With increasing evidence of Bush lies to the American people, there are increasing calls for Bush's impeachment. The corporate news stations can talk about Aruba and lost cub scouts all they want: the countless voices calling for impeachment constitute the real news story of today.
McGovern, a former high-ranking CIA official, had this to say:
Wouldn’t it be better if rather than making $30,000 speeches, George Tenent came before Congress and the American people and told us about the conversation he had, or didn’t have, with the head of British intelligence regarding the WMD issue," said McGovern this week in a lengthy telephone conversation regarding a wide variety of subjects, including the infamous Downing Street Memo, a document which has even been authenticated by Prime Minister Tony Blair."Other people ask me, well, maybe President Bush wasn’t aware of Iraqi intelligence. What a question! To those critics I simply ask: What’s worse, I ask you? A President who lied to the American people about what he knew or a President who made a decision to send innocent Americans to war without knowing or even bothering to uncover the truth? This is why we need to know the truth and set the record straight and nothing less is acceptable.
Logical Purgatory has a detailed post on impeachment, which includes the following nugget:
The people of America have been categorically lied to. The lies of our administration have resulted in the death of 1600 hundred American soldiers, a large hit to our economy, and over a billion dollars a week worth of national debt. It rallied the terrorists against us, raised oil prices, and squandered the diplomatic good will created toward us after 9/11, we are now placed lower the North Korea in international opinion polls. However, this is not what angers me; a president is free to make unpopular decisions. However, when our president lied to us, he directly and purposely lied about making these unpopular decisions. George Bush is no different from Richard Nixon and far worse then Bill Clinton. When those people lied, there were not any long-term negative geopolitical consequences.
Corrente argues for impeachment, saying that Republicans "lowered the bar" for Clinton, so why not Bush?
And if lying about a blowjob is an impeachable offense, why isn't lying about the casus belli for a war that cost thousands of American dead, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead?
This and That agrees:
But the fact that closer to 10,000 dead American soldiers have died in an illegal war, should be enough to force Bush's resignation, and probable impeachment. My God, Clinton had sex in the White House and did not kill a soul in the White House, and was impeached. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
Cut to the Chase asks people to take a long, honest look at what's been happening:
I'm not telling you to believe me when I say I think Mr. Bush's actions should have removed him from office years ago, despite the outcome of another cooked election in 2004. Instead, I'm asking you to do your own research, search your own mind and soul, talk with your friends and family members, and reach your own conclusions. If you find, like me, that Mr. Bush has committed high crimes, then you have the responsibility given to all of us 229 years ago by our founders to demand an inquiry and impeachment proceedings.
Other bloggers calling for impeachment include: Peter Westre, Difference of Opinion, and From Where I Sit.
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Pardon the length, but I feel strongly about this one...
(from an earlier post of mine)
If I hear one more person defend Bush by saying, "Well, Bill Clinton lied under oath! Bill Clinton desecrated the sanctity of the Oval Office! Bill Clinton dropped bombs to distract the nation from Monica Lewinsky!", I swear to you - I swear to you that I am going to go postal.
First of all, the case against Bill Clinton never should have been a case to begin with. "Troopergate", the article that started it all in the American Spectator, was a...lie! Exposed as such by David Brock, one of the people who was involved in it. Paula Jones was a sad, clueless pawn; manipulated from day one by the right, including plastic surgery (that seems to be de rigueur), looking for her little day in the spotlight, her ticket out of her small-town life. But that didn't stop the all-out assault by what Hillary rightly called the 'vast right-wing conspiracy'.
It's rather remarkable that the same people who treat King George as if his royal word is law, as if his every whim and wish is entitled to fulfillment, who coddle him and swaddle him like 'His Majesty the Baby', had no problem with jeopardizing our national and international safety and security by allowing a trumped-up lie of a case to hobble the leader of the free world. The same people who say, "The President deserves an up-and-down vote", "The President deserves a UN Ambassador who reflects his views" had no problem disrespecting Bill Clinton as Commander-in-Chief, disparaging him to our military. The same people who hustle anyone who has so much as a questionable bumper sticker out of the so-called 'public' forums where Bush propagandizes, said openly, "He's not our President". They had no respect for the office of the Presidency when someone they didn't like was in it. But now they demand, not just respect, but groveling, unquestioning, slavish obeisance. To this cruel, stupid disaster of a President.
Well, I've had it.
Yes, Bill Clinton lied. Under oath, as if other kinds of lies are just fine. He had been cleverly maneuvered into a lose-lose situation - 'have you stopped beating your wife?' He was put under oath under false pretenses. But his lies have not killed hundreds of thousand of people. Bush's have. And I'm sick and tired of people ignoring his lies.
Yes, there is a difference in lies.
And anyone who says they don't ever lie is a liar.
If you've turned down an unwanted date by saying you were playing gin rummy with Grandma, you're a liar.
If you ever said you were stuck in traffic because you overslept, you're a liar.
If you ever had lunch with an old boyfriend and told your husband it was a client, you're a liar.
You lying scum, you're a liar. I don't care what it was about, it was a lie and you're a liar.
But Linda Tripp, the worst kind of back-stabbing, two-faced, opportunistic 'friend', is a hero? Don't make me puke.
If Monica and Bill were doing something illegal or dangerous to the nation, perhaps it would be different.
But they weren't.
Nixon was.
And what the Republicans did to Bill Clinton was a 'High Crime and Misdemeanor'. I don't know what else you'd call putting the entire nation, and by inference, the entire world, at risk by distracting and diverting the President from doing the most important job in the world. Well, maybe you could call it 'treason'.
John Kass is lamenting the treatment that Linda Tripp got, and wondering why she's not being hailed as a 'hero'. I'm wondering what mental hospital John Kass escaped from.
'High Crimes and Misdemeanors'? The only thing 'high' is you, bro. You wouldn't know a 'High Crime and Misdemeanor' if it bit you in the ass.
It's high time to focus on the real 'High Crimes' going on right here and now.
Lies that kill are worse than lies that do not kill.
OTHER BLOGGERS CALLING FOR IMPEACHMENT include myself at http://leftedgenorth.blogspot.com and my brother over at htto://bionicleftwing.blogspot.com and many many uncountable many more bloggers out here...great post, thank you!
One question I have is why Congressman Conyers has not yet begun the impeachment process, since he has done so much good in throwing light on the reasons for undertaking it, and since it takes only one member of the Congress to get the process going.
As Jeremy Skahill noted in his article, "The Other Bomb Drops (from June 1)," the process would allow Congress to subpoena Rumsfeld and the acting generals and pilots who carried out the pre-war, more or less behind-the-scenes escalation of the bombing of Iraq, whose purpose, it seems, was to provoke Hussein to make defensive, retaliatory strikes that could then be cast among world leaders as "unprovoked aggression" that called for an invasion.
To my mind, the major problem with the impeachment issue is not only one that involves the media, although your opening salvo is well done. The major problem, rather, comes from the complicity of the two parties in giving the green light to the illegal bombing campaign of Iraq, and in sheepishly and stupidly supporting the tyrannical warping of executive powers for the purposes of war-making.
I think the Founding Fathers were wise to deprive the Executive of the unchecked power to declare war. And you bring up a good point--the checks and balance were clearly circumvented in this case.
I do not want to see him impeached I want to see him resign, just like Nixon on television. Very humiliating and what he deserves.
i put up a asking what should be done about the bad iraq intelligence. i am STUNNED by the results. i get right-wing visitors because i troll around and snark up their comments. but they are vastly out-numbered by people who want bush impeached. really shocking.
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