An Unlikely Conversation With
The Cowards in Congress
Contributing Editor - TvNewsLIES.org
Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of
Congress...
But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
THE DIALOGUE
What shameful toads you are! Yes you, our elected lawmakers. Yes you,
the folks we sent to Washington in our names. Yes you, the most
spineless, cowardly and craven Congress people in history. Yes you,
the most bullied, gutless and shameful herd of legislators ever
elected. And you know exactly who you are.
Where in hell is your integrity? Where in hell is your self-respect?
You’ve been led by your submissive noses to do the bidding of liars
and warmongers. You’ve been suckered into applauding some of the most
egregious crimes ever committed by a US government. You’ve become
such a pitiful collection of sniveling sycophants. And you know damn
well who you are.
What’s that? You want to know what you’ve done? Of what odious crimes
are you guilty to evoke such striking condemnation? Is that what
you’re asking? Is that what you really want to know? You’re joking,
right? Do you want the American people to believe have no idea what
this is all about? What nonsense that is.
But, for the sake of discourse, let’s accept your ignorance for the
moment. For starters, let’s take a look at two provisions in that
forgotten document, the Constitution of the United States. Perhaps
their significance will ring a bell somewhere in your pathetic and
paralyzed minds.
We can begin with Article 1, Section 8. Here, the Constitution clearly
states that you, and only you, have the right to declare war. Did you
get that? Only Congress can take on the awesome responsibility of
causing death and mayhem when there is a need to go to war. Only the
Congress of the United States has the Constitutional power do that.
Keep that in mind as we go on.
Next, let’s do a replay of an Article you knew only too well a few
years ago: Article II, Section 4. It says that the President, Vice
President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be
removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason,
bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Remember that one?
Do you remember how you fell over one another to speak at the podia of
your respective Houses to condemn Bill Clinton’s private affair with
Monica Lewinsky? You came out from under every piece of woodwork in
the Capitol with such pompous indignation. You came from both
political parties to wail to your constituents about the sexual
indiscretions of a sitting President. And then you impeached him.
Yes, you were divided, but you crossed party lines to demand a trial
for perjury and obstruction of justice. Keep that in mind, too.
You still don’t understand, do you? Of course, you don’t. You still
want to know what it is you’ve allegedly done. You have no clue at
all. You cannot see that your guilt has nothing at all to do with
anything you have done. Rather, your collective culpability lies in
your INACTION, your SILENCE, your ACQUIESCENCE and your docile
SURRENDER to the administration of PNAC as fronted by George W. Bush.
Your cowardice is reflected in your complicity in his crimes against
this nation and the world, and your refusal to stand up and denounce
the secrecy, the duplicity, and the blatant lies that have brought the
United States to this terrible moment in its history.
You forfeited whatever integrity you might have had as you timidly
allowed a curtain of fear and intimidation to fall over Washington and
the nation. You knew that, but you probably don’t want to deal with
it. Denial is salvation for some, and you probably needed to feel
self-righteous about your role in Congress and your loyalty to your
voters. Some joke. In fact, you are little more than cheap imitations
of true public servants. And you know without any doubt at all who you
are.
You still don’t have a clue as to what this is all about, do you?
That, too, is nonsense. You do know, you really do, but feigning
ignorance is clever and effective. So let’s lay it out for you in
simple terms that even you can understand Maybe, when you take a
close look, at the facts, you will look in the mirror with a little
more skepticism. Maybe, just maybe, you will see yourselves as the
lemmings you are. And maybe, just maybe, a few among you will reach
back to see if your backbones have any chance of regeneration.
A SHORT LIST OF OFFENSES
George W. Bush came to the Presidency and immediately appointed a
cadre of convicted felons and their associates from the Iran Contra
era to many extremely important government positions. AND YOU NEVER
SAID A WORD.
Members of the Project for a New American Century, proponents of
preemptive wars against Iraq and Afghanistan were immediately given
more than a dozen strategic positions in the new Bush government. AND
YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.
After 9/11, George Bush refused – for eighteen months - to investigate
the causes of the worst attacks in history on American soil. AND YOU
NEVER SAID A WORD.
Condoleezza Rice lied to the nation about never having imagined the
use of hijacked airliners as weapons. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.
Rice, Bush and Cheney had to be coerced to testify before the Kean
Commission. Rice refused to testify under oath, and Bush and Cheney
testified for a very limited time and only as a team. AND YOU NEVER
SAID A WORD.
Rice admitted to the Kean Commission that the August memo had warned
about possible attacks on AMERICAN soil by Al Qaeda, and yet the
President remained on vacation at his ranch for the remainder of the
summer. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.
George Bush manipulated intelligence information in order to gain
support for his plans to attack Iraq. That is an impeachable offense.
AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.
Colin Powell lied to the United Nations in a fabricated presentation
designed to gain support for a preventive attack against Iraq. AND
YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.
George Bush, ***** Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Condoleezza Rice lied
over and over and over to the nation about Saddam Hussein’s WMD’s, his
connection to Al Qaeda, and his plans to attack the US. AND YOU NEVER
SAID A WORD.
George Bush wrested away your power to declare war by lying to the
Congress about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. He promised to use
military force as a last resort, after all other options had been
exhausted. He lied to Congress. That is an impeachable offence. AND
YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.
George Bush handed Haliburton, ***** Cheney’s former company, multi
billion dollar, no-bid contracts in Iraq. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.
George Bush sent Ahmed Chalabi, a convicted felon, and his source for
false WMD information to Iraq with and team of 800 armed thugs. They
staged the infamous statue toppling, and bilked American taxpayers out
of billions of dollars in regular payments to set up a pro Bush
interim government. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.
