March 13, 2007
IMPEACH BUSH
IMPEACH CHENEY
AN ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINALS
In a just world someone like George W. Bush and the thugs around him would never achieve high positions in the United States government or anywhere else. These are people who parade around like paragons of virtue while they cheat, lie, torture, and kill. The irony is that they can get away with it because this is the United States, the strongest military power in the world, and it would be difficult to ever try Bush and company for the war crimes they've committed. But maybe they should still be tried, even if it's in absentia. It should be on the record for world history. In this article Bill Gallagher takes a look at the criminals that comprise this administration. The article is at www.smirkingchimp.com:
All the media frenzy about pardoning Scooter Libby is missing a broader issue. Many others in the Bush administration are in need of pardons, and for far more serious crimes. They'll get pardons or head to Canada begging for asylum.
Scooter was caught lying and obstructing justice to protect his boss, Vice President Dick Cheney. It's as simple as that. Cheney ordered the hit on former ambassador Joe Wilson because he dared to speak the truth about the lies used to sell the war in Iraq.
For a political thug like Cheney, Libby taking the fall for him is business as usual. Libby will never spend a single night in prison because President George W. Bush will pardon him right after his sentencing.
There will be howls that the move is aimed at buying Libby's continued silence, but frankly, folks, Bush doesn't give a damn. His failed presidency cannot lose any more support.
PLAYING WAR
I liked the section of this story about a guy who wanted to give Bush toy soldiers so Bush could play war and leave the rest of the world alone. He also wanted to give the Mexican president a mat so the Mexican president could kneel without hurting his knees. The story is mostly about Bush's fixation on food. It reminds you of the incident in Europe where Bush uttered a profanity over a microphone and was obsessed with roast pig. What a leader! This story by Traci Carl is at www.huffingtonpost.com:
Gerardo Fernandez flew to Merida to deliver gifts to Bush and Calderon. But he wasn't exactly welcome.
The spokesman for Mexico's leftist Democratic Revolution Party brought a bag of toy soldiers for Bush so that the U.S. leader "can play war and leave the world alone." For Calderon, he brought a door mat so the Mexican president "can kneel without hurting his knees."
He tried to deliver the soldiers to Bush's hotel on Monday evening, just before Bush arrived, but wasn't allowed past security. So he climbed the rusty, 10-foot-high metal barrier and tossed the plastic toys over, to the puzzled looks of security guards on the other side.
On Tuesday, he was still carrying the door mat, leading a one-man quest to the hacienda where Bush and Calderon were meeting. He soon hit another security barrier there.
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Saturday, December 30, 2006
December 30, 2006
IMPEACH BUSH
IMPEACH CHENEY
SADDAM CREATED BY U.S.
Poet John Donne famously wrote that the "death of any man diminishes me." I do not mourn the late Saddam Hussein. Like so many dictators, he was guilty of monstrous and brutal crimes. But it should have been the Iraqi people who overthrew Saddam. The trial should have been a real trial, not a kangaroo court. And the people who allowed Saddam to commit his crimes should also face justice. But presidents and prime ministers of "developed" countries don't go to trial. They don't go to the gallows. They build libraries and get eulogized when they die. This article by Robert Fisk is at news.independent.co.uk:
No, Tony Blair is not Saddam. We don't gas our enemies. George W Bush is not Saddam. He didn't invade Iran or Kuwait. He only invaded Iraq. But hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are dead - and thousands of Western troops are dead - because Messrs Bush and Blair and the Spanish Prime Minister and the Italian Prime Minister and the Australian Prime Minister went to war in 2003 on a potage of lies and mendacity and, given the weapons we used, with great brutality.
In the aftermath of the international crimes against humanity of 2001 we have tortured, we have murdered, we have brutalised and killed the innocent - we have even added our shame at Abu Ghraib to Saddam's shame at Abu Ghraib - and yet we are supposed to forget these terrible crimes as we applaud the swinging corpse of the dictator we created.
Who encouraged Saddam to invade Iran in 1980, which was the greatest war crime he has committed for it led to the deaths of a million and a half souls? And who sold him the components for the chemical weapons with which he drenched Iran and the Kurds? We did. No wonder the Americans, who controlled Saddam's weird trial, forbad any mention of this, his most obscene atrocity, in the charges against him. Could he not have been handed over to the Iranians for sentencing for this massive war crime? Of course not. Because that would also expose our culpability.
