Letters to the Editor
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Consequences of Impeachment
One thing I don't get from this article is what the consequences would be for Bush if he is impeached. In a country obsessed with defence of national security and emphatically for the death penalty, surely an investigation which finds Bush guilty of treason would see him hanged/shot/electrocuted in public? Or is the death penalty reserved for non-presidents only?
It would seem that the worst harm that can come to Mister Bush from impeachment, is the disapprobation by a population he cares nothing for and the loss of his office - which has less than 2 years to run - and which Mister Bush describes as "really hard work" at every turn. It would seem to me Impeachment is a very mild consequence for a man whos decisions have caused such suffering and death.
Perhaps if Mister Bush and mister Cheney were stacked in a naked human pyrimid with Mister Rumsfeld, beaten and sodomised with clubs, waterboarded, savaged by attack dogs while shackled to the roof of their cages in some hellish prison they would begin to understand something of the misery which they have unleashed.