YEAH BABY - SMELL THE IMPEACHMENT IN THE AIR!

Yep, came to most of those conclusions on my own over the course of the
Bush reign. Hrm, rich from OIL guy who grinds all of the companies he's
ever touched into the ground, constantly getting financially bailed out
by his Bin Laden cronies... Who pushed for there to be electronic voting
machines that couldn't be monitored let alone audited... who is known to
have gotten out of other criminal escapade/scrapes, a guy who makes
himself appear to be the fool to get past all those warning bells that
start going off when you realize what he's actually saying... OH - and
don't forget that list of fascist state behaviorisms that he is starting
to model his actions (and government policy) after. GAH!

Impeachment Time:
'Facts Were Fixed.' by Greg
Palast

Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has, "IMPEACH HIM" written all
over it.

The top-level government memo marked "SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL,"
dated eight months before Bush sent us into Iraq, following a closed
meeting with the President, reads, "Military action was now seen as
inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action
justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence
and facts were being fixed around the policy."

Read that again: "The intelligence and facts were being fixed...."

For years, after each damning report on BBC TV, "Isn't this grounds for
impeachment?" Vote rigging, a blind eye to terror and the bin Ladens
before 9-11, and so on. Evil, stupidity and self-dealing are shameful but
not impeachable. What's needed is a "high crime or misdemeanor."

And if this ain't it, nothing is.

chronocidal for posting this first article">

The memo, uncovered this week by the Times, goes on to describe an
elaborate plan by George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to
hoodwink the planet into supporting an attack on Iraq knowing full well
the evidence for war was a phony.

A conspiracy to commit serial fraud is, under federal law, racketeering.
However, the Mob's schemes never cost so many lives.

Here's more. "Bush had made up his mind to take military action. But the
case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbors, and his WMD
capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran."

Really? But Mr. Bush told us, "Intelligence gathered by this and other
governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and
conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."

A month ago, the Silberman-Robb Commission issued its report on WMD
intelligence before the war, dismissing claims that Bush fixed the facts
with this snotty, condescending conclusion written directly to the
President, "After a thorough review, the Commission found no indication
that the Intelligence Community distorted the evidence regarding Iraq's
weapons."

We now know the report was a bogus 618 pages of thick whitewash aimed to
let Bush off the hook for his murderous mendacity.

Read on: The invasion build-up was then set, says the memo, "beginning 30
days before the US Congressional elections." Mission accomplished.

You should parse the entire memo and see if you can make it through its
three pages without losing your lunch.

Now sharp readers may note they didn't see this memo, in fact, printed in
the New York Times. It wasn't. Rather, it was splashed across the front
pages of the Times of LONDON on Monday.

It has effectively finished the last, sorry remnants of Tony Blair's
political career. (While his Labor Party will most assuredly win the
elections today, Prime Minister Blair is expected, possibly within
months, to be shoved overboard in favor of his Chancellor of the
Exchequer, a political execution which requires only a vote of the Labour
party's members in Parliament.)

But in the US, barely a word. The New York Times covers this hard
evidence of Bush's fabrication of a causus belli as some "British"
elections story. Apparently, our President's fraud isn't "news fit to
print."

My colleagues in the UK press have skewered Blair, digging out more
incriminating memos, challenging the official government factoids and
fibs. But in the US press ...nada, bubkiss, zilch. Bush fixed the facts
and somehow that's a story for "over there."

The Republicans impeached Bill Clinton over his cigar and Monica's
affections. And the US media could print nothing else.

Now, we have the stone, cold evidence of bending intelligence to sell us
on death by the thousands, and neither a Republican Congress nor what is
laughably called US journalism thought it not worth a second look.

My friend Daniel Ellsberg once said that what's good about the American
people is that you have to lie to them. What's bad about Americans is
that it's so easy to do.

If you haven't read Greg Palast's book The Best Democracy Money Can
Buy, I suggest you do. Try to get the 2004 post-election edition.



BUT WAIT - IT GETS BETTER!

Title: IMPEACHMENT BILL AGAINST RUMSFELD FILED IN U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

On May 6, 2004, a bill was introduced in the United States House of Representatives to impeach Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for "high crimes and misdemeanors". This impeachment bill is "H. RES. 629" and its allegations prove much of what Cutting Edge Ministries has been teaching for the past several years, i.e., since 9/11 and since the build-up to invade Iraq began in earnest. Since all Congressmen have access to "Top Secret" material on a daily basis, the fact that these Impeachment Articles so closely parallels Cutting Edge teachings is very significant.

( Let us now examine this Bill of Impeachment against Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, Article by Article. )

AND YES - THE ORIGINAL LONDON TIMES ARTICLE THAT STARTED THE FIRESTORM!!
aka: The Secret Downing Street Memo

May 01, 2005

The secret Downing Street memo

SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL - UK EYES ONLY
DAVID MANNING
From: Matthew Rycroft
Date: 23 July 2002
S 195 /02

cc: Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General, Sir Richard Wilson, John Scarlett, Francis Richards, CDS, C, Jonathan Powell, Sally Morgan, Alastair Campbell

IRAQ: PRIME MINISTER'S MEETING, 23 JULY

Copy addressees and you met the Prime Minister on 23 July to discuss Iraq.

This record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should be made. It should be shown only to those with a genuine need to know its contents.
( You all know that we the American public have a genuine need to know the contents of this thing... )

And: I love how the Daily Kos covered the story.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/2/16258/65970

Creating Reasons to Go to War
by Congressman John Conyers
Mon May 2nd, 2005 at 13:02:58 PDT

Unfortunately, the mainstream media in the United States was too busy with wall-to-wall coverage of a "runaway bride" to cover a bombshell report out of the British newspapers. The London Times reports that the British government and the United States government had secretly agreed to attack Iraq in 2002, before authorization was sought for such an attack in Congress, and had discussed creating pretextual justifications for doing so.
( Let's hope that all our congressmen and women write those letters! )

GAH! Going to go drink some Tequila now...

For all of you who have looked at my journal info, you know that I read and post to feminist. It has recently taken a turn for the worse. At least, it seems to be much more highly regulated with lots of slaps on the hand by mods - for some people, while other people can throw off backhand insults and get chuckled at. There also seems to be less discussion and more reactionary commentary going on: "OMG! That's so horrible!" I never would have been able to get away with just saying that in one of my old women's studies courses. I'm getting constantly jumped on because I keep posting about what's happening to women in other countries. Like an article that talked about how Kuwait had again voted not to give women the right to vote or hold office. Or the article below. Now, the original cut had been right after the first paragraph of the article and I assumed that the title alone would indicate that the information within the article could be triggering. (For those of you not in the know, triggering is another phrase for flashbacks of a traumatic event.) Most recently, someone had posted an article (I believe in the NY Times but I am not sure) about how women in one of the "stahns" were being abducted by men to force them to marry them. This is a tradition that is still supported by parents of men and women in the area, though the practice is falling out of favor and has been disliked by many for some time.

Whatever the case may be, I am feeling more and more restricted by what I can say in this forum and it has decreased my participation and enjoyment of the community itself. The funny thing is is that some of the mods have also (whined) commented about people going back to their personal blogs and bitching about stuff that goes on their. Uh, personal blogs are there for people to make statements about their lives. There is no rule anywhere that says you can't bitch about shit in your own personal blog. Jeez.

Regardless, the following is my much modified post, transplanted here because I have a feeling it is going to get sacked over on their site. Am I being overly callous in my assessment of this situation?

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I recall that someone posted earlier about kidnapping being used to force women to marry their abductors, and this reminded me of that.

Edit 3:
Due to ANOTHER mod (I believe that so far I have heard from three different ones so far) asking me to now LJ-CUT in a different way... I am again modifying this post. Is this a feminist site or an abuse recovery site? I was very good about putting in a cut for the content of the article itself - it seems like we are allowed to post less and less in this community. What is going to be left to discuss if we can't discuss current events happening around the world? There are victims everywhere - even myself. I'm not going to hide from these issues, I want to confront them, and I've already replied to someone else's comment as to why I think talking about these things is important. As many of you have pointed out SILENCE only prolongs the continuance of Bad Things Happening To People. The more we confront it, the more we talk about it, the more we educate about it (socialization issues) the more likely we are to initiate CHANGE in our societies.

My main point in posting this is not to horrify you with what happened, but to point out that there are large groups of women protesting traditions that are harmful to them and their equal place in their culture. I took a Global Feminism class a couple of years ago and I came to the realization that I can't just pay attention to what goes on in my own back yard (the United States). I have to support women's efforts elsewhere to free themselves.

may be triggering /edit 3

UK Times Online
May 05, 2005

I’ll marry her if I can go free, ( Read more... )

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I feel like one of those Mormon movie editors who are editing the content of everything to keep from offending anybody.