Impeachment Of Bush..Here it Comes!!!!

[Bonnie]

Kerry Touts Bush Impeachment Memo

Failed presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that he intends to confront Congress with a document touted by critics of President Bush as evidence that he committed impeachable crimes by falsifying evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"When I go back [to Washington] on Monday, I am going to raise the issue," Kerry said, referring to the Downing Street Memo in an interview with Massachusetts' Standard Times newspaper.


"I think it's a stunning, unbelievably simple and understandable statement of the truth and a profoundly important document that raises stunning issues here at home," the top Democrat added.
The Downing Street Memo, first reported on May 1 by the London Times, was drafted by a Matthew Rycroft, a foreign policy aide to Prime Minister Tony Blair. It is said to be minutes of a July 2002 meeting where Blair allegedly admitted that the Bush administration "fixed" Iraq intelligence to manufacture a rationale for war.

Citing the Downing Street Memo, former presidential candidate Ralph Nader called for an impeachment investigation on Tuesday in an op-ed piece published by the Boston Globe.

"It is time for Congress to investigate the illegal Iraq war as we move toward the third year of the endless quagmire that many security experts believe jeopardizes US safety by recruiting and training more terrorists," wrote Nader with co-author Kevin Zeese. "A Resolution of Impeachment would be a first step."

The British memo, however, contains no quotes from either Bush or Blair, and is notably slim on evidence implicating Bush in a WMD cover-up.

Though largely ignored in the U.S. outside of rabid anti-Bush Web sites like MichaelMoore.com, the Downing Street Memo won Sen. Kerry's endorsement in the Standard Times interview:

"It's amazing to me," the top Democrat said, "the way it escaped major media discussion. It's not being missed on the Internet, I can tell you that."

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/6/3/00901.shtml

 

[Bonnie]

Holy hell, Bully is going to be in all his glory! :teeth:

Amazing what the failed think they have.

John don't underestimate these failed socialists, they are determined to get Bush one way or the other and if the press picks this up and the Republicans don't support Bush we are in for a bumpy ride. I don't beleive they have any evidence but they will make up memos, we know they are good for that. This is a conspiracy from Sorros, Nader, the DNC, and Kerry, they are tyring to make Bush irrelevant, and makepave the way for Hillary.

The Bush administration better wake up!!

 

[GotZoom]

I heard he was also going to present citizens who claim they were actually kidnapped by aliens (the ones kept in Area 51) so they couldn't vote in the last election.

Apparently, President Bush struck a deal with the aliens to release them for short periods of time leading up the election so they could see how the US has changed since they first visited our planet. While they were out sightseeing, they would scoop up those pesky Dems and keep them from voting.

 

[SmarterThanYou]

I have to wonder if its the absolute hope and prayer that the rabid left can exact some type of revenge for the GOP congress pushing a clinton impeachment , that they would try to use omittance of intelligence input as a definition of lying.


oh, and to expect a GOP congress and senate to actually go forth with an investigation and trial. :duh3:

 

[no1tovote4]

oh, and to expect a GOP congress and senate to actually go forth with an investigation and trial. :duh3:

I don't think they actually think they will, but I think they will attempt to use it in their campaign propaganda in 2006 saying the Senate and Congress should not walk "lockstep" with the President....

 

[dilloduck]

The libs will just love it when the find out who's pres next if they are successful in thier witchhunt. They better go for a 2 birds with one stone shot. ( Is that in the Constitution? )

 

[Bonnie]

Have no worries Bonnie, remember election time when some were sweating? Kerry was seen as a liar then and he still is. Throughout the entire election the left created all kinds of propaganda, some was succesful but not close enough by a longshot!

Well I don't think they have any proof, but Im always concerned when you have the MSM very willing to not only go along but fabricate "evidence", this Downing St memo is extremely weak at best. I don't not trust the left or the press and would put absolutely nothing past either.

 

[Bonnie]

SmarterThanYou]

I have to wonder if its the absolute hope and prayer that the rabid left can exact some type of revenge for the GOP congress pushing a clinton impeachment , that they would try to use omittance of intelligence input as a definition of lying.

More likely an attempt to ruin any kind of positive legacy Bush would have, and to get revenge for simply loosing both elections........ Notice the timing and Felt's emergence and praise from the media who are happily reliving the time when they had all out power in shaping events not just reporting them.

