Let’s cut to the chase. Impeachment of the president.
Bush was re-elected, not on his own accord, but instead due to, 1) a subverted press which deliberately spread disinformation and failed to adequately reveal to the public this administration’s rampant malfeasance, and 2) clear indications of tampering and disenfranchisement in the elections of 2000 and 2004.
Never-the-less, his actions as our chief executive and the military’s commander-in-chief (he’s not “our” commander-in-chief as he likes to say; the title is intended to be used with regards to his command of the military and not the citizenry, though his usage of the title is revealing) warrants nothing short of impeachment, conviction, and removal from office.
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So the question is, on what charges? We know there’s a laundry list a mile long, but what charges could reasonably be raised by Congress without the prosecutors being laughed out of office? I’m going to list the three most feasible charges without going into the cold, hard details of each. We all know the details.1) For the purpose of political, personal, and financial gain, deliberately deceiving the Congress and the American public by fabricating and exaggerating military and civilian intelligence reports to justify an illegal invasion of the sovereign nation-state of Iraq. This offense took place covertly and publicly from September 2001 through and including November 2004.2) Willfully allowing his closest advisors to reveal the name of an undercover operative from the CIA to syndicated columnist Robert Novak in June 2003. In doing so, Bush was an accomplice to the high crime of treason against the United States of America, its citizens, and its Constitution.3) Abridging the basic Constitutional rights of the citizens of the United States of America. A strategy of artificially generating fear and terror to manipulate public opinion has been employed and fully perpetrated upon the American public from September 12, 2001 through the present day. Bush also engaged in violations of, but not limited to, Amendments IV (signed laws allowing illegal searches and seizures), VI (authorized the prevention of American citizens from receiving quick and speedy trials), and VII (has prevented American citizens from the right to a trial by jury).So that’s a start. President Clinton was impeached on charges of basic perjury. It doesn’t take much research to determine that any one of Bush’s offenses (whether listed here or not) are far greater violations of the Constitution and laws of the nation than lying under oath about oral sex. Comments are encouraged on this article. Let’s brainstorm.
