01 June 2008
Mr. President: Has It Been Worth It?
Back in October 2005, I posted the elusive number of U. S. personnel killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom in a posting called "Lest We Forget." There had been 644 killed in ten months of 2005. In the 203 weeks since then, the total killed has risen to 4,052 and there have been 29,395 casualties. I count the weeks because at that time the Iraqi expedition cost $10 billion per week. Two years and five months of a militry offensive based on lies, deception and stupidity. Has The Capital Group made enough money to shield your grandchildren and ours from the economic consequences from the debt you caused? Were those lives worth it, Mr. President?
I've read some of the autobiographies of surviving Nazi functionaries after they were released from prison. How similar their "apologias" seem to the recent book by Scott McMullen, the President's press secretary. Interviewers ask him "why now" is he coming clellan with his participation in the propaganda campaign to get popular support and media enablement for attacking Iraq. Why was he not courageous enough to raise his objections publically to the media back in 2002-2003?
He admits his participation in the conspiracy against truthful government. I'd call his book a long confession statement of guilt of the crime of conspiracy to defraud Congress and the American People. Where is the federal prosecutor who will bring formal charges against him?
Without a Congressional investigation to determine if impeachment can be supported by the facts, dozens of Executive Department employees may never have to face their own roles in facilitating the deaths of 4,052 U.S. military personnel in Iraq. Respected political researchers attribute the Democratic Party's taking control of the Congress to the overall dissatisfaction of the voters with the Iraqi War and occupation. Why, then, did Nancy Pelosi , Speaker of the House of Representatives, say that impeachment was off the table for her party's agenda?
Madame Speaker, it is not too late to begin impeachment proceedings against this President, Vice President, Secretaries of State, and Defense. how many more young men and women will die before this immoral war ends? The Speaker and Senate Leadership have adequate, Constitutional power to stop the war now.
Popular support is for ending our occupation there. And we can use the money at home. The campaign messages from Barack and Hilary should be the same: We will end our occupation and troop presence in Iraq when elected.
We the people cannot abide a government that deceives us with impunity or without regret. Impeachment should begin this week.
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I've read some of the autobiographies of surviving Nazi functionaries after they were released from prison. How similar their "apologias" seem to the recent book by Scott McMullen, the President's press secretary. Interviewers ask him "why now" is he coming clellan with his participation in the propaganda campaign to get popular support and media enablement for attacking Iraq. Why was he not courageous enough to raise his objections publically to the media back in 2002-2003?
He admits his participation in the conspiracy against truthful government. I'd call his book a long confession statement of guilt of the crime of conspiracy to defraud Congress and the American People. Where is the federal prosecutor who will bring formal charges against him?
Without a Congressional investigation to determine if impeachment can be supported by the facts, dozens of Executive Department employees may never have to face their own roles in facilitating the deaths of 4,052 U.S. military personnel in Iraq. Respected political researchers attribute the Democratic Party's taking control of the Congress to the overall dissatisfaction of the voters with the Iraqi War and occupation. Why, then, did Nancy Pelosi , Speaker of the House of Representatives, say that impeachment was off the table for her party's agenda?
Madame Speaker, it is not too late to begin impeachment proceedings against this President, Vice President, Secretaries of State, and Defense. how many more young men and women will die before this immoral war ends? The Speaker and Senate Leadership have adequate, Constitutional power to stop the war now.
Popular support is for ending our occupation there. And we can use the money at home. The campaign messages from Barack and Hilary should be the same: We will end our occupation and troop presence in Iraq when elected.
We the people cannot abide a government that deceives us with impunity or without regret. Impeachment should begin this week.
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