I have resisted the call to impeach George W. Bush, largely because I don’t want the country to go through the cruel nonsense the conservatives forced on us with their unwarranted impeachment of Clinton. I don’t want it to become the norm that every president faces impeachment.

I’ve also thought that, though Duhbya is the worst president ever, incompetence isn’t really a crime and it was obvious to anyone that he did not deserve the presidency, so the fools who voted for him are to blame.

Finally, I contented myself with the thought that for a generation or more, whenever Duhbya’s name is mentioned, people will spit on the ground and swear.

With this latest information, my mind is changed. Bush is a criminal and should be punished by removal from office. He has willfully set the world on fire. mjh

Before War, CIA Warned of Negative Outcomes, By Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff Writer

On Aug. 13, 2002, the CIA completed a classified, six-page intelligence analysis that described the worst scenarios that could arise after a U.S.-led removal of Saddam Hussein: anarchy and territorial breakup in Iraq, a surge of global terrorism, and a deepening of Islamic antipathy toward the United States.

Titled “The Perfect Storm: Planning for Negative Consequences of Invading Iraq,” the paper, written seven months before the war began, also speculated about al-Qaeda operatives taking “advantage of a destabilized Iraq to establish secure safe havens from which they can continue their operations,” according to a report about prewar intelligence recently released by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

The report said the CIA paper also cautioned about outcomes such as declining European confidence in U.S. leadership, Hussein’s survival and retreat with regime loyalists, Iran working to install a friendly regime “tolerant of Iranian policies,” Afghanistan tipping into civil strife because U.S. forces were not replaced by United Nations peacekeepers and troops from other countries, and violent demonstrations in Pakistan because of its support of Washington.