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August 15, 2007 at 16:59:38

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ALL THE LIES EVENTUALLY LEAD TO DICK CHENEY

by Allen L Roland

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Absolute power absolutely corrupts and the Libby conviction was the very tip of an Iceberg of deceit, deception, hubris and abuse of power by the Cheney/Bush administration ~ which began with the 9/11 cover-up, extended to the illegal War, occupation and economic rape of Iraq and is fully visible in the tragedy of New Orleans . Karl Rove's resignation leaves only the dark master himself ~ for all the lies eventually lead to Dick Cheney: Allen L Roland
Now that Karl Rove has resigned, under pressure from Cheney, only one key player remains ~  the dark master himself, Dick Cheney.
This Bush White House of smoke, spin and deception is crumbling and all the lies eventually lead to the chief architect himself ~ Cheney.
Remember, Bush is the oblivious cheerleader who is purposely left out of many key Cheney decisions so that he can maintain his attitude of removed non-attachment.  As such, a power vacuum existed in the Oval Office with both Rove and Cheney battling for control of the white house agenda. 
Think of Cheney as the CEOWar Czar and holder of the secrets ~  who gives Bush his marching orders and Bush complies ~ as witnessed in the sudden resignation of Bush's best friend  and advisor, Karl Rove.  Cheney wants no competition for Bush's ear as he implements his grand neocon global end game ~ the stakes are too high. Plus, Cheney and Bush are tied at the hip in lies and deceptions that go all the way back to the 9/11 cover-up. ( Remember, they refused to testify under oath and would only be interviewed together in the 9/11 commission investigation )  
As such, Rove's departure was not a shocking development in the context of the executive office power struggle between Rove and Cheney ~ along with the fact that Rove not only actively sought to replace Cheney on the 2004 ticket but changed his testimony several times in the Fitzgerald Plamegate Investigation which resulted in Cheney's chief of staff, Libby, taking the bullet instead of the real culprit, Karl Rove. 
So the shocked suddenness of Rove's resignation was exactly what happens everyday in the corporate world when one power broker ( Cheney ) makes another ( Rove ) expendable and irrelevant.
As such, its a shock to the outside world but not to the beltway insiders ~ who are well aware of the inner White house power games.
Cheney is making his last power stand and eliminating all but his staunchest supporters in the process . But what he can't escape is the trail of lies and deceptions which all eventually lead to himself and Bush, who as President, shares equal responsibility for them.  
As such, let's review these deceptions and abuses of power in the context of  the ten reasons for impeaching Cheney and Bush now;
1. Violating the United Nations Charter by launching an illegal "War of Aggression" against Iraq without cause, using fraud to sell the war to Congress and the public, misusing government funds to begin bombing without Congressional authorization, and subjecting our military personnel to unnecessary harm, debilitating injuries, and deaths.

2. Violating U.S. and international law by authorizing the torture of thousands of captives, resulting in dozens of deaths, and keeping prisoners hidden from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

3. Violating the Constitution by arbitrarily detaining Americans, legal residents, and non-Americans, without due process, without charge, and without access to counsel.

4. Violating the Geneva Conventions by targeting civilians, journalists, hospitals, and ambulances, and using illegal weapons, including white phosphorous, depleted uranium, and a new type of napalm.

5. Violating U.S. law and the Constitution through widespread wiretapping of the phone calls and emails of Americans without a warrant.

6. Violating the Constitution by using "signing statements" to defy hundreds of laws passed by Congress.

7. Violating U.S. and state law by obstructing honest elections in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006.

8. Violating U.S. law by using paid propaganda and disinformation, selectively and misleadingly leaking classified information, and exposing the identity of a covert CIA operative working on sensitive WMD proliferation for political retribution.

9. Subverting the Constitution and abusing Presidential power by asserting a "Unitary Executive Theory" giving unlimited powers to the President, by obstructing efforts by Congress and the Courts to review and restrict Presidential actions, and by promoting and signing legislation negating the Bill of Rights and the Writ of Habeas Corpus.

