Truth and Righteousness by Carol Wolman

Truth and Righteousness by Carol Wolman

Psalm 85:   ¹¹Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

 

Words like "truth" and "righteousness" are sharp and clear.  They have a definite meaning, and a healthy society respects them. 

 

American society these days is very sick.  The leaders claim to be pious Christians, who respect the word of God, yet they have no respect for truth.  Righteousness means whatever is right for them, not for the American people whom they are supposed to be serving, and not what is right for God.  The American people are confused and do not discern or demand the truth, and have plenty of self-righteousness, but no real sense of right and wrong.  Otherwise, there would be outrage about torture by Americans in prisons around the world.

 

 Psalm 85:  ⁸I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

 

War in the nuclear age is folly.  God speaks peace.  Bush calls himself the war president.  We see the folly of war in the Iraq mess, and yet there are rumors of more wars- with Iran, Syria, North Korea.  Bush cannot hear the word of peace, and persists in his folly.

 

The Downing Street document states that " the facts were fixed to suit the policy".   In other words, Bush knowingly lied about WMD in Iraq, in order to start a war.   Cheney is equally culpable, because he is the one who repeatedly visited the CIA to make sure their intelligence reports fit the already decided upon policy- to invade Iraq.

 

Psalm 85:   ¹¹Truth shall spring out of the earth.

 

The truth must come from the people, from the grass roots, from the salt of the earth.  We are being harmed by the pious politicians, especially by their war, and this is our truth.

 

Psalm 85:   ¹¹Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

 

If we assert our truth by way of a mass movement of citizens for impeachment, righteousness will look down from heaven.  A sense of fervent rectitude can overcome great odds, nonviolently, as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. showed us.  This is what is meant by "God is on our side".  It means that we possess the truth, and this knowledge will provide us with the will, the strength, the spirit to prevail.

 

Impeachment is peaceful.  God is smiling upon us.  He has provided us with a "smoking gun", a strong leader in John Conyers, and plenty of grievances.  Let us seize upon the lies about WMD's in Iraq, and impeach Bush and Cheney.

 

Sign the Conyers letter at www.johnconyers.com

 

In the name of the Prince of Peace,  Carol Wolman 

 

 

 

 

Rep. Conyers on Bush Stonewalling on The Downing Street Memo

Sign Rep. Conyer's letter to Bush laying the ground for impeachment at www.johnconyers.com

 

 

Rep. Conyers on Bush Stonewalling on

The Downing Street Memo

BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT

News from the offices of Congressman John Conyers, Jr.:

Representative John Conyers, Jr., (D-MI) House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member, issued the following statement in response to the joint Bush- Blair press conference and President Bush's and evasive answers to inquiries about the Downing Street Minutes:

"We have moved from silence to stonewalling on the issue of the Downing Street Minutes. The President's contention that he had not made up his mind to go to war on or before the summer of 2002 is now contradicted by the Downing Street Minutes, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, former National Security Adviser Richard Clarke, former Ambassador Joe Wilson and a number of former Blair Administration official.

When asked about the minutes, Bush delivered a canned response that the memo was written before the US and Britain went to the United Nations, but the memo itself appears to indicate that effort was just for show.

The President didn't even respond to the central question of the memo, and the question asked, whether this Administration cooked the books to make the case for war, an allegation that has been substantiated by former officials and investigative reporting . High Ranking officials in both the Bush and Blair Administrations have said that military action was predetermined. Are all of these government officials and reports deceiving us or is the President?"

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BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT

Congressman Conyers represents Michigan's 14th District, is a Ranking Member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Fw: top reasons for impeaching Bush

 

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From: Karim A G

To: Karim A G

Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 11:32 AM

Subject: DOWNING STREET MEMO - What are the top reasons for impeaching Bush?

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 DOWNING STREET MEMO
Sign Conyers Petition Concerning "Downing Street Memo
http://johnconyers.campaignoffice.com/index.asp?Type=SUPERFORMS&SEC=%7B120FBD30-EC95-47B0-84FA-E2FFC022265C%7D

 

 
http://www.impeachcentral.com/

What are the top reasons for impeaching Bush?

