[image:28:l] They impeached Clinton for a cum stain. Nixon tried to steal stuff from Democratic headquarters. Bush and his coconspirators defrauded a nation into a war costing us in lives, money, national safety and dignity. His actions, along with those of Cheney and the rest of Team America The World Police are treasonous, and death perhaps, too good for these immoral oil whores. But since that won’t happen lets concentrate on a charge that can and should be brought before Congress and start working together to put pressure on our representatives to oust some of the worst human beings ever from an elected office that was meant to serve us and not corporate benefactors.
I don’t have time to catalogue the list of evidence both anecdotal, common sense oriented, and documented, indicating how this administration recklessly and knowingly deceived the country into an immoral and greed inspired invasion of Iraq. But I do feel I have to go through just a few to wet the apetite and stir a frenzied froth that will hopefully get anyone reading this to check the links below for more and to act in ways I will outline later, including participation in a local Hudson Valley impeachment event in kingston.
It’s a fact that the neo-cons had a preexisting agenda to take control of Iraq’s oil economy as part of a greater plan to regional domination. Assistant Secretary of Defense Wolfiwitz authored a paper on the subject in the mid 90′s. Dick Cheney, Wolfie, Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush, and even our boy Scooter Libby, and all the usual suspects except Keyser fucking Soze, were part of a highly influential policy paper cooked up by the ultra Right think tank the Project For The New American Century called, “Rebuilding America’s Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century, that has been compared to Mein Kampf, and goes on about how one part of the plan was to have regime change in Iraq to stabilize American interests. It also concedes that the American people did not have the stomach for it. So the work says what was needed was a, “Pearl Harbor-type event,” that would, “catalyze the nation.” Oilempire.
There is also the Defense Judgement Policy authored mainly by then Secretary of Defense Cheney in 92 in which he called for a post Cold War escalation of our defense budget in order to insure America’s preeminence and to discourage potential competitors. Bush Sr got to him get rid of some of the harsher language that received press criticism. W.W. Bush was himself more of a foreign policy realist as opposed to Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of the new-cons who relished in the idea of American empire. Cheney’s views were reitierated in the post 9-11 National Security Strategy statement, in which he reaffirmed his original pre edited 92 outlook, that apologists had tried to pawn off on Wolfowitz.
In a previous post, A Dickless Conspiracy? the Illimunati talked more extensively about the pre 9-11 secret energy task force that used blueprints and maps of Iraqi oilfields and charts of all the foreign suitors that threatened our interests in the area dealing with Hussein. While none of this proves they were complicit in 9-11 it does indicate motive for ignoring the evidence, including the PDB from a month before titled, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside U.S.” Bush probably never even read it though Kindasleezy Rice kept saying it was ignored because it was hisorical in nature. Well it certainly is now thanks to these idiots, but as Al Franken points out, if Bush had even read it how could he claim that the reason he went on reading to those Kindegarten kids after the first plane hit was because he couldn’t have known it was terrorists despite CIA Director Tenet admitting he pretty much knew Bin Laden did it right after tower one was hit. I’d add that the reason might be that he just really wanted to see how the story turned out after finally coming across some reading material he could wrap his head around. That and the fact that he was scared shitless and can’t think on his feet. It also makes you wonder about the sluggishness of the response. But none of these allegations need be part of impeachment proceedings. Just keep it in mind in case you ever see any of these guys somewhere and have a little extra saliva you can spare.
Now right after 9-11 Bush pressured those around him to make a case against Hussein and for a connection between him and Al Quada. Former Counter Terrorism Expert with Clinton and Bush, Richard Clarke, confirmed this. He said that on 9-1201, Rumsfeld spent strategy meetings ignoring Clarke and others on the trail of Bin-Laden, and instead kept lobbying for targets in Iraq because they were better than those in Afghanistan. Many months before, Ex Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill later admitted, in the first National Security Council meeting of the administration, Bush, instead of talking about Isreal-Palestine as most thought would be the subject of the Middle East focus, wanted a reason for a preemptive strike at Iraq. Bush told Rumsfeld to “examine our military options,” for putting troops into Iraq.
There is also the Downing St Memo in which British intelligence officials admitted that, “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy,” of regime change and inevitable military action. This was from a meeting taking place about a year before Bush claimed he had no choice and that weapons inspectors had not done a good enough job so we had no choice but to bomb the holy shit out of thousands of people. See Afterdowningstreet.org for more on this and much more of the evidence against this administration and for impeachment. In fact this is one of the sites I’d like people to go to for instructions in concerted efforts to mobilize people and pressure their representatives to aid in some of the efforts I will get into later in this post.
