It's a Bob Woodward special that just came over the e-mail wire from the WAPO, 6 months later we find out that the CIA's assessment of Iraq was so bleak that in relief it makes Bush and his enablers sound ridiculous:
Early on the morning of Nov. 13, 2006, members of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group gathered around a dark wooden conference table in the windowless Roosevelt Room of the White House.
For more than an hour, they listened to President Bush give what one panel member called a "Churchillian" vision of "victory" in Iraq and defend the country's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki. "A constitutional order is emerging," he said.
Later that morning, around the same conference table, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden painted a starkly different picture for members of the study group. Hayden said "the inability of the government to govern seems irreversible," adding that he could not "point to any milestone or checkpoint where we can turn this thing around," according to written records of his briefing and the recollections of six participants.
"The government is unable to govern," Hayden concluded. "We have spent a lot of energy and treasure creating a government that is balanced, and it cannot function.
You can read the rest, or not. You might need an online account.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
But everything we know, everything we knew, has been confirmed over and over and over again. The Iraq Study Group got a briefing that should have been the call to the temple. So many things should have been. It's laughable to think of everything these loyal Bushies have foisted on this country with no consequences.
Stealing elections. Squelching science. Using government agencies for poltical purposes. Politicizing justice. Dismantling civil rights. Lying, lying, lying. That's a partial list that would be enough to damn any previous administration, but not this one. They continue to slouch towards hell, the path greased by a media that has reported every outrage as if it's business as usual. Habeas corpus revoked, let's go fishin'!
The people running our federal government are incompetant at best and more likely criminals with no respect for the Constitution.
But we're (the DK community) debating whether impeachment is a good idea? Will there be blowback? Is it practical? They're gone in 17 months anyway, so let them just expire.
We're debating Cindy Sheehan?
I don't know if impeachment is practical, whatever! If not them, who? If not now, when?
It's this community, this progressive movement that can push the national agenda of one of the two main political parties, or not. If we can't agree on impeachment how can we get the greater Democratic party to go along and the independents and the enlightened Republicans? It's hopeless.
I have an alternative proposal: we should march. Bring back 1968. If we can't achieve tangible results through the political process, we can at the very least let everyone know where we are and invite them to join.
DON'T JUST MARCH FOR PEACE, MARCH FOR RESIGNATIONS, MARCH FOR HEALTHCARE, MARCH FOR THE FUTURE
Carry your American flags thorough the streets of our towns and cities demanding the resignations of Bush and Cheney. Demanding a government responsive to the people and respective of them.
That's it, I'm done talking. Move on.