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kpete (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-21-08 09:44 AMOriginal message Sufficient Grounds For IMMEDIATE Impeachment: Iraq Oil Was Stolen & Cheney Planned Theft In Advance http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3831308Edited on Thu Aug-21-08 09:45 AM by kpeteSome people -- deny that oil theft motivated the decision to invade Iraq. All such "alternative" theories face one problem: The oil was, in fact, stolen -- and Cheney planned the theft well in advance:http://www.pubrecord.org/nationworld/262-the-secret-dea... Previously undisclosed Halliburton documents obtained by The Public Record confirm that controlling the world's second largest oil reserves was a top priority for the Bush administration. Additionally, the deal between the Department of Defense and Halliburton unit Kellogg, Brown & Root to operate Iraq's oil industry saved Halliburton from imminent bankruptcy.A March 6, 2003 internal Pentagon e-mail sent by an Army Corps of Engineers official says "action" on a multibillion-dollar Halliburton contract was "coordinated" within Cheney's office.http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/35581 The e-mail says Douglas Feith, the former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, received authorization from then Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz to “execute†the Restore Iraqi Oil contract to Halliburton in 2002.Feith was one of the architects of the Iraq war who operated the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans that exaggerated the Iraqi threat and provided the White House with bogus information about links between Iraq and al Qaeda.Right there, you have sufficient grounds for immediate impeachment of Dick Cheney. Not just impeachment: A RICO suit.http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2008/08/oil-and-impeachm...
global1 (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-21-08 09:55 AMResponse to Original message 3. It Just Blows My Mind That We Have Such Sinister People In Our Government That...... plan and plot behind the scenes to do these kinds of things. Patriots? I think not. These criminals are motivated by power and greed and unfortunately take advantage of the American people by lying to them. The get the American people to vote for them and to put them in office so let them get away with these crimes. What kind of conscious do these guys have? How do they live with themselves and justify this in their mind? When you think about this we implicate all of the *Co administration for going along with this and throw in the Republican Congress that let them get away with this early on and unfortunately we have to lump in the Dems that are continuing to let them get away with these crimes. This has got to stop. We have to put our foot down and not tolerate this behavior of public officials. Otherwise you can just kiss our way of life good-bye.
sfexpat2000 (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-21-08 04:36 PMResponse to Reply #14 33. This is the kind of corruption that banana republics have always dealt with. My family comes from one of them and all of this is just every eerily familiar. They all had US corporate interests running things; we have globalization.And I only hope it's no so entrenched that a Democratic White House and majority can't fix it over time.
bjobotts (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-21-08 07:58 PMResponse to Reply #55 56. "Armed revolution cannot beat the US militarty but it can eliminate its politicalleaders"- anonymous. The time has come if Obama loses this election and it is stolen by repubs voting machines...then we have run out of alternatives to save our democracy or restore our constitution.
elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-21-08 09:55 AMResponse to Original message 4. Treason, self-dealing...these are capital offenses. Swing low, Cheney.
truedelphi (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-21-08 04:31 PMResponse to Reply #10 29. We've had people like kpete assemble those lists They went on and on.There are probably 75 reasons that you can impeach.I mena, Kucinich came up with 35.
JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-21-08 05:09 PMResponse to Original message 36. I have always suspected that the real reason for the Iraq War was to save Halliburton from its asbestos debt -- with taxpayer money."Tort reform" is still a favorite right-wing "issue" (a phony issue), but it is less of a focal point of their propaganda than it was before the Bush/Cheney regime. The reasons for the panic over tort liability were many, but two of them, most likely, were the asbestos liability and the tobacco liability. Bush/Cheney have taken care of both of those little problems in their own unforgettable fashion -- robbing the American people to rescue their corporate buddies. We been robbed. No doubt about it. And the brunt of the asbestos damage may not yet have been felt.
