Oct 09 2008
Outrage: Part III.
Let me tell you why that last post makes me so fucking mad. First of all, it comes after hearing about Cindy McCain’s stupid fucking comments about soldiers. And then this, the revelation that due to Bush’s illegal, unconstitutional, and morally despicable wire tapping program of US citizens, soldiers calling home from Iraq were part of those being tapped.
This article doesn’t cover all of it, and I didn’t post the whole thing due to space.
Why the FUCK are we eavesdropping on US soldiers when they call home to their families? Why are we listening to them have phone sex? Why haven’t we impeached and sent the President to federal prison for this?
For the love of God, let’s drop the pretense that the President did NOT directly lie to the American people about going to war in Iraq. He did. They knew for a fact Saddam did not try to acquire yellow cake uranium in Africa. They knew there was no connection between 9/11 and Iraq. Yet they still said it, still lied and when they couldn’t lie, purposely used old intelligence to trump up their case for war.
Since 2001, the President knowing it was illegal set up a program to wire tap the phones of millions of citizens without a search warrant. There is no plausible deniability here. He knew about it, was advised it was illegal, and then authorized it. And kept it going until 2007.
We all know the many failings of the Bush admininstration. And I am not some fire breathing liberal, and have been skeptical of impeachment for a long time. But given those two massive examples, we know that the man is a criminal. And given the information today, that American soldiers were among those wiretapped, I don’t want to sit on the sidelines about this anymore.
We need to set the example to the next President that you can’t break the law. And we need to do it now, while it’s still a relevant example for people to see.
I know it’ll never happen. But we all need to have a dream.
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I wonder how many more freedoms Bush can squeeze out of us in his time left.
Nothing he does surprises me anymore, I’m just pissed.
The fact that Yawn McCain has to hide behind both his trophy wife and trophy vice to do his dirty work is in and of itself despicable.
Cindy McCain knows she’s lying, and she’s probably offended that she’s being forced to speak to the common folk.
As far as Bush goes, well, what can you say? The man has ruined America, and it’s going to take at least eight years of Barack Obama, as well as new and better Democrats, Independents, and Republicans to rebuild what he has destroyed. If nothing else, he’s given everyone a reason to care again.
The only thing that surprises me is that people can still point to “the-other-side” for examples of what constitutes “domestic terror”. I think having your own administration submarine the Bill of Rights is pretty damned terror-filled. McCain is an embarrasment to the U.S. Senate and Graham or Lieberman need to just take him and go fishing… As for Palin, Click those red shoes three times and whisper, “I want to go home” and we will see what we can do to get her there!
We are all mad as hell and I just don’t know where that is leading us… Loved the post and will play catch-up on Parts I and II. ~k