The list of criminal acts is long, depressing as it is frightening. Equally depressing is the silence of the Democrats, the media and ordinary citizens. Is American democracy dead? In the current issue of The National Review, William F. Buckley calls for the Bush administration to admit that it made a hideous mistake by invading Iraq, writing that “the administration has, now, to cope with failure and the acknowledgment of defeat” of its entire policy from launching the war to believing it could unite and pacify religious enemies whose mutual hatred goes back a millennia, to installing a government that superficially resembles a democracy.
On one hand, when the dean of modern conservative politics says Iraq was a mistake, even the most ideologically driven neo-con must pay attention. On the other, the “failure” and “defeat” he writes about is not simply another “Oops, we goofed!” mea culpa that White House apologists can spin on the Sunday morning interview shows.
While cloaking his condemnation in polite Ivy League-ese terms like “postulates” and “mitigation of policies,” Mr. Buckley overlooks one simple fact: No matter how noble a policy of spreading freedom may look on paper, the White House has been criminal in carrying it out.
The dilemma for America is: When the whole executive branch is criminal, how do you impeach an entire administration?
* President Bush knowingly lied to Congress when he certified in writing an immediate threat to the security of the United States mandated the need to use armed force to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein.
As has been well documented over the past three years, the administration knew before Bush’s 2003 State of the Union message that there were serious doubts in the intelligence establishment — the CIA, DIA, State Dept. and Dept. of Energy — that Saddam had either chemical weapons or a program to build atomic weapons.
Lying to Congress is a federal offence, — a felony punishable with prison; on its face, it is also — a “high crime and misdemeanor” — an impeachable offence.
* The President knowingly violated — both the Constitution and the law by authorizing warrantless wiretapping, eavesdropping and spying on Americans.
— Likewise, in claiming the power to arrest and hold citizens without charge he has violated the Constitution and his oath of office to uphold that very document. — He committed a felony and an impeachable offence.
* Vice President Dick Cheney, armed with an Executive Order he got Bush to sign allowing him to unilaterally declassify information, — decided to declassify Valerie Plame’s role in the CIA. He then set about outing her when her husband returned from Niger and wrote a report stating that there was no evidence Iraq was trying to buy yellowcake, a necessary ingredient to make a nuclear weapon.
Jason Leopold, who has been covering Plamegate from the start, reported on Feb. 24, 2006, that the White House had just “found” 250 allegedly missing e-mails about Plame and that the Vice President is implicated directly. The e-mails purportedly show — Cheney lied to FBI agents about his role in the scandal, — itself a federal offence punishable by imprisonment. It also meets the “high crime and misdemeanor” impeachment test.
* Even after being warned by the Navy’s general counsel - its top lawyer — that interrogation techniques being used by Americans at Guantanamo were illegal, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld issued an order authorizing what amounts to physical and psychological torture.
He has repeatedly denied the Red Cross private access to prisoners — despite a treaty which guarantees the agency such access, a treaty which was first written by the United States. Likewise, the FBI warned the Defense Dept. that the interrogation of prisoners it witnessed — was violating US law against torture, a warning Rumsfeld ignored.
Now, along with the Red Cross, groups including the United Nations, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have condemned the US for violating basic human rights, partly because it keeps secret the names of prisoners being held and partly for abusing the prisoners in custody. — Put Mr. Rumsfeld in the dock next to Bush and Cheney.
* While White House counsel, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, with help from ideologue sycophants like former Justice Dept. lawyer and now law professor John Yoo, created a convoluted rationale to support the illegal actions of the Executive Branch. Apparently, Mr. Gonzales never studied the laws written largely by the United States for the Nuremberg trials that judged Nazi war criminals. That code of justice punished jurists who formulated and interpreted laws created to justify criminal acts. There is a special place in court for people like Mr. Gonzales who manipulate the law to countenance criminality.
The list of criminals is seemingly endless.
Colin Powell, a man of otherwise impeccable integrity who devoted his life to the service of his country, knowingly allowed himself to be made the administration’s Knight Errant by trying to convince the world that war was necessary.
