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Somehow I find this news story ironic, in the fact that President Bush says he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of US soldiers killed in the conflict in Iraq.

“I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal. I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them.”

Now if only VP Cheney could find it in his heart to hang up the fly rod and show some solidarity as well, he might actually take on the persona of being somewhat human!

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During an interview this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America, Cheney was asked his opinion of a recent poll indicating that two-thirds of Americans now think the war was not worth fighting. Cheney’s response, “So?”

He added: “I think we cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations of
the public opinion polls. There has in fact been fundamental change and
transformation and improvement for the better. That’s a huge
accomplishment.”

“Public opinion polls are for pussies,” has always been Cheney’s mantra in the past, so why should it change now? When was the last time the Bush Administration was swayed by what the public wants or thinks? My question though is what “fundamental change and
transformation and improvement for the better,” is he talking about?

I would think that being the Vice President, one would and should be a little more careful with his words when talking about the citizens of the country he represents. “So,” just doesn’t cut it, especially when responding to a poll regarding a war he had a vital hand in planning. Trillions of dollars gone, and nearing 4000 American lives lost because of his war, and all he has to say is “So!”

Pitiful!

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In an email sent to his constituents today, Rep. Robert Wexler is taking the next step to getting Vice President Cheney to answer for his actions.

Wexler, a member of the House Judiciary Committee is calling for the committee “to schedule impeachment hearings immediately and not let this issue languish as it has over the last six months.”

Following is the full text of his letter:

As a person who supports holding this Administration accountable for their deceptive actions, you may be interested to know about the recent votes in the House regarding H.Res. 333, “Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.”

I share your belief that Vice President Cheney must answer for his deceptive actions in office, particularly with regard to the preparations for the Iraq war and the revelation of the identity of covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson as part of political retribution against her husband. That is why I voted against the motion to table debate on H.Res. 333.

Along with only 85 other Democrats, I opposed tabling the measure and supported beginning immediate debate and a vote on the Cheney impeachment resolution. The vote on tabling the Kucinich resolution was rejected, and the House subsequently voted to refer the matter to the Judiciary Committee.

Vice President Dick Cheney and the Bush Administration have demonstrated a consistent pattern of abusing the law and misleading Congress and the American people. We see the consequences of these actions abroad in Iraq and at home through the violations of our civil liberties. The American people are served well with a legitimate and thorough impeachment inquiry.

I will urge the Judiciary Committee to schedule impeachment hearings immediately and not let this issue languish as it has over the last six months. Only through hearings can we bring begin to correct the abuses of Dick Cheney and the Bush Administration; and, if it is determined in these hearings that Vice President Cheney has committed High Crimes and Misdemeanors, he should be impeached and removed from office.

It is time for Congress to expose the multitude of misdeeds of the Administration, and I am hopeful that the Judiciary Committee will expeditiously begin an investigation of this matter.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions or concerns. I sincerely appreciate your input and hope that you will feel free to contact me anytime I may be of assistance to you. In addition, I hope you find my website (http://wexler.house.gov) a valuable resource in keeping up with events in Washington and in South Florida.

With warm regards, Congressman Robert Wexler

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Let’s hope this starts something this time.

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Keith Olbermann last night on MSNBC’s Countdown, blasted it out of the park. In probably his best work to date, Keith clearly points out the real reasons for the war in Iraq. Bush and company are the real reasons America is mired in an unpopular war in a Middle Eastern country.

Keith runs down the list of this Administration’s “who’s who” that had a hand in making the invasion of Iraq a reality. There is much talk about the ad in the New York Times accusing General Petraeus of being the “Great Betrayer” to the world about the facts of the Iraq war. He is only the mouthpiece in this saga, covering for the real betrayer of this story, that being G.W. Bush and his merry band of thieves.

Say what you will about the failed strategy of the Iraq occupation, but the bottom line is that the only reason we are there is because of a handful of war mongering politicians so blinded by their quest for power that they have blurred the line between right and wrong.

Bush would have us believe that the US military is engaging the enemy of freedom and democracy, but yet the so-called mastermind of the terror network known as Osama bin Laden, public enemy number one still remains a free man. After six years, Osama is still a threat!

As Keith put it so truthfully speaking about Bush:

Because he has spent so much American blood and treasure, in the desert of a nation that had neither means nor motive to threaten us, but that tempted Mr. Bush and those around him who wished to transform the Middle East, so much so that he forswore the vow he made, standing here, literally atop New York’s dead that their killers would hear us soon.

Six years later, we still hear them, because now, finally, Iraq and 9/11 really are connected, by him.

And we suffer the consequences.

Thank you Keith for saying what needed to be said.

One more thing to ponder: Iraq was a needless war, now Bush is planning another one with Iran. The lunacy called the Bush Administration cannot be allowed to make this happen!

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There has always been something about Dick Cheney that made me nervous. Was it his smarmy, shit eating grin? Or maybe it was because he always looked like a sleepy lizard looking for a warm rock to lay on that made me question his motives. Either way, there is something about him that reeks “evil” whenever you look at him.

That “evil” was once again used to put him and his office of the Vice President above the law. Cheney is refusing to co-operate with the Information Security Oversight Office, a unit of the National Archives by not complying with routine requests for data on his staff’s classification of internal documents.

All executive branches of the government routinely comply with the oversight requirements, including the National Security Council.

The National Archives is an executive branch department headed by a presidential appointee, and it is assigned to collect the data on classified documents under a presidential executive order. Its Information Security Oversight Office is the archives division that oversees classification and declassification. The executive order states that it applies to any “entity within the executive branch that comes into the possession of classified information.”

You can’t tell me that the office of the Vice President of the United States does not have in it’s possession any classified information!

So the bottom line is, at least in Cheney’s mind is that he and his office are above the law. But in our minds, as we know it to be true is Cheney and his office are hiding the skeletons of the Bush Administration’s evil doings.

Its a shame to see “the government of the people, by the people, for the people” slip silently into a coma because of the “holier than thou” pedestal the Bush Administration has perched themselves on.

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