"The Iraqi interim government has warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives - used to demolish buildings, produce missile warheads and detonate nuclear weapons - are missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations. The huge facility, called Al Qaqaa, was supposed to be under American military control but is now a no-man's land, still picked over by looters as recently as Sunday. United Nations weapons inspectors had monitored the explosives for many years, but White House and Pentagon officials acknowledge that the explosives VANISHED after the American invasion last year." VANISHED - from Bush's CENTRAL FRONT in the WAR ON TERROR????? Impeach Bush NOW!

Bush "has endorsed a proposed bill that would make it legal for U.S. intelligence officials to deport individuals to countries known to use torture to extract information. The '9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act' marks the first time the U.S. government has officially scripted its policy known as 'extraordinary rendition,' whereby American authorities can circumvent their own restraints on interrogations by sending suspects to countries known to employ harsh tactics." Impeach Bush Now!

"Four U.S. troops died in Iraq on Tuesday, bringing the total of Americans killed in the 18-month-old war to 1,002. More than three-quarters of those killed, 756 of them, have died in combat, and 647 of those have been killed since President Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq on May 1, 2003. According to a CNN tally, 1,129 coalition troops from 15 nations have died in Iraq. Three of the soldiers who died Tuesday were killed in fighting in the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City. A fourth soldier died of wounds suffered in a roadside bombing Monday, the military said. Two other deaths were reported by the military." What do the Busheviks say? Here's Rummy: "This week, of course, on September 11, 2004, we remember the 3,000 citizens of dozens of countries who were killed on September 11 in 2001." September 11, OF COURSE, had NOTHING to do with Iraq. Impeach Bush Now!

Michael Moore is covering the convention for USA Today. Here's live coverage by NPR's Andrea "Seabrook: Yes, I am in the middle of a...you might be able to hear the Secret Service yelling into my mic at the same time. There, there are a bunch of Secret Service that have surrounded Michael Moore's section. There are three or four reporters with him right now, but they are trying to kick all of the reporters and press photographers who are around him out of his area. The convention staff is also here. They're standing here telling us that we have to move from this are... they're obviously disturbed by the fact that Michael Moore is here and want as little public here as possible. Stachio: Can we hear? Can we hear what's going on? Can you stick a mic in there? I don't know if we can hear. Seabrook: Yeah...ah...eh...they've sort of moved me away." As with all Bush events, the Secret Service has been turned into Karl Rove's political police suppressing ALL dissent. Impeach Bush Now!

Joshua Micah Marshall, Laura Rozen, and Paul Glastris teamed up for a powerhouse investigative report about the machinations behind the Larry Franklin/Harold Rhode/Doug Feith/Michael Ledeen spy scandal. When they were caught holding unauthorized secret meetings with Manucher Ghorbanifar in Rome in December 2001, alarm bells went off at the CIA and State Dept. Eventually Condi Rice's "deputy" Stephen Hadley told Ledeen & Co. to end the meetings, but a second meeting was held in June 2002 and a third in June 2003. When challenged publicly, Rumsfeld said the meetings were unimportant and accidental, but Ghorbanifar "laughs off that idea." Senate Intelligence Committee Dems are trying to investigate but Repulicans are blocking it because they support the Neocon policy of using corrupt exiles to overthrow anti-US governments. Substitute "Chalabi" for "Ghorbanifar," and it's the identical corruption that got the US into Iraq. Impeach Bush Now!

On 8-6-01, Bush received a crucial memo titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack in U.S." Both Bush and Rice told the 9/11 Commission it was "historical." But it "contained passages referring to F.B.I. reports of 'suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.' It noted that a caller to the US Embassy in the United Arab Emirates that May had warned that 'a group of bin Laden supporters was in the U.S.,' planning attacks with explosives. The commission's final report revealed that two C.I.A. analysts involved in preparing the brief had wanted to make clear to Mr. Bush that, far from being only a historical threat, the threat that Al Qaeda would strike on American soil was 'both current and serious.'" Bush and Condi LIED to the Commission - Impeach Bush Now!

"The Bush administration has been going to court to block lawsuits by consumers who say they have been injured by prescription drugs and medical devices. The administration contends that consumers cannot recover damages for such injuries if the products have been approved by the FDA. In court papers, the Justice Department acknowledges that this position reflects a 'change in governmental policy,' and it has persuaded some judges to accept its arguments, most recently scoring a victory in the federal appeals court in Philadelphia... Tuesday, the appeals court threw out a lawsuit filed by Barbara E. Horn, who said her husband had died because of defects in the design and manufacture of his heart pump. The Bush administration argued that federal law barred such claims because the device had been produced according to federal specifications... The administration said its position, holding that individual consumers have no right to sue, actually benefited consumers." Impeach Bush Now!

Helen Thomas challenged Scott McClellan over the Iraq War: "Q: Prime Minister Blair took full personal responsibility for taking his nation into war under falsehoods -- under reasons that have been determined now to be false. Is President Bush also willing to take full, personal responsibility -- MR. McCLELLAN: I think Prime Minister Blair said that it was the right thing to do; that Saddam Hussein's regime was a threat. Q: Those were not the reasons he took his country into war. It turned out to be untrue, and the same is true for us. Does the President take full, personal responsibility for this war? MR. McCLELLAN: The issue here is what do you to with a threat in a post-September 11th world? Either you live with a threat, or you confront the threat. Q: There was no threat. MR. McCLELLAN: The President made the decision to confront the threat. Q: Saddam Hussein did not threaten this country." Impeach Bush Now!

Ed Cone blogs, "Seymour Hersh says the US government has videotapes of boys being sodomized at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. 'The worst is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking,' the reporter told an ACLU convention last week. Hersh says there was 'a massive amount of criminal wrongdoing that was covered up at the highest command out there, and higher.' He called the prison scene 'a series of massive crimes, criminal activity by the president and the vice president, by this administration anyway... war crimes.'... Hersh describes a Pentagon in crisis. The defense department budget is 'in incredible chaos,' he says, with large sums of cash missing, including something like $1 billion that was supposed to be in Iraq... He ripped the supine US press, pledged to bring home all the facts he could, said he was not sure he could deliver all the damning info he suspects about Bush administration responsibility for Abu Ghraib." Impeach Bush Now!

Speaking in Oak Ridge TN, Bush declared: "In 2002, the United Nations Security Council yet again demanded a full accounting of Saddam Hussein's weapons programs. As he had for over a decade, Saddam Hussein refused to comply. In fact, according to former weapons inspector David Kay, Iraq's weapons programs were elaborately shielded by security and deception operations that continued even beyond the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom. So I had a choice to make: Either take the word of a madman, or defend America. Given that choice, I will defend America every time." In fact, Saddam complied with EVERY demand from UN inspectors, including unannounced inspections at Presidential palaces and the destruction of Al Samoud missiles. Once again, Bush is resorting to a BIG LIE. Impeach Bush Now!

Bush knows he will lose in November unless he captures Osama - or perhaps Ayman Al Zawahiri or Mullah Omar. In an explosive story, The New Republic quotes Pakistani officials who say Bush is pressuring them to deliver one of these "high-value targets" (HVT) before November - best of all, at the height of the Democratic convention. As a carrot, "Powell pointedly refused to criticize Musharraf for pardoning nuclear physicist A.Q. Khan--who, the previous month, had admitted exporting nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea, and Libya - declaring Khan's transgressions an 'internal Pakistani issue.' In addition, the administration is pushing a five-year, $3 billion aid package for Pakistan through Congress over Democratic concerns about the country's proliferation of nuclear technology and lack of democratic reform." Folks, this is TREASON - and it's time for Democrats to start screaming!

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence found that the CIA lied about Iraq's WMD's. In particular, the CIA "was told by relatives of Iraqi scientists before the war that Baghdad's programs to develop unconventional weapons had been abandoned, but the C.I.A. failed to give that information to President Bush, even as he publicly warned of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's illicit weapons." Tenet refuses to say whether he told Bush it was a "slam-dunk case," as Woodward reports. Was Bush an innocent dupe of the CIA, or did Bush and Cheney collaborate in their own deception? Whatever the answer, Impeach Bush Now!

AP reports, "Iraq's [Bush-picked] prime minister, less than a week after taking power, may offer amnesty to insurgents and could extend it to those who killed American troops in an apparent bid to lure Saddam Hussein loyalists from their campaign of violence. A spokesman for Iyad Allawi went as far as to suggest attacks on U.S. troops over the past year were legitimate acts of resistance - a sign of the new government's desire to distance itself from the 14-month U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. 'If he (a guerrilla) was in opposition against the Americans, that will be justified because it was an occupation force,' the spokesman, Georges Sada, said. 'We will give them freedom'... 'There is still heavy discussion about this,' said Sada. He said the U.S. Embassy has encouraged Allawi to try creative solutions to end the insurgency as long as they don't infringe on human rights." 864 Americans died - and 16,000 were wounded - and Bush wants AMNESTY for their attackers? Impeach Bush Now!

"In a few key areas - electricity, the judicial system and overall security - the Iraq that America handed back to its residents Monday is worse off than before the war began last year, according to calculations in a new General Accounting Office report released Tuesday. -In 13 of Iraq's 18 provinces, electricity was available fewer hours per day on average last month than before the war. Nearly 20 million of Iraq's 26 million people live in those provinces. -Only $13.7 billion of the $58 billion pledged and allocated worldwide to rebuild Iraq has been spent, with another $10 billion about to be spent. The biggest chunk of that money has been used to run Iraq's ministry operations. -The new Iraqi civil defense, police and overall security units are suffering from mass desertions, are poorly trained and ill-equipped. -The number of what the now-disbanded CPA called significant insurgent attacks skyrocketed from 411 in February to 1,169 in May." Impeach Bush Now!

Bush's appointed Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is best known in Iraq as a CIA supported terrorist who bombed innocent Iraqis in the 1990's. Last week, Allawi said he and his ministers were prepared to use "drastic measures" to end the insurgency. When a terrorist talks about "drastic measures," be VERY afraid. Now his Interior Minister is talking about Martial Law. So now "Operation Iraqi Freedom" is turning into "Operation Saddam II." Bush has sacrificed 837 American lives and over $200 billion - for nothing. Impeach Bush Now!

The last count we saw of prisoner deaths under investigation was 40. Suddenly we find this buried in the weekend papers: "the Army has announced that it is investigating the deaths of 127 prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan." We are unable to find any more details - clearly the Busheviks are saying as little as possible. Impeach Bush Now!

In testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, John Ashcroft desperately tried to deny Bush had any responsibility for the torture committed by his administration. Ashcroft specifically said Bush "made no order that would require or direct the violation of any law." But when asked about the orders Bush DID give, Ashcroft refused to answer. Sen. Pat Leahy demanded Ashcroft answer a simple question. "Has there been any other order or directive from the president with respect to interrogation of detainees, prisoners or combatants? It's a pretty easy question. It should be a pretty easy answer. Either there is one or there isn't." Ashcroft has still not answered the question. Obviously Ashcroft is covering up Bush's torture orders. Impeach Bush Now!

Republicans relentlessly attacked Clinton over the meaning of "is". Now the time has come to demand clarity from Bush on the meaning of "torture" - and also the meaning of "law." Busheviks say torture must be equivalent to such serious injury to cause "organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death." But the 1984 Convention Against Torture ratified by the US defines torture as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted." Moreover, this LAW bars not only outright torture but also "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment which do not amount to torture." But Busheviks also concluded that if US officials engaged in torture, it was unconstitutional to invoke the Convention Against Torture. The Bushevik analysis brazenly defies the Constitution and the Rule of Law. Impeach Bush Now!

"An Aug. 1, 2002, memo from the Justice Dept's Office of Legal Counsel [written by Jay S. Bybee - now a federal judge!], addressed to Gonzales, said that torturing suspected al Qaeda members abroad 'may be justified' and that international laws against torture 'may be unconstitutional if applied to interrogation' conducted against suspected terrorists. The document provided legal guidance for the CIA, which crafted new, more aggressive techniques for its operatives in the field.... [It said] physical torture 'must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death.' For a cruel or inhuman psychological technique to rise to the level of mental torture, the Justice Department argued, the psychological harm must last 'months or even years.' A former senior administration official said Bush's aides knew he wanted them to take an aggressive approach." Bush Approved Torture - Impeach Bush Now!

PentaPost opines,"There is no justification, legal or moral, for the judgments made by Bush's political appointees at the Justice and Defense Depts. Theirs is the logic of criminal regimes, of dictatorships around the world that sanction torture on grounds of 'national security.' For decades the U.S. government has waged diplomatic campaigns against such outlaw governments - from the military juntas in Argentina and Chile to the current autocracies in Islamic countries such as Algeria and Uzbekistan - that claim torture is justified when used to combat terrorism. The news that serving U.S. officials have officially endorsed principles once advanced by Pinochet brings shame on American democracy - even if it is true, as the administration maintains, that its theories have not been put into practice. Even on paper, the administration's reasoning will provide a ready excuse for dictators, especially those allied with Bush, to go on torturing and killing detainees." Impeach Bush Now!

"CCR has posted the controversial Pentagon 'Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations in the Global War on Terrorism' on its website. The report is further proof of the Bush administration's disregard for the Constitution and civil liberties and shows there was planning at high levels of government to abuse and torture detainees. CCR President Michael Ratner stated, 'This memo and others show there was planning far up the chain of command to torture detainess; the atrocities at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere cannot be swept under the rug by going after low-level soldiers. Apparently highly placed U.S. officials were willing to approve interrogation methods that violate every convention on torture the United States has ever signed. But they needed to find cover for their actions and a defense to possible criminal prosecution. Government lawyers writing this report wildly distorted the law in an effort to exempt officials from potential criminal prosecution.'" Impeach Bush Now!

Rude Pundit blogs, "apparently Bush keeps Saddam Hussein's gun, the one he had when he was captured from the 'spider hole,' in a study off the side of the Oval Office. Bush shows it to visitors; he is 'proud of it' because, it seems, or so it is said, it reminds the resident of how 'proud' he is of the troops... Exactly how may laws, federal and D.C., might the resident be breaking with his possession of that firearm? Did he receive a background check for the transfer of ownership? Is Bush licensed to possess a firearm in a federal facility? The District of Columbia prohibits firearms to be gifts. How many people are implicated in Bush's firearm possession? And, of course, ignorance of the law does not excuse the potential crimes." Impeach Bush Now!

"A witness who told ABC News he believed the military was covering up the extent of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison was today stripped of his security clearance and told he may face prosecution because his comments were 'not in the national interest.' Sgt. Samuel Provance said in addition to his revoked security clearance, he was transferred to a different platoon, and his record was officially 'flagged,' meaning he cannot be promoted or given any awards or honors. Provance said he was told he will face administrative action for failing to report what he knew at the time and for failing to take steps to stop the abuse. 'I see it as an effort to intimidate Sgt. Provance and any other soldier whose conscience is bothering him, and who wants to come forward and tell what really happened at Abu Ghraib,' said his attorney Scott Horton." Another BushFeld coverup - Impeach Bush Now!

PentaPost reports, "Sgt. Samuel Provance said [military] intelligence interrogators told military police to strip down prisoners and embarrass them as a way to help 'break' them. The same interrogators and intelligence analysts would talk about the abuse with Provance and flippantly dismiss it because the Iraqis were considered 'the enemy'... [Provance said] the highest-ranking military intelligence officers at the prison were involved and that the Army appears to be trying to deflect attention away from military intelligence's role... Brig. Gen. Janis L. Karpinski claimed that military intelligence imposed its authority so fully that she eventually had limited access to the interrogation facilities. And an attorney for one of the soldiers [said] that the Army has rejected his request for an independent inquiry, which could block potentially crucial information about involvement of military intelligence, the CIA and the FBI from being revealed." Stop the coverup - Impeach Bush Now!

"The concern about possible future prosecution for war crimes-and that it might even apply to Bush adminstration officials themselves- is contained in a crucial portion of an internal January 25, 2002, memo by White House counsel Alberto Gonzales obtained by Newsweek. It urges George Bush declare the war in Afghanistan, including the detention of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters, exempt from the provisions of the Geneva Convention... Administration critics have charged that key legal decisions made in the months after September 11, 2001 including the White House's February 2002 declaration not to grant any Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters prisoners of war status under the Geneva Convention, laid the groundwork for the interrogation abuses that have recently been revealed in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq." Impeach Bush Now!

"Dozens of soldiers - other than the seven military police reservists who have been charged - were involved in the abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, and there is an effort under way in the Army to hide it, a key witness in the investigation told ABC News. 'There's definitely a cover-up,' the witness, Sgt. Samuel Provance, said. 'People are either telling themselves or being told to be quiet.' Provance, 30, was part of the 302nd Military Intelligence Battalion stationed at Abu Ghraib last September. He spoke to ABC News despite orders from his commanders not to... [Maj. Gen. George] Fay started his probe on April 23, but Provance said when Fay interviewed him, the general seemed interested only in the military police, not the interrogators, and seemed to discourage him from testifying. Provance said Fay threatened to take action against him for failing to report what he saw sooner... 'I feel like I'm being punished for being honest,' Provance told ABC News." Impeach Bush Now!

"Like the more numerous detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the high-level Qaeda prisoners have also been defined as unlawful combatants, not as prisoners of war. Those prisoners have no standing in American civilian or military courts.... After the Sept. 11 attacks, the agency began to search for remote sites in friendly countries around the world where Qaeda operatives could be kept quietly and securely. 'There was a debate after 9/11 about how to make people DISAPPEAR,' a former intelligence official said. The result was a series of secret agreements allowing the C.I.A. to use sites overseas without outside scrutiny... Counterterrorism officials have complained about the Bush administration's failure to have an 'endgame' for these detainees. One official said they could also be imprisoned indefinitely at a new long-term prison being built at Guantanamo." In South America, the "disappeared" were simply thrown into the ocean. Is that Dictator Bush's plan for America? Impeach Bush Now!

Tom Engelhardt writes, "The system of injustice that, since 9/11, we've sent offshore and organized globally -- from Guantanamo, Cuba to Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan -- is by its nature also a system of torture. It was designed from the beginning to be a Bermuda Triangle of injustice, existing in an extrajudicial darkness beyond 'our' sight or oversight. There, on military bases and in special military-controlled prisons, the 'war on terrorism' could be carried to its informational climax in whatever ways and by whatever methods American intelligence officials felt might 'break' whatever prisoners we had. Whether in Guantanamo or at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, this developing mini-gulag was never meant to be a system of imprisonment for crimes -- hence the lack of charges, no less trials of any sort, anywhere in the imperium. It was to be an eternal holding operation for the purpose of information extraction." Impeach Bush Now! (impeachcentral.com)

On 10/8/03, Bush declared: "Iraq is free of rape rooms and torture chambers." As recently as 5/3/04, Bush declared: "Because we acted, torture rooms are closed, rape rooms no longer exist, mass graves are no longer a possibility in Iraq." Slate.com has the full list of Bush's torture chamber lies. Impeach Bush Now (ImpeachCentral.com)!

Is the NY Times coming out of its coma? From Bagram to Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib, the Times is connecting the prison torture dots - and drawing the conclusion that torture is not only illegal and immoral, but also a recruiting tool for Osama Bin Laden. "Despite its best efforts, the government has never been able to demonstrate any strong link between Iraq and Al Qaeda before the invasion. But since then, Iraqi prisoners have been treated like suspected terrorists. The abuses in Abu Ghraib and throughout the military detention system stain this country's reputation and play into Osama bin Laden's portrait of an evil America. The Bush administration has given a gift to Al Qaeda's worldwide recruitment efforts." Impeach Bush Now (ImpeachCentral.com)

"In late August and early September, 2003, a team from the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, visited Iraq to see whether it could help U.S. forces there obtain 'better information' [sic] from detainees. That team was overseen by Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller, commander at Guantanamo. Among its recommendations were that military police guards act as 'an enabler for interrogation,' Taguba's report found. But Taguba questioned whether Iraqi detainees should be treated similarly to Al Qaeda suspects in Guantanamo. 'There is a strong argument that the intelligence value of detainees held at [Guantanamo] is different than that of the detainees/internees held at Abu Ghraib and other detention facilities in Iraq,' he wrote." By creating secret off-shore torture chambers in Guantanamo, the Busheviks have corrupted the entire US military. And now Maj. Gen. Miller has been appointed to oversee prison conditions in Iraq! Impeach Bush Now!

"Iraqi nuclear facilities appear to be unguarded, and radioactive materials are being taken out of the country, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog reported after reviewing satellite images and equipment that has turned up in European scrapyards... The IAEA is waiting for a reply from the US, which is leading the coalition administering Iraq, officials said. The US has virtually cut off information-sharing with the IAEA since invading Iraq in March 2003 on the premise that the country was hiding WMD... According to ElBaradei's letter, satellite imagery shows 'extensive removal of equipment and in some instances, removal of entire buildings,' in Iraq. In addition, 'large quantities of scrap, some of it contaminated, have been transferred out of Iraq from sites' previously monitored by the IAEA. In January, the IAEA confirmed that Iraq was the likely source of radioactive material known as yellowcake that was found in a shipment of scrap metal at Rotterdam harbor." Impeach Bush Now!

David Corn was the journalist who first denounced Robert Novak's outing of Valerie Plame. Plame's husband Joseph Wilson now tells Corn, "I'm appalled that they haven't gotten to the bottom of it yet, and I have to conclude that the reason is because administration officials in the know are simply stonewalling. The president made it very clear in a public comment that he expected his senior officials to cooperate with the investigation because he wanted to get to the bottom of it. Now either the president was just not being serious when he made that statement, or else his senior staff is disobeying him, or else he doesn't have any authority over his senior staff. You take your pick." Impeach Bush Now!

John Bonifaz tells Buzzflash, "It would be very unfortunate for this country to go through a process by which it reelects a President without any consideration of whether he's committed impeachable offenses, only to then, assuming after that election, begin that process. This process ought to begin now. There ought to be scrutiny engaged by the U.S. Congress today on whether Bush has committed impeachable offenses... These are high crimes that the President has committed, and he ought to be impeached for that reason. And this investigation ought to deal with the question of those high crimes. Elections are for questioning whether or not there's popular support for the person in office or the person seeking office. But the impeachment process is for addressing the matter of high crimes. And it's critical now for this nation and for the integrity of the Constitution that we engage in that process."

Wall St. Journal reports, "The Pentagon acknowledged that in tandem with its secret planning for the Iraq war two years ago, it funded 21 military-related projects in the Mideast when the Bush administration had yet to seek a war resolution from Congress. The administration said in late summer 2002 that $178.4 million was spent on projects that could be justified [oh REALLY?] as part of the larger war against terrorism. The heaviest concentration of projects was in Kuwait, including a $24 million contract to build up an ammunition storage and supply system for an Army brigade, and $15 million for communications equipment at the Arifjan Base Camp. A $3 million detention facility for unspecified prisoners also was funded, together with almost $6.5 million for an inland petroleum-distribution system, including fuel trucks." How were these projects related to AFGHANISTAN? Impeach Bush Now!

