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Battleboro Moonbats On Bush
There are Moonbats in Battleboro, Vermont. IN a show of utter contempt for our constitution, residents of Battleboro are pushing an initiative to have President Bush and Vice President Cheney arrested and charged with war crimes, perjury, and other assorted charges should the Dynamic duo ever appear in this small Vermont Village.
Ironically, Vermont is the only state that Bush has not visited since becoming president. This reduces the odds that Battleboro will ever be able to make "good" on their threats should this idiocy become law in March.
From The Rutland Herald:
According to Town Clerk Annette Cappy, organizers of the Bush-Cheney issue gathered enough signatures, and it was up to the Select Board whether Brattleboro voters would consider the issue in March.
I noticed that Battleboro has never made a similar such initiative against Bill Clinton, a man who was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice and lead America into a war in Europe in order to divert attention away from his philandering ways.
But then this comes as no surprise when you read the rest of the lunacy taking place in Vermont.
The man pushing this agenda is a guy name of Kurt Daims who apparently has nothing better to do than to distort the facts on the war in Iraq.
Daims said the most grievous crime committed by Bush and Cheney was perjury - lying to Congress and U.S. citizens about the basis of a war in Iraq.
First, perjury and lying involves a deliberate intent to deceive, which was never true in the case made for the Liberation of Iraq. The entire world, including every member of Congress, believed that Hussein was a threat and possessed weapons of mass destruction, specifically chemical and biological agents. These assertions that were made by the Bush Administration were made based on the same intelligence that was available to Congress. There were no lies, no attempts to deceive Congress or the American People. Further, over 500 chemical weapons (not counting the two al Qaeda attempted to use against coalition forces, have been recovered and disposed of since the Liberation of Iraq. That fact alone proves that Bush was right in his claims that Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. No lies there, no perjury.
But let's not let the facts get in the way of a "good" political axe to grind. In the style of Che Guevara, facts are irrelevant to the agenda at hand.
Daims goes on to push the inaccurate assessment that over 600,000 people have died in Iraq as a result of the U.S. led efforts to liberate Iraq.
According to the site Iraq Body Count, the number is closer to 80,000. Now, I admit that that is still a large number of people killed over a five year span, however the numbers also include people who were killed as a result of increased violent crimes that were not related to the "insurgency" or terrorist and sectarian death squad activities. It also doesn't break it down by how many are innocent civilians (no such thing in the eyes of al Qaeda) killed by terrorists and death squad operatives (remember Muqtada al Sadr and his Mahdi Army?) and how many were terrorists killed by the U.S. led coalition.
Daims also said he believed Bush and Cheney were also guilty of espionage for spying on American people and obstruction of justice, for the politically generated firings of U.S. attorneys.
For the espionage part, Daims must be referring to the eavesdropping on international calls made between known terrorists operating outside of the U.S. and their contacts within North America. There are very few, if any, U.S. citizens that were involved in that surveillance operation. And if there were, and they were conversing with KNOWN terrorists, I would want the government to know who they are and what they are saying. Wouldn't you? Further, the U.S. did cooperate with the various require legal authorities. However, with technology the way it is today, the good guys, meaning our Intelligence Agencies, have to be able to act fast with great fluidity. Taping into international calls that are using cellphone technology needs fast operational capabilities.
And then Daims claims that the dismissal of political appointees as constituting "obstruction of justice?" These appointees serve at the pleasure of the President, and are subject to dismissal at any time for any (or no) reason.
What really gets my goat is this final quote from Daims:
"If Hitler were still alive and walked through Brattleboro, I think the local police would arrest him for war crimes," Daims said.
Like the rest of the hard-left MoveOn crowd, Daims considers Bush to be like Hitler. Absolutely sickening and the people of Battleboro should be embarrassed to have such a person in their community.
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