Bush administration as dangerous now as before (Toronto Star)

[kurth]

The crises engulfing the White House could not have come a day too soon, considering the consistent and blatant abuse of power by the Bush administration over five years. The indictment against Lewis Libby, chief of staff to Dick Cheney, and the ongoing investigation of Karl Rove, the top political adviser to George W. Bush, speak to more than the crime of outing a secret CIA agent.

That was just a small part of a broad pattern of deceit and double standards set by the president and his cabal of ideologues. Their mode of governance has been to do whatever they could get away with, including waging an unwarranted war on false pretences by fixing intelligence and exploiting public fears.

Libby was part of the neo-con clique of Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz (now at the World Bank), John Bolton (at the United Nations), Zalmay Khalizad (current envoy to Iraq) and others who, in the 1990s, called for invading Iraq to preserve "U.S. access to oil" and to foster the safety of "friends and allies like Israel." Once in power, they wasted little time after 9/11 to put the Iraq plan into action, and fixed the facts to justify it. Hence, the tall tales of Saddam Hussein's ties to Al Qaeda, his weapons of mass destruction and the phoney story of nuclear cake from Niger, which is what CIA agent Valerie Plame's husband Joseph Wilson discredited, only to see a vengeful White House blow her cover.

The probe into Libby and Rove will mean something only if it serves as the start of a process of holding this administration fully accountable for the deaths of 2,000 Americans and between 30,000 and 100,000 Iraqis, and the torture of hundreds in American detention centres. The people who gave us Iraq are now targeting Syria and Iran, and are likely to get more belligerent in the days ahead to divert attention from their mounting domestic woes...

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[flyarm]

1. thank you canucks for the truth!! too bad we don't get it stateside! n/t

[cliss]

2. Yes, of course this is true.

Does anybody expect them to suddenly become honorable, now that the shit is hitting the fan? Not on your life.

They don't think like the rest of us. To them, every day that they get to walk into the White House and make decisions, is SUCCESS. As long as they are not thrown out or thrown in jail, THEY ARE ON TOP. Morals have nothing to do with it. Decency, networking, and working with their allies is meaningless to them.

We have to realize that.

[drduffy]

3. nicely put..

I always get frustrated when people talk about the neoconistas as if ther were potentially humane or thought about issues in the same ethical framework as the rest of us. You said the truth better than I could have...

[Vidar]

4. Thank you, Canada.

[EuroObserver]

5. Recommending for accuracy and succinctness n/t