The Un-Informed Babies On The Left...UPDATED!

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The kook-fringe moonbats think they have a smoking gun in regards to a transcript "leaked" by another mystery type source. Credibility? Why bother? The transcript in question "appears" just as the DNCers have backpedaled on campaign promises of 2006. No wonder the nutroots are all atwitter.

Let us say that the alleged transcript is true, shall we? Impeachable offenses? How so and where? What does the Constitution say about impeaching a President? Does the Leftinistra even know or are they that blatantly stupid? Oh. Wait. Silly question. My bad.

United States Constitution, Article 2, Executive Branch, Section 4 Disqualification.

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Just wondering what the Leftinistra basis is for impeacdhment of President Bush, outside of their obvious BDS and hatred that their side LOST two elections to take the White House.

Has the President been convicted of Treason? Yes or no?

Has the President been convicted of Bribery? Yes or no?

Has the President been convicted of "other high Crimes"? Yes or no?

Has the President been convicted of Misdemeanors? Yes or no?

Do the Leftinistra even know the definitions of Treason, Bribery, other high Crimes or Misdemeanors? Yes or no? Obviously, the answers to all of the above is a resounding no.

Their rhetoric is based on blatant ignorance and perhaps deranged stupidity.

Juan Cole is evidently stuck in ITS own quagmire of purposeful derangement.

The transcript, it seems to me, provides a whole rack of smoking guns that could be a basis for impeaching George W. Bush. The transcript shows that Bush consciously intended to go to war without a United Nations Security Council resolution. The United Nations Charter, to which the United States is a treaty signatory (so that it has the force of American law), forbids any nation to launch an aggressive war on another country. The only two legal mechanisms for war are either that it came in response to a direct attack or that the attacker gained a UNSC authorization. The transcript shows Bush actively plotting to sidestep the UNSC if he could not, gangster-like, threaten its members into compliance.

The second grounds for impeachment is that Bush rejected out of hand a deal brokered by the Egyptians whereby Saddam Hussein would leave the country with a billion dollars and some documents about his WMD program. Reuters reports:

What the poor deranged fool doesn't understand is the basis for ITS ignorance. It wasn't about "getting rid of" Saddam. It was about ensuring the terrorist financier did NOT have the capability to obtain WMDs and that letting the puke "exile into Egypt" would NOT ensure that.

What a pathetic whiner this poor slog is.

Get over it. Your side lost and that Abyss of Obscurity is getting deeper and deeper.

Catch the wave

UPDATE!! as usual, in their zestful BDS as described above and elsewhere in the pages of this blog, the Leftinistra have "jumped without a parachute". Spin that. From Wake Up America and BarcePundit.

VERIFICATION.

Enter BarcePundit, (Link is to the English Edition) who translates the original transcript to verify the machine translation that was used for the original story.

Here's the relevant section:

Bush: Sadam Husein no cambiará y seguirá jugando. Ha llegado el momento de deshacerse de él. Es así. Yo, por mi parte, procuraré a partir de ahora utilizar una retórica lo más sutil posible, mientras buscamos la aprobación de la resolución. Si alguien veta [Rusia, China y Francia poseen junto a EE UU y Reino Unido derecho a veto en el Consejo de Seguridad en su calidad de miembros permanentes], nosotros iremos. Sadam Hussein no se está desarmando. Le tenemos que coger ahora mismo. Hemos mostrado un grado increíble de paciencia hasta ahora. Quedan dos semanas. En dos semanas estaremos militarmente listos. Creo que conseguiremos la segunda resolución. En el Consejo de Seguridad tenemos a los tres africanos [Camerún, Angola y Guinea], a los chilenos, a los mexicanos. Hablaré con todos ellos, también con Putin, naturalmente. Estaremos en Bagdad a finales de marzo. Existe un 15% de posibilidades de que en ese momento Sadam Hussein esté muerto o se haya ido. Pero esas posibilidades no existen antes de que hayamos mostrado nuestra resolución. Los egipcios están hablando con Sadam Hussein. Parece que ha indicado que estaría dispuesto a exiliarse si le dejaran llevarse 1.000 millones de dólares y toda la información que quisiera sobre armas de destrucción masiva. [Muammar El] Gaddafi le ha dicho a Berlusconi que Sadam Hussein quiere irse. Mubarak nos dice que en esas circunstancias existen muchas posibilidades de que sea asesinado.