Iraq

• Invading Iraq without any threat to the U.S.
• Lying about Iraqi WMD's to Congress and the American people
• Causing the deaths of over 1,600 U.S. troops and the maiming of over 10,000 more
• Failing to provide adequate equipment and armor to U.S. troops
• Allowing illegal torture and murder of prisoners
• Causing the deaths of 100,000 Iraqi civilians
• Spending $300 billion in just two years for an occupation that could last for decades
• Letting Halliburton steal billions through no-bid contracts

September 11

• Ignoring countless warnings of an attack in the U.S.
• Reading "My Pet Goat" during the attack
• Letting Osama Bin Laden escape from Afghanistan
• Holding no bureaucrat accountable for ignoring warnings
• Delaying and obstructing the 911 Commission investigation
• Turning Afghanistan into the world's largest opium producer

Terrorism

 

• Allowing international terrorism incidents to quadruple and trying to cover up the facts
• Failing to secure our borders and ports to prevent terrorism
• Creating a new generation of terrorists through the invasion of Iraq and the killing of 100,000 civilians
• Letting terrorists buy high-powered weapons inside the U.S.
• Letting North Korea build nuclear bombs and missiles that can cross the Pacific Ocean
• Refusing to shut down Pakistan's nuclear weapons exports

Foreign relations

• Turning the world against the United States
• Preparing for another war with Iran
• Signing treaties that cost America jobs and undermine American laws

Economy

• Letting gasoline prices double at devastating cost to the economy while oil companies make record profits
• Letting corrupt companies like Enron steal billions from consumers and employees
• Cutting taxes for the rich and turning a $5 trillion budget surplus into a $5 trillion budget deficit
• Adding trillions to the national debt, which our children and grandchildren will have to pay off with interest
• Letting millions of American jobs go overseas

Freedom

• Letting bureaucrats wiretap Americans without a court order
• Locking up suspects for years without charges or trials
• Arresting nonviolent protesters at Bush events
• Packing the courts with right-wing judges to outlaw abortion
• Ordering federal courts to interfere in the Terri Schiavo tragedy
• Taking away our right to sue corporations through class actions
• Taking away our right to declare bankruptcy under Chapter 7 and forcing middle-class Americans into debt slavery

Democracy

• Stealing the Presidential elections of 2000 and 2004
• Refusing to investigate the disenfranchisement of tens of thousands of voters in Florida and Ohio
• Promoting black-box electronic voting machines without paper trails
• Embracing dictators in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia, and China
• Overthrowing democratically-elected leaders in Haiti and Venezuela

Environment

• Allowing global warming, which will cause massive environmental damage
• Allowing more toxic mercury in the air and water
• Allowing oil drilling in wilderness areas

Scandals

• Illegally "outing" CIA agent Valerie Plame, an important anti-terrorism official
• Letting a gay male prostitute (Jeff Gannon) roam free in the White House
• Paying journalists to give favorable coverage to the administration
• Relying on an earpiece for answers during debates and press conferences
• Going AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard in 1972 and covering it up ever since
• Defending the most corrupt Member of Congress (Tom DeLay)

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Fw: [Afterdowningstreet] Bush, Blair, and Bumiller

 

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From: David Swanson

To: afterdowningstreet@people-link5.inch.com

Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 7:31 AM

Subject: [Afterdowningstreet] Bush, Blair, and Bumiller

Bush, Blair, and Bumiller

By David Swanson, www.afterdowningstreet.org

 

The corporate media today began its coverage of the Downing Street Minutes, moved to do so by a visit to Washington by Prime Minister Tony Blair, and by the pressure all of us have applied.

 

And, while most newspapers simply reported what Bush and Blair said, the USA Today, Houston Chronicle, Boston Globe, Columbus Dispatch, and Salon called www.AfterDowningStreet.org for comments.  The articles are posted and linked to on our site.

