Libby, Bush-Cheney and Impeachment: Don't "Move On"

[The Straight Story]

"Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men, is now for Congress, and ultimately, the American people, to decide."

- Archibald Cox, 1974


"MOVE ON"


I recently spoke about impeachment to the director of a major Democratic presidential campaign.


I didn't raise the topic. He did.


The current president's war policy, I commented after a talk the director gave in Iowa, is not merely "mistaken." It's "something much worse than a strategic blunder," I said. "It is monumentally illegal and immoral. This is high-state criminality of the worst kind," I added, noting that its victims included hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, not just 3600 United States GIs (1).


The director winced when I said "criminality." He knew I was correct in my evaluation of the White House's war on Iraq.


"If we impeach Bush," he said curtly, "that's all we'll be doing in the next year." Discussion over.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=13245

More at link including a list of reasons to impeach, etc.

[aquart]

1. That's all we should be doing next year.

Making it right. Restoring the law.

[Phredicles]

2. Given a choice between bringing legislation that'll be filibustered or vetoed

and pursuing impeachment, then the only way to get anything done is to pursue impeachment.