October 04, 2006


IMPEACH BUSH




IMPEACH CHENEY


EVEN WORSE THAN FOLEY

If there is ever a competition for the world's greatest hypocrites, the Republican party has to be a leading contender. Since the days of Danny Boy Quayle we've heard about "family values." The Christian Coalition has been closely aligned with Republicans, denouncing abortion, gay rights, and almost anything else that can be turned into a Republican spin point. The apparent coverup for Congressman Mark Foley and his stalking of teenage Congressional pages shows Republicans are all talk and no action. But even worse than the Foley affair is the failure of the Bush administration to stop the attacks on 9/11. Bob Woodward's new book provides evidence that Condoleezza Rice, who was national security adviser, got clear warnings that we were going to be attacked. She, like her boss George W. Bush, evidently had better things to do than stop a terrorist attack. The list of crimes and bungles by this administration is longer than your arm now. It's time for them to be voted out of office and prosecuted. This article by Robert Scheer is at www.commondreams.org:

They are such liars. And no, I am not speaking only of the dissembling GOP House leaders led by Speaker Dennis Hastert who, out of naked political calculation, covered up for one of their own in the sordid teen stalking case of Rep. Mark Foley.

Call me old school, but I am still more concerned with the Republicans molesting Lady Liberty while pretending to be guarding the nation’s security, an assignment which they have totally botched. The news about the Foley coverup, while important as yet another example of extreme hypocrisy on the part of the Republican virtues police, should not be allowed to obscure the latest evidence of administration deceit as to its egregious ineptness in protecting the nation.

On Monday, a State Department spokesman conceded that then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice had indeed been briefed in July 2001 by George Tenet, then-director of the CIA, about the alarming potential for an Al Qaeda attack, as Bob Woodward has reported in his aptly named new book, “State of Denial.”

“I don’t remember a so-called emergency meeting,” Rice had said only hours earlier, apparently still suffering from some sort of post-9/11 amnesia that seemed to afflict her during her forced testimony to the 9/11 Commission. The omission of this meeting from the final commission report is another example of how the Bush administration undermined the bipartisan investigation that the president had tried to prevent. Surely lying under oath in what was arguably the most important official investigation in the nation’s history should be treated more seriously than the evasiveness in the Paula Jones case that got President Bill Clinton impeached. Nor is it just Rice who should be challenged, for Tenet seems to have provided Woodward with details concerning the administration’s indifference to the terrorist threat that he did not share with the 9/11 Commission.