Soapbox

High Crimes and Misdemeanors

The evil liberal media is up in arms today about the revelations of Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward last night on 60 Minutes. Woodward, who has been a Bush supporter in the past (but apparently no longer) says that the Bush administration took $700 million that congress appropriated for Afghanistan and diverted it for Iraq war preparations. This was back in November of 2002 I believe, before we were at war in Iraq and before Bush was even considering attacking Iraq, according to him.

Condoleesa Rice actually tried to say that the money was appropriated to General Tommy Franks as the leader of the US forces in Afghanistan, so it’s not misappropriation if HE uses it for something else in that same general area of the world. Like the check was made out to him!! Puh-leese! The congressional authorization was a little clearer than that about what the money was for.

First of all, and this is kind of important, this is a violation of Article 1 Section 9 of the constitution: misappropraition of funds. Now, granted, it’s not the kind of serious crime John Ashcroft would care about: certainly it doesn’t rise to the level of, say, a doctor in California who prescribes medical marijuana to a dieing man. (people should only be allowed to get addicted to good drugs like oxycontin, not nasty stuff like weed) or a college student going to an anti-war demonstration, or anything serious like that, thank goodness. But it is a crime.

Second of all, don’t you think they could have used that money in Afghanistan, considering what a crap-hole the country is, partly thanks to us? I mean, George Bush promised that he would take care of the people of Afghanistan! He promised that he would help create a new future and truly liberate the people, and instead he pulled a bait and switch and diverted the money to his pet war in Iraq (which he supposedly wasn’t even planning yet) so that he can use it to blow up yet another country and then be too cheap to put it back together again too!

The point is that this is a demonstrable, actual, genuine crime and surely is as impeachable as lying about a little under-the-desk nookie. I’ve never been big on impeachment at all (I mostly think that’s what re-election time is for), but I find this very troubling. I reserved Woodward’s book so I can read more about this for myself.

And now I?m going to predict the future?.yes, it?s all becoming clear now? I see the attack dogs coming out, panting for Woodward?s blood, starting today. They’ll accuse him of everything from treason to halitosis and kicking puppies. I predict Condie will once again do the show-pony circuit of “Meet the Press” and “Face the Nation (2 things the president is afraid to do, by the way) and all the other shows. Her parents must be so proud that she got all that education in order to work as a glorified janitor, mopping up George Bush’s little poo-poo messes week after week.