On a side note regarding that bombing in Iraq. There is also overwhelming evidence that now has been added to with yet another Downing St memo that Bush targeted journalists for death. A recent memo leak reports that Bush met with Tony Blair to talk to him about bombing Al-Jazeera’s headquarters. This is in addition to many preexisting indications that our military systematically targeted journalists unsympathetic to our cause. On one day in April 03 an Al-Jazeera building was hit, killing one reporter involved in anti U.S. reports, followed later that day by a hotel housing Reuters and Spanish news network media also part of reports and film footage that cast a darker light on our activities there. We claimed these to be accidents, but 2 in one day in addition to 2 other known cases including the bombing of a house Al Jazeera officials had fled to after refusing U.s. orders to get out of Fallujah where they were showing just what our military was doing during the onslaught, defies credibility. The reporters went from place to place as they were being bombed and shot at by U.S. troops until the man who housed them on one night was killed as his home after it was bombed just hours after the reporters had gotten out and moved to a new location ahead of military intelligence on their whereabouts. Again this need not be part of the impeachment charges, nor will it, but it just gives a bit more juice to that loogie that’s hopefully forming in your mouth.
There is much more evidence than even the above that this administration knowingly set about endangering, and indeed ending U.S. lives and the lives of uncountable Iraqi’s. Now let’s get to some reasonable impeachable charges that will be easier to prove if not as satisfying, including the recent illegal spying we can now add to Iraq.
The Supreme Court has defined the phrase “conspiracy to defraud the United States” as “to interfere with, impede or obstruct a lawful government function by deceit, craft or trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest…”…Conspiracies to defraud usually begin with a goal that is not in and of itself illegal. In this instance the goal was to invade Iraq.
The Nation- The White House Criminal Conspiracy. Unless noted otherwise all following quotes are from this 5 page article.
It is now known that hundreds of false assertions were made to U.S. citizens and maybe most importantly here, to Congress to rationalize their goal and perpetuate fraud. Two of the big pieces of proof they went to Congress and the american people with for Iraq’s WMD possession were the centrifuges and the uranium deal with Niger. Both have been disproven. What’s bigger is that evidence exists that the administration knew they were dealing with false information when they fiendishly gave the stupid amomgst us a reason to believe and the evil a justification. On the tubes:
And the Energy Department’s clear opinion was that the tubes were not suited for use in centrifuges; they were probably intended for military rockets. Given the lengthy debate and the importance of the tubes, it’s impossible to believe that the Bush team was unaware of the nuclear experts’ position. So when Bush officials said that the tubes were “only really suited” for centrifuge programs, they were committing fraud, either by lying outright or by making recklessly false statements.
The Niger claims were debunked by then Ambassador Joseph Wilson who recieved retribution for his honesty by having his CIA agent wife exposed and endangered by Rove, Cheney, and Libby in the scandal by now hopefully most are familiar with. The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), also reported at the time Bush was making the Uranium allegations in his State Of The Union Address of 03, that the documents involved were clear forgeries and not true.
Internal reports. most notable the National Intelligence Estimate, made clear that the centrifuge threat was bogus, as well as the general threat from Hussein. The NIE is a bi annual report that is a compilation from all intelligence agencies put together comprehensively over a 6 month period. The extant version at the time Bush was pushing for invasion contradicted everything he was saying. It made clear there was no threat from Iraq, no ties to Bin Laden, and no WMD. So he made intelligence agencies throw together a new one in about 2 weeks. This was then given to Congress to review the night before Senate hearings were to begin, with strict orders not to take copies out of the building. Instead they had to review 90 pages on sight, and could only keep a page on administration talking points that failed to discuss much of the internal debate, and contradictory evidence. This included much intel that the centrifuges were not linked to WMD production. This was of course left out of the NIE, along with all other contradictory evidence and voices of dissent that were involved in the hasty patching together of the document that would play a major role in getting Congress to sanction war.
In fact, the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) in effect as of December 2001 said that Iraq did not have nuclear weapons; was not trying to get them; and did not appear to have reconstituted its nuclear weapons program since the UN and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors departed in December 1998. This assessment had been unchanged for three years.
