So the House of Representatives has managed to pass a resolution that doesn’t actually change anything, but only makes a comment on a small part of the tactics of the Bush White House in fighting the Iraq War. Big deal.
The fighting in Iraq has included serious war crimes on the part of the United States that appear to have been pushed all the way from the top. Those crimes have wrecked international law and ripped gaping holes in the Constitution of the United States of America.
Passing a toothless resolution on a short-lived strategy within the war is as pointless as whistling a happy tune in the middle of a tornado. The debate has already gone far beyond where the Democrats in Congress are willing to admit.
The American people know the war was a fraud. The American people know the war is a failure. The American people want to war to be ended. The want it to be ended now, not after another thousand Americans are killed.
It is time to vote to end the war, to rescind President Bush’s authority to engage in military action in Iraq.
Then, when that vote is taken, it will be time to vote to impeach Bush and Cheney.
A citizen gives his opinion in favor of impeachment on a video at LiveVideo, based on only the deception inherent in the effort to start the invasion and occupation of Iraq four years ago. it’s interesting and revealing to me to see that only this one deception is cited as a reason for impeachment. The lies used to start the Iraq War are really just a small corner of the ongoing criminal campaign unleashed from the White House over the last several years.
There’s a comprehensive quality to the crimes of the Bush White House, ranging from many war crimes to illegal search, seizure and spying, to the illegal use of propaganda here in the United States and abroad, that is difficult to grasp. One could say that the scope of the crime is numbing.
I am reminded of the advice once given to an aspiring criminal, that the safest frauds are those that are so sweeping in scale that it is inconceivable that they should be committed at all.
I was forwarded this short video yesterday. It’s a portion of a Senate committee meeting, taped by C-Span, in which Norm Coleman is calmly questioning former Secretary of State James Baker about the government’s policy in Iraq. Suddenly, a citizen stands up and breaks the cordial atmosphere with a loud declaration of disgust that includes the call to impeach Bush.
I’m with that man. It’s all well and good to see the Democrats finally asking questions that they should have been asking back in 2002 and 2003 when so many of them voted in favor of the Iraq War. What are the Democrats in Congress actually doing to stop the disasterous destruction of American democracy? What are they doing to stop the war in Iraq?
So far, it’s all just a bunch of talk that we’re getting from the Democrats.
I’m with the citizen in the audience shown in this video clip. Stand up and shout at the Democrats in Congress until they finally understand that they were sent there to bring the government back under control, not just to strike a pose.
