Impeachment Time: Facts Were Fixed.

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K

 

Wed, 4 May 2005 17:16:14 -0700 (PDT)

Impeachment Time: " Facts Were Fixed. "

 

What do we have to do to get this before the eyes of the American

people? Wouldn't even staunch war supporters find this enraging?

They were LIED to, as the bumper sticker on my car told them they

were. Those of us who did our 'homework' and learned the facts, knew

this war was wrong, evil and the so-called 'grounds' for it were a

lie. We tried to tell them; millions of us did, but they wouldn't

listen. They believed the trash that I've heard spoken so often: " We

have to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over

here. " Fight who?

What did the Iraqi people ever do to us? For that matter, what did

Saddam ever do to the U.S.? He may have been an asshole, but he was

no terrorist, and neither were any of the Iraqis. So many people just

didn't question what the heck Iraq had to do with 9/11/2001....the

president said we had to get those imaginary weapons, and that was

enough for the bloodthirsty Americans raised on violent Nintendo games

and Terminator movies. They wanted to kill vicariously, and that's

truly the thing that fed their perversion of 'patriotism.'

 

What do we do now? Come on, people, face it. It is time to get rid

of the evildoers who are running our country, into the ground, I might

add. So you were mistaken, hoodwinked, betrayed. Is that what you

normally do when that happens to you; just sit back and say, " oh

well " ?? No, you want justice, and rightfully so.

 

The only justice here is impeachment and prison.

 

Please send this to everyone in your address book, even those you've

quit sending political stuff to. Maybe someday they'll thank you.

 

PEACE!!

K

 

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/05/05/ana05013.html

 

May 4, 2005

Impeachment Time: " Facts Were Fixed. "

 

A BUZZFLASH GUEST NEWS ANALYSIS

by Greg Palast

 

Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has, " IMPEACH HIM " written

all over it.

 

The top-level government memo marked " SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL, "

dated eight months before Bush sent us into Iraq, following a closed

meeting with the President, reads, " Military action was now seen as

inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action

justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the

intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. "

 

Read that again: " The intelligence and facts were being fixed.... "

 

For years, after each damning report on BBC TV, " Isn't this grounds

for impeachment? " Vote rigging, a blind eye to terror and the bin

Ladens before 9-11, and so on. Evil, stupidity and self-dealing are

shameful but not impeachable. What's needed is a " high crime or

misdemeanor. "

 

And if this ain't it, nothing is.

 

The memo, uncovered this week by the Times, goes on to describe an

elaborate plan by George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to

hoodwink the planet into supporting an attack on Iraq knowing full

well the evidence for war was a phony.

 

A conspiracy to commit serial fraud is, under federal law,

racketeering. However, the Mob's schemes never cost so many lives.

 

Here's more. " Bush had made up his mind to take military action. But

the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbors, and his

WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran. "

 

Really? But Mr. Bush told us, " Intelligence gathered by this and other

governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess

and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. "

 

A month ago, the Silberman-Robb Commission issued its report on WMD

intelligence before the war, dismissing claims that Bush fixed the

facts with this snotty, condescending conclusion written directly to

the President, " After a thorough review, the Commission found no

indication that the Intelligence Community distorted the evidence

regarding Iraq's weapons. "

 

We now know the report was a bogus 618 pages of thick whitewash aimed

to let Bush off the hook for his murderous mendacity.

 

Read on: The invasion build-up was then set, says the memo, " beginning

30 days before the US Congressional elections. " Mission accomplished.

 

You should parse the entire memo and see if you can make it through

its three pages without losing your lunch.

 

Now sharp readers may note they didn't see this memo, in fact, printed

in the New York Times. It wasn't. Rather, it was splashed across the

front pages of the Times of LONDON on Monday.

 

It has effectively finished the last, sorry remnants of Tony Blair's

political career. (While his Labor Party will most assuredly win the

elections today, Prime Minister Blair is expected, possibly within

months, to be shoved overboard in favor of his Chancellor of the

Exchequer, a political execution which requires only a vote of the

Labour party's members in Parliament.)

 

But in the US, barely a word. The New York Times covers this hard

evidence of Bush's fabrication of a causus belli as some " British "

elections story. Apparently, our President's fraud isn't " news fit to

print. "

 

My colleagues in the UK press have skewered Blair, digging out more

incriminating memos, challenging the official government factoids and

fibs. But in the US press ...nada, bubkiss, zilch. Bush fixed the

facts and somehow that's a story for " over there. "

 

The Republicans impeached Bill Clinton over his cigar and Monica's

affections. And the US media could print nothing else.

 

Now, we have the stone, cold evidence of bending intelligence to sell

us on death by the thousands, and neither a Republican Congress nor

what is laughably called US journalism thought it not worth a second look.

 

My friend Daniel Ellsberg once said that what's good about the

American people is that you have to lie to them. What's bad about

Americans is that it's so easy to do.

 

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

 

Greg Palast, former columnist for Britain's Guardian papers, is the

author of the New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can

Buy. Subscribe to his columns at www.GregPalast.com.