Lawrence Wilkerson, who wrote Powell’s UN speech and had access to all the intelligence — not just bits the administration wanted people to hear — admitted on the PBS public affairs program Now on Feb. 3, 2006: “I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community and the United Nations Security Council.”
Former CIA director George Tenet knowingly gave the White House select bits of intelligence he knew it wanted as justification for invading Iraq. While National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice knew — or “should have known,” as lawyers say — that the pre-war intelligence was being cooked to prop up a shaky case for war and neither objected nor resigned.
Don’t forget the Joint Chiefs of Staff who, in 2003, went along with dubious war plans, also without objection or resignation. Or the field generals and senior officers who oversaw not just prison camp torture but waged an indiscriminate war on Iraqi civilians, — particularly in Fallujah where white phosphorus shells rained down — on innocent men, women and children cowering in their hovels. The website Baghdad Burning, written by a woman living in Iraq, also writes about how US troops break into homes in the middle of the night for no reason while ignoring what she calls “the vicious civil war” being fought on the country’s streets every day.
At home, FBI Director Robert Mueller violates his oath of office by allowing agents to illegally spy on citizens — only exercising their constitutional right of protest. Michael Chertoff, who is so incompetent running Homeland Security his behavior borders on criminal, is quietly spending $387 million with a Halliburton subsidiary — to Construct Detention Camps at Secret Locations across America to house up to several hundred thousand people for the undefined “rapid development of new programs.” — And don’t forget Karl Rove, who orchestrated the theft not just one — but two Presidential Elections, new evidence dribbling out now reveals.
The list is long, as depressing as it is frightening.
Yet equally depressing is the silence of Democrats, the news media and ordinary citizens. The Democrats look cowed, the news media is a placid mouthpiece accepting administration talking points, and ordinary citizens are afraid. “Please don’t send me your investigative reporting or political columns by e-mail,” a long-time friend wrote to me by snail mail a few months ago. “I’m afraid it will trigger NSA computers and make me a target.”
It took the funeral of Coretta Scott King for even a few people of conscience to “speak truth to the powerful” in the tradition of black churches, saying to Pres. Bush’s face the unpleasant realities that many are thinking.
Democracy in America may not be dead but it is in critical condition.
People who lived through Watergate remember how Richard Nixon tried stealing the Constitution and the crisis he provoked as a result. — Yet today, there is a far stealthier, more powerful and — darkly insidious effort afoot to undermine and even destroy more than — 230 years of American democratic ideals, liberal political thought, and tradition of dissent and debate.
When the huge task of writing the Constitution was finally completed, Benjamin Franklin emerged from the building in Philadelphia where the convention was held to be confronted by a woman waiting word.
“What did you give us, Mr. Franklin?” she asked. Franklin laid his hand on her shoulder and replied, “A democracy, madam, if you can keep it.”
The question today remains, as it was in Franklin’s time, can America keep its democracy?
=====================================
James Charles is an independent investigative journalist
and writer, an American who lives in Toronto.
Other Articles by James Charles at: http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb06/Charles27.htm
* An Amoral Morality Play
* Thugs Attack Federal Judges!
* Washington’s Darkest Secret
* The White House Plays Extreme Dodge Ball
* Public Transit is a Moveable Feast
* Ready for Pentagon TV?
* Is Anything an “Experience” When Everything Is?
* Everyone Take Another Step To The Right
* It Was Fun Being a Baby Boomer — Until We Realized How Old We’re Getting
* Encountering Hunter Thompson
The media is in the pocket of big business and therefore belongs to the followers of the Bush Administration. Until the din becomes so loud that it cannot be ignored, they will do almost nothing and will barely even bring up the subject. I also wonder if at least some of the Democrats are not being kept in line somehow by members of the administration. After all, the anthrax scares stopped after the passage of the Patriot Act, and the two members of Congress who were targeted were Leahy and Daschle. Dirty tricks have been the stock in trade of Rove and company over the years; who knows what kind of information they might have acquired over the years? It only took a photo of John McCain, his wife, and their adopted daughter in the state of South Carolina to tank his chances to win the primary there when he was running for president, and that was orchestrated by Karl Rove.
