- Trickle
Down Lying; The WMD Hype Gamble Failed and it's Time for the Bush
Regime to Pay, Starting with Cheney's Impeachment
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Rob
Kall opednews.com
- Wasington
Post writer Howard Kurtz says, "But in the bluest of blue-state
precincts, it's hard to tell which emotion is stronger: disgust with
Dubya or anger at the American public for failing to share their
outrage."
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am outraged. I know, because I hear from my readers that there are
many more people who are outraged with the lying in the Whitehouse.
It's a full-fledged, sloppy, incompetent cover-up and it's only a
matter of time before the liars get their due comeuppance. One thing
we know is that the CIA told the White house not to use the Nigerian
Uranium claims of nuclear threat months before the State of the Union
address. Condoleeza Rice already knew. You don't blame someone for not
telling you twice.
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can be a noble gesture, sacrificing yourself for the team. CIA
director Tenet may be a stand up guy for falling on the sword for our
lying president, but he doesn't deserve our esteem for covering up for
a team that cheats and lies. He already told the president's people
that they shouldn't use the Nigerian story. They went ahead and used
it anyway. They gambled that they'd come up with something, anything
that would cover their butts. Sorry team, the gamble failed. Now, even
if some weapons of mass destruction are found that still doesn't cover
the cascade of lies that erupted from all over the Bush
administration.
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good news is, the longer the Republicans avoid facing the lies, avoid
dealing straight on with the fact that Bush's and Cheney's and
Powell's and Rice's and Wolfowitz's and Perle's lies mislead the
congress into passing the legislation allowing Bush to go to war, the
more the American public will see that the unified "team" is
a corrupt one. It's a corrupt team that cheats and lies.
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Post's Kurtz quotes Wall Street Journal Writer Al Hunt, who says,
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The phony Iraq-Niger deal may be the smoking gun in what was a
pervasive pattern of exaggeration and distortion to justify the war
against the Iraqi dictator. Some of these claims -- the alleged
Baghdad-al Qaeda ties, the extent of his biological and chemical weapons
or even his nuclear designs -- reflected selective use of conflicting
intelligence.
"The false Niger connection was much more. Yet Congress, under
pressure from the White House, is abdicating its responsibility to
investigate why the public was misled on such a momentous matter. . . .
"If Bill Clinton could be impeached for lying about sex, or Al
Gore discredited for exaggerating his relationship with James Lee Witt,
then lying about the reasons for going to war -- whether it was the
president or one of his subordinates -- ought to command an inquiry from
the people's representatives."
- Kurtz
points out and many on the left exasperatedly agree that if Clinton
been the perpetrator instead of Bush, the congressional right would be
howling shrilly for his head. Instead, they silently allow the
pathetic parade of excuses the Whitehouse has brought forward. How
long before Bush blames his dog for eating the note from the CIA
telling him that the allegations were bogus?
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time to start the impeachment momentum. We need to impeach Cheney
first. We learned the lesson from Nixon Agnew. What's the point of
getting rid of Bush if Cheney takes his place, since Cheney is far
worse than Bush. He's the man pulling the dummy's strings. There's
ample evidence that Cheney knew and Cheney lied. Hell, Condoleeza and
Rummy will probably be happy to bush, oops, that was a genuine typo.
Make that push Dickie to the head of the falling on a
sword line.
Agnew was a corrupt vice
president and once confronted, he went quietly, leaving little as a legacy
except his famous phrase "nattering nabobs" referring to the
press. it was good riddance to him and it cleared the way for Nixon to
reach a point where he could no longer hide behind lies-- his lies and the
lies of his sleazy cronies.
- Bush
is now in the same boat. Nixon left and Gerald Ford became president.
I'd take Dennis Hastert, the speaker of the house and third in
succession to the presidency, over Bush in a moment. But, as a reader
has pointed out, Nixon appointed Ford to be vice-president after Agnew
resigned. The thought of Bush getting to appoint a VP is frightening.
I wonder who he'd chose-- Pat Robertson, Grover Norquist, Rush
Limbaugh.... or, if he goes tot he house of representatives, there's
Tom DeLay, or from the senate, Rick Santorum.
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will take an outcry from the public to get the impeachment process
started, to get the people in the red states, the people who don't
ordinarily follow politics to even find out that Bush lied and
soldiers unnecessarily died. . If you wrote to your congressman or
senator to protest the war, it's time to write again to demand at
least an investigation. If you protested against the war before, it's
time to protest now against the lies that led us to war. The majority
of Americans are not following this story. One poll suggests that over
60% of the population doesn't know about it. Get the word
out.
Rob
Kall rob@opednews.com
is publisher of progressive news and opinion website www.opednews.com and
organizer of cutting edge meetings , such as the Winter Brain Meeting and the StoryCon
Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story, that bring
together world leaders in varying fields. He has also been co-developer of
several software programs, and inventor of one of the most widely selling
biofeedback devices. This article is copyright by Rob Kall, but
permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog, or web media so
long as this credit is attached.
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