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George McGovern writes: "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."
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How long would Bill Clinton (the last legally elected President of the United States) have lasted had he done the same?
So while I too want Bush-Cheney imprisoned yesterday, we have to realize that it takes a loooonnnnggg time to move 300 million people in ANY direction, even one as clearly desirable as impeachment/imprisonment, and maybe even execution. If that were not true, we wouldn't still have Bush et al. We'd have gotten rid of them in 2004.
Think it over.
We've lost the congress. Now it's up to the people. As long as we aren't walking off our jobs to clog the streets of the D.C. Mall and the capitols of every state to demand justice, the rule of law, election reform and some services back for our tax dollars corporate fascism will continuing doing whatever it wants. Writing stern letters to our congressmen? Um hum. "Getting involved in politics to grow change from the grass roots!" Yeah, that'll get Kucinich nominated, much less elected. Lots of luck using the tactics of business as usual to cut out this cancer. I say affect the economy. Then government takes notice. And that means something like the national strikes other countries have.
RichMiles, you are substantialy right, but some of US did forsee fascism and attrocity in 2000. If you'd been following the rise of the NeoCons from the Reagan Era and noticed who was involved in Bush/Cheney2000(Elliot Abrams, John Bolton and John Negroponte for three), followed the trajectory to it's logical end, these things were apparent and we haven't gotten all the way to the end, either. They still have a year to suspend (what's left of) the Constitution and install their permanent control.
Impeachment, as much as we could wish,...
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I'd also like to believe that you(ursus_orribilus) are not completely wrong, that we can salvage what's left when and if they leave the WH. But to expand TimH's point a bit, it'll take a generation to repair some of the damage they've done domesticaly and within the government and some of the damage we've suffered worldwide can never be undone.
"the foetal-alcohol retard clears his brush/
while his country drowns in parachutes of gold/
his only friend a dick/
whose own heart tries to kill him."
-- nostradamus, quatrain 9/11