As has been widely reported, the NIE is a classified assessment prepared under the CIA’s direction, but only after input from the entire intelligence community, or IC. If there is disagreement, the dissenting views are also included. The December 2001 NIE contained no dissents about Iraq. In other words, the assessment privately available to Bush Administration officials from the time they began their tattoo for war until October 2002, when a new NIE was produced, was unanimous: Iraq did not have nuclear weapons or nuclear weapons programs. But publicly, the Bush team presented a starkly different picture.
Above Nation Article
It was widely known that Iraq’s weapons program had been destroyed by the Gulf War and our economic sanctions. Dick Cheney has been proven to be a liar about his public statements regarding Mohammed atta’s meeting with Iraq military officials. He was then caught lying about lying. All on tape, like much of the blatant lies and frauds perpetrated by men who are pathological in their dishonesty. Much more has been illustrated throughout the past few years and is widely available elsewhere. THis is all tip of the iceberg stuff. Right now I want to get to the movement for a measure of justice.
Title 18 under the U.S. legal code, Codelaw, makes it illegal to defraud any part of the government and interfere with its functioning. Bush’s lies to Congress impaired their ability to function and make credible and sound decisions regarding national safety and domestic finances:
The evidence shows, then, that from early 2002 to at least March 2003, the President and his aides conspired to defraud the United States by intentionally misrepresenting intelligence about Iraq to persuade Congress to authorize force, thereby interfering with Congress’s lawful functions of overseeing foreign affairs and making appropriations, all of which violates Title 18, United States Code, Section 371.
Former White House Counsel under Nixon, John Dean wrote a book called Worse Than Watergate, in which he makes the case many have made, that the lies and tactics barely touched on above constitute crimes and an impeachable offense. But that was written before Bush admnitted to violating the 4th Amendment in illegally and without warrant, spying on and wiretapping Americans. As Dean says at FindLaw.com, “There can be no serious question that warrantless wiretapping, in violation of the law, is impeachable. After all, Nixon was charged in Article II of his bill of impeachment with illegal wiretapping for what he, too, claimed were national security reasons.” . He goes on to cite security experts who deny that these tactics would be particularly effective in stopping terrorists anyway. This is in addition to many experts who have said the same thing about various other aspects of Bush’s war on terrorism. That includes the 9-11 Commission, which Bush likes to claim found nothing wrong with his pre or post 9-11 actions. This one of many blatant lies he tells in the faith that his core supporters, and to some extent the average American, are easily fooled.
The list of crimes is growing as our reputation for being a beacon of democracy and equality is shrinking. America has never been all it’s been hyped to be, but it has been closer to an ideal than most, and due to that proximity truly in position to take greater steps to creating a true nation of justice, kindness, equality, ethics, and progress, that can lead the way towards an ever increasing actualization of the Enlightenment values which helped give birth to those ideals in a way that was freeed from the previous contraints of monarchy and religion. Our constitution, our very government was founded on humanist principles, that though short of it’s living reality at the time, has moved more or less in the direction of greater and greater realization of those principles.
And so much of it has been threatened to be undone by ideologues who live by free market doctrine, believe that money signals competence and superiority, use morality as a code language to dupe those they simultaneously spit upon, and believe America must dominate the Earth for it to be saved. We are hated and feared internationally and rancourously divided at home.
But it is not too late to turn the tide. We are not so far along the path that history has proven leads to downfall and collapse that all is inextricably lost. At this moment much of the world still believes in the goodness of Americans as opposed to the evil of the Bush administration. We can still make that seperation clearer and heal the wounds which have not grown so fetid despite its roots in decades of hypocrisy before Bush. One of the ways we can do this is to stand united against the real “evildoers” amongst us and show the world, and ourselves that we will not accept lies and selfishness. We must make it clear to not only the international community, but to present and future politicians that they do not have a free pass and that they will be held accountable. The bar must be raised so that we may hold our heads up again and feel as if we are part of the cooperative effort to further the causes of humanity and its humanist principles. If we continue to look away while madmen and crooks lead us, we are as guilty and we will suffer their fate more wickedly in the long run because they will have the retreats created by the legacy of power and money to cushion the blow when the Empire falls.
By damning these murderous liars a statement is made to the world and a buoy given to our own institutions of government and democracy. A MSNBC poll indicated 85% of respondents want impeachment proceedings. A Zogby poll done before the newest spying scandal had 53% of Americans favoring impeachment proceedings if it is established that Bush lied regarding Iraq. He did. It has been.
