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Impeach Bush — US Out Now!

by Open-Publishing - Sunday 19 June 2005
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“Our focus is not on the past. It’s on the future.”

— Scott McClellan, White House Spokesman.

How convenient to focus on the future when the past is a compelling indictment of criminal and immoral behavior. If it were an adequate explanation, then Richard Nixon would have completed his second term, Lyndon Johnson would have sought reelection, and the Nuremberg trials would not have been convened.

Beyond the incredulity of the president’s response to a growing body of evidence that his administration cooked the books to justify an illegal and unjustified war, the crime is not limited to the past. It is ongoing and has no end in sight.

When you are caught in the process of committing a crime, whether it is a common burglary or a war of naked aggression, you do not ask leave to consummate the act. Should this be any less apparent when there are hundreds of thousands of lives in the balance?

This nation went to war on allegations our leaders knew with absolute clarity were false and malicious. Stubbornly clinging to the lie while slandering those who bring the truth to public light only compounds the crime with arrogance and obstruction — the very crimes that ultimately ended the reign of Nixon.

Under the leadership of this president, America is directly responsible for the massive destruction of an innocent nation’s infrastructure, a monumental waste of desperately needed resources, and the loss of more lives than we are willing or able to count.

The defenders of war and the White House may be right in one respect. The Downing Street Memo is nothing new. It is like waiting for an autopsy to confirm a death. After a steady stream of revelations and testimonials from impeccable sources such as Ambassador Joseph Wilson, counter-terrorism analyst Richard Clarke, and former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill, as well as the targeted leaks of the CIA, British Intelligence and the State Department, anyone who did not know that the war was ordained at Bush V. Gore, was not following the news. Anyone who did not know that intelligence was shaped to policy is deliberately uninformed.

Unfortunately, the White House press corps (also know as the American mainstream media) has become very adept at obscuring the truth with subterfuge. Like a mantra, the lies of war are repeated until they become accepted truths. Our leaders were betrayed by a massive intelligence failure. Like an illusionist, the war propagandists offer up an endless parade of dazzle, titillation and outrage. The bug-eyed runaway bride gains more attention than the affairs of state (The people want to know!) and Congress follows suit by calling a special session to decide the fate of Terri Schiavo.

It has become necessary to repeat the truth over and over again until the most reticent of news outlets can no longer ignore it. As it was in the days of Watergate, so it is today. Both the media and the political powers are entrenched. Their primary motive is not to reveal or embrace the truth but to secure their power base by any and all means.

At the time of Watergate, however, it was the blessing of this nation that the Washington Post was an island of integrity in a sea of indifference. The blessing now is that the internet has given birth to an alternate universe of knowledge, information and analysis. Neither the Times nor the Post has the power to ignore Memogate to a quiet death. The bloggers gave it wings and they will keep it flying. Members of Congress are jumping on board not out of courage or a sudden resurgence of conscience but of desperation. The truth is coming out. Like the bulging waters of a broken dam, those gutless politicians who are not braced for impact will be swept away like yesterday’s news. Those who voted for the war, the Patriot Act and the continued occupation, who christened Freedom Fries and chastised the antiwar movement for treachery and fanaticism, are scrambling now for higher grounds. The warning has sounded; the tsunami is upon them.

Those of us who recognized the truth and opposed the war from its inception owe it to the collective conscience of the nation to continually point out that it was never difficult to decipher. George Bush may be charming at a certain level to a certain segment of society but he was never good at hiding the truth. He wanted war so bad he flaunted it like a chest-thumping gorilla. He ordered Shock and Awe while the disarmament of Iraq was literally in progress just so he could mark the anniversary of Daddy’s War with his own. It could not have been more obvious.

Those who wish to jump on the antiwar, anti-occupation bandwagon now, you are long overdue and welcome but do not ask for special recognition. Let it be recorded in history that America’s political leaders (with the exception of the Congressional Black Caucus and very few others) were slow to act and that they deferred until shifting public opinion made it tenuous not to declare opposition.

As for those who continue to support the president, his wars, his occupations and his doctrine of perpetual war, may whatever deity you confide in (for I am told you are people of faith) forgive you. As you stood with the president, so may you fall. It is very late in the day and there is a price to be paid in blood, treasure and political capital for every moment we continue to prolong the inevitable.

We have lost another war we should never have begun. We have darkened the dignity of the nation. We have dimmed the light of freedom and democracy. We have lowered the flag in mourning and in shame and we have held it to public ridicule.

We cannot regain what we have lost by continuing to prosecute the occupation and expanding the war to other nations under the familiar Vietnam fantasy that just a little more will turn the tide. There is no winning an endless war and the enemy we have chosen to fight (ultimately, the entire universe of Islam) will never yield. We can only hope to limit the damage, make amends and reparations.

Let us begin now, before another life is lost or another dollar cast to the wind, by announcing the withdrawal of all American troops and simultaneously removing the fundamentally flawed Commander-in-Chief that led us tragically astray.

Jack Random is the author of Ghost Dance Insurrection (Dry Bones Press) the Jazzman Chronicles, Volumes I and II. The Chronicles have been published by CounterPunch, the Albion Monitor, FirstPeoplesCentury, Trinicenter, Global Research and other notable sites. The Jazzman Chronicles are available at City Lights Bookstore in SF. Visit his website: www.jackrandom.com.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June05/Random0618.htm

Forum posts

  • EXCELLENT!! EXCELLENT!! LOVE IT! KEEP IT UP!!

