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The impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, should be part of mainstream political discourse.
Minutes from a summer 2002 meeting involving British Prime Minister Tony Blair reveal that the Bush administration was ’’fixing" the intelligence to justify invading Iraq. US intelligence used to justify the war demonstrates repeatedly the truth of the meeting minutes — evidence was thin and needed fixing.
President Clinton was (…)

SIMPLE TRUST
By Peter Fredson
June 1, 2005
I live in a small town where voter apathy is at least 50% and on a rainy day will go even lower. I have very few complaints about the administration of this town. The public utilities are well managed. The water is quite drinkable except when our river gets very low, and then the water smells faintly like the bottom of a fish tank. The streets are swept often, the street lighting is adequate, potholes are fixed fairly soon, trash is removed on (…)

Aggressive followers and participants in U.S. politics often have strong opinions about the Downing Street Minutes. Most other Americans have not heard of or are not clear about what the Downing Street Minutes are.
How is this possible? Here we have the official government minutes from a meeting of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top national security officials, including a briefing by Richard Dearlove, then-director of Britain’s CIA equivalent, MI-6, who had just returned from (…)

WASHINGTON - A British government memo that critics say proves the Bush administration manipulated evidence about weapons of mass destruction in order to carry out a plan to overthrow Saddam Hussein (search) has received little attention in the mainstream media, frustrating opponents of the Iraq war.
The "Downing Street Memo" - first published by The Sunday Times of London on May 1 - summarizes a high-level meeting between Prime Minister Tony Blair (search) and his senior national security (…)

This is an essay containing my own reflections of conversations I had this spring with active duty military persoonnel who have served in Iraq.
I am a Navy Veteran. I served on the U.S.S. Yosemite, and in 1991 was deployed to the Persian gulf as a part of Operation Desert Shield. I recieved an honorable discharge in March of 1993.
At some point during my service in the U.S. military, I realized that my own patriotism was being used against me to do the bidding of the rich elite that had (…)

George Galloway made worldwide headlines on May 17th when he appeared in front of a Senate committee on investigations, after its members accused him of profiteering from Saddam Hussein’s regime by receiving vouchers for oil, despite the fact that such allegations against Galloway had already been proven to be based on forged documents.
Galloway did what no American on Capitol Hill could, he told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Galloway turned the tables and put the (…)

Twenty-five international cartoonists have researched, written, drawn and laid bare the truth on George W. Bush, his family’s dynasty, their sordid business connections and various wars, and the Bush regime itself—in 24 humorous, witty, acerbic, and factual chapters.
A primer to Bushian corruption and malfeasance, The Bush Junta includes chapters on Gulf wars I and II, the S&L scandal, the 2000 presidential coup, the Bush record on the environment and civil liberties, September 11, (…)

As the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) embroils in scandal after scandal, Americans need to re-examine the once revered and tooted federal agency as the protector of public’s health. Although nearly 40% of Americans claimed that their confidence in the FDA has fallen due to the recent revelations, still 70% of Americans believed in the FDA’s ability to ensure the safety of prescription drugs and foods for the consumer market...
http://uniorb.com/RCHECK/Rfda.htm

For the edification of a young writer on the BellaCiao website: "Ratification" is nowhere near the same word nor does it have anywhere near the same meaning as "Declaration." Remember The Constitution? "Congress SHALL declare war." The word "shall" does not allow any wiggle room, at all, but our cowardly Congress has found ways of squirming for more than 50 years, now. The last war that was legally declared by The United States of America was World War II when CONGRESS DECLARED WAR!! (…)

AfterDowningStreet.org is calling them minutes, not memo...
"THE DOWNING STREET MINUTES
If any one looked objectively they would know.
If anyone used a dictionary they would know.
If anyone asked a secretary they would know.
If anyone studied judiciously they would know.
A memo is an inter-office communication.
Minutes are the real-time record of a meeting, whose veracity is checked by all members attending, and are given to all members attending, and must be kept by all (…)