Josh Marshall writes, "The more I read that passage (below) from this morning's gaggle, the more perplexed I become. Why couldn't Scott McClellan give a straight denial to any of the questions about whether Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar had pledged to President Bush that his country would lower gas prices in time for the November election?... I think such an arrangement or understanding is quite possible. Yet such agreements aren't written out on paper. And they should be easily deniable even if they are true -- especially with a White House that, from my experience, seldom gets hung up on such minor quibbles. So, again, why the evasion?" Hey Josh - McClellan's "answers" are classic Nixonian "non-denial denials" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-denial_denial) - in other words, there IS a deal, so that's why McClellan cannot issue a straightforward denial. Impeach Bush Now!

On CBS' Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer twice asked Condi Rice whether it was illegal for the Pentagon to shift $700 million out of funds appropriated by Congress for war in Afghanistan, to use to prepare for war in Iraq. She said Gen. Tommy Franks was "the CINC for CENTCOM, which means the Middle East, Afghanistan and so forth. And so if resources needed to be moved around in that region I would think that the general could do that... The secretary of Defense manages the appropriation that he is given from Congress. The secretary of Defense, I am quite certain, would propose to the president things that he believes are inside his purview--purview to do with the allocation that he gets from Congress." Congress authorized war in AFGHANISTAN, not IRAQ. Neither Bush nor Rumsfeld can start a second war with money approved for a first war. Impeach Bush Now!

On 60 Minutes "Woodward says immediately after [Bush ordered a new Iraq War plan on 11/21/01], Rumsfeld told Gen. Tommy Franks to develop a war plan to invade Iraq and remove Saddam - and that Rumsfeld gave Franks a blank check. 'Rumsfeld and Franks work out a deal essentially where Franks can spend any money he needs. And so he starts building runways and pipelines and doing all the preparations in Kuwait, specifically to make war possible,' says Woodward. 'Gets to a point where in the end of July 2002, they need $700 million, a large amount of money for all these tasks. And the president approves it. But Congress doesn't know and it is done. They get the money from a supplemental appropriation for the Afghan War, which Congress has approved. 'Some people are gonna look at a document called the Constitution which says that no money will be drawn from the treasury unless appropriated by Congress. Congress was totally in the dark on this.'" This is a HIGH CRIME - Impeach Bush NOW!

Bob Woodward's new book claims Bush ordered Rummy to draw up a new war plan for Iraq in 11/01, right in the midst of the Afghanistan war. Gen. Tommy Franks, who led the Afghan war, "uttered a string of obscenities when the Pentagon told him to come up with an Iraq war plan in the midst of fighting another conflict." But when asked about that 11/01 order, Bush first changed the subject to 9/01, then skipped ahead 1 full year. "I didn't really start focusing on Iraq until later on, particularly about the time I started going to the United Nations," which was on 9/12/02. Bush is lying - he and his neocon Vulcans planned to invade Iraq from Day 1 of their administration. Impeach Bush Now! (Listen to Bush's lie at http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgDate=16-Apr-2004&prgId=2)

At long last, a mainstream news outlet -- the Los Angeles Times -- has run a story on the flight of bin Laden family members right after the 9/11 attacks. Craig Unger, author of "House of Bush, House of Saud," attests that he has spoken to security guards on the flights and FBI agents who identified Saudi passengers boarding the flights. He also asserts that the FBI made no attempt to interview these relatives of the prime suspect in the attacks, and that the Saudis' departure from the U.S. was approved and expedited by the White House. Impeach Bush Now!

In response to Condi's testimony, Richard Clarke told Peter Jennings "[What] might have had some effect on 9/11 would have been if Dr. Rice and the president had acted personally, gotten involved, shaken the trees, gotten the Cabinet members involved when they had ample warning in June and July and August that something was about to happen... She admitted that she didn't convene the Cabinet... I asked for a meeting with the president several times beginning, in fact, before Dr. Rice even took office in the transition briefing. I said I have given this briefing to the vice president, I've given it to the secretary of state, I've given it now to you, I would like to give it to the president. And what I was told was I could brief the president on terrorism after the policy development process had been completed." In other words: LATER, MAN. Fire Condi - and Impeach Bush Now!

Bush "told America he wants a 'society in which people take responsibility for the decisions they make' instead of 'blaming somebody else.' Yet he still refuses to own up to specific decisions he and his Administration made before 9/11 to 'de-emphasize terrorism' as a priority, terminate a key program to track Al Qaeda suspects in the United States, and 'veto a request' to put more money into counterterrorism after the Bush White House tried to slash the FBI's counterterrorism budget. The Administration also refused to take responsibility for rejecting January 2001 recommendations from the U.S. Government's bipartisan Commission on National Security and instead waited five months to create a counterterrorism task force, which it then never once convened. When asked about this on CBS' Face the Nation, Secretary of State Colin Powell said only 'I-I-I can't answer the specific question'." Impeach Bush Now!

"A media firm working for Bush's re-election campaign has a share of the administration's publicly funded $12.6 million advertising effort touting the new Medicare law. National Media Inc. of Alexandria, Va., is purchasing $9.5 million worth of television advertising for a 30-second commercial that the administration intends to educate seniors about changes in Medicare such as the new prescription drug benefit... Emanuel said campaign media buyers typically are paid 10 to 15 percent of the cost of air time. But executives would not say how much the firm is being paid... National Media partners include Robin Roberts, the media buyer for Bush's 2000 campaign, and Alex Castellanos, who is well-known for creating sharp attack ads including the Republican Party commercial about Al Gore in 2000 that subtly flashed the word 'RATS' across the screen." Impeach Bush Now!

Condi "Rice has agreed to be interviewed by the bipartisan 9/11 commission on Feb. 7. [But Bob Kerrey] said that Ms. Rice's interview will not be held under oath, and the results of the interview are not to be made public... Mr. Kerrey, the commission's unlikely new spitfire, told The Observer he would lobby the commission to request sworn, public testimony from Bush's embittered national security advisor... The commissioners are divided on whether or not to press the point - and to use a subpoena if she refuses. 'We're not there yet,' said former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean, the committee's chairman.... House Speaker Dennis Hastert has insisted that the commission 'live within the current deadline,' which is the end of May. But significant numbers of Senate Republicans, Mr. Kerrey believes, 'have figured out that the best delay for them is a six-month delay, to get our report beyond the election.'" Impeach Bush Now!

An Iraqi exile group in London which claims to have supplied Britain with a key piece of intelligence on Iraqi weapons has admitted that the information might have been false... The claim that Saddam Hussein was able to deploy chemical or biological weapons within 45 minutes of the order being given was a headline-grabbing assertion in a British government dossier â?¦ Nick Theros the Washington representative of Iyad Allawi, who headed the Iraqi National Accord in exile and is now a member of the Iraqi governing council â?¦ said the information now seemed to be baseless, a 'crock of s**t.' 'Clearly we have not found WMD,'" he said. Why did Bush start a war based on a "crock of s**t"? Impeach Bush Now!

"The White House today denied it ever warned that Saddam Hussein posed an 'imminent' threat to the United States. It is already smarting from the failure so far to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. 'I think some in the media have chosen to use the word 'imminent'. Those were not words we used. We used 'grave and gathering' threat,' spokesman Scott McClellan said. But if US President George W. Bush never called Saddam's Iraq an 'imminent threat' in so many words, he said it was 'urgent'... On January 26, 2003, CNN television asked White House communications director Dan Bartlett 'is he (Saddam) an imminent threat to US interests, either in that part of the world or to Americans right here at home?' 'Well, of course he is,' Bartlett replied." Bush keeps lying and soldiers keep dying - Impeach Bush Now!

Janes.com: "Rumsfeld is considering plans to expand the global war on terrorism with multi-pronged attacks against suspected militant bases in countries such as Lebanon and Somalia. In a week in which Israel launched airstrikes against Hizbullah positions, our regional correspondent reports from Beirut. Sending US troops into lawless Somalia would not be new, nor is it likely to cause serious diplomatic waves... However, sending US special forces into Lebanon - and in particular an area like the Bekaa Valley... where the bulk of Damascus' military forces in Lebanon are deployed - would be an entirely different matter. Deployment of US forces in the area would almost certainly involve a confrontation with Syrian troops... The US administration has long considered Damascus as a prime candidate for 'regime-change'... Washington may feel that the time is coming to oust Bashir Al-Assad." Bush is behind in the polls - so it's time to WAG THE DOG with a NEW WAR! Impeach Bush Now!

Reports the Toronto Sun: "U.S. security agents have a master list of five million people worldwide thought to be potential terrorists or criminals, officials say. 'The U.S. lookout index contains some five million names of known terrorists and other persons representing a potential problem,' Brian Davis, a senior Canadian immigration official in Paris, said in a confidential document obtained by the Sun. Names on the list are compared against those applying for visas or on flights travelling to the U.S. Anyone whose name is on the list is questioned or banned from entering the U.S." Or locked up indefinitely. Or roughed up. Or sent abroad to be tortured. Or all of the above. Impeach Bush Now!

"A new $22 million system to allow soldiers and other Americans overseas to vote via the Internet is inherently insecure and should be abandoned, according to members of a panel of computer security experts asked by the government to review the program... The trojans, viruses and other attacks that complicate modern life and allow such crimes as online snooping and identity theft could enable hackers to disrupt or even alter the course of elections, the report concluded. Such attacks 'could have a devastating effect on public confidence in elections,' the report's authors wrote, and so 'the best course to take is not to field the SERVE system at all.' A spokesman for [Rumsfeld] said the critique overstated the importance of the security risks in online voting. 'The Department of Defense stands by the SERVE program,' Glenn Flood said. 'We feel it's right on, at this point, and we're going to use it.'" Here it comes - Stolen Election 2004. Impeach Bush Now!

As US deaths in Iraq pass 500, it is now clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that the reasons Bush gave for invading Iraq were all lies. If lying about sex is grounds for impeachment, then what about lying about war??? We believe the time has come to really demand IMPEACHMENT, so Democrats.com is helping to launch a nationwide grassroots impeachment campaign at ImpeachCentral.com. The site features a comprehensive impeachment kit to help you get to work. Our first challenge is to find one or more Representatives willing to introduce the Articles of Impeachment we have drafted. This will require local activists to join together to lobby their Representative. And there is no better tool for connecting with local activists in your area than Meetup. So sign up for the ImpeachBush meetup - the first meeting will be Monday January 26 at 7 pm local time. (Note: you must sign up by Thursday or your local Meetup may be cancelled.) Impeach Bush Now - we mean it!

The number of U.S. service members who have died in Iraq since Bush's war of LIES began last March reached 502 on Saturday after a roadside bomb detonated north of Baghdad, killing three U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi civil defense troopers. No WMD's have been found, and no ties to Al Qaeda. Bush has attended dozens of fundraisers and raised millions for his re-election campaign, but he has not attended a single funeral of a soldier he sent to die for LIES. Impeach Bush Now!

"Bush sidestepped Congress on Friday and installed Mississippi judge Charles Pickering to the federal appeals court after a two-year battle filled with racial, religious and regional argument. Bush elevated Pickering by recess appointment, simply putting him in office while Congress was out of session. Such appointments, bypassing confirmation, are valid until the next Congress takes office, in this case in January 2005. Bush's action will re-ignite the battle between Republicans and Democrats over the direction of the federal courts, a fight already sure to be intense this year because of the presidential election... He was being sworn in Jackson, Miss., Friday night. '[Bush's] recess appointment of this anti-civil rights judge the day after laying a wreath on the grave of Martin Luther King is an insult to Dr. King, an insult to every African-American, and an insult to all Americans who share Dr. King's great goals,' said Sen. Edward Kennedy." Impeach Bush Now!

AP: "Bush is declining to criticize former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill [he has Karl Rove's team of 'anonymous White House Officials' to do that for him], who claims in a new book that the White House planned to topple Saddam Hussein before Nine-Eleven. Bush says he inherited a policy of 'regime change' in Iraq from the Clinton administration and adopted it as his own. He says the administration was working out its policy when Nine-Eleven hit." Oh yes, when all else fails, blame Clinton. Hey, CIA operative Robert Baer said that Clinton wouldn't go along with his plan to covertly remove Hussein. When the NeoCon PNAC petitioned Clinton in 1998 with their plans to invade Iraq, Clinton told them to take a hike. But as soon as Bush seized office, he appointed many of these PNAC members to his administration -- such as Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz. PNAC members were advising Bush while on the campaign trail. Bush is a damned liar and a weasel! Impeach Bush Now!

"Asked about O'Neill's contention that the first National Security Council meeting of the Bush administration in January 2001 discussed ousting Saddam, Scott McClellan didn't deny that account." Instead, he invented a whole NEW lie: "Bush 'exhausted all possible means to resolve the situation in Iraq peacefully' before launching the invasion in March, McClellan said. Saddam defied a 'final opportunity to comply' with U.N. demands to disarm, prompting Bush to take action 'in the aftermath of Sept. 11th (because) it's important to confront threats before it's too late.'" Memo to DC press corps: Saddam complied with EVERY demand placed on him by the UN inspectors. He let them visit every presidential palace, turned over every document he could find by their deadline, and destroyed the only violation they found - short range missiles that flew too far. Impeach Bush Now!

Tallahassee Democrat editor Mike Pope describes how Condi told Tim Russert "I didn't remember" that the CIA said not to use the Niger Hoax. Condi "lectured Rep. Boyd - who served in Vietnam as an infantry officer - about the lesson of Vietnam. Rice seems pretty confident of her memory in this area, yet seems disturbingly aloof about her memory problems concerning the 2003 SOTU. This is the kind of willful deception that Sen. Bob Graham said was worthy of impeachment - if only we had a Congress that had the backbone to seriously examine the matter. By the standards set in the Clinton impeachment, Bush's crimes and misdemeanors are worthy of impeachment. Of course, getting testimony from folks as memory challenged as Rice might pose a problem. But... I think a Senate impeachment trial is warranted. Unfortunately, no member of the House of Representatives seems to be willing to risk the political capital necessary to file articles of impeachment." Why not? Impeach Bush Now!

Bush "began laying plans for an invasion of Iraq, including the use of American troops, within days of Bush's inauguration in January of 2001 - not eight months later after the 9/11 attacks as has been previously reported. That's what former Treasury Sec. Paul O'Neill says... on 60 Minutes, Sunday, Jan. 11 at 7 p.m. ET/PT. In the first three months of 2001, the administration was looking at military options for removing Saddam Hussein from power and planning for the aftermath of Saddam's downfall - including post-war contingencies like peacekeeping troops, war crimes tribunals and the future of Iraq's oil. 'There are memos,' Suskind tells Stahl, 'One of them marked 'secret' says 'Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq.'' A Pentagon document, says Suskind, titled 'Foreign Suitors For Iraqi Oilfield Contracts,' outlines areas of oil exploration. 'It talks about contractors around the world from...30, 40 countries and which ones have what intentions on oil in Iraq,' Suskind says." Impeach Bush Now!

"A longtime political activist was fined $500 yesterday after a judge found him guilty of entering a restricted area during a presidential visit. U.S. Magistrate Bristow Marchant did not give Brett Bursey, 55, any jail time, saying he considered the fact that Bursey had been protesting peacefully and was not engaged in any 'wantonly criminal' act. But Marchant defended the government's view of the importance of restricted areas for the president's safety. Bursey said he would appeal Marchant's verdict, hoping to force courts to recognize basic American principles such as the right of free speech... 'In this age of suicide bombers -- the Secret Service's concern with allowing unscreened persons to stand in such close proximity to a slow-moving vehicle carrying the President of the United States is not just understandable, but manifestly reasonable,' Marchant wrote in his ruling." So NO protests are allowed on any street where Bush's car passes? Impeach Bush Now!

The dust has yet to settle on MediFraud, the massive giveaway to drug companies that screws seniors, but gives Bush the photo op for campaign commercials claiming to have delivered a prescription drug benefit. Now comes ImmiFraud, another massive giveaway to big corporations that screws immigrant workers. Once again, Bush just wants a photo op with hispanics so he can claim to have championed their cause. Despite all the hoopla, there's one thing missing - an actual bill in Congress. Impeach Bush Now!

It was a very bad day for Bush: 9 U.S. soldiers died in a helicopter crash in Fallujah, and the highly-respected Carnegie Endowment for Peace concluded Bush LIED about Iraq's WMD. So who did big-time damage control for the Busheviks? Gen. Colin Powell, of course - the man whose entire career has been based on coverups, starting with the My Lai massacre. Powell defended his UN presentation as "solid and multisourced" - oh yeah, then WHERE ARE THE WEAPONS??? Powell indicated that he still held out hope that evidence of illegal weapons would be found in Iraq. "Let's let the Iraqi survey group complete its work," he said. "I'm confident of what I presented last year . . . This game is still unfolding." No Colin, the game is UP! You guys keep lying and soldiers keep dying. It's time to hold all of you accountable. Impeach Bush Now!

Barton Gellman writes, "Investigators have found no support for the two main fears expressed in London and Washington before the war: that Iraq had a hidden arsenal of old weapons and built advanced programs for new ones. In public statements and unauthorized interviews, investigators said they have discovered no work on former germ-warfare agents such as anthrax bacteria, and no work on a new designer pathogen -- combining pox virus and snake venom -- that led U.S. scientists on a highly classified hunt for several months. The investigators assess that Iraq did not, as charged in London and Washington, resume production of its most lethal nerve agent, VX, or learn to make it last longer in storage. And they have found the former nuclear weapons program, described as a 'grave and gathering danger' by Bush and a 'mortal threat' by Cheney, in much the same shattered state left by U.N. inspectors in the 1990s." Bush LIED - Impeach Bush Now!

Lawrence Korb writes: "Eight months after the Bush administration got us involved in a bloody war in Iraq, we are now told by one of Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's closest advisers that Iraq was a war of choice after all. According to Richard Haass, director of policy planning at the State Department until June 2003 and still the Bush administration's special envoy to Northern Ireland, the administration 'did not have to go to war against Iraq, certainly not when we did. There were other options." Really? This is not what the administration told us before the war and continues to tell us to this day." Impeach Bush Now!

"As Central Command chief [until 2000, Gen. Anthony] Zinni had been immersed in U.S. intelligence about Iraq. He was all too familiar with the intelligence analysts' doubts about Iraq's programs to acquire WMD. 'In my time at CENTCOM, I watched the intelligence, and never-not once-did it say, 'He has WMD." Though retired for nearly two years, Zinni says, he remained current on the intelligence through his consulting with the CIA and the military. 'I did consulting work for the agency, right up to the beginning of the war. I never saw anything. I'd say to analysts, 'Where's the threat?" Their response, he recalls, was silence. As he walked off the stage in Nashville [in 8-02], Zinni concluded that the Bush administration was determined to go to war. A moment later, he had another, equally chilling thought: 'These guys don't understand what they are getting into.'... 'I think the American people were conned into this,' he said." Impeach Bush Now!

PentaPost reports, "To the Pentagon, stop-loss orders are a finger in the dike -- a tool to halt the hemorrhage of personnel, and maximize cohesion and experience, for units in the field in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Through a series of stop-loss orders, the Army alone has blocked the possible retirements and departures of more than 40,000 soldiers, about 16,000 of them National Guard and reserve members who were eligible to leave the service this year... Some [soldiers] are resigned to fulfilling what they consider their patriotic duty. Others are livid, insisting they have fallen victim to a policy that amounts to an unannounced, unheralded draft. 'I'm furious. I'm aggravated. I feel violated. I feel used,' said Chief Warrant Officer Ronald Eagle, 42... Other soldiers retained by the Army under stop-loss are more resigned than irate, but no less demoralized by what some have come to regard as their involuntary servitude." Bush treats soldiers as slaves - Impeach Bush Now!

"Children across the country are being cut off from doctors because cash-strapped states are rolling back health insurance for the working poor, a four-month investigation by Gannett News Service has found. 22 states have restricted children's health insurance programs over the past 18 months, and more cuts are possible in 2004 as states face another round of daunting budget deficits... About 270,000 children of low-income, working parents have been barred from health insurance programs in the nine states where estimates are available. Texas and Florida lead the country in the number of low-income children shut out of state health insurance programs. Changes to state children's health insurance programs are expected to hurt immigrant children, especially Hispanics. Hispanic children comprise an estimated 17.7% of all U.S. children but represent approximately 37% of all uninsured children... 'We will certainly have sicker kids because of this,' said Leighton Ku." Impeach Bush Now!

How else can this mumbo-jumbo be summarized? "After reviewing [how the Niger lie was included in the SOTU] for several MONTHS [!!!], the Residen'ts Foreign Intelligence Board -- chaired by [BushDaddy] national security adviser Brent Scowcroft -- has determined that there was 'no deliberate effort to fabricate' a story, the source said. Instead, the source said, the board believes the White House was so anxious 'to grab onto something affirmative' about Hussein's nuclear ambitions that it disregarded warnings from the intelligence community that the claim was questionable." As Bush would say, What's The Difference? Impeach Bush Now!

American Prospect "has learned that part of a secret $3 billion in new funds-tucked away in the $87 billion Iraq appropriation that Congress approved in early November-will go toward the creation of a paramilitary unit manned by militiamen associated with former Iraqi exile groups. Experts say it could lead to a wave of extrajudicial killings, not only of armed rebels but of nationalists, other opponents of the U.S. occupation and thousands of civilian Baathists-up to 120,000 of the estimated 2.5 million former Baath Party members in Iraq... The plan is part of a last-ditch effort to win the war before time runs out politically. Driving the effort are U.S. neoconservatives and their allies in the Pentagon and Dick Cheney's office, who are clearly worried about America's inability to put down the Iraqi insurgency with time to spare before November... The covert money will support U.S. efforts to create a lethal, and revenge-minded, Iraqi security force." Impeach Bush NOW!

Minneapolis Star-Tribune opines, "On CNN's 'Late Edition,' Wolf Blitzer pushed Card fairly hard on the war in Iraq -- not so much on how it's going, but on why it happened. At one point, after broaching the issue of the phantom weapons of mass destruction, Blitzer asked, 'Was U.S. intelligence going into the war faulty?' Card answered: 'Well, intelligence... I think that's a moot point.' Such an innocuous phrase, 'moot point,' but it is breathtaking in its significance and damnably outrageous of Card to use it... This was an intelligence failure of immense proportions and consequences. The American people were misled into war. That failure hardly qualifies as a 'moot point.' The price paid so far, and to be paid for who knows how long into the future, is just too horrific." Impeach Bush Now!

