Chimpeach

In the first insider account of Pentagon decision-making on Iraq, one of the key architects of the war blasts former secretary of state Colin Powell, the CIA, retired Gen. Tommy R. Franks and former Iraq occupation chief L. Paul Bremer for mishandling the run-up to the invasion and the subsequent occupation of the country.

Douglas J. Feith, in a massive score-settling work, portrays an intelligence community and a State Department that repeatedly undermined plans he developed as undersecretary of defense for policy and conspired to undercut President Bush's policies.

Among the disclosures made by Feith in "War and Decision," scheduled for release next month by HarperCollins, is Bush's declaration, at a Dec. 18, 2002, National Security Council meeting, that "war is inevitable." The statement came weeks before U.N. weapons inspectors reported their initial findings on Iraq and months before Bush delivered an ultimatum to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Feith, who says he took notes at the meeting, registered it as a "momentous comment."

Feith was one of the chief neo-cons in the Bush administration. This is a remarkable claim.. one that should add to the volume of evidence that would lead to impeachment of the president.. but one, yet again, that will be ignored.. because people will say "let's move on".

The Iraq war was a foregone conclusion when Bush "won" the election in 2000. The only issue was when and how.. and 9/11 fixed that issue. Clearly the evidence was "fixed", as the Downing Street Memo made plain, and nothing was going to alter the insistence that the United States launch a pre-emptive war against another sovereign nation.

That is a violation of international law.

At some point, I'd hope that justice would be done.. and that Bush be impeached and stand trial at The Hague for war crimes.. but it's not going to happen. When you are the president of the most powerful nation that ever existed, you don't stand trial.. unless you get a blow job from a chubby intern.

Meanwhile.. over a million Iraqis are dead, nearly 4000 Americans are dead, and many billions of our dollars are gone.. the deficits soar, the economy implodes.. and in about 10 months, Bush is going back to Texas to clear brush to his heart's content; his work for the oil and defense industries a stunning success.

This is America.. and as the saying goes, love it or leave it.. I can see myself retiring somewhere in Europe to be quite honest. If funds allow, London would be nice. The city is beautiful, and the culture quite rich.. but ugh.. the weather.