Should Bush and Cheney Still be Investigated?

Many Repulicans say Leahy should not pursue investigations of these war criminals. Apparently, the people who want to let these criminals get away with their crimes aren't experiencing the outrageous overpricing at the grocery store, or having their property tax doubled by avarice empowered politicians who took their lead at how to cheat the taxpayers for their own profit from Bush himself. They obviously haven't lost a loved one in the unnecessary war; they were not one of the many innocent Americans victimized by wiretapping; or tortured while not being protected by habeas corpus; and/or any one of the many serious crimes that were committed during the Bush Administration against this nation and its citizens. What about watching our country's worldwide status dissolve along with the value of the American dollar? Let us not forget the melting ice caps, disappearing from Earth, taking endangered species with them as global warming ran rampant for eight years with no fear of limitations being set for big business, goals for green technology by automakers, or punishment of the greedy oil industry? How many loved ones didn't they lose to disease not cured by non-funded stem cell research? The only people who have no reason to expect accountability from Bush and Cheney are those who benefited from the protection and many advantages they received during the Bush Administration such as religious organizations who were not made to comply with our Constitutional separation of church and state as they collected our tax dollars before any other; the Republican Congress members who voted the way Bush told them to vote instead of what their constituents wanted; Halliburton which "won" every contract on which they bid during the Iraq war; Blackwater who killed Iraqi civilians because they could and made a lot of money doing so without fear of retribution; the entire Bush and Cheney families who made a great deal of money from the war as well as the entire George W. Bush Administration. Not only should Bush and Cheney have to pay for their crimes, the entire Republican Party should be investigated for allowing the impeachment worthy practices of the prior Administration be allowed with their assistance while Bill Clinton's extramarital indiscretions were grounds for impeachment, as was the Watergate break-in and cover-up. While both practices were investigated and brought about impeachment proceedings, getting caught in lies about the Iraq War, warrantless wiretapping, torture, allowing a male prostitute to visit the White House frequently while misrepresenting himself as a member of the press, outing a CIA agent, politicizing the Justice Department with such tactics as the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys under mysterious circumstances and hiring replacements based on party loyalty and religious affiliation, failing Katrina victims, and many other failures were not enough to lead to Bush and Cheney being impeached. Yes, Leahy is on the right track, however delayed, but ignoring these crimes only guarantees their repetition.

Death by Halliburton

It isn't bad enough to lose our soldiers by enemy fire in the war we should never have started against people who never did anything to harm us, we have our own selfish, crooked contractors once owned by our selfish, crooked politicians electrocuting our soldiers in the shower and other "safe" places on their own base. There have been eighteen avoidable electrocutions among our troops since 2003. Did you know that? Well, now you do and what are you going to do about it? Why do we have so many Texas-based contractors involved in this war, and why do they all lead back to Halliburton, Dick Cheney, and the Bush family without the American people getting angry enough to get rid of the people making all the money off this war they can before leaving office? When they do finally leave office, if they don't leave in handcuffs, it is the greatest injustice in history. Bush is going to sign pardons for himself and the rest of his administration before he leaves office. They will be blanket pardons to cover anything they may have done or will still do that cannot be overturned if they leave office without being impeached. How many impeachment petitions have you signed? How many calls to Congress to insist on impeachment have you made? There's no time like the present.
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Arrest Rove Just Like Any Other Criminal

The American people deserve better than what the present administration has given them. Arresting Rove and demanding full disclosure would at least be a step in the right direction. Time is running out to excercise what few options are afforded us to learn the truth. These people have damaged our country and the average citizen would be severely punished for doing so. Why not Bush, Cheney, and Rove?

Don't Be Fooled by Bush

The chairmen of the U.S. House and Senate Judiciary Committees were given the assignment of modernizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The House is working hard to pass another FISA bill since Bush vetoed the last one because it did not grant immunity to the phone companies. Their new version still protects our national security, preserves civil liberties, and denies retroactive immunity to phone companies that participated in the Bush-Cheney Administration warrantless surveillance program and I hope they don't back down. Have all of you sent a message to your carrier by changing companies since you learned your own phone company, to whom you pay money every month, was spying on you? Don't reward them for that. Reward the House members who stood up to Bush and protected your rights.

The Senate also passed a bill, but theirs does not protect our civil liberties. What it does protect are the phone companies from being sued by the American people who had their privacy invaded. It more importantly protects the Bush Administration who ordered that invasion. If either party did nothing wrong, they wouldn't need so much protecting. Further, the bill the White House so fervently supports in the interest of national security, accusing Congress of putting the American people in danger, really does nothing to endanger or protect our country from terrorism despite what Bush claims. It protects him by staving off the investigations and wouldn't you try to keep people from learning what you have been up to if you were Bush? To do this, he has been irresponsibly making false claims that we are more vulnerable to terrorism until a new bill is passed.
By pushing back against right-wing pressure, Congress has the Bush-Cheney Administration bolstering their scare tactics and suggesting that congressional Democrats' efforts to get the FISA bill right this time will invite another terrorist attack. I am somehow doubtful that FISA occurs to suicide bombers before they go boom, but I could be wrong. Bush is trying to scare Congress and the American people into accepting a FISA bill that includes retroactive telecom immunity, further eroding our Constitutional privacy rights. People, please be smarter than that. Support those who are protecting your rights. Pay attention to the issues and think about your vote before it is cast and for whom.

The people who do not care about protecting our rights had no problem investing in a controversial television commercial evoking ticking time-bomb imagery straight out of TV's 24 to shock the American people into supporting another flawed FISA law. They have a very low opinion of the American people if they think we can't see through the fear mongering. Congress is pushing for a better FISA bill, but a few loud voices in Washington are more determined than ever to ram through another flawed piece of legislation. The smarter we get, the more nervous they get and the harder they try. Too bad they don't work as hard at running our government as they do at fooling the public.