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Now they tell us. Prowar Democrats want to investigate Bush’s “intelligence
failures”—in other words, the manipulated lies leading to the invasion
of Iraq. “Emboldened by last week’s indictment of former top White
House aide I. Lewis Libby, Democrats Tuesday used an obscure parliamentary rule
to capture the Senate floor,” reports the Christian
Science Monitor. “In doing so, they infuriated Republicans but won
a timetable to complete a long-delayed Senate investigation of whether the White
House manipulated the intelligence used to justify invading Iraq.”
Republicans, of course, don’t want to go there. Democrats, on the other
hand, only want to go there as a way to attack Bush, who they believe mismanaged
the invasion, not that it was illegal, immoral, and criminal. Needless to say,
the so-called “Phase 2? of the investigation is about two and half years
late and over 200 billion dollars short. Moreover, the investigation has degenerated
into little more than a partisan blame game—Democrats blame neocons such
as Feith and the Republicans blame Clinton. “[I]n recent years, the Senate
intelligence committee has become increasingly polarized along party lines,”
in other words, nothing will happen and the investigation will be a complete
waste of time and money. It’s business of usual in Washington where politicos
waste billions of dollars in an effort to criticize each other and gain the
highest ground.
“Critics assailed the [parliamentary rule] tactic as a cheap trick to
seize the agenda at a time when President Bush is gaining momentum after his
nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court and his plan to contain bird
flu,” the Christian Science Monitor continues. “Democrats insist
that the risky—and apparently successful—gambit was necessary to
hold the Bush administration accountable.”
Never mind that “bird flu” is not a threat and does not need to
be contained and Samuel Alito (derogatorily called “Scalito” because
he differs so little from the Opus Dei Supreme Court Chief Justice Antonin Scalia)
will serve as a water boy for the neocons and their kissing cousins, the globalist
neolibs. In fact, the Democrats—the vast majority who voted for Bush’s
invasion and occupation—will not hold “the Bush administration accountable”
in any meaningful or significant way.
If the Democrats were not simply playing partisan games, attempting
to score points against Bush for self-serving political reasons, they would
demand Bush’s immediate impeachment and move to indict him for high crimes
and misdemeanors, war crimes, egregious abuse of office, for telling lies to
the American people, and also for numerous and repeated violations of the Constitution,
from attacking the Fourth and Sixth amendments to ignoring Section 8, Clause
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