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Impeach George Bush
The Same Thing all Over Again
But this time verified with an internal white house memo. Sick bastards explicitly manipulated intelligence findings to "make a case for war with Iraq" when there was no case. Sad!
Source: Greg Palast, 2005-05-06
Candidate: Republican Party
Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has "IMPEACH HIM" written all over it.
The top-level government memo marked "SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL," dated eight months before Bush sent us into Iraq, following a closed meeting with the President, reads, "Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
Read that again: "The intelligence and facts were being fixed...."
For years, after each damning report on BBC TV, viewers inevitably ask me, "Isn't this grounds for impeachment?" -- vote rigging, a blind eye to terror and the bin Ladens before 9-11, and so on. Evil, stupidity and self-dealing are shameful but not impeachable. What's needed is a "high crime or misdemeanor."
And if this ain't it, nothing is.
The memo, uncovered this week by the Times, goes on to describe an elaborate plan by George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to hoodwink the planet into supporting an attack on Iraq knowing full well the evidence for war was a phony.
A conspiracy to commit serial fraud is, under federal law, racketeering. However, the Mob's schemes never cost so many lives.
Here's more. "Bush had made up his mind to take military action. But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbors, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran."
Really? But Mr. Bush told us, "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."
A month ago, the Silberman-Robb Commission issued its report on WMD intelligence before the war, dismissing claims that Bush fixed the facts with this snooty, condescending conclusion written directly to the President, "After a thorough review, the Commission found no indication that the Intelligence Community distorted the evidence regarding Iraq's weapons."
We now know the report was a bogus 618 pages of thick whitewash aimed to let Bush off the hook for his murderous mendacity.
Read on: The invasion build-up was then set, says the memo, "beginning 30 days before the US Congressional elections." Mission accomplished.
You should parse the entire memo -- posted on my website -- and see if you can make it through its three pages without losing your lunch.
Now sharp readers may note they didn't see this memo, in fact, printed in the New York Times. It wasn't. Rather, it was splashed across the front pages of the Times of LONDON on Monday.
It has effectively finished the last, sorry remnants of Tony Blair's political career. (While his Labor Party will most assuredly win the elections Thursday, Prime Minister Blair is expected, possibly within months, to be shoved overboard in favor of his Chancellor of the Exchequer, a political execution which requires only a vote of the Labour party's members in Parliament.)
But in the US, barely a word. The New York Times covers this hard evidence of Bush's fabrication of a casus belli as some "British" elections story. Apparently, our President's fraud isn't "news fit to print."
My colleagues in the UK press have skewered Blair, digging out more incriminating memos, challenging the official government factoids and fibs. But in the US press
nada, bubkes, zilch. Bush fixed the facts and somehow that's a story for "over there."
The Republicans impeached Bill Clinton over his cigar and Monica's affections. And the US media could print nothing else.
Now, we have the stone, cold evidence of bending intelligence to sell us on death by the thousands, and neither a Republican Congress nor what is laughably called US journalism thought it worth a second look.
My friend Daniel Ellsberg once said that what's good about the American people is that you have to lie to them. What's bad about Americans is that it's so easy to do.
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User Originated Comments:
From: FemDem
2005-06-01 13:04:20
camm
hummm, camm...could it be that the
mainstream media has been on lockdown and afraid
to lose their beloved ratings if they should tell
the truth?
you heard as everyone else has
that whenever the bush crime family attend any
media functions that the questions posed to them
are rehearsed. also, if a question is asked that
is not in the agenda, that person is thrown out of
the town hall meeting...$ucks doesn't it...that's
what used to be freedom of speech or merely asking
a valid question would throw a citizen out of the
building. you may recall, that when the chimpster
was conducting his election campaign meetings, two
women walked up to the stage and protested that
the bush administration had killed their sons and
daughters in an illegal war...they were then
handcuffs and taken away.
camm, the dan
rather story and any likenesses will ultimately be
rendered untrue, if it doesn't fit into this
administration's agenda.
so before you
post, please...please read some history!!!
From: camm
2005-06-01 10:13:11
the ratherstory was true but the documents were
faults. thats a laugh. i don't understand that
one. how could the media let this go on
unexplained???
From: new yorker
2005-05-23 10:31:11
record deficits, an unending war, cuts to social
security, corporate scandal leading back to the
president, behind door discussions on energy
policies headed by a vice president with ties to a
corporation heading logistics in iraq......and we
actually have people still hung up on monica
lewinsky!!!! this country is in worse shape than i
thought.
From: Robbie
2005-05-23 02:54:31
why does it seem relevant to bash clinton, he's
not president nor did he run against bush the
chimp.
he did run against daddy chimp and
won, thank goodness, against that
evil-loser.
if there's a comparison to be
made, it should be the bushmeister vs. gore, the
actual democratic candidate.
secondly,
bush is a coke-snorting, corporate crook low-life
who rode into office on his daddy's coat tails
after draft-dodging during vietnam. he's a sad
excuse for a man, let alone president.
as
president, and that's the real issue, he's lied to
the country to trick us into an unwinnable war in
order to enrich himself and his buddies
(haliburton, look it up). he's desecrated the
environment, ruined the power and viability of
international law and cheated himself into office
twice. he's a war-mongering lunatic and this is
how history will remember him and his gullible
and/or evil supporters.
it's a sad day
for christendom when our best foot forward decides
that the best way to serve god is to bomb a
powerless people into submission for
oil-profiteering.
From:
2005-05-21 22:50:37
hope c.
further more, clinton may have
cheated on hillary and others, but this is "small
potatoes" compared to the tyrancy of chimpster's
organized crime family. most people would prefer
the oral sex infraction, then what the whitehouse
has become.
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