Letters to the Editor
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Congress Bears An Equal Responsibility
For the majority of the elected representatives of the American people to have uncritically accepted the lies of the Bush Administration and wasted hundreds of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars enmeshing our nation in a physically and morally destructive quagmire for five years is unconscionable. I'm just some poor schmuck on the street, but I was demonstrating out there and writing letters to them before the invasion, telling them it would be a physical, financial, and moral disaster. And then, in November 2006, when the American people expressed their displeasure with these events by electing a Democratic Congress, the leader of that party emasculated it on virtually day 1 with her "impeachment is off the table" comment. Madam Speaker, in a responsibly run republic, impeachment must ALWAYS be on the table, no matter how honest, wise, and popular the current Chief Executive is judged.
I will be holding my elected representative responsible with my vote for an alternate candidate next November for not signing on to the impeachment movement . He'll win anyway, with his outrageously gerrymandered district, but he doesn't deserve to win by a landslide given the burden of guilt he carries for enabling the criminally insane Bush/Cheney aggression in Iraq.