Ted Rall, who actually WENT to Afghanistan during the conflict there to learn and report upon it, lays it out. Bush has commited an act worth the price of impeachment (if you only apply the craven standard the GOP did concerning Clinton; much more so the loss of American and innocent Iraqi lives!). Any self-respecting conservative who railed against Clinton for lying to protect a private affair which had NOTHING to do with running the country, has the blood of thousands upon their hands and carries a growing blackness in their heart if they support Bush and his cabal of liars who lied, twisted and manipulated the truth to enter a war. A war in which its aftermath has proven grossly inept by its planning (if ever it WAS planned) and shown that major financial supporters and friends of the President and his administration are making billions of dollars off of sweetheart deals concerning the rebuilding of Iraq and the pumping of its oil. Historians in the future will be aghast at the audacity of the greed and lack of human empathy expressed by this callous, reckless and opportunistic administration.

A CRACK IN BUSH'S FACADE

Mon Jun 30, 5:08 PM ET
By Ted Rall

Growing WMD Scandal Could Lead to Impeachment

MINNEAPOLIS--Bush lied about the weapons of mass destruction. He lied to us, the United Nations, and the soldiers he sent to die in Iraq. Bush's apologists defend his attempts to sell this obscene war as mere spin, but claiming certain knowledge of something that doesn't exist is hardly a question of emphasis. It's time to stop wondering where the WMDs are. Even if nukes and gases and anthrax turn up in prodigious quantities, it won't matter. Proof of Bush's perfidy, unlike his accusations that Saddam had something to do with 9/11, is irrefutable.

Before he ordered U.S. forces to kill and maim tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi soldiers and civilians, Bush and Co. repeatedly maintained that they had absolute proof that Saddam Hussein still possessed WMDs. "There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction," Dick Cheney said in August. In January, Ari Fleisher said: "We know for a fact that there are weapons there." WMDs; not a "WMD program" as they now refer to it. WMDs--not just indications of possible, or probable, WMDs.

Absolute proof...





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