What does this guy have to do to get impeached?
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2006-02-08 16:02. Impeachment
By Greg Sagan, Amarillo Globe-News
We are now deluged with evidence that President Bush has violated federal law
in authorizing the National Security Agency to tap the telephone and Internet
communications of Americans without a warrant, that he has violated
international law by launching an unprovoked invasion of another country, that he has
violated the Geneva Conventions by abusing prisoners of this war, and that he
manipulated Congress by offering sanitized versions of National Intelligence
Estimates about Iraq's weapons programs - versions that did not contain the
disclaimers and rebuttals in the original documents he received from the CIA.
The latest cannonade comes from a television station in Great Britain
claiming to hold written minutes of a Jan. 31, 2003 meeting between President Bush
and Prime Minister Tony Blair, in which our president outlined a plan for
provoking Iraq by flying a U-2 reconnaissance plane and its fighter escorts in the
markings of the United Nations in hopes the Iraqis would shoot at them in
violation of U.N. resolutions.
Disguising one's own forces in the colors and markings of another country to
trigger a war is, I understand, a rather egregious violation of international
law. When individual soldiers are caught in uniforms other than their own in
wartime, they can, quite legally, be summarily executed as spies.
In my view all Americans - right or left, red or blue - must take a large
step back and disavow the current political trend of accumulating power no matter
what. It does not serve America in the long run to have any party resorting
to the kinds of tactics this pattern reveals - a pattern of impeaching one's
opponent on grounds we, ourselves, are not willing to enforce on ourselves; a
pattern of constant attack over every stance or statement with which we do not
agree; a pattern of spinning and parsing and qualifying the truth so that we
look good no matter how bad we're being; a pattern of breaking laws and
violating constitutional safeguards in the name of expediency.
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