If the president and his administration knew there was no immediate security threat from Iran, and decided to lie and pretend there was to whip up the winds of war, it certainly would have to be at least considered to rise to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors."
We deserve the truth. Congress must begin an investigation into what the
president knew on Iran, and when he knew it."
He's beyond contempt and has to be muzzled and some of the Democrats are being courageous.
The article "Six senators to President Bush: Congress will have a say in
post-war plans" at
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Six_senators_to_President_Bush_Congress_1206.html
states "Six United States Senators have co-authored a letter to President Bush insisting that Congress is to be included in the decision-making process for a plan to maintain a post-war American presence in Iraq."
W might use this letter for any imaginable obscenity, but they are on the
record. It states "Security assurances, once made, cannot be easily rolled back without incurring a great cost to America's strategic credibility and imperiling the stability of our nation's other alliances around the world.
Accordingly, security assurances must be extended with great care and only in the context of broad bipartisan agreement that such assurances serve our abiding national interest.
Such assurances, if legally binding, are generally made in the context of a formal treaty subject to the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate but in any case cannot be made without Congressional authorization."
There are rumors that Cheney sat on this Iran NIE for over 2 years in attempt to demonize Iran, just as he did with Iraq.
The 2007-01-26 article "Rockefeller: Cheney Applied "Constant" Pressure to Stall Investigation on Flawed Iraq Intelligence" at
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/17768/print
states "Vice President Dick Cheney exerted "constant" pressure on the
Republican former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee to stall an investigation into the Bush administration's use of flawed intelligence on Iraq, the panel's Democratic chairman charged Thursday.
In the 45-minute interview, Rockefeller said that it was "not hearsay" that
Cheney, a leading proponent of invading Iraq, pushed Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., to drag out the probe of the administration's use of prewar intelligence.
"It was just constant," Rockefeller said of Cheney's alleged interference. He added that he knew that the vice president attended regular policy meetings in which he conveyed White House directions to Republican staffers.
Republicans "just had to go along with the administration," he said.
In an e-mail response to Rockefeller's comments, Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea McBride, said: "The vice president believes Senator Roberts was a good chairman of the Intelligence Committee."
The 4th estate must stay engaged and cooperative in our quest for decency though.
The 2007-12-06 article "Media Matters - Wash. Post and NY Times ignored Hadley's claim and denial that Bush was told to "stand down" upon learning of Iran intel"
at
http://mediamatters.org/items/200712060008?f=i_latest
states "The New York Times and The Washington Post have reported on the White House's statements regarding President Bush's knowledge of the new intelligence that Iran halted its nuclear program in late 2003 -- and the administration's subsequent "clarif[ication]" and "revis[ion]" of some of those statements -- but neither paper has noted National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley's inconsistent statements regarding whether intelligence officials told Bush to "stand down" upon learning the "new information" on Iran's nuclear weapons program."
The article describes every variation of content and context imaginable and illustrates how Herr Karl's goons will try to re-write history yet again.
It soon makes your brain hurt and you just want the nice man in room 101 of the "Ministry of Truth" to make the pain go away-no matter what the price is.
This crew gets itself into so many perverse positions that only lying can extract them from the mess. W can declare "Mission Accomplished" about his lying, but not about any of his policies!
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