Impeachment is TOO SLOW AND TAKES TO LONG! By then who knows how many of us in U.S. or elsewhere will he/they murder? We in the States MUST DEMAND AND NOW, HIS/THEIR IMMEDIATE ARREST BY EITHER U.S. TROOPS, WHO CAN REMOVE HIM/THEM FOR TREASON OR FBI AGENTS AND U.S. MARSHALL’S which NEEDS TO HAPPEN AND NOW! While the world, some of them hate America because of him, WE TOO HATE HIM/THEM TOO! I don’t think the whole world hates U.S. just CAN’T understand WHY in hell we in U.S. are putting up with his/their crap! What they don’t understand is, minus a total revolution here in States, those aholes in Congress from BOTH SIDES ARE NOT LISTENING TO US. PLUS, LIKE HUGO CHAVEZ SO RIGHTLY PUTS IT, WE ARE OPPRESSED HERE IN U.S.! PLEASE, PLEASE WORLD, DON’T HATE U.S. FOR THESE AHOLES! WE HATE THEM TOO AND ARE TRYING LIKE HELL TO HAVE THEM IMPEACHED AND/OR ARRESTED FOR WAR CRIMINALS THEY ARE AND WAR PROFITEERS TOO! PLEASE, WORLD WE ARE TRYING TO DO ALL OF THESE THINGS BUT GREEDY BIG BUSINESS OWNS NOT ONLY MAJORITY OF OUR POLITICIANS FROM BOTH SIDES BUT ALSO OUR MAJOR MEDIA AS WELL! WE ARE LIVING IN A CORPORATE FASCIST POLICE STATE AND IT IS GETTING WORSE AND BUSH AND OTHERS IN GOVT’ WORLDWIDE ARE PROMOTING THIS SHIT ALL AROUND THE WORLD! CORPORATE FASCIST POLICE STATES WORLD WIDE! WE HATE IT TOO IN AMERICA, THOSE THAT ARE NOT TOTALLY BRAINWASHED AND BRAINDEAD AND SHEEP! IMPEACHMENT IS TOO DAMN SLOW, THEY MUST BE ARRESTED AND NOW FOR TREASON,WAR CRIMINALS, WAR PROFITEERING AND NOW! IMPEACHMENT TAKES TO LONG AND HE IS GOING AFTER CONGRESSMEN WHO TRY TO IMPEACH HIM NOW, LOOK AT WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO DO TO JOHN CONYERS! GET A CLUE, SHEEP WE CAN NOT WAIT FOR LONG IMPEACHMENT TRIALS ONLY TO HAVE GUTLESS, CORPORATE WHORES IN SENATE, INCLUDING D’S, VOTE NOT TO IMPEACH THE BASTARDS! THEY MUST BE ARRESTED AND NOW BEFORE THEY BOMB MORE INNOCENT PEOPLE ABROAD OR AT HOME, HAVE ANOTHER FALSE FLAG ATTACKS ON U.S.! AND DEMAND FBI AND/OR U.S. TROOPS ARREST THEM IMMEDIATELY FOR TREASON, WAR CRIMINALS, WAR PROFITEERING AND ILLEGALLY SPYING ON INNOCENT AMERICANS WHO DISAGREE WITH THE FUEHER!! AND NOW
Let’s just do it! Hundreds of years from now people will look back at us in amazement and disgust and wonder how each of us allowed the greatest democracy in civilization wither away during the Bush years. No accounability, no honesty, no logic. This president is the worst leader in the history of our nation. Impeach the blow monkey puppet! LC
My Vote is to impeach him, he has commited many harsh crimes against not jsut america, but the entire world. He has left the american population to suffer for his Hitler style leadership.
Bush ad his administration should be punnished to trhe fullest extent of the law.
