Impeachment Now - not later!
Earl J. Prignitz
April 25, 2007
The time is ripe for the impeachment of both President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Every error in judgement in the past five years is traceable back to these two men.
It all began with their insistance on a premptive war with Iraq without cause. All of the reasons that were offered were trumped up lies and nothing more. The influence of misguided neocons such as Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and Karl Rove, who are responsible for the strategy that initiated this senseless war, was firmly authorized by George W. Bush. There would have been no targeting of Iraq or subsequent invasion if the president had not enthusiastically bought into the "philosophy" peddled by those "advisors" who had the plans in the works for several years before 9/11. Then pushed them in the earliest days of the Bush presidency. The outrageous graft and corruption of American companies in Iraq such as Halliburton and its subsidiaries, would never have occurred had the president not chosen and supported the arguments of Vice President Cheney. Indeed, without the nod from Bush himself, Cheney would never have assumed the office he now holds. Bush is responsible for installing this lethal influence in the executive branch and without his rubber-stamping of Cheney's tactics we would not be in the quagmire that presently debilitates our armed forces, alienates us from our former European allies, and threatens the fiscal security of the American economy.
Add to that FEMA's bungling of the Katrina disaster in New Orleans. That can be traced back to the total ineptitude of Michael Brown who was eased into a position for which he was obviously unsuited and for which his résumé was shamefully inflated; just another appointment approved by the President of the United States.
If that's not enough bring on the shameful partisan dismissal of US attorneys from the Justice Department due to partisan revenge that was clearly overseen by Alberto Gonzales who, being a longtime Texas crony of the president, was elevated to the position of attorney general, for which he had little or no qualifications. It was the president who "rewarded" Gonzales for his "loyalty" by appointing him to the highest judicial position in the executive branch.
In the face of such a monumental number of deadly decisions that are fracturing our own country as much as they are destabilizing the Middle East, there is no longer any point in trying to apply rationalism to habitually irrational behavior. If ever impeachment was required, it is in response to the plunder committed by George W. Bush and his buddy, Dick Cheney.
When, oh when, will our wonderful country get their fill of the growing crescendo of casualties that glut the daily news bulletins and instill in us an overwhelming sense of helplessness, and take the one action that might put an end to the national malaise: the impeachment of a president who has flagrantly violated the Constitution, besmirched the honor of his office, and trampled on the decencies which once made us proud of our country.
It all began with their insistance on a premptive war with Iraq without cause. All of the reasons that were offered were trumped up lies and nothing more. The influence of misguided neocons such as Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and Karl Rove, who are responsible for the strategy that initiated this senseless war, was firmly authorized by George W. Bush. There would have been no targeting of Iraq or subsequent invasion if the president had not enthusiastically bought into the "philosophy" peddled by those "advisors" who had the plans in the works for several years before 9/11. Then pushed them in the earliest days of the Bush presidency. The outrageous graft and corruption of American companies in Iraq such as Halliburton and its subsidiaries, would never have occurred had the president not chosen and supported the arguments of Vice President Cheney. Indeed, without the nod from Bush himself, Cheney would never have assumed the office he now holds. Bush is responsible for installing this lethal influence in the executive branch and without his rubber-stamping of Cheney's tactics we would not be in the quagmire that presently debilitates our armed forces, alienates us from our former European allies, and threatens the fiscal security of the American economy.
Add to that FEMA's bungling of the Katrina disaster in New Orleans. That can be traced back to the total ineptitude of Michael Brown who was eased into a position for which he was obviously unsuited and for which his résumé was shamefully inflated; just another appointment approved by the President of the United States.
If that's not enough bring on the shameful partisan dismissal of US attorneys from the Justice Department due to partisan revenge that was clearly overseen by Alberto Gonzales who, being a longtime Texas crony of the president, was elevated to the position of attorney general, for which he had little or no qualifications. It was the president who "rewarded" Gonzales for his "loyalty" by appointing him to the highest judicial position in the executive branch.
In the face of such a monumental number of deadly decisions that are fracturing our own country as much as they are destabilizing the Middle East, there is no longer any point in trying to apply rationalism to habitually irrational behavior. If ever impeachment was required, it is in response to the plunder committed by George W. Bush and his buddy, Dick Cheney.
When, oh when, will our wonderful country get their fill of the growing crescendo of casualties that glut the daily news bulletins and instill in us an overwhelming sense of helplessness, and take the one action that might put an end to the national malaise: the impeachment of a president who has flagrantly violated the Constitution, besmirched the honor of his office, and trampled on the decencies which once made us proud of our country.
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