Brattlboro Reformer to wingnuts: some little pipsqueak town in Vermont dares to call your president

a war criminal and calls for his indictment and arrest.

Editorials

Thursday, January 31
It may be a purely symbolic gesture, but the upcoming Town Meeting vote on whether Brattleboro should indict President Bush and Vice President Cheney certainly raised the ire of conservatives all over the country.
The Municipal Center was swamped this week with nasty phone calls and e-mails, many containing language unprintable in this newspaper.

The level of rage from those who still believe that President Bush can do no wrong is astounding to behold. But while we're surprised there are still that many people in America who support Bush, we understand their rage.

Put yourself in the shoes of a diehard Bush supporter. You believed President Bush would avenge the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but Osama bin Laden has never been captured and Afghanistan remains a safe haven for al-Qaida.

You believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq posed a grave threat to America, but the WMDs turned out to have never existed and all the rationales for war turned out to be lies (see www. publicintegrity.org/WarCard for a fully searchable database of hundreds of false statements issued by the Bush administration in the two years after 9/11).
You believed him when President Bush stood on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, below a banner that read "Mission Accomplished," and proclaimed that major combat operations in Iraq were over. Now, nearly 4,000 Americans and about 1 million Iraqis have died in a conflict that was only supposed to last a few weeks and now is about to enter its sixth year.

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In the face of all this, some little pipsqueak town in Vermont dares to call your president a war criminal and calls for his indictment and arrest.

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http://reformer.com/editorials/ci_8126021

It's quite nice around there in the summer. Even if they don't pass it, Brattleboro has done enough to deserve it. They were one of the first towns to call for and pass an impeachment resolution.

Very good read.

Thank you Brattlboro and thank you Brattlboro Reformer. :patriot:

Nice. Thanks for posting.

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-Laelth

Arcata CA, Oberlin OH, Ann Arbor MI...those Blue oases in the Big Red Desert.

I live almost 3 hours north of Brattleboro in the Northeast Kingdom and even my little town in the middle of nowhere voted to impeach bush 2 years ago. Hell, the Vermont State Senate voted to impeach bushco. In fact, all of New England is deep blue.

We had a cottage at Lake Willoughby a number of years ago and loved it. Wonderful area!

I wasn't implying that Brattleboro is the only blue spot in Vermont, far from it. I was just pointing out that there are some unique areas in this country that seem to be on the forefront. May there be more.

My ex-inlaws have a camp there and I still keep my kayak at their camp. Willoughby is so beautiful- summer or winter.

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We feel your pain. The man you believed was destined for greatness is now headed for the dustbin of history. Future historians will rate George W. Bush as the worst president ever. And the last remnants of the conservative majority you thought would last for decades will likely be swept away in November's election.
Bwhahahahahahahah :rofl: :rofl:

slammed in the Vermont media. We hate him. We really, really hate him.

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