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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (20663)	4/5/2003 11:32:00 AM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 93284

(going off on a tangent) <<< . . . "The lesson of Watergate, Chomsky noted, was that its perfectly fine in this country to use Gestapo tactics on those outside the mainstream of US politics, especially the political left: but to use fascistic tactics against one's peers in the power structure is to court banishment. And so Nixon's fall from grace and power as CEO of the US empire transpired not because all of a sudden we realized Nixon was a criminal. As Chomsky further noted, Nixon--and Kissinger-- were demonstrably two of the biggest criminals of the 20th century. Nixon's crime was he attacked fellow power brokers, DNC chief Larry O'Brien and Ted Kennedy and the Washington Post . . . . . . Another lesson of Watergate is that it literally takes a "smoking gun" i.e., tape to convict or impeach a US president (the Clinton exception noted) no matter how transparent the criminal behavior. Ronald Reagan, for example, bragged to a grand jury that the Iran-contra was "my idea to begin with," but congress and the press pretended (ala Reagan) not to hear what he said. Even today no reporter will go on record and admit that Nixon ordered the Watergate break-in --at least generically . . . >>> counterpunch.org monkeyfist.com