THE D. C. SNOBOCRACY
From their perches on high the D. C. pundit class tells us about the world. We have the likes of Cokie Roberts or David Broder dictating what is right and wrong. Unfortunately, the D. C. pundits aren't much aware of the real world outside the Beltway. In fact, they consider those outside the Beltway to be beneath contempt. This article by Ernest Partridge is at www.smirkingchimp.com:
Read closely both on and between the lines of Washington (so-called) "journalism," and you will find evidence of an unelected "shadow-government"of comfortable, self-appointed and self-satisfied DC elites, composed of lobbyists, pundits, publishers, diplomats, military, and, of course, politicians. This is the Washington "snobocracy." It decides, through its "establishment" media, what news, information and opinion are worthy of the public's attention. And it determines if a politician's life in the nation's Capital will be comfortable and productive or an unremitting misery, as Bill and Hillary Clinton were to discover.
The snobocrats share a bond of community that is unperturbed by such mundane concerns as partisanship. This non-partisan conviviality is typified by the ownership of a Washington steakhouse, "The Caucus Room," which opened in August, 2000:
IMPEACH BUSH
IMPEACH CHENEY
SADDAM CREATED BY U.S.
Poet John Donne famously wrote that the "death of any man diminishes me." I do not mourn the late Saddam Hussein. Like so many dictators, he was guilty of monstrous and brutal crimes. But it should have been the Iraqi people who overthrew Saddam. The trial should have been a real trial, not a kangaroo court. And the people who allowed Saddam to commit his crimes should also face justice. But presidents and prime ministers of "developed" countries don't go to trial. They don't go to the gallows. They build libraries and get eulogized when they die. This article by Robert Fisk is at news.independent.co.uk:
No, Tony Blair is not Saddam. We don't gas our enemies. George W Bush is not Saddam. He didn't invade Iran or Kuwait. He only invaded Iraq. But hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are dead - and thousands of Western troops are dead - because Messrs Bush and Blair and the Spanish Prime Minister and the Italian Prime Minister and the Australian Prime Minister went to war in 2003 on a potage of lies and mendacity and, given the weapons we used, with great brutality.
In the aftermath of the international crimes against humanity of 2001 we have tortured, we have murdered, we have brutalised and killed the innocent - we have even added our shame at Abu Ghraib to Saddam's shame at Abu Ghraib - and yet we are supposed to forget these terrible crimes as we applaud the swinging corpse of the dictator we created.
Who encouraged Saddam to invade Iran in 1980, which was the greatest war crime he has committed for it led to the deaths of a million and a half souls? And who sold him the components for the chemical weapons with which he drenched Iran and the Kurds? We did. No wonder the Americans, who controlled Saddam's weird trial, forbad any mention of this, his most obscene atrocity, in the charges against him. Could he not have been handed over to the Iranians for sentencing for this massive war crime? Of course not. Because that would also expose our culpability.
THE D. C. SNOBOCRACY
From their perches on high the D. C. pundit class tells us about the world. We have the likes of Cokie Roberts or David Broder dictating what is right and wrong. Unfortunately, the D. C. pundits aren't much aware of the real world outside the Beltway. In fact, they consider those outside the Beltway to be beneath contempt. This article by Ernest Partridge is at www.smirkingchimp.com:
Read closely both on and between the lines of Washington (so-called) "journalism," and you will find evidence of an unelected "shadow-government"of comfortable, self-appointed and self-satisfied DC elites, composed of lobbyists, pundits, publishers, diplomats, military, and, of course, politicians. This is the Washington "snobocracy." It decides, through its "establishment" media, what news, information and opinion are worthy of the public's attention. And it determines if a politician's life in the nation's Capital will be comfortable and productive or an unremitting misery, as Bill and Hillary Clinton were to discover.
The snobocrats share a bond of community that is unperturbed by such mundane concerns as partisanship. This non-partisan conviviality is typified by the ownership of a Washington steakhouse, "The Caucus Room," which opened in August, 2000:
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