Bush's New Work of Fixtion and the new film, "Fair Game"

Don't fall off your chair in shock, but, apparently, George W. Bush's new book is full of lies. (Who could have seen that coming?)

Specifically, he asserts that he was "sickened" when he learned that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction after all. However, according to Mike Isikoff on today's edition of "Hardball," when chief weapons inspector, David Kay, broke the news to Bush that there were no WMD's in Iraq, Bush had virtually no visible reaction to the news.

Chris, Mike and Joe Wilson (the real one, not the dirt bag from South Carolina) also discussed the newly released film, "Fair Game," which is about how the White House purposely outed Wilson's undercover CIA operative wife, Valerie Plame, for the sole purpose of exacting vengeance against Wilson for his op-ed in the New York Times in which he revealed the falsity of the White House's representations regarding Saddam's alleged efforts to purchase yellow cake uranium from Niger and uranium tubing from somewhere else, I'm not sure where.

Chris recommended this film in glowing terms that I have rarely heard him use. Joe Wilson is played by Sean Penn. Naomi Watts is Valerie Plame. And her CIA coworker is portrayed by none other than D-Day, Kent (Bruce McGill)!

Which reminds me of a line in "Animal House" that perfectly captures what Bush and Cheney would doubtlessly have said to the American people had they ever had an uncharacteristic burst of candor:

"Hey. Don't cry over your mistakes. You f--ked up; you trusted us."

In the book, Bush also "wrote" that he and Cheney were frequently at odds with each other because they each had "different styles."

Right. Bush liked to shoot from the hip while Cheney liked to shoot people in the face.

Anyway, for anyone who might still harbor even a sliver of remaining doubt that Bush simply used the phantom WMD's as a thinly veiled excuse for going to war, this charade has now been thoroughly debunked by the combination of Mike Isikoff's investigative reporting and the release of "Fair Game."

We don't know the exact reason or reasons why Bush went to war although each of us has his or her suspicions. But one thing we do know with absolute certainty: None of the more than 3000 brave young American men and women who have died in Iraq since the beginning of this needless, gratuitous war gave their lives because either Bush or Cheney honestly believed that Saddam constituted a genuine threat to our security.

But, let's go ahead and impeach President Obama because of his offer to Joe Sestak of a political appointment in an effort to dissuade him from running against Arlen Spector (an artifice that has been routinely used in politics from time immemorial).

Or how about we impeach him because his trip to India was too expensive?
Hey, at least, if he needed tech support while he was there, it would have been a local call.

But let's not even consider impeaching, or now investigating and prosecuting, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for war crimes even though the only reason why they took us to war was because they wanted to take us to war and even though, for the first, and hopefully the very last, time in our history, we actually participated in the use of torture, detained innocent people indefinitely without cause, and otherwise shredded our constitution.

Hell, why not? After all what's worse? Spending a few extra dollars on an official visit or lying to the American public to justify a needless war, the costs of which in human life, misery, and dollars that we don't have continues to mount by the day?

Seems obvious to me ...