May 22, 2008

IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY


BUSH'S WAR CRIMES

There is little hope the United States Congress will fulfill its Constitutional duty to impeach and remove George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from office, although the case for impeachment reaches to the skies. As this author expresses, I hope that prosecutors in other countries will indict Bush and the senior members of his administration as war criminals. Bush is responsible for unspeakable crimes against children in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, among his other atrocities. This article by Dave Lindorff is at www.buzzflash.com:

In the 2004 assault by U.S. Marines on the city of Fallujah, things were even worse. Dexter Filkins, a reporter for The New York Times, reported that before that invasion, some 20,000 Marines encircled the doomed city, which the White House had decided to level because it harbored a bunch of insurgents and had angered the American public by capturing, killing, and mutilating the bodies of four mercenaries working for U.S. forces. The residents of the 300,000-population city were warned of the coming all-out attack. Women and children and old people were allowed to flee the city and pass through the cordon of troops. But Filkins reported that males determined to be "of combat age," which in this case was established as 12 and up, were barred from leaving, and sent back into the city to await their fate. Young boys were ripped from their screaming mothers and sent trudging back to the city to face death.
In the ensuing slaughter, as the U.S. dumped bombs, napalm, phosphorus, anti-personnel fragmentation weapons, and an unimaginable quantity of machine gun and small arms fire on the city, it is clear that many of those young boys died.

NO DISTRACTIONS THIS TIME

Republicans have won presidential elections in recent years over non-issue issues. George H. W. Bush ran on Willie Horton. George W. Bush ran by "Swift boating" John Kerry. At the station where I normally buy gas the price shot from $4.11 a gallon two days ago to $4.31 a gallon today. Fresno has among the highest gas prices in the country, but you can be sure it will be this bad or worse everywhere unless there is a change. The working class has been trampled during this administration. CEO's and the wealthy have done very well, but we have seen stagnant or falling wages, disappearing pensions, unaffordable health care, and jobs getting outsourced. Bush has us stuck in an unnecessary and never-ending war in Iraq. This article by Bob Herbert is at www.nytimes.com:

In his book, "Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed?," Jared Bernstein reminds us that the economic expansion from 2000 to 2006 was something less than nirvana for working people. The economy grew by 15 percent during that period, and the official rates of joblessness and inflation were low. But as most of us know, the benefits of that expansion were skewed to the high end of the economic ladder.

Mr. Bernstein, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, writes: "Over the course of this highly touted economic expansion, poverty is up, working families’ real incomes are down and some key prices are growing a lot faster than the average."