Reagan Republican Calls for Bush Impeachment

[ozymandius]

It is difficult for a conservative to argue against another conservative - especially if the accuser stood upon the conservative mountaintop.

link to diary page at Kos

link to original column

A Reputation in Tatters

George W. Bush and his gang of neocon warmongers have destroyed America’s reputation. It is likely to stay destroyed, because at this point the only way to restore America’s reputation would be to impeach and convict President Bush for intentionally deceiving Congress and the American people in order to start a war of aggression against a country that posed no threat to the United States.

America can redeem itself only by holding Bush accountable.

As intent as Republicans were to impeach President Bill Clinton for lying about a sexual affair, they have a blind eye for President Bush’s far more serious lies. Bush’s lies have caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people, injured and maimed tens of thousands more, devastated a country, destroyed America’s reputation, caused 1 billion Muslims to hate America, ruined our alliances with Europe, created a police state at home, and squandered $300 billion dollars and counting.

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Abundant evidence now exists in the public domain to convict George W. Bush of the crime of the century. The secret British government memo (dated July 23, 2002, and available here), leaked to the Sunday Times (which printed it on May 1, 2005), reports that Bush wanted "to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. . . . But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbors, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran. . . . The (United Kingdom) attorney general said that the desire for regime change was not a legal base for military action. There were three possible legal bases: self-defense, humanitarian intervention or UNSC (U.N. Security Council) authorization. The first and second could not be the base in this case. Relying on UNSCR 1205 of three years ago would be difficult."

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[autorank]

1. If NANCY endorses this, Bush might as well pack his bags!

[thereismore]

6. 2007, no earlier. n/t

[bunny planet]

13. Why not before 2007? Perhaps the Republicans want to try and get safely

re-elected in 2006 before they give up der Shrub.

Bad calculation. He will run the party into the ground well before then.

[thereismore]

36. Yes but

technically we need a majority in the House Judiciary committee to bring the articles of impeachment. So in order for that to happen, we need to win in Nov 2006, which puts impeachment hearings into 2007. Just technical reasons is all.

[understandinglife]

16. Most definitely. Anyone able to get a copy to her?

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[autorank]

26. Nancy would go beyond my theory of "management" resigning *

It would be like heaven, Nancy turns on * and delivers the coup de grace, evens the score for messing with Ronnie and all the other people who would benefit from stem cell research. She can cloak it in any issue or combination of issues she'd like. My :tinfoilhat: theory is that * is just to dangerous for major factions of "management" -- you know "them". They've had enough, they'll free CM (corporate media) to go after him and then just like Nixon -- Cheney goes, we get a pseudo-competent VP and * is "resigned."

Nancy is the fantasy league choice, however, because she could nail the sucker with one shot.

I've always wondered if Ron Jr. is a stalking horse for her. OK, stop it auto, you're getting carried away.

:hi:

[understandinglife]

28. I emailed Mr Reagan and requested that he read the information ...

...in this thread and in the "America ceased" thread that I started yesterday.

I requested that he call for the indictment and prosecution of Mr Bush, Mr Cheney and others. And, I requested that he share the information with First Lady Reagan.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[autorank]

30. Thanks! Geez, all I did was get som Elections stuff to Jim Lampley

LAMPLEY ROCKS ON ELECTION FRAUD, RON JR. PLEASE READ THIS

Then read the TruthIsAll Tribute Thread to Mr. Lampley

Compendium of TruthIsAll Election Fraud Analysis for Jim Lampley & Everybody

Peace to you too Understandinglife!

[ET Awful]

2. The comments to the article at the original site are interesting too

http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/roberts.cgi/American%20Empire/A_Reputation_in_Tat.writeback

There are some thinking conservatives out there it would appear.

[CottonBear]

4. Clyde Wilson wrote:

"If attacking another country at discretion without a declaration of war is not impeachable, what is?"

So true, Mr. Wilson.

[tk2kewl]

12. That's because all repugs aren'e neoNaziCons

but the elected ones don't seem to have the nuts to stand up to the boy king

[autorank]

31. Heres a prominent Republican who wants Bush Impeached (Reagan appointee)

Whenever I can't get my anti-* red meat on DU, I check this former Reagan Treasury Official's columns out. He's wired into the Reagan Republican establishment, big time, and

Enough Evidence to Impeach

[bunny planet]

15. Very interesting and refreshing to read the comments of intelligent

conservatives in response to the article. I wish more of them would get involved. They know we've all been had just as liberals and progressives do. They are also horrified at what has been done in our name.

[splat@14]

29. Great link. Its good to see the light, however dim, come on for someone.

n/t

[bpilgrim]

34. that is why i try to always make the distinction of calling them neoCONs

i have plenty of conservative neighbors and friends up here in NH who aren't fooled by these thugs and are mad as hell over the LIES to get us into war.

i am still reading but haven't seen anyone talk about rummy's OSP, yet.
that coupled with the UK memo leaves no doubt that they fixed Intel to LIE to Americans to sell them on their ILLEGAL PREVENTIVE WAR, which even if he did have a WMD program wouldn't justify an invasion.

as the UN said, this war was ILLEGAL and when will our Dem leaders call them on it? since they most of them voted for it they may feel compromised but now that is cleared that they were lied to they have PLENTY of political cover, wtf r they waiting for another 911 to pull the neoCONs a$$es out the fire :crazy:

thanks for sharing that, very interesting read :toast:

peace

[CottonBear]

3. The author is named Paul Craig Roberts.

He is the John M. Olin fellow at the Institute for Political Economy, a research fellow at the Independent Institute, and senior
research fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Interesting.

