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• Why Bush hasn't been impeached.

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  Nope.

  Bush hasn't been impeached because of some sense of shared complicity among the American people.

  Bush hasn't been impeached because of a sense of shared complicity among Democrats in Congress. Almost to a man (and woman), they decided the lies were okay, even though they knew better, and voted for this war, same as Republicans. Voting for impeachment would be an admission that they were wrong - and people in power avoid admitting that they're ever wrong like the plague.

  And it's more than that. A majority of Democrats, like nearly all Republicans, are in the pockets of Big Business, especially the Military-Industrial Complex and the US Chamber of Commerce, and are dependent on them for campaign contributions. Big Business likes Bush precisely because he lied his way into a war of profiteering and pillage - there's been nothing Big Business has liked better than war since the brutal conquest and subjection of the Philippines.

  US corporatists have no interest in 'spreading democracy'. They're interested in armed robbery on a massive scale if they can get away with it, and everything that comes with it: oil, cheap labor - and profits. Democracy meant something to the Founders, but not so much to the slaveowners among them as you might think. And it meant very little to the purveyors of Manifest Destiny after them, and the railroad and cattle barons after them. The US has never been much of a 'democracy', but it has always been very much an Empire. Keep in mind that Bush is not 'president'. He is in fact an emperor.

  There are additional reasons why Bush hasn't been impeached. The moneyed power elites who run this country know that it would impugn them, further discredit the US and its global purposes, and would slow or reverse their grasping greed.

  They also know that impeachment is a slippery slope, because impeachment is the very least that the Bush crime syndicate deserves. These are heinous war criminals we're talking about, after all. Impeachment and removal from office would ultimately and hopefully lead to shipping them off to The Hague in a leaky shrimp boat at the height of the hurrican season, where they can spend the rest of their days on display to a public who would be more than willing to pony up ten bucks a head to gloat over the ugly ugly monsters.

  Wouldn't you?

  Permalink Tuesday, May 22, 2007 09:16 AM

• Bush is only a beginning.

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  Dennis Loo:

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  I quite agree.

  The US government has been systematically taken over by a bunch of Straussian neoconservative corporatists. A few of them are in the DLC, like Joe Lieberman and Hillary Clinton, but they are the Republican leadership, and with few exceptions, nearly all of the Republican party.

  Neoconservatism by itself is a Crime. The published, public policies of neoconservatism are in direct contradiction to US law and international law.

  Although there are probably as many different interpretations of Strauss's teachings as there are Straussians, the three basic principles that the neocons glean from Strauss and Wohlstetter are:

  1) There are a few superior people born to lead and the rest are merely followers who must be deceived and lied to if necessary by these leaders to be directed to the "right" path.

  2) The powerful have the right to rule, and America must use its unchallenged power to control the rest of the world in order to enforce our own best interests and prevent any future rivals from emerging.

  3) Religion is essential in the masses, as it makes them far easier to manipulate and control, but the true leaders should be free of religion and morality.

  Neoconservatism, therefore, is inherently totalitarian at the least, and is probably fascist as well, and it makes no apologies for it. Clinton may have been the last president who was not a thorough-going neocon, although even he had tendencies, as do many other Democrats.

  They have gone through a great deal of trouble to brainwash America into believing and acting against their own interests and in favor of corporations desiring rob and enslave them. Logic of empire. As Bob Altemeyer has clearly shown in The Authoritarians, a majority of any population may be susceptible to the authoritarianism and willing to do its bidding, however evil. The Nazis proved this, and 21st century Americans can be expected to be little different in this respect than Germans in the 1930's and 1940's.

  Millions of these brainwashing victims are very dangerous. And many have publicly declared that it would be open season on Democrats if they moved to impeach Bush.

  Given their tone, it really didn't sound like they weren't kidding.

  Permalink Tuesday, May 22, 2007 09:49 AM