Bush/Cheney Have Disgraced Their Office; They Should Resign

[jbfam4]

Bush/Cheney Have Disgraced Their Office; They Should Resign
by Ralph Nader

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1224-23.htm

Richard Cohen, the finely-calibrated syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, wrote a column on October 28, 2004 which commenced with this straight talk: "I do not write the headlines for my columns. Someone else does. But if I were to write the headline for one, it would be 'Impeach George Bush'."
Cohen stated the obvious then. Bush and Cheney had plunged the nation into war "under false pretenses." Exploiting the public trust in the Presidency, Bush had persuaded, over the uncritical mass media, day after day, before the war, a majority of the American people that Saddam Hussein possessed chemical, biological weapons and nuclear weapons programs, was connected to al-Qaeda and 9/11 and was a threat to the United States.



Fourteen months later, no widely syndicated columnist or major newspaper editorial has called for the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Not even Cohen again. Yet the case for impeachment is so strong that, recently, hardly a day goes by without more disclosures which strengthen any number of impeachable offenses that could form a Congressional action under our Constitution. An illegal war, to begin with, against our Constitution which says only Congress can declare war. An illegal war under domestic laws, and international law, and conducted illegally under international conventions to which the US belongs, should cause an outcry against this small clique of outlaws committing war crimes who have hijacked our national government.

An illegal, criminal war means that every related U.S. death and injury, every related Iraqi civilian death and injury, every person tortured, every home and building destroyed become war crimes as a result - under established international law.



By these legal standards and by the requirements of the U.S. Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, the war-declaring authority), George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are probably the most impeachable President and Vice President in American history. An illegal war based on lies, deceptions, cover-ups and their repetition even after being told by officials in their own administration - not to mention critical retired generals, diplomats and security specialists - of their falsity should have prodded the House of Representatives into initiating impeachment proceedings. But then, Bush did not lie under oath about sex.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. A list of the diplomats, generals, VETERAN security analysts,

soldiers, judges, and whatnot who have RESIGNED rather than be a part of their ILLEGAL MADNESS should be indictment enough, but it isn't.

[Poppyseedman]

2. I wouldn't hold my breath until they do resign

[cloud_chaser1]

3. Their egos

prevent them from resigning. You will have to drag them out by the scruff's of their necks.

[WhiteTara]

4. you put them there Ralph

so STFU. Until you apologize for helping them into power, you will be lower than pond scum in my book.