Articles of impeachment and indictment for high crimes and misdemeanors

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http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/399/15937_impeachment.html

<snip>Saddam Hussein, for example, represented a recognizable form of evil with his overt use of repression, torture and murder. Yet during the Cold War Hussein's evil was perfectly acceptable to, and even encouraged by, the United States government. Only after Hussein's usefulness to the United States expired did his evil arouse members of the Bush dictatorship, lusting for war and eager to disseminate their lies about Iraq's alleged "weapons of mass destruction," and Hussein's alleged "connection" to the events of September 11th.

George W. Bush and his criminal cabal, however, represent a more seductive, and therefore more dangerous, form of evil. This is the evil that deceives people into thinking that by supporting wrongdoing they are somehow supporting righteousness, that waging a war based upon lies somehow encourages peace and honesty, that creating the conditions for terrorism to thrive somehow "combats" terrorism, that promoting oppression somehow supports freedom, and that engaging in immoral and/or criminal conduct somehow makes one a moral person.

During the build-up to the illegal invasion of Iraq, some, particularly in the foreign media, accused Bush of wanting war simply for the sake of war. Yet even "mainstream" newspapers that opposed the war dismissed this statement as hyperbole. What these newspapers overlooked in their dismissal, however, were the two psychological characteristics of George W. Bush that make him the exemplar of the seductive brand of evil.

First, he is the epitome of the classic "bullying coward," always willing to spew bellicose bluster as long as somebody else is doing the fighting and the dying. From the safety of the White House, one of the most fortified buildings in the world, he recklessly increased the risk to American troops by challenging Iraqi insurgents to "bring it on." Yet, during the Vietnamese war, he did not hesitate to use his parent"s wealth and influence to avoid combat duty.

Second, he is a megalomaniac with delusions of being remembered as an Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Roosevelt, boldly leading the nation through a time of crisis-a crisis which, not surprisingly, he and his minions helped to create. When British Prime Minister Tony Blair chose to ally himself with Bush's form of evil, it was the innocents in his nation who suffered.

[WearyOne]

1. Impeachment : "bring it on"

[Why Syzygy]

2. well said .. n/t