do you think democrats are being blackmailed by Bush's illegal wiretaps? [View All]

[RainDog]

the only way I can understand democratic complicity in war crimes after the 2006 election that gave them a mandate to do this very thing is that Bush's pre-9-11 wiretaps were aimed at democrats in order to provide blackmail material on democrats to make them go along with the already-planned invasion of Iraq.

Obviously I have no evidence of this, beyond such tactics as a standard m.o. among republican mother fuckers, the fbi and the cia, etc. Now that he's dead, Frontline reported on J. Edgar Hoover getting blackmail material on as many pols as he could, esp. every president, to use to keep his power and to keep the govt off the backs of the mafia, who was, in turn, blackmailing Hoover with pix of him giving his male lover a blow job.

Before Bush took office, the neo-cons were barking about invading Iraq. -- they did so during the Clinton administration too.

When I think about the pictures I saw online of the hanging of Saddam Hussein, it makes me want to retch. It's barbaric. I know he was an asshole, but his murderers are no better.

I think that Junior had a personal vendetta against Saddam that he wanted to pursue since Saddam had threatened to kill Bush Sr. In his twisted little psycho-drama, Junior could achieve power over his father by killing the man who threatened him.. Jr. could show his dad that Junior is a mean little mother fucker who had more guts than his Poppy.

That's what I think of when I think of that Saddam hanging... that it was like a mob vendetta.

In fact, more and more I think the politics of the last decade have been feuds and maneuvers between powerful families - and not about any sort of democratic principles. The House of Saud and the House of Bush and the House of Hussein and the House of bin Laden.

Foreign policy that's more like a season of Dallas than governance.

If key democrats are being blackmailed (I can think of one right off that makes me wonder... no names, but sounds like Fancy Lugosi.) This is the only reason that makes sense to me about the issue of impeachment remaining off the table. Conyers, too. he huffs and puffs but nothing comes from it.

I do not understand why democrats do not understand that criminal charges against at least half a dozen, and more, really, members of the Bush administration are necessary to restore democracy in this nation. I keep hoping that they are stalling till after Bush is out of office so that he cannot pardon anyone, but I don't really put much hope in that idea.

maybe telecoms could be granted limited immunity in return for their records of calls that were of interest to intel agencies and the Bush administration. If there are democrats who are being blackmailed, they could then be put under oath to testify in criminal charges. this issue is more imp. than any single person's career or reputation.

I don't know if certain democrats recognize this.