Damning evidence can't be ignored (Op-Ed from AfterDowningStreet.org)

[Brotherjohn]

I hope this isn't a dupe. The founder of and a consultant for AfterDowningStreet.org (David Swanson and Jonathan Schwarz, respectively) have published a strongly worded Op-Ed in today's Baltimore Sun. It says all the right things. A sample (my emphasis):

"Anyone who follows the news will not be surprised. A long list of whistleblowers, including former Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill and former National Security Council official Richard Clarke, have reported that the Bush administration was obsessed with regime change in Iraq from Day One and regarded 9/11 as an opportunity to put its plans into action. Removing Mr. Hussein was in the 2000 Republican Party platform. Bush administration misuse of intelligence has been well documented."

"But the Downing Street minutes and other recently leaked documents illustrate that the intelligence was wrong by design. The documents show officials at the apex of the government of our closest ally confirming among themselves what were the darkest suspicions about the Iraq war among ordinary Americans."

"The evidence suggests that Mr. Bush has lied to Congress and to the American people about the justifications for war. It includes a formal letter and report that he submitted to Congress within 48 hours of launching the invasion in which he explained the need for the war in terms that appear to have been intentionally falsified, not mistaken."

"Lying to Congress is a felony. Either lying to Congress about the need to go to war is a high crime, or nothing is."

Link: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.downing15jun15,1,7761169.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true

[indepat]

1. Since the prevailing mindset is a Repug president must be allowed to

do whatever he wishes, nothing is a high crime, for: he is not above the law in their eyes, he is the law.

[Im with Rosey]

2. We will be seeing more and more

I hope we are all encouraged by this piece. Sometimes we can get some attention. Perhaps other newspapers will see that Baltimore Sun hasn't been shut down, bombed or otherwise destroyed for showing some independence and nerve to print the truth. We can only hope this shows the worm is turning.

[geckosfeet]

3. I know he lied. So does anyone who can understand english.

The question, will we be able to get congress and the senate to impeach? And impeach not only shrubbish, but the others complicit in the grand lie.

I feel that there are many republicans in congress and the senate who are inlcined to let it slide.