Perhaps a fax for truth type campaign is in order.  The conspiracy runs so deep.

by Son of our Father's (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 25 comments [5 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:33:10 PM

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depending on the unpredictable mental processes of a few sick, deranged madmen! And that includes the people behind Bush and Cheney!

Now is the time for civil disobedience. Now is the time for every one of us acquainted with or related to a member of the armed services to urge them, whether they be privates or four-star generals, to simply refuse to obey any order to attack Iran. Everyone who reads this should contact all the military they know and point out in the strongest possible terms that, given the potential consequences of such an attack,  the very continued existence of humanity may depend of them not obeying such an insane and illegal order! If this should happen, if an attack on Iran is avoided because the military refuses to carry it out, wouldn't the result be that Congress can do nothing else but impeach Bush and Cheney?

I live in Sydney, Australia. Don't worry, the consequences of the oil flow becoming a trickle, the depleted uranium being unleashed, and possibly the whole world becoming involved in another world war will be felt here too! 

Sydney, Australia 

by Robert Hoogenboom (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 234 comments [14 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:20:02 AM

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It never ceases to amaze me how "progressives" continue to carp about the lack of mainstream media coverage of the drive to impeach President Bush.

There ia a VERY GOOD REASON why the mainstream media is ignoring the impeachment drive: They know that it's a pipe dream that will never become a reality. 

And the reason impeachment is a pipe dream to everyone other than so-called "progressives" can be summed up in two words:

Dick Cheney.

Nobody -- not "progressives," not Democrats, not moderates not Republicans -- and not even conservatives -- wants the vice president to serve out the ramainder of Bush's term as president, which, under the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution, is precisely what Americans would end up with if Bush is impeached and removed from office. 

Even conservatives fear Cheney as too extreme to be president. Only a naive fool would fail to recognize the Cheney's first official acts as president would be to launch a war against Iran, declare a state of national emergency and impose martial law -- just as Feerdinand Marcos did in the Phillippines in 1972.

Dick Cheney is the most dangerous man in Washington. "Progressives" seem to have forgotten that the Iraq war was HIS idea, not Bush's. The unconstitutional warrantless spying program was hatched up and pushed hard by Cheney, not Bush. 

Everyone, it seems, has forgotten that Cheney began his career in Wahington as part of "Tricky Dick" Nixon's administration. When Nixon was driven out of office by the Watergate scandal, Cheney made a solemn vow that has guided his career ever since: to restore the "imperial presidency" that Watergate undermined.

Cheney privately considered Preisdents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton "wimps." He revered Ronald Reagan, but soon recognized that Reagan was hamstrung by the Democratic-controlled Congress, especially during his second term, weakened by the Iran-Contra scandal.

When George W. Bush appointed Cheney to head up his vice-presidential search committee in 2000, it was a sham: Cheney was determined to put his restore-the-imperial-presidency plan into practice by naming himself Bush's veep.

The rest, as they say, is history, as Cheney amassed far greater power than any vice president before him -- power far beyond what the Constitution calls for.

Make no mistake: Dick Cheney has been and is the real power in the Bush administration. Only Bush stands in Cheney's way of obtaining absolute power. Remove Bush, and you remove that obstacle.  

by Skeeter Sanders (32 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 78 comments) on Friday, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:24:33 AM

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I personally don't have the slightest illusion about the effectiveness of political action that we initiate. All these things, and everything else, happens by itself somehow. As the wise man says, no one is "doing" anything, everything is equally unconscious, and equally "mechanical", particularly when it involves these sorts of people. Bush and Cheney should of course both be impeached and locked up for life. And it won't happen. Or perhaps it may, who knows. The devil plays with everything.

I doubt that the reason why the newspapers don't discuss impeachment and Nancy Pelosi has resisted it is that they are the collective good guys, who are saving America and the world by avoiding an even greater evil than Bush - Cheney.

Who is behind Cheney? Who pushed for the Iraq war the hardest? The Israeli-right power configuration, which includes many of the neocons, no? And they now want war with Iran. Are there any others who are behind the scene, and who are using Bush and Cheney?

Perhaps Bush should watch out. Cheney is indeed a powerful man and he may not want to stop at just being vice president. He can have Bush assassinated, thus get complete control and suspend the next elections. The papers will have screaming headlines implicating Iran.

Sydney, Australia

by Robert Hoogenboom (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 234 comments [14 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:44:05 PM

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People eating from the mass media slop trough filled with the voyeuristic disaster blaster, tabloid trash, and local police blotter can't be held accountable for not hearing about the movement to impeach Cheney AND Bush, because it really isn't allowed past most of the media filters.

But Skeeter, you should know better.  Any proponent of impeachment knows that both Bush and Cheney must be removed from office and that impeachable offenses have been verfiably committed by both.

Of course, patriotic progressives like Dennis Kucinich (and many others as well) have already thought about and planned for the removal of VP Richard Cheney. 

Patriots don't take on a seemingly unpopular cause seeking to oust the powerful criminal elite because it is easy or popular among some imagined constituency.  Politicians may be forgiven for considering the practicality or probability of success before taking action, as there are arguably many other causes that require attention and positive change,...

BUT as members of our government are sworn to defend the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic, the hostile, corrupt, and rotten heart must be excised before the healing of our nation can begin.

Good people and patriots must work together to remove the unindicted criminals from the highest office in the land.  We should have the highest moral standards and yet we are fed the lowest common denominator crowned as king by the corporatist media.  We seek to do the right thing, that may not be popular nor practical yet, but it is the right thing to do.  The sheeple may be excused for being deceived and mesmerized by the deceptive filters of the mainstream media.   

As a reader of Opednews, Skeeter should know better.

by Tim Riley (7 articles, 5 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 148 comments [12 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:20:02 AM

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And the points need to be blasted every day. The mainstream media is pulling their worst suppression caper yet by so boldly refusing to talk about such an important subject as Impeachment (considering their other crimes, that was hard to top;)

But MSM would not have dared this dangerous path (which could eventually land some of them in jail, or at least end their careers forever), if :

A) We had not let them get away with all their previous suppressions in the past 7 years; and

B) The Congressional leadership was not so blatantly suppressing it themselves.  

... The point being that MSM knows it can get away with suppressing this because Congress and the mainstream corporate-owned Demorat party won't say a peep either.

These people in the Leadership should ALL be out of office... And impeached themselves.... Maybe even on trial for Treason.  Because they have deliberately broken their Oath to the Constitution; and betrayed the American People by not taking action when there is clear and overwhelming evidence of crime.

They tell themselves (or just tell us...) they are just trying to win the election so they can "do good" in the future: AT WHAT PRICE?? That is the most specious and disgusting example of self-serving and self-decepting logic we have ever seen in a very bad history of such. And it is proof positive these people MUST GO. They do not have the capabilities, nor do they deserve the honor of leading sailors to a cat house.... Yet alone the U.S. Congress.  

So the media will do what suppressions it can safely get away with. And letting them get away with turning our news dissemination into a fascist propaganda tool is perhaps the worst crime of all: Because without a controlled media, these legitimate birth-challenged persons in the bush regime COULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH ANY OF IT.

We have been betrayed; by our own. And if anyone here thinks putting Obama (or McCain) in the White House will change any of the factors that caused this betrayal: You are attempting to extrude liquid waste onto a vertical surface of rope. This is not only illogical, having an extremely low probability of success, it eventually becomes an uncomfortable and untenable situation in the end as well.  

by Steve Windisch (jibbguy) (17 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 360 comments [54 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:26:56 PM

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