Beyond Oral Sex- The Bush Investigations

Beyond Oral Sex
The Bush Investigations
By David Swanson and Jonathan Schwarz

The last time Congress was controlled by the party in opposition to the White House, we all learned more than we cared to know about the uses of cigars. This time the need for investigations is much more serious. The Democrats are talking fast and furious about doing them, but they're not talking about doing the right ones -- and a month into their tenure, they've barely discovered where the bathrooms are.

As humorist Bob Harris enjoys saying about the Bush administration, "It's like a new Watergate every day with these people." Congress could probably spend three decades profitably examining the last six years of the Bush administration. Unfortunately, they'll have to do severe triage to select the areas of malfeasance where investigations will most benefit the country.

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The committees we need to focus on for getting war-crime investigations underway are House and Senate Judiciary (chaired by Rep. Conyers and Sen. Leahy), House Armed Services (Rep. Skelton and Sen. Levin), House Veterans Affairs (Rep. Bob Filner CA), House International Relations (Rep. Tom Lantos CA) and Senate Foreign Relations (Sen. Joe Biden Del).

All these investigations are badly needed, not just for the sake of accountability but because the truth will end the war. Bush can continue his crusade only because most of the grim reality of Iraq remains in the shadows. Dragging it out into the sunlight is up to us.


much more at:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=161913

The time to fear this administration is over. The polls support investigations and the polls will support impeachment once the evidence is put on the table. Democrats have a fast closing window of opportunity....I suspect that a war with Iran will happen to provide pre-emptive political cover for Bush-Cheney here. If we don't start the process now, we'll be held hostage to another round of using war to further the Republican agenda and as a club against us. The biggest danger facing the Democratic Party is repeating their performance in the run up to the IWR. If they do this, they will lose a significant % of voters who will give, vote 3rd Party, or not vote at all.