A good read with great links.

If you want to see the depravity and filth that festers in the core of the Bush Administration made plain , read the story below. The regimen of torture and suffering being inflicted on captives in Bush’s War of Terror is not some sort of aberrant overreaction to concerns about national security and public safety: these specifically designed, deliberately induced tortures are the expression of the President’s deepest desires and clearly stated wishes. Just as the war of aggression in Iraq is his war, these crimes against humanity are his crimes. They are happening because he wants them too.

The only possible response of a sane society to the depredations of this man is his impeachment and removal from power. There is no other course of action for any responsible, patriotic member of Congress to take. Unfortunately, the American Establishment has clearly gone insane - so deranged from decades of bloated power and privilege that it can no longer act even to save itself from the general ruin that Bush is bringing upon the country. Unfortunately, there are very, very few responsible, patriotic members of Congress.

Witness the empty bluster behind the latest Democratic “opposition”: in the face of Bush’s imminent escalation of the war - with a “surge” that cannot possibly succeed in doing anything but increasing the bloodshed and hatred in the other nation he has ruined - they are offering a “series of symbolic votes” that “would do nothing in practical terms” to stop or even hinder this insane course, as the NY Times reports. The ever-hapless hairpiece hero, Joe Biden, believes this witless flapping of arms will “demonstrate to the president that he’s on his own” - a realization that will somehow “spark real change.”

But Bush already believes he is on his own - and he likes that way. He has already asserted that he will continue his course in Iraq even if he is deserted by everyone but his wife and dog. And his little mouthpiece, Tony Snow, has just announced that the President is an autocrat who cannot be restrained by any action of Congress whatsoever: “The President has the ability to exercise his own authority if he thinks Congress has voted the wrong way.” (Via Cenk Uygur by way of Steve Gilliard.)

“Symbolic votes” won’t stop Bush. Even substantive actions - such as cutting off funding - will not stop him. He will clearly provoke a constitutional crisis and continue the war (and the tortures in his gulag) by any means necessary. He is probably willing to attempt to overthrow the government altogether with a military coup if he feels he is being thwarted in his “sacred duty as Commander-in-Chief to protect the nation,” which, in his mind, means waging aggressive war, torturing people, spying on us all and looting the treasury on behalf of his cronies. The only possible way to derail his destructive and criminal course is impeachment.

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Please do follow this link and be sure to read Guantanmo’s Lost Souls.