Roger Smith
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4 March 2006, 01:16
When the Whole White House is Criminal, How Do You Impeach an Entire Administration?
by James Charles www.dissidentvoice.org
February 27, 2006
The list of criminal acts is long, depressing as it is frightening. Equally depressing is the silence of the Democrats, the media and ordinary citizens. Is American democracy dead? In the current issue of The National Review, William F. Buckley calls for the Bush administration to admit that it made a hideous mistake by invading Iraq, writing that “the administration has, now, to cope with failure and the acknowledgment of defeat” of its entire policy from launching the war to believing it could unite and pacify religious enemies whose mutual hatred goes back a millennia, to installing a government that superficially resembles a democracy.
On one hand, when the dean of modern conservative politics says Iraq was a mistake, even the most ideologically driven neo-con must pay attention. On the other, the “failure” and “defeat” he writes about is not simply another “Oops, we goofed!” mea culpa that White House apologists can spin on the Sunday morning interview shows.
While cloaking his condemnation in polite Ivy League-ese terms like “postulates” and “mitigation of policies,” Mr. Buckley overlooks one simple fact: No matter how noble a policy of spreading freedom may look on paper, the White House has been criminal in carrying it out.
The dilemma for America is: When the whole executive branch is criminal, how do you impeach an entire administration?
* President Bush knowingly lied to Congress when he certified in writing an immediate threat to the security of the United States mandated the need to use armed force to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein.
As has been well documented over the past three years, the administration knew before Bush’s 2003 State of the Union message that there were serious doubts in the intelligence establishment — the CIA, DIA, State Dept. and Dept. of Energy — that Saddam had either chemical weapons or a program to build atomic weapons.
Lying to Congress is a federal offence, — a felony punishable with prison; on its face, it is also — a “high crime and misdemeanor” — an impeachable offence.
* The President knowingly violated — both the Constitution and the law by authorizing warrantless wiretapping, eavesdropping and spying on Americans.
— Likewise, in claiming the power to arrest and hold citizens without charge he has violated the Constitution and his oath of office to uphold that very document. — He committed a felony and an impeachable offence.
* Vice President Dick Cheney, armed with an Executive Order he got Bush to sign allowing him to unilaterally declassify information, — decided to declassify Valerie Plame’s role in the CIA. He then set about outing her when her husband returned from Niger and wrote a report stating that there was no evidence Iraq was trying to buy yellowcake, a necessary ingredient to make a nuclear weapon.
Jason Leopold, who has been covering Plamegate from the start, reported on Feb. 24, 2006, that the White House had just “found” 250 allegedly missing e-mails about Plame and that the Vice President is implicated directly. The e-mails purportedly show — Cheney lied to FBI agents about his role in the scandal, — itself a federal offence punishable by imprisonment. It also meets the “high crime and misdemeanor” impeachment test.
* Even after being warned by the Navy’s general counsel - its top lawyer — that interrogation techniques being used by Americans at Guantanamo were illegal, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld issued an order authorizing what amounts to physical and psychological torture.
He has repeatedly denied the Red Cross private access to prisoners — despite a treaty which guarantees the agency such access, a treaty which was first written by the United States. Likewise, the FBI warned the Defense Dept. that the interrogation of prisoners it witnessed — was violating US law against torture, a warning Rumsfeld ignored.
Now, along with the Red Cross, groups including the United Nations, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have condemned the US for violating basic human rights, partly because it keeps secret the names of prisoners being held and partly for abusing the prisoners in custody. — Put Mr. Rumsfeld in the dock next to Bush and Cheney.
* While White House counsel, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, with help from ideologue sycophants like former Justice Dept. lawyer and now law professor John Yoo, created a convoluted rationale to support the illegal actions of the Executive Branch. Apparently, Mr. Gonzales never studied the laws written largely by the United States for the Nuremberg trials that judged Nazi war criminals. That code of justice punished jurists who formulated and interpreted laws created to justify criminal acts. There is a special place in court for people like Mr. Gonzales who manipulate the law to countenance criminality.
The list of criminals is seemingly endless.
