November 23, 2006


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

BUSH THE DESTROYER

Today there was a devastating attack in Iraq's Sadr City. I wonder if we'll hear Dick Cheney or some other right-wing mouthpiece telling us that the insurgency is in its "last throes." The neocons who wanted this war so badly, who lied and manipulated to get us into it, have written one of the darkest pages of our history. The attacks on 9/11 and all that has happened since show the utter folly and outright criminality of this administration. The attacks on 9/11 were horrific and devastating, but Bush's actions since have magnified the damage beyond belief. We've thrown our principles overboard by "preemptively" attacking a country. We've lied, we've tortured, we've enriched greedy war profiteers. We are responsible for the deaths of innocent people. This column by Chris Floyd is at www.smirkingchimp.com:

Short of an all-out nuclear attack, no enemy of the United States today could have ever damaged the nation as badly as Bush has done with his Terror War. No enemy could have deranged America's core constitutional system as badly as Bush has done, turning the government into a lurid perversion of its founding principles. No enemy could have bled America's treasury as dry has Bush has done; not even World War II or the half-century of Cold War left the nation as bankrupt and debt-ridden as it is today, its economy left completely at the mercy of foreign bondholders. No enemy could have devised a better program for undermining the security, solvency and liberty of the United States than Bush's "War on Terror" has proved to be.

So what should be we thankful for today? (In the public sphere that is; I'm not talking here of personal matters.) Perhaps only this: that we have not yet seen the worst of what Bush's Terror War will inflict upon us, and the world.