I applaud his courage in coming out and stating the obvious: George Bush has committed crimes unprecedented in the history of the American presidency and must be removed.

I would therefore encourage Mr. Keillor to use his unique public forum of the PHC to spread this message to a wider audience. Perhaps the first 15 minutes of each show could be devoted to outlining the case against Mr. Bush, until the message is heard.

I realize that Mr. Keillor might object to taking time away from his entertainment program for politics, but this is a national emergency, as Mr. Keillor himself notes:

"We might rather be comedians or daddies or tattoo artists or flamenco dancers, but we must attend to first things."

First thing Saturday evening, I'd like to tune in to PHC and hear Mr. Keillor make a stand for our country.

Sooner or later we need to ask ourselves, why did we elect George Bush in the first place, and then seeing what sort of man he was, why did we elect him again? Is the process of deciding whether a man is fit to run the country similar to the gestation period of an elephant, should we be running the campaign for the 2048 elections right now, so that we might have time to thoroughly explore the qualifications of the candidate.

No, if I were Howard Dean I would send a postcard to everyone who believes Iraq was a good thing, (still about 50%) and postcards to everyone who thought it was a good thing a few years ago, and somehow managed to change their opinion when it didn't turn out too well. The image of 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians has barely raised a fuss, and none at all if the insurgency had been defeated. The attitude of America is very unlike our attitude during Vietnam, when the scale of the human suffering touched everyone.

Now the cause of this war, and this corrupt presidency, has been purloined by Christians and moralists. They have ripped open the heart of America, and your gentle, moral, midwestern manners. To believe passionately in the American people and a way of life, Mr. Keillor, and to feel utterly betrayed, let me say, you deserve better. America sends it's deepest regrets.

NOW. Do it NOW. Sound it from the rooftops, across the spires, into every house and over the wires. Sound it loud and clear, both far and near. Sound it to those close and dear...

Impeach Bush we must -- for our own sakes. The peasants have no crumbs, much less cakes. The list is too long, our laws now a travesty...the blind scales of Justice now hold no majesty.

IMPEACH BUSH -- for our own conscience tells. Like one before: "What of the ringing of the bells. When they came for the others, none I stood to free. Until at last, they came for me."

Damn. I didn't mean to go on. My soul suddenly was transported by a vision. Impeach the rotter.And the band of crooks. All of them. All the vacant, souless parasites who hide their smirks and grins and greedy claws behind thumpings of the pulpit and the Holy Bible. For this reason, they're an abomination.

What a pleasant surprise that Garrison Keillor would actually SAY "impeach Bush". I hope his words carry weight with his many fans across the country.

Recently I saw a headline that said "Iraq war is costing

$100,000 per minute." I realized that if you multiply that by 60 you get $6 million an hour, and if you multiply that by 24 you get $144 million a DAY!.

Imagine what we could do with $144 million a day. Imagine the schools, the health care, the environmental cleanup, the programs for world PEACE and world HEALTH that we could provide with that money. But we are spending it on war machines and new and bigger ways to kill people. Are we insane? All current indications show that we are.

Another way of looking that the numbers is this: The new Pentagon budget is $439.3 Billion dollars a year. Divide that by 12 and you get $36.6 Billion a month; divide that by 31 and you get $1.18 BILLION a DAY!

So we are spending $144 million a day just to kill people in Iraq, and we are spending $1.18 BILLION a day to pay the Pentagon and various industrial companies to manufacture more machines so we can kill more people.

Is this what American citizens want?

Is this what you had in mind when you voted?

If it isn't, I suggest we all should take up the cry; "Impeach Bush".

For over 50 years now we have been subscribing to the insanity of war and killing in the name of "peace". If insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then we can truly be described as being terminally insane. We are in the process of destroying this country and our planet. Does anybody care? Does anybody even begin to understand the dire peril we are in?

If you care, write your Senators and Representatives and ask them to impeach Bush. It's a start.

Great article but you left out Katrina and a lot more. The broken levees could easily have been caused by a terrorist attack and the response would have been much worse because of no notification that it was coming. President Bush is responsible for the poor response because it's his job to pick the men/women that pick the men/women (like Brownie) who ran the recovery show. The disaster response was a disaster because cronies with no management skills were planning and then running the recovery effort. People died after Katrina unnecessarily just as they are in Irag because Bush is incompetent. That to me is more than enough reason to impeach. I say to the Republicans, "Where is your shame!" Help get rid of him.

Even if Congress would impeach both Bush and Cheney, would President Hastert be an improvement? The sleaze runs deep! We have to get Congress back in the hands of the Dems to make impeachment a reality, and then we'd at least have a Dem to fall back on if we did a Bush/Cheney tar & feather routine. But is it possible to take back the House and Senate when Diebold and their ilk run the voting systems? Aye, there be a fly in the ointment. Part of this empire thing has been gaining control of the levers of democracy and making them a sham. I fear 2006 will change nothing. Why don't the Dems make this issue number one? Why haven't they made it issue number one since 2000? They have sorely abandoned a struggling democracy to the fascists, many becoming fascists themselves. Corruption has become so integral a part of Washington politics that one wonders how we will ever recover.