May 09, 2008

IMPEACH BUSH

IMPEACH CHENEY

MCCAIN THE RIGHT-WINGER

If you hear about John McCain's "straight talk," or how he's a "maverick," beware. It's on a par with the "compassionate conservatism" we heard from George W. Bush back in 2000. An analysis of McCain's voting record shows he votes very far to the right on most issues. This article by Ronald J. Hansen is at www.azcentral.com:

Over the years, Sen. John McCain has publicly condemned Republican Party leaders and occasionally voted against the GOP on selected issues.
But an Arizona Republic analysis of his Senate votes on the most divided issues in the past decade shows that McCain almost never thwarted his party's objectives.

The presumptive Republican nominee arguably cast the decisive vote 14 times since 1999 to ensure Republicans got their way, and he had five other close cases where his vote may have made a difference, Senate records show. By comparison, McCain effectively handed Democrats a win on roll-call votes four times in the same period. On one of those occasions, Republicans could still have won if Vice President Dick Cheney had cast a tie-breaking vote.

BUSH'S MURDEROUS RECORD

Serial killers like Ted Bundy gain notoriety and infamy for killing ten or twenty people. That is heinous. But leaders of governments who are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people get lauded as heroic. The evidence is clear that George W. Bush deliberately lied the United States into war. He proceeded with full knowledge of what he was doing. He has been responsible for the deaths of over 4,000 U. S. military and possibly as many as one million Iraqi civilians. If there were any justice, Bush would be prosecuted for murder. This article by Vincent Bugliosi is at www.commondreams.org:

In his first nationally televised address on the Iraqi crisis on October 7, 2002, six days after receiving the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), a classified CIA report, President Bush told millions of Americans the exact opposite of what the CIA was telling him -a monumental lie to the nation and the world.
On the evening of October 7, 2002, the very latest CIA intelligence was that Hussein was not an imminent threat to the U.S. This same information was delivered to the Bush administration as early as October 1, 2002, in the NIE, including input from the CIA and 15 other U.S. intelligence agencies. In addition, CIA director George Tenet briefed Bush in the Oval Office on the morning of October 7th.

According to the October 1, 2002 NIE, "Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks with conventional or CBW [chemical and biological warfare] against the United States, fearing that exposure of Iraqi involvement would provide Washington a stronger case for making war." The report concluded that Hussein was not planning to use any weapons of mass destruction; further, Hussein would only use weapons of mass destruction he was believed to have if he were first attacked, that is, he would only use them in self-defense.

Preparing its declassified version of the NIE for Congress, which became known as the White Paper, the Bush administration edited the classified NIE document in ways that significantly changed its inference and meaning, making the threat seem imminent and ominous.

In the original NIE report, members of the U.S. intelligence community vigorously disagreed with the CIA’s bloated and inaccurate conclusions. All such opposing commentary was eliminated from the declassified White Paper prepared for Congress and the American people.