Lindorff: Time for Congress to Stand Up in its Own Defense: Impeach Bush and Cheney Now!

[babylonsister]

Time for Congress to Stand Up in its Own Defense: Impeach Bush and Cheney Now!
by Dave Lindorff | June 6, 2008



The last couple of weeks have brought confirmation--as if it were needed--even in the corporate media, that President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and the gang of thugs and sycophants around them in the White House, engaged in a massive conspiracy to lie the country into a war in Iraq.

The release of a confessional book by former White House press spokesman Scott McClellan and the subsequent release of a long blocked report by the Senate Intelligence Committee make it clear that Bush, Cheney & Company deliberately lied to Congress and the American public back in 2002 and early 2003 about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein (there was none). McClellan also states that Bush and Cheney conspired to "out" CIA undercover operative Valerie Plame Wilson, as part of a compaign to prevent her husband from exposing a major part of that campaign of lies: the claim that Saddam Hussein was seeking to build nuclear weapons.

It would be hard to overstate the extent of or the damage caused by these crimes that are now exposed to the light of day.

Beginning in 2001, making the most cynical use of the tragic killing of nearly 3000 Americans in the 9-11 attacks, Bush and Cheney moved to aggrandize as much power as possible in the executive, and then, to consolidate that power grab, engineered a full-scale war against Iraq, enabling them to claim that any opponent of their dictatorial usurpation of power was a traitor to the nation.

It was all a lie.

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http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/15089

[spanone]

1. k&r any and all impeachment threads

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.

[O.M.B.inOhio]

3. People misunderstand the word Executive.

It's often thought of as highest or elite, as in company executives or executive suite. They say, "who do you want to run the country?" as if the rest of the government is working for the president
Well it's Congress that makes the laws, and the president and his branch of government's job is to execute the laws. So if anybody *had* to be considered the boss among the equal branches, it would be more accurate to say that the president works for Congress.

It's not too late to impeach the murderous usurpers!

[LakeSamish706]

4. Sorry gang, but this miserable bunch that we have representing us...

in Congress do not have the stomach for Impeaching this gang.. The bottom line is that they are afraid of the Bush Administration.....

[kiteinthewind]

5. K and R!

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