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"Why I Believe Bush Must Go
Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse.

Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. Their conduct and their barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world. These are truly "high crimes and misdemeanors," to use the constitutional standard.

From the beginning, the Bush-Cheney team's assumption of power was the product of questionable elections that probably should have been officially challenged -- perhaps even by a congressional investigation.

In a more fundamental sense, American democracy has been derailed throughout the Bush-Cheney regime. The dominant commitment of the administration has been a murderous, illegal, nonsensical war against Iraq. That irresponsible venture has killed almost 4,000 Americans, left many times that number mentally or physically crippled, claimed the lives of an estimated 600,000 Iraqis (according to a careful October 2006 study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) and laid waste their country. The financial cost to the United States is now $250 million a day and is expected to exceed a total of $1 trillion, most of which we have borrowed from the Chinese and others as our national debt has now climbed above $9 trillion -- by far the highest in our national history."

Read the rest of George McGovern's very cogent editorial from the Washington Post advocating impeachment of BOTH Bush and Cheney as a means of salvaging our national honor. As icing on the cake, read the comments from over 2000 readers, the VAST majority of whom support McGovern's point of view, along with a few rather amusing and mostly incoherent rants from the dwindling supply of Bush supporters, which mainly attack McGovern for being old. As McGovern himself says, he is indeed old and will not live to see the US begin to heal itself after the attacks on American democracy and the Bill of Rights feloniously committed by the Bush Abomination.

Today's my birthday. Yeah!

Check out Bill Maher's list of Dickheads of the Year from Rolling Stone, including, but not limited to, the Dickhead-in-Chief.
"Come on, no list of assholes and fuck-ups could be complete without the Dipshit in Chief. Who will tell this president what everyone but him already knows? The theory of evolution. And the times tables. And where the sun goes at night. And that Iraq is going to be three different countries. And that everyone hates us and we've run our military into the ground and the Taliban is back and we still haven't caught bin Laden and the economy is tanking and we wasted eight years blowing the oil companies while the Earth is melting. We had a pretty nice house when this Cat in the Hat of presidents came in and made the mess of all time. And who's going to clean it all up -- Rudy Giuliani?"

Check this out. Bye for now. Busy. Buone feste. salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp [salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp]

Deceiving the U.S. on Iran

Keith Olbermann's very interesting and very true description of Bush as (a) a liar or (b) an idiot or (c) horror of horrors, BOTH.

Here is the wrap-up:

"Your insistence that you were not briefed on the NIE until last week might be legally true, something like "what the definition of `is' is," but with the subject matter being not interns but the threat of nuclear war.

Legally, it might save you from some war crimes trial, but ethically it is a lie.

It is indefensible.

You have been yelling threats into a phone for nearly four months, after the guy on the other end had already hung up.

You, Mr. Bush, are a bald-faced liar.

And moreover, you have just revealed that John Bolton and Norman Podhoretz and the Wall Street Journal editorial board are also bald-faced liars.

We are to believe that the intel community, or maybe the State Department, cooked the raw intelligence about Iran, falsely diminished the Iranian nuclear threat, to make you look bad?

And you proceeded to let them make you look bad?

You not only knew all of this about Iran in early August, but you also knew it was accurate.

And instead of sharing this good news with the people you have obviously forgotten you represent, you merely fine-tuned your terrorizing of those people, to legally cover your own backside.

While you filled the factual gap with sadistic visions of, as you phrased it Aug. 28, "nuclear holocaust," and, as you phrased it Oct. 17, "World War III."

My comments, Mr. Bush, are often dismissed as simple repetitions of the phrase "George Bush has no business being president."

Well, guess what?

Tonight: hanged by your own words, convicted by your own deliberate lies....

You, sir, have no business being president."

AMEN!!!!!!!!!

White House Reveals Bush Lied: Was Told in August Iran's Nuclear Program "May Be Suspended"
By Faiz Shakir, Think Progress
Posted on December 6, 2007, Printed on December 6, 2007
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This post, written by Faiz Shakir, originally appeared on Think Progress

On Tuesday, President Bush said he was never forewarned by the intelligence community that Iran had suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003:

In August, I think it was John -- Mike McConnell came in and said, We have some new information. He didn't tell me what the information was.

Now the White House is revealing that wasn't true. In fact, Bush did know what the information was. CNN reports:

President Bush was told in August that Iran's nuclear weapons program 'may be suspended,' the White House said Wednesday, which seemingly contradicts the account of the meeting given by Bush Tuesday."

The White House statement released by Dana Perino tonight also states McConnell told Bush "the new information might cause the intelligence community to change its assessment of Iran's covert nuclear program."

On Tuesday, Bush said "nobody ever told me" to back down from his hawkish rhetoric on Iran. No, maybe not. But Bush knew Iran "may have suspended" its nuclear weapons program and that the intelligence community was in the process of "changing its assessment." And yet, he continued to warn of "World War III" and a "nuclear holocaust" because nobody told specifically him to stop.

UPDATE: Dan Froomkin reported today that Bush deceptively "changed the way he talked about Iran" starting in August. "Instead of directly condemning Iranian leaders for pursuing nuclear weapons, he started more vaguely accusing them of seeking the knowledge necessary to make such a weapon. Even as he did that, however, he and the vice president accelerated their rhetorical efforts to persuade the public that the nuclear threat posed by Iran was grave and urgent."

PJ White
Posted by: PJ White on Dec 6, 2007 7:03 AM
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Okay. Let me get this straight. So Bush says that Iran is THREATENING us (oh my) with nuclear weapons; the intelligence community says it ain't so. Then he says that they are trying to gain the knowledge to threaten us with nuclear weapons; the NIE says it ain't so, but he says that no one told him. Then that is proved to be a lie and he says, "Okay, I lied. But nobody told me I couldn't." Is that about right?

So, what is our dog-faced, chicken-shit Congress going to do about the fact that the FUKKING POTUS tried to yet again lie us into yet again another war? Not one fucking thing! Is that about right?

So now the lying POS is emboldened to do about anything he wants and lie about it (or not). But impeachment is OFF THE TABLE, no matter what. Is that about right?

Are there any adults here?

A particularly biting assessment of the idiot Prez's declaration that if you know how to make a nuclear (that's nucular to President Dimwit) weapon, we're gonna bomb ya back to the stone age from whence you came. Heh heh heh. Anyway, read the article. The Moron in Chief really really really wants to go to war with Iran. And impeachment's off the table? So why not go to war with Iran if that's what you really want to do? It's not like Congress will stop you. This is not funny.