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I think impeachment is not an option, it's a must!!! The current administration has gotten away with breaking the law of our great land for long enough. If impeachment is not started while President Bush is in office it will set the terrible precedent that his actions were acceptable under the law and would be acceptable for a new incoming president to adopt. We must impeach Bush in order to show the country that even the president of the United States is not above the Law.
CommentTuesday, March 20, 2007
Well, it seemed bound to happen eventually. Politicians have officially transitioned from YouTube campaign speeches to YouTube soapboxes – sorry, Microsoft owns Soapbox, it'll have to called something else.
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is the latest US Congressman/presidential candidate to take his message to YouTube. Only this is isn't a plea to "chat" or to vote for him in 2008, it's a call for Americans to get behind impeachment of George W. Bush.
That major candidates were utilizing YouTube as a campaign stop was one thing, but when Congressmen begin urging radical, national upheaval there, you know the website has officially arrived. (By the way, who's going to succeed him if this happens? Cheney? Pelosi? Nice to see we have good substitutes – not.)
Kucinich first used the word "impeach" in Congress last week, and justified it as a preemptive strike against the President to deter impending war with Iran. Kucinich believes impeachment is the only way to prevent the Bush administration from attacking Iraq's controversial (and suicidal) neighbor.
The Ohio Democrat wasn't satisfied with the idea's reception in Congress, so he took it to the Web community in video form and titled his message "Impeachment: I'm asking you. Do you think it's time?"
"This really calls for a new thinking," he said. "It calls for us to reconsider very deeply the moment that we're in -- where our Constitution is being trashed, where international law is being violated, where our hopes and dreams for the education of our children, for the health of our people, for housing, for our veterans are being set aside as we go deeper and deeper into war.
We need a whole discussion in America. And with your help, we're about to have one."
He goes on in his YouTube Address to say Iran has no ability to attack, urging Americans to "stand on behalf of peace," and that "America was never meant to be a nation forever on the warpath."
It will be interesting to see how many Washington politicians start using YouTube as a political soapbox, or to see whether it becomes the norm in a few years. I can see it now: 500 plus talking heads jabbering across the tubes at each other just the way they do on C-Span, the hot air increasing exponentially until the whole system of tubes explodes like the Hindenburg.
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In answer to Mr Kucinich's question, not only is it time to consider impeachment, it should have been considered long ago. If Mr Clinton faced impeachment hearings over a non-criminal act between two consenting adults, then the murders of over 3,000 American soldiers, untold thousands of Iraqis, who knows how many in the coalition of the so-called "willing", these alone should prompt an alert Congress to hold not just the president and vice president responsible, but other members of the administration as well. The administration has spied on ordinary Americans. It has been secretive to the point of not allowing the Democrats in Congress and the Senate to participate in governing until this year. Of course, now the administration calls for bipartisanship. The administration's lack of concern over other issues, such as the imminent crises global warming will bring, the doctoring of scientific data, these too, should be the basis for impeaching this entire administration. As I understand the Constitution, the government is to be not only for the people but also by the people, meaning that the officeholders should take into consideration the will of the people. Do the people wish to invade another country, be it Iran or North Korea or Sudan? I think not. Despite the inaccuracies built into the touch-screen voting machines by a manufacturer whose Ceo was also Bush's 2004 Ohio campaign manager, the people spoke loudly with their votes in last November's election. We want change, we want our military out of Iraq, and certainly not so that they can be sent elsewhere. Perhaps it's time to close the bases in Germany, the UK, Norway, Japan, Guam, Samoa, Puerto Rico, and elsewhere? Perhaps it's time to show the world that we, too, want peace? Perhaps if there were peace we could concentrate on coming back from the edge of extinction by doing something about global warming whilst there's still precious little time?