AWOL Bush's Chief of Staff Andy Card is demanding that decorated Vietnam Vet John Kerry apologize for saying "Did I expect George Bush to f--- it [the Iraq War] up as badly as he did? I don't think anybody did." But why should Kerry apologize for using the "f" word, when AWOL Bush himself told visiting Senators in March 2002, "F**k Saddam, we're taking him out." (http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/from_covers/0,10987,1101030331-435968,00.html) This was 6 months before Bush went before the UN and Congress promising to exhaust every diplomatic remedy for eliminating Saddam's [non-existent] WMD's. And when will Bush apologize for LYING to the American people about those WMD's, and the resulting loss of thousands of lives? Impeach Bush Now!

"As the guerrilla war against Iraqi insurgents intensifies, American soldiers have begun wrapping entire villages in barbed wire. In selective cases, American soldiers are demolishing buildings thought to be used by Iraqi attackers. They have begun imprisoning the relatives of suspected guerrillas, in hopes of pressing the insurgents to turn themselves in. The Americans embarked on their get-tough strategy in early November, goaded by what proved to be the deadliest month yet for American forces in Iraq, with 81 soldiers killed by hostile fire. The response they chose is beginning to echo the Israeli counterinsurgency campaign in the occupied territories... an Iraqi man named Tariq muttered in anger. 'I see no difference between us and the Palestinians,' he said. 'We didn't expect anything like this after Saddam fell.'" Is this the "freedom" that Bush (now) says he invaded Iraq for? Impeach Bush Now!

Joanne Mariner writes, "Here are some numbers to consider: 14 million, 35.9 billion, and 1. The first is an estimate of the number of people who will die of AIDS and other treatable diseases over the course of the coming year, most of them in the poor countries of the developing world. The second figure represents the combined 2002 profits, in dollars, of the 10 biggest pharmaceutical companies listed in Fortune magazine's annual review of America's largest businesses. The third figure corresponds to the number of countries that, last week, voted against a U.N. resolution on access to drugs in global epidemics such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The resolution emphasized that the failure to deliver life-saving drugs to millions of people who are living with HIV/AIDS constitutes a global health emergency. One hundred sixty seven countries voted in favor of the resolution. The single vote against it was cast by the United States." Impeach Bush Now!

Cheryl Seal reports, "On 11/17 'Space News International' revealed that NASA [in cahoots with the Pentagon] is reviving the X-37 space 'plane,' which it will now send into orbit for 270 days. This trial period was 'originally set by the US Air Force as a way to begin proving the feasibility of orbiting Earth with camera- and bomb-laden space planes for months at a time' and as part of 'a proposed space warfare strategy of global strike' that has been pushed hard since Bush took office. This scheme, a colossally arrogant, power-drunk bid for total global dominance, will create a fleet of unpiloted space planes that will circle the planet with bombs and spy cameras. These monsters would carry smaller 'reenetry vehicles' that carry up to 10 500-pound bombs each. 'Targets would be struck quickly nearly anywhere around the globe without having to position aircraft to forward positions,' reports SNI." Have you had enough, America? Impeach Bush Now!

In TN, "One Ku Klux Klansman accidentally shot another participant at the initiation of a new member - then ran from the incident. Chief Deputy Patrick Littleton says about ten people were at the K-K-K initiation - two of them children. They had the initiate blindfolded and standing on tiptoes with his neck in a noose as they shot paintballs at him. This, in a woods near Limestone. Littleton says 45-year-old Gregory Allen Freeman started firing his nine millimeter pistol into the air to add realism to the event and one of the slugs hit Jeffrey Murr as it came down again. The bullet struck the top of Murr's head and came out near the base of his skull... Freeman is free on bond, charged with aggravated assault and felony reckless endangerment." What a PERFECT metaphor for Bush! Driven by right-wing ideology, he fires bullets randomly into Iraq, which land randomly on the heads of American bystanders, leaving America critically wounded. Impeach Bush Now!

Tom Engelhardt writes, "More than two years after the World Trade Center towers came down and the President declared his 'war on terrorism,' it seems reasonable to offer a little scorecard on the 'war(s)' of choice for this administration... First and foremost, of course, was Osama bin Laden (still free); then the man who reputedly kept him safe, Mullah Omar, head of the vile Taliban (still free); add in the man/men or woman/women who sent anthrax through the mail along with letters implying that it came from some anti-Israeli Arab cell in the United States, though it now seems certain that he/they were actually human fallout from our own Cold War weapons labs (still free, still nameless); finally, Saddam Hussein, fingered by the administration as the most dangerous potential terrorist of all, linked by them to al-Qaeda and proclaimed ready to turn over to any terrorist in sight a massive trove of weapons of mass destruction (still free)." Impeach Bush Now!

"George Bush has brought the international treaty aimed at repairing the Earth's vital ozone layer close to breakdown, risking millions of cancers, to benefit strawberry and tomato growers in the electorally critical state of Florida. His administration is insisting on a sharp increase in spraying of the most dangerous ozone-destroying chemical still in use, the pesticide methyl bromide, even though it is due to be phased out under the Montreal Protocol in little more than a year. And it has threatened that the United States could withdraw from the treaty's provisions altogether if its demand is not met. Talks on the unprecedented demand broke down without agreement at the conference in Nairobi this month as US delegates refused to consider any compromise... [This] comes at a critical time for the ozone layer. Scientists had hoped that it would be beginning to heal by now, but this autumn the ozone hole over Antarctica was at near-record levels." Impeach Bush Now!

The FBI "has collected extensive information on the tactics, training and organization of antiwar demonstrators and has advised local law enforcement officials to report any suspicious activity at protests to its counterterrorism squads, according to interviews and a confidential bureau memorandum... Civil rights advocates and legal scholars said the monitoring program could signal a return to the abuses of the 1960's and 1970's, when J. Edgar Hoover was the F.B.I. director and agents routinely spied on political protesters like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr... [Advocates] have complained for months that federal officials have surreptitiously sought to suppress the First Amendment rights of antiwar demonstrators... The F.B.I. memorandum, however, appears to offer the first corroboration of a coordinated, nationwide effort to collect intelligence regarding demonstrations." Impeach Bush Now!

A Retro Poll found that 40% of Americans believe Bush should be impeached for lying about Iraq. "Currently 47% of those polled know that Saddam's Iraq had no connection to the 9/11 attacks, up from 36% in a Retro Poll last April. Of that 47% who are now clear on this fact, 52% favored impeachment. Even more dramatic was the strength of support for impeachment among those who know that the Al Qaeda-Saddam connection was also a media-government fabrication, based on little evidence. Of the still small 32% who know that Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda were never partners a whopping 73% favor impeachment and 78% think the U.S. should not have invaded Iraq." Impeach Bush Now!

"Relatives have said Army Specialist Greg Lynch Jr. is being deployed to Iraq as part of United States forces in the ongoing operation to restore stability to that region... Lynch acted as a family spokesman to the national media after his sister was rescued April 1 by U.S. forces from an Iraqi hospital in the city of Nasiriyah. He also introduced her before the national media at her return to Wirt County in July and rode with her, in uniform, in a parade through Elizabeth during the homecoming celebration." When Jessica was BushFeld's poster girl, the Pentagon needed Greg at home. But now that Jessica has exposed BushFeld's lies, Greg is getting the Valerie Plame treatment. Impeach Bush Now!

NY Times: "The commission investigating the Sept. 11 terror attacks said on Thursday that its deal with the White House for access to highly classified Oval Office intelligence reports would let the White House edit the documents before they were released to the commission's representatives. The agreement has led to the first public split on the commission. Two Democrats on the 10-member panel say that the commission should have demanded full access to the intelligence summaries... An umbrella group of victims' families joined the criticism, saying the terms of the accord should be public... A Democrat on the panel who has criticized the accord, former Representative Timothy J. Roemer of Indiana, said in an interview that he believed that the panel had agreed to terms that would let the White House edit the reports to remove the contexts in which the intelligence was presented and to hide any 'smoking guns.'" This is unbelievable! IMPEACH BUSH NOW!

Sid Blumenthal writes, "Abu Mazen... desperately required US pressure on the Sharon government to make concessions on building settlements on the West Bank. Abu Mazen sent a secret emissary to the White House [who] met [NeoCon] Elliot Abrams and laid out what support was needed from Bush if Abu Mazen - and therefore the road map - were to survive. Abrams told him, he says, that Bush 'could not agree to anything' due to domestic political considerations: Bush's reliance on the religious right, his refusal to offend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the demands of the upcoming election. Shikaki pleaded that Abu Mazen presented 'a window of opportunity' and could not go on without US help. 'He has to show he's capable of doing it himself,' Abrams answered dismissively. Inside the NSC, those in favour of the road map - CIA analysts Flynt Leverett and Ben Miller among others - were forced out. On September 6, Abu Mazen resigned, and the road map collapsed." Impeach Bush Now!

At the very same time as the Busheviks are broadcasting Saddam torture videos to build support for their catastrophic occupation, they are BETRAYING American soldiers who were among Saddam's torture victims. "The Bush administration is seeking to block a group of American troops who were tortured in Iraqi prisons during the Persian Gulf war in 1991 from collecting any of the hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen Iraqi assets they won last summer in a federal court ruling against the government of Saddam Hussein." "I've always tried to keep in the back of my mind that we were never going to see any of the money," said Colonel Storr, who was held by the Iraqis for 33 days - a period in which he says his captors beat him with clubs, broke his nose, urinated on him and threatened to cut off his fingers if he did not disclose military secrets. "But it goes beyond frustration when I see our government trying to pretend that this whole case never happened." Had enough? Impeach Bush Now!

WashPost: "The Bush White House, irritated by pesky questions from congressional Democrats about how the administration is using taxpayer money, has developed an efficient solution: It will not entertain any more questions from opposition lawmakers. The decision was announced in an e-mail sent Wednesday to the staff of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. House committee Dems had just asked for info about how much the White House spent making and installing the 'Mission Accomplished' banner for Resident Bush's May 1 speech... 'It's saying we're not going to allow the opposition party to ask questions about the way we use tax money,' said [one Dem staffer]. 'As far as I know, this is without modern precedent.' Norman Ornstein, [of] the American Enterprise Institute, agreed. 'I have not heard of anything like that happening before,' he said. 'This is obviously an excuse to avoid providing information about some of the things the Democrats are asking for.'" IMPEACH BUSH NOW!

Boston Globe reports, "Despite Bush's repeated pledges of full cooperation, administration officials yesterday refused to rule out invoking executive privilege to shield some documents from Justice Department investigators looking into whether someone in the White House illegally leaked the name of a CIA operative. Democrats who have complained that the investigation should be handled by a special counsel instead of the Justice Department because of its connections to the White House said the prospect of executive privilege being used shows that more independence is needed. 'Asserting executive privilege would make a farce of the investigation,' said Senator Edward M. Kennedy. 'That's why we need a special prosecutor, so that we can challenge any coverup.' The very words 'executive privilege' evoke memories of scandal-plagued presidents trying to use the power of their office to hide from public view politically damaging information.'" Impeach Bush Now!

"A possible negotiated peace deal was laid out in a heavily guarded compound in Baghdad in the days before the war, ABCNEWS has been told, but [Richard Perle] says he was ordered not to pursue the deal. [Imad Hage], a prominent Lebanese-American businessman said he secretly met with Iraqi intelligence officials just days after Colin Powell laid out the U.S. case for war at the UN in February... Hage says he met with Saddam Hussein's chief of intelligence, Gen. Tahir Habbush, [who] laid out terms of a negotiated peace during a four-hour session... Habbush repeated public denials by the regime that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction but offered to allow several thousand U.S. agents or scientists free rein in the country to carry out inspections... [He] also offered U.N.-supervised free elections, oil concessions to U.S. companies and was prepared to turn over a top al Qaeda terrorist, Abdul Rahman Yasin." Perle says the CIA rejected the offer. WHY??? Impeach Bush Now!

"The U.S. Senate passed controversial legislation allowing the thinning of forests across the West, and another debate erupted over whether dire warnings about a bark beetle infestation were ignored in Washington. In April, Gov. Gray Davis requested $430 million to remove unhealthy trees on 415, 000 acres of forest, but the request for emergency funds went unanswered until last week - and then was denied... Sen. Barbara Boxer, speaking in the Senate during Thursday's debate on the 'Healthy Forests' bill, complained that Bush had failed to act on the state's request for help and that now Californians were suffering. 'We named three of the four counties that are up in smoke, and we begged him to declare a disaster, we begged him,' Boxer said before the bill passed 80-14. 'We saw this coming a mile away.'" Impeach Bush Now!

"The White House has edited its website to keep search engines from archiving pages on Iraq [by adding] virtually all of the directories with 'Iraq' in them to its robots.txt file, meaning that search engines [like Google] would no longer list those pages in results or archive them. Why would the White House do this? Those pages are still public, and the White House search engine itself does index those pages, so users can still get to them. It's easy enough to understand the reasoning if you look at past White House actions. Earlier this year, the White House revised pages on its website claiming that 'combat' was over in Iraq, changing them to say 'major combat.' One of the reasons some alert readers noticed the change - and were able to prove it - was that Google had archived the pages before the change occurred. Now that all of the White House pages about Iraq are no longer archived by Google, such historical revisionism will be harder to catch." Impeach Bush Now!

"The Center for American Progress released a new one-page backgrounder today on how U.S. troops have been repeatedly misled by the Bush Administration on everything from medical care to deployment times to salaries. A few highlights: While Bush said on 1/3/03, 'I want to make sure that our soldiers have the best possible pay,' the Army Times reported on 6/30/03, 'The Bush administration announced that on Oct. 1 it wants to roll back recent modest increases in monthly imminent-danger pay (from $225 to $150) and family-separation allowance (from $250 to $100) for troops getting shot at in combat zones.' Bush visited troops wounded in Afghanistan at Walter Reed Army hospital on 1/17/03 saying, 'We should and must provide the best care for anybody who is willing to put their life in harm's way.' He made these comments the same day his Administration announced it was cutting off access to its health care system for approximately 164,000 veterans (WP, 1/17/03).'" Impeach Bush Now!

"Car bombers struck the international Red Cross headquarters and three police stations across Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 35 people and injuring more than 200 in a spree of destruction that terrorized the Iraqi capital on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The string of bombings, all within less than an hour, was the bloodiest attack yet in the city of 5 million by insurgents targeting the American-led occupation and those perceived as working with it. It also appeared like a dramatic escalation in tactics - in past weeks, bombers have carried out heavy suicide bombings, but in single strikes." Coordinated bombings on significant dates are the trademark of Al Qaeda. Is this the attack Osama promised in his last video? Is Iraq - which had NO Al Qaeda presence before the US invasion - now a breeding ground for Al Qaeda? Impeach Bush Now!

If you want to know how stupid the Busheviks think we are, here's all the proof you need. It has been one week since Bush DEMANDED that Congress provide grants - NOT LOANS - to Iraq. But today, the Busheviks are claiming a huge victory in Madrid upon receipt of promises of $10 billion in LOANS. What a pathetic joke. Impeach Bush Now!

Two Ashcroft employees, "U.S. Attorney Patrick L. Meehan and FBI Special Agent Jeffrey Lampinski said federal authorities never intended for the bug to be discovered weeks before a close election. 'Certainly nobody wanted to have any negative impact on the election,' Meehan said in the lobby of the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel, where he was attending a national law enforcement conference. 'No one regrets more so than the investigators on this case that this device was uncovered in the midst of an election,' Lampinski added. The officials said charges were not imminent. 'This began substantially well before the election cycle and will... be ongoing long after the election,' Lampinski said. Since the discovery of the listening device by city police on Oct. 7, Street and other Democrats have voiced suspicion that the investigation is politically motivated and is designed to influence the outcome of the election on Nov. 4." Ashcroft was caught red-handed - Impeach Bush Now!

"Expressing a confidence that goes well beyond the projections of many economists, Treasury Sec. John W. Snow[Job] has predicted that the American economy will add two million new jobs before next year's elections. In an interview with The Times of London on Monday, Mr. Snow predicted that the economy would grow at an annual rate of nearly 4% over the next year and add about 200,000 jobs a month. 'I would stake my reputation on employment growth happening before Christmas,' Mr. Snow said." ROTFL! Which of his reputations is he staking - the fool, the hypocrite, or the liar? According to the NY Times, "Mr. Snow went well beyond the general cheerfulness that Bush and administration officials have repeated for some time." WRONG! Bush's Council of Economic Advisers on 2/4/03 predicted 5.5 million jobs by the end of 2004 -344,000 new jobs each month, starting in July 2003 (jobwatch.org). There he lies again - Impeach Bush Now!

"From the start, the government's case against Moussaoui was utterly circumstantial, and the connection between the hijackers and him was mainly inferred from their similar profiles. In fact, sources tell Time, the FBI has long believed that Moussaoui played no part in the 9/11 scheme and was only a minor player in al-Qaeda. Still, the Justice Department's December 2001 indictment laid out in chilling detail the 19 hijackers' activities in the months leading up to Sept. 11, alongside Moussaoui's doings over a similar time frame. Their tracks were roughly parallel, but direct contact between Moussaoui and the 19 was never alleged. The government charged him with being guilty, like them, of conspiring to commit terrorist acts, to destroy aircraft and to murder federal workers, and related offenses, 'with the result that thousands of people died on Sept. 11, 2001.'" Meanwhile several named hijackers are alive and well in the Middle East. Impeach Bush Now!

NY Times reports, "A yearlong State Department study predicted many of the problems that have plagued the American-led occupation of Iraq, according to internal State Department documents and interviews with administration and Congressional officials... Several officials said that many of the findings in the $5 million study were ignored by Pentagon officials until recently... The man overseeing the planning, Tom Warrick, a State Department official, so impressed aides to Jay Garner, a retired Army lieutenant general heading the military's reconstruction office, that they recruited Mr. Warrick to join their team... But top Pentagon officials blocked Mr. Warrick's appointment, and much of the project's work was shelved." Who blocked Warrick? Rumsfeld's Neocons of course - Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, etc. Amazingly, not ONE of these officials has been fired for their gross incompetence - or their manufacture of never-ending LIES to justify W-ar. Impeach Bush Now!

NY Times reports: "A yearlong State Department study predicted many of the problems that have plagued the American-led occupation of Iraq, according to internal State Department documents and interviews with administration and Congressional officials. Beginning in April 2002, the State Department project assembled more than 200 Iraqi lawyers, engineers, business people and other experts into 17 working groups to study topics ranging from creating a new justice system to reorganizing the military to revamping the economy. Their findings included a much more dire assessment of Iraq's dilapidated electrical and water systems than many Pentagon officials assumed. They warned of a society so brutalized by Saddam Hussein's rule that many Iraqis might react coolly to Americans' notion of quickly rebuilding civil society." Impeach Bush NOW!

"A suspicious sample of biological material recently found by U.S. weapons hunters in Iraq probably was purchased legally from a U.S. organization in the 1980s and is a substance that has never been successfully used to produce a weapon, experts said. The discovery of the hidden vial of C. botulinum Okra B, which was revealed in an Oct. 2 interim report by chief U.S. weapons hunter David Kay, was highlighted in speeches by Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin L. Powell and other senior administration officials as proof that Saddam Hussein's government maintained an illicit bio-weapons program before the war. The significance of the vial is one of several elements of Kay's report that are being called into question by U.S. biowarfare experts and former United Nations weapons inspectors... The vial of botulinum B - about 2 inches high and half an inch wide - was the only suspicious biological material Kay reported finding." Bush lied AGAIN - Impeach Bush Now!

"The Defense Department sold equipment to the public that can be used for making biological warfare agents, according to a draft report by the General Accounting Office. The Defense Department agency responsible for the sale of excess property to the public, the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, halted the sale of such items September 19 while the practice is reviewed. 'Many items needed to establish a laboratory for making biological warfare agents were being sold on the Internet to the public from DoD's excess property inventory for pennies on the dollar, making them both easy and economical to obtain,' the GAO draft report said." Are you safer than you were 3 years ago? Impeach Bush Now!

Heading into election 2004, Bush's biggest problem is the daily body count of American soldiers killed and wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. BushRove tried to foist off occupation duties to the "Coalition of the Willing," but these tiny nations - led by such powerhouses as Moldova - have no troops. So then they tried to coerce the UN - but France, Germany, and Russia told Bush to piss off. Bush will NOT accelerate the transition to democracy, because he doesn't trust double-crossing Chalabi. So with US troops stuck in Iraq-istan, BushRove's only choice is predictable - to "scrub" the deaths of US soldiers from the headlines, so Americans don't know. The NY Times reports that Condi Rice will take personal control of both occupations, and here's the bottom line: "Anna Perez, Ms. Rice's communications director, will focus on a coordinated media message - a response to concerns about the daily reports of attacks on American troops and lawlessness in the streets." Impeach Bush Now!

"Shortly after the war began in March, the administration... said that Iraq would 'not require sustained aid' because of its abundant resources, including oil and natural gas. On March 27, Paul Wolfowitz told [Congress] 'The oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 billion and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years.' Testifying in the Senate that same day, Mr. Rumsfeld emphasized that 'when it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayers we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi government.'... [But Paul] Bremer, in his remarks to legislators two weeks ago, said that for the next two years, whatever revenue was reaped from oil production would not exceed the cost of Iraq's day-to-day operating expenses. In 2005, he said, there would be a surplus of only $4 million to $5 million." The Busheviks lied by $50-$100 BILLION - Impeach Bush Now!

"Four months after the Security Council ordered an independent board to monitor U.S. spending of Iraq's oil revenues, diplomats on Thursday accused the United States of blocking it from taking up its duties... They said the disagreement reflected a U.S. desire to keep Iraqi reconstruction exclusively in American hands... In Washington, administration officials said they were eager for the board to be set up and begin its work but wanted its role confined essentially to bookkeeping. 'By getting more people involved, you are going to have a lot of quibbling over how the money is spent,' one U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. 'We are on the ground, we know what the needs are, and we are committed to ensuring the money is spent appropriately and in a transparent fashion,' the official said." Independent oversight is Quibbling? 'Trust us, we'll keep it transparent'? Impeach Bush Now!

"The Bush administration is seeking more than $600 million from Congress to continue the hunt for conclusive evidence that Saddam Hussein's government had an illegal weapons program, officials said Wednesday. The money, part of the White House's request for $87 billion in supplemental spending on Iraq and Afghanistan, comes on top of at least $300 million that has already been spent on the weapons search, the officials said... While the [earlier] Exploitation Task Force worked out of an abandoned palace and the servants' housing quarters near Baghdad airport and remained short of vehicles, air support, computers and even electricity during the initial months of the weapons hunt, the [new] Iraq Survey Group spent its first weeks installing air-conditioned trailers, a new dining facility, state-of-the-art software and even a sprinkler system for a new lawn." We demand an end to the Iraq WMD charade - cut all funds and impeach Bush now!