 

[archangel]

Swift and other Vietnam era vet's will put another choke hold on Lt.Kerry...this guy amazes me...the administration and Pentagon gave him a break and did not prosecute him for war crimes....violation of USMCJ...and here we go again....he never learns...much like "Hanoi Jane"! :firing:

 

[Mr. P]

When will these folks stop playing politics and start doing the Countrys' business?

 

[dilloduck]

When will these folks stop playing politics and start doing the Countrys' business?

I'm not sure anyone has figured out what that is. They certainly need to argue about it a couple more years at least.

 

[rtwngAvngr]

This is a memo about heresay. It'll amount to nothing. No one will pick up this 2.00 whore of an idea, no matter how much Kerry water they spray on it.

 

[dmp]

Funny thing is that is exactly what they wanna do, even though the current administration is doing the right thing the other side want's to find loopholes to say they were wrong even the in whole it's the right thing to do.

When Jim made you the other admin, he claimed you were a Liberal. That still the case?

 

[IControlThePast]

When Jim made you the other admin, he claimed you were a Liberal. That still the case?

Support me for new admin

This is not a good idea from Kerry. It would only play to the "rabid left," although it would make them cream their pants they're going to be voting for a Democrat anyways, and push away moderate votes that they'll need. That is unless the impeachment successfully removes Bush, but Hell will go through two winters before that happens.

 

[Avatar4321]

Failed presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that he intends to confront Congress with a document touted by critics of President Bush as evidence that he committed impeachable crimes by falsifying evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"When I go back [to Washington] on Monday, I am going to raise the issue," Kerry said, referring to the Downing Street Memo in an interview with Massachusetts' Standard Times newspaper.

You know its starting to look like a pattern that Democrats who lose the Presidential elections go nuts. First Al Gore and now Kerry.

"I think it's a stunning, unbelievably simple and understandable statement of the truth and a profoundly important document that raises stunning issues here at home," the top Democrat added.
The Downing Street Memo, first reported on May 1 by the London Times, was drafted by a Matthew Rycroft, a foreign policy aide to Prime Minister Tony Blair. It is said to be minutes of a July 2002 meeting where Blair allegedly admitted that the Bush administration "fixed" Iraq intelligence to manufacture a rationale for war.

First, Tony Blair isn't dumb. He isnt going to go along with manufactured evidence. His constituents would vote him out of office if he even considered it.

Second, there was a pretty strong rational to go to war the second those two planes hit the World Trade Center. We learned then we have to take a more proactive aproach to foriegn policy. Saddam was a renegade regime and had openly supported terrorism. The President said we were going to take out these regimes. Sounds like a pretty good rational to me. Yet the left can't seem to understand very basic rational such as this.

Citing the Downing Street Memo, former presidential candidate Ralph Nader called for an impeachment investigation on Tuesday in an op-ed piece published by the Boston Globe.

And who the hell is Ralph Nader that we should give a damn about what he says? There is a reason he is a former presidential candidate and not the current President. He is a complete wacko. The fact that a socialist like Nader wants something, makes me instictively say we need to do the exact opposite.

"It is time for Congress to investigate the illegal Iraq war as we move toward the third year of the endless quagmire that many security experts believe jeopardizes US safety by recruiting and training more terrorists," wrote Nader with co-author Kevin Zeese. "A Resolution of Impeachment would be a first step."

I think its time Mr Nader looked into what makes a war legal. He can find it in any American Constitution. Course, he has to ignore the only true standard for a legal american war, because everyone knows that the Legal process for war was followed. And I hope he isnt a hypocrite and calls for John Kerry's impeachment too because his was one of the votes that made this a legal war.

Also, i can't help notice the stupid rational that killing terrorists somehow recruits and trains them. I think he is alittle confused here. Killing terrorists, kills them. If you see a group of people getting killed for their illegal activities, is it going to cause most people to join up with them and somehow train them for battle? It has to be one of the dumbest rationals in the history of the world. I mean heck even the "fact" that the world was flat had more of a factual basis that this stupid statement.

The British memo, however, contains no quotes from either Bush or Blair, and is notably slim on evidence implicating Bush in a WMD cover-up.

