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LaRouche in 2004 Press Release LaRouche Begins New Blitz To Dump Cheney Washington, D.C., Nov. 11--Lyndon LaRouche's Democratic Party Presidential campaign today announced the release of a media "actuality" titled "LaRouche: Dump Cheney Now." A campaign spokesman said that the actuality is the basis for an ad campaign on WTOP, Washington, D.C.'s largest all-news radio station, which will begin Nov. 12, and that 1 million print copies have been produced for national distribution by members of the LaRouche Youth Movement and other campaign supporters. The print copies also include a timeline which chronicles the attempts by the Cheney gang, to prevent a Senate investigation of the intelligence fraud used to achieve the war against Iraq. With this actuality, LaRouche is escalating his more than year-long drive to dump Cheney, in light of the extraordinary efforts to shut down the investigation by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, a campaign spokesman said. On Nov. 7, Senate Majority leader Bill Frist announced the shutdown of the SSCI investigation, which was closing in on the fabrication of intelligence reports by Cheney to justify the invasion of Iraq. The voice actuality, and the full timeline, are available on LaRouche's campaign website, www.larouchein2004.com. Lyndon LaRouche is currently on a campaign tour which will take him to New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Missouri, and Michigan. The actuality reads as follows: "This is Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche speaking. Also, of course, a Presidential candidate in the current Washington, D.C. Presidential primary selection. "There are several matters which have broken out, which are of specific relevance to us in the Washington area, as well as in Washington, D.C., itself. One, of course, is what has broken out on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. "If you go back to Oct. 22, at that time I made a public statement, saying that the time had come, to proceed rapidly on cleaning up the Cheney case, if we wished to have any government, or any decent election process. The following day, the Senate Select Committee heard, on the Valerie Plame case, testimony on that subject. "Since that time, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has been a central point of much of the debate about getting discovery on matters pertaining to the way in which Cheney and others faked up the reports, to get the United States into a war, for which there was no need. A war we're trying to get out of now. "Recently, on or about Nov. 4, Fox-TV responded to the announcement of an agreement between the Republican head of the committee, and Senator Rockefeller, on sending letters to relevant parts of the government, to get discovery of the way in which some of the decisions were made, which might have affected the way fake intelligence was conduited through the government, to get us into a war. A perfectly legitimate question. "During that period, of course, people were trying to push things into the CIA, as opposed to into what we know is the problem, which is various agencies associated, particularly, with Vice President Cheney. "Then, on that date, on Nov. 4, Fox-TV sprang this leak, alleging it had a document from inside the committee, which was immediately used by the Republican faction, to try to jam up the entire investigation--really as a way of trying to save Cheney's neck. This is typical of the kind of problem. "The problem here, otherwise, is that the Democratic National Committee, and leading candidates for the Presidential nomination, have so far refused to deal with this thing in a straightforward manner. If they had, then you wouldn't have this jam-up in the Senate. And therefore, you should examine the qualifications of people for President, on the basis on which they are responding to this kind of important issue. "Of course, also, as you all know, I am insisting on restoring the D.C. General Hospital, as a full-service public hospital, in its former form. And at the same time, of course, reversing the present HMO health policy back into a Hill-Burton-type policy, an issue on which I have a fundamental difference with Dr. Dean, who is for, in his own terms, the HMO policy." - 30 -
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