More Evidence of Bush's Treasonous, Impeachable Betrayal of the Nation?

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Pardon Me, Dick Cheney?

This email from Democrats.com:

Will Bush Pardon Cheney on Christmas Eve?

On Christmas Eve 1992, defeated President George H.W. Bush pardoned Caspar Weinberger, Elliott Abrams, Duane Clarridge, Alan Fiers, Clair George, and Robert McFarlane for their Iran-Contra crimes. Not one served a single day in jail; Weinberger was about to go on trial and would have tied Bush himself to the scandal.

Will George W. Bush follow his father's precedent and pardon Dick Cheney and his other criminal co-conspirators this Wednesday on Christmas Eve?

Last week, Cheney was all over TV setting the stage for pardons. He admitted he personally approved torture, but insisted it destroyed Al Qaeda and saved American lives.

According to a powerful article by David Rose in Vanity Fair, the Bush-Cheney torture regime accomplished exactly the opposite. The torture photos from Abu Ghraib helped Al Qaeda's recruitment soar. U.S. officers in Iraq say torture-inspired attacks on U.S. soldiers were the #1 and #2 cause of soldiers' deaths. CIA analysts say the "intelligence" produced by torture was worthless.

On November 20, Rep. Jerrold Nadler introduced H.Res. 1531 to urge Bush not to pardon his criminal co-conspirators. Nadler's bill has 9 co-sponsors but we need every Representative (and Senator) to speak out against corrupt self-pardons.

If you haven't signed our petition to Congress, please join over 48,000 who have:
http://democrats.com/nadler-pardons

Discuss this here:
http://www.democrats.com/will-bush-pardon-cheney-on-christmas-eve

Urge Eric Holder to Appoint a Special Prosecutor for Bush War Crimes

Last week three important Democrats - Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Sen. Carl Levin, and VP-elect Joe Biden - independently urged the Attorney General to investigate Dick Cheney's torture confession. A growing chorus of newspapers (NY Times) and legal scholars (John Dean, Glenn Greenwald) agrees.

Prosecution of those responsible for torture is not optional - it is required by our obligations under the Geneva Conventions.

So we've joined forces with buhdydharma and the Docudharma community to petition Obama's AG nominee, Eric Holder, to appoint a Special Prosecutor.

Holder replied after receiving a few hundred emails: "Enough folks. I hear you." That's a start, but we've asked for a formal statement. And we're collecting additional signatures to deliver when Holder goes before the Senate for confirmation hearings in January.

Please sign and spread the word!
http://democrats.com/special-prosecutor-for-bush-war-crimes

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A Republican I Could Vote For

Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Read this piece by Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter of Michigan essentially skewering our darling dimwit of a president for having to think and think and think and think and think about whether to go to the opening of the Olympic Games in light of what's going on in Tibet and the rest of China. McCotter also says in this article that he introduced H.R. 5668, "which would bar any United States government official from attending the Beijing games’ ceremonies," which I didn't know.

Of course, he goes through a long list of ways that politicians could convince Bush not to go, and manages to get in a fair number of plugs for the stupendous right-wing misogyny that the anti-abortion camp holds so dear.

But at least in this very small way, what an upstanding piece he's written. Maybe he's educable. Maybe. Or, you know, I'll just go back to hating him tomorrow.

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Information to Make Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini and Kim Jong Il Very Proud

Was cruising through Slate.com today and came across a story about the federal government settling with two Texas demonstrators at a presidential rally, but more than that was the placing on the website of the ACLU a PDF document outlining how presidential rallies are to be handled and structured for maximum propagandist effect. I'm not saying that similar document did not or would not exist under a Democratic president, but under the current one, with his evil anti-democratic, autocratic tendencies, the meat and guts of the document are truly terrifying. Give it a read and tell me whether the document, even with so much redacted out of it, don't just make your heart sink. God help the US.

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