Colin Powell, a man of otherwise impeccable integrity who devoted his life to the service of his country, knowingly allowed himself to be made the administration’s Knight Errant by trying to convince the world that war was necessary.
Lawrence Wilkerson, who wrote Powell’s UN speech and had access to all the intelligence — not just bits the administration wanted people to hear — admitted on the PBS public affairs program Now on Feb. 3, 2006: “I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community and the United Nations Security Council.”
Former CIA director George Tenet knowingly gave the White House select bits of intelligence he knew it wanted as justification for invading Iraq. While National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice knew — or “should have known,” as lawyers say — that the pre-war intelligence was being cooked to prop up a shaky case for war and neither objected nor resigned.
Don’t forget the Joint Chiefs of Staff who, in 2003, went along with dubious war plans, also without objection or resignation. Or the field generals and senior officers who oversaw not just prison camp torture but waged an indiscriminate war on Iraqi civilians, — particularly in Fallujah where white phosphorus shells rained down — on innocent men, women and children cowering in their hovels. The website Baghdad Burning, written by a woman living in Iraq, also writes about how US troops break into homes in the middle of the night for no reason while ignoring what she calls “the vicious civil war” being fought on the country’s streets every day.
At home, FBI Director Robert Mueller violates his oath of office by allowing agents to illegally spy on citizens — only exercising their constitutional right of protest. Michael Chertoff, who is so incompetent running Homeland Security his behavior borders on criminal, is quietly spending $387 million with a Halliburton subsidiary — to Construct Detention Camps at Secret Locations across America to house up to several hundred thousand people for the undefined “rapid development of new programs.” — And don’t forget Karl Rove, who orchestrated the theft not just one — but two Presidential Elections, new evidence dribbling out now reveals.
The list is long, as depressing as it is frightening.
Yet equally depressing is the silence of Democrats, the news media and ordinary citizens. The Democrats look cowed, the news media is a placid mouthpiece accepting administration talking points, and ordinary citizens are afraid. “Please don’t send me your investigative reporting or political columns by e-mail,” a long-time friend wrote to me by snail mail a few months ago. “I’m afraid it will trigger NSA computers and make me a target.”
It took the funeral of Coretta Scott King for even a few people of conscience to “speak truth to the powerful” in the tradition of black churches, saying to Pres. Bush’s face the unpleasant realities that many are thinking.
Democracy in America may not be dead but it is in critical condition.
People who lived through Watergate remember how Richard Nixon tried stealing the Constitution and the crisis he provoked as a result. — Yet today, there is a far stealthier, more powerful and — darkly insidious effort afoot to undermine and even destroy more than — 230 years of American democratic ideals, liberal political thought, and tradition of dissent and debate.
When the huge task of writing the Constitution was finally completed, Benjamin Franklin emerged from the building in Philadelphia where the convention was held to be confronted by a woman waiting word.
“What did you give us, Mr. Franklin?” she asked. Franklin laid his hand on her shoulder and replied, “A democracy, madam, if you can keep it.”
The question today remains, as it was in Franklin’s time, can America keep its democracy?
=====================================
James Charles is an independent investigative journalist
and writer, an American who lives in Toronto.
Other Articles by James Charles at:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb06/Charles27.htm
* An Amoral Morality Play
* Thugs Attack Federal Judges!
* Washington’s Darkest Secret
* The White House Plays Extreme Dodge Ball
* Public Transit is a Moveable Feast
* Ready for Pentagon TV?
* Is Anything an “Experience” When Everything Is?
* Everyone Take Another Step To The Right
* It Was Fun Being a Baby Boomer — Until We Realized How Old We’re Getting
* Encountering Hunter Thompson
4 March 2006, 04:03
The media is in the pocket of big business and therefore belongs to the followers of the Bush Administration. Until the din becomes so loud that it cannot be ignored, they will do almost nothing and will barely even bring up the subject. I also wonder if at least some of the Democrats are not being kept in line somehow by members of the administration. After all, the anthrax scares stopped after the passage of the Patriot Act, and the two members of Congress who were targeted were Leahy and Daschle. Dirty tricks have been the stock in trade of Rove and company over the years; who knows what kind of information they might have acquired over the years? It only took a photo of John McCain, his wife, and their adopted daughter in the state of South Carolina to tank his chances to win the primary there when he was running for president, and that was orchestrated by Karl Rove.
