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Originally Posted by ottopilot
Impeach, prosecute, go get the bastard. Sound familiar? If there's such overwhelming evidence of laws broken, then the justice system should have no problem wrapping this one up ... have at 'em. Perhaps the ACLU has a strongly worded report that can be cited until then, or more hand wringing and voicing of feelings should continue to replace the evidence available to everyone. Until then, you'll just have to live through Bush's last few months in office.
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Impeachment is a political process, the ACLU has nothing to do with it, as events clearly prove. Since it is a political process, the thing that has held it back has been the outsized influence, of....you guessed it....supporters of Bush.
They still dominate congress....a strong enough force to intimidate conservatice democrats and able to block any attempted initiative in the senate, as well as interfere with the committee process, in the house, and they own the corporate media....
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/wa...=1&oref=slogin
Army Is Worried by Rising Stress of Return Tours to Iraq
By THOM SHANKER
Published: April 6, 2008
....Among the 513,000 active-duty soldiers who have served in Iraq since the invasion of 2003, more than 197,000 have deployed more than once, and more than 53,000 have deployed three or more times, according to a separate set of statistics provided this week by Army personnel officers. <h5>The percentage of troops sent back to Iraq for repeat deployments would have to increase in the months ahead. </h5>
The Army study of mental health showed that 27 percent of noncommissioned officers — a critically important group — on their third or fourth tour exhibited symptoms commonly referred to as post-traumatic stress disorders. That figure is far higher than the roughly 12 percent who exhibit those symptoms after one tour and the 18.5 percent who develop the disorders after a second deployment, according to the study, which was conducted by the Army surgeon general’s Mental Health Advisory Team....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...pinion/columns
The Vacation President
....The very next day, as Dana Milbank and Mike Allen wrote in The Post in April 2004, Bush ran into reporters while playing golf at a nearby country club and "seemed carefree as he spoke about the books he was reading, the work he was doing on his nearby ranch, his love of hot-weather jogging, his golf game and his 55th birthday."
Sheryl Gay Stolberg wrote in the New York Times in August 2006 that Bush was actually cutting short his time in Crawford that summer for symbolic purposes. "Last August . . . began with highly publicized protests by [Cindy] Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, and ended with the image of the president on vacation while New Orleans drowned, an image that helped start his slide in popularity."
Nevertheless, he was on vacation as Israel dropped bombs on Lebanon later that month.
Julie Mason noted in the Houston Chronicle this past August that Bush was fast approaching Reagan's record. She wrote: "The 1,600-acre ranch has proved <h5>a durable haven for Bush, who often disappears into its varied landscapes for days or weeks at a time without public appearances.</h5> He has an attractive stone house, shaded swimming pool, miles of rugged bike trails and law enforcement at every entry point keeping people out."
In my May 8, 2006, column, " Would Bush Rather Be Fishing?", I wondered if Bush doesn't really enjoy his day job. A few days earlier, when asked by a German tabloid to name the most wonderful moment of his presidency, Bush said it came while he was on vacation, fishing on his private lake. ......
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Yeah...I can see it.....that fuckwad "host" is the real problem....he never stops posting about this shit....his Bush bashing.
When my grandchildren ask me someday, why did people stand idly by, while Bush fiddled, and the troops and the Iraqi people, and the US bill of rights and the US treasury, and US international treaty commitments, and the rule of law burned....what should I tell them?