10. Gross negligence in failing to assist New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina, in ignoring urgent warnings of an Al Qaeda attack prior to Sept. 11, 2001, and in increasing air pollution causing global warming.

Allen L Roland      http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2007/08/15.html

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Impeach them all

Chenney, his residence was in quetion , was never followed up on. Rice has Oil Tanker named after here.  Either they have something Rove or he is up to something. Right now he is violating the Hatch Act. The Minorty leader is covering up the use of illegals at a famous horse race track in is home state. I do have proof. The walls are starting to crumble down.

by Gareece (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 46 comments) on Thursday, Aug 16, 2007 at 12:38:35 PM

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Impeach

I think the Declaration of Independence needs to be modified to fit our current world conditions.

Declaration of Independence
[Adapted In The United States Of America July 4, 2007]

The Unanimous Declaration of the Citizens United States of America From the George W Bush Administration, Corporate Control, Shadow Government, Right Wing Main Stream Media and The Military Industrial Complex

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present President of the United States is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Congress to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation With Signing Statements till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to Obey them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has Divided representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; With Voter Caging and Suppression of Votes, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to Increase the population of these states; for that purpose
Ignoring the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and Lowering the conditions of Seeking Employment In The U.S.A, Therefore Driving Down The Wages Of The Working Class.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He Has Misled The American Citizens To Invade A Sovereign Nation To Gain Control Of Their Oil Resources At The Expense Of Taxpayer Funds And The Lives Of Our Young Men And Women In The Military.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.

He has combined with Corporations And The Free Press to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
For cutting off FAIR trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing taxes on While Lowering Taxes On The Most Wealthy Among us without our consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:

For abolishing the free system of Constitutional laws in a neighboring States, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these States:

For taking away our Freedoms, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
For Hamstringing our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war Against Foreign Nations.
He has Ignored Our Citizens On Our Ravaged Gulf Coasts, Torn Down Our Educational System, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our Fellow Citizens And Citizens Of Other Nations taken captive In All Lands to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections Of Foreign Nations, and has endeavored to bring on the Civil Discourse In Iraq And The Middle East Oil Producing Nations, whose known Rule Does Not Conform With Our Democratic System.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A President, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the Leader of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our Republican brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our Disappointment With Them. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

We, therefore, the Citizensof the United States of America, in Objection To The Current Administration Are , assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, solemnly publish and declare, that these united Citizens are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the George W Bush Administration, and that all political connection between them and the state of Corporate Oligarchy, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

by Ron McCallie (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 74 comments) on Thursday, Aug 16, 2007 at 6:14:12 PM

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Dick Cheney is a embarrassment to the United States and our

This is just the begining. There is Iraq. next it will be Iran, then all the Middle East. these two want control of the Middle East and all the oil. THEY WILL STOP AT NOTHING. RIGHT WING CONTROLS AMERICA. the new world order. all for GREED AND WEALTHY AMERICA. screw the american citizens.all set-up by Corporate america. control of the white house and the congress. Please read and go to. ( NOSTRADAMUS) www. End of the World. Predictions. com  The Nostradamus code. World War III.  This has been planed for a long time .

by vincent passiatore (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 185 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Aug 16, 2007 at 9:55:42 PM

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These are dangerous times and it began with the National Security Act of 1947 where we established a National Security State which now controls its creator. A state where permament war exists and we are committed to covert operations, dictatorships and Puppet Governments who are beholden to the U.S. ~ Iraq being the latest.

We are currently engaged in covert actions against Iran and only impeachment proceedings against both Bush and Cheney can halt this slow erosion of our constitution and a preemptive strike against Iran .

This will not happen unless we, the people, take to the streets and demand our constitution and Democracy back.

Allen L Roland

by Allen L Roland (1045 articles, 7 quicklinks, 44 diaries, 420 comments [15 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Aug 16, 2007 at 10:49:58 PM

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