January 28, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

THE DANGEROUS DICK CHENEY

There have been some people in history who make a Mafia Don look like a moral and upright guy. Dick Cheney is one of those people. When George W. Bush was looking for a vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney was appointed to find the candidate. Cheney selected himself. It put him into a great position to help himself and his oil buddies. Cheney made millions as CEO at Halliburton and continues to make a fortune with Halliburton's no-bid contracts. From a financial standpoint, the Iraq war has been very good for Halliburton and Dick Cheney. Cheney talks about democracy from one side of his mouth, but sneeringly dismisses it from the other. He and Bush won't pay attention to any Congressional resolutions against the war, he said. This column by Maureen Dowd is at www.welcome-to-pottersville.com:

It requires an exquisite kind of lunacy to spend hundreds of billions destroying America’s reputation in the world, exhausting the U.S. military, failing to catch Osama, enhancing Iran’s power in the Middle East and sending American kids to train and arm Iraqi forces so they can work against American interests.

Only someone with an inspired alienation from reality could, under the guise of exorcising the trauma of Vietnam, replicate the trauma of Vietnam.

You must have a real talent for derangement to stay wrong every step of the way, to remain in complete denial about Iraq’s civil war, to have a total misunderstanding of Arab culture, to be completely oblivious to the American mood and to be absolutely blind to how democracy works.

BUSH THE PREVARICATOR

In one of his most memorable manglings of English George W. Bush declared himself "the Decider." It might be more accurate to describe himself as "the Liar." We can dress it up a bit and call him "the Prevaricator." From the beginning Bush has lied to the American people. He called himself a "compassionate conservative," which should have set off alarm bells for anyone who knows anything about conservatism. He and his political operatives stole the 2000 presidential election. He used the tragic and horrendous attacks on 9/11 to build a phony case for a war against Iraq, a war he and neocons wanted anyway. He continues to lie about the violence in Iraq. The motives he ascribes to the insurgency are not in line with the facts. This article by Robert Parry is at www.consortiumnews.com:

Since 2001, rather than focusing on the al-Qaeda Sunni fundamentalist terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks, Bush has expanded the conflict exponentially – tossing in unrelated enemies such as Iraq’s secular dictator Saddam Hussein, Shiite-led Iran, Syria and Islamic militants opposed to Israel, like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

In effect, Bush has transformed what began as a definable military objective – the defeat of “terrorist groups with global reach” – into an endless war against what he regards as evil, a conflict so vague that it is claiming as collateral damage America’s “unalienable rights” and the Founders’ checks and balances on the powers of the Executive.

In Bush’s State of the Union speech on Jan. 23, there could be heard a requiem for the Republic.

“The evil that inspired and rejoiced in 9/11 is still at work in the world. And so long as that’s the case, America is still a nation at war,” Bush told Congress.

But that “evil” will always be “at work in the world,” so America will always be “a nation at war” and thus, under Bush’s theories of unlimited Commander-in-Chief powers, the American Republic will be banished permanently.