March 08, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

MORAL OBLIGATION TO IMPEACH

It's almost like living in the Twilight Zone these days. Lewis "Scooter" Libby gets convicted of outing a CIA agent, of compromising our national security, and there are people already calling for Libby's pardon. Even though Bush and Cheney have a list of crimes as long as your arm, we keep getting told about the difficulties of impeaching them. I believe there is a moral obligation to impeach them. If Libby gets pardoned, if Bush and Cheney do not get impeached, it sets a precedent that people in high places are not accountable for the things they do. The Founding Fathers put impeachment into the Constitution as the mechanism against despotic members of the government. If we don't impeach these guys, why not just amend the Constitution to take out the impeachment option altogether? This commentary by Jay Esbe is at www.opednews.com:

Bush’s so-called “signing statements” are alone worthy of causing his impeachment, for they evidence an open and willful refusal to recognize and abide in the law. They are a strict violation of the oath of office and are in fact nothing short of declarations of sedition against the Constitution and Republic. In addition to this, if falsifying intelligence, covering up exculpatory intelligence for the purposes of starting a major war with tens of thousands of American casualties, systematic kidnapping and torture in violation of international law, warrantless wiretapping, and retribution against anyone who exposes acts of high treason –Joe Wilson- which damage national security isn’t a long enough list of serious crimes to warrant impeachment, no crime or crimes committed by an executive ever will be. We are talking about the largest crimes ever committed in the name of the American people, with the most serious -national security, life and death- consequences in our history.

The Democrats must be forced to uphold the law and to act on behalf of a damaged American people. The crimes committed by this administration were not only against the international community and the laws to which it is constitutionally bound as signatories, but are high crimes against the American people collectively. The crimes were committed in our names. We are obligated to end them. There will be consequences of the highest magnitude if the Democratic majority in Congress continues to refuse to act.