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I want to leave my comments about impeaching Bush and Cheney online since they remain pertinent. I still think that the impeachment of Bush and Cheney would have saved many lives and yet we do not know how this election cycle would have changed.
Today we have a new President and he has asked for governmental transparency. Now we want complete transparency for the Bush and Cheney activities of the last eight years. So many secrets can now be revealed. Let's get to exposing the crimes with the detail that government documents and investigations can reveal. Of course we should not simply rely on Congress to do the right thing since they are unlikely to suddenly develop any progressive gumption unless the public vociferously demands they stop collaborating with the Bush-Cheney cover-ups.We need to remember that a lawless administration has been running the United States into the ground, making illegal wars and otherwise put us all in a difficult position today. So I am changing the name of the blog to RELEASE ALL BUSH AND CHENEY DOCUMENTS TO THE PUBLIC. For your information the previous name of the blog was as follows:
Let President Obama play his game. Maybe he will be an improvement for those progressives fighting for change, maybe he will not. So far he is so full of conciliation and friendliness towards his enemies that it is difficult to imagine him leading progressives anywhere but a ditch. Then the conservatives he embraced will shoot us in that ditch. Thank you, Mr. Friendly Pseudoprogressive.
The crimes of Bush and Cheney are legion. They need to be unearthed and documented. No doubt Pelosi will also be a conciliator to these criminals, looking forward and all that rot.
I do think Obama has made FOIA easier, so that should help get documents, ie. it will help active citizens get those documents. Congress needs to investigate the Bush administration now and not let the economic catastrophe be used as a smokescreen.
While the policies of Bush and Cheney have been crucial they share responsibility for the crimes committed by implementing these policies with a pitiful excuse of a Congress and a totally imperialist Supreme Court. This government of the United States spoke with one voice when the imperialist initiatives took place. Of course the progressive people of the United States opposed these wars and so did a handful of progressive officials, but most of them have the blood of millions on their hands.
The failures of Bush-Cheney are as a consequently also the failures of the Democrats and Republicans in general. The Democrats and Republicans have ratified, approved or passively accepted everything Bush and Cheney did to invade Afghanistan and Iraq and neither party calls for withdrawal from either nation. The few exceptions to this generalizations hardly weaken it as an almost always true one, the Democrats and Republicans are unrepentant and ongoing imperialists.
The massacre and genocidal siege of the Palestinians as I write speaks volumes of the imperialist nature of the Democrats and Republicans. Few dare to see the injustice and tyranny they have authorized for they are blind to what is just and unjust. The capitalist politicians are all self-seeking servants of power and wealth, seeking both wealth, power and privilege before and instead of any real justice, any real peace and any real democracy.
Despite such slaughters the imperialist United States is defeated in Iraq as we contemplate what will happen to the puppet Maliki government now that it is supposedly in power and withouth Uncle Sam to serve as suspenders to hold up his pant. Will Maliki remain stable or struggle to survive like so many puppet regimes set up by the Yankees in the twentieth century?
It is even worse than that in Iraq for the mercenaries, official and unofficial. (Of course the private contractors are mercenaries. So are the official Armed Forces since they are recruited on a voluntary basis and provided with monetary compensation, mercenaries.) Yes, the United States armed forces and the even more numerous "private contractors" are now liable for the crimes they commit every day of the occupation of Iraq. How many will be tried and how many will flee knowing that if justice is done that they will serve hard time or face execution?
The situation in Afghanistan is and has always been impossible. No one has ever conquered Afghanistan. These are the supermen and women of the world. If Obama wants to continue the slaughter then the defeat will only be more impressive in the end. Indeed, Obama is already defeated and condemned as an imperialist reactionary by seeking to continue this war.
Meanwhile, Bush and Cheney have no doubt worked hand in glove with Israel in executing the starvation and murder of the Palestinians in Gaza. Yet this is likely to prove more costly for Israel and the United States than anticipated. Of course, the efforts to starve, kill and/or expel the Palestinians is the founding principle upon which Israel was based.
