Recent Wikileaks disclosures underscore what so many have been saying that there is an obligation of the Obama Administration to investigate and, if warranted by the evidence, take action.  

Many political officeholders and strategists have long contended that it would be absurd and impractical to ignite a political time bomb such as investigating and potentially recommending that criminal action be taken against members of the Bush Administration.  

This grave issue should not be decided based on political expediency.  International law and the United States Constitution mandate action if the evidence warrants it.

Let the Republican-Tea Party members, not necessarily in that order, scream at the tops of their lungs.  The louder that they shriek the greater the indication that justice is being served.

Vincent T. Bugliosi was one of the most prolific prosecutors of murder cases in the history of America.  Serving as a deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County, he prosecuted the Charles Manson case among many others.

In Bugliosi's recent book, "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder," the former prosecutor excoriated the murder trial of Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein.  He specifically criticized the selectivity of murders for which the prosecution sought to try the defendant, restricting the scope to deaths of political opponents seeking to remove him from power.

There was a logical reason why this narrowing occurred, reducing the trial to a kangaroo court.  Photographic evidence could have been introduced at a real trial with the objective of full disclosure within the framework of definitive prosecution.

A picture could have been introduced showing a smiling Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein in his Baghdad presidential office.  

In George W. Bush's ruthless world of abject deceit, fantasy rules and the truth is abandoned.

We now hear that in his new Dallas digs he has one framed souvenir that he treasures above all others.  It is the glass-encased gun owned by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.  Bush continues to take pride that he "got a bad man" to use the phrase that Fox News trumpeted to its slavish media zombies.

The truth is far less pleasant and it was determined early on after Saddam Hussein's capture that the one thing that the Bush administration along with the New World Order command would not tolerate was a trial of the dictator that permitted a proper range of questioning along with subpoenas to United States government high command.

In one of the recently rare instances of the U.S. media furnishing information into international thought, and issues that were broadly discussed in Europe and throughout the Middle East as readily as such information was ignored on the American scene, "Sixty Minutes" in 2004 presented an informative interview with a prominent and highly controversial French attorney.

No way!  After 8 horrifying years of Bush, Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, and Donald Rumsfeld, the consequences are horrifying!

Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who is retiring courageously, let the U.S. public know recently that he wept when the Court disallowed time in Florida for a thorough analysis of the vote count.

In other words, the Supreme Court demolished U.S. democracy by refusing to allow time for an investigation of what appeared to be outright fraud determining the choice of Resident George W. Bush.

Much of the world has watched with horror at the display of arrogance, corruption, and above all, the rush to war in Iraq.

The topic below was originally posted on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal as well as The Wild Wild Left, the Independent Bloggers Alliance, The Peace Tree and Worldwide Sawdust.

Most Americans are eager to turn the page on the Bush years. Yet even as we elect a new president we're still coming to terms with an era that has both tarnished America's reputation and diminished its influence.

Fred Kaplan chronicles the folly of the Bush years in his new book, Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power (John Wiley & Sons).

Kaplan writes that,

"Nearly all of America's blunders in war and peace these past few years stem from a single grand misconception: that the world changed after 9/11, when in fact it didn't.

Certainly, things about the world changed, not least Americans' sudden awareness that they were vulnerable. But the way the world works - the nature of power, warfare, and politics among nations - remained essentially the same."

I discovered this morning that the Bush presidency is a success.
Boy, was I surprised.

Bill Kristol explains it all in an article at The Washington Post that gets my recommendation for the Fatuous Nonsense of the Week Award.

He opens by admitting that such an assertion may expose him to some "harmless ridicule" and proceeds to offer two pages of proof as to why such ridicule might be justified.

"Let's step back from the unnecessary mistakes and the self-inflicted wounds that have characterized the Bush administration. Let's look at the broad forest rather than the often unlovely trees. What do we see? First, no second terrorist attack on U.S. soil -- not something we could have taken for granted. Second, a strong economy -- also something that wasn't inevitable."

Mark Sawyer of Shoreline, Washington in his letter to the Seattle Times March 29, put the Bush Administration's damage to America's image this way:

"I am an American who travels all over the world as part of his work, and what this Administration has done to erode the status and credibility of the U.S. overseas is both huge and reprehensible.

"I have to admit, yes, we invaded Iraq based on lies.  Yes, we torture people now.  Yes, we hold people for years at Guantanamo Bay without charging them.  Yes, we ignore Geneva Conventions.  Yes, our FBI spies on many of us."

The Republican Bush backers have to be held accountable for the horrifying role in the bloody track record of a despicable 6 years of the Cheney-Bush democracy destruction derby.

