Impeach Pelosi for Complicity in War Crimes (REVISED October 6th, 2008) · After the bailout of gangsters on Wall Street, the time has come for Americans in both parties to reach across the aisle to shake up what may now be known as the Complicit Party, which has both its Democrat and GOP flavors, and which has treasonously given the inheritance of American children to cover the losses of Chinese and British investment companies. As well, the opportunity has come for the formation of a Patriot Coalition which draws from the best of both parties, and would include both liberals and conservatives such as Dana Rohrabacher, Duncan Hunter, Dennis Kucinich, and Ron Paul. What unites patriots today is far stronger than what has divided them.
With conservatives such as John Lillpop penning articles entitled "Mr. President, Your Helicopter is Waiting" and with Americans in mobilized fury over the Wall Street Bailout, the atmosphere has never been better for Americans to act in unison to restore the Constitution, to clip the wings of those complicit in many forms of treason, to break the power of the Wall Street robber barons who buy congressmen like so many prostitutes, and to curb the back-door union-busting of illegal immigration.
Now high on the list of actions to be forced by We the People is the impeachment of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, for complicity in international war crimes. The Constitution allows for the impeachment of "The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States." Pelosi's high position as Speaker of the House obliged her, more than others, to begin investigations on the torture of men who were later deemed innocent, when she was briefed on it by the Bush administration. The impeachment of Senator William Blount in 1798 shows that "all civil officers" includes congressmembers and senators.
The impeachment trial of Senator Blount was on December 17, 1798. The impeachment of Bill Clinton was on December 16th. Christmas time seems to be impeachment time in this country.
For the country to have a clean sweep, it's time to own up to the role Pelosi had in abiding the torture of prisoners who were so innocent they were released.
Army Maj. General Antonio Taguba (Ret.) writes:
"There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."
Gen. Taguba is referencing the report "Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact." According to ABC News, the report: "details medical evaluations of 11 former detainees held by the US military in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. None were ever charged with any crime; all have since been released."
Spencer Ackerman of The New Republic wrote in "Pelosi: I Knew Very Very Little About Waterboarding Detainees" of how Pelosi had been briefed about torture" and said nothing. Pelosi implied that Rep. Jane Harman, who succeeded Pelosi in the House Intelligence Committee, and with whom her enmity is well-known, certainly knew more about the dastardly deeds than she:
"On one occasion, in the fall of 2002, I was briefed on interrogation techniques the Administration was considering using in the future. The Administration advised that legal counsel for the both the CIA and the Department of Justice had concluded that the techniques were legal.
"I had no further briefings on the techniques. Several months later, my successor as Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee, Jane Harman, was briefed more extensively and advised the techniques had in fact been employed. It was my understanding at that time that Congresswoman Harman filed a letter in early 2003 to the CIA to protest the use of such techniques, a protest with which I concurred."
Rep. Pelosi was obliged to do much more than "concur," after the fact and off-the-record, with a protest of illegal behavior. She was obliged to investigate.
Brecher and Smith at Alternet.org opine: "If so, it would answer one of the great mysteries of 2007. The Democrats, once in control of Congress, had the courage to pursue cutoff of funds for the Iraq war, even though the Bush administration was happy to take advantage of their effort by characterizing it as failure to support the troops. The obvious companion strategy would have been to conduct intensive investigations to show that the entire Bush project has been to subvert law and Constitutional government in the interests of aggrandizing power nationally and internationally.
"But Congressional Democrats have systematically avoided serious investigation of Bush administration lawlessness, and so far have retreated from using the power of contempt when the Bush officials have refused to respond to subpoenas." Could this be because some Democratic leaders in effect colluded in Bush administration crimes --knew about them but failed to report them?"
General Taguba maintains in his comments on the report "Broken Laws, Broken Lives":
"This story is not only written in words: It is scrawled for the rest of these individuals' lives on their bodies and minds. Our national honor is stained by the indignity and inhumane treatment these men received from their captors."
I’m beginning to really dislike politics, but I have to admit what I hate even more is the lack of facts and just plain biased reporting I experience every day in the media/press. We may not care for George Bush, but the fact is he is leaving in a few months and probably to a very nice retirement. However, we as Americans have to live with the negativity spread by our press daily. I honestly feel that what other countries really dislike about us is the how badly we talk about ourselves. This nastiness has given voice for others to criticize us such as Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Chavez, etc. We allow it to happen, allow him to come here and say how Israel should be wiped off the map, then invite him over for dinner and give him national airtime.Look, I’m not trying to have you vote for this guy or that, however I would like for you to be aware that we are all being controlled by what we read and what we see, serious or comedy. What is being reported or not, where in the paper it appears, etc. Recently a photographer for the Washington magazine was fired because she was trying to go out of her way to take a nasty photograph of McCain using a strobe light., (thought they did use her photo on the cover) and she went on to post them anyway altered, and nasty. This happens constantly.My question is why cant we just get the facts ?. Why cant we be balanced ? Why not just talk about the positive things Sen Obama plans to do, same for McCain and then we can go on from there. I hate that we are all being used right now. We are being used to hate someone so we vote for another. The press hated Hillary Clinton and basically helped take her down. They hate McCain and are doing the same. Shouldn’t Obama win on his own merit ?Please take a few minutes and check out the 2 videos below. You don’t have to agree, but it does have clear facts. Just an example of how the media works us daily.At the end of the day, whomever you vote for – vote for him because you like him. Don’t do it because someone made you hate another. Lets pass on accurate facts and positives.
Pelosi is not immune to all this. what goes around will come around once again to all of us because of her.
What I find funny, is that when he ordered strikes on Iraq, he was accused of trying to divert attention from the Lewinski scandal. But since he didn't go all in on a full scale invasion, now you are saying he was irresponsible? Give me a break.
As for the video on the subprime mortgage issue, About the only thing I could see in the video, since everything went by so fast, was that at least some of the sources were from Wikipedia. Again, give me a break. To try to say that any one party was completely at fault for the financial crisis is insane. Even if all of the "facts" point to Jimmy Carter, which I might add was 30 years ago, why didn't Regan do something about it? If they all point to Clinton, why didn't Bush do something about it? He has had 8 years, 6 of which were with a Republican House and Senate following his every command. But instead of doing anything about it, he simply boasted that home ownership was up under his administration.
As for the war we are in now? Its has been proved time and time again that the intel that Congress and the Senate received was flawed intel provided to them by the Bush administration. I'm not willing to say that Bush or Cheney lied outright, or even manipulated the intel. But it was flawed none the less. And it would have been real nice to see the one responsible for gathering that intel, George Tenant, Director of the CIA, not receiving a medal for his great work on the intel provided as a basis for the war.
If you want to make an argument that negative politics are something you are tired of, and wish it weren't a part of American politics, don't immediately throw someone else under the bus. It kind of nullifies your complaint.
As far as why the rest of the world hates us? I wish it were something as simple as, they hate us for our freedom. Or we believe differently than they do. Those are easy scape goat answers. Fact is, we did know that at one time Hussein had WMD. How did we know? We had the receipt. Yes he bought them from us. He was an ally that we supplied with weapons to fight against Iran. The big problem came in when we started supplying Iran as well with weapons. Remember the Iran Contra Affair? The hatred lies in the fact that OUR government has engaged in playing both sides of the fence. I'm sure there are episodes that occurred prior to that, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention to politics before my 15th birthday.
Don't get me wrong. I feel that this is the best country in the world, and there is no place on Earth like it. But to turn a blind eye to actions of our politicians is irresponsible. I don't write these critiques of American Politics because I don't love this country. I write them because I DO love this country. And I want to see this once great nation restored to what it was. A leader. A beacon. A dream. But above all,,, honorable.
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BillyV (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 14 comments) on Tuesday, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:09:49 PM
One of the reasons it is so difficult to get any traction in regard to doing anything about wars of adventure and sweetheart arrangements with Wall Street is that so many of our representatives in congress are complicit. Pelosi, Feinstein and a host of others have vested interests in war profiteering and other methods of raking in riches. Even up here in NW Minnesota we have a blue dog democrat who couldn't care less about any other issue than helping his big agricultural, millionaire friends. A pox on all their houses.
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Bryan Emmel (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 418 comments [32 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:42:35 AM
The impeachment Nancy Pelosi, for complicity in war crimes,
is less likely than her re-election as Speaker of the House.
If we were a nation “under God”, Bush would spend his “very nice retirement” (if not eternity) in the same cell with Pelosi.
And, C W, if the "Press" hated Hillary, it would just print the truth about her part in the adoption of the NAFTA treason, and she would never have become a Senator.
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Samuel Bryan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 168 comments [7 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:23:21 AM
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