John Dean Confirms Suskind’s Book Focuses On Impeachable Crimes

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By: Nicole Belle on Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 at 2:00 PM - PDT

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I don’t know that the revelations from Ron Suskind’s new book The Way of The World are truly bombshells, so much as confirmation of what we in the liberal blogosphere have always said: the Bush administration wanted to go to war in Iraq and were willing to do whatever they had to to sell it to the American people.

But what is key to me is that there is very little left to which people like Nancy Pelosi can hold on to claim that there is no proof of criminal wrongdoing on the part of the White House. John Dean–no stranger to impeachment proceedings–has been saying that this administration is worse than watergate for years. On Tuesday’s Countdown, he confirms that Suskind’s findings absolutely signal impeachable offenses on the part of the administration and why it is critical that Congress find their spines and pursue it:

OLBERMANN: The big picture question. As I‘ve been saying, you saw enough in Bush in malfeasance by the end of 2003 to have titled that book “Worse than Watergate.” Suskind says in his that just the Iraq part is worse than Watergate. Do you concur with his assessment?

DEAN: Well, I do and I base mine largely on the excessive secrecy which he has only added more detail and information about and the consequences of that secrecy. And, of course, in Watergate, nobody died as a result of Nixon‘s so-called abuses of power nor was anybody tortured. So, we‘re playing in a whole different field and on a different level. So, I think he is right, it is worse.

Suskind: Bush lied us into war, fabricating evidence as needed.

Dean: Bush Admin Constitutional violations worse than Watergate.

Pelosi: So show me where a crime was committed.

Jackpine: Aaaaaargh!

Whaddya want, lady? Eggs in your beer?