5 March 2006, 02:39
Impeachment is the most important issue facing Constitutional government in the United States. Impeachment will determine whether the American people will hold the Bush administration accountable for its High Crimes and Misdemeanors: the supreme international crime — a war of aggression, rampant militarism, torture, surreptitious laws and treaties, and economic policies that steal from the poor and middle class to further enrich the rich.
Impeachment is also the test that will determine whether We, the People of the United States, still have the power to affect the conduct of our own elected officials and the will to exercise that power.
George Bush seeks $2.77 trillion for the 2007 Fiscal Year budget providing for more military aggression and less education, health care and other programs for the people.
He has nearly three more years to take our country into more wars maybe in Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, or Sudan; three more years to trash the Bill of Rights at home and destroy all respect for the United States abroad; three more years to enrich the rich, impoverish the middle class and poor, undermine the U.S. economy and burden future generations of Americans with burdens they cannot bear.
Our impeachment ad in the New York Times on January 27, 2006 shows we can make a difference. It generated tens of thousands of new votes for impeachment.
The New York Times carried the Impeachment message in the first section, full page, to readers of more than a million copies of the National Edition and the New York Edition of the New York Times.
More newspaper ads, more votes for Impeachment, more organizing and fundraising can make Impeachment a major issue in the 2006 midterm Congressional elections. A committed effort over the next months can move Impeachment to the forefront in the elections and to the floor of the House of Representatives which has the "sole power of Impeachment," and onto the Senate for trial.
Ads in newspapers in Congressional Districts can help activate impeachment organizing to bring the issue home to members and candidates where their election will be decided.
Only Impeachment will warn the next Presidents that the American people will hold them accountable if they lawlessly lead us into wars, aggression and criminal acts to control foreign government and exploit their peoples.
Only Impeachment will assure governments and peoples around the world that the American people understand what their government has done, that the American people are strong and good, and have impeached and removed their lawless leaders from office for violating all the principles America has always espoused, and that We, the People of the United States will remain vigilant and see to it that the government of the United States will hereafter seek peace, friendship, equality of nations and peoples, and respect for the human dignity of every child, woman, and man on Earth.
I urge you to enlist now in the Impeachment Movement for the duration, to organize your community in the struggle and to raise and contribute funds essential to secure the Impeachment of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales and other civil officers found to have committed High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Click here to make a donation for the mass advertising campaign to place the NYT impeachment ad in other newspapers and support the campaign for impeachment.
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The Impeachable Mr. Bush
An Aggregation of High Crimes and Misdemeanors
By RALPH NADER
What will it take for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to be held responsible for a multitude of political crimes, recklessness, prevarications and just plain massive ongoing mismanagement of the taxpayers government?
The first step is to aggregate these travesties so they add up to a more comprehensive judgment. Then, together they confront us with an awful truth — that our present system of constitution, law and checks and balances have failed to be invoked by the elected and appointed officials of our Congress and our Courts. This is happening even though the polls have been dropping on the Bush regime for over a year and are now quite negative on many important questions.
Consider the following sample of irresponsibility and flouting of the law and then ask yourself how much more will it take to start holding the Bush/Cheney crowd of serial fibbers and dictacrats accountable? Is there ever to be a tipping point in the Washington world of spineless Democrats and supine Congressional Republicans worried about Bush losing the 2006 elections?
1. The drug benefit boondoggle, starting January 1, 2006, has been by all reports maelstrom of confusion, deprivation, gouging and misadministration, leaving many sick people in a frightening limbo. That is Bushland messing up big time while giving the gouging, long-subsidized profit-glutted drug companies hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade paid by the taxpayer.
