Administration's Offenses Impeachable (Bangor Daily News)

[dooner]

Administration's Offenses Impeachable
by Bangor Daily News Staff 6/2/2005, Bangor Daily News

<snip>

"It was all a lie. Many of us have said for a long time it was a lie. But here it is in black and white: Lies from a president who has taken a sacred trust to uphold the Constitution of the United States.

"So, what does it mean? It means that our president and all of his administration are war criminals. It's as simple as that. They lied to the American people, have killed and injured and traumatized thousands of American men and women doing their patriotic duty, killed at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians, destroyed Iraq's infrastructure and poisoned its environment, squandered billions and billions of our tax dollars, made a mockery of American integrity in the world, changed the course of history, tortured Iraqi prisoners, and bound us intractably to an insane situation that they have no idea how to fix because they had no plan, but greed and empire, in the first place."

What does it mean? It means that everyone in this administration should be impeached." <snip>

http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=114420

[babylonsister]

1. Yes! Gulliver is waking up! nt

[EVDebs]

2. The road to impeachment has to rely upon the CIA

The thread at

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3768776&mesg_id=3777129

shows that Watergate relied entirely upon the CIA. The burglary and attendant impeachable offences stemming from its investigation and ties to the CIA (abuse of federal agencies); the insiders, CIA on the White House staff, as Bob Haldeman's book Ends of Power points out (regarding Alexander Butterfield, CIA, who contolled the taping system in the WH); Robert F. Bennett, who was the source for Bob Woodward at Mullen & Co. p.r. firm--the CIA front company.

Today, the ONLY way to get an impeachment process going will be for the agency, now being purged by Porter Goss, to come forward and provide the 'smoking guns' so to speak.

"A republic, if we can keep it..."

BTW, the War Powers Act of 1973 would seem to rely upon TRUTHFUL circumstances and representations to Congress...ya think ? Let's get some Dems to put forth bill, which Republicans will surely vote down, that support truth-telling as it relates to the Iraq War Resolution and the embedded War Powers Act of 1973. When those same Republicans vote to squash the truth, voila. At least you've got them on record for the '06 elections.

[EFerrari]

6. The biggest mistake these criminals have made it to blame CIA,

and the intelligence community as a whole, for 9/11 and the "intelligence failures" preceeding the war.

We'll shortly see just how mad real public servants in that community are with the Cabal.

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. I keep thinking daddy chimp and Goss

have their hands around all the CIA agent's necks. Daddy has a lot of insiders at the CIA, doesn't he? and Goss was put there to clean out the riff raff that daddy didn't have control over. I wonder if we have any "patriots" left at the CIA? Are there any left?

[EFerrari]

15. Exactly. Goss may have been the straw. I hope so. n/t

[stubtoe]

11. I keep hoping SOMEONE will get mad enough

to break ranks and start the dominoes falling.

[MadisonProgressive]

3. It's just so unreal that we KNOW these facts

and yet it's as if it never happened...

[Kindigger]

4. Charles Robb on CSpan right now

talking about the Commission on "Intelligence Failures" (U of Virginia-yesterday). Listening to it is unreal. :crazy:

[dooner]

5. boggles the mind

doesn't it?

Good thing none of us are relying on mainstream media to deliver the news.. not even NPR can speak the truth any more. We have to help out the people who are clueless and at the mercy of the media.

[driver8]

18. That's also what makes it so maddening!!! These m-fers can get

away with anything!

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. Speaking Truth to Power! It's about damn time!!!!! Excellent article.

We live a lie when we fail to hold leaders accountable for their lies. By not calling now for impeachment, we are saying that we condone hypocrisy, pseudo-democracy, and murdering thousands of Americans and Iraqis for strategic control of energy resources that we have no right to. Patriotism demands that we insist on the ideals of democracy, not that we support the "leaders" who cynically destroy them.

What's curious is why anyone like me should have to even point this out. Don't our senators and congressmen feel betrayed? Are they content to continue the murdering rather than do what truth demands? Do they think they can lie to history, too. Do they think that this little Iraq problem will somehow just go away, that the courageous resistance to the United States occupation will give up and hand Bush the keys to the oil wells? Do they think that any of the grave crises facing the world now - energy consumption, global warming, species extinction - can be solved by lying about them?

