Dear Speaker Pelosi,
I encourage Congress to file simultaneous impeachment proceedings against Mr. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Alberto Gonzales immediately. At the same time indict Harriet Meiers for her failure to appear at hearings. She is not above the legal mandates issued by congress.

It is clear that the President, et al, are not behaving rationally concerning the wars in the middle east, Iraq and Afghanistan. There is more than enough evidence to bring a case for impeachment against each of them. By bringing simultaneous impeachment charges it will call attention to the extent of the corruption and the illegal practices of this White House administration.

The majority of Americans comprehend what Congress seems to fail to understand. That this sitting president behaves like a spoiled child.

Why do you, a Mother, and leader, choose to indulge this dangerous child, who wears the mantle of president of the United States. This same spoiled child that alone has the power to press a nuclear button that can create holocaust throughout the world. I do not understand your failure to immediately press for removal of such a person as Mr. Bush. Please start impeachment proceedings. You were elected to do what was necessary to change the direction of this nation. There is no other recourse at this point.

Avoiding the impeachment process implies that the democrats in congress are as interested as the republicans in keeping the war money flowing into their districts. No matter how many die for the political contributions and profits garnered by the war. Simple logic indicates that the reason democrats have not moved for impeachment is because they, too, have sold their integrity to the lobbiests and war profiteering corporations in order to benefit personal campaign interests.

There is no sane reason to allow this president and his entourage to continue the destruction of America, as well as the ruin other nations it deems unfit to govern their own affairs.

We need to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan. We need to discontinue threats against Iran. And, we need to mind our own business. (caveat: provide food, medicines, and education to those in need).

Sir, we know who you are, sir.

Comment by Mr. President

Yeah? The link was left there on PURPOSE. Quite the sleuth though, aren’t ya?

Comment by willyloman — July 13, 2007 @ 12:48 am

Thanks for the link… it’s amazing to discover how much Christianity owes to ancient astronomers/astrologers. With segues to and tie-ups with the other threads in the film, we begin to see a comprehensive picture of today’s political zeitgeist. Nice work.

Sir, we know who you are, sir.

Comment by Kurosawa — July 13, 2007 @ 6:36 am

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You Damn Right!!!!!!!!!!

Silence. Crickets.. Not even a paragraph of exclamation points.
How can you defend the indefensible?

George W. Bush has created a terrorism-industrial complex even more sinister and deadly that than the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us so wisely against.

What kind of president hosts secret meetings in the White House with profit-bloated business and campaign contributors who make vast fortunes by polluting the planet and profiting from his miserable war?

What kind of president initiates a preemptive war, creates an Occupation Authority that promotes corruption as vast as anything ever dreamed of during the Roman Empire, covers up massive torture at Abu Ghraib, keeps open the universally condemned prison at Guantanamo, allows tens of billions of dollars to be stolen or wasted during this occupation, sends underpaid troops to war while he fails to provide them the equipment they need to survive, holds gala fundraisers serving champagne and caviar to those who make vast profits from this tragic venture, then attacks the patriotism of his opponents, claims to do this in the name of God, escalates these wrongs in the name of democracy, angers and alienates the entire free world, wonders why our enemy is succeeding, and clings with some pathological obsession to this miserable and failed policy?

On this day, while the radical Republicans in the Senate filibuster Jim Webb’s effort to restore rationality to rotations of heroic and beleagured troops, we learn that our troops have not gotten their urgently requested armored vehicles because of continuing corruptions endemic to this terrorism-industrial complex, we learn that American blood shed to buy the government government time has been insulted by an Iraqi government that does not meet even basic benchmarks, we learn that al Qaeda regained its pre-Sept. 11 strength to capitalize on the catastrophes caused by the partisan president who so shamelessly exploited that very tragedy, we learn of the latest presidential claim of executive privilege to cover up the latest abuse of executive power, and there is more, but the day is not long enough, nor the space here great enough, to list every wrongdoing and failure for even this one 24-hour period.

http://pundits.thehill.com/2007/07/12/george-w-bush-war-profiteers-and-the-terrorism-industrial-complex/

The June 27 report, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, examined 15 contracts worth $2.2 billion awarded since 2000 to Force Protection Inc. and Armor Holdings Inc.

The contracts were issued without the normal competition for government work because the military determined these companies were the only ones capable of supplying the vehicles fast enough to meet the demands of deployed troops.

Yet the inspector general’s report concluded otherwise.

Overall, Force Protection of Ladson, S.C., received 11 contracts from the Army and Marine Corps worth $417 million for a variety of vehicles, including its Buffalo and Cougar mine-resistant trucks.

Force Protection failed to meet all delivery schedules, according to the report, and acquisition officials knew there were other manufacturers that might have supplied some of the vehicles in a more timely fashion. The report does not provide the names of those possible alternative sources.

Mike Aldrich, a Force Protection vice president, acknowledged the delays and said the problems were caused by an inability to get essential manufacturing materials.

