Dangerous Times: As Bush-Rove feel heat from indictments and Impeachment, Cowering Dems IGNORE the threat of treachery or attacks....
<< The noose is tightening around George Bush and his gang of White House crooks and liars, with prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald reportedly getting closer to an indictment of Karl Rove, and now with the Illinois and California state legislatures considering resolutions that would have those states submit bills of impeachment to the U.S. House of Representatives--an alternative means of bringing an impeachment case against a president when, as now, the sitting members of Congress DO NOT HAVE THE COURAGE or CONVICTION to do themselves.
These are dangerous times, because the Bush family history, and the Rove M.O., are to attack viciously and without restraint when cornered.
At a book signing on Friday at Columbia University, a number of journalists told me they worried that Bush, Rove and Cheney, if they thought they were going to lose the House in November and face serious investigations into their crimes and deceits, would do something TREASONOUS, like launching a war against Iran, or perhaps ALLOWING ANOTHER MAJOR TERRORIST ATTACK AGAINST A US TARGET, so that they could then clamp down further on domestic freedom and ramp up jingoistic support among their wavering base. >>
[ - note: Bush should have been impeached immediately after 9-11 for gross negligence and dereliction of duty to do ANYTHING, NOT ONE THING, to prevent even a "typical" terrorist hijacking in America, given the glut of warnings and official commissions. (Hart-Rudman comm. on terrorism and national security, Gore comm. on airline safety, in addition to repeated CIA, FBI, and "counter-terror czar" briefings that Al Qiada was looking to "top" their successful Oct. 2001 attack on the US warship Cole, probably by using coordinated simultaneous bomb attacks (as per Africa embassy bombings, Lebanon embassy bombings) or more "traditional" hijackings.) But the human social condition causes us to group around our 'leaders' when we have been attacked by an outside threat. Despite the plaudits for Bush's "leadership" in the war on terror - the "GWOT" (global war on terror) we still have NO LEADS, NO SUSPECTS, and NO CASE for the ANTHRAX ATTACKS which "piggybacked" on the 9-11 terror attacks, although almost certainly the Anthrax attacks were NOT linked to Saudi/Islamic terrorists, just as the London subway bombers, while Islamic, were NOT linked to Al Qaida. George W. Bush is a huge threat to American security, and in the climate of fear, hate, insecurities, and death squads worldwide that he has created/is creating, he and his administration are EMPOWERING suicide bombers all over the world to make the ultimate statement by making the ultimate sacrifice - an option many Islamic warriors have been taking for decades, before the US invasion of Iraq made America the new poster child for torture, conquest, colonialism, and (as it is perceived in the Muslim world) anti-Islamic crusades.]
A Cornered Administration
Dangerous Times Ahead
By DAVE LINDORFF
April 24, 2006
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff04242006.html
The noose is tightening around George Bush and his gang of White House crooks and liars, with prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald reportedly getting closer to an indictment of Karl Rove, and now with the Illinois and California state legislatures considering resolutions that would have those states submit bills of impeachment to the U.S. House of Representatives--an alternative means of bringing an impeachment case against a president when, as now, the sitting members of Congress don't have the courage or conviction to do so themselves.
These are dangerous times, because the Bush family history, and the Rove M.O., are to attack viciously and without restraint when cornered.
At a book signing on Friday at Columbia University, a number of journalists told me they worried that Bush, Rove and Cheney, if they thought they were going to lose the House in November and face serious investigations into their crimes and deceits, would do something treasonous, like launching a war against Iran, or perhaps allowing another major terrorist attack against a U.S. target, so that they could then clamp down further on domestic freedom and ramp up jingoistic support among their wavering base.
The time for vacillating, cowering Democrats is over. The only way to defeat this threat is to warn about it and resist it openly now.
Democrats also need to stop waffling about voter security and vote fraud. It is essential that all voting machines in November have paper records, and that an army of activists begin now preparing to block Republican efforts to confuse and intimidate progressive voters to keep them from even getting to the polls.
Italians and other people in nations around the globe have shown the way, standing up to fraud and intimidation to insist on honest elections, and throwing out charlatans.
November 2006 will be America's turn.
Will the American people be up to the task?
Three state representatives in Illinois--Rep. Karen A. Yarbrough (217-782-8120), Rep. Sara Feigenholtz (217)- 782-8062), and Rep. Eddie Washington (217-558-1012)-- have struck the first blow in defense of liberty, and have shown us all the way. They were quickly followed over the weekend by California Assemblyman Paul Koretz (310-285-5490), who introduced a bill calling for impeachment of both Bush and Cheney.
