He is behind this cooking of evidence. Let's get him impeached. He and Team Bush are behind this illegal and immoral war. They need to serve time for the ruined lives and destruction for which they are responsible. Someone on this team needs to answer to the People for their crimes.

Henry Waxman for President!

This piece contained a line that could easily provide history's historical perspective on the Bush administration:

This faulty intelligence was able to reach the highest level of government

Wait a minute. The DOD's Inspector General says that since one of the requirements of the OUSD(P), Douglas Fieth, is to "perform such other functions, as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe" then what he did was not illegal or unauthorized. Doesn't this reasoning, in effect, give him carte blanche to do anything he'd like, as long as its approved by the Secretary of Defense? Isn't "I was just following orders" not an allowed defense? If the OUSD(P) didn't do anything wrong, didn't someone somewhere along the line? Is no one going to be held responsible for this?

"Just following orders" was a defense that was not allowed at Nuremburg and should not be allowed here. The principle established some 60 years ago says that political figures are obliged to ignore an order that breaks the law. They should be punished, but even more so, so should those who issue such an order. "The buck stops here" was a sound principle back in Truman's day and should apply here. These crimes need to be traced to the highest office they can and those suspected of wrong-doing should be impeached and charged as criminals. If it was good enough for the Nazis, the Japanese and the Serbs, its good enough for this gang too.

The idea of attacking Iraq never made sense. Why divert resources to an unnecessary second front? Hitler made the same mistake in attacking Russia.

Since the evidence presented publicly seemed flimsy, I assumed there must be a reason that could not be revealed. Who could possibly be so cynical as to manipulate evidence to undertake a war without a very good reason, even if that reason had to remain classified? I simply could not believe an American administration could be so calculating.

To this day, there's still no explanation why we actually went to war in Iraq, losing thousands of soldiers and untold billions of dollars, not to mention shortchanging the effort in Afghanistan. And it's now become abundantly clear that the justification for war was grossly overstated, if not outright fabricated.

If that's not an impeachable offense, I don't know what is. Cheney and Bush shouldn't just be impeached, they should be tried for treason. Consigning them to the dustbin of history as the worst administration in our history is no longer good enough; the country needs to be taken back from this gang as a warning to those who would seek to replicate their actions in the future.

We all knew this..but now we really know this. This is totally unacceptable, and as someone else has mentioned, if this is not sufficient evidence to impeach this administration, then what would be? These DELIBERATE lies have resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives, thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of Americans maimed and the loss of American credibility around the world. All these liars should go to jail for the rest of their lives and we should leave Iraq now. Forget Imus (it was terrible, he was trying to do a School Daze joke, he should be fired) but it is not anywhere near as important as THIS story.

Everyone seems to miss the fact that Cheney and his team won (most) of what they wanted. Did they care about peace in Iraq? Only tangentially. They cared about Big Business and their supporters. Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater, Big Oil, and the defense contractors are all doing great. The federal government has been looted. Our nation has been pushed towards a sort of "Israelification" where we will constantly be at war and constantly afraid.

This is a real (Machiavellian) plan for making a permanent Republican majority. When Bush says that if we leave Iraq, we have lost, he is speaking for his party, not the nation as a whole.

Cheney has already won the war that he set out to fight. His friends will be reaping the benefits for years to come. The only thing that may save this country from the designs of Cheney and Rove is the incompetence of this administration. Their game is unraveling very quickly.

Why is everybody so upset over the special boys in the Pentagon cooking the intelligence books? OOPS! I forgot! We Americans like to ignore history. What the hey? Back in the Old Days, the Vietnam War for example, when CIA painted a black picture of the success of our efforts ranging from ROLLING THUNDER (the airwar over North Vietnam) to the Strategic Hamlets (concentration camps where we locked up civilian South Vietnamese so they could be free), the other intelligence shops offered far more optimistic views. Which do you suppose the White House preferred?

Thought about it long enough? Beautiful sunrises are always nicer to contemplate than blizzards. So, the WH went with the warm fuzzies even as the drifts piled higher and higher. At root there is no difference between what happened back then and what Feith and company did to justify what the boss wanted to do.