Former Reagan Official: “Criminals Control the Executive Branch”
Gentle reader, you are probably unaware of former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski’s damning indictment of the Bush Regime in his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 1, 2007, as the United States no longer has a media – only a government propaganda ministry.
Brzezinski damned the Bush Regime’s war in Iraq as “a historic, strategic, and moral calamity.” Brzezinski damned the war as “driven by Manichean impulses and imperial hubris.” He damned the war for “intensifying regional instability” and for “undermining America’s global legitimacy.”
Finally, a voice with weight speaks. Brzezinski is a real intellect, a real expert, unlike the political hacks who have followed him in the office.
Brzezinski told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that “the final destination on this downhill track is likely to be a head-on conflict with Iran and with much of the world of Islam.” Brzezinski predicts “some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the U.S. blamed on Iran; culminating in a ‘defensive’ U.S. military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.”
There is something deadly wrong with a society and a political system that permits a regime capable of such insane and criminal “leadership” to remain in power. By the time Hitler launched World War II, the German Reichstag had no power to prevent him. But we have not yet reached that point in the United States.
Brzezinski concludes his testimony with the statement that it is “time for the Congress to assert itself.”
The reasons for impeaching Bush and Cheney exceed by many multiples all the reasons for impeaching every president combined in US history. The reasons have been enumerated many times and do not need repeating. If members of Congress were faithful to their oaths of office to uphold the Constitution, Bush and Cheney would already have been impeached and convicted.
The very least Congress can do at this very late stage is to make it perfectly clear in no uncertain terms that any attack on Iran under any pretext without the authorization of Congress after a careful examination of the pretext will lead to the immediate removal of Bush and Cheney from power, as will any escalation of the war in Iraq without explicit authorization by Congress.
Having delivered this ultimatum, Congress must immediately begin investigations of the Bush Regime’s attack on civil liberties and the separation of powers, on the Bush Regime’s use of lies and deception to lead America into a war with Iraq, on the Bush Regime’s violation of the Geneva Conventions, and on the Bush Regime’s plans to attack Iran.
The American people and their representatives in Congress must face the fact that criminal and dictatorial persons control executive power in the United States and immediately rectify this highly dangerous situation.
Counting the seconds until Westy and Aubrey start calling Brzezinski a liberal and begin swiftboating him with all their might.
Gimme some o dat Brzezinski over Rice.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/25/zb-iran/
One of the money lines in the article:
“The reasons for impeaching Bush and Cheney exceed by many multiples all the reasons for impeaching every president combined in US history. The reasons have been enumerated many times and do not need repeating. If members of Congress were faithful to their oaths of office to uphold the Constitution, Bush and Cheney would already have been impeached and convicted.”
Congress is just as guilty as Bush et al. Just as we would prosecute a policeman who looked the other way when a crime is committed, I look at our Congress the same way. They are complicit and we need to tell them that every chance we get. And by the way, do you notice they don’t attend public meetings with any regularity? They know what we think of them, at least those of us who are informed!
Come on Chris, this story is a bit of a stretch. It only appeals to Bush Haters. I totally agree with the guy when he says that Congress and only Congress can authorize any war with Iran. That is how the whole war process is supposed to work: Congress declares war and the President fights it.
In my book, the biggest fleecing of America is the lack of protection along our borders. Protection from invading terroists, drug cartels, illegal aliens, etc. All of the members of Congress along with the Executive branch should be indicted for this.
Aubrey
No one would call Paul Craig Roberts a liberal.
Read about him
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Craig_Roberts
John, didn’t call the guy a liberal. Nice spin. Do you disagree that the article appeals to the anti-Bush crowd?
Aubrey,
It’s a bash bush piece.
Can anyone write a praise Bush piece right now?
MD
The article was written by a conservative. Paul Craig Roberts is known for letting it fly! His agenda is the truth. As I said read about him.
Aubrey
Tell me why you think Bush is a good President?
Anyone from the Reagan years picking on poor George Dumbya Bush … is the kettle calling the pot black.
Mad Dog,
You raise and interesting point. I agree Bush is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I have read excellent commentaries about Reagan, some saying he was quite bright, others that he was a dullard. I’m curious to know how sharp or dull he was? How does one find the truth?
The main thing about Reagan was he was an anti-communist for decades and he espoused the advantages of capitalism whenever he got the chance, Even with Gorbachev which some people found amusing. And he wasn’t just about big business, he was also for small business and entrepreneurs. He was a “big picture” kinda guy. Of course some saw the beginnings of alzheimers while he was in office, but nothing like what Bush exibits.
Bill,
Repeating myself on Reagan.
He went downhill sharply after the assassination attempt.
It has never been proven that he died with alzheimers. That required a brain biopsy. No biopsy was done.
It will remain open to doubt the specific natural of his mental decline.
His public ’symptoms’ during his tenure do not indicate Alzheimers but one of several other wasting away diseases.
In a hundred years, a bunch of Georgetown grad students will dig him up to write a great expose’.
I hope knot!