Iraq WMD hunter David Kay has come up empty - COMPLETELY empty. But when he testifies before Congress next week will he tell the truth - the whole truth - and nothing but they truth? Fuggeddaboutit. Kay, who is in Washington this week finishing the document, is "still gathering information from the field," the CIA's chief spokesman, Bill Harlow, said yesterday. "Don't expect any firm conclusions. He will not rule in or rule out anything." Last month, after testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Kay told reporters that his team had "found some physical evidence." He added: "I think it's very likely that we will discover remarkable surprises in this enterprise." There is only one "remarkable surprise" - Bush LIED to the American people and the world. Impeach Bush Now!

Mother Jones offers "a sampling of some of the administration's hemming and hawing on the costs of war, occupation and reconstruction: Last September, White House economic advisor Lawrence Lindsey let slip that a war in Iraq might cost anywhere between $100 billion and $200 billion. The White House rushed to downplay his comments. Two days later, the White House budget boss, Mitch Daniels, dismissed Lindsey's prediction as 'very, very high', and three months after that, Lindsey was out of a job. It was the last time, until Sept 7, that any White House official offered a hard estimate of the war's ultimate cost... At a press conference in October 2002, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer claimed that the president had 'made no decisions' whether to go to war and therefore had no idea how much a war might cost. But, he quipped, the price of removing Saddam Hussein could be as low as '[t]he cost of one bullet, if the Iraqi people take it on themselves.'" Impeach Bush Now!

"Bush said Wednesday that there was no evidence that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, disputing an impression that critics say the administration tried to foster to justify the war against Iraq... The resident's comment was the administration's firmest assertion that there was no proven link between Saddam and Sept. 11. It came after Vice President Dick Cheney clouded the issue Sunday by saying, 'It's not surprising people make that connection.' Speaking on NBC's 'Meet the Press,' Cheney also repeated an allegation, doubted by many in the intelligence community, that Mohamed Atta, the lead Sept. 11 attacker, met with a senior Iraqi intelligence official in Prague in the Czech Republic five months before Sept. 11, 2001... Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday, 'I've not seen any indication that would lead me to believe that I could say that.'" The Bush gang lied and misled the public into War -- Impeach Bush Now!

William Bunch writes, "No event in recent history has been written about, talked about, or watched and rewatched as much as the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 - two years ago today... [This] was a seminal event for an information-soaked media age of Internet access and 24- hour news. So, why after 730 days do we know so little about what really happened that day? No one knows where the alleged mastermind of the attack is, and none of his accomplices has been convicted of any crime. We're not even sure if the 19 people identified by the U.S. government as the suicide hijackers are really the right guys. Who put deadly anthrax in the mail? Where were the jet fighters that were supposed to protect America's skies that morning? And what was the role of our supposed allies Saudi Arabia and Pakistan? There are dozens of unanswered questions about the 2001 attacks, but we've narrowed them down to 20 - or 9 plus 11." Why hasn't Bush answered ANY of them? Impeach Bush Now!

"U.S. intelligence agencies warned Bush administration policymakers before the war in Iraq that there would be significant armed opposition to a U.S.-led occupation, according to administration and congressional sources familiar with the reports.... Among the threats outlined in the intelligence agencies' reporting was that 'Iraqis probably would resort to obstruction, resistance and armed opposition if they perceived attempts to keep them dependent on the U.S. and the West,' one senior congressional aide said. The general tenor of the reports...was that the postwar period would be more 'problematic' than the war to overthrow Hussein.... [This] more pessimistic view generally remained submerged [within the administration], but the controversy did occasionally break into the open, most notably when Gen. Shinseki told Congress in February that several hundred thousand occupation troops would be needed. Paul Wolfowitz rejected his estimate at the time as 'wildly off the mark.'"

AP reports, "No weapons of mass destruction have turned up in Iraq, nor has any solid new evidence for them turned up in Washington or London. But what about Baghdad's patchy bookkeeping - the gaps that led U.N. inspectors to list Iraqi nerve agents and bioweapons material as unaccounted for? Ex-inspectors now say, five months after the U.S. invasion, that the 'unaccountables' may have been no more than paperwork glitches left behind when Iraq destroyed banned chemical and biological weapons years ago... Chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix, as he left his post this summer, became more open in discussing discrepancies. After the mid-1990s, 'hardly ever did (inspectors) find hidden weapons,' Blix reminded one audience. 'What they found was bad accounting. 'It could be true they (Iraq) did destroy unilaterally in 1991 what they hid.'" Bush - and the corporate media - knew this was true ALL ALONG. Bush lied and thousands died - and more die Americans and Iraqis every day. Impeach Bush Now!

Before Bush invaded Iraq on 3-19-03, there was NO terrorism against Americans (or anyone else) coming from Iraq - none, nada, zippo, zilch. Now, 6 months after Bush's invasion, Iraq-based terrorism has become so serious that Bush told the world on 9-7-03 that "Iraq is the CENTRAL FRONT." Bush sacrificed nearly 300 American lives, over 30,000 Iraqi lives, countless wounded, and $160+++ of OUR tax dollars - and turned Iraq into the WORLD CENTER OF TERRORISM! Of all the countless horrible things Bush has done in 3 years, this must rank as the worst. It's time to Impeach Bush Now! (http://democrats.com/impeach).

"Inspector General Nikki Tinsley, the EPA's top watchdog, reported that in the crucial days after 9/11, the White House changed EPA press releases to 'add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones.' - Sept. 13: The EPA draft release - never released to the public - said: EPA 'testing terrorized sites for environmental hazards.' The White House changed that to EPA 'reassures public about environmental hazards.' - Sept. 16: The EPA draft said: 'Recent samples of dust ... on Water St. show higher levels of asbestos.' The White House version: 'New samples confirm ... ambient air quality meets OSHA [government] standards' ... and 'is not a cause for public concern.' And the White House left out entirely the warning 'that air samples raise concerns for cleanup workers and office workers near Water St.' Why all these changes? Tinsley said, 'We were told that a desire to reopen Wall St. and national security concerns were the reasons for changing the press releases.'" Impeach Bush Now!

Byron York of the right-wing National Review writes, "While FBI agents looked into bin Laden family members... immediately after September 11, it appears that the agents' first chance to interview them... came on the day they left the U.S. Each family member was given the all-clear on the basis of a single, day-of-departure interview - conducted, in [the FBI's] words, 'at the airport, as they were about to leave.'... But some law-enforcement experts found the abbreviated investigation [bushit]. 'That's highly unusual, and they could not have done a thorough and complete interview,' said John L. Martin. 'It was obvious at the time that the Bureau did not have the kind of intelligence to know who was behind [the September 11 attacks], how they were financed, and what the U.S. connections might have been.'" Who let the Saudis escape without a thorough investigation? GEORGE W BUSH. Impeach Bush Now!

In the months leading up to the Iraq W-ar, Bush insisted he had NOT decided to conquer Iraq. Rather, he insisted W-ar could be avoided if Saddam "disarmed." But according to a secret report from the Pentagon, on Aug. 29, 2002, Mr. Bush "approves Iraq goals, objectives and strategy." " That was eight months before the first bomb was dropped and six months before he asked the U.N. Security Council for a war mandate that he never received." Three months earlier (late May), the Pentagon began a series of war exercises called "Prominent Hammer" to judge whether the force could win in Iraq and still maintain a deterrent in other theaters, such as South Korea. This confirms the explosive expose by Time - ignored by the rest of the media - that Bush told Senators in March 2002 "F*ck Saddam. We're taking him out." Thus, Bush LIED to America and the world throughout the buildup - Impeach Bush Now!

"In the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks while U.S. airspace was closed, a jet sanctioned by the Bush administration flew about the country picking up some 140 high-ranking Saudi Arabians - including relatives of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden - and spirited them out of the country, according to a senior official... In an interview with Vanity Fair, former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke described the exodus thought to have been organized by Saudi ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar bin Sultan. He said the plane is believed to have landed in 10 cities, including Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Houston and Boston. 'We were in the midst of the worst terrorist act in history and here we were seeing an evacuation of the bin Ladens. ... I wanted to go the highest levels in Washington,' Tom Kinton, director of aviation at Boston's Logan airport, told the magazine." Impeach Bush Now!

On 8-25-03, the Bushevik answer to Iraq terror was to rewrite the history of US occupation of Germany. Condi declared, "SS officers called 'werewolves' engaged in sabotage and attacked both coalition forces and those locals cooperating with them much like today's Baathist and Fedayeen remnants." Rumy said the werewolves "plotted sabotage of factories, power plants, rail lines. They blew up police stations and government buildings, and they destroyed stocks of art and antiques." But once again, "The Rice-Rumsfeld depiction of the Allied occupation of Germany is a farrago of fiction and a few meager facts... There was no major campaign of sabotage. There was no destruction of water mains or energy plants worth noting... The total number of post-conflict American combat casualties in Germany and Japan, Haiti, and the two Balkan cases was zero." Stop the lies - Impeach Bush Now!

Moonie site WorldTribune.com reports, "U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq's weapons of mass destruction have finally been located. Unfortunately, getting to them will be nearly impossible for the US and its allies, because the containers with the strategic materials are not in Iraq. Instead they are located in Lebanon's heavily-fortified Bekaa Valley, swarming with Iranian and Syrian forces, and Hizbullah and ex-Iraqi agents, Geostrategy-Direct.com will report Wednesday. U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebanon in January 2003. The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time. U.S. intelligence sources believe the area contains extended-range Scud-based missiles and parts for chemical and biological warheads." Karl Rove is hard at work, leaking bogus "intelligence" that will percolate up to right-wing talk shows and then to the PentaPost and NY Times. No more lies - impeach Bush now!

On May 1, 2003, after AWOL Bush landed on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, the White House Web site headlined the event saying: "Bush Announces Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended." But 100 days later, "combat operations" are FAR from over - and soldiers are dying at a rate of nearly 1 per day. TakeBackTheMedia.com discovered Karl Rove has engaged in big-time "revisionism" - like Orwell's "Ministry of Truth", the White House changed the May 1 web page on August 18 so it now reads: "Bush Announces MAJOR Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended." Impeach Bush Now!

Boston Globe reports, "The organization responsible for preventing massive blackouts in the United States has been warning for months that the nation's system of voluntary compliance with electricity standards is inadequate and could result in just the kind of widescale power outage that occurred yesterday. Indeed, in a document written just days ago, the North American Electric Reliability Council said there has been 'a marked increase in the number and seriousness of violations' of guidelines governing the nation's power companies and that 'the very stability of the electric system upon which our economy and our society depends' has 'no effective recourse today to correct such behavior.' The document goes on to warn that 'the longer it takes to establish this new system, the greater becomes the risk and magnitude of grid failures.'" Bush was AWOL again, causing massive economic damage - Impeach Bush Now!

The NEWS editors at the Pentagon Post - but not the EDITORIAL PAGE editors believe Bush LIED to America about Iraqi nukes. A MAJOR 5355-word investigative report reveals that ALL of the evidence of an Iraqi nuclear program was bushit - and the Busheviks knew it. The lies were manufactured by the "White House Iraq Group," created by Chief of Staff Andy Card. Its members were: Karl Rove, Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin, James R. Wilkinson, Nicholas E. Calio, Condi Rice, Stephen J. Hadley, and I. Lewis Libby. But even though the White House manufactured the lies, CIA's George Tenet continues to "take responsibility" - which really means diverting all investigations AWAY from those who are TRULY responsible - George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld. Impeach Bush Now!

"Former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a key figure in the Iraq -Niger uranium controversy, accused the Bush administration on Monday of using intimidation tactics to stifle criticism about its handling of prewar intelligence on Iraq... Wilson, on a panel of speakers at the National Press Club, said there had been several attempts to discredit him, but mainly through an article by Chicago columnist Robert Novak... [Wilson] said if Novak's column was true, then the Bush administration had breached national security by revealing the name [of his wife]. '... Wilson said. 'The reason was to intimidate others from coming forward.' ... Wilson said that analysts seeing stories about him and his wife and about Kelly would question whether to talk to lawmakers who might hold investigations on the Iraq war... 'So that's what it was designed to do, it was clearly designed to intimidate,' Wilson said." Impeach Bush Now!

Boston Globe reports, "Shortly after his now-discredited report that Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy uranium in Africa, President Bush asserted in his State of the Union address that 'evidence from intelligence sources, secret conversations, and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of Al Qaeda.'' The link between Hussein and Al Qaeda was a component of Bush's larger assertion that Hussein was an imminent threat to the United States -- that 'secretly, and without fingerprints, he could provide one of his hidden weapons to terrorists.' But a review of the White House's statements and interviews with current and former intelligence officials indicate that the assertion was extrapolated from nuggets of intelligence, some tantalizing but unproven, some subsequently disproved, and some considered suspect even at the time the administration was making its case for war." ANOTHER lie - Impeach Bush Now!

John Haag writes, "I am writing to you to alert BuzzFlash readers to a subject that has received woefully little, if any, coverage in the media: The areas in which access to documents and individuals was denied, limited or delayed to the Joint Inquiry on 9-11 by the Bush administration. These areas include access to the President's Daily Briefings, access to administration officials, the presence of 'minders' ( la Saddam) during interviews, counter-terrorism budgetary data, CIA and NSA documents and other very important information. The denial of access to information in this important investigation goes far beyond the well-covered issues of censorship in the final report. In fact, it quite possibly prevented the Joint Inquiry from properly doing its job; thereby putting the United States at a greater risk of attack." Impeach Bush Now!

ABC reports, "Will the king of Jordan be overthrown? Will Yasser Arafat be assassinated? Will North Korea launch a nuclear attack? You can bet on it. Anyone - even terrorists, some lawmakers warn - will soon be able to place anonymous bets on future terrorist attacks on a Web site. The Pentagon has set up a Web site for the Policy Analysis Market, which is intended for a group of scholars and analysts to bet on the likelihood of dramatic events, especially in the Middle East... But as Sens. Byron Dorgan, D-ND and Ron Wyden, D-OR told reporters in Washington, D.C., today, it is a sick idea... 'Can you imagine if another country set up a betting parlor so that people could go in and bet on the assassination of an American political figure, or the overthrow of this institution or that institution?' Dorgan said. So far, $749,979 has been spent on the project and Wyden and Dorgan said the Pentagon is asking Congress for $8 million to set up the Internet program." Impeach Bush Now!

US Code, Title 4, Chapter 1, Sec. 8 (g): "The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature." So why does this photo show Bush signing a flag? Isn't this prima facie evidence of a crime? Impeach Bush Now!

Japan Times reports, "The plan to dispatch [Japan's 'Self Defense'] troops to Iraq came after Bush... expressed hope that Tokyo would participate in Iraq's postwar reconstruction... Prime Minister Koizumi's Liberal Democratic [in name only] Party and its two partners in the ruling coalition, New Komeito and the New Conservative Party, backed the bill. Opposition parties led by the Democratic Party of Japan voted against it. Amid a dramatic tussle of lawmakers, the coalition rammed the bill through the Upper House Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, the final step before its passage. Opposition members of the committee claimed the procedure was invalid because Committee Chairman Ryuji Matsumura allowed a mob of ruling lawmakers to push the bill through, but to no avail." Bush's mob rule shut down the recount in Miami-Dade... Bill Thomas' mob rule pushed an awful pension bill through a House committee... now it's mob rule in Japan too. Impeach Bush Now!

"The commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq says the country is becoming a magnet for foreign terrorists targeting Americans... Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, whose troops usually blame the attacks on die-hard Saddam loyalists, said the sophistication of the raids had increased over the last 30 days. 'This is what I would call a terrorist magnet where America, being present here in Iraq, creates a target of opportunity if you will,' Sanchez told CNN. Sanchez did not elaborate on the nationalities, but said there was no evidence any country was sponsoring the fighters. 'The key that we must not lose sight of is that we must win this battle here in Iraq. Otherwise America will find itself taking on these terrorists at home,' Sanchez said." US intelligence now admits there was no Al Qaeda presence in Iraq BEFORE Bush's War, but now they are flocking to Iraq to take advantage of the chaos Bush created there. America is LESS safe that it was before the war. Impeach Bush Now!

PentaPost reports, "Among the only clues cited in the report about Bush's knowledge of al Qaeda's intentions against the United States is an Aug. 6, 2001, President's Daily Briefing (PDB) - described in the report only as a 'closely-held intelligence report' - that included information 'acquired in May 2001 that indicated a group of [Osama] Bin Laden supporters was planning attacks IN THE UNITED STATES with explosives.'... In a May 16, 2002, briefing for reporters, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said the PDB was a historical look at bin Laden's methods dating to 1997. She characterized the briefing as an 'analytic report' that summed up bin Laden's methods of operation. 'It was not a warning,' she said. 'There was no specific time or place mentioned.'... Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) said he doubted Bush was complacent about warnings he received. 'The intelligence community was providing him information. He wasn't AWOL.'" Bush WAS AWOL - just like 1972-73! Impeach Bush Now!

"Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent." "U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents." "We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas." "Evidence from intelligence sources, secret communications and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of Al Qaida." "Our intelligence sources tell us that he (Saddam) has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production." "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." 6 lies in one SOTU - Impeach Bush Now!

In a shocking article that has received little attention, the NY Times has conducted its investigation: "American intelligence officials and senior members of the administration have acknowledged that there was LITTLE NEW EVIDENCE flowing into American intelligence agencies in the five years since United Nations inspectors left Iraq, creating an intelligence vacuum." And that "little new evidence" (like the Niger Hoax) was all Bushit, possibly even planted overseas by Busheviks. Still, Bush declared "He is moving ever closer to developing a nuclear weapon." Wolfowitz declared: "It is a case grounded in current intelligence." And Tenet declared Intelligence "comes to us from credible and reliable sources." Each of these statements is a lie. Impeach Bush Now!

David Kelly's suicide resulted from a BBC story by Andrew Gilligan that claimed Bush's flak Alastair Campbell "sexed up" intelligence reports by claiming Iraq could deploy chemical or biological weapons in 45 minutes. According to PentaPost, "The claim, which has since been discredited, was made twice by Bush, in a September Rose Garden appearance after meeting with lawmakers and in a Saturday radio address the same week. Bush attributed the claim to the British government, but in a 'Global Message' issued Sept. 26 and still on the White House Web site, the White House claimed, without attribution, that Iraq 'could launch a biological or chemical attack 45 minutes after the order is given.'" Bush didn't even ask the CIA about this bogus "fact" - he just lied to the American people. Impeach Bush Now!

Do you think Bush's illegal war on Iraq began with the bombing of Baghdad on 3-19-03? Wrong! Under Operation Southern Focus, "American air war commanders carried out a comprehensive plan to disrupt Iraq's military command and control system before the Iraq war," according to the NY Times. The bombing targeted fiber-optic cables, key command centers, radars and other important military assets - 606 bombs were dropped on 391 carefully selected targets. Read this carefully: In mid-2002, Bush launched an unprovoked war WITHOUT A DECLARATION BY CONGRESS. If that's not an impeachable offense, what is??? Impeach Bush Now!!!

Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) gave an important speech to the Senate on Tuesday. He declared "The uranium issue is not just about sixteen words. It is about the conscious decisions that were made, apparently by the NSC and concurred in by the CIA, to create a false impression. And it is not an isolated example. There is troubling evidence of other dubious statements and exaggerations by the Intelligence Community and Administration officials." Levin exposes all of the major lies, including aluminum tubes, Iraq-al Qaeda connection, Nuclear reconstitution, certainty that Iraq possesses chemical and biological weapons, Mobile biological warfare labs, and White House Web Site Photos. Impeach Bush Now!

According to the right-wing WorldNetDaily, Cheney began planning the invasion of Iraq in April 2001 - five months BEFORE the September 11 attack that was the ultimate excuse for the invasion. Cheney's "secret White House task force solicited input from the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston. The Baker report, which was submitted to Cheney in early April 2001, recommended considering a 'military' option in dealing with Iraq, which the report charged was using oil exports as a 'weapon,' by turning its spigot on and off to 'manipulate oil markets,' WorldNetDaily has learned. The report advised the Bush administration to, at a minimum, bring UN weapons inspectors back to Iraq, and then, 'once an arms-control program is in place, the United States could consider reducing restrictions on oil investment inside Iraq' to gain greater control over the reserves, and 'inject' more stability into world oil markets." Impeach Bush Now!

AP reports, "The brightly painted wooden sign in the yard marks the home as 'Grandma & Grandpa's House. Hugs & Kisses. Love & Laughter. Candy & Cookies.' But now there are only tears and heartache. Grandpa was Sgt. Roger Dale Rowe, a Tennessee Army National Guardsman who was killed by a sniper July 9 as he drove a tanker fuel truck in Iraq. Rowe died five days before his 55th birthday, making him the oldest American casualty since the start of the war in Iraq." Bush LIES while soldiers DIE - Impeach Bush Now!

Yellowcake-gate is just the tip of the iceberg of Iraq nuke lies. In his SOTU, Bush also declared: "Our intelligence sources tell us that (President Saddam Hussein) has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production." And on March 16, three days before the U.S.-British invasion, Vice President Dick Cheney said Iraq was "trying once again to produce nuclear weapons" and even that Iraq had "reconstituted nuclear weapons." But Mahdi Shukur Obeidi, who headed a uranium-enrichment unit vital to Iraq's pre-1991 bomb plans, told the CIA "that since '91 they hadn't resurrected a nuclear weapon program," and that the aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq were for powering conventional rockets, not for separating uranium. Impeach Bush Now!

"U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bob Graham said on Thursday there were grounds to impeach Bush if he was found to have led America to war under false pretenses. While Graham did not call for Bush's impeachment, he said if Bush lied about the reasons for going to war with Iraq it would be 'more serious' than Bill Clinton 's lie under oath about his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky. 'If in fact we went to war under false pretenses that is a very serious charge. If the standard of impeachment is the one the House Republicans used against Bill Clinton, this clearly comes within that standard,' he said... After his appearance in New Hampshire, Graham issued a statement saying he was not calling for Bush's impeachment and saw the issue as a largely academic one, adding that if Bush had misled the American public he would pay the price for it in the 2004 presidential election." Hey Bob, don't back off - Impeach Bush Now!

Bob Graham (D-FL) "said he recently had seen 'Impeach George Bush' buttons on the campaign trail. He was asked in New Hampshire if Congress would impeach the president 'if in fact it was found there was manipulation of intelligence in order to create public support for the war' in Iraq. 'My answer was no, but the American people will have an opportunity to collapse both steps - impeachment and removal from office - on the first Tuesday of November 2004,' Graham told a couple hundred members of the New Democrat Network meeting in Washington. Graham, former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, did not see an impeachable offense in the buildup to war, but accused the administration of 'deception and deceit' in its foreign and domestic policies. 'We were sold on war with Iraq because of an imminent threat to the United States of weapons of mass destruction,' he said. 'Now we can't find 'Osama Bin Forgotten' or Saddam Hussein or those weapons.'" So Impeach Bush Now!

