-- wars he initiated and accelerated in Afghanistan and Iraq that have
cost hundreds of thousands of lives, including thousands of U.S.
soldiers killed and tens of thousands disabled for life with no
intention and little prospect of ending direct U.S. military
involvement half a world away in the next eight years;
-- vast increases in military expenditures, erosion of the planets
environment, greater global warming, and a staggering National Debt;
-- pervasive violations of the Bill or Rights, civil rights and civil
liberties of U.S. citizens and human rights of foreigners including
summary executions, torture, kidnapping, prolonged secret detention,
and massive invasions of privacy;
-- corruption of justice by pursuing political and selective
prosecutions, false charges and national, ethnic, racial and religious
persecution and profiling;
-- tax cuts for the rich, neglect of the poor, $4 a gallon gasoline,
high prices for food and other necessities, mortgage foreclosures on
the homes of tens of thousands of American families, a pattern of
policies intended to enrich the rich and impoverish the poor in the
U.S. and abroad.
President Bush has concealed, misrepresented and falsified facts
essential to governance in a free society to mislead the Congress, the
Judiciary and the people.
In his remaining eight months, President Bush will continue to threaten
other nations in violation of international law and clearly intends to
commit new aggressions in his belligerent presidency. If not stopped by
impeachment he may strike Iran’s nuclear projects and immerse the
United States in avoidable war for a generation far more exhausting
than any we have known.
Seeking to prevent anyone from daring to even talk with empires, or
peoples he proclaims “evil”, Bush invokes “appeasement” of the Nazis,
as he condemns “...the false comfort of appeasement, which has been
repeatedly discredited by history” to prevent any communication with
enemies he selects. Yet he knows that not only Barack Obama and Jimmy
Carter have proposed meetings with Iran, Syria, North Korea, Hamas,
Hezbollah and others to resolve conflicts, but that his own Secretary
of State, Condoleeza Rice, and Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates,
Admiral William J. Fallon, immediate past commander of all U.S. forces
in the Middle East and his predecessor General John P. Abizaid, among
many other U.S. leaders, have urged dialogue with Bush defined evil
empires, as a means of reducing tension and avoiding war.
George Bush knows only force. When he speaks of freedom as his purpose,
he intends force as his means. Freedom from the barrel of the gun. He
believes torture, kidnaping, secret detention are the way to freedom.
Above all he uses deliberate deception, concealment of facts and
outright lies to the American people and the world as the way to start
the wars he begins, but fails to end.
Completely arrogant, he built a $700 million dollar U.S. Embassy, the
largest and most expensive in history, in the heart of Baghdad in the
midst of a half decade bloody occupation of all Iraq, his Imperial
Capitol in the Emerald City, exposed to daily mortar attacks. And a
major new $60 million dollar U.S. prison away from home just north of
Kabul, an Afghan Guantanamo, surely good for the recruitment of 25,000
Muslims from around the world who cannot bear to see a new alien
torture factory on Muslim soil.
In the final eight months of his presidency George Bush has made it
clear he will be the decider of the next eight years and more. What
else can he mean when he lectures the Israeli Knesset telling it
“...Israel’s population may be just over 7 million. But when you
confront terror and evil you are 307 million strong because America
stands with you.”, and in the same breath proclaims that letting Iran
acquire nuclear weapons would be an “unforgivable betrayal of future
generations ... America stands firmly with you in opposing Iran’s
nuclear weapons ambitions.” And that immediately after both Israeli
Prime Minister Olmert and major opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu,
whose address immediately preceded Bush’s, called for harsh action to
be taken against Iran’s nuclear development.
Of course, Iran like the rest of the world knows both the U.S. and
Israel have nuclear warheads capable of obliterating whole nations and
major new nuclear arms programs, all in violation of the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty. Threatened nations may believe possession of
nuclear weapons is the only deterrent to U.S. aggression.
While President Bush continues his quest for a “peace” agreement
between Israel and Palestine, he arms and incites Palestine to civil
war, condones ever expanding Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and
the West Bank and proclaims the U.S. as “proud to be Israel’s closest
ally and best friend” in a rare moment of truthfulness, hardly
reassuring Palestinians that he can be an honest broker and enraging
Arab peoples who have suffered with Palestine for sixty years.
After praising Israel, which has brought Palestine to tenuous
conditions of impoverishment and sudden death, Bush, who has reduced
the population of Iraq to the most miserable and endangered on earth
with one in five in internal, or external exile, lectures “nations
across the Middle East” to “...treat their people with the dignity and
respect they deserve.”
There has been no greater failure in the history of the Congress and
the American people than our present failure to proceed with
impeachment proceedings against George W. Bush,
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