Yeah, that’s a pretty infuriating headline, but I have a point.  Come with me on this.

In the late 1980s/early 1990s, it came out that the Reagan/Bush White House was involved in the Iran-Contra affair, to the highest levels.  When Bill Clinton took the White House in 1992, what was the decision on Iran-Contra?  Clinton said we were to look ahead instead of looking back.  In other words, the former Presidents probably did something wrong, but let’s focus on going forward and forget about it.

Cut to 2009.  After eight years of Bush/Cheney, and the lies and laws that they broke, a fresh face comes to Washington.  People have been infuriated for years at the laws broken.  People tortured and held without charge.  Americans had their phone, email, instant messaging, and web browsing spied on illegally.  All of this crap.  And what does Obama do?  Declares that we need to look forward and forget about it.  Sure, Holder has started making sounds about investigating, but without a unified message from the White House, will it ever happen?

That’s why people think Democrats are wimps.  You can look forward, but you HAVE to examine the past.  Why?  Because if you don’t learn from the past, you are doomed to repeat it.  Bush/Cheney repeated the crimes of Reagan/Bush.  And Obama/Biden are repeating the “we see nothing!” ignorance of Clinton/Gore.

Democrats, GROW A SPINE!

Man, this just gets better and better…

First of all, Alaska politics has always been interesting.  Being an Alaskan myself (I grew up there, before moving out of the state in 1990), I’ve always loved it.  It’s always open and interesting to watch.  But that wasn’t so about Wasilla under Palin.  They were critiziced for not recording and offering the city council meetings for the public, like the city school board was directed to.  Palin apparently wasn’t for it, though I cannot quite decipher what the hell she means when she said she liked it that her city was going “huckity buck”.

A leader who doesn’t want meetings to be public?  She IS Dick Cheney with a vagina!

I have to admit, seven years after the events of September 11th, 2001, you get a little complacent.  We had the horror of that day, and then the wars in Afghanistan and then Bush’s war of choice in Iraq.  We have had to deal with war for the last seven years, but without personal sacrifice (Bush told us to “keep shopping”, among other crap).  I admit; I too have become complacent about issues.

I’m on another business trip and get to my hotel late.  I turn on Discovery and find “Flight 93: The Flight that Fought Back” and let it play in the background while I get my stuff ready for tomorrow.  And I listen, and get angrier and angrier.  We all watched in horror that day as we were attacked from within.  The world got caught up in the emotions, and we heard people in Europe declare “today, we are all Americans”.

The horror and anguish of that day is real; it’s raw emotion within us all.  And George W. Bush used that against us.  He declared that he wanted a war with Iraq, and even falsified evidence to get us to support that war.  And yet, five months before he leaves office – with more and more of his lies being exposed – we do nothing.  Our Democratic leaders wait for Bush to be out of office, and hope it doesn’t get any worse.

Bush used us, like a razorblade and mirror in his coke days, and then lied about it – again, like his coke days.  I sincerely hope that once Obama takes office in January, 2009, that on January 21st, 2009, he announces the arrest of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and others, on war crimes charges.  It is the only thing that will honor the memory of those we lost on 9/11/01, and those soldiers that we have lost in his war of choice in Iraq.

I’m listening to clips of John McCain from my Randi Rhodes podcast and was taken aback.  In his performance at Saddleback, John McCain said, in response to a question about Osama bin Laden:

No one, no one should be allowed to take thousands of American, innocent American lives

Really now, Senator McCain?  Then if that is the case, you just justified the impeachment of George W. Bush.  You see, Senator, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney ordered the forgery of documents that helped lead us to war with Iraq.  Because of their lies, in the face of a prospect of NOT having a war, Bush and Cheney ordered this falsehood to promote their war of choice.  As a result, over 4,000 brave American soldiers have died.

Now why is it we aren’t hearing this quote used to justify impeachment from our Democratic leadership?

This is the single position I can back McCain on!  Of course Pelosi and Reid say that impeachment is off the table (unless we force it back on!).