting
Future Terrorism
December
27, 2001
Patrick
McNamara
Palestinian
Children Bear Brunt of Mideast Violence
Nelson
Valdés
A
Possible Scenario on the Location of bin Laden
Jensen
and Mahajan
Remember
the Afghan Dead
Philip
Farruggio
A
New Year's Resolution
Ramzi
Kysia
The
People of the Valley
December 26, 2001
John Chuckman
In
Praise of the Unspeakable
Sam Bahour
2002:
Year of the Twos
December 25, 2001
Jennifer Loewenstein
Israel's
Human Rights Record
December 24, 2001
Sam Bahour
It
Happened One Morning
Yair Khilou
Why I Resisted
Being Drafted into the Israeli Army
Michael
Chisari
War
as Diversionary Tactic
Cockburn/St. Clair
Enron
and the Green Seal
A Photographic Journal of Life
in an Afghan Refugee Camp
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January
14, 2002
Wartime
Collapse: Where's Cheney?
Open Bag. Eat Pretzels.
By David Vest
"The nation can be grateful
in the knowledge that Strom is in good health," read the
second e-mail I received dealing with the president's fainting
spell. (The first dealt with the location of the Japanese prime
minister during the incident.) Bush, too, was back on his game
the day after, playfully sending bags of pretzels back to the
working press on Air Force One with instructions to chew carefully.
At this moment, someone being fitted
with a lapel microphone is no doubt getting ready to call George
W. Bush "positively Reaganesque" in the way he handled
this thing with humor. Notably, the commander-in-chief offered
no jokes on the subject of Enron.
The White House physician assured the
nation that the president is in no danger and that a fainting
spell caused by food going down the wrong pipe, while not uncommon,
is not likely to recur.
Several related matters went pretty much
unreported. Had the president been drinking when he fell off
the sofa? The answer, despite the president's history of substance
abuse and the bruises around his eye and on his lip, was apparently
considered too self-evident for the White House to volunteer
comment. And no one on network television who joined in the national
chuckle was likely to ask the question in the first place.
Was the vice-president officially notified
of the president's loss of consciousness? Amid all the detail
of where the dogs were, which elevator the president took, and
in what sequence people were summoned for help, mention of the
legal successor was conspicuously absent.
Where was Cheney? What is the true state
of Cheney's health? After all, while fainting is not an uncommon
result of failure to swallow food properly, neither is death.
That is why posters illustrating the Heimlich Maneuver decorate
restaurant walls.
The vice-president was a pretzel away
from the Oval Office. Is he up to the job? It is widely believed
that his absence from public view is due more to Cheney's precarious
heart condition than to reasons of national security. It has
been rumored (and reported in CounterPunch) that Cheney was about
to step down for health reasons before the events of Sept. 11.
Are these things true? If they are, on
what justification have they been withheld from the public? If
loss of consciousness and collapse by the president of the United
States, during wartime, will not spur the press to raise these
questions, and the White House to address them forthrightly,
what will it take?
UPDATE: The day after this column went online, the New
York Times reported that the White House physician, Dr. Richard
J. Tubb, had checked the president for alcohol "as part
of a standard examination." The Times quoted Dr. Tubb as
saying "There was absolutely, positively, no suggestion
on physical examination that any alcohol was involved" in
Bush's collapse. Was this an extraordinary announcement? You
decide.
The Times also quoted Ari Fleischer as saying that Vice President
Dick Cheney was notified of the incident shortly afterward "as
a courtesy." However, if the White House has addressed (or
been asked to address) the question of Cheney's current health
in light of the president's collapse, CounterPunch is not aware
of it.
David Vest
is a regular writer for CounterPunch, a poet and piano-player
for the Pacific Northwest's hottest blues band, The Cannonballs.
Visit his website at http://www.mindspring.com/~dcqv
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