Though largely ignored in the U.S. outside of rabid anti-Bush Web sites like MichaelMoore.com, the Downing Street Memo won Sen. Kerry's endorsement in the Standard Times interview:

"It's amazing to me," the top Democrat said, "the way it escaped major media discussion. It's not being missed on the Internet, I can tell you that."

Oh, There's a big surprise. That's an incredible...I think I am going to have a heart attack and die from that surprise.

Who the heck is this incredibly stupid Top Democrat who can't figure out why a memo that contains no quotes from Bush or blair and is notably slim on evidence implicating any sort of cover up is being ignored by the media?!? I've got a memo that contains no quotes from Bush or Blair and is slim on evidence implicating a cover up. It contains a list of groceries i need to buy. Why is the the media ignoring this memo! It amazes me. Sheesh what kind of idiots reach the top ranks of political parties?

These people are such hypocrites. President Clinton breaks the law, but heaven forbid we impeach him for his crimes. But President Bush leads this country in a global war on terrorism and commits no crimes at all but we should impeach him for legitimate reason. Hypocrites.

 

[spillmind]

when very soon, even the inbred redneck morons will figure out that we are going bankrupt and will want the nightmare to end. that day can't come soon enough.

TIME LINE:

In mid-1981, the U.S., having decided that an Iranian victory would not serve its interests, began supporting Iraq: measures already underway to upgrade U.S.-Iraq relations were accelerated, high-level officials exchanged visits, and in February 1982 the State Department removed Iraq from its list of states supporting international terrorism.

In November of 1983, Officials from the State Department's Bureau of
Politico-Military Affairs tell Secretary Shultz that the department has additional information confirming Iraq's "almost daily" use of chemical weapons. They note, "We also know that Iraq has acquired a CW production capability, presumably from Western firms, including possibly a U.S.foreign subsidiary."

U.S. interests in improving U.S.-Iraq ties "remain undiminished" despite revelations of Iraq's use of chemical weapons.

In March of 1984, when asked whether the U.S.'s conclusion that Iraq had used chemical weapons would have "any effect on U.S. recent initiatives to expand commercial relationships with Iraq across a broad range, and also a willingness to open diplomatic relations," the department's spokesperson said "No. I'm not aware of any change in our position. We're interested in being involved in a closer dialogue with Iraq"

Bechtel Corporation asserts that if the US prohibits it from selling
materials to Iraq, it will do business primarily with other countries and make the materials available through surrogates.

In September of 1988, the U.S. Senate passed the "Prevention of Genocide Act of 1988," on the heels of a series of Iraqi chemical weapons assaults against Kurds - most notably in Halabja in March of that year.

Notably, republicans DO NOT march in the streets demanding the ouster of Saddam Hussein. In fact, the occurrence is hardly noted in our media at all.
1991, Saddam informs the US that he will attack Kuwait because they are side-drilling into oil beneath his country. The US government responds that it has no interest in their "border dispute with Kuwait."

A couple months later we rush to the aid of the Kuwati people.
Republicans buy yellow ribbons, and nationalism sweeps out airwaves to sell everything from Coca Cola to Pickup trucks.

Between 1997 and 2000, Halliburton held stakes in two firms that signed contracts to sell more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while Dick Cheney was CEO.

On July 30, 2000, in an interview on ABC-TV's "This Week," Cheney denied that Halliburton or its subsidiaries traded with Baghdad. Cheney was chairman and chief executive officer of the Dallas-based company.

On January 21. 2001, Richard Clarke sends a memo to President Bush.
Clarke's memo requests an immediate meeting of the National Security
Council's Principals Committee to discuss broad strategies for combating al-Qaeda by giving counterterrorism aid to the Northern Alliance and Uzbekistan, expanding the counterterrorism budget and responding to the U.S.S. Cole attack. Despite Clarke's request, there was no Principals Committee meeting on al-Qaeda until September 4, 2001.

In Cairo, on February 24 2001, Powell said: "He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors."

That same month a CIA report stated: 'We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its weapons of mass destruction programs.'

Two months later, Condoleezza Rice also described a weak, divided and militarily defenseless Iraq. "Saddam does not control the northern part of the country," she said. "We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt."
Five months later, Bush gets around to that meeting about Al Qaeda.

