British War Memo Evidence Enough To Impeach Bush

Paul Craig Roberts
May 16, 2005, 9:00 am

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George W. Bush and his gang of

neocon warmongers have destroyed America`s
reputation.

It is likely to stay destroyed,
because at this point the only way to restore America`s
reputation would be to impeach and convict President
Bush for intentionally deceiving Congress and the
American people in order to start a war of aggression
against a country that posed no threat to the US.
America can redeem itself only by holding Bush
accountable.

As intent as Republicans were to
impeach President Clinton for lying about a sexual
affair, they have a blind eye for President Bush`s far
more serious lies.

Bush`s lies have caused the deaths
of tens of thousands of people, injured and maimed tens
of thousands more, devastated a country, destroyed
America`s reputation, caused one billion Muslims to hate
America, ruined our alliances with Europe, created a
police state at home, and squandered $300 billion
dollars and counting.

America`s reputation is so damaged
that not even our puppets can stand the heat.
Anti-American riots, which have left Afghan cities and
towns in flames and hospitals overflowing with
casualties, have forced Bush`s Afghan puppet,
“president” Hamid Karzai, to

assert his independence from his US overlords. In a
belated act of sovereignty, Karzai asserted authority
over heavy-handed US troops whose brutal and stupid ways
sparked the devastating riots.

Karzai demanded control of US
military activities in Afghanistan and called for the
return of the Afghan detainees who are being held at the
US prison in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Abundant evidence now exists in the
public domain to convict George W. Bush of the crime of
the century. The secret British government memo (dated
July 23, 2002), leaked to the Sunday Times (May
1, 2005), reports that Bush wanted

“to
remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the
conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence
and facts were being fixed around the policy. . . . But
the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his
neighbors, and his WMD capability was less than that of
Libya, North Korea or Iran. . . . The [UK]
Attorney-General said that the desire for regime change
was not a legal base for military action. There were
three possible legal bases: self-defense, humanitarian
intervention, or UNSC authorization. The first and
second could not be the base in this case. Relying on
UNSCR 1205 of three years ago would be difficult.”

This memo is the mother of all
smoking guns.

Why isn`t Bush in the dock?

Has American democracy failed at
home?

Paul
Craig Roberts, a former Reagan Administration official,
is the author of

The Supply-Side Revolution and, with Lawrence M.
Stratton, of
The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and
Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name
of Justice.
Click

here
for Peter Brimelow`s
Forbes Magazine interview with Roberts about the
recent epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct.