Impeach Bush and Waterboard Cheney

Friends,

Bush and Cheney and all the rest of the rats need to be brought to justice. I hope that a congressional investigation will find, try and prosecute these lying assholes. Here are pieces of Dan Froomkin's White House Watch in the Washington Post. His column is well written and forcefully questions this administration's illegal actions.

Waterboard Cheney and Impeach Bush

Love and Peace,

Rev O

"If you consider what the government did to be torture, which is a crime according to U.S. and international law, Bush's statement shifts his role from being an accessory after the fact to being part of a conspiracy to commit."

"The American Civil Liberties Union and a smattering of newspaper editorial boards around the country are greatly disturbed and are calling for an urgent congressional investigation."

"The Kansas City Star editorial board writes: "It's shameful that the United States has become, under the Bush administration, a country that tortures prisoners. This is a dark stain on our country's honor and ideals."

"The Brattleboro (Vt.) Reformer editorial board writes: "The ACLU is calling for a congressional investigation. We feel it can't be done soon enough. The damage this administration has done to human rights and the rule of law is so immense that this nation will be paying a steep price for it at home and abroad for decades to come."'

"The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News editorial board writes: "Long after the Bush administration is history, our nation will continue to be tarnished by its record of disregard for the rule of law and human rights."

"'New and troubling allegations suggest that the decisions on torture came from the highest levels of government,' said Conyers in a statement. 'These reports, if true, represent a stain on our democracy. The American people deserve to hear directly from those involved.'"

"Lewis writes in the New York Review of Books (subscription required): "In these last weeks of turbulent events, the single most significant has not been the financial crisis, not the fall of a governor, not the passing of the fifth year of the war without end in Iraq. It has been an American president's formal blessing of the use of torture."

Bush OK'd Torture Meetings» White House Watch, Dan Froomkin, Washington Post

President Bush knew that his top aides met to micromanage the application of waterboarding and other widely-condemned interrogation techniques.