Dave Lindorff is the author of Killing Time: an Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. His new book of CounterPunch columns titled "This Can't be Happening!" is published by Common Courage Press. Lindorff's new book, "The Case for Impeachment",
co-authored by Barbara Olshansky, is due out May 1.
He can be reached at: dlindorff@yahoo.com
These are dangerous times, because the Bush family history, and the Rove M.O., are to attack viciously and without restraint when cornered.
At a book signing on Friday at Columbia University, a number of journalists told me they worried that Bush, Rove and Cheney, if they thought they were going to lose the House in November and face serious investigations into their crimes and deceits, would do something TREASONOUS, like launching a war against Iran, or perhaps ALLOWING ANOTHER MAJOR TERRORIST ATTACK AGAINST A US TARGET, so that they could then clamp down further on domestic freedom and ramp up jingoistic support among their wavering base. >>
[ - note: Bush should have been impeached immediately after 9-11 for gross negligence and dereliction of duty to do ANYTHING, NOT ONE THING, to prevent even a "typical" terrorist hijacking in America, given the glut of warnings and official commissions. (Hart-Rudman comm. on terrorism and national security, Gore comm. on airline safety, in addition to repeated CIA, FBI, and "counter-terror czar" briefings that Al Qiada was looking to "top" their successful Oct. 2001 attack on the US warship Cole, probably by using coordinated simultaneous bomb attacks (as per Africa embassy bombings, Lebanon embassy bombings) or more "traditional" hijackings.) But the human social condition causes us to group around our 'leaders' when we have been attacked by an outside threat. Despite the plaudits for Bush's "leadership" in the war on terror - the "GWOT" (global war on terror) we still have NO LEADS, NO SUSPECTS, and NO CASE for the ANTHRAX ATTACKS which "piggybacked" on the 9-11 terror attacks, although almost certainly the Anthrax attacks were NOT linked to Saudi/Islamic terrorists, just as the London subway bombers, while Islamic, were NOT linked to Al Qaida. George W. Bush is a huge threat to American security, and in the climate of fear, hate, insecurities, and death squads worldwide that he has created/is creating, he and his administration are EMPOWERING suicide bombers all over the world to make the ultimate statement by making the ultimate sacrifice - an option many Islamic warriors have been taking for decades, before the US invasion of Iraq made America the new poster child for torture, conquest, colonialism, and (as it is perceived in the Muslim world) anti-Islamic crusades.]
A Cornered Administration
Dangerous Times Ahead
By DAVE LINDORFF
April 24, 2006
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff04242006.html
The noose is tightening around George Bush and his gang of White House crooks and liars, with prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald reportedly getting closer to an indictment of Karl Rove, and now with the Illinois and California state legislatures considering resolutions that would have those states submit bills of impeachment to the U.S. House of Representatives--an alternative means of bringing an impeachment case against a president when, as now, the sitting members of Congress don't have the courage or conviction to do so themselves.
These are dangerous times, because the Bush family history, and the Rove M.O., are to attack viciously and without restraint when cornered.
At a book signing on Friday at Columbia University, a number of journalists told me they worried that Bush, Rove and Cheney, if they thought they were going to lose the House in November and face serious investigations into their crimes and deceits, would do something treasonous, like launching a war against Iran, or perhaps allowing another major terrorist attack against a U.S. target, so that they could then clamp down further on domestic freedom and ramp up jingoistic support among their wavering base.
The time for vacillating, cowering Democrats is over. The only way to defeat this threat is to warn about it and resist it openly now.
Democrats also need to stop waffling about voter security and vote fraud. It is essential that all voting machines in November have paper records, and that an army of activists begin now preparing to block Republican efforts to confuse and intimidate progressive voters to keep them from even getting to the polls.
Italians and other people in nations around the globe have shown the way, standing up to fraud and intimidation to insist on honest elections, and throwing out charlatans.
November 2006 will be America's turn.
Will the American people be up to the task?
Three state representatives in Illinois--Rep. Karen A. Yarbrough (217-782-8120), Rep. Sara Feigenholtz (217)- 782-8062), and Rep. Eddie Washington (217-558-1012)-- have struck the first blow in defense of liberty, and have shown us all the way. They were quickly followed over the weekend by California Assemblyman Paul Koretz (310-285-5490), who introduced a bill calling for impeachment of both Bush and Cheney.
Dave Lindorff is the author of Killing Time: an Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. His new book of CounterPunch columns titled "This Can't be Happening!" is published by Common Courage Press. Lindorff's new book, "The Case for Impeachment",
co-authored by Barbara Olshansky, is due out May 1.
He can be reached at: dlindorff@yahoo.com
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