John Dean Calls for Special Prosecutor Investigation of W

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030718.html

Why A Special Prosecutor's Investigation Is Needed To Sort Out the Niger Uranium And Related WMDs Mess
By JOHN W. DEAN
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Friday, Jul. 18, 2003

The heart of President Bush's January 28 State of the Union address was his case for going to war against Saddam Hussein. In making his case, the President laid out fact after fact about Saddam's alleged unconventional weapons. Indeed, the claim that these WMDs posed an imminent threat was his primary argument in favor of war.

Now, as more and more time passes with WMDs still not found, it seems that some of those facts may not have been true. In particular, recent controversy has focused on the President's citations to British intelligence purportedly showing that Saddam was seeking "significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

In this column, I will examine the publicly available evidence relating to this and other statements in the State of the Union concerning Saddam's WMDs. Obviously, I do not have access to the classified information the President doubtless relied upon. But much of the relevant information he drew from appears to have been declassified, and made available for inquiring minds.

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[seafan]

1. Mail this John Dean piece to your Congresspeople/Senators!

The dialogue on Bush's deceptive SOTU has so far been mostly confined to the bogus uranium claim. He made false claims about the rest of the WMDs as well. We have only seen a miniscule portion of the lying that's going on here.

Keep HAMMERING!

[Woodstock]

2. this is what happens when one party controls all branches of govt

I know some people are still fooled by Bush. But surely even they would prefer a president to a king. Let's hope enough have gotten wise and realize that the only way to restore accountability to the office of president is to restore balance and vote Democratic in 2004.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2722-2003Jul16.html

Senate Republicans yesterday held the line against Democratic efforts to challenge President Bush over Iraq, rejecting initiatives to internationalize postwar operations and to create a commission to probe how intelligence was used -- or misused -- to justify going to war.

The GOP-controlled Senate also defeated two Democratic proposals to force the administration to spell out the anticipated costs of continuing military operations in Iraq.