Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author Ron Suskind went on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night to talk about his latest book, The Way of the World. The central contentions: The Bush administration knew full well there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before the 2003 invasion, yet ordered the war anyway. In addition, officials allegedly faked a letter from an Iraqi informant to create a fake link between Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and the Sept. 11 conspiracy. The Los Angeles Times has more.
Now read that first paragraph again.
And think about this:
The administration knew there were no WMD in Iraq.
Before the invasion.
But they told us there were WMD, and that’s why we had to invade.
And they went in anyway.
There’s a name for that: It’s called conspiracy to commit murder. And it’s been something that author and former Los Angeles prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi has been talking about for months, with scant media attention, following the publication of his own book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. Bugliosi made a pretty damn good case before, and Suskind’s work will only buttress it.
In his Countdown appearance, Suskind said the book raises issues of “constitutional significance,” implying that impeachment was a probable result of the charges. We agree; if lying to the American people and taking the nation to war under false pretenses doesn’t qualify as “high crimes and misdemeanors,” then the phrase has no meaning.
Unfortunately, although House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has allowed the Judiciary Committee to hold impeachment hearings, she has said flatly that no articles of impeachment will be drafted or introduced on the House floor. (It simply wouldn’t do to rattle cages this close to an election, you understand.)
But impeachment is only a provision to remove a corrupt official from office, and Bush’s term ends in about five months from now anyway. The real question is, will America allow the president to get away with causing the deaths of more than 4,100 brave American soldiers, and thousands of Iraqis, all based on a goddamn lie?
Buglosi says no. And so do we.
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