Obama has to know that there are hidden agendas going on here. This arena is far too easy to play publicity spins on, millions of dollars going out to little warlords and factions, arms being supplied, covert operations by elite or private forces.

Any time things are settling down too much in Iraq to suit Bush's occupation agenda it's too easy to fire some handheld missiles or plant a package of C2 at any good target of opportunity.

So called "Terrorist" activities in the middle east are not the terrorist acts that are a threat to the US if we are not there to be actively involved. Activity there which is nothing more than skirmishes has nothing to do with organized terrorist activity. The occupation in Iraq defies any definition or correlation to a "war on terror" as would mean anything to our national security. If we weren't there we wouldn't be losing soldiers, spending over a billion a day, or trying to justify the real agenda which is to support and protect the operations of private corporations making billions of dollars of public funds in an unorganized feeding frenzy of wasted and stupidly spent money.

we aren't doing anything except supporting the excuse to fritter tremendous funds on useless infrastructure we won't be needing if we aren't there.

Unaccountable money over there is being spent on secret bases that aren't approved or budgeted with approved funds. Billions in actual cash has gone over there to be poorly tracked, close to 10 billion dollars can't even be accounted for.

On one hand I start to get encouraged by the fact that it seems that there are a substantial number of people wising up to just how bad the Bush admin has been. Then we see how many still buy into all the "war on terror" "winning the war" bull and it has to be noted and feared that there is a huge number of people who are totally vulnerable to any random or unrelated act of terror or natural order.

Any well executed attack on a military operation or terrorist activity would be all McCain would need to rally the Lemmings and Gerbils into a political win (that and some voting count shenanigans).

I watched a congressional hearing last night that was at about the sixth hour where everyone got a chance to ask questions on impeachment. Bush is so far over the line that it's a matter of it being a simple proceeding that would take no investigation whatsoever. His refusal in multiple instances to cooperate with senate inquiries is all the grounds needed. The question is did he refuse to comply with directives? It then becomes a simple matter to determine did he defy the constitution or not which is a cut and dried issue that demands being upheld on principle.

It goes beyond that, legislation was enacted to force Bush into accountability and he refuses to comply with that legislation. This goes so far beyond defying our constitution and it's oversights it defies belief.

An impeachment is absolutely demanded here or we pass on new rules due to lack of enforcing constitutional breaches. Many members expressed concern over what damage this administration is still capable of doing in it's last six months. It is a fact that we have a vast amount of investigation into many counts of financial and constitutional malfeasance that would go much better if Bush and Cheney are impeached. This would open up what will be a morass of pardons and closed files under incorrectly invoked threat to national security secrecy clauses, not to mention disappeared files.

We need to send a message that no man, president, or it's administration is above the law. This is not the legacy to pass on uncorrected, there was too much deeply wrong to let it pass.

Everyone talks about time to take the gloves off and give some back, no it's time to take no prisoners.

What the heck is the democratic party thinking? It's time to impeach Bush, Chaney, and every other member of this admin who thinks they can refuse to respond to oversight investigations. That is a cut and dried violation of the constitution that is impeachable.

The only dead sure way to blast the current administration's foothold is to impeach everyone in violation of constitutional statutes. Violations such as refusals to respond to senate investigations are cut and dried, no investigation no delay, just an impeachment.

I watched the congressional hearing that aired Monday night and was amazed at how solidly our oversight committee feels we are left with a solid responsibility to impeach Bush simply for refusing to carry out his responsibility to protect the constitution by using our oversight regulation mechanisms. His blatant refusals to acknowledge statutes and legislation at his personal whim can be cited dozens of times in matters that would demand his impeachment.

The biggest incident and easiest to judge is his refusal to comply with legislation specifically designed to make him comply with constitutionally legal statutes he was refusing to uphold. The trial for impeachment would take no more than a week or two at the most and could bag Cheney in the same time frame.

McCain wouldn't stand a chance with an impeachment of republican heads of party in the wings with the subsequent investigations into a wide range of monetary and constitutional malfeasance as has been left unchallenged for two administrations.

Bush saying and thinking he doesn't have to be held accountable for the constitution is all the reason, no is every reason to demand protection of the laws of our land and government.

Worry about the damage that man and administration can and will do in the six months he has left if he isn't impeached. This isn't possibly harmful to the democratic party, refusing to protect our constitution is truly harmful and sets a horrible precedent for allowing the worst abuses in our history. To pass on to the next administration is to send the message that the constitution doesn't mean anything.