"It's time to close the curtain on
this Bizarro World."
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Our
President is a Criminal
Posted July 13, 2003
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By
Daniel Patrick Welch danielpwelch.com
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It's
well past time to say it. Despite the weaseling and finger-pointing--in
fact, because of it--the Forged Niger letter is indeed the smoking gun, and
the chips have yet to stop falling. Who wrote the damn thing, and on whose
orders? Who cares whether Tenet, his job on the line, acquiesced to
including a literal truth that actually amounts to one of the great frauds
of the century? The sheer audacity and cynicism of this coterie of hacks and
hustlers is simply astounding. As a teacher, I won't let six-year-olds get
away with such transparent sophistry. The bottom line is that Bush knew the
information was bogus, and used it anyway to convince millions to go along
with his phony war.
For that alone, for the memory of the thousands of dead Iraqis and
Americans, he deserves the il Duce treatment (figuratively speaking, Mr.
Ashcroft-no need to start tapping my phone or putting me on no-fly lists).
The criminal enterprise called the Bush administration is (Helen Thomas was
right) the worst ever. Their campaign in furtherance of the conspiracy to
defraud the public into buying the Iraq war is one of the the most cynical
abuses of power in U.S. history. It deserves to be treated as such.
Alarmist? You bet. This guy already thinks (and occasionally tells foreign
leaders) that he gets his orders from God. If these radical extremists can
get away with this, then the dumbing down of America will be complete, and
the stage will be set for the next wave of the nascent fascism. La Cosa Bush
(apologies to the mafia) is, like all crime families, violent, arrogant, and
beyond the reach of the law--so far. Bush's handlers no longer even have the
decency, courage or self-restraint to prevent his criminally stupid comments
from wreaking havoc around the globe. Was last week's pseudo-macho
invitation to "Bring 'em on" even a mistake? Or was it another
calculated ploy to make him look "tough" to the American people,
playing to the ugliest side of the American psyche while once again enraging
thinking people the world over. No matter--he must be stopped. This cabal
has been lying, cheating, and manipulating national tragedy to force their
right wing agenda down our throats long enough.
And half-measures won't do any more. None of this vague safe rhetoric about
"misleading" or cautious calls for those who "know who they
are" to step down. WE know who they are, the junta that has hijacked
our government and our national agenda. The cartel must go: Bush, Cheney,
Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle should all resign, be fired or
impeached immediately, before their conspiracy of lies and their mutual pact
of self-protection is allowed to further endanger the country and the world.
Cornered criminals, especially stupid ones, are a dangerous lot, and there
is no telling to what lengths they will go to cover their own behinds.
On a mission from God, installed by a viciously partisan Supreme Court, the
skids are greased for a further slide into misadventure, bankruptcy and
ruin. With the addition of Congress on their side, they are acting with
particularly reckless abandon--and impeachment is not in the cards as long
as the GOP circles the wagons. None will have the courage or integrity
Goldwater showed when he told Nixon the jig was up. Power corrupts, and the
Republicans are so drunk with it they won't turn on their Lord Fauntleroy
until he robs a bank on camera in broad daylight.
But that is no reason not to tell the truth: whatever their chances, some of
the braver souls in congress should introduce impeachment legislation
immediately: Conyers, Kucinich, Lee, Paul? The media has already shown they
will not help; moneyed interests overwhelmingly favor the right. A campaign
based on the old game of raising oodles of money and buying ads is a sure
failure. The only thing that can save us now is a grassroots, velvet
revolution, the principled, impassioned movement calling for these people's
head on a spike.
And maybe, just maybe, this one isn't an impeachable offense, but I'm just
plain getting sick of Rumsfeld's smug, arrogant grin on the tube. What the
hell is he smiling at all the time? Is it funny, somehow, that thousands of
Iraqi civilians are dead after his "precision" bombing? It is
ironic, admittedly, another fraud, to be sure-but hardly amusing. Maybe it's
just part of what you do when you think you can get away with anything.
Senate Intelligence Chair Pat Roberts foreshadowed just how twisted the
logic is going to get when he said that what concerns him most "is what
appears to be a campaign of press leaks by the CIA in an effort to discredit
the president," Yeah, right. The black bag set, whose penchant for
secrecy and service verges on pathology, are the real problem here--not the
curious fact that even some of them have finally decided that things are so
bad that someone, somewhere has to speak out.
It's time to close the curtain on this Bizarro World. Saddam loyalists--not
nationalist resistance to occupation--are the real problem in Iraq.
Protesters are terrorists, but we are fighting for our freedoms. Bush's
popularity remains robust, yet huge shows of force and repressive rules on
free speech are needed to keep the viewing public from seeing that he is
dogged by prostest at every turn. War is peace, freedom is slavery, and some
animals are more equal than others. The lies won't stop until we fire the
liars.
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2003 Daniel Patrick Welch. Reprint permission granted.
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Nambalirwa-Lugudde. Together they run The
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