Open letter: Nancy Pelosi, You Must Impeach!

[laststeamtrain]

Nancy Pelosi, You Must Impeach!

By Richard Behan

When people who honestly believe a lie
learn the truth, they will either cease believing,
or they will cease being honest.

--anonymous

17/01/08 "Counterpunch" --- - Speaker Pelosi, President Bush could have achieved his goal of "regime change" in Iraq quickly and without the violence of war. Saddam Hussein offered, weeks before his country was invaded, to leave Iraq and go into exile. President Bush withheld this offer from public view-and refused it. Nor did the President need to invade Afghanistan to apprehend Osama bin Laden. On five different occasions, George Bush refused a standing offer from the Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden-three times before 9/11 and twice thereafter, again without public disclosure.

No, the military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan are not directed against terrorism. They are territorial in nature. Mr. Bush intended from his first days in office to invade the two countries: as early as late January, 2001, his Administration was developing the decisions and beginning the preparations for both military incursions. 9/11 was in the distant future, so the conflicts cannot be exercises in counter-terrorism, as the Bush Administration frequently and dishonestly insists. They are premeditated wars of unprovoked conquest and occupation.

Madam Speaker, if you know this, and if you continue refusing impeachment, then you are a criminal accomplice in violating the trust of the American people-and in violating both U.S. and international law.

If you do not know this truth about the wars, Madam Speaker, you must learn its details and embrace it, and then you must seek with dispatch and justice to impeach George Bush and Richard Cheney.

You claim you don't have the votes. But to say that is to canvass the jury before the trial begins, before the evidence is presented and scrutinized. When the hideous truth of these wars is finally exposed-as it will be in the impeachment process-you will have the vote of every honest and patriotic member of the House of Representatives, Democrat and Republican alike.

Why isn't the truth already widely known? There are two reasons. The Bush Administration is infamous for its pathological lying and secrecy: they have done everything in their power to distort or suppress the truth. And the mainstream press has become an engine of entertaining, not informing the American people: it is indifferent to the truth.

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19095.htm

[midnight]

1. She has her ear plugs in.

[Kikosexy2]

4. She doesn't work...

for us anymore...so you know very well to kick her fancy ass out of Washington come next election...she's done!!!

[NanceGreggs]

2. Rec'd ...

... and :kick:

[davidwparker]

3. "you are a criminal accomplice" - She (they) already are. Therefore, no

impeachment.

It will not be possible to get * and his administration. The best we can do is to Vote the Vishy Dems out of office. Unless there is a Kucinich presidency, you can forget about getting them after the fact. Clinton showed that he wasn't interested in getting the * crime family for Iran/Contra. Does anybody thing Hillary will do differently? Heavens. Bill was ready to travel around the world with the head of the snake himself.

I would like to think an Edwards administration would do post-administration prosecutions. If Obama is the Constitutional scholar, one would hope he would as well.

[classysassy]

5. Both parties

are in this together,evict all congress critters in office and replace them with honest men and women,we sure don't have honest people in charge of our government at the present time.

[FiveGoodMen]

6. I'd wholeheartedly agree...but are you sure we've got any honest ones to put forward?

[pat_k]

7. Kick!

[Xenotime]

8. She ain't.. All she can think about is toufu in the cafe