In May of 2003, George Bush declared major conflict ended in Iraq. His
mission was accomplished. Since then horrific chaos, death and
destruction have followed. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.
The Pentagon refused to allow photographs of returning flag-draped
coffins, and refused to count civilian deaths in Iraq. Yet, they
managed to stage the rescue of Jessica Lynch, which was exposed as a
fabrication. AND YOU NEVER SAID WORD
Our young men and women in Iraq were dying and being maimed because
they had no armor on their Humvees to protect them from roadside
bombs. They were sent to die without adequate body armor, radios,
night goggles and flashlights. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.
Tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians were killed by our
so-called smart bombs and illegal weapons, including napalm and
depleted uranium shells were used as standard weapons. AND YOU NEVER
SAID A WORD.
Photographs and eye-witness testimony from the ICRC and other agencies
proved that the US was breaking international law by torturing
prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. The problem was
systemic and condoned at the highest levels of government. AND YOU
NEVER SAID A WORD.
Private airliners were being used by the Pentagon to transport
prisoners for interrogation in other countries that condone and
practice horrific methods of torture. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.
George Bush and his cohorts changed the rationale for going to war
over and over, manipulating their mantras as each lie was exposed and
new reasons were needed to justify their illegal war. AND YOU NEVER
SAID A WORD.
There was no plan to keep the peace, no plan to stop the looting, no
plan to deal with an insurgency despite the warnings of so many in the
military. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.
The chaos, increased, the deaths and the destruction grew, and the
insurgency proved to be unending. But your President told you we were
making progress. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.
The Downing Street Minutes were leaked to the public months ago. The
content of these nine documents made it clear that George Bush had
planned an invasion of Iraq at all costs, and that he planned to ‘fix’
intelligence information to gain support for his war of choice. That
is an unquestionable high crime that merits impeachment. AND YOU NEVER
SAID A WORD.
The Downing Street Minutes remain ignored by the White House, and
neither the Congress nor the media have demanded answers from the
President. Rep. John Conyers was refused a meeting room for an airing
of these important documents and had to hold his hearing in a tiny
basement room. Such disrespect was unprecedented and inexcusable. AND
YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.
This, dear Congress people, is the short list. But even in its
brevity, it is a powerful indictment of your villainous roles in tacit
support of the affairs d’etat of the Bush administration. But, to
really get to you, to really make you sit up and look at yourselves
with some pangs of conscience, the list needs a powerful finale, - one
that makes all the other items almost pale by comparison. So here it
is:
In March of 2003, someone in the White House committed a serious
felony. He or she or they leaked the identity of a CIA operative to
the press. This was done to punish Joseph Wilson, a man who had dared
to expose George Bush’s lie about yellow cake uranium sales to Saddam
Hussein. Despite the seriousness of this crime, George Bush did
nothing to try and discover who was responsible. In fact, he refused
to conduct any investigation of his own staff to uncover a felony
under his roof. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.
After three months of ignoring a crime by someone in the WH, the CIA
demanded an inquiry of what they termed a crime. Only then was the
case given to WH buddy and supporter, then AG John Ashcroft. AND YOU
NEVER SAID A WORD.
Finally, after five months had passed, the case was handed to a
Special Counsel working on behalf of the Justice Department. Two years
and millions of dollars after the Novak article outing Valerie Plame
appeared, George Bush has yet to call Karl Rove aside and demand an
explanation. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.
Two years and millions of dollars after the article appeared, George
Bush has yet to come forward and tell us what he knew and when he knew
it. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD. YOU STILL REFUSE TO UTTER A SINGLE
WORD!
ENDING THE CONVERSATION
So there it is, folks. There is your non-response, your silence, your
inertia in the face of the actions that have brought this country to
its most divisive state since the Vietnam conflict. There is a short
list of your kow-towing to an administration that has made our country
hated all over the globe, and turned our leaders into international
targets of ridicule and disgust.
There it is, folks, and if the shoe fits, you know what to do. Your
silence has been both appalling and immoral. You are as responsible
for the death and destruction in Iraq as the Bush/PNAC warmongers, and
your legacy will mark you as the lackeys and bootlickers you are.
But everything changed with 9/11, you claim. We wouldn’t dare question
the President, you say. We would surely have been called traitors,
or appeasers, or even worse….liberals. We had to go along with him,
you insist. And in a way, you’re right.
9/11 did change things. It separated the cowards from those with
principle and conviction. The latter, sadly, were far outnumbered in
Congress by the former. But that is how history is always made. The
few who dare, take the risks. And those few earn a lasting and much
admired place in history. Not so, you.
Yes, for certain, you know who you are. But more important, so do the
American people. They have watched you cower and crawl and promote
the crimes of your President and his handlers. Despite the silence of
the media and their complicity along with yours, the truth is
gradually seeping into the consciousness of the public. If there is
any justice in the world, you will answer to them for your cowardice.
Public opinion polls must be making you nervous right now. You men and
women, who represent us in the hallowed halls of Congress, have lost
the confidence of more than 63 percent of the voters! In truth, you
have not lost it; you have systematically and cravenly destroyed it.
You made choices, and hopefully, you will have to answer for them.
You saw what was happening, you learned the truth, you were witness to
the crimes and the treason, and you sat back and did nothing. You saw
the evil grow and spread. AND YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.
Next November, the voting public will have its turn (that is if we
solve the election fraud situation that has dominated elections since
the 2000 coup d’etat.) They will either thank you for your honorable
work, or will remove you from office for your betrayal of their trust.
Start worrying now, because your time is short. On Election Day,
2006, the full House and one third of the Senate are up for election.
On that day Americans will have a chance to have the very last word.
If there is any justice, that word to you will be goodbye.
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