No turning back!!!

Mythsaje

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Sun Jul-15-07 03:36 AM
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No turning back!!!

Every day I see a thousand arguments for and against impeaching Bush and Cheney. "It'll take too long," "they don't have the votes," or "we have to defend the Constitution," "if not now, when?"

Now we're seeing the Republicans trying to distance themselves from the very administration they supported and rationalized from the very beginning, some even going so far as to say we've "lost the war" when, as recently as a year ago, they would have pointed their fingers at us and screamed "traitor" or "coward" for saying the same exact thing.

If I had my way, I'd like to toss all of them together on a wildly pitching ship and, waiting until the very moment that the waves sent them crashing together, pour a vat of the strongest glue known to man down upon their heads. I want each and every one of the slippery bastards stuck to Bush and Cheney like flies on putrid piles of excrement.

I want this administration's crimes to be paraded in front of the American people, ad nauseum, until all but the most ferociously stubborn and ignorant can no longer deny the truth. And I want it done in such a way that every single Repug (and DINO) Congresscritter cannot deny their complicity in the crimes. Not only that, but I'd like the Corporate Media that remained so steadfastly complicit as well be tarred with the same sticky brush, sealed permanently to the criminals that took it into their minds to wreak destruction upon our Constitution, our reputation, and our economy.

Succeed or fail, I see impeachment proceedings to be the most likely way to accomplish this. Drag Bush and Cheney in front of Congress and march EVERY SINGLE one of their cronies in front of the cameras to force them to make an ultimate choice--either throw themselves on the mercy of Congress and the American people, or continue to lie and share the same fate as the villains who engineered it all.

For that matter, I'd like to see Members of Congress forced to do the same thing, to justify their decision to sidestep their responsibility to provide oversight and to give BushCo the authority to do just about any goddamn thing they pleased with our military, with our money, and with the trust and goodwill of most of the world.

I want them all to answer for what they've done and for what they haven't done. Bush, Cheney, Rice, Gonzalez, Chertoff, and every last one of the motherfuckers who played in their sandbox while they were shitting all over us and every last ideal that made America a place worthy of at least a small amount of pride.

If they could pull THAT off, I wouldn't even give a fuck if they succeeded. You throw enough evidence into the faces of the American public, the whole Republican party would be so stained and weighed down by guilt it wouldn't be able to raise its head for a generation without staring into a sea of torch and pitchfork wielding citizens ready to storm the castle at the first sign of duplicity.

I want to see the public completely and utterly disgusted and disenchanted with the status quo, the state of affairs that allowed all of this to come to pass. Dismayed and disturbed by the corporate sponsorship of the ship of state and not only those who were elected to steer its rudder, but those who were elected to man the oars.

If each piece of evidence was laid before the American people, frame by frame, clear as it could be possible to make it, with all of the lies stripped bare to see, I would hope that the people would rise up nearly as one and demand that the power of corporate influence be sundered forever, demand that elections be financed by them and them alone, demand that only real, living, breathing people be granted the rights of citizenship, and that the vile fiction of corporate personhood be abolished and driven from our collective psyche for as long as the union might stand.

If every crime, not only against our constitution, but against the people of Iraq, against our soldiers, against our children, against our planet, be hauled into the light of day, with no equivocation allowed, then, and only then, would the people realize what abandoning their duty to choose their leaders has brought us to, the very brink of destruction.

There can be no mercy, no obfuscation, no shrouding of the hard and brutal truths. Only flat, stark, brilliant reality thrust upon the American people like a lance from the sky.

There would be no "spin" allowed during the course of the proceedings. Any "news" agency that did anything but present the evidence AS brought before Congress would either lose its license to use the public airwaves, or be subject to PUBLIC chastisement for its duplicity and complicity. There would be no "this is what this means," but only "this is the evidence. See it for yourselves and decide for yourselves."

"This is what we've allowed ourselves to come to, the turning point we must see and address as free citizens of the United States. Either we cower from the truth and allow them to slink away to rise again to brutalize our children and our children's children in the same way they've brutalized us and the world, or we redefine what it means to be an American for now and forever.

"There is no turning back. There is only going forward. We either come to grips with the truth as thoughtful, aware, involved citizens, or we abandon everything the United States was supposed to be. There IS no middle ground, no compromise with malevolence and brutality. We are either free citizens, or we are the slaves of our fears, doubts, greed, and hubris."

So I say, impeach the motherfuckers and let the chips fall where they may. Either truth and righteousness shall prevail, or we shall sink into the darkness, never again to have the opportunity to live as free men and women.

YOU FORGOT TO INCLUDE ANOTHER MAJOR WAR-CRIMINAL!

YOU FORGOT TO INCLUDE
ANOTHER MAJOR WAR-CRIMINAL!