December 04, 2007

IMPEACH BUSH

IMPEACH CHENEY

BUSH'S LETHAL LIES

Politicians lie. Presidents and their administrations lie. But the magnitude of George W. Bush's lies surpasses ordinary lies. He deliberately and with aforethought committed mass murder in Iraq. He wants to do the same thing in Iran. The administration has blustered about a nuclear threat in Iran. A new National Intelligence Estimate shows that, once again, Bush and his henchmen couldn't care less about the truth, about decency, or about preserving the lives of innocent people. This commentary by Tony Hendra is at http://www.smirkingchimp.com/:

Here are the salient points from the NIE:

We judge with high confidence that the halt (in trying to develop nuclear weapons, not producing them) has lasted at least several years. (Four to be exact, a lifetime in war and politics).

We continue to assess with moderate-to-high confidence that Iran does not currently have a nuclear weapon. (Or has ever had one).

We judge with high confidence that Iran will not be capable of producing and reprocessing enough plutonium for a weapon before about 2015. (Which Bush - and for that matter Gates - flatly lied about this morning implying that the NIE said they could re-up anytime).

Let's be quite clear how far the men in the White House were willing to go. In the lethal linguistic fog these warmongers and the rightwing quislings who enable them, have plunged us, reasonable people seem to have lost sight of what we're talking about. Nuclear weapons aren't a bigger better version of Daisy Cutters. Nuclear weapons aren't just more bang for the buck. Nuclear weapons are the most cowardly killing devices ever devised by our benighted species. Nuclear weapons are instant genocide. Nuclear weapons are designed to murder as many unarmed noncombatants as possible, by the hundreds of thousands if not millions. Using nuclear weapons - even throwing around the threat to use them - was is and always should be unthinkable. Yet the monsters, yes monsters in the White House were willing to lie through their teeth - again - to get the chance to use them. On innocent people who posed no threat to us.