2. Katrina! The breaching of the levees was predicted at least over a year before and warned about just before the Hurricane hit by federal officials but ignored by the Administration. Bush’s godliness complex let him give the public the impression that the destruction was an unavoidable Act of God, when it was an avoidable disaster of Bush. The White House earlier had cut the Army Corps of Engineers budget designed for hurricane defense in the New Orleans area. The Corps itself is not blameless, but its commander in chief is, after all, George W. Bush.
3. Bush-Cheney plunged our country into an endless war-quagmire in Iraq on an often repeated platform of falsehoods, cover-ups and deliberate distractions from the ignored necessities here at home. Tens of thousands of American have lost their lives, their limbs or their health over there and casualties of innocent Iraqi adults and children are much more numerous. Already costing hundreds of billions of dollars, the mismanagement of this war of choice is the material of hundreds of Pentagon audits, Congressional reports, official admissions, firsthand press reports and Congressional condemnations by the respected Government Accountability Office (GAO).
"Iraq Rebuilding Badly Hobbled", U.S. Report finds, "is a recent front page headline in The New York Times— one of many such headlines in recent months. The corporate contractors, such ass Halliburton, will set records for waste and worse as the facts spill out to the people.
4. The impeachable George W. Bush imperiously asserts that he will continue to violate federal law and place the American people under any surveillance that he chooses to impose without ever using a Congressionally approved procedure which requiresfor a quick and secret court warrant that is even permitted to be retroactive.
He and his pitchmen claim that they are pursuing terrorists. But the National Security Agency’s (NSA) electronic dragnets are enveloping millions of people, flooding the FBI with what that agency says is mountains of indiscriminate undigested data that are useless.
Besides, as of the end of 2004, Bush and John Ashcroft, his then Attorney General had arrested 5000 people on suspicion of terrorism, jailed them, most without charges, and then proceeded to strike out. Two were convicted and the convictions were overturned in Michigan. The Bush scorecard, according to Georgetown Law professor David Cole was 0 for 5000! Does this record qualify for chronic abuse of legal process or is it just sloppy law enforcement designed to produce political press releases?
5. Bush pumps "the ownership society" and opposes attempts to give investors the power that should accrue to them as owners over the self-enriching managers of the giant corporations. As a result, big time corporate executives keep vastly overpaying themselves, through their rubber-stamp Boards of Directors (starting at $7200 an hour in 2002 and upward for the CEOs of the top 300 corporations). Warren Buffet called runaway executive compensation and stock options a central cause of cooking corporate books and undermining jobs and their own companies’ financial stability.
6. Cutting life-sustaining programs for needy children, sick adults and regulatory health-safety protections for most Americans while reducing the taxes of the richest one percent, including his own and Cheney’s taxes, invites Biblical condemnation. He has left many Americans defenseless from preventable hazards here at home, while he plays the providential Viceroy of Iraq. At the same time, Bush’s forked tongue touts "the safety of the American people" as his highest responsibility.
7. He encumbers young children with taxes (who will have to pay the debt) through massive federal deficits brought about significantly by huge numbers of corporate handouts, giveaways, subsidies and tax escapism. That’s one way of leaving children behind.
8. Mismangement and underfunding implode his educational distraction called No Child Left Behind. Just ask the Republican state of Utah or millions of teachers beset with constant, vapid standardized multiple choice tests created by corporate consultants.
9. He huffs and puffs about spreading democracies around the world while condoning and encouraging the shipment of whole American industries and jobs to the communist Chinese dictatorship, and other dictatorships on which he continues to lavish such globalized policies.
However, his boomeranging foreign policy may yet turn him into an unintended patron saint of elected Islamic theocracies.
These and many other documentations of his tortured tenure can demonstrate what their aggregation can contribute to motivate the American people toward holding him and Cheney accountable to them under the rule of law. But don’t count on the Democrats leading. They blew another election — Congressional and Presidentially — against the worst Republicans in American history.
Aggregation, my fellow citizens, is up to your independent minds and judgments to absorb and act upon.