Unfortunately these endless American and Israeli aggressions will make a just peace harder to achieve than ever. These invasions and massacres only harden the hearts of hundreds of millions against the invaders and the aggressors. Who is telling you otherwise?
The imperialist nature of the United States and its closest allies, Great Britain, France and Israel have never been more obvious to the peoples of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. In all these cases, Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan it appears that imperialist occupation and aggression leads to a revolutionary response that is capable of defeating any superpower, any bully and any President of the United States.
With the Israeli invasion of Gaza we can easily imagine a chain of events that lead to a nuclear war in Pakistan, India, Iran,Israel and Afghanistan. The immediate human toll is clear, a two hundred to one proportion of casualties. Or have two Israelis been killed by the oversized bottle rockets that were set off by Islamic Jihad, not Hamas during the ceasefire period. Two hundred to one!
More Palestinian dead are shown in the accompanying video than have been inflicted in all of Israel by those largely symbolic fireworks of Islamic Jihad.
Meanwhile, Israel used this Islamic Jihad issue to starve and deprive all
Gazans of food, medicine, potable water, electricity and the necessities of life. It is a great crime against humanity and now it is being followed by crimes against peace and war crimes as well.
Certainly there are likely to be some sort of military responses to this invasion. There has been a call for a third intifada by Hamas and who can blame them? Are they not like those in the Warsaw Ghetto? Will these attacks on Israel that are in retaliation for the invasion of Gaza lead to the Israeli's justifying a nuking of Iran and/or Pakistan?
Or perhaps the Bush-Cheney regime will strike Iran using Israel and do what it can to provoke a nuclear war between Pakistan and India and/or commit the ultimate crimes themselves.
Cheney and Bush can hope for a terrorist attack in the United States or set one up so they can declare emergency measures and remain in office.
After launching a nuclear war they will pretend that it is they who are under threat.
This can also leave us with Bush-Cheney carrying out any domestic power play they want including the removal of the President-elect! The obvious target for a coup maker would be the inauguration, staging a terrorist attack that kills Obama and his VP, and perhaps many more. Then it would be time to be protected by Republicans again! Maybe Cheney can hide in his bunker and get GEORGE too!
How did Herr Hitler come to power? Among other things he grabbed what he couldn't get by other means. Cheney seems a lot like that to me. He could still work with Bush or perhaps against Bush to make war on other nations before the Bush adminstration is history.
A lot of us out here in the heartland think Cheney and Bush are crooks as well as hopeful Caesars. Look at the whole way some of the other Bush Texans are known to have operated. Tom Delay and others have been shown to be as riddled with corruption. Bill Moyers had a great summmary of the way Jack Abrahmoff, Ralph Reed and a dude named Norquist have committed all sorts of crimes involving the funneling of money to conservatives and conservative organizations for the purpose of enriching these three men. Any way, their crimes are multitudinous and I see no reason to assume Cheney has operated with any more propriety.
Where are those White House emails? Isn't there a backup system they didn't erase? What about carnivore and such recording efforts? What about foreign governments, private spies, anyone? I find it hard to believe that all these emails are completely gone.
So it seems that many congressional and grand jury "fishing expeditions" are in order in order to overcome individual prosecutorial hesistancy. Once some actionable dirt is uncovered things can become more centralized. A comprehensive criminal investigation of the administration and Cheney's administration in particular should be on the agenda. Put Cheney in jail and he may not be able to make war!
Prosecutions should, of course continue after the administration is out of power if it ever is.
So it looks like the blows against Iran are to be undertaken by that "oh so independent" nation, Israel, a defacto protectorate of the United States.
Yes, we must "let" little Israel flex its military might once again and maybe use some of those six hundred nuclear weapons believed to be in the Israeli arsenal. The United States will stand alongside Israel and say, "What else, could the victims of Hitler have done?" It is,of course, a non sequitor for public consumption. Still, I guess many in our ruling elites have the notion that when Israel has a war that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled. They are dispensationalists or Armageddonites, end timers and loco without the locoweed.