NY Times opines, "There's nothing like having a few friends over for a cocktail or two,' Bush told more than 1,200 Republicans who paid $2,000 apiece last week to begin what will be a record-breaking binge of Republican money-raising. Bush's gratitude went over well with the Washington crowd, who ponied up $3.5 million. Even more, it underlined the extraordinary gilded age of fat-cat politicking that has befallen the nation with the intersection of Bush tax cuts favoring the affluent - $1.7 trillion worth and counting - and the start of Bush's phantom primary campaign season. With no G.O.P. challenger in sight, Mr. Bush nevertheless will easily raise as much as $200 million in primary money for his re-election coffers, much of it from the warm-hearted supporters benefiting most from his deficit-financed tax cuts. This is revenue synergy of a high order that promises only to intensify." Impeach Bush Now!

PentaPost reports, "In a nationally televised address last October in which he sought to rally congressional support for a resolution authorizing war against Iraq, Resident Bush declared that the government of Saddam Hussein posed an immediate threat to the United States by outlining what he said was evidence pointing to its ongoing ties with al Qaeda... Bush, in his speech in Cincinnati on Oct. 7, made his case that Iraq had ties with al Qaeda, by mentioning several items such as high-level contacts that 'go back a decade.' He said 'we've learned' that Iraq trained al Qaeda members 'in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases.' Although the resident offered essentially circumstantial evidence, his remarks contained none of the caveats about the reliability of this information as contained in the" National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, the "consensus of the intelligence community," which considered Bush's allegations about Iraq-Al Qaeda ties to be utter Bushit. Impeach Bush Now!

The Pentagon Post's "Faces of the Fallen" page shows the nearly 200 U.S. soldiers who died because Bush lied. What more evidence do we need to Impeach Bush Now?

NY Times reports, "EPA is preparing to publish a draft report next week on the state of the environment, but after editing by the White House, a long section describing risks from rising global temperatures has been whittled to a few noncommittal paragraphs... The editing eliminated references to many studies concluding that warming is at least partly caused by rising concentrations of smokestack and tail-pipe emissions and could threaten health and ecosystems... Mrs. Whitman said that she was 'perfectly comfortable' with the edited version... [But] 'Political staff are becoming increasingly bold in forcing agency officials to endorse junk science,' said Jeremy Symons, a climate policy expert at the National Wildlife Federation. 'This is like the White House directing the secretary of labor to alter unemployment data to paint a rosy economic picture.'... The changes were mainly made by the Council on Environmental Quality" under orders from OMB. Impeach Bush Now!

Be sure to sit down when you read THIS article. Asia Times reports, "Such is the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan... that United States and Pakistani intelligence officials have met with Taliban leaders in an effort to devise a political solution to prevent the country from being further ripped apart... Four conditions were put to the Taliban before any form of reconciliation can take place that could potentially lead to them having a role in the Kabul government." Say WHAT??? Bush is negotiating power-sharing with the TALIBAN??? Didn't we fight a war halfway around the world in order to destroy the Taliban??? What's next - a red carpet reception at the White House for Osama Bin Laden??? Impeach Bush Now!!!

Trudy Rubin writes, "The Bush administration claimed, contrary to reports by U.N. weapons inspectors, that Saddam still had an active nuclear weapons program. The Bush administration claimed that the danger of Iraq's handing off nuclear materiel to terrorists was a key reason for regime change. The administration knew full well what was stored at Tuwaitha. So how is it possible that the U.S. military failed to secure the nuclear facility until weeks after the war started? This left looters free to ransack the barrels, dump their contents, and sell them to villagers for storage. How is it possible that... looters are still stealing radioactive isotopes? The Tuwaitha story makes a mockery of the administration's vaunted concern with WMD. The U.S. military hastened to secure the Ministry of Oil in Baghdad from looters. But Iraq's main nuclear facility was apparently not important enough to get similar protection." Are you safer than you were 3 years ago? Impeach Bush Now!

Knight-Ridder reports, "The CIA's March 2002 [de-bunking of] Iraq's alleged uranium-shopping expedition in Niger was sent to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Justice Department and the FBI the same day it went to the White House, the CIA official said... Among the most vocal proponents of publicizing the alleged Niger connection, two senior officials said, were Cheney and officials in the office of Donald Rumsfeld. The effort was led by Robert G. Joseph, the top National Security Council staff official on nuclear proliferation, the officials said. Cheney alleged in an Aug. 26, 2002, speech that Saddam 'has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons,' and this March 16 he went much further, saying: 'We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.'" Were Cheney and Rummy fooled by the Niger Uranium Hoax - or were they deliberately lying to build public support for W-ar? Even Ken Starr could figure this one out. Impeach Bush Now!

Bush's Niger Uranium hoax is an incredibly simple story - no more complicated than the dozens of "Nigerian scam" e-mails we all receive each month. It involves a letter signed by an African "official" with a plausible name and title - who simply does not exist. George Bush does not need to do a Google search - he has an EMBASSY in Niger which certainly knows the name of the Energy Minister! The NY Times is trying to protect Bush by arguing that Bush was hoodwinked by the CIA - but that's complete Bushit! The CIA absolutely told Bush & Co. that the Niger story was a hoax - but Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Wolfy, Condi, and Rove all WANTED to use this hoax to LIE to the American people. Tell the NY Times (letters@nytimes.com) to quit beating around the Bushit - Bush LIED, and thousands DIED. "Weaponsgate" may be the biggest scandal in American history. Impeach Bush Now!

"In the Jan. 29 speech, Bush made his case for war on Iraq, in part stating that 'the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.' But some U.S. officials say American intelligence indicated that was not true... Asked for an explanation, a senior White House official said 'we were very careful with what the resident said. We vetted the information at the highest levels.' But one international nuclear official told the New Yorker magazine that the information was so bad, anyone using an Internet search engine could have determined it was a forgery." So who "vetted" the hoax "at the highest levels"? It doesn't take a genius to single out Rummy... Wolfy... Condi... Cheney... Rove... and Bush. Impeach Bush Now!

AP reports, "Senate Republicans are resisting Democrats' calls for a full-blown investigation of whether intelligence on Iraq's weapons programs was inaccurate or manipulated to make the case for war. Leading Republicans say there is no evidence of wrongdoing and no need yet for an inquiry that goes much beyond routine oversight. Democrats want a more thorough investigation in light of doubts raised about some of the intelligence and the failure so far to find weapons of mass destruction." NO EVIDENCE OF WRONGDOING? A twice-elected President was impeached for one insignificant lie. Now we know that Bush LIED, Cheney LIED, Rummy LIED, Colin LIED, Condi LIED, Ari LIED - not once, but over and over again - at a cost of THOUSANDS of lives. Impeach Bush Now!!!

The UK Guardian reports: "Oil was the main reason for military action against Iraq, a leading White House hawk has claimed, confirming the worst fears of those opposed to the US-led war. The US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz - who has already undermined Tony Blair's position over weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by describing them as a 'bureaucratic' excuse for war - has now gone further by claiming the real motive was that Iraq is 'swimming' in oil. The latest comments were made by Mr Wolfowitz in an address to delegates at an Asian security summit in Singapore at the weekend, and reported today by German newspapers Der Tagesspiegel and Die Welt." Did you hear that? It was not Operation Get-WMDs, or even Operation Iraqi Freedom. You know why they didn't call it Operation Iraqi Liberation? Because the acronym would have pointed up the obscene truth early on -- O-I-L! Bush and his gang lied to us about WMDs! Impeach Bush Now!

How many times did George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Meyers, and other top Busheviks LIE about Iraqi WMD? Billmon counts 28 lies between 8-26-02 and 5-28-03. Impeach Bush Now!

WashPost reports: "The group directing all known U.S. search efforts for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is winding down operations without finding proof that President Saddam Hussein kept clandestine stocks of outlawed arms, according to participants. The 75th Exploitation Task Force, as the group is formally known, has been described from the start as the principal component of the U.S. plan to discover and display forbidden Iraqi weapons. The group's departure, expected next month, marks a milestone in frustration for a major declared objective of the war... U.S. Central Command began the war with a list of 19 top weapons sites. Only two remain to be searched. Another list enumerated 68 top 'non-WMD sites,' without known links to special weapons but judged to have the potential to offer clues. Of those, the tally at midweek showed 45 surveyed without success." Bush and his cabal are a bunch of lying warmongers! Impeach Bush Now!

From MediaWhoresOnline: "Officials inside government and advisers outside told ABCNEWS the administration emphasized the danger of Saddam's weapons to gain the legal justification for war from the United Nations and to stress the danger at home to Americans. 'We were not lying,' said one official. 'But it was just a matter of emphasis.' So why didn't the Bush Regime tell the American people it was overemphasizing the danger from the weapons they claimed represented an imminent threat - in order to gain support for committing mass slaughter in their name and sending their loved ones to their deaths? 'Officials now say they may not find hundreds of tons of mustard and nerve agents and maybe not thousands of liters of anthrax and other toxins.' So why didn't the Bush Regime tell the American people it 'might not find' the weapons the regime claim represented the reason for committing mass slaughter in their name and sending their loved ones to their deaths?" Impeach Bush Now!

"With little to show after 30 days, the Bush administration is losing confidence in its prewar belief that it had strong clues pointing to the whereabouts of weapons of mass destruction concealed in Iraq, according to planners and participants in the hunt." Worst case scenario: WMDs may have been removed under cover of looting -- to be sold on the private market! "If such weapons or the means of making them have been removed from the centralized control of former Iraqi officials, high-ranking U.S. officials acknowledged, THEN THE WAR MAY PROVE TO AGGRAVATE THE PROLIFERATION THREAT THAT RESIDENT BUSH SAID HE FOUGHT TO FORESTALL... Bush launched and justified the war with a flat declaration of knowledge 'that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction'... Colin L. Powell, who took the lead public role in defending that proposition, said... that 'our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons' agents." Impeach Bush Now!

"Neil Bush and his wife, Sharon, are headed to divorce court, and a source says their lawyers are frantically working for a last-minute settlement. The resident's brother is splitting from his wife of 23 years - there have been published reports that he has a replacement waiting in the wings - and a trial date has been set for mid-April in a Houston court, says a source familiar with the case. 'This thing could get really ugly,' says the insider. 'We're hoping that it will all get settled out of court. The last thing we want now is for the Bush family to be airing its dirty laundry.' The couple are the parents of model Lauren Bush. 'Of course,' adds the insider, 'in the current political climate, maybe no one will touch the story because they don't want to be accused of being unpatriotic.'" When Clinton was President, adultery was grounds for impeachment - under Bush, adultery is PATRIOTIC! Impeach Bush Now!

Apparently, the Busheviks have not grasped the reality that conquering and occupying Iraq is going to take a LOT of time, money, and US lives. In a series of important speeches to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Condi Rice and John Bolton took aim at Iran and North Korea. "In the aftermath of Iraq, dealing with the Iranian nuclear weapons program will be of equal importance as dealing with the North Korean nuclear weapons program," Bolton said. So how will the Busheviks deal with these issues? By taking the failed doctrine of "shock and awe" global. Bolton said U.S. officials hope that a decisive toppling of Saddam may give pause to other nations with secret weapons programs and "that some of these states will back off." The Busheviks are utterly delusional and insane. Impeach Bush Now - before he gets us all nuked!

PentaPost reports, "Intelligence analysts at the CIA and Pentagon warned the Bush administration that U.S. troops would face significant resistance from Iraqi irregular forces employing guerrilla tactics, but those views have not been adequately reflected in the administration's public predictions about how difficult a war might go, according to current and former intelligence officials. CIA analysts 'thought there was a good chance we would be forced to fight our way through everything. They were much more cautious about it being an easy situation.' With U.S. and British troops being forced to defend a more than 200-mile supply line from the Kuwaiti border to U.S. troops 50 miles from Baghdad and to fend off small-scale attacks by the Iraqi irregular forces, analysts at the CIA and the DIA are complaining that their reports [were] softened as they moved to the White House." Just like 9-11, Bush ignored the warnings - at the cost of precious American lives. Impeach Bush Now!

"Weeks before the first bombs dropped in Iraq, the Bush administration began rebuilding plans. ABCNEWS has obtained a copy of a 99-page contract worth $600 million... The USAID contract is filled with details about plans to construct Iraqi schools, airports, roads, bridges, hospitals, power plants and more. But other details are being shielded by the USAID, which chose to conduct the bidding in secret... Normally, USAID puts out contracts on the Internet, and any company can bid. But to move this through quickly, the agency said it went to firms with track records and security clearances. It asked seven - about half the number that normally would have sought the business - to bid. Among the companies believed to be bidding are Bechtel, Fluor, Parsons, the Washington Group and Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's old firm... All are generous political donors - principally to Republicans... USAID denies politics are involved in any of this." Yeah, RIGHT! Impeach Bush Now!

NY Press reports, "Clear Channel Worldwide Inc., the nation's largest owner of radio stations, sponsored the numerous 'patriotic rallies' which were held around the country. They organized, advertised, provided speakers and entertainment for them, and even handed out numerous American flags... There are close ties between the company and Bush. The Vice Chair of the company is Tom Hicks, a member of the Bush Pioneer club for elite donors... The two were embroiled in scandal when Hicks, as University of Texas Regent, was responsible for granting endowment management contracts of the newly created (under legislation signed by Bush) UT Investment Management Co. (UTIMCO)... Hicks purchased the Texas Rangers from George Bush, making him a wealthy man through a deal that was partially sweetened by a shiny new taxpayer financed stadium, which included valuable land obtained at below market rates through the use of eminent domain." Impeach Bush Now!

NY Times reports, "Tom Ridge joined federal law enforcement officials today in warning that suicide bombings like those that have killed hundreds in Israel are inevitable in the US and will be difficult to prevent. His warning, in a television interview, came as Mr. Ridge and his Dept. stepped up preparations to raise the nation's terrorism alert level to 'high risk' [orange] out of concern over the possibility of terrorist attacks linked to an invasion of Iraq. In his interview with Fox News, Mr. Ridge said, 'we have to prepare for the inevitability' of suicide bombings in the US. 'The No. 1 thing we seek to do is to prevent any kind of terrorist attack,' he said, 'but that lone wolf, that isolated suicide bomber might be the most difficult to protect against.' He added, 'We'll never be immune from those kinds of attacks.'" So why are we INVITING attacks by INVADING Iraq??? Impeach Bush Now!

On Sunday, citizens around the world will gather for candlelight vigils for peace. But Bush, Blair, and Anzar won't see these protests - because they are holding their W-ar "summit" in the Azores, an island chain in the Atlantic 900 miles from the Portuguese coast. In defiance of world opinion, BBA will abandon their failed efforts for a UN ultimatum, and instead make a secret decision to launch an illegal W-ar of aggression. To provide "cover" for this criminal action, BBA will make vague noises about a "roadmap" to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, maybe around the year 2005 or 2050 or 2500. Impeach Bush Now!

Originally Bush's "Shock and Awe" (a.k.a. Blitzkrieg) attack on Iraq involved 600-800 missiles over 2 days, producing destruction comparable to the A-bomb attack on Hiroshima. But apparently that wasn't enough to terrify Saddam into surrendering, so now Gen. Richard Myers has upped the ante to 3,000 missiles over 2 days - equivalent to an H-bomb. How many innocent men, women, and children will die? Better yet, how few of Baghdad's 5 million civilians will survive? "We can't forget that war is inherently violent," Myers said. "People are going to die. As hard as we try to limit civilian casualties, it will occur. We need to condition people that that is war. People get the idea this is going to be antiseptic. Well, it's not going to be." Bush is a war criminal - impeach Bush now!

Indianapolis Star reports, "For several weeks, the FBI has been using a single-engine plane to conduct surveillance in the Bloomington area and interviewing Indiana University international students as part of its counterterrorism activities. IU and FBI officials confirmed the federal agency's actions Friday but provided few specifics, saying the release of too much information could compromise investigative efforts. Residents said they have seen the small white plane at least since Feb. 19, making passes about noon, in the late evening and after midnight. FBI spokesman Doug Garrison said the activities in Bloomington are part of the agency's nationwide antiterrorism efforts. He would not say how much longer the flyover surveillance would be conducted." Impeach Bush Now!

Bill Berkowitz writes, "Even with the looming war on Iraq, the Bush Administration can't be accused of ignoring the domestic front. There's a war against the poor; there's a war against the unions; there's the ongoing war against drugs -- with the Bush battle plan focused on growers, suppliers and users of medical marijuana; there's a war against affirmative action; there's a war against civil liberties; there's a war against the environment; there's a campaign aimed at packing the courts with right-wing jurists; there's a war against the separation of church and state, and there's a war against the Bill of Rights. And if world opinion cannot stop Resident Bush, there will be a very hot and bloody war against Iraq." Impeach Bush Now!

Daily Herald (IL) reports, "Bush recently told Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL) he would order the assassination of Saddam Hussein 'if we had intelligence on where he was now and we had a clear shot,' the Illinois senator said Monday. Such an order would represent a major shift away from a nearly 30-year U.S. ban on assassinating foreign leaders. That ban was put into place during the Ford administration in response to criticism of CIA-backed plots in the 1960s and 1970s... Asked later to clarify whether Bush had told him he would authorize changing U.S. policy to kill Hussein, the Inverness Republican said: 'Yes, yes. Now, he told me that aboard Air Force One.'" - probably on 1-7-03. If Bush orders the assassination of Saddam, why wouldn't Saddam order the assassination of Bush - or Cheney, Rumsfeld, Hastert, Frist, or anyone else? Impeach Bush Now!

WashPost reports, "The Bush administration has begun to characterize the decision facing the Security Council not as whether there will be war against Iraq, but whether council members are willing to irrevocably destroy the world body's legitimacy by failing to follow the U.S. lead. In meetings yesterday with senior officials in Moscow, Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton told the Russian government that 'we're going ahead,' whether the council agrees or not. 'The council's unity is at stake here.' A senior diplomat from another council member said his government had heard a similar message and was told not to anguish over whether to vote for war. 'You are not going to decide whether there is war in Iraq or not,' the diplomat said U.S. officials told him. 'That decision is ours, and we have already made it. It is already final. The only question now is whether the council will go along with it or not.'" This is an ultimatum to the UN - surrender or die. Impeach Bush Now!

Newsweek reports, "Hussein Kamel, the highest-ranking Iraqi official ever to defect from Saddam Hussein's inner circle, told CIA and British intelligence officers and U.N. inspectors in the summer of 1995 that after the gulf war, Iraq destroyed all its chemical and biological weapons stocks and the missiles to deliver them... Kamel was Saddam Hussein's son-in-law and had direct knowledge of what he claimed: for 10 years he had run Iraq's nuclear, chemical, biological and missile programs... Kamel's revelations about the destruction of Iraq's WMD stocks were hushed up by the U.N. inspectors, sources say, for two reasons. Saddam did not know how much Kamel had revealed, and the inspectors hoped to bluff Saddam into disclosing still more. And Iraq has never shown the documentation to support Kamel's story. Still, the defector's tale raises questions about whether the WMD stockpiles attributed to Iraq still exist." Bush has LIED to the world - stop the war and impeach Bush now!

Before he was arrested as a top terror suspect, Newsweek reported that Sami Amin al-Arian "is one of the country's leading advocates for repeal of secret-evidence laws (his brother-in-law was jailed for more than three years on allegations an INS judge dismissed in December). When Bush decried the use of secret evidence during the campaign, the elder Al-Arian campaigned vigorously for the Republican at mosques and Islamic cultural centers. 'We certainly delivered him many more than 537 votes,' he says, referring to Bush's margin of victory in the election." Not only did Bush steal Florida, he stole it with the help of an accused terrorist! Ever the opportunistic hypocrites, Bush and Ashcroft have since shredded the Constitution to INCREASE evidence secrecy with the likes of Patriot Acts I and II! Impeach Bush Now!

Now that every other argument for W-ar has been exposed as bushit, Bush's final argument is that he is "liberating" Iraq. But the NY Times reports, "The Turkish fear of Kurdish independence is so intense that some analysts here have put forward another possibility: if the Americans get bogged down fighting the Iraqi Army in the north, Turkish troops may try to seize the oil fields near Kirkuk and Mosul, to ensure that they stay out of Kurdish hands. 'The bottom line is that the Turks will do whatever they can to hinder the development of a Kurdish state in northern Iraq,' said Mensur Akgun, director of foreign policy at the Turkish Social and Economic Studies Foundation. 'If worse comes to worse, Turkey would be willing to occupy those areas, at least temporarily'" - yeah, like the next 100 years or so. Impeach Bush Now!

Rohan Gunaratna is the author of "Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror." He writes: "Although Al Qaeda has suffered some heavy setbacks since the attacks on the United States in September 2001, its core leadership is intact and continues to provide ideological and strategic direction. As long as Osama bin Laden, the Al Qaeda leader, Ayman Zawahiri, the principal strategist, and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, head of the Al Qaeda military committee, are alive, the United States is at risk of another serious terrorist attack. Al Qaeda is growing. For every Al Qaeda and Taliban member captured or killed in Afghanistan, the group has been able to recruit another one or two members. For every terrorist support cell detected and disrupted, even in Europe, Al Qaeda has been able to establish a new cell to disseminate propaganda, raise funds and recruit." Impeach Bush Now!

Capitol Hill Blue reports, "Israeli intelligence professionals warned the United States that Osama bin Laden's al Qaida network lacked sufficient resources to mount a [new] 9-11 type large-scale attack on American targets but would instead use misinformation to keep intelligence agencies guessing just when and where the next attack would come. A report given to the CIA by Mossad, Israel's...intelligence agency, concluded American attacks against al Qaida in Afghanistan, coupled with seizure of assets in banks around the world, had, for the time being, crippled bin Laden's ability to mount any large-scale attacks against the United States. Israeli intelligence professionals feel their recommendations were ignored because their assessment did not fit the pre-planned agenda of the Bush Administration, an agenda that needs to keep Americans worried about the threat of terrorism as the country prepares for war against Iraq." Impeach Bush Now!

Despite Congressional restrictions, Poindexter is spending $20 million to develop the Total Information Awareness program. "Cycorp, based in Austin, Texas, which was awarded $9.8 million to work on a prototype database; Telcordia, based in Morristown, N.J., which won a $5.2 million contract to focus on connecting data already available within different government offices; Hicks Associates, of McLean, Va., which was awarded $3.6 million to study the feasibility of TIA, how it would develop, and to create a prototype; Booz, Allen & Hamilton, based in Falls Church, Va., which won a $1.5 million contract. Its purpose was not publicly disclosed. Raytheon Co., based in Lexington, Mass., which confirmed that it is under contract with DARPA. Spokesman David Shay declined to outline Raytheon's specific role. Another research firm, RAND Corp., based in Santa Monica, Calif., confirmed it was expecting to work on TIA. Neither the company nor the Pentagon would provide details." Impeach Bush Now!

