Why I Believe Bush Must Go

[ZombieHorde]

By George McGovern
Sunday, January 6, 2008; B01

As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president.

After the 1972 presidential election, I stood clear of calls to impeach President Richard M. Nixon for his misconduct during the campaign. I thought that my joining the impeachment effort would be seen as an expression of personal vengeance toward the president who had defeated me.

Today I have made a different choice.

Of course, there seems to be little bipartisan support for impeachment. The political scene is marked by narrow and sometimes superficial partisanship, especially among Republicans, and a lack of courage and statesmanship on the part of too many Democratic politicians. So the chances of a bipartisan impeachment and conviction are not promising.

But what are the facts?

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.

From the beginning, the Bush-Cheney team's assumption of power was the product of questionable elections that probably should have been officially challenged -- perhaps even by a congressional investigation.

In a more fundamental sense, American democracy has been derailed throughout the Bush-Cheney regime. The dominant commitment of the administration has been a murderous, illegal, nonsensical war against Iraq. That irresponsible venture has killed almost 4,000 Americans, left many times that number mentally or physically crippled, claimed the lives of an estimated 600,000 Iraqis (according to a careful October 2006 study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) and laid waste their country. The financial cost to the United States is now $250 million a day and is expected to exceed a total of $1 trillion, most of which we have borrowed from the Chinese and others as our national debt has now climbed above $9 trillion -- by far the highest in our national history.

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More to this rant at link -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010404308_pf.html

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. The Obama response is, forget all that, let's all be friends, that's in the past.

unity.

[bluerum]

2. Oh Nancy. Yoo hoooo. How are you dear?

[Avalux]

3. I wrote this months ago; worth re-posting now in honor of McGovern.

Bush has committed Treason

Posted by sparosnare in General Discussion (01/01/06 through 01/22/2007)
Fri Apr 07th 2006, 12:05 PM

By secretly declassifying intelligence information for the purpose of persuading the American public that Iraq was an imminent threat to our national security.

By intentionally not declassifying other intelligence information that would have refuted the released declassified information.

By committing a war of aggression against Iraq based on intelligence information that was not in fact flawed, but picked and chosen to serve his own political purposes.


This man who calls himself President has willfully betrayed the trust of the people of the United States of America. In doing so, he has not only damaged our national security, but undermined the Constitution and reneged on his Presidential Oath of Office.

There is no alternative but to remove him from office by Constitutional authority.

[ZombieHorde]

4. Short and to the point.

I love it.

[Avalux]

5. Thank you.

:hi: