Censure Bush

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WE KNOW that long before September 11th¹, indeed from its first days, the Bush Administration was planning for war with Iraq and the subsequent occupation of the country.

That decision having been made, the president ran a campaign of misinformation, of cherry-picking² and doctoring intelligence, of hype and hysteria that led America into an unnecessary war.

For all these reasons, Congress must censure George Bush. Ignoring reports from inspectors in the field³, overriding objections from our allies⁴, overruling the dissenting views of his own intelligence agencies⁵, George Bush relentlessly led us into a war that has cost 500 American lives⁶, left 3,000 seriously injured⁷, and wasted tens of billions of dollars⁸.

For all these reasons, Congress must censure George Bush. Before the war, the president was repeatedly told there was no definitive evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction⁹. He knew Iraq was not a nuclear threat¹⁰. He knew there was no Iraq connection to 9/11¹¹. Iraq posed no imminent danger to the United States¹². There was no case for a pre-emptive war.

There must be consequences when a president misleads the American people, and the Congress, with such disastrous results. An independent commission can deal with failures at the intelligence agencies. Congress should deal with the failures at the White House. Censure the president.