Presidential security advisor Steven Hadley declines to call Iraq "apocalypse"


Washington, DC (Rotters) - Presidential security adviser Stephen Hadley yesterday, in a news conference at the White House, steadfastly maintained that the Bush administration was correct in its insistence that the conflict in Iraq cannot be referred to as a civil war. Answering questions from reporters, Hadley stated that the recently released National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq was far rosier than some of its misleading language would have some reporters believe. He insisted that the White House had taken great care to have the document reflect what the president believes is the true situation and that it was being interpreted incorrectly by the press.

The reason why the U.S. is in such a quagmire in Iraq is simply because neither Bush nor his frightful Republican Administration have ever had the common decency to admit that going to Iraq was a horrifying mistake, just like going into Vietnam.

The Republicans must acknowledge what the entire world knows.  The American public was tragically misled by the tainted media blitz.  We were told with Bush's dramatic State of the Union propaganda pitch that the United States was under threat from "weapons of mass destruction."  Saddam was threatening us and Condoleezza Rice was conjuring up the grave tragedy of a "giant mushroom cloud" enveloping America.

If a child in school tells a lie, some teachers insist that the child write the truth a hundred times on a blackboard to impress upon the child as well as the rest of the class the importance of telling the truth.  

Not once has George Bush or the misleading Bush Administration acknowledged the terrible consequences of blatant misrepresentations followed by a bloody trail.  This trail now consists of 22,000 U.S. service personnel injured along with the deaths of 3,014 U.S. service personnel.

The topic below was originally posted in my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal.

Gerald R. Ford, a man fate placed on a stage far bigger than his modest persona suggested he belonged is dead at 93. In August 1974 he was appointed America's 38th president when Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace because of the Watergate scandal. Had he not resigned Nixon surely would've been impeached in the House of Representatives and convicted by the Senate.

I started a series called "Danse Macabre" to illustrate the dangerous signs and trends of the Bush Administration and their neoconservative ideology. The third installment to the series has now been posted on the ePluribus Media Journal. It's entitled "Danse Macabre: The Return of Ja(a)far [Donald Rumsfeld]."  

This diary serves both as an invitation to check it out if you haven't seen it yet (it's long, bring coffee) as well as an opportunity to touch upon the various artists responsible for the images found within. Come on inside, and learn a little more about the artists and their works.

Title Screen: There was a land of Profiteers and Oil Fields called the New South... Here in this petty world, Fealty killed its last sow... Here was the last ever to be seen of individual rights and their basest scares, of disasters that would enslave... Look for it only in neo-con texts, for it is no more than a scheme dismembered. A Machination gone with the spin...

Just kidding. Actually that was the only stupid question I'll ask here -- knowing full well that you all know the answer.

What I will do is note the sad irony (for Republicans) that, had Rumsfeld done the right thing and resigned long ago, the Republicans might still have control of the Senate. He didn't. They don't.

Now, the Democrats have taken over both houses of congress and the Administration has no choice. They dare not retain Rumsfeld and provoke the newly found powers of oversight and investigation that the American electorate has given the Democrats.

But don't expect this move to totally assuage Democrat's desire to investigate this administration. Not totally, but certainly some.

And though I would love to see this administration pay for it's many trespasses, I would put a much higher priority on such things as a higher minimum wage, universal healthcare, stem-cell research, reconnecting with our allies, and a new plan for Iraq.

But that's just me.

Either way, there is going to be some serious changes for the better - if for no other reason than the newly found set of checks and balances necessary to keep our nation from teetering on the edge of lunacy.

"Stay the course!"

That is all you will get from both Bush and Lieberman.

Despite President Bush's recent denials that "We've never been stay the course" and the NY Times' FALSE assertions to counter Ned Lamont's caqmpaign charges that Joe Lieberman has been a consistent cheerleader for Bush's failed "Stay the course!" policy, the fact remains that this is a bold face lie that exposes BOTH Bush and Lieberman's  penchant for polticizing this war by telling people whatever they have to in order to cover their political asses and get more votes.  It also doesn't say much about the researchers and writers at the post Judy "neocon propaganda" Miller NY Times.

In Bush's and Lieberman's own words BELOW:

When it rains it pours.  It is currently pouring for George W. Bush as he desperately attempts to rescue Republicans, many of whom are saying "no thanks" and running as fast as they can to avoid the stigma of failure increasingly enveloping him along with his entire regime.

The other day Bush poured out glowing praise for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, expressing his desire for him to continue.  The warm words of praise apparently had no effect on Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times, and Marine Corps Times.

In a bruising editorial slated to run on Monday, just one day before America's voters go to the polls in the crucial mid-term congressional election, the aforementioned papers, which are published by the Military Times Media Group, a subsidiary of Gannett Co., Inc., Rumsfeld's termination is urged.

Rumsfeld recently told critics to just relax and wait for his promised positive results.  The Army Times feels otherwise, as expressed in these sharp words: