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Mission: Demolished by Mike Malloy on May 2, 2006 - 3:33pm.
Three years ago yesterday, George W. Bush strutted to a makeshift podium sitting on the deck of the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and in a speech notable for its open idiocy and blatant megalomania declared “mission accomplished” and the end of “major combat operations” in the murderous, sick invasion he ordered against the people of Iraq.
Since those fatuous, bully-boy pronouncements tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed, butchered, blown to pieces; hundreds and hundreds of US soldiers and Marines have been murdered while thousands more have been grievously wounded – some to a degree that will require constant and all-encompassing medical care for the rest of their lives; billions upon billions of tax dollars have been stolen in Iraq by Republican Party hacks and accomplices of Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld; the country itself has been reduced to so-called “third world” status and has become a haven and training ground for countless numbers of soon-to-be-trained terrorists.
And while this eruption of blood and gore and death and destruction and fraud and horror upon horror continues, day after day, week after week, endlessly, George W. Bush plans yet another attack on yet another country. This is madness and it is intolerable in a society that still claims to be a democracy, a Republic, a nation of laws. In reaction to the Bush Crime Family’s open and – to this point – unchallenged criminality, there is rising within the States a powerful movement that is declaring George W. Bush the criminal that he is and is organizing his removal from office.
This is a grassroots movement unlike any in US history. It has formed and is gaining organizational strength after the utter refusal of the Democratic Party leadership to assume a role of open defiance and resistance to what can no longer be seen as anything other than an attempt to end democracy in the US. This movement to impeach Bush and Cheney is a call to arms, a demand that we will not passively accept – as we passively accepted the theft of two national elections and the Bush Crime Family’s complicity in the terror attacks on this country in 2001 – the continuing destruction of a country so many millions of people have fought and died to preserve.
It is a movement being led not by politicians, but by artisans, factory workers, teachers, doctors, sociologists, historians, ex-military personnel, businessmen and women, entertainers, and students. It is a movement that will not fail. We’ll talk about it tonight. Please join me.
permalink Chimpeach! by Mike Malloy on April 28, 2006 - 5:26pm.
Mike Malloy LIVE from Sacramento's Left Channel 1320 AM tonight for a round up of the day's activities at the California State Democratic Convention. And in light of California's joining Illinois - and now Vermont - in an effort to Impeach this criminal administration, Mike will preview the Impeachment Forum he's moderating at the Crest Theater in Sacramento tomorrow evening!
Some of the issues to be addressed at the Forum include: The Bush Crime Family's violation of the FISA law. The FISA court was established in 1978 following the Nixon Watergate scandal of warrantless spying on American citizens. One of the allegations that has been suggested is that the Bush administration, beginning in 2002, sidestepped the FISA court in order to engage in widespread electronic surveillance of Americans and foreigners without warrants from any court, including FISA magistrates. The counter argument offered by George Bush and his supporters is that this type of surveillance was included in the Congressional sanction afforded the President to fight the “war on terror.”
Last week on 60 Minutes, the former chief of the CIA’s Europe division, Tyler Drumheller, revealed that in the fall of 2002, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and others were told by CIA Director George Tenet that Iraq’s foreign minister had reported that Iraq had no active weapons of mass destruction program. There has been quite a bit of testimony from reliable witnesses that George W. Bush justified the war in Iraq by producing false and misleading statements, designed to deceive the people of the United States of America as well as Congress into the pursuing the occupation of Iraq.
On April 5, 2006 Amnesty International published a report confirming the US practice of rendition; secretly sending prisoners of war to other countries, and to Guantanamo Bay for the purpose of torturing them and bypassing judicial process. President Bush has been accused of allowing his administration to condone and practice interrogation through torture; failing to investigate and prosecute high-level officials responsible for torture; and refusing to accept the binding nature of a statutory ban on cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of war prisoners.
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