It just Struck Me: Bush Needs the Iraq War to Avoid Impeachment

[JCMach1]

It is the only thing keeping the axe from coming down...

It's Rove's last ace in the hole...

[acmavm]

1. ????

[JCMach1]

4. It struck while finally watching Bush's Brain

There was a speech by Rove in that documentary where he discussed using the Iraq war as a political tool.

It's Bush's last chip, he isn't going to cash it in.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. the war president has powers based on war.

no war? no powers. that would be the end of him.

[Vincardog]

3. Did ya figure that out for yourself or did someone help you?

[JCMach1]

5. Rove is playing the end game with this... playing with people's lives now...

solely for the Bush legacy... and perhaps his own...

[JCMach1]

6. It also is keeping his poll numbers 'artificially' high

Imagine what they would be after losing the Repug War Hawks because of announcing the end of a lost war...

[rodeodance]

7. patriotism works on all of us in some form or another

[jpgray]

8. Our "support the troops" culture and fear of "losing" make deployed troops valuable political tools

I've often asked people who support the troops "no matter what" what would stop a president from dropping them off in any hostile place he or she wished, justifying any deaths with the old rag "We must not disgrace the lives lost by failing to complete their mission," etc.

[JCMach1]

9. Color me completed disgusted at the revealation...

I always knew it was about the 'war'... I understood how they have used it as a political device...


But now, it's the ONLY thing they have left... the ONLY thing... and their vanity and arrogance won't let them stop...

:( :cry:

[Rock_Garden]

10. That's a very clever observation, JCMach1.

I've never seen it quite like this. It may not save them, though.

[chaska]

11. Yup.

[Cabcere]

12. He needed it to get a second term, too.

I know several people who weren't what you'd call "Bush supporters," but who voted for him anyway back in 2004 because they didn't want to change horses mid-stream (or whatever the phrase is...you get the idea). :grr: Disgusting, really. The man has no conscience - otherwise he'd at least feel a little guilty about getting thousands of our finest killed just so he can play war president. :grr: Sick &%$@.

[troubleinwinter]

13. Welcome to DU.

[Rock_Garden]

16. I'm starting to understand DU, now.

That is what it's all about here, that knowing of "the awful truth".

[Smarmie Doofus]

14. The *Iran* war is to avoid impeachment. The Iraq....

... war was to win a second term.

[AndyTiedye]

15. He Needed 9/11 to Avoid Impeachment Too

If 9/11 had not happened, the investigations in Congress into the stolen 2000 election would have gone forward.
So would investigations into Cheney, Halliburton and the "Energy Task Force".
So would lots of other investigations.

They would have been impeached long ago if it weren't for 9/11.