4 Days after that Al Qaeda attacks America.

Six hours after the attacks, O'Neill reports that Donald Rumsfeld said that it might be an opportunity to 'hit' Iraq. He said: 'Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not.'

On September 17,2001 the president signed a document marked top secret that directed the Pentagon to begin planning for the invasion and that, some months later, he secretly and illegally diverted $700 million approved by Congress for operations in Afghanistan into preparing for the new battle front.

January 29, 2002, Bush lists Iraq, Iran, North Korea and Syria as part of an "axis of evil" in his state of the nation speech to Congress. He also mentions the infamous YELLOW CAKE claim.

Within a month Joseph Wilson has debunked the theory and his wife's career has been ruined. Bush vows to find the leaker! (Still waiting on that one...)

(The two civilian analysts who stated that the aluminum tubes could be used to make enriched uranium are given pay raises each of the next three years.)

In May of 2002, Bush declares in a speech at West Point our new "defense" policy of pre-emption. (WTF?) No one in America seems to notice that it violates international law.

In July 2002, Bush meets with Tony Blair, and a Brit memo of the meeting released three years later discloses some uncomfortable things: The American government did not believe Iraq was a greater threat than other nations but was "fixing intelligence around the policy." Bush administration's public assurances of "war as a last resort" were at odds with their privately stated intentions.

Pretty much everyone in the Bush white house decides that Saddam is really a threat after all. No attempt is made to explain why Condi and Powell said he was NOT A THREAT a mere 6 months earlier.

In September of that year, former Secretary of State and former Bechtel president, George Schultz, penned a Washington Post op-ed that said: "A strong foundation exists for immediate military action against Hussein and for a multilateral effort to rebuild Iraq after he is gone."

Colin Powell at the United Nations says: 'They can produce enough dry biological agent in a single month to kill thousands upon thousands of people. ...Our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical-weapons agent."
Every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.'

A month later Weapons Inspectors revisit Iraq, and in December Saddam Hussein turns over a 12,000 page document stating that he has no WMD left.

Bush pulls the weapons inspectors out amid protests that they need more time.

The war against Iraq begins 5:30 AM Baghdad time (9:30 PM EST, March 19)

In May of 2003, in separate speeches, U.S. secretary of state Colin Powell and British prime minister Tony Blair deny that intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was distorted or exaggerated to justify an attack on Iraq.

July 7, 2003, Bush concedes that evidence that Iraq was pursuing a nuclear weapons program by seeking to buy uranium from Africa, was unsubstantiated and should not have been included in speech

Bechtel Corporation is given a 680 million dollar reconstruction bid.

Bush emphatically demands that he needs more time to find the WMD that he said he knew the exact amounts and locations of only a few months earlier

Republicans do not notice the irony

In January of 2004, David Kay, the former head of the U.S. weapons
inspection teams in Iraq, informs a senate committee that no WMD have been found in Iraq and that prewar intelligence was "almost all wrong" about Saddam Hussein's arsenal.

June 16, 2004, The 9/11 Commission (formally the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks) concludes in its report that there is "no credible evidence that Iraq and al-Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States." The link between al-Qaeda and Iraq was used as one of the justifications for the war. President Bush disputes the report's conclusion the next day, insisting there was "a relationship" between the two.

In the first month of 2005, the White House announces that the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, one of the main justifications for the war, is officially over. No such weapons were found.

Bush says he gets DARN GOOD intelligence.

Republicans are suddenly OUTRAGED that Iraq used WMD in 1988 and 1991.

Big Winners? Bechtel, Haliburton, and other US countries with foreign subsidiaries.

Big losers? Iraqi people. 1600 American soldiers and counting. American taxpayers

 

[rtwngAvngr]

Wasn't Kerry supposed to ride into Washington today on a white stallion brandishing this memo? Is this still going to happen?

 

[GotZoom]

Wasn't Kerry supposed to ride into Washington today on a white stallion brandishing this memo? Is this still going to happen?

Photo just released.

 

[dmp]

Photo just released.

Very brave man - posting pics of yourself online..


WHY did you have that pic on your hard-drive, bro?


Darin's a bit scared now!

 

[no1tovote4]

Hey Spilly,

I promise not to vote for GW Bush again!