How Much?
How much more is it going to take? How many times do we have to hear about deadly impeachable failures by this Junta before people stop believing the lies? Before Congress starts to act as though they are Americans and start real hearings? Before there are Special Councils and indictments?
Two colossal chunks of evidence in the papers this morning. Add them to the pile. Picture Dick Cheney standing next to it, insisting that the ground is perfectly flat.
First, email messages and pictures that prove the White House knew the the New Orleans levees were breached on the night of August 30 - when the next day Little George was still clearing brush and cavorting in Texas, and HSD dude Chertoff was at an avian flu conference in Atlanta.
The email messages reached the top aids to Georgie and Cheney. So either they sat on the information or their bosses did. The Imperial White House is going to try and stonewall this, of course. They're not going to get out in front of it the way they've done with the warrantless wiretapping and claim they had a constitutional right to break the law.
"The unitary president has the constitutional right to drown people and let them starve to death on rooftops and watch them die in nursing homes, hospitals, and major sporting facilities. It was the intent of the Founding Fathers that the president be allowed to pick and choose which lives are worth saving, such as the unborn (worth it) or poor Black people in a decadent city (not worth it)."
That's a tough argument to make, and as Attorney General Gonzo made quite clear again in his Senate testimony, politics trumps all with the Junta. With the wiretapping, they claim to believe that their program is legal, but by their 'reasoning,' there is no difference between spying on Americans communicating internationally and Americans communicating domestically. So why not spy domestically? Because the political fall-out would be too severe.
They thought it would be a lot harder on them politically.
So when they say warrantless wiretaps were necessary, what they mean is they thought they were expedient could get away with them. The part they didn't think was politically palatable was somehow not necessary, even though clearly (by that logic) it would have been far more effective). In other words, there is no level of capability or necessity that will trump political considerations. You will never hear these guys make a politically unsavoury move and explain they just had to.
The Katrina strategy is threefold. First, explain that the locals and staties were just as bad as them (or preferably worse). Second, say that there were some mistakes made but we're learning from them. And third: ignore, lie, and stonewall about anything that's not being crowbarred be the press and the milksops in the congress.
The other chunk that's landed today comes from former top CIA Middle East expert from 2000 to 2005 Paul R. Pillar, who says that the Junta "cherry picked" (his words) intel to support their decision to invade Iraq. Further, they ignored all the information on what post-invasion Iraq would be like until a year later, and then called the report (which was dead on) a "guess."
This, even more than the NSA thing, seems to me the top impeachable offense by these monsters. While it's clearly against both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution for the executive to breech American's privacy without a warrant, having Georgie impeached on those grounds would be a bit like getting Capone on tax evasion.
Which, clearly, was the best thing to do to break his power, and will eventually be the wedge against the Junta. I Still, it would have been a better thing to put Capone down for being a gangster and leader of organized crime, and it would certainly be better to put Georgie down for leading a once-proud nation to war on the basis of premeditated lies.
Once again: how much more do people need? It wasn't the CIA or any other intel group that led to invading Iraq: it was Little George Bush and his ruling cabal of extremists who lied to the people of the US (and the world).
Worst president in American history, by a large margin. Now what are we going to do about it?
Two colossal chunks of evidence in the papers this morning. Add them to the pile. Picture Dick Cheney standing next to it, insisting that the ground is perfectly flat.
First, email messages and pictures that prove the White House knew the the New Orleans levees were breached on the night of August 30 - when the next day Little George was still clearing brush and cavorting in Texas, and HSD dude Chertoff was at an avian flu conference in Atlanta.
The email messages reached the top aids to Georgie and Cheney. So either they sat on the information or their bosses did. The Imperial White House is going to try and stonewall this, of course. They're not going to get out in front of it the way they've done with the warrantless wiretapping and claim they had a constitutional right to break the law.
"The unitary president has the constitutional right to drown people and let them starve to death on rooftops and watch them die in nursing homes, hospitals, and major sporting facilities. It was the intent of the Founding Fathers that the president be allowed to pick and choose which lives are worth saving, such as the unborn (worth it) or poor Black people in a decadent city (not worth it)."
That's a tough argument to make, and as Attorney General Gonzo made quite clear again in his Senate testimony, politics trumps all with the Junta. With the wiretapping, they claim to believe that their program is legal, but by their 'reasoning,' there is no difference between spying on Americans communicating internationally and Americans communicating domestically. So why not spy domestically? Because the political fall-out would be too severe.
They thought it would be a lot harder on them politically.
So when they say warrantless wiretaps were necessary, what they mean is they thought they were expedient could get away with them. The part they didn't think was politically palatable was somehow not necessary, even though clearly (by that logic) it would have been far more effective). In other words, there is no level of capability or necessity that will trump political considerations. You will never hear these guys make a politically unsavoury move and explain they just had to.
The Katrina strategy is threefold. First, explain that the locals and staties were just as bad as them (or preferably worse). Second, say that there were some mistakes made but we're learning from them. And third: ignore, lie, and stonewall about anything that's not being crowbarred be the press and the milksops in the congress.
The other chunk that's landed today comes from former top CIA Middle East expert from 2000 to 2005 Paul R. Pillar, who says that the Junta "cherry picked" (his words) intel to support their decision to invade Iraq. Further, they ignored all the information on what post-invasion Iraq would be like until a year later, and then called the report (which was dead on) a "guess."
This, even more than the NSA thing, seems to me the top impeachable offense by these monsters. While it's clearly against both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution for the executive to breech American's privacy without a warrant, having Georgie impeached on those grounds would be a bit like getting Capone on tax evasion.
Which, clearly, was the best thing to do to break his power, and will eventually be the wedge against the Junta. I Still, it would have been a better thing to put Capone down for being a gangster and leader of organized crime, and it would certainly be better to put Georgie down for leading a once-proud nation to war on the basis of premeditated lies.
Once again: how much more do people need? It wasn't the CIA or any other intel group that led to invading Iraq: it was Little George Bush and his ruling cabal of extremists who lied to the people of the US (and the world).
Worst president in American history, by a large margin. Now what are we going to do about it?
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