Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 48 Editor's Choice: 3
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Contact the House Judiciary Committe
[Read the article: Yeah, that's the ticket]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The U.S. House Judiciary Committe would have the power to issue a subpoena for the servers and backup tapes that should contain the deleted e-mail messages sought in the U.S. attorneys firing scandal. Send them an e-mail recommending that they do just that. ASAP. I just did. Especially helpful would be explanations from techies.
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Ah, the Sanctity of Life
[Read the article: We'll have what he's having]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And at this breakfast, Bush called for a "culture of life," referring to the right of a handful of stem cells frozen just past the point of in-vitro conception to be tossed into the fertility clinic wastebasket instead of being used to reasearch cures for currently incurable diseases and injuries.
Meanwhile, post-birth, non-American, non-Republican, and non-wealthy life can be sacrificed and/or degraded to serve the greater good of the ideology that came up with this stellar set of priorities.
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Quick! Before They Invade Iran
[Read the article: Windmills]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank God. Maybe if this gains some momentum the White House will be too paralyzed to go after their next windmill - Iran.
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Supreme Court Showdown
[Read the article: But first, I'll be buying some shoes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I suspect BushCo is going to drag this all the way to the Supreme Court. They won't let Condi or Karle Rove testify under oath, and the Catch 22 is that Congress can't prosecute them for crimes if they won't testify under oath.
I think Congress is angry enough to take it to the limit, but they need to keep hearing from constituents. Once it gets to the Supreme Court, who knows what will happen - a less conservative court appointed Bush president in the first place. Will the new court give them the pass of executive privilege?
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It is One of Our Greatest National Shames
[Read the article: The spring blues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When the history books are written about Bush and his Iraq war, it will be judged as one of our greatest national shames. Thank you Garrison Keillor for this visionary article,
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What was the Goal?
[Read the article: "Either we'll succeed, or we won't succeed"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"We are in Iraq today because our goal has always been more than the removal of a brutal dictator," Bush said in 2005. "It is to leave a free and democratic Iraq in its place."
In his speech announcing the commencement of the Iraq War, Bush said:
"Our nation enters this conflict reluctantly, yet our purpose is sure. The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder."
He told us the goal of the war was to protect us from weapons of mass destruction aimed at our heads by Saddam Hussein.
Never were any WMDs, no more Saddam Hussein, no reason to be there according to his originally stated goal.
He must be drinking, or the weight of his many years of presenting illogic as logic have finally knotted up the synapses of his tiny shark-like brain
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My Theory
[Read the article: Why Bush hasn't been impeached]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By any standards of justice and reason Bush should have been impeached long ago. However, up until the November '06 elections, we had a Republican-dominated congress that did not practice oversight of the Executive branch. Bill Clinton had been under investigation for years by a special prosecutor intent on finding a reason to hang him. Then Clinton finally tripped up and obliged him. Most people found the grounds for impeachment ridiculous, but congress went ahead with it, since it was pre-determined that they would find some way to pry a Democratic president from power.
The newly elected Democratic congress is finally practicing oversight for the serious crimes of the Bush administration. Democrats do not feel that it is their perogative to remove a president from power just because they disagree with their policies, unlike the Republican congress under Clinton.
Despite early pronouncements that they would not move to impeach, Congress has been uncovering things like the scandal at the Justice Department that may prove too egregious to escape justice.
Another thing that has happened is the dessication and consolidation of the press. Independent journalists are the exception, not the rule. I don't think that the press that existed in the VietNam War era would have given Bush a free pass for so long on the Iraq war or displayed the entropy of the current MSM in accepting the unacceptible and failing to look under the surface of spin.
As for the people? Well, I didn't vote for Bush in 2000 or 2004, and it remains an open question whether he won either election fair and square. His supporters are a diverse group and not all are stupid. Some just give the benefit of the doubt to those in authority who claim to represent their values. Many others are from the raw-meat crowd that is fueled by anger and resentment. Those two groups are naive. His real supporters are the fossil-fuel industry and the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned about.
I believe that to honor the rule of law, the integrity of the Constitution, and the continuing validity of America's founding principals Bush and Cheney must be impeached. If the people demand it loudly enough, it will happen. The Congress and the press are not going to drive an impeachment effort this time around.
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I Support Cindy Sheehan
[Read the article: Cindy Sheehan's wrong turn]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cindy Sheehan lost a son in Iraq who thought when he signed up that he was defending the Constitution. The Bush administration has committed crime after crime against the Constitution. My only quarrel with Sheehan is that she should be pressing for the impeachment of Dick Cheney first. An impeachment trial in the House against Cheney should publicly reveal enough treachery that at least some of the Republicans in the Senate would have to vote to convict. Then on to Bush.
My feeling is that this administration must be held accountable for its crimes or the Constitution will be debased and the door will be open for the next gang of tyrants. Do you really want to sit back, do nothing, and hope it all turns out OK?