Fraudulent war

To the editor:

The past is the past, why dig it up? I can hear the Republican rebuttals already.

Call me a crazy, progressive-thinking tree hugger (thank you), but when further evidence is revealed that our current occupant of the White House conned us into an unnecessary war, I still tend to get a tad peeved.

We’ve heard over and over from Bush and Co. that Congress received the same intelligence as they about Iraq having WMD in the run-up to our disastrous invasion.

Facts have never borne this out. We heard years ago (The Downing Street Memo) that Bush wanted this war and was picking and choosing facts to support an invasion.

Last Friday, respected journalist Sidney Blumenthal reported that Congress never received the information that CIA Director George Tenet told President Bush four months before the invasion that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, information that turned out to be totally correct. Bush replied the information was worthless. Worthless?

Again, this crucial information was never passed on to Congress.

The legal definition of “fraud” includes using “false suggestions, suppression of the truth and concealing facts.” How can anyone tell me, (with facts that are public knowledge), that this administration is not guilty of defrauding the American public? How can anyone tell me that said fraud is not a high crime against our Constitution? How can anyone say that this administration does not deserve to be impeached? Let sleeping dogs lie? Not for this citizen!

Daniel Patrick Schamle,

Lawrence