For a sample of aggregation , see
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6 March 2006, 19:34
Well, if it twere done best be done quickly! Or it will all slide away, like a bad dream
Victoria Smith
4 March 2006, 13:53
Impeachment is TOO SLOW AND TAKES TO LONG! By then who knows how many of us in U.S. or elsewhere will he/they murder? We in the States MUST DEMAND AND NOW, HIS/THEIR IMMEDIATE ARREST BY EITHER U.S. TROOPS, WHO CAN REMOVE HIM/THEM FOR TREASON OR FBI AGENTS AND U.S. MARSHALL’S which NEEDS TO HAPPEN AND NOW! While the world, some of them hate America because of him, WE TOO HATE HIM/THEM TOO! I don’t think the whole world hates U.S. just CAN’T understand WHY in hell we in U.S. are putting up with his/their crap! What they don’t understand is, minus a total revolution here in States, those aholes in Congress from BOTH SIDES ARE NOT LISTENING TO US. PLUS, LIKE HUGO CHAVEZ SO RIGHTLY PUTS IT, WE ARE OPPRESSED HERE IN U.S.! PLEASE, PLEASE WORLD, DON’T HATE U.S. FOR THESE AHOLES! WE HATE THEM TOO AND ARE TRYING LIKE HELL TO HAVE THEM IMPEACHED AND/OR ARRESTED FOR WAR CRIMINALS THEY ARE AND WAR PROFITEERS TOO! PLEASE, WORLD WE ARE TRYING TO DO ALL OF THESE THINGS BUT GREEDY BIG BUSINESS OWNS NOT ONLY MAJORITY OF OUR POLITICIANS FROM BOTH SIDES BUT ALSO OUR MAJOR MEDIA AS WELL! WE ARE LIVING IN A CORPORATE FASCIST POLICE STATE AND IT IS GETTING WORSE AND BUSH AND OTHERS IN GOVT’ WORLDWIDE ARE PROMOTING THIS SHIT ALL AROUND THE WORLD! CORPORATE FASCIST POLICE STATES WORLD WIDE! WE HATE IT TOO IN AMERICA, THOSE THAT ARE NOT TOTALLY BRAINWASHED AND BRAINDEAD AND SHEEP! IMPEACHMENT IS TOO DAMN SLOW, THEY MUST BE ARRESTED AND NOW FOR TREASON,WAR CRIMINALS, WAR PROFITEERING AND NOW! IMPEACHMENT TAKES TO LONG AND HE IS GOING AFTER CONGRESSMEN WHO TRY TO IMPEACH HIM NOW, LOOK AT WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO DO TO JOHN CONYERS! GET A CLUE, SHEEP WE CAN NOT WAIT FOR LONG IMPEACHMENT TRIALS ONLY TO HAVE GUTLESS, CORPORATE WHORES IN SENATE, INCLUDING D’S, VOTE NOT TO IMPEACH THE BASTARDS! THEY MUST BE ARRESTED AND NOW BEFORE THEY BOMB MORE INNOCENT PEOPLE ABROAD OR AT HOME, HAVE ANOTHER FALSE FLAG ATTACKS ON U.S.! AND DEMAND FBI AND/OR U.S. TROOPS ARREST THEM IMMEDIATELY FOR TREASON, WAR CRIMINALS, WAR PROFITEERING AND ILLEGALLY SPYING ON INNOCENT AMERICANS WHO DISAGREE WITH THE FUEHER!! AND NOW
5 March 2006, 01:49
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5 March 2006, 03:53
Let’s just do it! Hundreds of years from now people will look back at us in amazement and disgust and wonder how each of us allowed the greatest democracy in civilization wither away during the Bush years. No accounability, no honesty, no logic. This president is the worst leader in the history of our nation. Impeach the blow monkey puppet! LC
6 March 2006, 19:18
My Vote is to impeach him, he has commited many harsh crimes against not jsut america, but the entire world. He has left the american population to suffer for his Hitler style leadership.
Bush ad his administration should be punnished to trhe fullest extent of the law.
Roger Smith