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Recent news is distressing - see examples below. In a way, present hype over the ‘08 election feels like planning an addition to the garage while the house is on fire.

There is a building consensus for impeachment but the time window is limited. The idea that there is opportunity cost in campaigning for impeachment instead of planning for ‘08 is a fallacy. In fact, if we mobilize people behind impeachment, we can build momentum for the eviction in ‘08 of all who prolonged the occupation of Iraq.

In the news:

Withdrawal timetable dropped from war spending bill
May 22, 2007

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Congressional Democrats plan to send to President Bush a war-spending bill without a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, two Democratic leadership aides tell CNN.

ABC News: Bush Authorizes New Covert Action Against Iran
May 22, 2007

This evening, ABC’s World News Tonight reported that the “United States has opened a new front in its showdown with Iran.” According to the report, President Bush has directed the CIA to carry out covert operations both inside and outside Iran “aimed directly at weakening the Iranian regime.”

Bush Anoints Himself as the Insurer of Constitutional Government in Emergency. See also: New presidential directive gives Bush dictatorial power.
May 18, 2007

With scarcely a mention in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered up a plan for responding to a catastrophic attack.

In a new National Security Presidential Directive, Bush lays out his plans for dealing with a “catastrophic emergency.”Under that plan, he entrusts himself with leading the entire federal government, not just the Executive Branch. And he gives himself the responsibility “for ensuring constitutional government.”

He laid this all out in a document entitled “National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51” and “Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20.”

Read that last item again and ask yourself: What are Bush and Cheney up to? Do we want them in control of this country for another 18 months? DLC Democrats seem comfortable continuing the war through 2008, allegedly with the rationale that this assures a Democratic sweep in the election. It is up to the people to press for impeachment now.

On Monday, Debra Sweet, the National Coordinator of World Can’t Wait / Drive out the Bush Regime, was a guest on the Meria Heller Show. With Meria’s permission, the audio from that segment of the show is posted here.

Debra talks about the coming demonstrations on October 5 that are to take place in over 150 cities across the country and talks about the latest WCW full-page ad in the New York Times [scheduled to appear Wednesday, October 4].

With Michael Brown in the spotlight again regarding Katrina, it’s time for a recap of some of the headlines:

Katrina investigation gets limited support. The Bush White House is now refusing to turn over Hurricane Katrina related documents or make senior officials available for testimony.

Going back a little…

George Bush Plays Air Guitar While New Orleans Sinks

Veep fishing for solution to Katrina

Condi Rice Shops for Shoes, Works on Backhand

Chertoff: Katrina scenario did not exist

Brown joked in e-mail as Katrina churned

Barbara Bush: Things Working Out ‘Very Well’ for Poor Evacuees from New Orleans

FEMA

• FEMA won’t accept Amtrak’s help in evacuations
• FEMA turns away experienced firefighters
• FEMA turns back Wal-Mart supply trucks
• FEMA prevents Coast Guard from delivering diesel fuel
• FEMA won’t let Red Cross deliver food
• FEMA bars morticians from entering New Orleans
• FEMA blocks 500-boat citizen flotilla from delivering aid
• FEMA fails to utilize Navy ship with 600-bed hospital on board
• FEMA to Chicago: Send just one truck
• FEMA turns away generators
• FEMA “First Responders Urged Not To Respond”

Louisiana Congressman Richard Baker (R-LA) said, after the hurricane, “We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.”

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King Jr.