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To: GST who wrote (216865)	2/8/2007 12:06:24 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The Impeachment Chronicles: A Lawyer Dissects the Bush-Cheney Team politicalcortex.com By Bill Hare 02/07/2007 09:22:43 PM EST William Cox is a lawyer who specializes in criminal investigation. He currently serves as Senior Trial Deputy for the State Bar of California. Cox previously worked as a prosecutor, a public interest lawyer, and a law enforcement policy analyst. Cox tackles the Bush Administration in the manner of a skilled prosecutor. His style is reminiscent of that of Vincent Bugliosi, also a former California prosecutor, in "The Betrayal of America" when he examined the egregious theft of the 2000 presidential election, taking particular aim at the United State Supreme Court majority that stopped an ongoing recount in Florida. While Bugliosi presented an excellent brief in terms of that groundbreaking election, Cox covers it as well as what led up to Bush's selection, extending forward to a period in 2004 nearing the end of the first term of the Cheney-Bush Administration. Cox recognizes, as does John Nichols, who wrote about the person really in charge, that Dick Cheney and the neoconservatives are the driving force in the Bush Administration. He examines the sordid route that brought the neocons to power. Cox also explores the systematic character demolition of John McCain in South Carolina and the ensuing general election campaign when Al Gore was hideously misrepresented as untruthful while the smears and deception pattern actually came from the Bush campaign. It is noted how Gore was misquoted on stating that he had invented the Internet and criticized unfairly over stating the name of the wrong person at FEMA during a debate with Bush, a common error under the circumstances. It is also noted how elements of the media falsely accused the Democratic candidate of claiming to be the subject of Erich Segal's "Love Story" when all he did was react to a story that appeared in a Nashville newspaper. Meanwhile the Bush campaign, aided by a helpful mainstream media, took the aforementioned and made a case for Gore being less than truthful. Character was made an issue when Bush had on his resume a failed Texas oil venture in which he appears to have violated federal law and could have gone to prison if tried and convicted. He was spared further investigation by the Justice Department when his father, then President George H. W. Bush, terminated the effort. There was also the matter of going AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard, which went uninvestigated by the mainstream media, and his reckless lifestyle that saw him drink heavily until the age of 40 and reputedly take drugs as well. When an independent investigator learned about Bush's drunk driving arrest conviction and broke the story, this was denounced in many circles as a somehow unethical act by some of the same sources that looked the other way during the slimy South Carolina Republican Primary. The title of Cox's book of "You're Not Stupid" is a theme he uses to denote how campaign operatives with huge advertising war chests financed by lobbyists have combined with commentators and journalists beholden to those same corporate interests to create false impressions, using 30-second sound bites to distort reality. By using such tactics millions of Americans voted for George W. Bush in 2000 on the basis of character. Cox warns Americans not to be fooled and study the issues themselves, hence the twin declarations of "you're not stupid" and "get the truth." The warning that Cox delivered can be analyzed alongside what millions of American voters did in the 2004 election. Many voters revealed in exit polls that they voted for Bush because he made them feel safer and that they believed that Saddam Hussein actually possessed weapons of mass destruction. There was also a strong belief on the part of so many that there was a link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. The author hones in on Bush early, delivering a zinging analysis in the first paragraph of the first chapter, which is entitled "Who's Bush?" Cox writes: "How is it that a lying and denying alcoholic, with arrests for theft and disturbing the peace and a conviction for drunk driving; one born with a silver spoon in his mouth, with no empathy for the plight of ordinary people; an inarticulate spoiled brat who just didn't get the lessons of a good education; a chronically failed businessman who's never earned anything on his own; and a high school cheerleader who avoided military service in Viet Nam by joining the National Guard and then going AWOL-gets himself elected as President of the United States? Well, you can be darn sure he didn't exactly tell us the truth about his background." We are taken through Bush's first term as the disastrous tax cuts skewed toward the rich are examined. Cox also skewers Bush on his education proposals and his bizarre behavior during 9/11, along with that of Cheney, culminating with refusal to testify under oath at an official 9/11 commission convened only after pressures built to the point where the Cheney-Bush duo could no longer prolong such action. Cox concurs with authors who believe that the official account released by the officially sanctioned commission does not answer vital questions pertaining to 9/11. He also believes strongly that an independent commission needs to be convened. Cox's lawyer's analytical tools are never sharper when he approaches the subject of Bush and Cheney as violators of international law, as well as their repeated violations of the Bill of Rights alongside the efforts of willing Attorney General John Ashcroft. This former prosecutor concludes that Bush, Cheney and other members of the Administration violated international law as well as engaging in unconstitutional acts in leading the country to war in Iraq. The pattern of deception spearheaded by the full court press to conflict launched by neoconservatives within the Administration such as Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle is examined with microscopic clarity by a veteran attorney who can spot and document illegality when he sees it. Let us hope that, as a trained prosecutor was able to discern the pattern of corruption within the White House that clearly warrants impeachment, that the timid and the frightened within the Democratic Party will also get the message. Once again, the applicable rule is that when high crimes and misdemeanors are committed it is the duty of members of the House to impeach. Even by itself, if taking a nation to war against a country that serves as no imminent threat and concerning which no discernible evidence exists of future dangers, to attack such a nation violates the United Nations and Nuremberg charters. As a signatory to each of the above charters they become binding law. To contravene such binding law is unconstitutional and falls under the purview of "high crimes and misdemeanors" which is the guide to whether or not impeachment proceedings should be invoked. At a time when American opinion is strongly against the Iraq War, Cheney, Bush and their cronies carry on without concern over the wishes of the people, or of the fact that the original vote empowering Bush to wage war under certain prescribed circumstances resulted from a steady and concentrated pattern of lies and cumulative deception. Get in gear, Democratic Congress. The people voted for change because change was sought, specifically in Iraq. It is time to act!

To: GST who wrote (216865)	2/8/2007 12:43:55 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I think anti-American slanderers like yourself are a problem for the country too. Telling lies about America to justify your irrational hatred while currying favor with your foreign paymasters. If you had any integrity you'd seek citizenship in Vietnam, China, or perhaps NK - where your loyalties lie. You remain afraid to answer these questions for danger of ending your gravy train: Was China's invasion of Tibet illegal? How about Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia? Or China's short-lived invasion of Vietnam? Or India's invasion of east Pakistan (now Bangladesh)?