The old "shock and awe" crowd who seemed to fare poorly after the last invasion of Iraq, when Iraqi submissiveness failed to materialize. Now they will have a lot of fun with the "shock and awe" of nuclear war against Iran! These people, our United States and Israeli leaders, are sociopaths, and very devout!
For some reason, we must be hysterical about a nuclear weapon that might be made one day by Iran. Thus another invasion of another nation must simply happen!
And, by golly, if we have to use nuclear weapons to prevent a hypothetical weapon from being built one day then we are going to do so because "we" never rule out nukes.
Someone might have a special nuclear device plan according to co-conspirator France! There is a rumor about an "oh so advanced" nuclear design that Iran will use to nuke Israel. This wild hypothesis is treated by media, pundits and specialists as a fact, rather than something fabricated to pose as a fact! That is what it is, a fake fact, a lie by another name. It is a wild, paranoid supposition raised to the level of religious belief.
The hundreds and thousands of nuclear devices in the hands of the members of the Security Council, as well as nations such as India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea are apparently just fine. No one is bombing those countries or "oh so hysterical" about those nukes! They say they are blowing up Iran to stop them from making a nuke!
The United States and Israel should take the nuclear arsenal out of their own backyards before they start blowing up other countries to prevent someone from making yet another one of these weapons which are "oh so numerous" in Israel and the United States. GB and France seem sanguine about the contemplated holocaust.
Israeli and United States stories about the menace of an Iranian bomb just don't make sense and their deeds reek of imperialist conquest, just as in Iraq.
The NYT just reported that United States oil companies are about to get contracts without open bidding, nobid contracts courtesy of the Iraqi puppet government! The United States is grabbing the Iraqi oil as you read this! Iran is next and they have oil too.
As for independence, the United States demanded two hundred military bases in Iraq in perpetuitity! Now Uncle Sam may settle for fifty eight military bases! Fifty eight military bases and you can just imagine how much pork there will be in that for Brown and Root! I guess every time the United States puts a new military base in a foreign land that nation becomes more " independent"! The State Department believes it, the White House believes it and apparently our great leaders and distinguished intelligensia believe this is true!
This time Israel will, apparently, not sit on the sidelines while the United States does almost all of the killing. All rational Americans and Israelis should denounce this crazy plan to attack Iran! We need to rally progressives within and without the religious communities to oppose this madness!
It is on the head of Bush and Olmert if they do this. Our nations will suffer from such a terrible crime even if we are the perpetrators. Does Israel want the United States to be at war with every nation on earth for some reason of "national security"? If so, it is a very negative stupid idea.
Invading Iran can only further destablize the world economy. Is that what the United States and Israel want, economic catastrophe throughout the world as Iran burns? It's almost as if Bush would like a Shia terrorist movement trying to hit United States targets here and around the world. Such criminals need to be impeached and prosecuted for their crimes.
No more impunity for the invaders of other lands! No more impunity for the United States and Israel! Try the leaders who commit crimes against peace! Abolish really existing nukes and then worry about the imaginary ones!
This so-called military exercise and warning is also an act of state terror committed by Israel but sponsored by the United States and perhaps Sunni fanatics in Saudi and the Persian Gulf who want to see Shia Iran as crippled as Iraq is.
Of course if Israel and the United States use nuclear weapons the reaction of the peoples of the world is likely to be even greater hostility towards the United States and its junior partner. What good is going to come out of it?
We cannot let Bush-Cheney suspend our elections or let them rig or fix them as in the last two elections. They could use this self-made crisis to destroy the Republic once and for all and remain in power during the "state of emergency".
Defend the election of 2008!
Given the closeness of Tim Russert to the Vice-President and due to his special role in disemminating the hundreds of lies told by the Bush-Cheney administration to justify the war on Iraq and the possibility that he was murdered his death should be investigated. A complete autopsy should be done.
A special prosecutor should be appointed.
Conyers should move to protect potential impeachment witnesses so they don't end up like Tim.
