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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 06:26 PM
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Downing Street Memo - Unleashing The Resistance
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Downing Street Memo -
Unleashing The Resistance
By Karen Kwiatkowski
6-16-5

The Downing Street Memo explains in brisk understated English what I didn't fully understand when I worked for Secretary Rumsfeld and Dough Feith in the Pentagon in 2002 and early 2003.

Like a morning cup of tea in a friendly chair with nothing to do but gaze out a window at birds around a feeder, the memo is pleasantly comforting.

I saw accurately what was happening.

Yet, as Robert Shetterly and others have pointed out, accountability for George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and the rest of the war gamers is not likely. At this time, impeachment for Bush and Cheney is politically impossible. A successful impeachment, or any accountability for the executive branch requires a certain balance of political power. Optimistically envisioned by the Founders, this balance was tenuous even in the early years of the Republic. George W. Bush said it best after the 2004 elections with " accountability moment has passed."

Today we have not even a shadow of the Nixon or Clinton era political and media power competition. Instead, we see only unbalanced power, unbalanced perspective, unbalanced minds. A warped political-media borg warning us that resistance is futile.

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GetTheRightVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 06:37 PM
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1. We must continue to fight and resist to save liberty to
......... secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.


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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 06:46 PM
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2. We must - Is there any other choice? I think not
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 07:19 PM
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3. I believe it was pointed out at today's hearing
that it is a duty in such cases to press for Impeachment.

Many Republican leaders will likely shirk that duty as too many shirked duty during Vietnam.

It may turn out that Republican leaders will redeem themselves, we won't know until we push.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 09:02 PM
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4. The Times, They Are A-Changing
I am feeling more confident of Impeachment, and War Crimes, every day!
The wheels have come off their little red wagon, and now there are holes being ripped in its bottom.
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