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• Friday, May 30, 2008 01:19 AM

  Impeaching Bush would interfere with The Game

  The real story should be whether this strengthens the case for impeachment. [weeping for brunnhilde]

  But that would distract Joan Walsh and millions of other anti-impeachment Democrats from their neato torpedo! festivities in Denver. They care not one whit about the very real crimes committed against the American people, the subversion of The Constitution or holding Bush, Inc., accountable for the war crimes leading to the destruction of Iraq and destabilization of an already volatile region.

  Screw the human toll. The civic toll. The economic toll. The blood. The destroyed families.

  No, the things that matter are the balloons, flags and confetti, moral posturing and righteous pronouncements about the moral superiority of the Democratic Party. Hillary! Obama! GO TEAM! By golly, everybody's in it to win it, and no amount of corruption, blood or institutionalized lawlessness is going to sway them from their ding-dong, the witch is dead euphoria.

  By casually allowing Congressional Democrats to reject impeachment - and going as far as to defend their grotesque, unconscionable betrayal for purely political reasons as Joan Walsh and countless other establishment mouthpieces have done - the Dem Faithful have forfeited what little moral standing they had left after nearly a decade of jaw-dropping complicity with The Man You Love To Hate.

  Meanwhile, as the ever vigilant Chris Floyd and Arthur Silber have continued to point out, George W. Bush remains committed to expanding the war into Iran. If and when that is allowed to happen, Democratic voters and politicians will simply point their bloody fingers at Bush, Inc., and rejoice at the likely prospect of winning the next election by a landslide!

  From Silber:

  You desperately need to understand this: the next President of the United States, no matter who it is, will enter office knowing that he or she can systematically and regularly authorize torture, order mass murder, direct the United States military to engage in one campaign of criminal conquest and genocide after another, oversee uncountable acts of inhumanity and barbarity -- and he or she will never be challenged or called to account in any manner whatsoever. It may have taken the Bush administration two terms to bring us to the point where such evils are committed and even boasted about in broad daylight, while almost no one even notices -- but this will be where the next President starts.

  And for this monstrous, unforgivable fact, you can thank the Democrats and those who whore themselves for the Democrats' success in our disgustingly meaningless elections.

  http://tinyurl.com/3qowsv

  And from Chris Floyd (5/1/08):

  The latest and most explicit salvo of warmongering comes from CIA honcho Michael Hayden, who finally crossed the red line that Bush officials have been tip-toeing up to for months: the charge that Iran's top government leadership is directly involved in "facilitating the killing of Americans in Iraq." As late as last week, the nation's top military officer, Admiral Michael Mullen, said there was "no smoking gun proof" that Iran's leadership was involved in the alleged Iranian support for attacks on American forces. And Petraeus, in his many Tehran-baiting broadsides over the past few months, has likewise always stopped short of this war-triggering accusation.

  http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1498/135/

  Two days later, Floyd posted The Terror Master: Bush Orders Covert 'Surge' Against Iran, with Dem Support. Read it if you give a damn:

  http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1500/135/

  Few will bother, I know. Pernicious delusions of political salvation have taken root in the Democratic psyche, and tearing oneself away from it is an extremely unpleasant and difficult task.

  You want a Democratic Party that means something besides double-talk, platitudes and slaughter-for-empire? Impeach George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Short of that, redemption will not be forthcoming.

  —Arvin Hill Read Arvin Hill's other letters
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