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"President Bush claimed that what is interesting about being President is that he does not have to answer to anyone. Not the American people and not Congress; not even the courts. He claimed that he is accountable to no one; that the 2000 and 2004 elections, as marred with irregularities as they were, were his sole moments of accountability. President Bush even claimed that it would be a lot easier to rule as a dictator. The President of the United States of America dared utter these words. Of course he also utters the words “freedom,” “human rights,” and “democracy” at will to prompt the instinctive American response that this is what our nation embodies. He espouses this belief in the founding principles of our nation, while demonstrating a callous disregard for the American people and our system of governance. No law is too large or too small to undo, whether by Congress, misuse of signing statements or by complete disregard for the law itself. What is more shocking, as many nations throughout history have had the wrong leader at the wrong time, is the near silence from Congress beyond a few choice quotes when an election is near. They are quite nearly responding with one voice and one vision – Democrats and Republicans alike. The loyal opposition in Congress is fading without debate, and many are complicit in the overhaul of our nation. What the President says goes, checked by none. This is the new law of 21st century America."  By Susan Morrison

"If the president has commander-in-chief power to commit torture, he has the power to commit genocide, to sanction slavery, to promote apartheid, to license summary execution" Harold Koh, dean of Yale Law School.

"Legally, there are no significant differences between the investor fraud perpetrated by Enron CEO Ken Lay and the prewar intelligence fraud perpetrated by George W. Bush. Both involved persons in authority who used half-truths and recklessly false statements to manipulate people who trusted them. There is, however, a practical difference: The presidential fraud is wider in scope and far graver in its consequences than the Enron fraud. Yet thus far the public seems paralyzed." Elizabeth de la Vega

Prosecute Bush for Murder

Bush Pardons Himself For War Crimes

George Bush: War Criminal (8/1/2008)

Bush Must Be Prosecuted

San Francisco proposal: name sewage treatment plant after Bush (6/25/2008)

Olbermann to Bush: "Your Hypocrisy Is So Vast" [VIDEO]

Manchurian Candidate in the White House

Bush's mass murder and war crimes (5/28/2008)

What is he capable of ?

   
The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency  

The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency
By Brad Reed, AlterNet
A shorter version of our long national nightmare. Read more »

 

Signing the Constitution Away By Eric Alterman 03 May 2006 "Last Sunday, the Boston Globe’s Charlie Savage broke a story that should be shocking to all of us had we not grown inured to the casual contempt toward the Constitution that the Bush administration deems to be its droite d’etat. ...Savage reported that, 'President [sic] Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.'"  

The New York Times disclosure of an official National Intelligence Estimate, which states that the Iraq invasion has worsened the global terrorist threat, carries an unspoken subtext - that the Bush administration is either woefully ignorant of how to combat terrorism or finds the terrorist threat a useful tool for managing the American public. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/092606a.html

Bush: Master of Disaster (10/28/2007)

A third term for Bush

Goodbye to checks and balances ?

Unitary King George

Harold Pinter: Why George Bush is Insane.

About the Bush Administration.

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PNAC a Bush administration rogues gallery.

Bush declares himself the mega decider.

Jim Hightower points out Bush's grab for more power.

Paul Craig Roberts reasons for impeachment.

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Bush Crime Commission

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Bush was not particularly well qualified to be President. He is not a very good speaker, has little interest in policy, had traveled little, had almost no military experience, and had a mediocre record in the private sector. As the son of a former President who was the head of the CIA, his placement in office not only created massive conflicts of interest (see the Carlyle Group), but allowed Bush the younger to shroud his father's records in secrecy. It is not surprising that his record as President is the worst ever.

Bush Sr as a former head of the CIA was accomplished in techniques for winning elections, and of course had major connections to the oil industry and US military/industrial/media complex. The Bush family, as Kevin Phillips writes at length, has a tradition of putting its own interests first.

Bush Jrs selection highlighted long-standing corruption in US elections and a partisan Supreme Court. Election problems were widely reported in the foreign press. The Congress gave the illusion of action by passing the HAVA, but it did little to actually clean up or improve elections.  

Corporate media cheerled these things and they were rewarded when Michael Powell pushed for still more media concentration. According to former CIA Director William Colby:  "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." For whatever reason media never held Bush or the Republicans accountable for their horrendous failures. Remember how Reagan was Teflon-man ?

Bush reliably favors the corporate interest over everyone else's. Actually, the dictionary definition of fascism is control of government by corporations. We've got that. Bush populated US government with corporate cronies who were determined to enrich themselves at the expense of most everybody else. It appears that none of the US agencies serve the people any longer. It is no surprise that the US is rapidly being deindustrialized as jobs continue to hemorrhage to low-wage countries. As corporations shed employee benefits, risk has been shifted to families, and everyone is more insecure. The weapons industry may turn out to be the employer of last resort for Americans, and automatically that translates to a takeover by the military-industrial complex. (Ike warned us about that, but media memory is very short or very selective. Also, they are war profiteers.)

