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Impeach the Liar-in-Chief

The generation of American leaders who fought the American Revolution
and crafted the United States Constitution examined the most important
issues of government. They considered (1) war and peace, (2 ) the
limits to government power vs. individual liberties, (3) how
officeholders should be controlled by the citizenry and (4) the
raising and management of public money. That generation devised
impeachment to remove tyrants and corrupt officeholders from positions
of public power based on their experience under the government of King
George. Under the present circumstances, it is likely that they would
vote to impeach and remove from office George W. Bush and ***** Cheney.

Bush deserves to be known as Liar-in Chief because he has not been
honest with the American public on the most important issues of public
policy for the past 5 years of his government. It is amazing that
Republicans in Congress were willing to impeach President Bill Clinton
over lying about an essentially personal issue over his sex life but
are defenders of Bush when he is dishonest on the most important
issues of government and public policy.

Bush and Cheney were dishonest with the American voters when they
pushed the American nation into the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
They did not share the full information collected by our intelligence
agencies on WMD's with all the members of Congress or the voters.
Cheney and Bush dishonestly tied Saddam Hussein with the 9-11
terrorist attacks on the United States to justify their unjustifiable
war policy.

The Bush Administration intentionally mislead the American public over
the use of the excessive government powers granted the federal
government by the falsely-named Patriot Act. They claimed that these
powers would only be used to fight terrorism. It has mostly been used
for matters unrelated to terrorism. It has almost never been used to
fight terrorism.

Bush falsely stated that wiretaps under his government were only being
conducted under authorization of the federal courts. This was false.
Bush violated the law by not getting court authorization for his
wiretapping of American citizens. This has not been done since the
government of Richard Nixon. Nixon was driven from office based in
large part because of this behavior. Bush broke the law passed in the
aftermath of Watergate to prevent this kind of governmental abuse of
power. Carter and Clinton permitted wiretaps of a handful of
foreigners who were agents of foreign governments. Bush wiretapped
thousands of American citizens without proven connections to
terrorism.

Bush and Cheney has repeatedly lied to the American taxpayers over the
impact of their program of excessive tax breaks to the Super Wealthy
who have financed their political machine. During the 2000
Presidential Election, they promised tax breaks for the wealthy only
because our government was in surplus because of the wise management
of President Clinton. They stated that they would not support tax cuts
if the government budget was in deficit. This was false. They promised
a balanced budget but gave use the largest budget deficits in history.
They have spent money in the most reckless manner of any American
government in history with huge amounts going to their political
supporters with much accountability or plan to pay the bills.

These issues are certainly not the only issues of public policy were
the Bush Administration has not been fully honest. Campaign finance,
voting machines, media concentration, oil policy, disaster relief,
environmental issues, judicial appointments and most other important
issues have been things that were spun by the Bush Administration
without little regard for being fully truthful with the American
citizens.

Our Founding Fathers would not have approved of Bush concerning his
honesty or his abuse of the powers of his office. They would have
exercised their power of impeachment to remove both Bush and Cheney
from office if they were serving in Congress today. Current members of
Congress should act the same.


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