http://observer.bard.edu/articles/opinions/229Impeachment without BlowjobsBY JESSE MYERSON
After nearly six years of investigating the matter, I have finally disappointingly determined that President Bush has
never committed the ultimate impeachable offense: getting dome on the job (if a congressman did this, would it be called “getting a job in the dome?”). My suspicion, for what it’s worth, is still that the reason behind this is just that
it’s never been offered to him, and that were it ever, the president would criminally accept. But I’m not one for pre-emptive justice, or for conviction on the basis of guesswork. No, instead, in my quest for impeachment I have, by incident, compiled a list of more minor crimes which, while by no means as egregious as what that wretched, wretched Clinton fellow did, might, taken in whole, constitute grounds for impeachment. Indulge me.
1. President Bush and his administration manipulated intelligence in order to go to war with Iraq. There were no WMD’s. There were no links to Al Qaeda. There was no depleted uranium from Niger. To believe that all this “faulty intelligence” fell into the laps of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, you have to believe beyond proof that they did not come into power wanting to go to war with Iraq. Simply go to the website of Project for the New American Century, and read their reports to disabuse yourself of such a notion (members of PNAC include Cheney, Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush, Paul Wolfowitz and others). For a full account of this atrocity, refer to Rep. John Conyers’ (D-MI) report: “The Constitution in Crisis; The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Cover-ups in the Iraq War.”
2. He is illegally spying…
maybe even on you. The top-secret National Security Agency was, by President Bush’s recommendation, spying on Americans, without warrants. By the statutes of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Security Act (FISA), this is strictly prohibited—in fact, part of the argument for Nixon’s impeachment was that very offense. The FISA court, whose sole purpose is to hand out warrants in an extremely speedy and often even retroactive manner, has received 19,000 requests since 1979 and denied just five.
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5. His administration
was complicit in and continues to benefit from the September 11 attacks on New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. Since November 22, 1963 (when, in Dallas, the then President’s brains were blown to little tiny pieces) every poll has indicated that roughly one-third of the population believes the government’s official account of the transpired events. And for good reason: you’d be nuts to believe such obvious poppycock. You’d be equally nuts to believe the government’s official account of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. So far, the best challenge of the official account is a wonderful and easily read book, David Ray Griffin’s
“The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11.” It’s not just a good idea to read this book;
it’s your patriotic duty.more@link
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