When Bush Jr took office, there was a real danger that peace would break out.  Bush was determined, according to Paul O'Neill and the Downing Street memo, to invade Iraq from the moment he took office. Francis Boyle writes in his  book "Destroying World Order- U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East Before and After September 11.  "It is now a matter of public record that immediately after being inaugurated as president in January 2001, George Bush, Jr., Vice-President Dick Cheney, Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld, and his pro-Israeli 'Neoconservative' Deputy Paul Wolfowitz began to plot, plan, scheme, and conspire to wage a war of aggression against Iraq," Boyle writes. "Later, they manipulated the tragic events of September 11 in order to provide a pretext for doing so. The fact that Iraq had nothing at all to do with September 11 or supporting Al-Qaeda - as the CIA itself advised - made no difference to Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, their Undersecretary of War Douglas Feith, Undersecretary of State John Bolton, and the numerous other pro-Israeli Neo-Cons inhabiting the Bush, Jr. administration." The Downing Street Memo demonstrated an intent to manipulate 'intelligence' to go to war, the Bush agenda was enabled by 9/11, and Bush claimed "war powers" to justify an imperial presidency. The Constitution has been shreded. 

In the 1970's Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz made the case for a Soviet Union that was ten feet tall and resulted in the Reagan's trillion dollar arms bill. They duped us again. They twisted 'intelligence' to make a case for war in Iraq and enriched themselves and their cronies in the process.  Again, as in the Reagan years, they have cooked the books to disguise the mountain of debt that has all but bankrupted the US. The War on Iraq was kept off the books, while Social Security was assessed as a financial problem.  Bush tax cuts were regressive and provided little economic stimulus. As a result we may come a little closer to an aristocracy.  It is one of the hallmarks of a banana republic that while taxpayers accumulate massive debt, an elite group enrich themselves.  

After 9/11 and a still unresolved anthrax attack struck fear into the hearts of Americans, made it the pretext for endless war, Republicans pushed through the Patriot Act, an assault on the Bill of Rights. Contrary to the Constitution W took it upon himself to expand Presidential power, declared himself a war president and  argued that he is above the law. A subservient Congress and a packed Supreme Court allowed this to happen, but it is at the expense of Constitutional government. Those checks and balances that we all learned about have been seriously eroded. Like other republics in history, we too are becoming an empire. We will share their fate.

W presides over the most secretive administration in history. A cloud of secrecy was scrupulously kept over the investigation of 9/11, war profiteering, unauthorized surveillance, and the justification for his endless war. Secrecy covered up his unauthorized, illegal surveillance of Americans as well as the torture and rendition committed in US facilities (some secret) around the world. His refusal to join the International Criminal Court is no surprise. The American Bar Association accuses President Bush, of violating both the Constitution and federal law. A President above the law is a dictator, not just an insult to the Constitution.

John Conyers (D., Mich.) released a staggering report with the hard evidence of crimes and abuses committed by President Bush and his administration (breaking 26 specific laws). This report, "The Constitution in Crisis," should provide the raw material for numerous news reports and point reporters toward fertile ground for additional investigations. Have a look at http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/constitutionincrisis

As Noam Chomsky points out in his recent book "Failed States", Bush has brought us closer to nuclear and environmental disaster, thumbed his nose at international law, and earned the hostility of most of the world. See books for additional analysis.

According to Seymour Hersh, the US helped plan Israel's invasion of Lebanon as a preliminary step to a possible pre-emptive strike on Iran.

Bush has committed criminal acts and should be impeached. The Bush Crimes Commission documents the evidence on wars of aggression, detention and torture, destruction of the global environment, sabotage of global health programs, and the abandonment of New Orleans. See this also. Twisting 'intelligence', war profiteering, pre-emptive war, and hiding all of these crimes behind a veil of secrecy by making them 'classified' are all high crimes. See this link.

You are NOT safer.

Think we'll attack Iran ?

Paul Craig Roberts: Think Bush is Evil now ? Wait till he nukes Iran.

Biggest falsehoods of 2006.

The evil is in our government.

Enough Evidence to Impeach and Imprison Bush & Co right now

Bush on Torture Echoes Charles I on Arbitrary Imprisonment.

Bush on trial for crimes against humanity.

Bush's bouts of crying, ghostly visions.

Unitary King George

Links (many of them.)

censurebush.org

Harper's Magazine makes the case for impeachment.

Ralph Nader's comments.

A flyer with some of the evidence

Oil-for-Food and other Bush family business

NRDC The Bush Record on the Environment

Bush News

afterdowningstreet.org

Rule of Law

HonestChief.com: Former U.S. Park Police Chief Teresa Chambers' site

Brentwood United: The site of the employees of Brentwood Postal Center, attacked by anthrax

National Security Whistleblowers Coalition

TrineDay won its case in the frivolous lawsuit brought against it by the right-wing!

The UN Oil-for-Food Scandal and the Bush Family

Too Stupid to be President

RESIGN

Want the US to remain a constitutional democracy ?

Almost all topics on the editorial page add to the evidence. 

Conyer's report on the Constitution in crisis

Chuck Baldwin on the Bush Record

Hunter S. Thompson

Bibliography

United States v George W. Bush et al: Elizabeth de la Vega

Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth by Raoul Berger

Unchecked and Unbalanced: Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr. and Aziz Z. Huq

Neck Deep: the Disastrous Presidency of George Bush, Robert Parry

Books by Jack Huberman

Bush's Fringe Government:: Gary Wills

Takeover: the Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy. Charlie Savage (winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
At the end of this chilling volume Savage offers a concise and powerful conclusion: "The expansive presidential powers claimed and exercised by the Bush-Cheney White House are now an immutable part of American history — not controversies but facts. The importance of such precedents is difficult to overstate. As Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson once warned, any new claim of executive power, once validated into precedent, 'lies about like a loaded weapon ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need. Every repetition embeds that principle more deeply in our law and thinking and expands it to new purposes.' "Sooner or later, there will always be another urgent need."

Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order, by Mark Crispin Miller

A mordant and passionate exposé of the right-wing threat to American democracy and freedom.

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