[Vision2020] Bush, et al. before a Grand Jury

[Tony]

Precisely Pat.  The left conveniently ignores the inconvenient truth that 
they were just as convinced as anyone regarding the question of WMDs.  I 
watched a documentary last night that quoted Hillary, Kerry and Ted Kennedy 
ALL saying Hussein's-WMDs were a grave threat and something needed to be 
done to stop him.  Now they are clammoring for his head as punishment for 
doing what THEY SAID he should do.

Incredible.

You gotta' give the left one thing -- they are consistent.  Consistently 
dishonest, and in collusion with America's enemies.

Have a great holiday season.     --T---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bush, et al. before a Grand Jury


> He forgets John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, and varies others who also said the 
> WMD
> were there! As well as many Iraqis. What a stupid thing to waste your time
> on...he needs to get a life.
>
>
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> To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:41 AM
> Subject: [Vision2020] Bush, et al. before a Grand Jury
>
>
> Former Prosecutor Imagines Bush's Judgment Day
>
> William Fisher
>
>
> NEW YORK, Nov 27 (IPS) - The scene is a U.S. federal grand jury room. 
> There,
> impaneled ordinary citizens listen intently as a veteran federal 
> prosecutor
> asks them to return an indictment unique in U.S. history.
>
> The charge is conspiracy to defraud the United States. And the defendants
> are President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, former 
> Defence
> Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former
> Secretary of State Colin Powell.
>
> On the first day of grand jury proceedings, the prosecutor addresses the
> jurors. "Please remember that you must decide the case based solely on the
> evidence that's presented and applicable law, without regard to prejudice 
> or
> sympathy. In other words, your politics, and any personal feelings you may
> have toward the defendants -- positive or negative -- should have no 
> bearing
> on your deliberations."
>
> The prosecutor then passes out the indictment, reminding jurors, "don't
> forget your reading glasses..."
>
> The indictment charges that the defendants "did knowingly and 
> intentionally
> conspire to defraud the United States by using deceit, craft, trickery,
> dishonest means, false and fraudulent representations, including ones made
> without a reasonable basis and with reckless indifference to their truth 
> or
> falsity, and omitting material facts necessary to make their 
> representations
> truthful, fair and accurate, while knowing and intending that their false
> and fraudulent representations would influence the public and the
> deliberations of Congress with authorisation of a preventive war against
> Iraq, thereby defeating, obstructing, impairing, and interfering with
> Congress' lawful functions of overseeing foreign affairs and making
> appropriations."
>
> Over the next seven days, the grand jurors evaluate a 64-point case
> presented by the prosecutor. They hear compelling supporting testimony 
> from
> three agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They battle their way
> through thousands of pages of documentation supporting the alleged crime.
>
> Of course, none of this actually happened -- nor is it likely to happen.
> Rather, it is the scenario of a new book about a hypothetical case,
> presented to a hypothetical grand jury, with hypothetical witnesses.
>
> Only the prosecutor is real. She is Elizabeth de la Vega, a retired
> government lawyer with more than 20 years of experience. She served as an
> assistant U.S. attorney in Minneapolis, was and a member of the Organised
> Crime Strike Force and Branch Chief in San Jose, California.
>
> Her book is titled, simply, "U.S. v. George W. Bush et al". It will be
> published in December by Seven Stories Press. Amazon.com is currently 
> taking
> orders for the book.
>
> Why did Ms. de la Vega write this book? "The president will not be held
> accountable for misrepresenting the prewar intelligence unless and until
> Congress conducts hearings similar to the Watergate hearings," she told 
> IPS.
> "As yet, however, we seem painfully incapable of reaching that point."
>
> "Although the evidence of wrongdoing is overwhelming, the facts are so
> complicated that it's impossible to have a productive debate about them in
> the political sphere," she said. "One forum where that's not true is the
> courtroom."
>
> Does she believe that her book will lead to making her hypothetical case
> real?
>
> She writes, "Consider this my 911 [emergency] call. I'm calling on 
> Democrats
> and Republicans to do the right thing... and convince Congress to do the
> right thing. I am not talking about bringing people to justice in the
> vengeful sense that President Bush employs. I am talking about effecting
> justice... holding out highest government officials accountable for... a
> criminal betrayal of trust that is strikingly similar to, yet far worse,
> than the fraud committed by Enron's top officials."
>
> She told IPS, "Many of the victims of the president's fraud -- millions of
> Iraqis -- have no voice in the United States, but the millions of 
> Americans
> who were deceived by the president's fraud do have a voice. We should use
> it, loudly and repeatedly, to pressure Congress into holding the 
> president,
> the vice president and their top-level aides accountable for tricking the
> nation into war."
>
> The indictment takes jurors from the prewar period and the "regime change"
> influence of the neoconservative group, Project for the New American
> Century, to the attacks of 9/11, the formation of the shadowy Iraq Group
> inside the White House, and the preparation of war plans beginning in
> September 2001.
>
> It moves from the distortion of intelligence information regarding Iraq's
> WMD capabilities and programmes and President Bush's strategy sessions 
> with
> British Prime Minister Tony Blair, to actions designed to end the United
> Nations inspections, the abandonment of multilateral diplomacy, Colin
> Powell's deeply flawed presentation to the U.N. Security Council, and
> finally Congressional authorisation of the use of force.
>
> It sets out 19 "Overt Acts" allegedly committed by the defendants to
> "market" the need for preemptive invasion -- based largely on their public
> statements via the media in which, among other things, administration
> officials professed absolute certainty about Saddam Hussein's WMDs, ties
> between Iraq and al Qaeda, the use of aluminum tubes to process uranium, 
> to
> the warnings from then-National Security Advisor Rice and Vice President
> Cheney that the smoking gun could be "in the form of a mushroom cloud".
>
> Some of De la Vega's readers may be disappointed that we never learn about
> the decision of the grand jury. But that's one of the points of the 
> book -- 
> it's the reader who is sitting on the jury.
>
> This slender book is a fascinating, suspenseful, fact-based read. It is a
> volume that should be read by all those who seek truth and clarity -- 
> especially those who returned to Congress after Nov. 7. (FIN/2006)
>
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