Q: What do Watergate, Iran Contra, and the myriad of G. W. Bush Administration Impeachable Offenses have in common?
A: Same bunch of thugs.
Yes, look beneath the surface of all of these crimes, and the same dastardly creeps keep rearing their heads.
President Clinton let the Iran Contramen go. I was hoping that when Bubba got the keys to 1600 Pennsy Ave, he'd give it a good sweeping, catch all the household pests, throw back the shutters, and air it all out, but Bill let the rodents sneak out the back door and fester in the Washington back alley think tanks...and guess what?
The dirty rats came back, bold as brass, and they investigated and prosecuted him for something that's none of our business and doesn't kill or rob anyone. These slick conspirators diverted our FBI away from the real threats facing our country, cleared the path for the Iran Contra gang to steal the White House back and Al Qaeda to perpetrate 9/11, and knocked over the US Treasury, leaving America practically bankrupt. Biggest heist and debacle in our history.
We read incessantly about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, but most of us don't know diddly about half the cast of characters who play a role in our government: bad actors who've sold out our country and decimated our Constitution time and again.
This mob has railroaded good guys (Don Siegelman, et al.) and exonerated bad guys (Scooter Libby, et al.). They ignore subpoenas, and they thumb their noses at Congressional hearings. They fire good federal judges, prosecutors, and EPA watchdogs, and embed their cronies, who have turned our laws inside out to allow corporations and special interests to rip off our national treasury, our personal savings, our children's future, and literally kill and maim millions of people.
They control our media, so that most people know more about the names of screen actors' children and their latest consorts than who is running, or more appropriately, ruining, our country.
Ignorance is not bliss.
Let's learn a lesson by taking a good look at these repeat offenders.
Laura Rozen has written great investigative exposes about the crew of conniving crooks, but her articles are placed in the back pages of the paper only once, not replayed over and over again a la Reverend Wright's out of context snippets that have been etched in our craniums. (How convenient that they editorially control the media!) So, most people don't remember enough about these nefarious miscreants to connect the dots to see the big picture of how just a few madmen have been allowed to get away with so much mayhem for decades. Read this article as a primer on damage done by Iran Contra alumni, who should have had the book thrown at them long ago to stop them from continuing their dirty deeds.
Read Obama, Ask the Kremlin about Gates to understand how Gates exonerated these Iran Contra bozos and may have been at a meeting along with the elder Bush and the Iranians in October 1980, which is why it's an affront to all of us who worked so hard to elect Obama for change that he is keeping this bad boy on board. Smooth transition? Not unless you've liked what went down these past 8 years. Recidivism, yes!
Read this account about Gates and weep for our country. Forget about change. This is clearly a sign that Obama is just a figure head President, and the puppet masters of old are still in command. Got democracy? Democrazy, more like.
Later, Gates was linked to both the Iran-Contra scandal, which involved the trading of arms for hostages with Iran, and the Iraqgate controversy, the clandestine military support given to Iraq's Saddam Hussein during his eight-year war with Iran.
The Iran-Contra connection cost Gates his first shot to become CIA director in 1987, but President George H.W. Bush gave him another chance in 1991. Gates was helped by friends on the Democratic side of the aisle, most notably Sen. David Boren, Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, and Boren's chief of staff, George Tenet.
In 1992-93, CIA Director Gates got another helping hand from Lee Hamilton regarding the October Surprise scandal, which Hamilton swept under a very lumpy rug. The Russian report was just the last of the bumps.
During Campaign 2008, Gates got lucky again when Boren and Hamilton emerged as senior foreign policy advisers to Obama. They are now reportedly part of the transition contingent urging the President-elect to retain their old friend as Pentagon chief.
Blocking accountability isn't new. They deep-sixed the Iran Contra investigations, and looky at what the criminals, who got away, did to us these past eight years! They pathologically and systematically destroyed our democracy, depleted our treasury, and trashed several countries, and slaughtered the inhabitants and our soldiers based on lies. That's a high price to pay for not holding real investigations. They did more to probe Clinton's dalliance, for heaven's sake, than they did to bring the Iran Contra evil doers to justice.
So, the people who repeat the dishonest propaganda talking points against impeachment can not credibly say that we should forgive their crimes without penalty. We know what they have done when we forgave them the last time. What has happened already is far worse than the specious arguments about how impeachment will bring Congress to a standstill or that it's too late. It's almost too late now to save our country from what they have done to it. How can any decent and patriotic American now advocate keeping this band of robbers and killers in place to continue to destroy our country? What does that make them?
The Americans screaming at us to shut up about stopping this crime spree by this small group of recidivist traitors are guilty of defying our Constitution and continuing to endanger our country.
They can call impeachment silly, but I will call them for the damage they are doing to my country by letting these crimes perpetuate by repeatedly handing these same bad guys a get out of jail free card.