Impeach Bush

[obnoxiousdrunk]

Go cast your vote here:

http://www.impeachbush.org/

[terrya]

1. I already have. Kick for more DU'ers.

Come on...vote! :-)

[RebelOne]

2. Me, too. A long time ago.

[landdaddy]

4. Been there, done that!

:toast:

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Done

My message:

There can be no greater betrayal of public trust than for a leader to send his troops into combat while telling those to whom he is responsible lies when asked for the reasons for going to war.

These were deliberate lies, not mistakes based on bad intelligence. The intelligence was bad because Bush and the neoconservatives wanted it bad. The Office of Special Plans was constituted in the Pentagon to select intelligence that supported the case for war and repress facts that contradicted that case, to change the language to be less ambiguous than the actual facts warranted. Mr. Cheney and Mr. Libby paid visits to the CIA to strong arm analysts into making their assessments more certain than warranted. Now, we see Bush and Cheney campaigning for election repeating the same lies long after they have been refuted. These are not patterns of behavior of those who are honestly mistaken; this is the behavior of those seeking to deliberately deceive.

We are not safer for having invaded Iraq. Saddam had no associations with al Qaida and therefore removing him from power could not have had a positive effect on the war against terrorists. If Saddam was no threat, then how can toppling him have removed the threat he represented? On the contrary, by neglecting the real threat in order to topple Saddam, Bush has allowed al Qaida to regroup; al Qaida has since staged attacks in Istanbul, Madrid and several in Riyadh. Today, while administration spokesmen tell us on the one hand that we are safer, they tell us on the other that the threat may force us to postpone or cancel the Presidential election.

That is a contradiction that cannot stand. Either al Qaida remains a threat to our security or Bush and his people are a threat to liberty and the democratic process. Most likely, we are faced with real threats from both.

For our safety and for our liberty, Mr. Bush and those around him must be removed from power at the earliest opportunity.