Trading Terrorists

I have not said anything this strong before, but I am beginning to believe that George W. Bush should be impeached for treason.

Of course, it won't happen: Republicans control both houses, and they impeach Democrats for blowjobs, but they wouldn't dream of impeaching one of their own for small, unimportant stuff like freeing terrorists to gain support for a war that was based on lies.

But what can you expect from these people? As usual, it's party first, country second for the Republicans.

Did I say "second"? Heck, country is probably not even third, since it seems to come behind party, greed, and personal power.

Saudis freed Britons in a secret swap of prisoners
By Andrew Buncombe and Kim Sengupta
05 July 2004

Six Britons convicted on terrorism charges in Saudi Arabia were released last year as part of a secret three-way deal in which the US set free a number of Saudi prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay. The deal was brokered to obtain Saudi support for the invasion of Iraq.

Diplomatic and intelligence sources have confirmed to The Independent that the Britons, convicted of a fatal car-bombing, were released last August after the US returned five Saudi prisoners, at least two of whom were believed to have trained in al-Qa'ida camps.

At the time, the release of the Saudis was opposed by the Pentagon and the CIA. But the joint releases were subsequently presented as diplomatic triumphs by both the British and Saudi governments.

A senior British source said yesterday: "Of course there were government-to-government talks. We were all anxious to solve the problem. But one must bear in mind that it was the Americans who held the aces with the Saudi detainees, the British government did not have that kind of leverage. So the term 'negotiations' should really be applied to the American-Saudi dialogue. But it was a particularly difficult time with Iraq, and a solution was in everyone's interest."

These bastards claimed to be fighting terrorism. When in reality they were freeing terrorists in order to gain support for the war in Iraq.

I am totally aghast. And there are no words to describe my disgust.

Impeach George W. Bush.

He is a disgrace to America.