Impeachment: the biggest research subject ever

A big issue right now is the impeachment of Bush and Cheney, and I think it’s time we role up our shirtsleeves and do some heavy investigating into their political careers.

For starters, they have misled just about everyone concerning Iraq, conducted illegal wiretaps, and tortured prisoners of war. You should note that I’m using torture in the actual-real-live-honest-to-god-the-way-I-would-use-it-in-my-English-paper-what-they-
did-in-the-dark-ages-look-it-up-in-the-dictionary sense of the word, regardless of how Bush and Cheney want to define it (hint: waterboarding = torture)

Furthermore, Bush and Cheney are supposed to be the executive voice of the American people, and the fact that they no longer represent the opinions of majority of the American public (not that they really ever have) is in and of itself a big enough reason to impeach these men. According to a CNN research poll taken Nov 1st through 5th, there was a 68% disapproval rating “of the job that George W. Bush is doing in handling the situation in Iraq”. And who could approve of a war that has killed 3,848 US soldiers and left 28,451 seriously injured? How did we end up in this situation? Didn’t we learn anything from Vietnam? Apparently, Cheney was fully informed that there were no legitimate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before we invaded in 2003 so he went ahead and “pressured the intelligence community to change their findings to enable the deception of the citizens and Congress of the United States” (From a synopsis of the first article of HR 333, introduced by Dennis Kucinich). The war in Iraq has already sucked up 600 billion dollars and Bush has approved another 200 billion to be spent in 2008. On this note, the argument that impeaching Bush and/or Cheney would somehow be letting Al Qaeda “win” seems pretty ludicrous. But then again, I still haven’t quite figured out how we’re supposed to win a war on terror…

But there is hope! As you might know, last spring on April 24th Ohio Rep Dennis Kucinich submitted a resolution (HR 333) that would impeach Cheney (and what would bush do then!?!). Unfortunately HR 333 was never debated or voted upon, so a week ago last Tuesday Kucinich introduced HR 799, a resolution identical to HR 333. However, HR 799 has been referred to the judiciary committee just like the former resolution was, which means there’s a chance it might sit as just as long without being voted upon. But with any luck (or even better a whole lot of support) HR 799 will see some action soon, and in the meantime it’s raised consciousness on the issue of impeachment. Hopefully because of the resolution we’ll have more people questioning whether or not they support Cheney and Bush. In the end, though, (actually starting right now) it’s going to take American citizens speaking up and demanding impeachment. Maybe then more politicians will follow suite.

Since we all know how to do the whole analytical compare-and-contrast essay thing, let’s take what Bush and Chaney have been saying ever since they were falsely “elected” (another great research topic) add a large dose of hard facts and statistic about the war, and contrast it to whatever our collective conscious is telling us. What I have mentioned barely scratches the surface of Bush and Cheney’s misdemeanors. In my opinion we have a major research assignment that’s way overdue….