Although the Turkish people overwhelmingly oppose W-ar, Turkey's Islamic government is willing to go along - for the right price, of course. Bush initially offered $14 Billion of OUR money, but Turkey rejected that amount. Now Bush is offering $26 Billion of OUR money, but Turkey is holding out for $50 Billion. Meanwhile Israel wants $12 Billion of OUR money, while poor little Jordan will take a measly $1 Billion, pretty please sir. Pretty soon third world nations will be selling their support to Bush on eBay - Paypal accepted! The Constitution says a President can be impeached for "treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors." Impeach Bush Now!

"Jacques Myard struts around his tiny office at France's National Assembly predicting catastrophe if U.S. President George W. Bush and his "Texan" allies go ahead with their plans to launch a military attack on Iraq. "They are going to get screwed," said Mr. Myard, a small, rotund member of President Jacques Chirac's government and an outspoken opponent of U.S. policy in Iraq. "They are opening a Pandora's box," he said, predicting that even a short war will inflame passions in the Muslim world and lead to vast regional instability. "We are at the start of a hundred-year war." Impeach Bush Now!

UK Independent reports, "Senior democrats have accused the CIA of sabotaging weapons inspections in Iraq by refusing to co-operate fully with the UN and withholding crucial information about Saddam Hussein's arsenal. Led by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), the Democrats accused the CIA of making an assessment that the inspections were unlikely to be a success and then ensuring they would not be. They have accused the CIA director of lying about what information on the suspected location of weapons of mass destruction had been passed on... Mr Levin has raised his concerns with the White House. In a letter to Bush, the senator asked that America provide the inspectors with as much information as available. He wrote: 'The American people want the inspections to proceed, want the United States to share the information we have with the UN inspectors and want us to obtain United Nations support before military action is used against Iraq.'" Bush is violating UN 1441 - Impeach Bush Now!

At worst, Saddam may have a few battlefield shells with VX or Mustard gas. But CIA's George Tenet revealed that "North Korea has an untested ballistic missile capable of hitting the US... Moments earlier Tenet said it was likely that North Korea had been able to produce as many as two plutonium-based nuclear weapons." And the IAEA just referred NK to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions; "North Korea has said such a move would amount to a declaration of war." Are you scared to death yet? Impeach Bush Now!

How many times has Bush told the American people and the world that "no decision has been made" about invading Iraq? Well, now we know he has LIED each time he said it. According to the NY Times, in July 2002 "King Abdullah decided to prepare for an American attack on Iraq last July, after a meeting at the White House with Bush. A Jordanian official familiar with that meeting said the 41-year-old king had asked Mr. Bush if there was any point in trying to persuade the American leader to abandon plans to topple Mr. Hussein. Mr. Bush, this official said, told King Abdullah that his mind was made up." Impeach Bush Now!

The lies and nonsense exiting the mouths of Bush, Powell, Tenet, and Mueller are beyond contemptible. If Powell - backed by Tenet and Mueller - can assert a "partnership" between Osama and Saddam simply on the basis of a common enemy - the US - then there must be a "partnership" between Bush and Osama, who also share a common enemy - Saddam! And if the presence of an Al Qaeda cell (no evidence offered) in Saddam's Iraq is proof of a "partnership", then the Al Qaeda cells in Bush's USA (no evidence offered) further prove the Osama-Bush "partnership". But Saddam and Bush are not Osama's only partners - according to Tenet, Al Qaeda cells exist in 100 countries! Folks, we are paying over $30 BILLION a year for this so-called "intelligence". This isn't a case of "dumbing down" - it's a case of utter intellectual corruption, where all information is turned completely on its head in the service of a single goal - manufacturing a justification for W-ar against Iraq. Impeach Bush Now!

Critics of W-ar with Iraq have argued the best way to deal with Saddam is to haul him before a war crimes tribunal of the UN. Now it turns out that this policy was written into law by Congress! "Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 (PL 105-338) - SEC. 6. WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL FOR IRAQ: Congress urges the President to call upon the United Nations to establish an international criminal tribunal for the purpose of indicting, prosecuting, and imprisoning Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi officials who are responsible for crimes against humanity, genocide, and other criminal violations of international law." So why is Bush breaking the law? Impeach Bush Now!

Reuters writes, "The surprise announcement... may alarm Washington, which accuses the Islamic Republic of harboring secret plans to develop nuclear weapons.... He said the uranium had been extracted near the central city of Yazd and processing facilities had been set up in the central cities of Isfahan and Kashan... Washington has long been at odds with Russia over its help in building an $800 million nuclear power plant at Bushehr, which Tehran expects to come on stream at the end of 2003 or early in 2004. U.S. fears over the project were somewhat assuaged by assurances from Moscow that all spent fuel from the plant would be returned to Russia, ensuring that it would not be diverted to a weapons program. But the discovery of its own uranium supplies could, in theory, make Iran independent of Russia for its nuclear fuel needs." North Korea is reviving its nuclear weapons program, now Iran is starting one. The nuclear arms race has begun again. Do you feel safer yet? Impeach Bush Now!

It's deja vu all over again, as Bush II engages in secret negotiations with Iran to support W-ar against Iraq. One main reason Bush II is going to W-ar against Iraq is because Iraq still has the chemical and biological weapons that Bush I sold him in the 1980's in order to wage W-ar against Iran! Will this madness EVER end? Impeach Bush Now!

AP reports, "The State Department advised nonessential U.S. diplomats and family members on Friday to leave Israel, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. Private U.S. citizens also were advised to leave those countries and Americans were cautioned not to travel to Israel. At the same time, the department urged Americans to stay away from Iraq and said it was closing the Polish office in Baghdad that provided consular service to Americans in the absence of U.S. relations with Iraq. U.S. citizens in Iraq were urged to leave. 'The Iraq regime's continuing refusal to cooperate fully with U.N. weapons inspectors has lead to mounting tension between Iraq and the international community,' the department said." This is an utter LIE - Iraq has cooperated with virtually every request from U.N. inspectors, and has done NOTHING to increase tensions. All of the tension is coming from George W-armonger Bush. Stop the W-ar - Impeach Bush Now!

The GAO "said today that it would not appeal its lawsuit against Vice President Cheney, handing the Bush administration a complete victory in its effort to keep confidential the identities of private groups that provided advice in forming a national energy policy. The decision is a major retreat for the General Accounting Office, which filed the unprecedented lawsuit after the vice president's office refused to turn over the information sought. GAO recently lost a decision in federal district court [handed down by Federalist Society member John Bates], and the shift in control of the Senate to Republican hands meant that the majority party in both chambers opposed the GAO action." Bush-Cheney's secret government is intolerable and un-American - Impeach Bush Now!

Pat M. Holt writes, "It is time for Congress or the courts to blow the whistle on the Bush administration's excessive secrecy. The secrecy is especially pernicious when set in the context of the administration's proclivity to spin. 'Spin' is the fashionable word. 'Twist,' 'distort,' 'deceive,' or 'cover up' would be more forthright. Consider these examples: The White House tried to obstruct the appointment of an independent commission to investigate the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, implying it doesn't want Congress to know what it knows... Attorney General Ashcroft insists on closing court proceedings that are ordinarily open, including some the Constitution requires to be open... The Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Health and Human Services have been given the authority to classify documents as 'secret.'" Impeach Bush Now!

AP writes, "While [William Donaldson's] Senate confirmation appears assured, Democrats on the Banking Committee have examined his leadership of the NYSE in the early 1990s, when floor brokers made millions of dollars in illegal trades. The trading fraud scandal later brought the first-ever criminal prosecutions of floor brokers at the exchange. Donaldson and other senior NYSE officials are said to have quietly approved of letting brokers who worked on the exchange floor trade and share in profits with private customers. A federal judge in 1999 accused the stock exchange of 'downright anorexic' enforcement of a prohibition against floor brokers trading accounts in which they hold an interest. The judge admonished the NYSE for failing to enforce securities laws and its own rules meant to prevent brokers from getting an unfair advantage over other investors." Impeach Bush Now!

Alexander Cockburn writes, "The reluctant jury found Ed Rosenthal guilty last Friday afternoon of breaching federal drug laws. Within moments of leaving the court, the furious jurors found out what Judge Breyer had prevented Rosenthal's defense team from disclosing to them: that Rosenthal had been appointed by the City of Oakland under the terms of California's Proposition 215, passed by the voters in 1996, as the supplier of medical marijuana to people in chronic and desperate pain. One juror was thrown into such anguish that she spent the evening in tears and finally decided go to the press to disclose her rage and disappointment in the justice system. Over the weekend, in anticipation of Tuesday's hearing on whether Rosenthal should be jailed pending sentencing in June, their anger hardened into determination to make a public stand." Clinton was impeached for lying to a jury - Impeach Bush Now!

The Washington Post has bent over for Bush for 4 years. But now they are pissed. "Imagine that Bush had a plan to dramatically reshape the federal tax system, eliminating taxes on investment income for most taxpayers, making the tax structure less progressive and providing a boon to the wealthiest Americans. You might think he would mention it during his SOTU address. You might think he would call it by its name: radical tax reform. It turns out that Mr. Bush has such an audacious plan, but he has left it to his Treasury Department and to his 2004 budget proposal, which was released yesterday, to spell it all out. It's being wheeled into town inside a Trojan horse of private savings accounts. That doesn't make it any less radical... His latest proposal is one more indication of his administration's recklessness when it comes to the future fiscal health of the nation." Impeach Bush Now!

Even as pieces of the Columbia were falling from the sky, NASA and Congress were racing to start an investigation. "We're going to find out what led to this, retrace all the events... and leave absolutely no stone unturned," said NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe. Yet nearly 18 months after 9-11, the families of the 3,000 victims are still waiting for answers to dozens of unanswered questions (www.unansweredquestions.org). And John Ashcroft's promise to investigate the Stolen Election of 2000 remains a long-forgotten joke. Impeach Bush Now!

Bush "is considering seeking scores of exemptions for industries that want to keep using an ozone-depleting pesticide that is to be banned by 2005 under an international treaty. Environmental campaigners say the result would be years of further delay in undoing damage to the ozone layer from decades of emissions of the pesticide, methyl bromide, and other similar compounds. Experts said that the exemptions from the ban would undermine the Montreal Protocol, a 15-year-old pact protecting the ozone layer and widely perceived as the most effective environmental treaty ever negotiated... More than 50 applications for 'critical-use exemptions' have been submitted to the EPA, by agricultural groups and businesses as varied as chrysanthemum and strawberry growers, flour millers, universities, and golf-course groomers. If granted, American use of the pesticide could rise sharply in 2005, exceeding levels now allowed under the treaty and federal law." Impeach Bush Now!

Public Campaign writes, "Just as our new poster 'State of the Union: Congress Meets Wall Street' shows, last night Bush addressed many of his proposals directly to satisfying the needs of big corporate campaign contributors. There was Social Security silver for the stock market, wealth for the well-off, paybacks for polluters, and manna for managed care." Impeach Bush Now!

William M. Arkin writes, "One year after President Bush labeled Iraq, Iran and North Korea the 'axis of evil,' the U.S. is thinking about the unthinkable: It is preparing for the possible use of nuclear weapons against Iraq... The current planning focuses on two possible roles for nuclear weapons: attacking Iraqi facilities located so deep underground that they might be impervious to conventional explosives [and] thwarting Iraq's use of weapons of mass destruction. Nuclear weapons have, since they were first created, been part of the arsenal discussed by war planners. But the Bush administration's decision to actively plan for possible preemptive use of such weapons, especially as so-called bunker busters, against Iraq represents a significant lowering of the nuclear threshold. It rewrites the ground rules of nuclear combat in the name of fighting terrorism... If that happens, the world will have become infinitely more dangerous than it was two years ago." Impeach Bush Now!

WashPost reports, "Federal authorities have begun enlisting campus police officers in the domestic war on terror, renewing fears among some faculty and student groups of overzealous FBI spying at colleges and universities that led to scandals in decades past. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the FBI has strengthened or established working relationships with hundreds of campus police departments, in part to gain better access to insular communities of Middle Eastern students, government officials said. On at least a dozen campuses, the FBI has included collegiate police officers as members of local Joint Terrorism Task Forces, the regional entities that oversee counterterrorism investigations nationwide." End government spying - Impeach Bush Now!

The latest revelation that the aluminum tubes were NOT part of a nuclear program is just the latest in an unending series of LIES by Bush about Iraqi WMD programs. Here is the full list of Iraqi WMD lies collected by Thomas Ball, starting with the alleged 1998 International Atomic Energy Agency claiming Iraq was "six months away" from developing a nuclear weapon - a report that never existed. Will Bush go so far as to plant WMD "evidence" in Iraq to justify W-ar? Impeach Bush Now!

Bush "plans to allow religious groups for the first time to use federal housing money to help build centers where religious worship is held, as long as part of the building is also used for social services... Current regulations prohibit religious groups from using federal housing and community development grants, which totaled $7.7 billion last year, to build or rehabilitate structures. The new rules... allow the use of federal aid to acquire, rehabilitate or build centers used for religious and specifically approved nonreligious activities, so long as no federal money is used for the religious section... 'This is probably the most clearly unconstitutional aspect of the White House's faith-based initiative that we've seen up to this point,' said the ACLU. 'What this does is take federal money that is serving the neediest of the needy in our society and diverts it to the bricks-and-mortar construction of churches and sanctuaries and other places of worship.'" Impeach Bush Now!

Two years ago, the media hailed the new Commander-in-Thief as a "uniter, not a divider," and someone who was going to "change the tone in Washington." Well, since Bush has united America and the world AGAINST his W-ar with Iraq, he's not real happy with the results of being a "uniter." So now he's back in the "divider" business, making the same annual call to anti-abortion extremists that Poppy and Ronny did, for the same cynical reason - not wanting to be SEEN saying what he believes. Thus is Bush "changing the tone in Washington" back to the same reactionary pitch that provoked terrorism across the land - including bombings, chemical warfare, and murder - long before Al Qaeda. Impeach Bush Now!

With America and the world united against W-ar, Bushit is desperately trying to perpetuate the illusion he will attack Iraq. Here's a "story" written by an anonymous reporter ("The Russian news agency Interfax") citing an anonymous source ("an unnamed, high-ranking source in the Russian general headquarters") claiming authoritative information on top-secret U.S. war plans from a source that isn't even human ("According to the information we have"). Has Rumdexter created a disinformation robot in the bowels of the Pentagon, or do they use monkeys at a typewriter? Which Pentagon DOOD (disinformation-office-of-the-day) created this pathetic hoax, which is is spreading through the media faster than the Klez worm? This is so ludicrous it doesn't even rate a .1 on the 10-point Bushit scale. These guys are beyond desperate, because the Fat Lady is singing, the W-ar game is over, and Exxon-Mobil-Halliburton-Carlyle are going ballistic over lost profits. No More Bushit - Impeach Bush Now!

"In a reversal, the Bush administration has ruled that managed care organizations can limit and restrict coverage of emergency services for poor people on Medicaid. The new policy... appears to roll back standards established in a 1997 law and in rules issued by the Clinton administration in January 2001 and by the Bush administration itself in June 2002. Under the 1997 law, states can require Medicaid recipients to enroll in health maintenance organizations or other types of managed care. But certain safeguards for patients were built into that law. Congress, for example, stipulated that managed care organizations had to provide coverage for Medicaid patients in any situation that a 'prudent layperson' would regard as an emergency... Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) a principal author of the 1997 law, said... he did not understand how the administration could, by a letter, make such profound changes in a policy established by statute." Bush is breaking the law - Impeach Bush Now!

Buzzflash reports that Capital Gang's Robert Novak declared, "The last thing that the hawks inside the administration, and their friends outside the administration, want is a coup d'etat that would replace Saddam Hussein. They want a war as a manifestation of U.S. power in the world and as a sign that the United States is capable of changing the balance of power and the political map of the Middle East." Mark Shields didn't miss the outrageousness of this quote: "You're saying that there are people, I mean, who almost have a blood lust in this administration." Even Novak was terrified: "This war, I just trust it comes off easily. But I have trepidation that it won't be easy, and there's going to be terrible consequences from it." Then stop it before it starts - Impeach Bush Now!

Is the North Korean situation a real crisis, or will Bush resume meaningful negotiations? Veteran intelligence reporter Seymour Hersh offers a very disturbing assessment in the New Yorker: "One American intelligence official who has attended recent White House meetings cautioned against relying on the day-to-day Administration statements that emphasize a quick settlement of the dispute. The public talk of compromise is being matched by much private talk of high-level vindication. 'Bush and Cheney want that guy's head' - Kim Jong Il's - 'on a platter. Don't be distracted by all this talk about negotiations. There will be negotiations, but they have a plan, and they are going to get this guy after Iraq. He's their version of Hitler.'" Given the incredible sensitivity of North Korean leaders, this quote alone could stir up a major crisis. Impeach Bush Now!

Colin Powell keeps insisting that Bush will make a "persuasive case" of Iraqi violations of Resolution 1441 to the UN on January 27. "But to the administration's rising frustration, many council members have already declared themselves not persuaded. In the 10 weeks since it agreed that Iraqi failure would bring 'serious consequences,' the likelihood that the council will authorize a U.N.-backed invasion anytime soon has steadily receded." Bush doesn't have the votes - the Security Council is now chaired by France, which sees no reason for W-ar. The European seat is now held by Germany, which opposes W-ar. Bush will start threatening foreign leaders ("It will be bilateral, and it will be personal"), but that will only work with losers like Bulgaria. The world thinks Bush should declare victory and leave Iraq, but they "misunderstimate" Bush's ruthless determination to conquer the world. Impeach Bush Now!

Team Bush insists they "discovered" North Korea's secret centrifuge uranium-enrichment program in 2002, before Asst. Sec. of State Jim Kelly visited NK. But Joshua Micah Marshall writes, "former Clinton administration officials are saying this was known about in 1999 and 2000 and that they briefed the incoming Bush administration officials on this in January 2001... The administration's claim seems even more strained given the fact that this unclassified (i.e., public) CIA report to Congress, covering the second half of 2001, states... 'During this time frame, P'yongyang has continued attempts to procure technology worldwide that could have applications in its nuclear program. The North has been seeking centrifuge-related materials in large quantities to support a uranium enrichment program. It also obtained equipment suitable for use in uranium feed and withdrawal systems.'" Team Bush concocted the "new discovery" lie so they could blame Clinton for being duped. Impeach Bush Now!

On 4-3-02, BBC reported: "The US Government has announced that it will release $95m to North Korea as part of an agreement to replace the Stalinist country's own nuclear programme, which the US suspected was being misused. Under the 1994 Agreed Framework an international consortium is building two proliferation-proof nuclear reactors and providing fuel oil for North Korea while the reactors are being built. In releasing the funding, George W Bush waived the Framework's requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original reactors. Bush argued that the decision was 'vital to the national security interests of the United States.'" In other words, Bush gave North Korea a GREEN LIGHT TO HIDE WEAPONS-GRADE PLUTONIUM. Impeach Bush Now!

WashPost reports, "On Sept. 17, 2001... Bush signed a 21/2-page document marked 'TOP SECRET' that outlined the plan for going to war in Afghanistan... Almost as a footnote, the document also directed the Pentagon to begin planning military options for an invasion of Iraq... Much of this activity -- and these concerns -- were hidden from the public eye... The administration did not publicly tip its hand until Bush made his State of the Union address on Jan. 28, 2002. Even then, officials did their best to obscure the meaning of Bush's words... Yet, in this period, Bush also secretly signed an intelligence order, expanding on a previous presidential finding, that directed the CIA to undertake a comprehensive, covert program to topple Hussein, including authority to use lethal force to capture the Iraqi president... 'I made up my mind that Saddam needs to go,' Bush hinted to a British reporter [in April]. 'That's about all I'm willing to share with you.'" Impeach Bush Now!

Daily Telegraph reports, "America will not delay a war with Iraq until the autumn and is prepared to launch military action against Saddam Hussein without further UN authorisation... Richard Perle, chairman of the Pentagon's Defence Policy Board and a hawk whose views carry considerable weight, rejected suggestions from British ministers and senior Foreign Office officials that plans for an early war should be put on hold. Mr Perle, who is close to Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, said he did not expect the UN Security Council to reach agreement on the use of force but had little doubt that George W Bush would press ahead regardless and lead a coalition to victory. 'I'm assuming that we will not get a consensus on the Security Council but it may be possible to get it,' he said. 'It would be a great mistake to become dependent on it and take the view that we can't act separately. 'That would be an abrogation of the president's [sic] responsibility.'" Impeach Bush Now!

WashPost opines, Bush "came to town promising to change the tone of debate and to reach across party lines. Now he seems to have settled on a different course. Some of his advisers apparently have concluded that polarizing political fights with Democrats benefit the administration; that ugly combat, even in a losing and not terribly worthy cause, such as the renomination of Judge Pickering, only shores up support among the Republicans' socially conservative Southern base. Tactically they may be right. But as a method of governing, all-out war from Day One leaves much to be desired. With a razor-thin margin in the Senate and a slim majority in the House, Mr. Bush is unlikely to achieve progress on difficult issues, such as Medicare reform or improvements in the judicial confirmation process, without a willingness to compromise." Impeach Bush Now!

NYTimes reports, "A federal appeals court handed the Bush administration a major legal victory today in ruling that a wartime president can indefinitely detain a United States citizen captured as an enemy combatant on the battlefield and deny that person access to a lawyer. The case, which set up a stark clash between the nation's security interests and its citizens' civil liberties, may have expanded the power of the presidency as the three-judge panel ruled unanimously that Bush was due great deference in conducting the war on terrorism. The judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., said it was improper for the federal courts to probe too deeply into the detention of Yasser Esam Hamdi, a 22-year-old American-born Saudi who was captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan and is now imprisoned in a military brig in Norfolk, Va." If you want to have any Constitutional rights at all - Impeach Bush Now!

Nicholas Kristof writes, "Unless the administration switches gears, here's what may happen: North Korea will reprocess spent fuel at its Yongbyon reactor, giving it enough plutonium for five to eight nuclear warheads by May 1. The North will also resume construction of a much bigger reactor at Taechon, accelerate its enriched uranium program, possibly drop out of the Nonproliferation Treaty, and test a Taepodong 2 missile that, in three stages, could reach New York (although it might be so inaccurate that it would miss and wipe out Newark). In five years, North Korea could have 100 nuclear weapons and be churning out more like a fast-food chef. With nothing else to keep its economy going, North Korea will peddle them to the highest bidder ('One free Taepodong 2 missile with every three warheads you buy!') ... And this is, as Colin Powell calls it, 'not a crisis'?" Bushwell is denying this crisis to keep the focus on conquering Iraq. Impeach Bush Now!

