We need to fix OT, I keep on getting this junk in my inbox.
--- Bill Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From http://www.tomdispatch.com/ > > ----------- > > "Think of it as a Tomdispatch.com milestone. This is > now the first > website to "indict" the President, the Vice > President, and their > colleagues for defrauding us into war in Iraq. I put > that "indict" in > quotes because what follows, as former federal > prosecutor Elizabeth de > la Vega makes clear in her new book United States v. > George W. Bush et > al., is "not an actual indictment." It can't be, of > course; but consider > it the second best thing. > > > De la Vega has, in her career as a prosecutor, > prepared numerous fraud > indictments and, as she argued in the first excerpt > from her book posted > at Tomdispatch earlier this week, "A Fraud Worse > than Enron," what > George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and their senior > officials committed was a > crime, not just in the colloquial sense of the word, > but in the legal > sense too (and not a victimless crime either). While > their crime was of > a magnitude that puts even Enron, no less > run-of-the-mill fraud cases, > to shame, it also has all the elements of a typical, > small-time scam. > > De la Vega's "hypothetical indictment" of George W. > Bush, Dick Cheney, > Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, and Colin Powell > that you are about > to read remains, unfortunately, in the realm of > fantasy. But only for > now. Until our world comes more fully to grips with > the criminal nature > of the Bush administration's acts, you can at least > turn to the full de > la Vega book. A Tomdispatch.com special project, > produced in conjunction > with Seven Stories Press, a wonderful independent > publisher, it's > officially published on December 1st (but available > now). > > ---------- > > The full text of the "hypothetical indictment" can > be found at the link > above. > > > Bill > > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, > are the opinions of the author, and do not > constitute legal or medical advice. This statement > is added to the messages for those lawyers who are > too stupid to see the obvious. > Christmas gifts for Real Americans Free Shipping for orders over $50 http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
