Administration's Offenses Impeachable

[Jon8503]

by Robert Shetterly
June 05, 2005
Bangor Daily News

Let's consider an item from the news of about two weeks ago:

A British citizen leaked a memo to London's Sunday Times. The memo was of the written account of a meeting that a man named Richard Dearlove had with the Bush administration in July 2002. Dearlove was the head of the England's MI-6, the equivalent of the CIA. On July 23, 2002, Dearlove briefed Tony Blair about the meeting. He said that Bush was determined to attack Iraq. He said that Bush knew that U.S. intelligence had no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and no links to foreign terrorists, that there was no imminent danger to the U.S. from Iraq. But, since Bush was determined to go to war, "Intelligence and facts are being fixed around the policy." "Fixed" means faked, manufactured, conjured, hyped - the product of whole cloth fabrication.

So we got aluminum tubes, mushroom clouds imported from Niger, biological weapons labs in weather trucks, fear and trembling, the phony ultimatums to Saddam Hussein to turn over the weapons he didn't have and thus couldn't. We got the call to arms, the stifling of dissent, the parade of retired generals strategizing on the "news" shows, with us or against us, flags in the lapel, a craven media afraid to look for a truth that might disturb their corporate owners who would profit from the war. Shock and Awe. Fallujah. Abu Ghraib.

It was all a lie. Many of us have said for a long time it was a lie. But here it is in black and white: Lies from a president who has taken a sacred trust to uphold the Constitution of the United States.

So, what does it mean? It means that our president and all of his administration are war criminals. It's as simple as that. They lied to the American people, have killed and injured and traumatized thousands of American men and women doing their patriotic duty, killed at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians, destroyed Iraq's infrastructure and poisoned its environment, squandered billions and billions of our tax dollars, made a mockery of American integrity in the world, changed the course of history, tortured Iraqi prisoners, and bound us intractably to an insane situation that they have no idea how to fix because they had no plan, but greed and empire, in the first place.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=4...

[whistle]

1. Is Richard Dearlove the person identified as "C" on the....

...copyline of Rycroft's memo to his boss then?

[SteppingRazor]

2. Yeah, and?

I completely agree that the entire lot should be thrown out on their collective asses for breaking the War Crimes Act. But who's gonna do it? Conyers? Not with solid Republican majorities in the House and Senate.

[Just Me]

3. It would serve the survival of the Republican party to prosecute,...

,..."high crimes and misdemeanors". Otherwise, they risk losing all influence and power.

[SteppingRazor]

4. Only if backed into a corner.

Only if evidence is irrefutable and incontrovertable would Republicans jump from the Bush admin. like rats from a sinking ship. We have not reached that point in their eyes, or even in the eyes of the vast majority of Americans.