But he should also be impeached for gross negligence. We know from the Downing Street Memos that the British were stunned and amazed (and deeply concerned – rightly so, as it turned out) to learn in the months before the invasion that the Bush administration had no plans whatsoever for what to do after the land war was completed and the occupation began. No wonder they were apoplectic! Blair rightly realized that nothing less than his premiership and his place in his history was held in the hands of this bungling moron who couldn’t be bothered to plan for the management of a country he was sure to be owning very shortly. So down went Blair, as has just about every government associated with this debacle since the invasion, the Polish and the Australian ones being just the latest examples. Of the fourteen governments foolish enough to climb into bed with the Boy King in 2003, today only two remain in power today. After those, just one more is left to go down, and if American voters aren’t fully as dumb as a bag of hammers sitting out in the pouring rain, then this one will go as well next November.
I mean, good lord. This is a president who dressed up like a flyboy in order to declare the war was over before the fighting had really even begun. Leave aside that these same folks who love to wrap themselves in bogus concern for the troops forced the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln to wait an extra day to get home in order for to get his photo-op. And leave aside that Rove tried to blame the military (you know, the folks they’re always so concerned about) for the "Mission Accomplished" banner hanging off the carrier when it became an unshakeable albatross pointing out their hubris and stupidity. And you can even leave aside as well that the guy who led America to war in the heart of Mesopotamia was, by his own admission, a ‘gentlemen’s C’ student, and didn’t know that there was such a thing as Sunni and Shiite Muslims only two months before the war began. Even forgetting all that, if a commander-in-chief is such a boob-in-chief that he can’t figure out the difference between the beginning and the ending of a war, isn’t that alone grounds for impeachment? Now that he’s wrecked the Army and Marines, do we have to wait for him to sink the Pacific Fleet as well, and then declare victory over... jellyfish? If he drives us all into debtor’s prison and declares "mission accomplished" because we inmates no longer have to pay any bills, will that be victory enough to end this nightmare?
Nothing about this war has been right. Nothing. We know from the Downing Street Memos that Iraq was no threat, and that the Bush organized crime family knew it. We know from the same source that the administration therefore launched an entire phalanx of Madison Avenue high-pressure sales initiatives in order to sell a war that they knew was bogus, creating fake intelligence data and facts in the process. We know – by Bush’s own admission, actually – that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. We know that the administration hadn’t a clue what to do with the country they inherited after their invasion. We know that the people they sent over there to run the place knew nothing whatsoever about how to do their jobs, but instead were Republican Party hacks who could be counted on for their blind loyalty to an idiotic president. We know that the military operation in Iraq and indeed the country itself have been turned into giant cash cows, handed over to be milked dry by the long list of cronies connected to the US Federal Bank of Cheney. And we know that the Afghanistan war is teetering toward disaster because American forces are fighting an irrelevant war in Iraq instead.
This goes on ad nauseam. And now we learn, in addition, that the one so-called positive development to come out of Iraq in nearly five years is due to a strategic choice that the president not only rejected before the war, but went so far, additionally, as to shoot the messengers who alerted him to its necessity.
Can you imagine what conservatives would have done to this guy if his name was Bill Clinton?
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