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http://www.counterpunch.org/frank06152005.html
"This is Not a Conservative War"
House Republicans vs. Bush
By JOSHUA FRANK
Things are not looking so hot for the Bush administration.
The smell of "impeachment" is in the air.
A couple of Democrats are finally making a stink over the Downing
Street minutes and major news outlets have found the courage to run
with the story.
US misconduct at Gitmo has been exposed and confirmed by the Pentagon.
Donny Rumsfeld himself admitted this past week that Iraq isn't any
safer than it was before the fall of Saddam.
And now prominent Republicans in the House of Representatives are
calling Bush a neo-con and demanding him to end the war in Iraq, ASAP.
Yep, you read that last sentence correct.
The first of the House Republicans to speak out on television against
the "neo-con invasion" was Mr. "Freedom Fries" himself, North Carolina
Rep. Walter Jones.
As Jones told the news program, This Week, he now believes that
neo-cons within the Republican Party are to blame for pushing an
illegitimate war on Iraq.
Based on what Jones called "bad intelligence," the Bush administration
tricked Congress into supporting the invasion.
Initially Jones supported the Iraq war and even went as far as to
blast France for their opposition to Bush's foray.
But things have changed since then.
The Representative will be introducing a bill in the House later this
week, which is to call on President Bush to outline an exit strategy
at once.
Whether or not the exit strategy is compliant with the goals of the
antiwar movement remains to be seen, but dissent within his own party
can't help Bush's already plummeting popularity.
Rep. Jones isn't the only Republican to publicly denounce the Iraq
invasion.
On Tuesday's "after hours" segment of The House, televised on CSPAN,
Tennessee Republican Rep. John Duncan, along with Rep. Ron Paul, a
Texas Republican, called on Bush "to order a phased and orderly
withdrawal from Iraq."
Rep. Duncan in his televised speech recounted a briefing he had with
George Tenet in 2002 in which Tenet assured him that Saddam posed
absolutely "no threat" to the United States.
Duncan exclaimed that this was only a brief time before Tenet spoke to
the President about the Saddam danger.
Duncan, like Jones, said that he was convinced the neo-con war was not
carried out in order to protect the United States from Saddam.
Distancing himself from the neo-cons Duncan exclaimed, "This is not a
conservative war some people call conservatives isolationists ... this
war has isolated us from the rest of the world. I have traveled widely
and I have experienced this."
Duncan went on to admit that the US "can't be a nation that seeks
empire across the globe ... that seems to be what we are doing. Polls
in Iraq show that a large majority of the Iraqi people view us as
occupiers, not liberators. We should not be mouthing these thoughtless
cliches like 'we can't cut and run."
Perhaps impeachment is around the corner and the Republicans are
trying to save face by distancing themselves from the Bush
administration.

 The smell of "impeachment" is in the air.
#_L' "impeciamento" sarebbe certo l'unica possibilita` di disfarsi di questo
pupazzo , ma credi che gliela farebbero a ottenerlo?
Io non avrei mai creduto possibile un secondo mandato, con tutte quelle
magre acquisite in quattro anni che hanno causato migliaia di morti, un
disastro nell'economia interna e un mondo non meno pericoloso di prima.
Poi comunque ci sarebbe dietro proprio quel diabolico essere di D. Cheney a
prendere direttamente il posto di comando. Sarebbe politicamente una
vittoria di Pirro; forse ne beneficerebbe solo un senso di giustizia per
tutti gli americani che ancora ci credono in essa, ma per tutto il resto dei
viventi nel mondo che cambierebbe?
Giano