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Thursday, May 5

the smoking gun

Was just reading Greg Palast’s latest piece
And man is it red hot..

Greg is just completely baffled as to why this country is not asking for the impeachment of GWBUSH after the “Smoking Gun” memo
That was unveiled this week by the Times
The London times that is…

The memo marked “Secret and Strictly Personal” Following a closed meeting with the president…
And was dated 8 months ago …before bush dragged us to Iraq

The memo reads..

“"Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

Yep
That’s worth saying again
"The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

I’ll quote from Palast’s piece below…

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The memo goes on to describe an elaborate plan by George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to hoodwink the planet into supporting an attack on Iraq knowing full well the evidence for war was a phony.

A month ago, the Silberman-Robb Commission issued its report on WMD intelligence before the war, dismissing claims that Bush fixed the facts with this snooty, condescending conclusion written directly to the President, "After a thorough review, the Commission found no indication that the Intelligence Community distorted the evidence regarding Iraq's weapons."

We now know the report was a bogus 618 pages of thick whitewash aimed to let Bush off the hook for his murderous mendacity.
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Thanks Greg.

Now the, Honey if this is not scary shit I don’t know what is.

Why did the country scream to Impeach Clinton when he lied about where he put his pecker..but there are no millions on the streets screaming for the impeachment of G W Bush now that its been proven full on that he lied about the reasons to go to war and this has cost thousands of lives?!

Why isn’t this memo on the cover of every American Newspaper right now??

Why aren’t folks freaking out in outrage?!

Why…well its because in today’s right wing, conservative, evangelical, climate…folks are just plain out scared to trash George Bush…

The man can pretty much get away with murder and we just wont
raise a peep.

And yeh I can already hear your gnashing your teeth and blowing smoke ready to let loose with a barrage of your nasty comments…

But really, this just can’t be all right with you?

Can it??!!

Being tricked by the president, lied to, having the facts altered even in an investigation about having the facts altered
This has gotta bug you

Doesn’t It??

IN Closing Palast says
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Now, we have the stone, cold evidence of bending intelligence to sell us on death by the thousands, and neither a Republican Congress nor what is laughably called US journalism thought it worth a second look.

My friend Daniel Ellsberg once said that what's good about the American people is that you have to lie to them. What's bad about Americans is that it's so easy to do.
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thanks for your piece Greg
and sorry for us all…

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