Dear God...

[flewellyn]

Apparently, Bob Woodward was interviewed on CBS' "60 Minutes" last night. I didn't see it then, but I found video atDemocratic Underground and watched that. Woodward was talking about his new book, "Plan of Attack", which discusses the planning of the Iraq War. He interviewed 75 military and administration officials, most of whom spoke on condition of anonymity. Interestingly, Bush was willing to speak on the record. At any rate, the 60 Minutes segment discussed many of the highlights of the book.

I am now scared shitless.

For one thing, apparently Bush showed the Saudi Prince Bandar a copy of our war plan document, marked "Top Secret: No Foreign". He disclosed classified information to a foreign official. Isn't that sort of thing impeachable?

Another thing: this same Prince Bandar promised Bush that the Saudi government would ramp up oil production in the coming months, lowering the price of oil so that the economy would be stronger in time for the election. In other words, Bush is conspiring with a foreign government to influence the outcome of our election. Isn't that sort of thing impeachable, too?

Oh, yes, they also funneled $700 million from funds Congress allocated to the Afghanistan war to building up for Iraq. In other words, appropriating funds from the treasury without the permission or approval of Congress. Isn't that sort of thing impeachable, as well?

The scariest thing, though, was what Woodward stated Bush's response was to the question "How will history judge your Iraq War?"

Bush shrugged and said "History? We won't know, we'll all be dead."

Dear...fucking...God.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Don't forget that Bush is of the stripe of Christianity which believes the Last Judgement is imminent. He doesn't care about how history will judge him (or about global warming, for that matter) because we'll all be nestling in the bosom of God shortly. Hence his 'smash the infidel' foreign policy, too.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Ohh, believe me, I have that in mind all the time. That's why his last comment scared me so badly.

[momily.livejournal.com]

I didn't know all that, but I'm already so disgusted and alarmed that it would be hard to move up to another level. I'm one of those Democrat liberals who will do anything it takes to remove that man from office.

I was horribly fascinated - the way you're fascinated to watch a cat torture and kill a mouse - to watch the press conference, when Bush was asked about mistakes he'd made. I sat there, unbelieving, while the man struggled to remember something and, at the same time, struggled to keep from blurting out something horribly damaging.

He has GOT to GO.

[cherrypep.livejournal.com]

Being in the UK for Easter, I watched that press conference (at 2am, of course), along with my father and my friend artourter. It was like pantomime, in that each time Bush came out with an "Oh, no, we didn't" style of remark, we'd chorus "Oh, yes, you did" like tired monks.

I admit the same horrified fascination with his performance, the hedging around the issue, the babbling, the proto-patriotic digressions into the fertile fields of Freedom and Family Life... I was particularly impressed with his inability to answer or even escape any of the questions asked. And how about, "I wish you would have given me this written question ahead of time, so I could plan for it"?

Incidentally, one question was particularly interesting in my view:

Q Mr. President, thank you. You mentioned 17 of the 26 NATO members providing some help on the ground in Iraq. But if you look at the numbers -- 135,000 U.S. troops, 10,000 or 12,000 British troops, then the next largest, perhaps even the second largest contingent of guns on the ground are private contractors -- literally, hired guns.

He didn't answer it, of course. Although he apparently invented the phrase "Gut leaders", in avoiding it, and if anybody knows what he meant I would be interested.

[limpingpigeon.livejournal.com]

Nah. Those aren't impeachable offences. Now, if he had committed adultery with an intern and lied about it under oath in a completely unrelated case, well then we could impeach the hell out of him.

But, yeah. That's disturbing shit.