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June 11, 2008 at 10:23:49

Headlined on 6/11/08:
Three Good Reasons Not to Fund Another Year in Iraq

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(B) In furtherance of his fraudulent effort to deceive Congress and the citizens of the United States into believing that Iraq and Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to the United States, the President allowed and authorized those acting under his direction and control, including Vice President Richard B. Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Lewis Libby, who reportedly directly to both the President and the Vice President, among others, to pressure intelligence analysts to tailor their assessments and to create special units outside of, and unknown to, the intelligence community in order to secretly obtain unreliable information, to manufacture intelligence, or to reinterpret raw data in ways that would support the Bush administration's plan to invade Iraq based on a false claim of urgency despite the lack of justification for such a preemptive action.

(C) The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on Whether Public Statements Regarding Iraq By U.S. Government Officials Were Substantiated By Intelligence Information, which was released on June 5, 2008, concluded that:

(1) "Statements by the President and the Vice President indicating that Saddam Hussein was prepared to give weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups for attacks against the United States were contradicted by available intelligence information."

Thus the President willfully and falsely misrepresented Iraq as an urgent threat requiring immediate action thereby subverting the national security interests of the United States by setting the stage for the loss of more than 4000 United States service members; the injuries to tens of thousands of US soldiers; the deaths of more than 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens since the United States invasion; the loss of approximately $527 billion in war costs which has increased our Federal debt and the ultimate costs of the war between three trillion and five trillion dollars; the loss of military readiness within the United States Armed Services due to overextension, the lack of training and lack of equipment; the loss of United States credibility in world affairs; and the decades of likely blowback created by the invasion of Iraq.

In all of these actions and decisions, President George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office.

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DAVID SWANSON is a co-founder of After Downing Street, a writer and activist, and the Washington Director of Democrats.com. He is a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, and serves on the Executive Council of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, TNG-CWA. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, with jobs including Press Secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, Media Coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as Communications Coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Swanson obtained a Master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia in 1997.

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Michael Cavlan , RN, was an Official Green Party Observer for the 2004 Ohio Re-Count.
He was the Green Party Candidate for US Senate 2006 and is a Candidate US Senate
2008 Seeking Green Party Endorsement in Minnesota. See www.michaelcavlan.org
Michael CavlanMichael Cavlan , RN, was an Official Green Party Observer for the 2004 Ohio Re-Count.
He was the Green Party Candidate for US Senate 2006 and is a Candidate US Senate
2008 Seeking Green Party Endorsement in Minnesota. See www.michaelcavlan.org

Question

Will you and PDA EVER hold the Dems accountable for their complicity?

Or shall the term Progressive Democrats be kind of like Military Intelligence?

This is a case of a journalist asking the tough questions, just for the record.

Will your answer be "no comment?"

Inquiring minds want to know.

by Michael Cavlan (9 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 263 comments) on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 4:33:36 PM

August Adams is a CPA and holds a Masters Degree in Psychology. He is an activist striving to create a fair and just world for all.
August AdamsAugust Adams is a CPA and holds a Masters Degree in Psychology. He is an activist striving to create a fair and just world for all.

Democrats are worse the Bush & Co

If you ask me, the Democrats, who have the power to make hearings begin immediately, are worse then the President and the Republicans.

I'm not voting for a Democrat or sending in another dime until Impeachment is on the table.

It's time we hold Conyers, Pelosi et al responsible.

I'm no longer part of either party and there are many more that feel the same.

by August Adams (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 458 comments) on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 7:22:48 PM

No More money

No more support to Move on. No more support to the DNA. No more support to ANY organization that does not have a bonafide Impeachment/Criminal prosecution movement.

by August Adams (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 458 comments) on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 7:24:47 PM

Mr Swanson

Putting on my Independent Jouralista hat

Cameras are rolling

Mr Swanson, Mr Swanson, can we please get a comment from you on this?

Mr Swanson drives away without comment.

Mr Swanson, why will you not answer the question?

Mr Swanson, what does your organization have to hide?

Mr Swanson??????

You see, THIS is what investigative journalism looks like.

Question, will we ever se this kind of jouralistic integrity on Air America or the Nation magazine.

I'm thinking, no.

by Michael Cavlan (9 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 263 comments) on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 8:21:42 PM

American Expat in Asia
pftAmerican Expat in Asia

Nothing new

So what have the Democrats done since 2006 election? Nada.

Arthur Sibler says:

"...... it goes to the progressives' central articles of religious faith: The Democrats aren't really like this, not in their heart of hearts. The Democrats don't actually favor a repressive, authoritarian state. The Democrats are good, and they want liberty and peace for everyone, everywhere, for eternity, hallelujah and amen.

People who continue to believe this have evicted themselves from serious political debate, and they have willingly made themselves slaves to their enthusiastically embraced self-delusions. They confess a comprehensive ignorance of history, a stunning inability to understand the political developments of the last century, and a desire to place the story they have chosen, primarily because it flatters their own false sense of vanity and self-worth, above every relevant fact"

by pft (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 499 comments) on Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 2:16:08 AM