I doubt that we'll impeach George Bush. Not because he doesn't deserve it, but because the list of things that need to be investigated is so long that I doubt we'll have time to go from investigation to impeachment before the next election. What grounds would we impeach the guy on anyway?
Abu Gharaib? Torture? Illegal wire-taps? Fraudulent reasons for launching a war? Incompetance in waging war? Fraudulently claiming he listens to the Generals? Regular and shameless dishonesty? Thinking that people dying is funny? Trying to run over reporters?
Giving favors to oil industry, arms industry, and confidence industry insiders? Halliburton? The K Street Project? Tom DeLay? Jack Abramoff? Valerie Plame? Is it treason for the President and Vice President to be behind leaking the name of a CIA employee? Is it treason to wage war so incompetantly that "slam dunk" means sure failure? Is it treason to have no idea of what success is? Is it treason to have no idea what the difference is between Shia and Sunni, Arab and Kurd, or that the operating theory for counter insurgency is to "clear, hold, and build," or to deny that there ever was such a theory and blame the Generals for throwing out the rule-books?
Or is it the policy things. His father didn't understand the "vision thing" but then neither does his son. "We don't do nation building" is a perfectly true statement when it comes from the corporativist Republicans in Bush's crowd. They don't know how to do anything except break nations and stir up warfare. They do that well.
Can't blame the President for all this. It took a Team to make this much mess. And not all the above are "illegal", or even prove-able. So what can I say?
Posted by cholte at February 1, 2007 10:10 PM