Bush's stolen elections of 2000 and again in 2004 make his regime an illegitimate one. That is reason enough to impeach. But his crimes are compounded by Bushco's ongoing war against the rule of law and the American Constitution.The Bush regime —among the most unpopular in American history —has simply become intolerable. Bush has made of the Presidency a rogue dictatorship exploited for the commission of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered already broken."That precisely describes the situation. The time has come to organize for the purpose of bringing his lawless administration to an end.
— Ernesto "Che" Guevara, General Principles of Guerrilla Warfare
Thomas Jefferson, I believe, wrote something very similar about that other King George and, according to Jefferson, it justified an armed insurrection against the illegal regime.
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness"Just how unpopular is Bush?
—Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence
The Washington Post has this snapshot from Bush's quagmire and ongoing war crime in Iraq:The results of a nationwide Harris Poll of 2,085 U.S. adults
...surveyed online by Harris Interactive® between May 9 and 16, 2006. Specifically, this poll finds:
- President Bush's rating on his handling of events in Iraq is currently 68 percent negative, 29 percent positive. This is virtually identical to March's ratings when, by 68 to 30 percent, U.S. adults gave the President negative marks. This remains the lowest measure for the president.
- In this new poll, 43 percent of U.S. adults think that the situation for U.S. troops is getting worse, down three percentage points from the 46 percent who felt this way in March. Only 20 percent now think things are getting better, a slight improvement from 17 percent in March.
- Six in 10 (61%) U.S. adults are not confident "that U.S. policies in Iraq will be successful." This has remained the same from March. Only 22 percent are confident about U.S. policies in Iraq; a slight improvement from March's 20 percent.
- By 47 to 38 percent, a plurality of U.S. adults believes that "taking military action against Iraq" was the wrong thing to do. In March, a nearly identical 48 to 37 percent plurality also felt this way.
One is tempted to believe that Bush's strongest defense is the unimaginable scope of his crimes against man and nature. For quite a long time, the truth about Bush was not believed because it was beyond imagining. Now Bush has the converse working for him. His crimes exceed the ability of mere words to describe. Or as the Emperor Augustus said: words fail me.Iraq Is the Republic of Fear
Every morning the streets of Baghdad are littered with dozens of bodies, bruised, torn, mutilated, executed only because they are Sunni or because they are Shiite. Power drills are an especially popular torture device.[]At first, the dominant presence of the U.S. military -- with its towering vehicles rumbling through Baghdad's streets and its soldiers like giants with their vests and helmets and weapons -- seemed overwhelming. The Occupation could be felt at all times. Now in Baghdad, you can go days without seeing American soldiers. Instead, it feels as if Iraqis are occupying Iraq, their masked militiamen blasting through traffic in anonymous security vehicles, shooting into the air, angrily shouting orders on loudspeakers, pointing their Kalashnikovs at passersby.
Today, the Americans are just one more militia lost in the anarchy. []
I cannot write a complete history Bush's failures in Iraq, but, in the weeks to come, I will certainly try to outline them and provide referencing links. For those still supporting one of the most evil regimes in world history, I can only say: "The truth? You can't handle the truth!"
More developing news about ongoing U.S. atrocities against civilians in Iraq:
The Existentialist CowboyPregnant woman shot dead by US soldiers in Iraq
By unison.ie05/31/06 "unison.ie"-- -- US soldiers have shot and killed a pregnant Iraqi womanand her cousin while they were driving to a maternity hospital north of Baghdad.
Iraqi police said the two women were travelling to hospital in Samarra when their vehicle came under fire from the Americans.
The US military issued a statement today saying the shots were fired "to disable the vehicle" after it entered a clearly marked prohibited zone near a US observation post.
It said the car failed to stop despite repeated "visual and auditory signals" and the loss of life was "regrettable"...
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5 comments:
whoa, am I the first one? Len, I was just thinking that someone (or myself) ought to just make a chronological list of things that have occurred in tandem with which laws got pushed forward. Who knows someone might already have beaten you/us to it but for the blog sake, I think it would be very informative and great for discussion to visually go over them during the course of say..oh what...a few weeks (!) and see the 'leitmotiv' in all of it. 'Leiten' we've had. You probably have better luck and time than I do...being 'da mom' an all. Not to have that always as an excuse, but let me tell you, as much as I feel that it is important, I covet an outside the home life. For now, the blog and those I read give me my outside life. Great post if not disheartening but as the french say 'c'est dommage'.
Ingrid
A good timeline would be helpful. There are many such timelines with regard to 911; surely there must be some analysis of Bush's run up to war with Iraq.
With regard to Iran, the latest "peace" proposal from Washington is no peace proposal at all. It is, rather, Bushco's attempt to put before Iran a deal it knows Iran cannot and will not accept. When it's turned down, Bush will nuke Iran. It's an old tactic. And why should Iran accept Bush's proposal when there is absolutely no evidence put forward by Bush or Bushy that Iran is NOT within the very letter of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty? The "deal" is a dodge —dodging, once again, the burden of proof.
Now, Bush will claim a pretext for without ever having proved or supported his claim that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.
For analogies with Nazism, just read William Shirer's detailed history of Hitler's various "peace" proposals offered to Poland.
We are closer now to nuking Iran than we've ever been. I fear for the world.
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it" —Georges Santayana, American Philosopher
Good luck guys, because they're very numerous! I tried doing up a list of torture incidents alone, and my email box is overflowing with stories and incidents I'm yet to get to. Perhaps if you, as Ingrid suggests, keep to the laws that were passed (or "unpassed", as is the case with signing statements) you might have a more manageable project.
Len -- I agree that listing the crimes is a worthy enterprise. It may be a necessary tool in breaking through to the servile who still do not fully understand how far the Bush-Cheney despotism has taken us into lawlessness. The crimes that Bushco has done in the name of the people should earn them many consecutive live sentences, here and at the Hague.
Len --
Had to duck away and find the language online that I use to establish my claim that Bush-Cheney is an anti-law regime in which everything they've done since January 2001 is unconstitutional and felonious.
This is from the Constitution Society's "Liberty Library", category "Abuses & Usurpations", intro text to "Usurpations" ( http://www.constitution.org/cs_abuse.htm ).
"Usurpation is the exercise of powers by an agent which have not been delegated to him by the principal. ... It is a fundamental principle that all acts of officials not derived from the delegated powers of the constitution are null and void from inception, not just from the point at which a court may find them unconstitutional. Every person who has an encounter with the acts of officials has the duty not only to obey legitimate official acts, but to help enforce them, but, when there is a conflict among acts of officials, to enforce the superior one, which, when an act of an official is in conflict with the constitution, means enforcing the constitution and not the act in conflict with it. Judges and other citizens do not decide constitutionality, but discover it, and every person who is involved with any act by an official has a nondelegatable duty to make a determination of the constitutionality of that act. This determination is called constitutional review, ..."
The Bush-Cheney assumption of power, January 2001, was an act "not derived from the delagated powers of the constitution" -- but rather from the Supreme's unconstitutional interference in the political process of presidential election -- and, as such, is "null and void from inception".
Every US citizen has a "nondelegatable duty" to make a determination of the constitutionality of the Bush-Cheney assumption of power.
I'm not some wild-eyed radical, playing politics. I'm a duty-bound citizen, saying what is obviously and self-apparently true.
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