The Latest From Leahy…Help Still Needed.

The Latest From Leahy…Help Still Needed.

 

Ed.,

 

The past is just prologue unless we understand our mistakes and set things right.

As President Obama told the nation on Tuesday night, "it is only by understanding how we arrived at this moment" that we can move forward. That rule applies not only to fixing our broken economy, but also to reestablishing America as a nation of laws after eight years of renegade rule.

With over 35,000 signatures to date, our petition at BushTruthCommission.com is rapidly building grassroots support for a commission that will uncover the truth about Bush-Cheney Administration abuses. I am humbled that so many Americans have stood up in support of establishing a truth and reconciliation commission, and grateful that our efforts have led the press, outside groups, my Congressional colleagues, and the White House to start taking this idea seriously.

We need to continue to show that the American people are committed to uncovering the truth about the misdeeds of the last administration -- so that we can ensure the same mistakes are not repeated.

As one of the earliest signers of the BushTruthCommission.com petition, I need your help to gather 50,000 petition signatures by next week. Please invite your friends and family to add their names to the petition today.

What little we know about the Bush-Cheney Administration's use of extraordinary rendition, torture, and secret legal memos to subvert the Constitution underscores the need for an independent inquiry.

When I first came to the Senate in 1975, the Church Committee was working to expose the excesses of the Watergate era. Last weekend's New York Times credited that effort with "[leading] directly to a series of reforms" curbing executive power and restoring the Constitution.

The time for asking questions and getting answers has come once again. In the words of Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., who served as chief counsel for the Church Committee and supports a new truth commission, "It may seem that we already know a lot, but based on my experience, I'm certain there's a lot that went on the last eight years that we still don't know."

Americans embrace this notion, with 6 in 10 supporting an investigation into Bush-Cheney Administration abuses. But that popular sentiment alone won't make it so, and we must keep the pressure on to consider establishing a truth and reconciliation commission.

Please help make this idea a reality by inviting all your friends and family to add their names to our petition at BushTruthCommission.com today.

Thank you for supporting our effort to uncover the full truth about the misdeeds and excesses of the Bush-Cheney Administration, so that they may never happen again.

Sincerely,
Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator

 

Keep the pressure on Congress to consider establishing a truth and reconciliation commission to investigate the Bush-Cheney Administration's abuses. Help us reach 50,000 signatures by inviting your friends and family to add their names to our petition today.

 

Nothing Is As Powerful As An Idea Whose Time Has Come, And Though You May Kill A Dreamer; You Cannot Kill The Dream.

Nothing Is As Powerful As An Idea Whose Time Has Come, And Though You May Kill A Dreamer; You Cannot Kill The Dream.

 

 

"The action I am taking is no more than a radical measure to hasten the explosion of truth and justice. I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul. Let them dare, then,
to bring me before a court of law and let the enquiry take place in
broad daylight!"

- Emile Zola, J'accuse! (1898) –

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
than the animating contest of freedom, — go from us in peace. We ask
not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed
you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget
that ye were our countrymen!”
-Sam Adams-

 

It May Be Time For Dick Cheney To Leave The USA.  May I Suggest A Long Vacation In The Netherlands?  I Hear The Hague Is Nice. (DEN HAGG)

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Editor’s Note: President Barack Obama faces a nearly impossible task in untangling the economic and geopolitical messes left behind by George W. Bush – especially since Washington’s political/media Establishment consists of pretty much the same cheerleaders who advocated Bush’s policies.

 

But something even more troubling may be afoot as America steps into a future where war appears endless and peace may be impossible, as author Norman Solomon notes in this guest essay:

 

The United States began its war in Afghanistan 88 months ago. "The war on terror" has no sunset clause. As a perpetual emotion machine, it offers to avenge what can never heal and to fix grief that is irreparable.

For the crimes against humanity committed on September 11, 2001, countless others are to follow, with huge conceits about technological "sophistication" and moral superiority. But if we scrape away the concrete of media truisms, we may reach substrata where some poets have dug.

 

W.H. Auden: "Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return."

Stanley Kunitz: "In a murderous time / the heart breaks and breaks / and lives by breaking."

 

And from 1965, when another faraway war got its jolt of righteous escalation from Washington's certainty, Richard Farina wrote: "And death will be our darling and fear will be our name."

 

Then as now came the lessons that taught with unfathomable violence once and for all that unauthorized violence must be crushed by superior violence.

 

The U.S. war effort in Afghanistan owes itself to the enduring "war on terrorism," chasing a holy grail of victory that can never be.

 

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TO MARCH INTO HELL FOR A HEAVENLY CAUSE.
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Deena Fredenburg
Jan.2/08