Republicans have forced Hillary Clinton release all the emails
from her time as Secretary of State in the hopes that somewhere in
amongst them might be something they could turn into a scandal and
derail her campaign for President. That never materialized, as her
emails have been mundane. But it turns out she inherited emails from her
predecessor Colin Powell. And that email trail reveals that George W.
Bush committed treason.
The secret emails in question date back to 2002. Colin Powell and
George W. Bush are shown to have been conspiring to work with British
Prime Minister Tony Blair to mislead the American public into believing
that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, as a pretense for
tricking the nation into supporting an invasion of Iraq. It’s been long
established that there never were any such weapons in Iraq, but to some
extent the Bush administration had the deniability of claiming that it
had made an error. However this email trail suggests that Bush, Powell
and Blair spent an entire year laying the groundwork for deceiving the
public. Lying to congress in order to get it to approve a war is
considered treason.
Whether or not the email trail is solid enough evidence to get
anyone convicted of a crime, it’s certainly enough to lead Americans to
conclude that the Iraq war was even more of a sham than previously
believed. This
email exchange
might never have surfaced if not for the fact that the republican party
forced Hillary Clinton to turn over everything she had. So while the
republicans have failed to do any serious damage to Clinton’s chances,
they may have just made it that much harder for any 2016 republican
candidate to explain away their party’s culpability in Iraq.
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