  • Everyone I know wants Bush Impeached!!! He stole his two elections illegally!!!
    Bush is terrorizing the Earth and the People of the Earth!!!
    IMPEACH BUSH & ALL HIS BUDDIES NOW !!!
    THE NEWS IN THE U.S. IS CENSORED !!!
    SIGNED: A CURRENT U.S. CITIZEN AND NOT PROUD OF WHAT THE
    CURRENT GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO THE EARTH AND ALL THE CHILDREN OF THE EARTH !

    • Impeachment implies rule of law. "They" rule the law in the U.S. at this point, and will make peaceful insurrection impossible. The time has come for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country. Godspeed, my brothers and sisters. We must not stop now.

    • I believe it was JFK who said. that those who make peaceful insurrection impossible, ensure that violent insurrection is inevitable. It may not be long before there is a second American Revolution, along the lines of the French or Russian, against their own "leaders." Better get ready to duck, those of us in the rest of the world.

  • To Current US Citizen,
    I agree with you 100%. We have an illegaly elected Administration who is killing thousands, screwing the US people, and lying daily about this all! They are not an embarassment to us, as we didn’t elect them, they ae an embarassment to themselves! They have made this Country hated around the World, but I think this is their intent (to induce Armageddon).
    They have divided US into red and blue states to try to get us to hate each other too, because if we love each other we will unite...AGAINST them. They divide, induce fear, and hatred.
    Let’s fight back with cries for peace and loving one another. If we do this, and unite, we will rid the world of this malignancy that is devastating it as we speak!

  • SHAME ON THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!! IT HAS ALLOWED ITSELF TO BE HIGHJACKED BY

  • THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA OF THE CATASTROPHIC JUGGERNAUT THAT IS SOON
    TO STEAMROLL OVER THEM.THERE WAS A TIME WHEN I TRULY WORRIED FOR EACH OF THEM.
    MY CONCERN CEASED ON MARCH 19/03 WHEN THEY ALLOWED THEIR GOVERNMENT TO DROP
    BOMBS ON INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF IRAQ.
    WHEN YOU FIND YOUR LIVELYHOOD TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU,AS IS PLANNED.....IT WILL BE TOO
    LATE TO COMPLAIN.YOU ARE SOON TO BE A COMPLETE POLICE STATE....THERE IS TIME TO
    PREVENT THIS BUT YOU HAVE TO TAKE CHARGE.

  • Bush will never be impeached and never taken out of office.

    The policies as you see them now implemented will live long into the future.

    For anyone to think otherwise is pure fantisy.

  • NATIONALIZE USA OIL PRODUCTION

  • BUSH LIED !
    PEOPLE DIED !
    AMERICAN HIDE ?

    • Send Bush to altar boy school. Then let the priests have a go at him. I love peaches. Especially Im peaches!

  • Bush is a piece of shit and needs to be flushed.

  • For Americans to engage in a pre-emptive strike against another nation is immoral and illegal. To trick Americans into engaging in a pre-emptive strike by manipulation of facts by the president is an impeachable offense. When a lie costs lives it is no longer just a lie. It is murder. Impeach him so we can begin to rebuild American Democracy and restore trust in America.

  • Bush is a lying-murdering piece of shit, the sooner the planet is rid of him the better.

    This was a wake up call to everybody!!

    Now you now the extent governments will go to.

    They could conveniently hide things in the past, by writing fake books and fake history - not any longer.

    Time for and end to Governments - as such.

    Time also to STIGMATISE AL THINGS MILITARY.

    WE DONT NEED THEM!!

    irishdrifter

  • Ah! Like a breath of fresh air!!

    There is so much in this article, but these were my dreams put to words. I knew that the truth could not be supressed. I still worry about the media control, and what this is doing to us. Right now, the victims, the American Public, are being blamed for their lack of interest, and therefore, allowing the Iraq invasion to happen.

    To a certain extent, that is true, but nonetheless, we are the victims of lies. (Even those of us who never bought the administration line on, well, anything.) The media is relentless. They are content to tell us what matters, and therefore, what we care about.

    It is now a completely controlled propaganda matrix, and as such, should be ignored. Even when they tell the truth, there is calculation, and that amounts to lying.

    But it is all beginning to unravel, because as you point out, when the media doesn’t do its job, the public finds what it needs elsewhere, and the internet is quite a thriving community of democratic values.

    If we survive this bloodless coup, it will be because of our freedom of speech, as renewed by a powerful tool: the internet. Long may it live!

  • Yes, the turd must go down the toilet and all the rest of the heads of shite (pronounced shyte) that call themselves the ’administration’. The Democratic party heads of shite must go down too. However, the reality is that a majority of US citizens are revealing that they know that America is on her knees and are willing to aggress against other countries to get the necessary resources to keep afloat.

    This is where the end of the US will lie. Other coutnries are now convinced that the western powers speak with forked tongues and are learning fast that all the past agreements with the behomoth means shite. The logical outcome is that a lot of coutnires are studying how they can become extricated from the sinking flotilla headed by the evil US.

    Adios America, some of us have been expecting your fall for years, now that the time has come
    we are getting ready to have a party, even though economies will be trashed - we will party.

  • It is with great urgency that each and every one of us with the ability to speak out, do so now.

    Demand answers from the local media, television stations, elected local officials, etc. as to why this man has not been held accountable for his crimes against us! The list grows longer with each passing day.

    I can honestly say I am deeply ashmed and utterly disgusted with the lack of attention the corporate media has given we, the public.

    Wake up, and SPEAK OUT, over and over again, until our voices can be heard!