Reply #10: History will scold those who stayed silent

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History will scold those who stayed silent
by Leonard Pitts
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/leonard_pitts/14118677.htm

Pitts says, ""I think I know. I think tomorrow will ask how we could have shrugged off the very real possibility that the president broke the law. I think tomorrow will want to know how we could have meekly and quiescently allowed our civil rights to be abridged. I think tomorrow will be perplexed by our tolerance of obvious incompetence and brazen untruths. I think tomorrow will wonder how we could have turned blind eyes and disinterested ears to mounting evidence that the war in Iraq was predestined and Sept. 11 just a convenient pretext.

So I understand where Feingold and Conyers are coming from. Where good and frustrated people all over the country are coming from. History's verdict is all we have left. And when tomorrow calls today to account, some of us want to be able to say, we stood up. We called out. We were not silent.

It is small solace, but it is solace, nonetheless.""

Along with the Harper's call for action:

The Case for Impeachment
Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush
Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006. An excerpt from an essay in the March 2006 Harper's Magazine. By Lewis H. Lapham.
http://www.harpers.org/TheCaseForImpeachment.html

show us that SOMETHING must be done. Sit on your hands if you will, but I'd rather see my representatives go down swinging. It's not the dog in the fight, it's the fight in the dog !

Failed effort or not, Sen Feingold is boldly carrying the flag. The troops will rally to that flag, if they know what's good for the country.