We are living in an age of no accountability. It's also an age upon which may hang the survival of human life on this earth. One should not bet one's future on people who abjure responsibility. The first courageous step is to come to terms with what we know is true: America's president lied to America's people to create an unnecessary war. I ask Sens. Snowe and Collins, Reps. Allen and Michaud to take that step. Begin impeachment proceedings. It's really no more or less than their duty. It's also the first step toward restoring America's integrity.

[Toots]

14. I hope you actually wrote your Representatives and Senators with the exact

same thing you wrote here. It is very powerful. :thumbsup:

[in_cog_ni_to]

20. That's from the article, not me.

:hi:

[driver8]

19. Wow!! Very well written and so true!! Great post. n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

21. That's from the article. I didn't write it.

Gotta give credit where credit is due. ;) :hi:

[formercia]

8. The Bangor Daily is not a Liberal Paper.

an important point.

[Gormy Cuss]

26. Ditto. The BDN is Goldwater conservative n/t

[Octafish]

10. The Ripple Effect

Keep spreading the truth: Bush is a crook and a war criminal.

[Just Me]

16. From Maine to Florida to Texas to Washington,...

,..."impeach", charge, cuff, convict this man and his cabal: all of whom betrayed the American people; all of whom are liars, crooks and war criminals!!!

[Karenina]

28. So are his marionetteers

behind the curtain. Looks like they may be cutting him loose. :tinfoilhat:

[frictionlessO]

12. Oh yes yes yes!!

Holy fuckin super wow!!

nominating!!

[leftchick]

13. Sun-Sentinal in FL!... "It is time to Talk Impeachment"!!

This popped up when I googled "Iraq"! :wow:


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/letters/sfl-pbmail789xjun03,0,2770165.story?coll=sfla-news-letters

War in Iraq has gone too far

Julius Druckman
Boynton Beach
Posted June 3 2005


This war in Iraq has just gone too far and it's now time to start talking impeachment.

With all the evidence available, and the new information emerging regarding the lies, twisted truths and selective intelligence that brought us into an unprovoked and unnecessary war, it's time for the nation to hold responsible the man sitting where the buck stops at the White House. I find it untenable that we would almost impeach one president for engineering and condoning a break-in and impeach another for a sexual liaison, but not a man who started a deadly war based on lies, deceit and avarice.

This war has killed and maimed thousands of our young people, tens of thousands of innocent civilians (whom we're supposed to be protecting), and has earned our nation the scorn of the world community.

But we give President George W. Bush a free pass, and another term. Dragging our nation down the path of evil and damnation is not only an impeachable offense, it's treasonous.

This country needs changes in our foreign policy that begin with the impeachment of Bush; the sooner the better.

[in_cog_ni_to]

22. Holy shit!

That deserves it's own thread!!!! SPREAD IT FAR AND WIDE! :woohoo:

[redqueen]

17. Looks like it's gonna be a long, hot summer for RepubliCONS!

:bounce:

[Solly Mack]

23. :o)

:thumbsup:

[lucca]

24. Great article!

So true....so true:
"It means that our president and all of his administration are war criminals".

Yes!
"Everyone in this administration should be impeached".

[alfredo]

25. Gentlemen and Ladies, fire up you e-mail.

this one is going out to all my friends and will be posted to other BBS

[goclark]

27. Let's Roll out the emails and buy some popcorn!

I believe that finally some people are getting it.

With the Chimp's poll numbers in the tank and Bolton and the War(NOT accomplished) and on and on hopefully the Republicans, and the Democrats, will WAKE UP!

DU needs to get busy and work like we have never worked before.

[alfredo]

30. Just bringing up the subject is in our favor. We do need a

dialog on the legality of the war and the hypocrisy of the republicans for giving bush a pass on war crimes when they impeached Clinton for lying about sex.

[nightfox02]

29. No shit they are impeachable

Lying to the Congress to start a war of agression...

We have the document folks...

If we have any political skill left in our party bush is simply done.

[markus]

31. Oh yeah? You and whose House of Representatives

In the odd chance that we are still having this discussion in 2007, that's the soonest (and that not much more than a fond wish) that we might have control of the US House of Representatives.

I just don't see any significant number of Republicans caving on an indictment. This ain't the 70s (my daugther's wardrode aside), and the PNAC Politburo cracks the Lenninist whip just a little to hard for such a thing to happen.