Continuing and Intolerable Affronts to Democracy and American Values
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A suggestion: It's time for us (the people in power) to connect the dots about some recent events in United States history.

First Dot: Take a look at the far-right think tank "Project for the New American Century" that's got the ear of America's Commander-In-Chief. The main supporters of this think tank--Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz--all hold positions of extreme power and influence in the Bush White House. Then examine their hopes for a "catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor" (that’s a link to ABC News, folks) which would be required to launch the kind of sustained war that's led to the second Gulf War. Remember what happened almost three years ago this September. Remember how it was used for a justification to invade Iraq.

Second Dot: Rice's testimony about the "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States" memo that sent American intelligence officials into fits of "hair on fire" desk-pounding a month before 9/11 just as Bush took his first month-long working vacation. And let's not forget Richard Clarke's testimony.

Pause. Entertain the idea for a moment that there was not a string of intelligence failures surrounding 9/11, but a string of intelligence successes.

Think again about the two dots.

Remember that we were lied to about WMD as a justification for war.

Solution? We could just sit back and hope that a Democratic victory in November will turn some sort of tide against the stinking lies this administration has used to sour the old American Republic. Or we could urge our elected officials to exercise a certain rarely-used congressional power. After all, lying about war certainly falls under the category of "high crimes and misdemeanors".