Nos gustaría actuar con el mandato de las Naciones Unidas. Si actuamos militarmente lo haremos con una gran precisión y focalizando mucho nuestros objetivos. Diezmaremos a las tropas leales y el ejército regular rápidamente sabrá de lo que se trata. ... Estamos desarrollando un paquete de ayuda humanitaria muy fuerte. Podemos ganar sin destrucción. Estamos planteando ya el Irak post Sadam, y creo que hay buenas bases para un futuro mejor. Irak tiene una buena burocracia y una sociedad civil relativamente fuerte. Se podría organizar en una federación. Mientras tanto estamos haciendo todo lo posible para atender las necesidades políticas de nuestros amigos y aliados."

[Bush: Saddam won't change and will keep playing games. The moment of getting rid of him has arrived. That's it. As for me, from now on I'll try to use the softest rhetoric I can, while we look for the resolution to be approved. If some country vetoes [the resolution] we'll go in. Saddam is not disarming. We must catch him right now. We have shown an incredible amount of patience until now. We have two weeks. In two weeks our military will be ready. I think we'll achieve a second resolution. In the Security Council we have three African countries [Cameroon, Angola, Guinea], the Chileans, the Mexicans. I'll talk with all of them, also with Putin, naturally. We'll be in Baghdad at the end of March. There's a 15% chance that by then Saddam is dead or has flown. But these possibilities won't exist until we have shown our resolution. The Egyptians are talking with Saddam Hussein. It seems he has hinted he'd be willing to leave if he's allowed to take 1 billion dollars and all the information on WMDs. Ghadaffi told Berlusconi that Saddam wants to leave. Mubarak tells us that in these circumstances there are big chances that he'll get killed.

We would like to act with the mandate of the UN. If we act militarily, we'll do with great precision and focalizing our targets to the biggest degree possible. We'll decimate the loyal troops and the regular army will quickly know what it's all about. ... We are developing a very strong aid package. We can win without destruction. We are working already in the post-Saddam Iraq, and I think there's a basis for a better future. Iraq has a good bureaucracy and a relatively strong civil society. It could be organized as a federation. Meanwhile we're doing all we can to fulfill the political needs of our friends and allies. -- note: my emphasis and translation]

If anything, the transcript proves precisely the opposing point that critics want to make. The conversation shows both Bush and Aznar trying to avoid war; that they were concerned of its human toll, and that Saddam wanted to flee with money... and WMD information. I guess all the people who are trumpeting this will stop saying now that Bush lied and mislead us on the WMD issue. Won't hold my breath, though.
At one point Bush explicitely says: "Yo no quiero la guerra. Sé lo que son las guerras. Sé la destrucción y la muerte que traen consigo. Yo soy el que tiene que consolar a las madres y a las viudas de los muertos. Por supuesto, para nosotros esa sería la mejor solución. Además, nos ahorraría 50.000 millones de dólares" ["I don't want war. I know what war is like. I know the death and destruction they bring. I am the one who has to comfort the mothers and wives of the dead. Of course, for us [a diplomatic solution] would be the best one. Also, it would save 50 billion dollars" -- again, my emphasis and translation]

Keep up with Barcepundit, they are going to post the whole. correct translation asap.

Give credit where credit is do, Joe Gandelman made sure to point out the translation differences over at the Moderate Voice. " All In The Translation: Leaked Spanish Memo Does NOT Show Bush “Planned To Invade Iraq No Matter What”.

Once again though it seems that the lefty blogs are hoping that they screamed and screeched loud enough that their readers won't notice that the information they gave them was completely wrong.

Others discussing this:
Jules Crittenden, Flopping Aces, Fausta, Macsmind and Weekly Standard.

One would think after all the embarrassments from the last dozen times they did this, the left side of the blogosphere would actually start verifying things before making asses of themselves, but alas, nope. Their obsession with Bush far outweighs silly things like truth, facts and verification.

They don't need no stinkin facts!! What they need is a mental institution.

AMEN!! They have shot themselves in the foot again. No wonder they are always cranky. They never give themselves time to heal.