{"id":195742,"date":"2008-06-17T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/17\/can-we-impeach-him-now\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T00:05:00","slug":"can-we-impeach-him-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/17\/can-we-impeach-him-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Impeach Him Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we now have the definitive word on when Bush knew that there was no Iraq-al Queida link, and <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/06\/intel.php\">that he continued to claim such a link <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>In October 2002, a few weeks before Congress voted to authorize the Iraq invasion, Bush told a crowd in Cincinnati: &#8220;We&#8217;ve learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gasses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Problem is, it wasn&#8217;t true. More importantly, a lot of people at the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency knew it probably wasn&#8217;t true. That&#8217;s one of the interesting revelations inside the Senate&#8217;s recent 171-page Phase II report on whether White House statements were backed up by prewar intelligence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He knew.  He knew since February 2002.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that their source was one guy, who had most of the information tortured out of him, and none of whose claims ever panned out.<\/p>\n<p>Impeach Dick Cheney today.  Impeach George W. Bush tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we now have the definitive word on when Bush knew that there was no Iraq-al Queida link, and that he continued to claim such a link In October 2002, a few weeks before Congress voted to authorize the Iraq invasion, Bush told a crowd in Cincinnati: &#8220;We&#8217;ve learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1239,1102,1063,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-impeach","category-intelligence","category-iraq","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}