FINALLY!!!
I finally found a moderately-organized effort to get an impeachment process started against W!

I knew there were plenty of other people out there who saw the hypocricy of impeaching Clinton for lying about sex, yet doing nothing to Bush for lying about national security with the end result being thousands of dead (including more than 100 Americans, and counting). The question was, finding them. Well, here are two good links.

Impeach Bush Now is run by Fancis Boyle, a University professor.

Vote To Impeach is run by Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General.

The latter has a petition you can "sign" and the former helps you write your various "representatives" to urge them to hold someone in the W. regime accountable.

Impeach Bush Now also has a lot of fine articles, and I particularly recommed this one, as it lays out the case for impeachment, comparing it to other modern scandals. An excerpt:

--"This is prevarication on a scale that rivals the Johnson Adminstration's lie about the purposted attack on an American destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin..."

,,Like Johnson's big lie, which led to the deaths of over 50,000 Americans and of millions of Southeast Asians, the Bush Administration's lies about Iraq--that it had biological and chemical weapons ready to use and that it was well on the way to developing nuclear weapons of that it was directly supporting Al Qaeda--were deliberately designed to trick Congress and the American Public into supporting a war that otherwise would not have happened--in the first instance against North Vietnam and in the second against Iraq.

Both of these deceptions were murderous lies."--

Like I said, finally! Not that impeachment will ever happen, since the paragons of hypocricy control the Congress, but maybe we can make enough noise to let the rest of the world know W. doesn't fool us, as the British have done with Tony B.

Actual News on CNN World
I actually saw a really intelligent and cogent bit of journalism on the mainstream media the other day. It was on CNN (the international version, so it probably didn't air in the US) and was about Jose Padilla, and how the constitution has been completely circumvented by the Bush administration. This man is in prison indefinitely, has no access to speak to anyone--even a lawyer--and the government never has to try him or charge him. They say he was planning to detonate a "dirty bomb" in the US, but they've offered no proof and say they never have to.

Unable to find a link to any kind of transcript of the piece,

While a few people have (rightly) been decrying the Bush Regime's attempts to do away with Miranda rights, this situation details how they've effectively sidestepped ALL constitutional rights. All they have to do is label you an "enemy combatant", and you cease to exist. I wonder if George W. can spell KAFKA?

I know what book I'll be reading next
There's a ton of great information in buzzflash's interview with Joe Conason about his new book: Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How it Distorts the Truth.


--"Well, as far as I can tell, the Republicans, at least on Capitol Hill, are far more immoral, by their own standards, than the Democrats are."-- (emphasis added).

He's compiled a long, though not inclusive, list of transgressions by the same people who decried the Clinton's "moral relativism".


--"Democrats -- most Democrats, anyway -- have that attitude towards human sexuality and morality in general, that if you're not harming someone else, you should pretty much be able to manage your own private affairs. The Republicans are eager to interfere in other people's private business. And they trumpet their desire to do that, often, it seems to me, in direct proportion to their own -- what they would regard as sinful -- behavior.
I say in the book that this is a species of what psychologists call projection. An excellent example is someone like Newt Gingrich, who put out long lists of words accusing Democrats of perversion and decadence, and who was involved in the most grotesque hypocrisy in terms of his violation of his marriage to his second wife."--


This guy's done the research these so-called "moral watchdogs" don't want to see. A must read.

Common Sense beats Military Inteligence any day.
Thanks to Ashleigh (who's keeping up The Little Red Cookbook while Jen's away) for pointing out this article for me to comment on. A few choice quotes from it:

--"Few people believe that the resistance in that country is being coordinated by Saddam Hussein and his noxious family, or that it will come to an end when those people are killed. But the few appear to include the military and civilian command of the United States armed forces. "--

If we kill some of them, the others will lose their fighting spirit. Let's see...this theory, in the course of history, has worked approsimately ZERO times. Or course, it's having the opposite effect. This is one of the worst things about the war in Iraq (at least for Americans): with each Iraqi killed, each assasination result aired on TV, we make more enemies. For those willing to look at history, the evidence is clear: in 1986, Reagan bombed Libya and killed a "small number" of Libyans, including Quadaffi's daughter. Two years later, Libyan agents blew up the Pan Am flight over Lockerby, Scottland. The predominantly Saudi group that executed the September 2001 attacks on the US openly cited US actions in their country in 1991 as the rationale for their attacks. Every action creates a reaction...it's not just a line from the Matrix Reloaded, and it's not just a law of Physics...it's true in Geopolitics, too.

--"For the hundredth time since the U.S. invaded Iraq, the predictions made by those with access to intelligence have proved less reliable than the predictions made by those without."--

Indeed. Once again, in other words, common sense beats the "intelligence" of the military war-mongers. I have very little faith in the average American any more, but even this lack of common sense (meaning that shown by anyone actually buying into W's propoganda) baffles me. I would think that Americans, with all their gung-ho, gun-slinging, revenge-minded bravado, would understand this point best of all. If someone comes into your home and kills your family, is that going to make you roll over and comply with their demands, or are you going to spend the rest of your life trying to kill them? Which is more likely?
Here's a hint...go watch "The Patriot" with Mel Gibson, see how the all-American hero acts when his sons are killed, and then ask yourself why we're expected to beleive Iraqis won't react the same way.

Up and Running (off at the mouth)
Okay, so I thought I'd join in with this whole "Blog" thing. Figure it will get me writing a little more, and maybe I'll occasionally churn out something worth reading. Actually, I realized that I write something nearly every day either on this or that blog in the comments section, or at one of the expatriate sites I visit. Posts will cover any range of topics, basically what you can find on my website.