http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2007/6/1/83722/23119Bush Causes Cancer -- Still No Impeachmentby Steven D
Fri Jun 1st, 2007 at 08:37:22 AM EST
9/11 happened om George Bush's watch. Who can forget those seven minutes of stunned silence. while he listened to the reading of "My Pet Goat." But then he moved into action. Spoke with a bullhorn atop a mound of rubble at the site of the World Trade Center to rally America. Told us to go shopping to fight terrorism. Told the rest of the world "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
And ordered the EPA to lie to the World Trade Center volunteers, firefighters, police, other workers and residents in and around the massive clean-up site that the toxic stew of air to which they were exposed was perfectly safe to breathe.
Now those same, trusting, heroic people are getting cancer as a result of that lie. By the boatload:
NEW YORK - The head of the largest program tracking the health of World Trade Center site workers said several have developed rare blood cell cancers, raising fears that cancer will become a “third wave” of illnesses among those exposed to toxic dust after Sept. 11.
Dr. Robin Herbert, co-director of the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program at Mount Sinai Medical Center, said researchers who have screened 20,000 of the estimated 40,000 ground zero workers are “most concerned” about lymphatic and blood cancer cases.
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Under the criminal law, when someone takes an action that it he or she knows is likely to harm or kill another human being, we call that "a depraved indifference to human life" and such people can be prosecuted for premeditated murder in most states. That is what George Bush and/or others in his administration did when they lied to the 9/11 workers and the people who resided in lower Manhattan. They understood that the toxins released into the air by the attack on the Two Towers on 9/11/2001 were likely to cause respiratory illnesses and cancers among those living and working in the effected area, yet they still deliberately ordered th EPA to lie about these serious health hazards to human life. If that doesn't qualify as "depraved indifference" I don't know what does.
Last I heard, I President responsible for murdering innocent US civilians would have committed a "high crime and misdemeanor" justifying his impeachment. So why aren't we proceeding with an impeachment investigation, or a murder investigation? Someone at the White House gave this order, and I suspect only the President of the United States had the authority to override the decisions of Christie Todd Whitman, head of the EPA and one of the members of his Cabinet. So I ask once more: Why isn't the House of Representatives investigating this lie, which has killed, and will kill more, innocent Americans as possible grounds for impeaching President Bush?
I guess IOKIYAR* also applies to the intentional murder of Americans.
* IOKIYAR is an acronym for the phrase "It's okay if your a Republican."
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