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Throw the Bums Out!
Wednesday 15 November @ 13:39:37 |
 ED FELIEN
If “mandate” ever meant more than a
$1-a-minute telephone call on an “Are You Curious” gay chat line, then the Democrats have been handed something very much like one as a result of the November elections.
 But what are the Democrats doing? They’re talking about bi-partisan this and bi-partisan that. The Republicans weren’t bi-partisan for the last six years. Even with an election he stole in 2000, when he lost the popular vote, Bush claimed a mandate for tax cuts for the wealthy and poverty for the working class. The Republican Congress held committee meetings and locked the Democrats out of the process—both literally and figuratively.
John Conyers, the senior ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, held hearings last year on possible grounds for the impeachment of President Bush. The Republicans wouldn’t allow him to have a hearing room, and they relegated him to a glorified closet in the basement. Now, Conyers is chair of the House Judiciary Committee. A bill of impeachment has to originate in his committee. Should the Democrats now offer an olive branch and an armistice to this mass murderer and war profiteer?
HELL NO!!!
When the enemy advances, you retreat. When the enemy retreats, you advance.
–Sun Tzu, in the “Art of War.”
Nancy Pelosi has said there will be no impeachment. Howard Dean, the chair of the Democratic Party, has said there will be no impeachment. But the American people have said they want to hold this President accountable. A Newsweek poll found 51 percent of Americans favored impeachment. A USA Today/Gallup Poll says 51 percent of Americans want “major investigations” by the Democrats. There is a growing mass movement that wants some clear answers to some important questions:
Do George Bush and his family own Halliburton, and did they directly profit from the war and control of the oil resources in Iraq and the potential pipeline in Afghanistan? We know that Dick Cheney bought the Bush family’s Dresser Company when he was CEO of Halliburton for $8 billion when Halliburton was itself worth only about that much.
Didn’t George Bush violate both the U.S. Constitution and international law when he invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, and declared a doctrine of pre-emptive strike? The Constitution says only Congress can declare war and issue letters of marque and reprisal.
Hasn’t George Bush violated our rights and civil liberties by suspending habeas corpus (the right to know the charges brought against you and the right to a speedy trial by a jury of your peers), by illegal wiretaps and spying, and by arresting people simply on the basis of their religious beliefs?
Hasn’t George Bush violated Geneva Conventions and international treaties by authorizing the use of torture on prisoners?
Haven’t George Bush and Dick Cheney tried to pass a bill through Congress that would overturn court-awarded compensation to widows and orphans from Halliburton and Dresser Company for their liability in asbestos poisoning?
Haven’t George Bush and Dick Cheney sold their influence to corrupt lobbyists who have bankrupted Native American tribes and destroyed our natural resources?
Don’t the American people deserve answers to these questions?
Any attempt to sweep these questions under a rug will be seen as an act of complicity with the most corrupt gang of criminals and murderers in the history of our republic.
Among the many groups organizing impeachment drives are impeachforchange.org and impeachforpeace.org. ||
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