President Clinton devoted tremendous efforts to dismantling North Korea's nuclear program through negotiations that led to the "Agreed Framework." But Bush repudiated Clinton's achievements so it could justify wasting countless billions of OUR money on "Star Wars." In 2002, Bush developed a policy called the "Bold Approach" which died in utero. In response to North Korea's renewal of its nuclear weapons program, Bush has now adopted a plan called "Tailored Containment," to increase financial and political pressure on North Korea - a strategy which has utterly failed for two years. Bush's adamant refusal to continue President Clinton's policy of negotiating with North Korea is creating a grave world crisis - Impeach Bush now!

WashPost reports, "nearly 3,000 suspected al Qaeda members and their supporters have been detained worldwide since Sept. 11, 2001. About 625 are at the U.S. military's confinement facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba... Fewer than 100 captives have been rendered to third countries. Thousands have been arrested and held with U.S. assistance in countries known for brutal treatment of prisoners. At a Sept. 26 joint hearing of the House and Senate intelligence committees, Cofer Black, then head of the CIA Counterterrorist Center, spoke cryptically about the agency's new forms of 'operational flexibility' in dealing with suspected terrorists. 'This is a very highly classified area, but I have to say that all you need to know: There was a before 9/11, and there was an after 9/11,' Black said. 'After 9/11 the gloves come off.' According to one official... 'We don't kick the [expletive] out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the [expletive] out of them.'" Impeach Bush now!

When the Office of Management and Budget put printing of the 2004 budget up for public bid in October, it was defying federal law and launching a privatization campaign that could more fundamentally consolidate GOP power and corporate corruption than any other act of his Presidency. By replacing independent government work and fair contracting guidelines with new contracts controlled directly by the White House, the goal is the end of civil service protections for work done under government funding, the creation of massive corporate corruption at the teet of the government, and the building of a new large-scale network of corporate donors in thrall to Bush's White House. Impeach Bush Now!

Two American citizens - Yaser Esam Hamdi and Jose Padilla - have now been imprisoned for more than six months without charges. Jennifer Van Bergen writes, "While there is no question that the government has a clear obligation to detain those determined to be threats to national security, it has no authority to make such determinations without judicial oversight. Indeed, to do so in the face of longstanding treaties (to which we are signatories) that require such oversight is a violation of the Geneva Conventions - and a violation of Geneva is, by federal statute, a war crime. Yes, a war crime, punishable by fine, imprisonment, or even potentially the death penalty. Check it out: 18 U.S.C. sec. 2441. Similarly, Bush's Military Tribunals violate Geneva." Impeach Bush now!

Scotland's Sunday Herald reports, "The United States edited out more than 8000 crucial pages of Iraq's 11,800-page dossier on weapons, before passing on a sanitised version to the 10 non-permanent members of the United Nations security council. The full extent of Washington's complete control over who sees what in the crucial Iraqi dossier calls into question the allegations made by US Secretary of State Colin Powell that 'omissions' in the document constituted a 'material breach' of the latest UN resolution on Iraq... Current and former UN diplomats are said to be livid at what some have called the 'theft' of the Iraqi document by the US. Hans von Sponeck, the former assistant general secretary of the UN and the UN's humanitarian co- ordinator in Iraq until 2000, said: 'This is an outrageous attempt by the US to mislead.'" Impeach Bush Now!

In the name of security - of course! - Bush "is planning to propose requiring Internet service providers to help build a centralized system to enable broad monitoring of the Internet and, potentially, surveillance of its users. The proposal is part of a final version of a report, 'The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace,' set for release early next year... [Earlier drafts] suggested it would likely be controlled by industry. The current draft sets the stage for the GOVERNMENT" to do the spying. One commercial provider "compared the system to Carnivore, the Internet wiretap system used by the F.B.I., saying: 'Am I analogizing this to Carnivore? Absolutely. But in fact, it's 10 times worse. Carnivore was working on much smaller feeds and could not scale. This is looking at the whole Internet.'" Impeach Bush Now!

In a detailed study, OMB Watch reports: "In one of its first actions, back in January of 2001, the administration established offices for dealing with faith-based and community organizations (FBCI) in five cabinet agencies -- Health and Human Services, Labor, Education, Justice, and Housing and Urban Development. These offices appear to be pursuing the administrative reforms advised by the White House. Specifically, the administration has: Possibly misused congressional appropriations (i.e., the Compassion Capital Fund) to promote the president's agenda; Sought to create faith-based set-asides; Provided seemingly insufficient accountability measures for Compassion Capital Fund grantees; Heightened training efforts for faith-based groups on how to apply for federal grants; and Potentially undermined laws on employment discrimination for federal grantees." This activity is illegal - Impeach Bush Now!

UN inspectors returned to Iraq on November 27, and were welcomed with open arms - and weapons facilities. For four straight days, Iraq has given complete cooperation to UN inspectors. This is obviously humiliating Bushfeld & Co., who "bombed an oil company office building in the southern port city of Basra, killing four people and wounding 27 others. An Iraqi military spokesman said two rockets hit the offices of the Southern Oil Co. this morning. The company supervises the country's oil exports under a U.N. program that allows Iraq to sell oil for food and humanitarian supplies... An Iraqi military spokesman said coalition planes staged 62 'armed sorties' over southern Iraq this morning." Impeach Bush Now!

"Pete Aldridge, the chief of technology for the Defense Department, told reporters that the [Total Information Awareness] project is intended to test whether new computer tools can comb through masses of information - such as credit card and bank transactions, car rentals and gun purchases - and spot clues to the planning of terrorist acts. 'This is an important research project to determine the feasibility of using certain transactions and events to discover and respond to terrorists before they act,' Aldridge said in a statement designed to address criticism in newspaper editorials and elsewhere about the project's civil liberty implications." Hey Pete - quit spinning us! We never gave the Pentagon permission to have ANY access to our e-mails, online purchases, bank records, or other private information. What part of NO don't you understand? Impeach Bush Now!

The Guardian UK reports "George Bush quashed evidence in the insider dealing inquiry he faced a decade ago, it was claimed yesterday, further undermining White House efforts to restore some confidence in Wall Street. A memo has emerged that was sent by lawyers in 1990 that warned executives of the energy firm Harken, for which Mr Bush was a director, against cashing in stock if they had any negative information about the company. Harken was undertaking financial engineering to keep it afloat at the time. A week later the president cashed in $848,000 of shares. The sale triggered an inquiry by the Securities and Exchange Commission which ended in August 1991. No action was taken against the president who claimed to have been unaware of the problems facing the business. The letter from Haynes and Boone was not given to the SEC until a day after the inquiry ended."

A Washington Post headline today summed it up: "Bush Sold Stock After Lawyers' Warning." So, while the Fundraiser-In-Chief stumps the country for Republican candidates and the US continues its W-ar preparations, the nation's capital is reading that Bush had indeed been advised against selling Harken stock while knowing negative information on the company's prospects. The day before receiving the letter, the SEC issued its decision that there was insufficient evidence to recommend an enforcement action against Dubya. Harken did its best to keep it out of the press, citing attorney-client privilege. The SEC decision was issued during Bush the Elder's White House occupancy. As Michael Aguirre, a San Diego securities lawyer said "There was a failure to deal with the most important piece of evidence." Impeach Bush Now!

On 10-25-02, SEC chairman Harvey Pitt pushed through the appointment of William Webster as the Auditor-in-Chief. But he didn't tell the other SEC commissioners that Webster chaired the audit committee of U.S. Technologies, which is now being sued by investors for fraud. This is a scandal that should result in the resignations of Webster, Pitt, and the two Republican commissioners who voted for Webster. But Pitt seems to think he can weather the storm by having the SEC "investigate" itself. Pitt is just trying to sabotage corporate oversight, because he works for the most CORRUPT administration in history. Impeach Bush Now!

National Marine Fisheries Service biologist Michael Kelly led the team responsible for assessing the effects of diverting water from the Klamath River to irrigate farmland. The team recommended against the diversion. Bush appointees overrode the recommendations; the water level was decreased so much by the irrigation that 33,000 salmon died, nearly one quarter of the entire salmon run. John Ashcroft's Justice Department overruled this scientific decision. That's right: the Justice Department now has power over scientific decisions. Do we need any further evidence that Bush has politicized the federal government from top to bottom? Impeach Bush Now!

NY Times reports, "There were conflicting explanations today about why the administration kept the North Korean admission quiet for 12 days. The White House said it simply wanted time to consult with Japan, South Korea and other Asian nations, and with members of Congress, before deciding its next step. But some of the administration's critics suggested that the real reason was that the administration did not want to complicate the debate over Iraq in Congress and the United Nations." In other words, Bush knew Congressional opponents of the Iraq W-ar would demand to know why Bush wanted to invade Iraq - which has only a slight possibility of possessing nuclear weapons - instead of North Korea, which ADMITS having nuclear weapons. Bush was willing to RISK AMERICAN SECURITY to get authorization to invade Iraq. Impeach Bush Now!

NY Times reports, "Stocks fell sharply Friday, dragging the Dow Jones industrial average to its lowest point in almost five years and pushing the Nasdaq composite index to its lowest point in six years. The sell-off came after a mixed report about the job market and more corporate earnings disappointments... The prospects for the economy are being undermined by the sluggishness of job growth, the threat of a war with Iraq and the fall in the stock market itself, which may lead consumers to curtail spending." Al Gore called on George W. Bush to focus on the economy - and the White House told Gore to stuff it. Impeach Bush Now!

First we had this administration engineering the failed Venezuelan Coup to overthrow Hugo Chavez. Then Ari Fleisher made a terorist threat when he suggested an assasination of Saddam Hussein (in CLEAR violation of US law and policy). And now Richard Perle threatens German minister Shroeder by saying to this recently democratically elected leader "the best would be, if he would withdraw." This administration does not care about the election process (see Florida, Venezuela and now Germany), they don't care about the rule of law (aggressive war against Iraq, cancelling treaties without Congressional approval), as well as putting every American's life in danger by this never ending war talk. Impeach Bush Now!

The UK Observer notes that just talking about invading Iraq is very useful for George W Bush. "It stops a public debate about his catastrophic record as Resident. Indeed, had President Clinton or any Democrat a similar record, impeachment would already be underway. [Bush walks away from treaties and willfully introduces anarchy into international security. Look at Republican issues. In all of these, Bush is a failure. Bush ignored warnings before 9/11, and has failed to hunt down Al Qaeda and Taliban leadership. Although the US could shut down Afghan heroin production, Bush has chosen this moment to surrender in the War on Drugs. Bush has undermined the world economy, failed] in advance of 9/11, failed to ensure that the military action that was taken was effective and surrendered in the war on drugs without having another plan." Impeach Bush Now! (http://democrats.com/impeach)

Rev. Moon's Washington Times writes, "The International Atomic Energy Agency says that a report cited by Bush as evidence that Iraq in 1998 was 'six months away' from developing a nuclear weapon does not exist. 'There's never been a report like that issued from this agency,' Mark Gwozdecky, the IAEA's chief spokesman. The White House says Mr. Bush was referring to an earlier IAEA report. 'He's referring to 1991 there,' said Deputy Press Secretary Scott McClellan. 'In '91, there was a report saying that after the war they found out they were about six months away.' Gwozdecky said no such report was ever issued by the IAEA in 1991.' This means the Bush administration is trying to start a war, risking American lives with a fabricated lie. Where is the independent counsel on this LIE? George, you said you would bring honor and integrity to this office. That was the Biggest Lie of all!

WashPost reports, "Federal officials are scaling back environmental reviews of international infrastructure projects funded by U.S.-backed public development banks... Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who chairs the committee that funds the banks, criticized the Bush administration for reducing environmental oversight on the projects. 'Instead of cutting funds, downgrading offices and eliminating professional staff, it should be strengthening these programs and supporting people who have scientific expertise,' Leahy said. Environmental groups are critical of lending by US-subsidized banks, which include the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Asian Development Bank and African Development Bank. The groups contend these public agencies back projects - oil and gas wells, dams, pipelines and logging - that accelerate the destruction of fragile, diverse and dwindling ecosystems.... US AID criticisms of broad World Bank policies were edited out of a report to Congress." Impeach Bush Now!

Do we live in a democracy - or a military dictatorship? Congress has not declared war on Iraq, yet the Pentagon has its hands around Iraq's throat. For all we know, CIA agents and Special Forces are already on the ground in Iraq, killing Iraqis. Whether or not those US forces are wearing uniforms, any US forces who are killing Iraqis are engaged in W-ar - violating the UN Charter, the Geneva Convention, and the US Constitution. Call Congress (202-224-3121) and tell them No War in Iraq - Impeach Bush Now!

Bruce Ackerman writes that Bush "would have us believe that international law contains only ambiguous or advisory requirements. In fact, the UN Charter was ratified as a treaty by the Senate after World War II, and the Constitution explicitly makes all treaties 'the supreme law of the land.'... [Bush's] resolution does not assert that Saddam Hussein was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks, but claims an 'inherent right' to act in self-defense against risks that do not pose a direct and immediate threat of armed attack. This is nothing less than the repudiation of the UN Charter's effort to restrict unilateral uses of force to extreme cases, and to make collective, multinational security measures the norm. This is not the time for Congress to eliminate these long-standing restrictions on unilateralism. Its war resolution should permit the use of military force only after authorization by the Security Council." Impeach Bush Now!

Robert Scheer writes "Now we know just how vicious Saddam Hussein can be. Agreeing to unconditional United Nations inspections at a time when our president had his heart set on war is just the sort of mean-spirited treachery that one can expect from this modern-day Hitler. The only greater betrayal will be if it turns out, upon inspection, that Iraq is not still building weapons of mass destruction and has no nuclear capability after all." Betrayal is what Bush is about. Betrayal of Democracy by stealing elections; betrayal of the truth by his Orwellian torture of the language; and betrayal of America's armed forces, by sending them into harms way for corrupt political purposes. Say no to Bush's war -- Impeach Bush now!

Andrew Card recently said: "From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August," explaining why the Administration waited until after Labor Day to launch its campaign to convince the American public that military action against Iraq is necessary. Now UK's TimesOnLine.com reports that "The Bush Administration is to launch a multimillion-dollar PR blitz against Saddam Hussein, using advertising techniques to persuade crucial target groups that the Iraqi leader must be ousted... The campaign, which will initially receive over $200 million, will be overseen by the Office of Global Communications, whose existence will not be formally announced until next month." Bush is so hell bent on sending courageous Americans into battle regardless of the certainty of maiming and killing Iraqi civilians that they are marketing W-ar to us, using our own dollars while slashing social programs. Impeach Bush Now!

WashPost reports, "A US-led ouster of... Hussein could open a bonanza for American oil companies long banished from Iraq, scuttling deals between Baghdad and Russia, France and other countries, and reshuffling world petroleum markets... Although senior Bush administration officials say they have not begun to focus on the issues involving oil and Iraq, American and foreign oil companies have already begun maneuvering for a stake in the country's huge proven reserves of 112 billion barrels of crude oil, the largest in the world outside Saudi Arabia. The importance of Iraq's oil has made it potentially one of the administration's biggest bargaining chips in negotiations to win backing from the UN Security Council and Western allies for... Bush's call for tough international action against Hussein. All five permanent members of the Security Council...have international oil companies with major stakes in a change of leadership in Baghdad." No War for Oil - Impeach Bush Now!

WashPost reports, "For decades, educators have been embroiled in a fierce debate about the best way to teach reading. The tension has been between proponents of phonics, which teaches reading skills before moving to literature and comprehension, and whole language, which teaches skills through literature. Many educators now say a combination is necessary but that different approaches are needed for different children... Yet some educators say the Education Department is making clear that it will provide new funds only for programs that explicitly teach phonics, and that the department views as successful certain phonics-based commercial programs that give teachers highly detailed instructions to follow each day. Prominent among these are the Open Court Reading and Direct Instruction programs, both published by SRA/McGraw-Hill, owned by New York-based McGraw-Hill Cos." Once again, Bush is putting PROFITS before PEOPLE. Impeach Bush Now!

Global Security Newswire reports the US "is pushing to cut short the Biological Weapons Convention review conference, scheduled to meet for two weeks beginning Nov. 11. Senior U.S. diplomats ... threatened to publicly identify suspected treaty violators unless the conference is abbreviated, and discussions about amending the treaty by establishing a verification and monitoring regime are avoided. Bush administration officials also said they would oppose any further treaty meetings until the next review conference scheduled for 2006. The U.S. insistence is a further blow to efforts by other Western treaty parties to strengthen the pact in a number of ways, including by creating an on-site inspection mechanism for checking on suspected biological weapons activities worldwide, similar to that of the Chemical Weapons Convention. Observers say U.S. officials are hoping to shut down the conference to prevent any further discussion of an inspections protocol to the treaty." Impeach Bush Now!

The NY Times reports that Al "Qaeda operatives who found refuge in Pakistan are starting to regroup and move back into Afghanistan, less than a year after a successful American military campaign forced them to flee their onetime sanctuary by the thousands... American officials say the world's largest concentrations of Qaeda operatives are now in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the recent influx into Afghanistan is creating new dangers. Qaeda members are believed to have launched a series of small attacks against American forces in Afghanistan in recent weeks and may have been behind the attempted assassination of the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, and the deadly car bombing in Kabul last Thursday, according to Afghan and American officials. The return of some Qaeda operatives thus represents a serious threat to the American-backed Karzai government, which has been unable to gain effective control of the Afghan countryside." Impeach Bush Now!

MSNBC reports, "Bush cited a satellite photograph and a report by the U.N. atomic energy agency as evidence of Iraq's impending [nuclear] rearmament. But in response to a report by NBC News, a senior administration official acknowledged Saturday night that the U.N. report drew no such conclusion, and a spokesman for the U.N. agency said the photograph had been misinterpreted." Bush "said Saddam could be six months away from developing nuclear weapons," citing a report by the UN-affiliated International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). But the IAEA report "said in 1998 that Iraq had been six to 24 months away from such capability BEFORE the 1991 Persian Gulf War and the U.N.-monitored weapons inspections that followed. The war and the inspections destroyed much of Iraq's nuclear infrastructure and required Iraq to turn over its highly enriched uranium and plutonium." EVERY charge about Iraq by Bush has proved to be a lie. Impeach Bush Now! NOTE: MSNBC scrubbed itself, but we kept original!

"An aide to the former Taleban foreign minister, Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil was sent to warn American diplomats and the UN that Osama bin Laden was due to launch a huge attack on American soil," says a 9/7/02 BBC report. The warnings to the American consulate in Pakistan and the UN in July - when CIA director George Tenet and NSA terror czar Richard Clarke were franctic about an imminent attack - went unheeded. "The aide said he had urged the Americans to launch a military campaign against al-Qaeda but was told that this was politically impossible." What was Team Bush's excuse? "When people keep saying the sky's going to fall in, and it doesn't, a kind of 'warning fatigue' sets in." After only 7 months on the job, Bushcroft were simply too "fatigued" to deal with dozens of warnings about a terrorist attack and the steps needed to defend America? Impeach Bush Now!

Bush & Co deliberately trampled constitutional rights after Sept. 11 in a crackdown that saw immigrants jailed without cause, tried in secret and, in some cases, physically abused, says Human Rights Watch in a 99-page report released this week. The group concludes that Bush has shown "a stunning disregard for the democratic principles of public transparency and accountability" since 9/11. The report says authorities rounded up at least 1,200 people because of their religion or ethnic background, jailed them on immigration charges to deny them rights normally enjoyed by accused persons, and held many in harsh isolation conditions. In short, Bush's government has violated the same principles of freedom that Bush said were attacked by hijackers who flew airplanes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon and "The country has witnessed a persistent, deliberate and unwarranted erosion of basic rights against abusive governmental power." Impeach Bush Now!

"The Justice Department yesterday defied a federal judge's order to provide him with documents that would have supported the government's classification of a man captured in Afghanistan and being held in a Navy brig in Norfolk as an 'enemy combatant' ... The argument frames the sensitive question of what rights, if any, are available to military prisoners, particularly an American-born one such as Yaser Esam Hamdi... The Justice Department has said that the judicial branch has little right to intervene in the conduct of the war, but yesterday's action was the first time the government has not agreed to a judge's request. The government's action sets the stage for a constitutional confrontation tomorrow with U.S. District Judge Robert G. Doumar in Norfolk. Doumar has twice ordered the government to allow a lawyer to visit Hamdi.'" The Supreme Court threw out Florida's 175,000 uncounted ballots to avoid a "constitutional crisis" - now Bush has created one. Impeach Bush Now!

Former Reagan official Lawrence Korb writes, "The Bush administration has not yet completed a much more comprehensive and important document, the National Security Strategy report. Without this report, it is difficult, if not impossible, to make a rational decision about whether the homeland security strategy or many other government programs designed to protect our security make any sense. This National Security Strategy report, which should have been sent to Congress within five months of Bush's inauguration and which must be updated annually, is required by Section 404A, Chapter 15, Title 10 of the US Code... Because we have not been presented with this presidential vision and assessment, the Congress and the country are being asked to put the cart before the horse. In the absence of this national security report, how can we have a rational and informed debate about all the controversial foreign policy decisions that Bush is making?" Impeach Bush Now!

Donald Rumsfeld is drunk with power. Overseas, he wants to conquer foreign nations at will, without any questioning by American citizens. At home, Rumsfeld is moving towards a military takeover of civilian government - in other words, a military coup d'etat. Recently the Pentagon announced plans to use soldiers for civilian law enforcement by repealing the Posse Comitatus Act. While Bush's still-active Secret Government plan is a secret, it would be no surprise to learn that the Pentagon runs the show. Rumsfeld's latest power-grab is an attempt to take control of the CIA, which - since its creation after WW II - has been headed by a civilian who reports directly to the President. Step by step, Rumsfeld is destroying the Constitution and creating a military dictatorship. Impeach Bush Now!

TIME Magazine is the first US publication to investigate whether 9-11 could have been prevented. According to Time, the Clinton administration's counter-terrorism czar on the National Security Council, Richard Clarke, presented Condi Rice with a plan to attack Al Qaeda during special transition briefings in the first week of January 2001. Condi IGNORED this plan - and urgent warnings from her predecessor, Sandy Berger - until late April 2001. And despite continued warnings from Clarke and CIA director George Tenet (both held over from the Clinton team), Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell and Ashcroft did not review the plan until 9-4-01. Why not? Because terrorism was NOT a priority for Team Bush, which was focused on creating an Oil-ogopoly (Cheney), Military dictatorship (Rumsfeld), and a Christian Theocratic Police State (Ashcroft). Al Gore would have attacked Al Qaeda, not California consumers. Impeach Bush Now!

Once again, Karl Rove made the fatal mistake of allowing Bush to pretend to express his own "thoughts" on the Middle East. So here it is - 1.3 minutes worth of 200 proof Bushit. Bush was able to memorize his little script, but study the voice, the gestures, and the body language - it's all as phony as a $3 bill. And don't miss the infamous smirk when he says "false religion." Bush is no more concerned about death in the Middle East than he was about his murder of Carla Faye Tucker and all of the other Texas death row prisoners who got a perfunctory 15-minute review from Bush. If Bush wants the Middle East violence to end, the time for talk is long over - it's time for ACTION. Impeach Bush Now!

