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Commentary by Peter White .......
The
Remedy Is Impeachment At
a public forum attended by about two hundred people at Cape Cod
Community College on May 12, we discussed the question: “Should
Bush/Cheney be impeached NOW?” A
few people felt that Bush/Cheney haven’t done anything that warrants
impeachment. Some other
people felt that Bush/Cheney have committed impeachable crimes, but it
would be harmful to the Democratic Party to try to impeach them now -
that’s also the official position of Representative Delahunt and most
Democrats in Congress. Most
of those present supported the third position, that Articles of
Impeachment of Bush/Cheney and other members of their Administration
should be introduced immediately because there is overwhelming evidence
that they are guilty of impeachable crimes!
We need to stop them from committing more crimes such as lying to
spread the War for Oil in the Middle East, torture and illegal
detentions at Guantanamo Bay and around the world, use of depleted
uranium and other chemical weapons in Iraq, illegal wire tapping,
unreasonable searches through our telephone records, conspiracy with oil
companies, and corruption by Halliburton.
Hundreds of thousands of people, and tens of thousands of our
troops, have been killed and maimed by the Bush/Cheney Regime.
How do we stop all these crimes from continuing? The
remedy is impeachment. Our
founding fathers put Article II, Section 4 in the Constitution to give
We the People a remedy for removing the president, vice president, and
other civil officers from office if they were guilty of treason,
bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Bush/Cheney are guilty, and if we don’t use that remedy, then
those war criminals will do much more harm! Every
day our troops and innocent people are dying because Bush/Cheney lied to
invade Iraq in a War for Oil, and now they are pushing us towards war
with Iran, Venezuela, and other countries that have vast reserves of
oil. If there were no oil
in Iraq, then there would be no U.S. troops in Iraq.
We must withdraw our troops immediately, and rescue our troops
from dying for the oil companies and being forced to kill or be killed
for a lie. To do that, we
must first impeach the commanders-in-chief, Bush/Cheney. A
public forum called “The Constitution in Crisis” was held in April
in Falmouth by Representative Delahunt and former congressman Bob Barr
and ACLU They admitted to us that Bush/Cheney are guilty of authorizing
the use of torture and illegal wire tapping, clear violations of the
laws, treaties, and U.S. Constitution.
The reason that the Constitution is in crisis is because Delahunt
and the Democrats are not even attempting to impeach Bush/Cheney, and
without that remedy, there is no way to stop this corrupt “War
President” and his Administration. Representative
Conyers and thirty-six other members of Congress have introduced House
Resolution 635 for an Impeachment Inquiry.
Why don’t they just introduce Articles of Impeachment if there
is so much evidence of impeachable crimes?
Why aren’t more Democrats in Congress helping them?
They are more concerned with their own elections that in
following their oaths of office to uphold the laws and Constitution to
the best of their abilities. Senator
Russ Feingold calls them “run and hide Democrats.”
Of the two hundred and fifty Democrats in Congress, only about
forty have done anything to stand up to Bush/Cheney, less than twenty
percent. That’s
disgraceful, and a grave disservice to the citizens of the United
States. Doing nothing will hurt the Democrats in November, as it did in
2000, 2002 and 2004. Representative
Delahunt is a former District Attorney who should be prosecuting those
criminals, not letting them continue to commit crimes day in and day
out. He and the Democrats
in Congress are watching our troops and innocent people die because of
lies and corruption, and they are letting Bush/Cheney get away with it,
instead of coming out of their foxholes and fighting for what’s right.
They
and their friends in the oil industry are power hungry enough, and sick
enough, to do it. Seymour
Hirsh, a very respected writer for the New Yorker magazine, has reported
that the attack on Iran is already in the operational stage, which means
that it will happen sooner or later.
We must derail that operation! We
must impeach Bush/Cheney NOW, before that happens, because there will be
no going back if it does, and there will be no stopping the War for OIL
from growing. If Articles
of Impeachment are introduced by Representative Delahunt, there will be
thirty or forty cosponsors right away, and the movement to impeach
Bush/Cheney will spread to every Congressional District in the United
States. Many members of
Congress who oppose impeachment will be voted out in November, and that
will give the Democrats the majority they need to remove those war
criminals from office. There
are now efforts in Vermont, Illinois, California, and other states to
pass impeachment resolutions through their Legislatures, which would go
to Congress under the Jefferson Rules.
So far, we haven’t found one Democrat in Massachusetts with the
courage to introduce an impeachment resolution here.
Representative Matt Patrick said no, Senators O’Leary and
Murray said no, Representative Cleon Turner laughed it off, and
Representative Atsalis said no, and that we should have nuked Iran
instead of invading Iraq! The
most Democratic state in our Nation has no elected leaders who will work
to impeach Bush/Cheney. The
voters need to take action right away to pressure all of our
politicians. We must impeach Bush/Cheney NOW to cure our Nation of the worst Administration in U.S. history. We must change the course of history, and spare our children and grandchildren from endless war. We must bring our troops home NOW, this year, but first we must remove their Commander in Chief! We can impeach Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and the other criminals in their Administration, if we try. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “It is always the right time to do the right thing,” and it is certainly the right time to work for impeachment. Thank you.
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