Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Beginning with the period of the Bush-Cheney launching of "shock and awe" in Iraq I contacted various progressive sources that proclaimed to be staunch opponents of the neoconservative regime.  When I broached what I viewed as the necessary topic of impeachment correspondence promptly dried up.

A major issue confronted by Bugliosi was that of questioners who believe that Bush went to war through legal means because he received the approval of Congress before launching an attack.

The answer is a very simple legalism of fraud vitiating, or negating, any consent that was provided.  

In the case of Bush there is a long trail of false information, some of which was pressured from the Central Intelligence Agency through repeated visits by Dick Cheney.  During this same period some of the most authoritative and experienced State Department experts on Iraq and the Arab world were fired or compelled to resign their posts when they did not succumb to Cheney's pressuring dictates.

There was also the yeoman service generated by Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith under Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.  It has been learned that large amounts of money were paid to Ahmed Chalibi, a notorious con artist who is subject to arrest should he ever set foot in Jordan.  Chalibi provided false information on the nuclear capability of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and a propaganda blitzkrieg followed.

Judith Miller, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter from America's "paper of record" the New York Times, not only reported with alacrity the blatant misinformation provided by Chalibi via his Bush Defense Department and CIA sources, to readers; she made the rounds of television news and talk shows and provided material to the popular Frontline series on the Public Broadcasting System.

Using the same pipeline of false information, Cheney issued an alarming report to the nation on network television of a potential impending nuclear attack by Saddam Hussein while then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice spoke dramatically about the United States facing a potential "mushroom cloud" in the form of a nuclear attack.

Not to be outdone, the most dramatic performance of all would be rendered by then Secretary of State Colin Powell.  

While later confessing to misgivings about the information he had received and reminding Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet that he would be sitting behind him "on camera" during the presentation to the UN, Powell nonetheless provided the bogus list of particulars that the CIA boss had approved as factual, all coming from the pipeline of a discredited Middle East con artist.

Powell's United Nations presentation was greeted with roaring gusto by the reigning neocon administration's propaganda ministry, Fox News.  

The "experts" at Fox credited Powell with a "virtuoso performance" and a performance it assuredly was as war fires raged uncontrollably while the Bush-Cheney propagandists proceeded full speed ahead.

Hans Blix, the head of the UN weapons inspection team investigating claims concerning the alleged nuclear threat of Saddam Hussein and Iraq, pled for time to finish its report, indicating that at that juncture there had been no confirmation of U.S. claims.

The war team would not be deterred.  Neocon talking heads like Fred Thompson and Lindsay Graham were trotted out for the Sunday talk shows as Donald Rumsfeld prepared his shock and awe assault.  Time was of the essence as Blix's team neared its conclusion.

Vincent Bugliosi is correct that a solid case could be made against George W. Bush after he leaves office in a prosecution brought under a U.S. Attorney's office or by local prosecuting authorities throughout America.

The point that needs to be underscored is that, just as the chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials, Justice Robert H. Jackson, prosecuted numerous defendants for being part of the grand Nazi plan for world conquest.

As regards the deaths resulting therefrom, the same type of meticulous chain of activity need be applied to those responsible for resulting deaths predicated on launching war through means that could be reasonably ascertained to be fraudulent in reckless disregard for human life.