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loudTopic: Impeachment
On Sunday, George McGovern wrote an excellent editorial in favor of impeachment. He writes what anyone with even the faintest glimmer of intelligence knows: "Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. Their conduct and their barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world. These are truly "high crimes and misdemeanors," to use the constitutional standard. ...From the beginning, the Bush-Cheney team's assumption of power was the product of questionable elections that probably should have been officially challenged - perhaps even by a congressional investigation. "
At this point, impeachment is not about vengeance or even preventing more damage from Bush and his team of bumblers--it's about restoring the integrity of the Constitution. Turning the post-Bush government over to Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama does not constitute a return to democracy!.
In past times, the failure of a King was cause to end his rule in sacred sacrifice--returning him to the earth or sky to be recycled and replacing him with another. Our fields are blighted, our children killed in war, our treasury and honor despoiled. Perhaps our modern ritual equivalent of regicidal sacrifice is the four-year election. When the miasma is great--and it has never been greater--sterner measures than the ballot box are called for--we need not just a change, but a remedy and a caution and a full catharsis. Bush is an international war criminal on the grandest scale, easily more dastardly than Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden, who merits impeachment, trial and imprisonment.
