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Oh, really, Mr. Lindsay? Bush did nothing to warrant his impeachment? How about starting a thoroughly illegal, "pre-emptive" war of aggression, utilizing a cynical campaign of lies and deception? The Iraq war, that is. You know, the war that has killed, with no good cause, AT LEAST 600,000 Iraqis. The same Iraq War, which, according to Noble Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, will end up costing the US Treasury over Three Trillion dollars:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87801279
Such crimes against humanity and against fiscal sanity easily rank up there with the transgressions of Richard Milhous Nixon, who resigned the office in 1974 rather than face his own all-but-certain impeachment. So, Spencer, you think it's inexcusable to liken George W. Bush to a Nazi: but the fact remains Bush's 2003 attack against Baghdad strongly resembled - to a point - Hitler's 1939 attack against a relatively weak, hapless Poland. In 2002-2003, Bush engaged in a similarly Hitlerian campaign of demonization against Iraq, making it out to be a threat to the US all out of proportion to the facts on the ground. In fact, despite the NON-EXISTENT Weapons of Mass Destruction that Bush cited as justification for "Operation Iraqi Freedom," Iraq actually posed us no threat whasoever. Yet Bush and his Neocon minions lied through their teeth in order to facilitate a protracted war that has ONLY benefited criminally corporate entitites like the (Dick Cheney-connected) Halliburton and Blackwater. Perhaps, in order to get a proper idea of what warrants a chief executive's removal from office, you should read John Nichols' excellent "The Genius of Impeachment," the book was written specifically with George W. Bush's massive crimes in mind:
http://www.amazon.com/Genius-Impeachment-Founders-Cure-Royalism/dp/1595581405
Just what, in your estimation Mr. Lindsay, would it TAKE to warrant impeachment for such war criminals? Need I mention Abu Ghraib as well?
Friday, September 16, 2011
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