Impeach Bush
There is now even more convincing evidence that President George W. Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top administration officials had full knowledge that there was no connection between the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001--allegedly masterminded by Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network-- and the government of Iraq and its leader Saddam Hussein.
The evidence also claims that Bush officials were warned of an impending al Qaeda attack in the US in the months leading up to 9/11 but failed to act.
These charges come from Bush’s own former top anti-terrorism advisor, Richard Clarke, who was interviewed on CBS News’ 60 Minutes Sunday night, and has also written a tell-all book “Against All Enemies” due in bookstores on Monday.
Clarke, who has worked in the White House as a senior intelligence official and anti-terrorism expert under Presidents Ronald Reagan, George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton and now the second President Bush, said that in meetings following the attacks, Rumsfeld was pushing for retaliatory strikes on Iraq, even though al Qaeda was based in Afghanistan. He initially thought Rumsfeld was joking.
Clarke told 60 Minutes correspondent Leslie Stahl, "Rumsfeld was saying that we needed to bomb Iraq, and we all said ... no, no. Al-Qaeda is in Afghanistan. We need to bomb Afghanistan. And Rumsfeld said there aren't any good targets in Afghanistan. And there are lots of good targets in Iraq. I said, 'Well, there are lots of good targets in lots of places, but Iraq had nothing to do with it.
Bush himself pushed Clarke for a connection to Iraq.
"The president dragged me into a room with a couple of other people, shut the door, and said, 'I want you to find whether Iraq did this.' Now he never said, 'Make it up.' But the entire conversation left me in absolutely no doubt that George Bush wanted me to come back with a report that said Iraq did this.
"I said, 'Mr. President. We've done this before. We have been looking at this. We looked at it with an open mind. There's no connection.'
Naturally, the White House has denied Clarke’s allegations, using a number of approaches to attempt to discredit him, from assertions that Clarke is working for John Kerry’s campaign (Clarke denies this), to allegations Clarke is just trying to sell his book, to insinuations that he was upset over having his position demoted, from a Cabinet level position in the Clinton White House to staff under Bush.
Clarke responded, "Frankly, if I had been so upset that the National Coordinator for Counter-terrorism had been downgraded from a Cabinet level position to a staff level position, if that had bothered me enough, I would have quit. I didn't quit."
Ever since the invasion of Iraq, Bush’s justification for it has been challenged convincingly by a number of independent, reputable and bipartisan sources. That as recently as last week, Donald Rumsfeld continued to make public statements claiming the US may still find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, simply points out the level of official deception in which this administration is engaged.
This administration has no intention of telling the American people the truth. Therefore the people of this nation must instruct Congress to remove them by initiating impeachment proceedings . There are ample grounds for this action and unlike the last attempt at a presidential impeachment, this is a legitimate matter of national security.
Posted by bernie at March 21, 2004 11:34 PMTrackBack
But wait... Bush is the good guy, isn't he? So far, the fingerpointing has gone all over the place... Bush, Rumsfeld and Rice and feeling the heat..... so who will go down? Probably Colin Powell... hahahahahah. We're looking at a government who wanted to impeach Clinton for lying about getting his dick sucked.... yet is dragging it's feet on this issue.
Posted by: Bernard at March 26, 2004 4:07 PM