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Edited on Sun Dec-18-05 02:11 PM by Blue_In_AK
sent to the Anchorage Daily news last night. I sure hope it gets printed. Since they did publish Dana Milbank's article this morning, they may find it printworthy.
Ahem....
In light of the Bush administration’s ethical challenges and ineptitude -- including two questionable elections; the failure to capture Bin Laden; the use of arguably falsified intelligence to justify invading a sovereign nation, resulting in the death and maiming of tens of thousands of American soldiers and Iraqis; the use of chemical weapons on civilians (white phosphorus in Fallujah); the mysterious relationship with Chalabi; the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo; the existence of secret prison/torture camps in eastern Europe; the leaked identity of a CIA operative; Cheney’s role in awarding contracts to Halliburton; withholding from Congress the cost of the Medicare prescription drug plan; the bungled Katrina response; the unbridled influence of corporate interests on energy policy and environmental regulation; and now the illegal and warrantless wiretapping of American citizens, to name but a few -- people should be made aware that (according to a Washington Post article published 12/18/05) from the years 1997 to 2002, the Republican-controlled House Government Reform Committee issued 1,052 subpoenas to probe alleged misconduct by the Clinton administration and Democrats, but in the years since Bush has been president, they have issued three. If our Constitution and the separation of powers are to mean anything at all, we should demand Congressional oversight of this administration, at the very least. The impeachable offenses are starting to stack up.
Rant off. How'd I do?
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