Stars & Stripes: New 'Pentagon Papers'? ("Constitution in Crisis")

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New ‘Pentagon Papers’?

If the release of “The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War” by Congressman John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., does not seem dangerously similar to the release of the “Pentagon Papers” by whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg in 1971, which contributed to the ending of the Vietnam War and the eventual downfall of President Nixon, I don’t know what else can be so close to the truth finally coming out.

We are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Bush administration. The latest news of the president authorizing the spying on Americans not only being limited to people with known links to al-Qaida, and in recent weeks more and more members of his own party standing up against him on key Republican issues and demanding hearings into the potentially illegal surveillance program make it hard to believe that this president will finish his term in office. If we can impeach a president (Bill Clinton) over a personal relationship that he lied about, compare that to what President Bush has admitted to doing to the American people.

The world is watching! Let’s not forget the ongoing investigation into the CIA leak of a covert agent. The investigations of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay don’t help the Republicans’ hold of power, either, with the 2006 midterm elections right around the corner. “The Constitution In Crisis” packs a huge punch toward the Bush administration and their ideological reasons for war in Iraq.

Read it and draw your own conclusions.

Gabriel Rodriguez
Camp Arifjan, Kuwait

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