Tuesday, July 03, 2007

J'accuse!

Update 7/4: finally found a YouTube that isn't oddly cut off at the end:



Olbermann on fire:
This President decides that he, and not the law, must prevail.

I accuse you, Mr. Bush, of lying this country into war.

I accuse you of fabricating in the minds of your own people, a false implied link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.

I accuse you of firing the generals who told you that the plans for Iraq were disastrously insufficient.

I accuse you of causing in Iraq the needless deaths of 3,586 of our brothers and sons, and sisters and daughters, and friends and neighbors.

I accuse you of subverting the Constitution, not in some misguided but sincerely-motivated struggle to combat terrorists, but instead to stifle dissent.

I accuse you of fomenting fear among your own people, of creating the very terror you claim to have fought.

I accuse you of exploiting that unreasoning fear, the natural fear of your own people who just want to live their lives in peace, as a political tool to slander your critics and libel your opponents.

I accuse you of handing part of this republic over to a Vice President who is without conscience, and letting him run roughshod over it.

And I accuse you now, Mr. Bush, of giving, through that Vice President, carte blanche to Mr. Libby, to help defame Ambassador Joseph Wilson by any means necessary, to lie to Grand Juries and Special Counsel and before a court, in order to protect the mechanisms and particulars of that defamation, with your guarantee that Libby would never see prison, and, in so doing, as Ambassador Wilson himself phrased it here last night, of you becoming an accessory to the obstruction of justice.
Update 7/4: Via Firedoglake, windspike of Educational Whisper has a wonder breakdown of the grilling of Tony Snow over the Deciderer's decision.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

There is no process save impeachment and removal and disqualification and indictment and trial.

ellroon said...

Pelosi, put impeachment back on the table.

mapaghimagsik said...

Impeachment might not work, but it at least should be tried, if only because I don't think executive privilege can be used to hide evidence.

Sorghum Crow said...

Sadly, the TVs at the White House etc are superglued to faux noise and the "persons" who should hear this will not be able to.

ellroon said...

It has been said that Congress knows full well that a showdown with Bush and Cheney will cause a major Constitutional crisis and the plan is to move slowly enough to let time and elections take care of them. Running out the clock is better than a confrontation.

So, even if we don't get to see Bush and Cheney in the dock or in the Hague, we will have a lot of amendments to pass to fix the loopholes this administration used against us.

This would be infuriating because if we don't expose and destroy this PNAC network and all its dealings, we will have them springing back to life.

I hope Fox News gets more lawsuits...