Enough Spin Already: Bush and Cheney Lied, Iran Didn't

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Enough Spin Already: Bush and Cheney Lied, Iran Didn't
by Tony Hendra | Dec 4 2007



"Assessment Jars a Foreign Policy Debate About Iran." Assessment? Jars? Debate? Excuse me?

Here's Gramma Pelosi this morning: "The NIE illustrates the effectiveness of international monitoring and targeted sanctions to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction." Effectiveness? Targeted? Proliferation? Excuse me?

There were many other - oh I don't know what's a judicious word - deranged? duplicitous? drugged? - reactions this morning to yesterday's devastating NIE - even to my chagrin in these august columns - spinning as no big deal a watershed moment in the so far wretched history of the 21st century America. Not one of them seemed willing to grasp a very large nettle: the axis of evil that has this great nation in its paws, has been lying about Iran at least since August and probably far longer. Has been lying to us, to our allies, to the world. Again. And not just lying but striving with all their might to nuke - or allow an ally to nuke - innocent people who posed no threat to us.

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The threat to America is right here at home, sitting in two chairs in Washington right now, not faces on a screen, not characters in the tawdry television drama we call politics, but two actual human beings, their buttocks warming the leather of their seats, plotting how to cover up their crimes - the ones we don't know about yet - plotting how to avoid accountability for the crimes they can no longer conceal, plotting even now in the fading twilight of their reign of lies, theft and murder, how by any means necessary, they can get still their hands on most of the world's oil and pass the proceeds along to their cronies.

If you won't impeach now Gramma, you're on your way to being as guilty as they. Those who enable high crimes and misdemeanors - including never let us forget, treason - become as culpable as the perpetrators. If you don't impeach now, you will be an accomplice as will be all the others who stand with you - those who voted to declare the nuclear-free armed forces of a sovereign nation 'terrorists' for example, or one of your leading candidates for President who refused to take 'off the table' the 'option' of nuking innocent people who posed no threat to us, just so that she could look as tough as war-criminals.

Enough. This is the moment of enough. This is the moment where we lose or win back what was once and still can be again a great nation. Use the Constitution or lose the Constitution.
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can we please get these thugs out of the WH and on the road to the Hague?

Folks who are bent on keeping Iran on the table have their minions crawling all over the net, right on cue.

are many people here that believe that, especially after this NIE was released.

you seem surprised that such a thing might occur. Well, I've seen enough of it on other issues on many other discussion forums. Bank on it, posters will target the integrity of the NIE itself. You'll probably hear callers calling into radio talk shows claiming the NIE can't be trusted.

you're right, I've already found one on DU. "We must keep up the pressure". Sigh.

In Frank Capra's fantastic "Why we Fight" series the descent of Germany and Italy into fascism is described.
The representative bodies in those countries became stooges to rubber stamp the dictator's orders.
Thats what Reid and Pelosi pretty clearly have become.
I have to wonder what their prices were. I don't have to wonder about their professions.
Reid is not my type, and I wouldn't lay out more than 50 Bucks for the speaker.
With this lame ass team of collaborators at the helm I have to wonder just how we're going to get through the rest of Junior's term.

because she'd break her neck negotiating a flight of stairs! What is the matter with that woman?

Anybody know how Cindy Sheehan is polling in her bid to unseat Pelosi?