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Country Wisdom here or a cow pile? I think more of the latter frankly.
Mr Keillor is right and well to complain about that things are not well and to his liking, but impeachment? So Dick Cheney can take over? Dennis Hastert? Or how far shall we go down? Shall it be Coups R US time? I would frankly suggest that voting during the next election cycle would be the more appropriate course of action to register your displeasure.
But wait? I never really got the charges for this impeachment other than severe Bush Derangement Syndrome? Guantanamo and "illegal detentions"? (Please tell me a better way of how to deal with the problem of extra-national combatants first - and then get a bulldozer out and knock down that statue of FDR on the mall for complicity in the rather larger scale of Japanese-American detentions during WWII) Torture & Humiliation ? I thought we had trials about Abu Gharib and the killings in Afghanistan and we put people in jail? Iraq? Anyone that wants to make "judgments" about success/failure before 5 to 10 years about that is frankly fooling themselves.
But I digress - and want to hit my real point - since I seem to be the only one with a contrarian opinion here - what, may I ask is the alternative? I hear many complaints, but no suggestions for change. Do we lock up the USA and close all the ports and prohibit foreign ownership of business in the USA? Do we start treating all prisoners of war as individual wards of the court? Do we make nice with everyone and pretend to get along? (With the cartoon intifada still raging, I would think that pretending that "dialog" to change behavior would be deep in the rubbish heap. What, pray tell, are alternatives other than "we can do better"?
You want a change? - Then put together a program that address these issues and convince the American people to back you. You can bitch and you can moan all you want, but in the end - unless you can show how you can do better - then stop dreaming that impeaching Bush will make the rest of the world suddenly behave.
