Today we got to watch Dennis Kucinich present his Res 333-Dick Cheney impeachment, to Congress (again).  As we know, the Resolution has been referred back to the House Judiciary Committee (John Conyers).  What baffled many of us, was how the house vote started heavily weighted towards killing any further debate ...and through unexpected vote-flipping (largely by Republicans) the vote was reversed, calling for debate of said impeachment on the house floor.  (And it was consequently referred, by mostly a Dem majority, to the HJC ...to be lost down the memory-hole once again.)  

Many wondered, "Why did the Repubs want to debate a Cheney impeachment?"  ... and, "Why did the Dems not want to air this issue, on the floor?" (... in front of the world and everybody)

I’ll tell you why...

IT’S the COMMIES, stoopid!  

I received this email yesterday (from a Republic) circulating a (typical) straw man smear on Democratic policy.  It reinforces the claim that kos pointed out in his post today, that Republics (and Libertarians) MUST kill the notion that

"...Democrats [are] the generous protector of middle-class [working family] interests."

Follow me down the rabid hole (and yes, they attack Al Gore too)

WATCH the special tonight, on PBS (details below)

"The Camden 28" recalls the August 22, 1971 incident (almost 10 years into the Viet Nam war) in which four Catholic priests, a Lutheran minister and 23 others were arrested for breaking into the Camden, N.J., draft-board office, where they shredded and burned draft records.

Everyone was fed up with the Viet Nam war.  The FBI (under Nixon) had assisted in the break in (so they could ‘nail’ the protesters and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law).  Who had gone too far? (The US/entry to VN? The Camden 28? FBI?)  A mother who had a son who was arrested for the break-in, and another son (Bob Good) who was killed in VN ...WANTED something to BELIEVE in, about her son’s death.  We were NOT in VN for "Democracy", "Freedom", "Security"...as we were led to believe.  Kids were "kidnapped" [drafted], and taken 10,000 miles away from home.

What was to be believed?  The "truth" of Mrs. Good? Or the "truth" of Nixon (& the war)?

The true story, boils down to the petulant ‘legacy’ of an incompetent excuse for a ‘world leader’ (and his frothing circle-jerk of self-aggrandizing enablers) ...versus the true and genuine patriots of our (once) noble country.  It is with great sadness and tragedy, that (George W. Bush) this most embarrassing ‘representative’ of American dignity, was allowed to be installed as America’s president, and effectively pampered, to ultimately execute the most shameful sham in this country’s history.

An article in a local newspaper, brought this (Presidential/Republican) ‘sham’ to its truest (glaring) transparency.

If you’re interested, please follow below the fold, for the explicit  tearful  enraging details...

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...With four aftershocks in the following 1-1/2 hours.
( 4 mi) SE  of Pu`u `O`o Crater
26 miles SouthEast of Hilo, Hawaii

"Shaking" = moderate to strong.
See intensity map here.

...or, below the fold

From a  Frontline Interview, with Richard Cheney, Secretary of Defense, after the 1991 Gulf War:

Q: What was your advice to the President?
Cheney: I was not an enthusiast about getting US forces and going into Iraq. {snip}
I felt there was a real danger here that you would get bogged down in a long drawn out conflict, that this was a dangerous difficult part of the world.  {snip}
You're going to find yourself in a situation where you've redefined your war aims and now set up a new war aim that in effect would detract from the enormous success you just had. {snip}

Now you can say well you should have gone to Baghdad and gotten Saddam, I don't think so. I think if we had done that we would have been bogged down there for a very long period of time with the real possibility we might not have succeeded.  -Cheney

Oh pray tell!

Taking-off from maccabee’s earlier diary:  
The Economy At The Street Level.  ......talking to [struggling] cabbies, bellhops, food service and bartenders ... take heart:

...among all employment sectors, the service industry is predicted to have the highest overall increase in new college hiring (with jobs in areas such as consulting, healthcare and retail).

Lest it slipped the 'traditional media's memories, or whether they were scuttled by induced cognitive dissonance ... before 9/11, the existence of WMD in Iraq was not an apparent threat to the Bush administration.

"He (Saddam) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors." --Secretary of State Colin Powell, in Cairo, Feb. 24, 2001

But, as Bush and his minions have flamboyantly reminded us, ad nauseam, "9/11 changed everything"
Following his heroic [sic] carpet-bombing of Afghanistan, to scatter the Taliban and (summarily) LOSE (even the slightest interest in) Osama ... Bush (and his handlers) jettisoned the aforementioned "intelligence", and started their heated drumbeat toward "necessary" WAR.
But why the frenzied cadence, spawned by the neocons' coveted "New Pearl Harbor"?

Follow me into the 'rabbit-hole' ... for ...a peruse of another 'family' investment opportunity!

Almost exactly a year ago (February 27, 2004), the same Chris (mentioned in Inverted's diary, "Bush Gets His Oil & Sistani Gets His God") Floyd wrote another provocative piece for the
MoscowTimes (unfortunately, you need a paid subscription to read the whole article.   .....and, I have the whole thing.) ... but, parablocked ... and giving due credit (to a worthwhile subscription!):

>>>>more below

Sami al-Jumaili, a doctor at the main Falluja hospital who escaped arrest when it was taken, said the city was running out of medical supplies and only a few clinics remained.

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