A Wonderful Game of Pretend

Democrats Playing At Impeachment

The Downing Street Memo is turning out to be to House Democrats what a tea-set or a Molly Muddypants doll is to a five year old girl; a prop in a wonderful game of pretend.

They pretended a small conference room was the Judiciary Committee hearing room, draping white linens over folding tables to make them look like witness tables and bringing in cardboard name tags and extra flags to make the whole thing look official.

No word on whether any stuffed giraffes were used to fill seats, or if anyone brought their mother's costume jewelry. But they did bring all of their propoganda.

The event organizer, Democrats.com, distributed stickers saying "Bush lied/100,000 people died." One man's T-shirt proclaimed, "Whether you like Bush or not, he's still an incompetent liar," while a large poster of Uncle Sam announced: "Got kids? I want yours for cannon fodder." (emphasis added)

Conyers's firm hand on the gavel could not prevent something of a free-for-all; at one point, a former State Department worker rose from the audience to propose criminal charges against Bush officials. Early in the hearing, somebody accidentally turned off the lights; later, a witness knocked down a flag. Matters were even worse at Democratic headquarters, where the C-SPAN feed ended after just an hour, causing the activists to groan and one to shout "Conspiracy!"

Not to be outdone by fictional death toll figures, another moonbat went full blown into conspiracy mode.

The session took an awkward turn when witness Ray McGovern, a former intelligence analyst, declared that the United States went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel and military bases craved by administration "neocons" so "the United States and Israel could dominate that part of the world." He said that Israel should not be considered an ally and that Bush was doing the bidding of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

This is the second time that this assertion has been made in the last couple of days. Although McGovern was admonished that Israel was not to be brought up in "polite conversation," it is becoming ever more clear he is simply stating out loud what most of the anti-war crowd believes. It is also becoming apparent that those same people would throw Israel to the Islamist wolves if given the opportunity. Indeed, Israel's genocide may be their only solution to the war on terror and Islamic fundamentalism.

I wonder if their will be any kind of censure proceedings for all of the prominent Democrats who pushed the WMD "lie" down the throats of Americans.

"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002.

"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
Sandy 'Burglar' Berger, Feb, 18, 1998.

"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line." President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998.

"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998.

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002.

"Saddam's goal ... is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed." -- Madeline Albright, 1998

"Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement." -- Barbara Boxer, November 8, 2002

"Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people." -- Tom Daschle in 1998

There is plenty more here.

It's time to move on folks. The ridiculous "lie" business has been over for a long time. Let's stop living in the past and get on with the business of the future.