Talk of a national resistance to a second straight such proceeding is spurious at best, and malicious media manipulation at worst. As related in the Bush Lies When He Spies, post, it’s acceptance is feeding face down at the trough of bullshit laid out by a Right wing agenda fully conceived of even by that point in the 90′s when Clinton helped make the world we are now in possible with his own stupidity and selfishness. The groundswell is growing and even some Democrats are making noise in this direction. There is a strong possibility Democrats are waiting for 2006 midterms to regain some seats in House and Senate so they can more easily have the votes to go for impeachment. i doubt their courage or foresight. I also doubt whether they will be as successful in the midterms as many think they will now. Hopefully it will happen, but they need to be made aware that there is strong public support for justice and that they will be held accountable if there is none.
Michigan Democrat John Conyers, a player in Watergate and Iran Contra hearings is pushing forward a package to censure Bush and Cheney, and eventually proceed with impeachment proceedings. He must be encouraged and ennobled by Americans. Now there is even a “safe” impeachable charge due to the ever increasing arrogance of the power mad neo -cons. They have violated the 4th Amendment in the domestic spying case. Numerous legal scholars have made it clear this is a clear cut case of an impeachable offense and on this charge alone, he is more guilty that Nixon ever was. High crimes and misdemeanors have been committed. I expect even with that theoretical Democrat Senate and House (still a long way from reality), there will be fear of charges relating to Iraq if for no other reason than it could set America up for numerous war crimes accusations. This is still debatable, though we are certainly guilty of them and deserve punishment.
But to truly affirm who we are as a nation and where we are going I think it important to stand for a no holds barred expectancy of full disclosure and truth from our appointed leaders, and a statement made that we are demanding more of those we elect to represent the will of the American people. It is in fact time that the will of us all is enforced, and not the pay to play politics that threatens to destroy us and all we hold dear. This is why I’d prefer to see any impeachemnt charges take Iraq as its main focus rather than spying or any of the other numerous charges this administration is legally impeachable on.
For more on all these charges and what we can do to rally around this cause, and pressure our representatives (call your local congressmen and phone Senate and House are amongst those things) check out AfterDowningStreet.org , ImpeachBush.org, and Impeachpac.org. Downing St and Impeachpac in particular are great places to get regular impeachment news as well as advice on actions as they come up. There are also links galore that take you to much more info on this administrations high crimes against you, your family, friends, and neighbors.
To check out your Congressmens contact information go to Contacting The Congress. This will get you among other things, Hillary Clinton’s D.C. phone number at 202-224-4451, her fax and her webpage/e mail HERE. You can find everyone from her, to our own Maurice Hinchey’s info at the contact site, along with other ways to make your voices heard if you follow the links.
Senate.Gov and Congress.org are other places to get similar info if you dont find who you want at above link.
And for local Hudson Valley neighbors there is a A new coalition of seven Hudson Valley activist groups will hold a rally calling for impeachment on Tuesday Jan. 31 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Kingston. This will coincide with the State of the Union speech that night. It will be take place in front of the Ulster County Office Building at 240 Fair St. For some contact numbers let me know and I will get them to you or post them here if I get permission later.
Don’t forget for now the totalitarian crimes of purposefully having dissenting journalists killed, of illegally spying on U.S. citizens and admitting it, or of summoning N.Y. Times personnel to the White House to make them kill the story on the said spying, or doing the same thing to a Washington Post writer who broke the story on the secret internment and black detention camps located throughout Eastern Europe. Let these stroke the fire but we need focus on creating a viable movement for impeaching these nasty traitors. I for one am making Title 18 a rallying cry. Start printing t shirts. Make bumper stickers. Send out E Mails. Paint grafitti. Title 18 should be the new Kilroy was here on walls and bridges, the new smiley face plastered on your chest, the almost as clever ‘My other car is a Porche,’ bumper sticker. Yell it at whoever picks up the phone at Hillary’s office, or Hinchey’s or anyone else you call or e mail. To paraphrase Dylan by way of Andy Dufrane, America needs to get busy living or get busy dying. If we don’t make a statement about who we are collectively and where we want to go, we may be presiding over a nations death and be the generation most at fault and most hated and pittied by future generations. Brokaw made America’s Greatest Generation famous, and Bush, with our cowriting byline, may be in the process of presiding over America’s worst.
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