Tapes just released show LBJ accusing Nixon of treason

[proud2BlibKansan]

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2998

Attention, all ye who oppose impeaching Bush. What revelations 40 years from now will prove it was wrong not to prosecute him and Cheney for war crimes?

When will we ever learn?

[spanone]

1. torture is enough evidence to prosecute bu$h* and cheney NOW. not in 40 years.

T O R T U R E

[prairierose]

2. This story just undelines for me, the necessity of ...

prosecutions now. Because LBJ would not say this in public,Nixon and his gang went on to win the election. Reagan then used a similar gambit to beat Carter in the 1980 election. And then of course we did not really prosecute the Iran/Contra crimes because again, the country needed healing. Which in turn lead to the growing power of the rw noise machine and that takes us to ****.

Look at the crimes that have been committed by this bunch. If earlier crimes of Nixon or Reagan had been prosecuted, maybe these guys would not have felt so bold to commit all of the different crimes that they have in the last eight years.

But more importantly, this time the whole world really knows that this regime committed war crimes and unless we prosecute them, I believe that others will. I think the result of that will be that the world will think badly of us for not having the courage to face the crimes that have been committed in our name.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Amen

[izquierdista]

4. Further than that

AS long as you are considering "ifs", how about if Prescott Bush was prosecuted for treason and spent some time in jail as a Nazi collaborator? No Senate seat for him, no start to George H.W.'s career, maybe Dubya would be where he belongs -- drunk in the gutter.

[Thothmes]

13. What if LBJ

had been prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned for his war in Vietnam. Maybe we would not have had Gulf I or II.

[malaise]

5. Lock up the war criminals

right fucking now!

[justinaforjustice]

6. Thank You For Linking To This Very Timely Interview.

We need to know this history so we don't allow it to be repeated.

President Johnson told Republican Senate leader, Everett Dirksen, that he knew then presidential candidate, Richard Nixon, was actively negotiating with the Vietnamese to postpone their participation in the Vietnam War Peace Conference in order to allow Nixon to win the 1968 election against Democrat Hubert Humphrey. Johnson had the evidence but decided not to use it because it might "shock Americans".

The Republicans, unexposed and unpunished, went on to do exactly the same thing in connection with President Carter's re-election campaign. Former President George Bush, then Reagan's vice-presidential running-mate, actively participated in meetings with Iranian representatives to successfully convince the Iranians to hold off releasing the 100 American hostages seized during Carter's first term. The Iranians agreed, Reagan won the election and the Iranians released the hostages on the very day of his inauguration. The thugs in the Reagan administration, led by Vice-President Bush, then went on to negotiate the illegal sale of arms to Iran in order to fund their illegal support for the illegal rebellion against the elected government in Nicaragua, known as the Iran-Contra scandal.

Most of those Reagan government officials who participated in the illegal Iran-Contra arms operations were also unpunished and went on to play key roles in the current Bush administration.

We have to prosecute all the illegalities committed by the Bush-Cheney administration in order to stop, once and for all, this whole sale devastation of our U.S. Constitution. If we do not prosecute these crooks, they will rise again to further destroy our democracy.

[slipslidingaway]

7. Thanks, here is Part 2...thru the October Surprise, Iran Contra, Iraq

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=3005

Yes, when will ever learn.

:(

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Excellent! I didn't realize there was a part 2

[slipslidingaway]

12. Important videos ...kick n/t

[Pastiche423]

8. I don't think we will ever learn

At least not in my lifetime. :cry:

[blogslut]

10. kick

Wow, just when I thought old Dick couldn't be any more of a monster...

[Wednesdays]

11. K and R nt

[slipslidingaway]

14. Kick n/t