The company’s production and delivery schedules have improved greatly in recent months, Aldrich added, noting that 100 of the Buffalo vehicles have been delivered.

“Government reports are largely written by lawyers and look intimidating when you pick them up,” Aldrich said. “But our vehicles perform well in theater and have saved the lives of troops.”

The inspector general’s report agreed that Force Protection’s vehicles have been of substantial value since they arrived.

The report, not yet publicly released, also criticizes the Army’s award of a $266 million contract for crew protection kits to Simula Aerospace and Defense Group, a subsidiary of Armor Holdings of Jacksonville, Fla.

Simula lacked the internal controls necessary to ensure delivery of the kits, which were needed to make military vehicles less vulnerable to roadside bombs and small-arms fire, according to the report.

The Army received kits “with missing and unusable components, which increased installation time and required additional reinspection of kits,” according to the report.

In describing the scope of the problem, the report said that some of the Simula kits delivered to the troops had two left doors, were missing side plates and contained brackets that needed re-welding.

Overall, the problems “resulted in increased risk to the lives of soldiers,” the report states.

Armor Holdings received three other contracts worth $1.5 billion for armored Humvees and armor kits to strengthen older-model vehicles.

Spokesman Michael Fox said the company had not seen the report and had no immediate comment.

The review was requested by Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., in April 2006, after she learned the Pentagon was relying on just a few small companies to supply bomb-resistant vehicles to troops in Iraq.

With improvised explosive devices accounting for the majority of combat deaths and injuries, Slaughter said that strategy needed to be examined.

“It’s been business as usual,” Slaughter said Wednesday after reviewing the report. “The lives of our soldiers took a back seat to who got the contracts.”

Slaughter said the report raises more questions than answers and that she wants to know if the awards were the result of “influence peddling or insider connections.”

In written comments to the inspector general, the Marine Corps defended its acquisition decisions for the vehicles.

The armored vehicle contracts “were executed within the law, spirit and intent of the current acquisition rules and regulations,” according the comments.

In separate written comments, the Army did not object to the report’s findings.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070711/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/armored_vehicle_delays;_ylt=AmwOgcVUI5efgyjRzvQDeKCs0NUE

$9 billion in cash disappeared the first year.
The only assignment for the military: protect the oil ministry and infrastructure.
Unguarded weapons and bomb making materials.
Fired any General who did not agree with the Citizens running the war.

Oh, and you corporation lovers:
The good old USofA has always used our CIA and our military to destabilize governments that were unfriendly to US corporate interests. We did it in Central America: el Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile, the Dominican republic; we tried to do it in Cuba and Venezuela. Our policy has been; either you allow us to take your resources, or we will have a bloody coup, and put in the guy who WILL let us steal your resources.
And so it is with Iraq. God, for some reason, put them on our oil, and by God, for god and country, we will have that oil.
Maybe some of you troglodytes think that is a good and effective use of our military. I would disagree. Something about killing for profits just does not sit well with me. I guess I don’t have the same intestinal fortitude as you Bush-loving corporate apologists. Yes, liberals and progressives are weak; we do not have the stones to rape and kill people because they had the temerity to deny us the oil god promised us.
So there is the difference between corporate conservatives and progressives. Progressives do not have what it takes to kill for the corporate interests of the state.
What do you call it when the government and corporations are basically working together. FACISM
That’s the position you support.

As Bush said; this would be a lot easier if this was a dictatorship; and I was the dictator.

Logic is clearly not your strong point. Now just slow down and think about what your writing.

But then again there is neocon logic – here’s how it works: Dubya – “Saddam is an Arab, and the terrorists are Arabs, therefore Saddam is a terrorist, lets kill Saddam and the terrorist will go away”

His untempered support of corporatism at its worst (exploitative labor practices, cutting corners in any way possible to squeeze a few more bucks out of the bottom line etc.) indicates how little he knows about American History.

Comment by Nacho — July 13, 2007 @ 9:06 am

Wonder what would happen if I made a little cartoon of Jebus being sodomized by Bush? Bet some whacky right wingers would go off.

I’m sure the corporate apologist in you loves the Bushies penchant for no-bid contracts…pretty anti-capitalist if you ask me.

Comment by Kurosawa — July 13, 2007 @ 8:22 am

In order to make money, they have to sell goods and services. In order for people to purchase those goods and services, they have to have jobs. The problem isn’t companies making money, it’s companies looking only at short-term gains so their quarterly reports can bump up their stock five points and ignoring the long-term effects of of layoffs and outsourcing and polluting and shifting their operations to countries without labor protections.

Sadly you don’t even realize we’re fighting for you too, because you know when enough people are paid crappy wages, lose their jobs to outsourcing, downsizing, or immigration, you’ll no longer have customers who can afford to use the products and/or services you provide unless you provide.

And those days are coming:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16922582/