The Angry Liberal writes, "The other shoe hit the ground in Washington just hours after the signing ceremony. Before the disappearing ink making up Bush's signature had even begun to fade, the word came down from his administration that Congress really didn't mean to write in all of that federal whistle-blower protection for courageous citizens who might want to come forward and expose wrongdoing at their places of employment. What Congress really meant, according to Ari Fleischer, is that the new law only protects whistle-blowers who fink on their bosses in front of a congressional committee during the course of an official congressional investigation. An attempt to inform Congress of corporate funny business under any other circumstances, according to Fleischer, could result in the patriotic American who had the guts to come forward losing his or her job, and there was nothing the federal government could do about it." Impeach Bush Now!

"Nearly $14 million magically poured into the Bush/Cheney Florida recount effort - four times the amount raised by the Gore/Lieberman camp. The money flowed in so fast... that Bush campaign officials... were dumbfounded... The Bush campaign took in $13.8 million, most in large contributions. Listed among those large contributors were Bush and Cheney's two most reliable genies - Enron and Halliburton... As soon as a recount was announced, Bush forces moved quickly. Money was no object. They dispatched over 100 lawyers to Florida and Texas, booking hundreds of plane tickets, rental cars and hotel rooms. Among the expenditures listed was a payment of $13,000 to Enron Corp. and $2,400 to Halliburton Co. for the use of their corporate jets and other unspecified services. 'Eighteen months after the election, we find that the (Bush) administration literally flew into office on the Enron corporate jet,'" said the DNC. All the Bush scandals are coming together - Impeach Bush Now!

When young Americans are sent overseas to fight and die for their country, Americans should know exactly why. But here, in one sentence, is the reason the ChickenHawk Bush Administration is willing to send YOUR children to their death, according to James R. Schlesinger, a member of the Defense Policy Board. "My view is that given all we have said as a leading world power about the necessity of regime change in Iraq, means that our credibility would be badly damaged if that regime change did not take place." Let's be truthful, James - it's BUSH's credibility that's on the line, not America's. The American people never told Bush to shoot off his ignorant mouth about an imaginary "Axis of Evil" - so OUR children should not be sent to their deaths to fight for Bush's stupidly. This is EXACTLY the kind of non-thinking that produced the Vietnam War. We repeat our demands: No Conquest of Iraq, and Impeach Bush Now!

Tom Oliphant writes of the sleeping giant Bush Scandal: "There is another self-wounded behemoth out there, hiding from the international financial world in the accounting shadows, hoping the hemorrhaging will go unnoticed. This one has a credibility problem that would make even WorldCom blush, a record of dishonesty about its prospects not seen in its line of work for a decade. The behemoth, of course, is the federal government." Bush lied through his teeth to steal the election; he lied through his teeth to get his welfare-for-the-rich tax cut passed; and he lies through his teeth every time he opens his mouth. Guess what? The markets have noticed, and have gone into the tank. Restore confidence in America -- Impeach Bush Now!

Paul Krugman explains Bush's transformation from failed oilman to rich baseball owner. "First, the city of Arlington built the Rangers a new stadium, on terms extraordinarily favorable to Mr. Bush's syndicate, eventually subsidizing Mr. Bush and his partners with more than $150 million in taxpayer money. The city was obliged to raise taxes substantially as a result... Mr. Bush's syndicate eventually resold the Rangers, for triple the original price. The price-is-no-object buyer was a deal maker named Tom Hicks." When Bush became governor, he privatized the endowment of the University of Texas, and put Hicks in charge. " Under [Hicks'] direction, at least $450 million was invested in private funds managed by Mr. Hicks's business associates and major Republican Party donors... Eventually Mr. Hicks's investment style created a public furor" Time after time, Bush used public assets to amass his private wealth. And he continues to do so as Commander-in-Thief. Impeach Bush Now!

At the press conference last week, King George said, "First, we will use the full weight of the law to expose and root out corruption. My administration will do everything in our power to end the days of cooking the books, shading the truth, and breaking our laws." Hmmm cooking the books... shading the truth... breaking the laws... that sounds so familiar. Wait, we know. He was speaking about his Administration!! Cooking the books - can we say hiding $30 Billion last year to save last years budget from looing like a complete mess? Shading the truth - besides everything King George does, where is our $5 trillion surplus? What about his DUI, Military service, Harken record etc? Breaking the laws - we would say the destruction of our Constitution is breaking the law! Remember, when you think of the destruction of capitalism, think George W. Bush. Impeach Bush Now!

During the Florida recount, "John Bolton, [now] undersecretary of state for arms control, [burst] into a Tallahassee library on behalf of the Bush-Cheney campaign to stop a recount of Miami-Dade County ballots. Matt Schlapp, a former congressional aide, is currently White House special assistant to the president and deputy director of political affairs. In November 2000, he was part of the supposedly spontaneous window-pounding protest at Miami-Dade County Hall that brought to an end the first recount of Miami-Dade ballots. Sue Cobb, a Coral Gables developer, today is the U.S. ambassador to Jamaica. Twenty months ago, the generous Republican donor volunteered... as part of the legal team that contested recounts in Miami-Dade. [These three] are among more than 50 political appointees found by The [Miami] Herald to have served as troops in the frantic Florida recount battle that followed the Nov. 7, 2000 election." Impeach Bush Now!

Joshua Green writes that Enron staffers openly referred to Tom White as 'Mr. Magoo.' "Bush, Cheney, and White are all part of a culture of 'crony capitalism' whose resurgence has been quietly accepted in Washington... To dump White would risk raising questions about this entire way of life. [Even without independent-counsel inquiries, something fundamental has changed. The GOP House has no incentive to pursue the Bush Administration, and the Democratic Senate appears to lack the nerve]. The Bush administration also enjoys broader leeway because it is free of the 'vast right-wing conspiracy' -- the subsidized scandal-mongering, talk radio, and attack journalism that has no equivalent on the left. [Bush recently told White that] 'As long as they're hitting you on Enron, they're not hitting me -- that's your job. You're the lightning rod for this administration.' Bush may benefit from keeping White in the job," but the American People suffer the consequences. Impeach Bush Now!

MSNBC's David Neiwert writes, "Professional stand-up comedians know that Sept. 11 jokes are radioactive. Not even the bravest have tried to turn the deaths of some 3,000 people into a laughing matter. But President Bush has forged ahead anyway. Bush has now been telling the same, spectacularly tasteless joke to a variety of mostly Republican audiences as part of his stock stump speech for the better part of four months now... Never mind that it is perhaps the most tasteless and insensitive joke in the annals of the presidency, or that it is ultimately a falsehood. What’s really noteworthy about Tale of the Trifecta is that the in-your-face political opportunism it represents is not out of the ordinary for this administration." Impeach Bush Now!

Bush is making a lot of noise about a new "Bush Doctrine." The doctrine is as simpleminded as Bush himself - it says Bush can drop bombs anywhere he damn well pleases, and kill as many people as he likes, without any explanation, with YOUR tax dollars. Doesn't this violate the Constitution? Of course, but who cares except "unpatriotic" liberals? How about the UN Charter? Mega-dittos! In other words, Bush has declared himself the Global Terrorist-in-Chief. But to us, its primary goal is to give Bush an excuse to destroy Iraq, for one simple reason - to take Iraq's oil and give it to Bush's oil buddies, whose lust for the world's oil and other essential resources (like water) will keep America at war for generations to come. Impeach Bush Now!

The NY Times editorializes, "The Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 assault on civil liberties reached a new low recently when the Justice Department argued in court that an American-born detainee, who may be a United States citizen, should not be allowed to talk to a lawyer. This is the same Justice Department that has refused to release the names and locations of the estimated 1,200 people detained after Sept. 11, and that has insisted on conducting detainees' legal hearings in secret. These policies are blatantly unconstitutional, and in recent rulings, courts have begun saying just that." Bush took a solemn oath of office - on a Bible - to "Protect and Defend the Constitution of the United States." Impeach Bush Now!

Which agencies let America be attacked on 911? The FBI, CIA, NSC, NSA, Pentagon, Air National Guard, FAA, INS, and State Dept. Which agencies are NOT being thrown into the "Dept. of Homeland Security"? ALL OF THE ABOVE. Instead, Bush is reshuffling all of the MINOR agencies that had NOTHING to do with 911 - like the Coast Guard, the Customs Service and the Secret Service. This reorganization is a FARCE, just intended to divert attention from Bush's 911 failures. Impeach Bush Now!

Molly Ivins writes, "The Bush administration has decided that global warming is indeed taking place and they are planning to do exactly nothing about it... They will not even do anything to slow it down or soften its impact... 'Adapt to the inevitable changes'? The changes are not inevitable... To keep right on doing what is already causing disastrous consequences is either insane or profoundly stupid... We can cut greenhouse gases; we can even do it dramatically. We are not helpless. We are, however, currently governed by an administration of oil executives and people whose main guiding principle seems to be opposing anything Bill Clinton favored. This is both pathetic and ridiculous... To fail to take action in the face of a recognized threat is not only incredibly stupid, but also legally actionable. Misfeasance, malfeasance and nonfeasance can all be alleged, reckless, irresponsible conduct, failure of duty ... a litany of charges." Like we say -- Impeach Bush NOW!

Everyone knows that Bush was too stupid to connect the dots in real time to protect America against 19 men with boxcutters who raised suspicions from coast to coast. But even NOW, Bush STILL can't figure out how simple it was to prevent 911! "I see no evidence today that said this country could have prevented the attacks," Bush said. Hey George, count these out on your fingers: (1) canvassing flight schools for suspicious students present and past, (2) conducting a nation-wide manhunt for the two known terrorists who were already in the country, (3) double-checking passenger lists against terrorist suspects, (4) upgrading airport passenger screening, (5) hardening cockpit doors, (6) putting air marshals on more flights, (7) giving pilots stun guns (8) patrolling the skies with fighter jets. Impeach Bush Now!

For 20 years, Republicans have adamantly denied the existence of global warming - because the primary culprit is the burning of oil, gas and coal, the industries that own the GOP. But suddenly, Bush admits that global warming is taking place. "But while the report says the US will be substantially changed in the next few decades - 'very likely' seeing the disruption of snow-fed water supplies, more stifling heat waves and the permanent disappearance of Rocky Mountain meadows and coastal marshes, for example - it does not propose any major shift in the administration's policy on greenhouse gases. It recommends ADAPTING TO INEVITABLE CHANGES. It does not recommend making rapid reductions in greenhouse gases to limit warming, the approach favored by many environmental groups and countries that have accepted the Kyoto Protocol, a climate treaty written in the Clinton administration that was rejected by Mr. Bush." Bush wants to do NOTHING on global warming, just like 911. Impeach Bush Now!

In a special report, the NY Times collected the agonizing stories and words of 157 people who died in the World Trade Center, that managed somehow to communicate with their families via phone and e-mail in their final desperate minutes. At the same time, hundreds of firefighters were heroically running up the stairs - to their deaths. But one person's story during those 102 minutes is missing - the man who sat in a classroom listening to a children's story for 30 minutes, even after seeing (in his own words!) the first plane hit, and after being told about the second plane. This man had been personally warned a month earlier by the CIA about a likely Al Qaeda attack on the US, and his government had received countless warnings pointing to the suicide hijackings on 911. Yet this man still calls himself President, and even sells photos of himself fleeing Washington DC - Impeach Bush Now!

It has been widely reported that FBI Agents in Minnesota attempted to contact the CIA after FBI headquarters blocked their efforts to investigate suspected 20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui. What has not been widely mentioned, is the fact that Minnesota agents were indeed successful in tipping off the CIA pre-911! In mid-August, the FBI conveyed to the CIA their concerns that Moussaoui might be a terrorist, and the CIA checked its own files but found nothing on him. The CIA also made a routine request from foreign governments that yielded intelligence from France that Moussaoui was a known Islamic extremist. The second contact came in late August when FBI agents in Minnesota told CIA officers they were seeking a warrant on Moussaoui. Are we supposed to believe that neither agency warned the Bush administration? Impeach Bush NOW!

"Under President Bill Clinton, the President's Daily Brief (PDB) ran around 12 pages and often included detailed analyses as well as new information that Clinton generally read before the briefing... Under Bush, the PDB has become shorter, a seven-to-10-page document containing 'more targeted hard intelligence' items, with few longer than a page... It is written with the understanding that the president is a 'multi-modality learner' who processes information better through questions and answers while reading along." In other words, Bush's Attention Deficit Disorder makes him incapable of reading and understanding the most important document produced by our intelligence agencies each day. No wonder he spent 911 reading children's stories! Why did the media cover up his ADD during the 2000 campaign - and why does the cover-up continue? Impeach Bush Now!

Salon swings the big timber! Damien Cave writes of the two French authors, who say "that the FBI bungled more than the Phoenix memo. In 'Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth," [Brisard and Dasquie] alleged that the Clinton and Bush administrations went easy on al-Qaida before Sept. 11 to maintain good relations with Saudi Arabia and to continue to bargain with the Taliban over a Central Asian oil pipeline. They also assert that then negotiations broke off after the U.S. threatened to attack the Taliban unless it agreed to U.S. demands, perhaps precipitating the 9/11 attacks. [The U.S. edition will come] out in July, with an explosive new chapter... In it, Brisard asserts that French intelligence officials warned their U.S. counterparts in considerable detail about al-Qaida's ties to Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged 20th hijacker, but the U.S. failed to act on the information." Impeach Bush NOW!!!

Richard Cohen writes "In the battle of first ladies - the former one and the current one - Hillary Clinton won hands down. In a brief Senate speech the other day, she pointed out that she, better than most, knew something about 'second-guessers and Monday morning quarterbacks.' So she was not attempting 'to blame the president,' but merely to ask what went wrong before Sept. 11 and what can be done to ensure 'that 9/11 never happens again.' Laura Bush's response was to call people like her ghouls." Hey Laura - we are not ghouls, but your husband is a monster - AND a criminal. Impeach Bush NOW!

Marie Cocco writes in Newsday, "In all the verbiage that has rained down since word leaked that President [sic] Bush was warned that Osama bin Laden's crew might hijack a plane and strike at the United States, two words count: 'No warnings.' That is what White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sept. 11. He said it as the flames from the World Trade Center and the Pentagon lit the sky and the office workers and firefighters and deli-counter men were buried beneath the molten steel. It was a lie... Since word leaked about the infamous memo Bush received on Aug. 6, the White House has spun another web of lies... Now there is an unnerving shadow that will follow Bush through his presidency... Bush lied to us, and covered up." Impeach Bush NOW!

In a desperate effort to keep the public from learning what this administration knew in advance about the September 11th attacks, Bush is now claiming publicly that the legislative branch should hold no power over the executive branch! According to a Detroit News article, Bush says the inherent powers of the presidency have eroded to an unsettling degree over the past 30 years and he is moving to reclaim the lost prerogatives of the nation's highest office. He has drawn a distinct line that he has suggested no one dare cross. "I have an obligation to make sure that the presidency remains robust and that the legislative branch doesn't end up running the executive branch," Bush said. This is an OUTRAGE! IMPEACH BUSH NOW!

John Nichols writes that in April, Cynthia McKinney's "call for a real investigation of what Bush knew -- [drew a firestorm of criticism] from pundits and partisans. 'The American people know the facts, and they dismiss such ludicrous, baseless views,' grumbled White House spokesman Scott McLellan. 'The fact that she questions the president's legitimacy shows a partisan mind-set beyond all reason.' Barely one month after McKinney was so condemned, [the headlines echo McKinney's words. On Thursday, she said]: 'It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence. If committed and patriotic people had not been pushing for disclosure today's revelations would have been hidden by the White House.' " Hey Scott - Bush HAS NO legitimacy, only partisan rightwingers say that he does. Impeach Bush NOW!

Ellen Nakashima writes in the Washington Post, "A Senate Commerce panel yesterday called on Army Secretary Thomas E. White, a former Enron Corp. executive, to testify within the next two weeks on Enron's role in the California energy crisis... Memos written by Enron lawyers... described how Enron traders manipulated California's energy market during the state's power crisis last year, boosting company sales and profits. One memo referred specifically to Enron Energy Services, a division of which White was vice chairman, and which provided energy and energy services to California customers. [White said] last week that his firm was not involved in any manipulation of the California power market. He suggested that if there was any intervention, EES was an unwitting pawn." Indict Thomas White! Impeach Bush Now!

Talk about an insult to the American people's intelligence and sense of decency! The Bush administration is trying to spin their way out of the damning revelations that they did not act on warnings they received -- the CIA had been telling them all summer something "big" was going to happen. When Bush was briefed in August, he was way bored by all of the 'sponsibilty 'n' stuff he was being asked to 'member. After all, he was on vacation -- which means nap time with Mr. Pillow! But the worst is yet to come: "Members of the congressional committees investigating the pre-Sept. 11 warnings said yesterday that there is far more damaging information that has not yet been disclosed about the government's knowledge of and inaction over events leading up to Sept. 11. 'We've just scratched the surface,' said Sen. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), ranking Republican member of the Senate intelligence committee..." Impeach Bush Now!

James Ridgeway writes, "If Bush knew so much, how come he did so little on September 11? Instead of letting his handlers move him from place to place in an utter fog, he could have returned to Washington immediately and, as commander in chief, taken charge. He could have alerted the military, which ought to have had planes in the air moments after the FAA control learned of the takeover... Consider what he accomplished: 1. He set in motion the installation of a secret Congress. 2. His administration marched far forward with its program for restricting civil rights and tightening immigration rules. 3. He started a shooting war in Afghanistan against a group of people—the Taliban—with whom the administration was quietly negotiating last summer... Bush protected himself and his friends. What he left uncovered was the rest of us." Impeach Bush Now!

Eight months after 911, the White House has finally admitted that Bush was warned by the CIA at his pseudo-ranch in August 2001 that bin Laden was planning to hijack planes. As if this gives them an excuse, Ari Fleischer whined that Bush was told bin Laden planned to "engage in hijacking in the traditional pre-9/11 sense... not for the use of an airplane as a missile." Oh, so had Bush known bin Laden would fly planes into buildings, he would have done something, but since he expected just your everyday, normal type of hijacking, he sat on his hands and did... practically NOTHING?! Impeach Bush Now!!!

Paul Krugman writes, "the Bush administration, always quick to question the patriotism of anyone who gets in its way, has said nothing at all about Stanley Works, and little about the growing number of U.S. corporations declaring themselves foreign for tax purposes. To be fair, the administration didn't create the loophole Stanley wants to exploit. And it's not enough just to denounce corporations that exploit tax loopholes; the real answer is to deny them the opportunity. Still, the administration's silence is peculiar. What's going on? ... Administration officials don't want to help collect the corporate profits tax. Unable to push major corporate tax breaks through Congress, the administration has used whatever leeway it has to offer such breaks without legislation... The administration doesn't want to say outright that it's in favor of tax evasion; but it also doesn't really want to collect the taxes. Better to say nothing at all." Impeach Bush Now!

Reuters reports, "Dying forests, expanding deserts and rising sea levels would wreak havoc to human and animal lives sooner than anticipated as global warming was accelerating, said Geoff Jenkins, head of the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research. 'It looks like it will be warmer by the end of the century than what we have predicted,' he told Reuters in an interview. Jenkins said recent revisions showed much greater output of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide than earlier estimated... A 2001 United Nations' report on climate change forecast that global temperatures will rise two to five degrees Celsius by the end of the century. But recent data suggest temperatures could rise even higher as a worst case scenario shows four times as much emitted CO2 in the atmosphere from today's levels which Jenkins said is significantly higher than previously expected." Meanwhile, Bush continues to block US participation in the Kyoto protocol. Impeach Bush Now!

The NY Times reports, "There is a reason the nuclear arms treaty President [sic] Bush plans to sign at the coming Moscow summit meeting is only three pages long. It is intended to provide maximum flexibility to the Pentagon. The new accord does not require the destruction of a single missile launcher or warhead. Each side can carry out the reductions at its own pace, or even reverse them and temporarily build up its forces. The only real constraint is that each side must have no more than 1,700 to 2,200 warheads at the end of 2012. At that point, the treaty is set to expire, leaving each side free to have as many weapons as it would like unless the accord is extended. 'What we have now agreed to do under the treaty is what we wanted to do anyway,' a senior administration official said today. 'That's our kind of treaty.'" Impeach Bush Now!

The NY Times reports, "A number of arms control advocates and Democratic politicians [in SC] say a principal purpose of the shipment is to enhance the re-election prospects of Senator Wayne Allard, a Republican from Colorado who is campaigning on his efforts to rid his state of plutonium... 'The administration has decided that it can dump radioactive junk into our backyard and we'll still vote for Bush," said [SC Democratic chair Richard] Harpootlian, referring to the state's modern history of voting for Republican presidential candidates. 'But Colorado is a much closer state, and they want to give the upper hand to Allard.'" This is ANOTHER cynical political move by Bush, just like the steel tariffs meant to buy votes for Republicans in PA, WV, and OH. Impeach Bush Now!

"Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge has offered to make an informal public appearance before members of Congress within the next month to talk about... Bush's counter-terrorism budget, a spokesman for Sen. Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia, said Monday. But Byrd spokesman Tom Gavin suggested the offer would not be enough to satisfy lawmakers who have sought Ridge to testify before congressional committees about the administration's plans to spend $38 billion on homeland security programs... Ridge has been in a dispute with bipartisan members of Congress for more than a month over Byrd's request that the homeland security director testify about the money the president [sic] has sought in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks. Bush has said that Ridge is simply an adviser to the president [sic] and, because he was not confirmed by Congress, he's not obliged to testify to the body. Ridge has refused to testify on those same grounds." One more reason to impeach Bush now!

NY Times columnist Paul Krugman has doggedly exposed Bush's lies about the budget. Even so, Bush's lying never stops. His tax giveaway to the rich has completely devoured the Clinton-Gore surplus, but Bush wants to blame the economic slowdown, even though the official projections assume an economic recovery. Worse, Bush wants to blame Congress - even though all of the budget votes took place when Republicans controlled BOTH houses, and the only expensive spending item is HIS military increase for Star Wars and other new weapons. Bush's neverending budget lies break ALL of his core campaign promises, both that we can have a massive tax cut with no pain - and that he will bring honor and integrity to the White House. First Bush stole the election, now he's stealing the surplus. Impeach Bush now!

In his first appearance before Congress in January, President Bush's implicit message was that the country could have it all -- big tax cuts, big increases in spending for education and defense, a new Medicare prescription drug benefit, new private retirement savings accounts, and a slew of other goodies -- without putting the budget into the red or damaging the economy's prospects. Unfortunately, Bush's tax giveaway for the rich has swallowed up the entire surplus, threatening Social Security, Medicare, education, defense, and everything else in the federal budget. Let's impeach Bush now!