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When is a leader not a leader? When no one follows him.
If Bush remains in office, soon masses of people will just stop following him. He is no longer our leader. He has no moral authority left.
If Bush orders troops to deploy and they don't, we will have reached a situation that has gone too far. When he orders a nuclear strike -- well, in that case, I would certainly hope the troops would mutiny. We cannot allow it to come to that.
This has been a war to reward those who have foot the bill for Mr. Bush's rise to power. This war was about creating business opportunities for war profiteers. This war was about Dick Cheney's retirement account. Oh, did that scumbucket ever get his bread in the gravy while it was good and hot.
None of that has anything to do with national security. None of that has anything to do with fighting terrorism. None of that is worth the life on one American soldier or one Iraqi civilian, let alone thousand or hundreds of thousands.
What was this war about? It certainly wasn't about weapons of mass destruction of Saddam's support of Islamist terrorism. Bush and Cheney knew this. We have the Downing Street documents; the word of several intelligence officers, such as former CIA station chief Tyler Drumheller, that intelligence contradicting the regime's case for war was buried; the word of former US anti-terroism chief Richard Clarke that his assessments of Iraq's ties to terrorist (or lack of them, as the case may be) were ignored; the prewar assessment of Scott Ridder, the former UN chief weapons inspector, that Iraq could not possibly have had an effective weapons program in the Autumn of 2002 or the Spring of 2003; we have IAEA director Mohamad ElBarradei's assessment that the Niger document is a fraud; we have Ambassador Wilson's statements that he found no evidence pf attempts by the Iraqi government to buy yellow cake in Niger; we have the reaction of the White House to Ambassador Wilson's disclosures, which was not an attempt to set the record straight or admit error, but to assassinate Mr. Wilson's character and destroy his wife's career at the CIA; we have the reports of Cheney and Libby going to Langley on a frequent basis in order to intimidate analysts into saying what they and Bush wanted to hear; and we have the very existence of the Office of Special Plans in Pentagon, run by Douglas Feith, which edited ambiguity out of defense intelligence reports in order to make doubts about Iraq's military capabilities sound like certain threats.
The evidence strongly supports a pattern of deception, misrepresentation of facts, and outright lies. All of these are impeachable offenses and some even rise to the level of war crimes.
Bush is becoming more and more unstable and more and more dangerous. He has done enough damage to the body politic. And Mr. Cheney, too, is desperate to keep his crimes under the cover of darkness.
It's time for Bush and Cheney to leave.
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