Can We Afford Not to Impeach?
by Mary

Kudos to Harry Reid making the Republicans show that they are responsible for thwarting the will of the people. At least it is more evident that the Democrats are actually trying to end the war. In a perfect world, the Republicans would finally cut their losses and join with other Americans in telling Bush it is time to end the war.

Yet if the entire country demanded Bush to stop the war, one wonders whether even that would be enough. Bush is so delusional, he would refuse to listen to God if God's message interfered with his own pre-set belief. As Eric Hoffer wrote in 1951, this is a characteristic of fanatics:

Glenn Greenwald writes about David Brooks' visit with GWB and as usual when Bush is with "friends" he shows how fanatical he truly is. What Brooks sees as reassuring certitude is in actuality rigid and blind fanaticism which is truly dangerous to our country.



What this says is no one and nothing can stop Bush or make him reassess his decisions as long as he thinks he's in charge and he justifies his decision as directed by God. It doesn't matter that Scaife's newspapers are starting to turn against him. It wouldn't matter if every Senator turned against this war. Bush is not just pathologically wedded to this war, he is incapable of revisiting his decision. No amount of pressure will change that.

That's why impeachment is necessary. And unfortunately, as Glenn Greenwald notes, too many people -- honorable and not so-honorable politicians, journalists, activists and just ordinary people -- have not yet internalized the real danger of leaving Bush in charge. He will never make decisions about Iraq based on reality.

Before the 2004 elections I wrote



We have placed the world's most awful weapons in the hands of a fanatic. Impeachment of both him and Cheney would at least take the car keys away. Nevertheless we are living on borrowed time and truly don't have 551 days to get it right.

I believe that we can not afford not to impeach.

I'm torn.
The negativity it would create in the media, and the seeds have already been sown by the RW, would/could have a huge negative impact upon the results of the 08 elections. Dems have the chance to make huge gains in this election. I'd hate to see something done to hinder that.

On the other hand, if a student were to tell me to go Cheney myself at school, it wouldn't matter to me when it happened, the fullest application of the school code would be enforced. That's not the best comparison, I don't have a war to end, etc. on top of this single incident, but it expresses how much I value the rule of law.

The R's have their verbal clubs in hand and are pummeling Senator Reid - particularly McConnell and Specter.

IMHO the Constitutional correction to abuse of separation of powers and misinterpretation of the oath of office, calls for no less than impeachment of both Bush and Cheney in order to preserve our form of governance. We must not be sold out to the military-industrial-political cabal.And shame on my states two senators for not even recognizing this reality. (McCain & Kyle)

The mistake of interpreting the oath to have only a military meaning, eliminating the paramount phrase stating that the obligation of oath is to:

"------faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States".


Look how distorted that becomes when leaving out "the Constitution" which this regime does repeatedly.

And on the basis of this intentional misrepresentation, not only by the POTUS, the VP and super hawks in the Congress.. our country is not being constitutionally governed and that is reason enough for impeachment let alone all the specifics that have been delineated by people such as John Dean and Bruce Fein. The litany is common knowledge.


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