- Is there not some chosen curse,
- Some hidden thunder in the stores of
heaven,
- Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the
man
- Who owes his greatness to his country's
ruin?
- -- Joseph Addison
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- Bush has deliberately broken the
law. He is therefore a treasonous Criminal and should be arrested.
"I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified
information," said George W. Bush on September 30, 2003. "If
somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll
take the appropriate action."
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- We can even take this a step further.
The name of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame was all over the classified
National Intelligence Estimate Bush ordered to be leaked.
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- The pertinent text of the 1947 National
Security Act reads as follows: SEC. 601. (50 U.S.C. 421) (a) Whoever,
having or having had authorized access to classified information that identifies
a covert agent, intentionally discloses any information identifying such
covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified information,
knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such covert agent
and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such
covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be
fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than ten
years, or both. (b) Whoever, as a result of having authorized access
to classified information, learns the identity of a covert agent and intentionally
discloses any information identifying such covert agent to any individual
not authorized to receive classified information, knowing that the information
disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that the United States is
taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent's intelligence
relationship to the United States, shall be fined under title 18, United
States Code, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. (c)
Whoever, in the course of a pattern of activities intended to identify
and expose covert agents and with reason to believe that such activities
would impair or impede the foreign intelligence activities of the United
States, discloses any information that identifies an individual as a covert
agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified information,
knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such individual and
that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such individual's
classified intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be fined
under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than three years
or both.
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- George W. Bush and his people lied with
their bare faces hanging out about the existence of weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq.
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- They lied about connections between al
Qaeda and the Iraqi government, lied about Iraqi connections to September
11, and further lied about the threat to America posed by Iraq.
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- They made a decision to invade that had
nothing to do with those weapons, and even conspired with their British
counterparts to goad Hussein into a war regardless of whether the weapons
were there or not.
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- They used September 11 against the American
people to frighten them into a fearfully subservient acceptance of the
invasion.
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- They bypassed the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act in order to spy illegally on thousands of American citizens.
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- They leaked classified intelligence information
in order to destroy a political foe, and in the process annihilated an
intelligence network run by Valerie Plame. That network, it should be noted,
was dedicated to tracking any person, nation or group that would deliver
weapons of mass destruction to terrorists.
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- Every time they broke the law, their
cronies in Congress manipulated those laws to make the actions taken legal.
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- Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians
are dead. Tens of thousands more have been maimed. Millions live with the
wretched deprivations caused by this war. The new Shia-dominated government
wants no part of American involvement in this, and their so-called armed
forces are in truth death squads masquerading as police and soldiers.
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- 2,345 American soldiers have been killed
in Iraq, with 17 of those deaths coming in the first six days of April
alone. Tens of thousands more have been grievously wounded; nearly two
thirds of all injuries suffered by American soldiers in Iraq are brain
injuries, and amount to permanent debilitation.
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- We will be generations digging out from
under the vomitous refuse left behind by this administration. From this
day forward, any politician who claims that censure is not appropriate
and impeachment is a waste of time should have their head examined by a
whole team of medical experts. Bush and his people have committed treason,
and did so for the lowest of reasons: personal gain and political protection.
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- "The dead cannot cry out for justice,"
said Lois McMaster Bujold. "It is a duty of the living to do so for
them."
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- So very many have died at the hands of
this administration, its lies, and its crimes. If there is to be no reckoning
for this, even after all this time, there will never again be a person
in America who can speak of justice while keeping a straight face.
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- Best Regards,
- Alan Dicey
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