[murielkane]

39. He seems to have Paleocon affiliations

Not exactly a Pat Buchanan type, but something in that general direction. Traditionalism, elitism -- not a very appealing political style under most circumstances. But people of that stripe are coming to absolutely despise Bush and what Bush is doing to this country. And that is all to the good.

[RobertSeattle]

5. We are at war?

Read my sig block...

[Liberty Belle]

7. kicking and nominating...This is very important.

We need to blast this out to the media, and also to every Congressional representative, Republicans and Democrats.

Remind Republicans who voted to impeach Clinton for lying about sex that lying to falsify justifications for war is a far more serious offense. They've already established that lying is a valid basis for impeachment, so what are they waiting for? There is no room for such hypocrisy with our children's futures at stake.

[rndmprsn]

8. wow...this is big huh?

an olin fellow and hoover inst fellow...real red-meat conservative wants bush impeached...good for him and for us if it happens...i agree tho, only impeachment at a minimum will restore any respect to the US

[tk2kewl]

14. Impeachment and imprisonment

then we are whole, and neoNaziCons will think twice

[ixion]

9. duly kicked and nominated... BushCo must be held accountable

I'm glad to see true conservatives standing up for the truth. I can disagree with them, but respect them for their integrity. This band of felons and thugs and hoodlums has no integrity whatsoever. :grr:


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:patriot:

[RedEarth]

10. We all need to mention the word "Impeachment" to everyone we

communicate with....emails to friends, media, etc...I've done it by saying, "what's this talk about people wanting Bush impeached"...then I go on and mention the British memo. The responses have been interesting. I think if enough of us continue to bring it up, perhaps, just perhaps it might start getting mentioned through-out the media....we can only hope.

[Vincardog]

20. There is a thought goggle bomb Impeach the Chimp and the British Minutes

[geckosfeet]

38. google "impeach Bush"

Thats an idea,,,, a mass yahoo/google search for "impeach Bush".

[bunny planet]

11. Kicked and nominated.

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[Larkspur]

17. I first heard about this on the Randi Rhodes show last night on the

way home from work.

Wow! What a column!

If a Dem had said this, the Media and the Repukes would have demanded a retraction from him/her, and if Howard Dean had said this, he would have been called a "loose cannon" by the DLC and the timid House Dems.

[Larkspur]

18. I sent the URL to this column to the DNC via their website email.

Hope Dean can use it on his Sunday appearance on MTP.

[ooglymoogly]

19. bush, cheny,hastart

all crooks and if impeached, who comes next....looks like 2007 should be the goal.....kicked and recommended

[Kurovski]

24. Yep. All of 'em.

Removing George just gets rid of the figurehead.

Otherwise, it makes him a scapegoat, as it were.

The sooner, the better.

[BigBearJohn]

21. OUTSTANDING -- sending to my ENTIRE mailing list!!!

[LiviaOlivia]

22. Thank you Sir. Excellent find.

Sent copies to all my brainwashed relatives in Utah and Colorado.

[rodeodance]

23. Abundant evidence now exists in the public domain to convict W

powerful stuff



..........Abundant evidence now exists in the public domain to convict George W. Bush of the crime of the century.

[Az_lefty]

25. The chimp and his war mongering admin should be impeached

and jailed immediately. I have several repug friends who can't stand bush but wouldn't vote for Kerry because "He's a librul, you know".

[jbfam4]

27. I have several repug friends who can't stand bush but wouldn't vote for

Kerry because they said KERRY was too dangerous.

[Triana]

32. Excellent! What he says out the job oursourcing hype is too

The next section...about outsourcing, is really good as well.

[paparush]

33. Kick !

Outstanding!

[ozymandius]

35. A gentle reminder of what the administration knew and when.

POWELL, 2/24/2001: “He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors” “The Iraqi regime militarily remains fairly weak. It doesn't have the capacity it had 10 or 12 years ago. It has been contained.”

RICE, 7/29/01 “He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.”

VICE PRES.CHENEY: Saddam Hussein's bottled up. "In my time at Centcom, I watched the intelligence, and never -- not once -- did it say, 'He has WMD.'“

GEN. ZINNI, Wash. Post, 12/23/03 "There is no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons or where Iraq has or will establish its chemical warfare agent production facilities." Defense Intelligence Agency, 9/2002, USN&WR

[LightningFlash]

37. Bush has got to go now....

The radicals no longer care for his puppet exploits, and nobody wants to see the likes of Ralph Reed be president of the U.S....Who is really controlling Bush.

Dick Cheney you had might as well become president so we can all rip the rest of your reputation to shreds. Dick Cheney is an evil corporate emporer, reigned in by the promises of weapon and defense contractors abroad....

Convict and remove George W. Bush but remember the real evil will need to be CONVICTED itself, and thrown out of office.