Are you outraged about Bush commuting sentence of Libby?

President George W. Bush commuted the prison sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Libby was the chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney.

Libby was convicted of obstructing justice in the investigation of who leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Plame's identity was leaked as retaliation for her husband, Joe Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador and career diplomat, writing an opinion piece in the New York Times debunking Bush administration claims about Iraq trying to acquire Uranium in Africa. Wilson explained that parts of the Bush administration new the claims about Iraq trying to acquire Uranium were bogus, however, President Bush and others kept using the claims as part of their case for selling the American people on going to war with Iraq.

Libby obstructed justice as part of the conspiracy to take the United States to war based on fraud and psychological manipulation. Bush and Cheney were leaders of the conspiracy. And Bush has protected Libby from the consequences of participating in the conspiracy. The implicit quid pro quo is that Libby will continue to protect Bush and Cheney by not revealing what he knows about how the American people were bamboozled.

Fortunately, the U.S. Constitution provides for a way to hold the President of the United States accountable when he violates the law. When the President of the United States is guilty of "bribery, treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors" he may be tried and removed from office.

Bush and Cheney have committed numerous crimes in office. And the Democrats declared impeachment was "off the table" so as not to offend the pundit class and other media elites. This was supposed to make Democrats seem reasonable.

If you are outraged by Bush commuting the sentence of one of his co-conspirators, please email me. With your contact information include your member of Congress. To get members of Congress to do their duty, we need to do our duty as citizens and be persistent. There needs to be accountability.

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IRAQ, four years ago today "mission accomplished"

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Four years ago President George W. Bush stood on the deck of USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and declared major combat operations were over under a banner than said "mission accomplished".

F08, Wes Clark builds opposition to attacking Iran

I didn't do much to oppose invading Iraq. I caught a bunch of grief from one of my activists friends who was busting her ass going to demonstrations and the like. I figured invading Iraq didn't make sense. Surely President George W. Bush was just saber rattling to get Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi government to make concessions so Bush could claim he was tough enough to accomplish more than President Bill Clinton.

I was wrong.

Team Bush is crazy. Just because the world works a certain way, don't expect Bush to realize that he is constrained by reality. These people are dangerous.

Crooks & Liars (John Amato) has video of Bush being interviewed by CNN's Wolf Blitzer in September, 2006. Bush denies Iraq is in a civil war based on what his appointees and subordinates are telling him. So either he appoints people who give him the mushroom treatment or Bush cannot process information that contradicts the reality he has chosen to believe.

The video was blogged because it contains the Bush quote:

I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is — my point is, there’s a strong will for democracy.

If you watch the video you will see that Bush starts to say "Iran" but then switches to Iraq. Bush and his advisers have been planning to attack Iran from a ways back.

Wes Clark is organizing to oppose the United States attacking Iran. See StopIranWar.com. He's probably planning to use the email list for his presidential campaign. Whatever....

Attacking Iran is completely batshit insane. Since Iraq is majority Shia and Iran is a Shia country one blogger--I can't remember who--asked the question, have we considered which side our Iraqi allies will be on?

I hope the Democrats will do the right thing and stop Bush from starting a war with Iran. However, I'm pessimistic.