Save America

by Harvery Edwards - Huffington Post

How fitting that this is printed on July 4th week. In 1776 we celebrated our independence from England. Now in 2007 we need to strike out again against the tyranny and oppression of our own government under the Cheney-Bush presidency. Read the Declaration of Independence. We need to SAVE AMERICA! We need to let Bush know that he is responsible and accountable to all the citizens of America. This is an administration of cronyism, favoritism, partisanship and arrogance.

The flag is bleeding because George W. Bush is killing what our flag represents. He is killing our democracy. He is becoming America's first dictator. He is massacring our constitution. He has done away with Habeas Corpus. He is wiretapping, without warrants, his fellow Americans. He has changed the justice department by politicizing it. His "open" town meetings are filled with only the people who have pledged their loyalty to their leader. The two elections that "voted" him in were fraught with so many irregularities and voter fraud. Bush didn't win the 2000 election, he was appointed by his court. What does that say about our democracy? He invaded Iraq, a sovereign country. He lied to his government, to his citizens, to the world to get what he wanted. He doesn't like what you say about him, then you must be "un-American" or "unpatriotic" . His administration knowingly leaked the name of a covert agent. This used to be called treason. He may, as president, have the right to pardon someone but he doesn't have the right to change the rule of law and decree the sentence as excessive and then change it. We can no longer turn the other cheek. Nancy Pelosi said that impeachment is off the table because there are more important issues that need tending. What is more important then saving America? Every time we keep quiet and let Cheney and Bush act like dictators we are giving them permission to do so. They show contempt for the rule of law, they show contempt for the American people and they show contempt for it's greatest symbol, our American flag.

George Orwell put it very succinctly when he wrote, "What can you do against the lunatic, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"

President Cheney ... oops, President Bush is destroying America. Together, they are bleeding America dry. I believe that Cheney and Bush with their over-blown Iraq budget are bankrupting America . In order to fund their war they are proposing to further cut benefits from the veterans. You heard me, our returning soldiers will be facing more hardships right here at home. There will be cuts in food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid. $3.6 billion will be cut from special education programs in public schools. The Supplemental Food Program that provides food for 450,000 low income seniors will be completely eliminated.

There has been $8 to 9 billion in tax payer dollars unaccounted for in Iraq, Halliburton has received $1.5 billion in funds that were supposed to be used by the Iraqi government. The budget for Iraq leaves this country with a massive deficit. We are shorthanded in case of an emergency in this country because so many National Guard troops are in Iraq. The funding for their war is costing us dearly in terms of health care for Americans, food and housing for the poor, rebuilding New Orleans and care for the returning wounded soldiers. There have been cuts across the board.

Do you know that Halliburton charged the US government for 42,000 meals for soldiers when in fact they were only serving 14,000 meals a day? Did you know that Bush gave a company called Custer Battles $100 million in contracts. This was for a "security company" that felt that the "fear and disorder in Iraq offered real promise" to them. In the first 13 months of the war the Bush administration lavished over $100 million in contracts on Buster Battles. In a matter of weeks, Custer Battles received two government contracts. One was to provide security inspection for civilian flights at Baghdad International Airport. Of course, there were no civilian flights at Baghdad International Airport. The Bush administration paid Custer Battles anyway. While at the airport, Custer Battles found some abandoned Iraqi Airways forklifts. They painted these over to hide the Iraqi Airways markings and then billed them to the government as materials under a different contract. There are 40 pages of abuses listed in the transcript from the hearing on fraud and waste in Iraq from 2005 and it's still going on. SAVE AMERICA.

The United States courts gave Libby a sentence and yet Bush commuted his sentence because he felt it was too harsh. Bush can not and should not be allowed to adjust the court's decision just because he believes that he is "the decider". Even Paris Hilton went to jail. Where is the justice? What does this say to our youth and to the world.? That it's okay to lie if you have wealth and power? That it's okay to invade sovereign countries based on lies? That it's okay to change laws? That it's okay to release classified documents if it will get you what you want? That it's okay to change the constitution? No man is above the law. I hate to quote from my past blogs, but Bush said:

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." George Bush Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 2000 to Dick Gephardt & Tom Daschle CNN

I believe, he thinks it is.

The most frightening thing of all is that Bush and Cheney do not care. They are not up for re-election nor is anyone in their administration so they have nothing to lose. They know what their ratings are.they do not care. They know that Bush is a lame duck Presidency so they do not care. They know that Pelosi took impeachment off the table.so they do not care. They can do whatever they want. The court ordered papers, documents, emails.all they do is shrug their shoulders and say no. No one is coming after them, no one is seizing the computers and looking in the hard drive, no one is challenging their authority.

Let's seize the moment and let the world know that we're not going to let Cheney and Bush hurt us anymore. And we're not going to allow them to use us as a shield for their own selfish and greedy war. It's time to regain our self respect, our honor and our dignity. I believe in democracy. I love my country. I love my flag. I am a patriot.

Theodore Roosevelt once said,

"It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but it is morally treasonable to the American public."

The "SAVE AMERICA" poster should be our rallying cry, from billboards, to posters plastered everywhere, to petitions flooding D.C. Impeach Cheney and Bush and SAVE AMERICA! Help me to help America ... anyone, any company that has an empty billboard let's use that for this image, who has a printing press that wants to print these posters? Let's get the word out!

Impeaching Cheney and Bush will show to the world that we as Americans care not only what Cheney and Bush are doing to us but what they are doing to the world. He invaded Iraq to bring them democracy yet he is taking those freedoms away from us. Do we need to write another Declaration of Independence? "SAVE AMERICA" means save the American people, save our country, save what our flag stands for, save the world from this evil! Impeach Cheney and Bush now!