Chuck Baldwin: Is Impeachment in Order?

Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon July 15, 2003 Former President Bill Clinton was rightly impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for lying under oath. Of course, his crimes were not limited to that. However, if lying is reason enough to impeach, there would not be many politicians left in Washington, D.C. And that includes the current occupant of The White House.

President George W. Bush has been prevaricating and stonewalling ever since 9/11/2001. If the media had any guts, it would do some serious investigative reporting (something it hasn't done since the Watergate days of Richard Nixon) to determine the truth about those tragic attacks.

Though this writer has yet to publish any significant research regarding Bush's activities on and immediately following 9/11, there are huge questions that beg to be answered, questions that no one in the propaganda press is bothering to ask.

One thing is clear: The White House is every bit the expert at cover-up and subterfuge as it was when Clinton was in power! For example, according to the Wall Street Journal, The White House opposed creating a commission to investigate the events of 9/11. Even after obvious and undeniable miscues by the FBI and CIA, the administration has taken no disciplinarian action. None.

Also, President Bush vehemently denied receiving advanced warnings concerning an impending attack by militant Muslims using airliners as weapons. We now know he did.

We even know now that there was no substantive intelligence linking Iraq to al-Qaida, even though Bush insisted there was. It is also increasingly obvious that the claim Iraq had amassed substantial amounts of WMD was also bogus. The BBC recently reported, "Senior UK Whitehall sources no longer believe weapons of mass destruction will be found in Iraq."

Furthermore, The Miami Herald reported that the long-awaited final report on the September 11, 2001, attacks will be released within the next two weeks. The report is said to contain new information about U.S. government mistakes and Saudi Arabia, not Iraq, financing terrorists.

According to The Herald, "Former Representative Tim Roemer, who served on the House Intelligence Committee and who has read the report, said it will be 'highly explosive' when it becomes public."

One of the essential principles which holds our republic together is the principle of honest government. Any government built and sustained on lies is corrupt and if not checked will lead a nation to ruin!

After learning of the falsehoods and outright lies upon which the war against Iraq was waged, former British Prime Minister John Major said, "It is essential that the word of government and the intelligence services is readily accepted by Parliament and the public." In other words, it is essential that government leaders tell the truth!

As unfolding facts continue to contradict the credibility of this administration, it becomes more and more apparent that the American people have been boldly and blatantly lied to. Those lies have already cost billions of dollars in increased deficit spending and hundreds of brave American lives. It seems to me that it's time the politicians who so easily and quickly perpetrate such deceit should also pay a price, the price of their own removal from office!


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tell chuck this:

Gore repeats that Saddam MUST GO - June 2000
Following Gore's meeting with the Iraqi opposition groups, the two sides released a joint statement reiterating the U.S. commitment to removing Saddam Husseyn from power and arguing that Saddam's removal "is the key to the positive transformation of Iraq's relationship to the international community." ---- "U.S. Vice President Al Gore told Iraqi opposition leaders that Saddam Husseyn "must be removed from power,"

The Democrats' Case Against Saddam Hussein (Dems nailed, yet again)
Senator Kerry: "Mr. President, we have every reason to believe that Saddam Hussein will continue to do everything in his power to further develop weapons of mass destruction and the ability to deliver those weapons, and that he will use those weapons without concern or pangs of conscience if ever and whenever his own calculations persuade him it is in his interests to do so. . . . I have spoken before this chamber on several occasions to state my belief that the United States must take every feasible step to lead the world to remove this unacceptable threat.

Headline Rundown and links on Iraq - Things the democrats have conviently forgot...
SECRETARY ALBRIGHT: However, as you all know from the recent crisis that we had, that we are sensing more and more that Saddam Hussein only wants sanctions lifted and does not want to comply with what is absolutely essential, that is, that he not reacquire or redevelop his ability to have weapons of mass destruction, or threaten his neighbors, or threaten our forces in the region. And therefore, we have added to our policy, and are now at containment plus regime change.

Saddam Abused His Last Chance, Clinton -clear and present danger to safety of people everywhere 1998
Clinton: "Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons," Clinton said. The Iraqi dictator has used these weapons against his neighbors and his own people, he said, and "left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will use these terrible weapons again."

What the democrats want you to forget
Clinton: Clinton detailed Hussein's lies and evasions since the end of the Gulf War. Under the agreement ending the war, Hussein had 15 days to report about his nuclear, chemical and biological arsenal. "Iraq has repeatedly made false declarations about the weapons that it had left in its possession after the Gulf War," Clinton said.
U.N. inspectors have found proof time and again that Iraq lied about its nuclear program, Clinton said. The Iraqis simply amended their declaration to incorporate the discoveries.
"[Iraq] has submitted six different biological warfare declarations, each of which has been rejected by [the U.N. Special Commission]," he said.

Iraq is a Regional Threat, capable of as much as 200 tons of VX nerve agent (1999 Clinton report)

Iraq is capable of assembling its prohibited Al-Hussein long-range missiles with key parts known to have been stripped from destroyed imported SCUDs.
Iraq has refused to account for precursor chemicals capable of making as much as 200 tons of VX nerve agent. Iraq has the know-how and equipment to weaponize VX, despite its continuing denials.
Iraq loaded VX, anthrax, botulism toxin, and other chemical and biological agents into Al-Hussein missile warheads and deployed them during the Gulf War.
Clinton, Gore rally domestic support for strike at Iraq, "unholy axis" (1998 Must read)
Clinton admitted that the potential military strikes, which have met with widespread international opposition, would not destroy Iraq's capacity to create weapons of mass destruction, they would, "seriously reduce his [Saddam Hussein's] capacity to threaten his neighbors." Clinton said the strikes would leave Saddam Hussein "worse off" than he is now.
US Vice-President Al Gore said the US is "working around the clock to pursue a possible diplomatic solution to the crisis," but warned "When it comes to protecting our vital national interests, Americans will stand as one."

I'm still waiting to here what these "falsehoods and outright lies" are.

And an error in one small piece of intelligence doesn't qualify...since anyone over 12 years old knows that intelligence is often a judgement call on far from conclusive evidence...and the statement in question was made long after the Congress had ALREADY voted to support military action anyway.

To claim that they were somehow deceived is cleary false.

The only dishonesty I see is from those now making these baseless accusations against Bush and Blair.

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