Bending the Third Rail
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Friday, February 03, 2006
Impeachment Reason Number 25
I know this has been around a few days, but I just read some actual excerpts. The story revealed in Britain, ignored by the U.S. "Press", about a transcript of a recorded conversation between Bush and Blair conspiring to start a war with Iraq. David Corn brings it to our attention asking the usual question, isn't conspiring to cause a war an impeachable offense?
President Bush to Tony Blair: "The US was thinking of flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours. If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach"

Bush: "It was also possible that a defector could be brought out who would give a public presentation about Saddam's WMD, and there was also a small possibility that Saddam would be assassinated."

Blair: "A second Security Council Resolution resolution would provide an insurance policy against the unexpected and international cover, including with the Arabs."

Bush: "The US would put its full weight behind efforts to get another resolution and would 'twist arms' and 'even threaten'. But he had to say that if ultimately we failed, military action would follow anyway.''

Blair responds that he is: "solidly with the President and ready to do whatever it took to disarm Saddam."

Bush told Blair he: "thought it unlikely that there would be internecine warfare between the different religious and ethnic groups."

To my thinking, this is a rather big deal. The president of the United States caught conspiring to create a modern-day version of the sinking of the Maine? How's that for an impeachable offense?
Bush is a dumbshit.

Ah. Yes David. It is easily an impeachable offense when you live in a functioning Democracy. But when you live in a de facto theocracy with a dictator in charge, nothing is impeachable. Torture, lies, felonies, treason, conspiring to make war, eliminating civil liberaties ... and on and on ....

You know what bothers me most about all this? The precedent being set. There's not a President in future history who won't use Bush's abuses as precedent until they get their ears boxed back by Congress. And who knows how long that will take.
Written at 2:54 PM by Greyhair.
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