 

And the Washington Post provided a lengthy and quite interesting chat on its website with staff writer Jefferson Morley, also available via www.afterdowningstreet.org. 

 

But the Post's Dana Milbank declared the story over, having apparently mistaken a starting pistol for a fatal shot.

 

Here's what he wrote:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=101

 

Here's how to politely tell him he's mistaken:

milbankd@washpost.com

 

The New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller published the following piece of stenography:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/international/08prexy.html

 

This puts into new light Bumiller's famous comment that "You can’t just say the president is lying. You don’t just say that...." 

 

From a panel broadcast on C-Span:

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2481

 

Bumiller: That’s why it’s very hard to write those, because you can’t say George Bush is wrong here. There’s no way you can say that in the New York Times. So we contort ourselves up and say, “Actually”— I actually once wrote this sentence: “Mr. Bush’s statement did not exactly . . . ” It was some completely upside down statement that was basically saying he wasn’t telling the truth. And I got an email from somebody saying, “What’s wrong with you guys? Why can’t you just say it plainly?” But there’s just—

Loren Ghiglione (Medill School of Journalism, Moderator): Why can’t you say it plainly?

Bumiller: You can’t just say the president is lying. You don’t just say that in the . . . you just say—

Ghiglione: Well, why can’t you?

[laughter from the audience]

Bumiller: You can in an editorial, but I’m sorry, you can’t in a news column. Mr. Bush is lying? You can say Mr. Bush is, you can say. . . .

[Murmuring and laughter continue from audience.]

Bumiller [to audience]: And stop the fussing! You can say Mr. Bush’s statement was not factually accurate. You can’t say the president is lying—that’s a judgment call.

 

How to politely ask Bumiller to report the truth even if it requires analyzing facts and making judgments:

bumiller@nytimes.com

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Statement by Constitutional attorney on Downing St.

John Bonifaz has submitted a formal request to the House Judiciary Committee to investigate the implications of the Downing St. document, as to whether it implies impeachable offenses.  Here is Bonifaz on the Bush-Blair press conference.

 

 

June 7, 2005

STATEMENT BY CONSTITUTIONAL ATTORNEY JOHN BONIFAZ ON BEHALF OF AFTERDOWNINGSTREET.ORG ON TODAY’S JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT BUSH AND BRITISH PRIME MINISTER BLAIR

President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair continued today to try to hide from the explosive revelations in the Downing Street Minutes.

Neither President Bush nor Prime Minister Blair denied today that the Downing Street Minutes are, in fact, the official minutes of the secret meeting that Prime Minister Blair held in London on July 23, 2002, with his top national security officials to receive a briefing from Richard Dearlove, then director of Britain’s CIA equivalent, MI-6.

Neither President Bush nor Prime Minister Blair denied today that Mr. Dearlove, in reporting on his meetings with high U.S. Government officials in Washington, stated at that meeting: “Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD [weapons of mass destruction]. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”

The Prime Minister asserted that “the facts were not being fixed in any shape or form at all.”

The President claimed that “[t]here’s nothing farther from the truth” with respect to Mr. Dearlove’s statement that the President had decided, by July 2002, to invade Iraq, months before submitting his resolution on Iraq to the United States Congress and months before he and the Prime Minister asked the United Nations to resume its inspections for alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

The American people deserve to know the truth. Mr. Dearlove’s report in July 2002 directly contradicts what the President and the Prime Minister said today. Only a full congressional investigation, with subpoena power, will reveal the truth.

AfterDowningStreet.org, a broad coalition of veterans groups, peace groups, and public interest organizations across this country, renews its call today for Members of Congress to introduce a Resolution of Inquiry directing the House Judiciary Committee to launch a formal investigation into whether the President of the United States has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war. This inquiry must now answer the question: Has the President engaged in a conspiracy to deceive and mislead the United States Congress and the American people about the basis for going to war against Iraq? If the President has committed a High Crime, he must be held accountable under the United States Constitution.