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The Petraeus Report is an Impeachable Offense

From the very beginning, the Iraq War was been based on lies.

Before the war, the Bush-Cheney administration repeatedly claimed Iraq had WMD's and ties to Al Qaeda. Both of those claims were fraudulent but were deliberately promoted by George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, and other top officials. We know these lies were deliberate thanks to the Downing Street Memo, which revealed that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" of invasion three full months before George Bush asked Congress to authorize the invasion.

It is a federal crime to lie to Congress. It is also a federal crime to engage in a conspiracy to defraud the United States (Title 18, United States Code, Section 371). George Bush and Dick Cheney violated these laws and deserve impeachment.

Yet for some mysterious reason, many Democrats in Congress do not believe Bush and Cheney either lied or conspired to defraud the United States. Some believe the CIA gave them bad information, despite overwhelming evidence that Dick Cheney and his staff repeatedly manipulated the CIA to produce deliberately deceptive information. For that reason, some Congressional Democrats do not want to impeach Bush and Cheney for their pre-war lies.

But after over 4 years of a disastrous occupation, Bush and Cheney are lying again. The current lie is that Iraq is making "progress" towards the benchmarks that George Bush himself set in January 2007. These lies will be delivered to Congress in highly-publicized testimony by Gen. David Petraeus. That testimony will be approved personally by George Bush, who must sign it according to the law that mandated the report.

A published preview of the Petraeus Report was full of lies, as documented by the General Accounting Office (see below).

If Gen. Petraeus lies to Congress in his final report, Congress must begin impeachment proceedings for George Bush and Dick Cheney.

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The GAO documents the lies in the preview of the Petraeus Report on Page 12:
  • GAO says Iraq has failed to form a Constitutional Review Committee; BushCo says it has fully satisfied this benchmark
  • GAO says Iraq has partially met benchmarks on forming semi-autonomous regions; BushCo says it has met this objective
  • GAO says Iraq has failed to establish provincial authorities; BushCo says it has partially met this benchmark
  • Rather than judge Iraq as failing to pass amnesty and disarmament, BushCo says simply that "conditions are not present for these benchmarks"
  • GAO says Iraq has partially met its goal of three Iraqi brigades in Baghdad; BushCo says it has met this objective (on Thursday the report said Iraq had failed to meet this objective)
  • GAO says Iraq has partially met its goal of "not providing a safe haven for outlaws"; BushCo is satisfied with Iraq's progress on this score (on Thursday the report said Iraq had failed to meet this objective)
  • GAO says Iraq has failed to eliminate militia control of local security; BushCo gives it partial credit
  • GAO says Iraq has partially met its spending goal; BushCo gives it full credit
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