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We Can Handle the Truth

For months now the Bush administration has been sneering at the world, smugly declaring that "Saddam lies, and Saddam continues to deceive." What exactly was in those 8,000 pages that the U.S. removed from the Iraqi report to the United Nations - and why were those pages removed? Could it be that Bush knows more about what Iraq possesses http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.21A.us.firms.iraq.htm because he knows exactly what we both gave and sold to Saddam?

People are not stupid. The whole world can see that the incomplete first war on terror has only accomplished the signing of the pipeline contract with Unocal. http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.30A.afgh.pipe.htm. And for all our military might and supposedly super-superior technological genius, we can't find any of those targets that Bush said we would find, flush out, and hunt down. What the bullyboys have done instead is try to transfer the blame for America's security problems to an aging dictator with a checkered past. This isn't the first time that the Western oil industry has tried to steal the Iraqi oil fields, http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/iraqoil1031.php  but it may be the last time, if we proceed with this brazen aggression that so far has found no basis in fact.

The 'TRUTH' is this country is sinking into a morass of decline and decay that is being aided and abetted by home-grown terrorists: Dick Cheney, Andrew Card, Richard Perle, Elliot Abrams, Paul Wolfowitz, John Ashcroft, and Karl Rove. And this collection of misbegotten failures, according to William Rivers Pitt, is being led by: "George W. Bush, leader of the free world, who was eased into a National Guard posting in Texas in 1972, and who by all accounts failed to show up for this duty for some 17 months."

Probably this information was suppressed - the' really friendly' American media seemed to find it unpatriotic to

GI's also have a problem whenever Bush picks a military setting to serve as audience to one of his arrogant, chest-thumping performances on the nature of evil in the world, - and Saddam in particular. The problem is that military personnel are not citizens, in the sense that by military law, they cannot disagree with their Commander-in-Chief. So the American military appears to approve entirely of everything that is said.

If Bush is so vigorous and brave a 'leader-of-the-free-world': Why will he not hold an open press conference and allow the press of the world to question him? 

When the nation was attacked on September 11th, 2001 there was an outcry from many for a full and complete investigation of that attack. The White House, to date, has successfully blocked or covered up any and all attempts to hold such an investigation. This is an outrage against the people of this country and against the impartial judgment of history. The Congress and the Courts have furnished Bush's band of Outlaws with additional legalistic cover for this heinous act - and the public has been cowed by passage of both the USA PATRIOT Act, and THE HOMELAND SECURITY Act which together now will form the prison gates that will now begin the LOCK-DOWN of what remains of the rights of the people to be protected from their own government.

The only member of the administration who has clearly had military experience, Mr. Powell, has broken with his own Powell Doctrine on two fronts. The Doctrine called for overwhelming force (10 to 1 military advantage - or we don't fight) and a clear and workable 'EXIT Strategy' (in Iraq we have NO exit strategy, because we're NOT leaving). The region and the world have figured this out. We're going to steal the Iraqi Oil fields, and keep them and their profits for ourselves. And when that's accomplished, we'll probably use Iraq to launch other attacks upon the remaining oil states in the region. Probably the real reason we're so paranoid about Weapons of Mass Destruction is that we're afraid that Saddam may poison his own wells by contaminating the oil - to deny us the real goal of this attack.

And finally:

"January 4, 2002-"We sentenced Nazi leaders to death for waging a war of aggression," says International Law Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

"Article II Sec. 4 of the Constitution states that: "The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from 

It would appear that YES - there are LIES and there is DECEPTION going on - but both appear to be coming from the basements in Washington where the felons from previous administrations dwell. And all those LIES are being uttered mostly from the mouths of administration spokespersons. Now the whole world is beginning to understand what a lot of Americans have refused to even consider - it's Bush that is the problem, and not the meanderings of Saddam as the head of one of our former semi-colonies.

And while it's great that our European friends have chosen to rebuke this blatant aggression by the Bush administration - isn't it time that the American public took responsibility for this out-of-control, obviously unstable person who pretends that he is the lawful leader of this nation. Because we haven't intervened Bush now wants to claim leadership of the entire world. This naked aggression by the US must be stopped BEFORE the killing starts, and the best people to stop it now are the Americans in the U.S. House of Representative who need to look seriously at Pre-emptive Impeachment. Question is- will we be able to act in time?