Letters to the Editor
droogoy
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Violation of Principle VI
[Read the article: Why Bush hasn't been impeached]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The emotional force behind America's support for the Iraq war, the molten core of an angry, resentful patriotism, is still too hot for Congress, the media and even many Americans who oppose the war, to confront directly"
True, but the reasons are more subtle than mere abandonment of hyper-John Waynism. Rather, the "resentful patriotism" would have to confront the fact that it was "played" in order to barge into a sovereign state, in a pre-emptive war, and hence violated Principle VI of the Nuremberg conventions.
Principle VI was articulated in the wake of the Nurembergy war crimes trials, expressly to address Nazi Germany's pre-emptive invasions, such as the Sudetenland, and Poland in 1939. Not to mention Holland, France and other nations to follow.
Principle VI not only condemns the actual pre-emptive launching of war, but all planning, preparations to that end, which in the Bushites' case would also include their phony WMD shtick and the fake presentation by Powell before the UN.
The American people, at least those naive dopes that supported this Nazi-ish invasion and occupation, therefore are averse to impeaching Bush because they'd have to condemn themselves too as brash war criminals. As guilty under the Nuremberg conventions as the accomplices of Hitler when he went into Poland, France, Holland etc.
As guilty as the "good Germans" who looked the other way and remained silent when their (Jewish) neighbors were dragged off in hte middle of the night, and who knew damned well that the black, acrid smoke rising behind some of their towns wasn't from barbecues.
Rather than look at themselves in this harsh light, they do what Americans always do, take the easy way out - and blame everyone else for the mess. While they soak up "American Idol" or whatever the latest fantasy escape is.
Hopefully, one day the American people will come face to face with the fact they are among the most war-mongering terrorists in the world. And either directly or indirectly (including via their ignorance of deep politics) aided and abetted the ruination of nations from Iran in 1953 (when prime minister Mossadegh was overthrown) to Jacobo Arbenz ouster in Guatemala in 1954, leading to decades of internecine violence and slaughter, to Vietnam and Johnson's faked "Tonkin Gulf" incident, to Reagan's violation of the Boland Amendment to aid abet the terror against the Sandinistas in the 80s, to BushCo's occupation of Iraq.
There is blood all over the wall, and through the decades, and it belongs to Americans.