06/25/07 Impeachment Must Be Used To Stop Bush, Cheney's Insane Goals

Impeachment Must Be Used To Stop Bush, Cheney's Insane Goals

The Capital Times
Monday, June 25, 2007
Rev. Dave Steffenson, Madison


It is clear that President Bush and Vice President Cheney have several benchmarks they want to reach before they are forced out of Iraq next year, including: n Complete several permanent U.S. military bases for a "Korea-type" long-term occupation and control over the Iraqi government - now under construction, n Erect a symbol of our ongoing imperial power over them such as a monumental U.S. Embassy - now under construction.

* Make sure that most of the Iraqi oil remains under private corporate control so that their oil must be sold to Western oil cartels rather than used for their own rebuilding - this is about to be enacted.

* Plan to keep an ongoing presence in Iraq - they are now talking about 10 years.

* Attack and militarily destroy Iran's nuclear energy infrastructure, or join with our Israeli clients, to do so - there is every indication that this is just a matter of time as aircraft carriers are now in place.

The elections couldn't halt their madness, the wimpy Congress has caved in almost every way, the new Democratic congressional leaders and candidates are so terrified they might lose that they cringe in denial. So what are the options for stopping these insane goals and getting us out?

Impeachment is the legal equivalent of a recall election at the presidential level. Recall of Bush and Cheney must be started now! It only takes two simple majority votes in the House of Representatives to begin the process and require a deep investigation of the charges.

The first step is for the Judiciary Committee to vote impeachment. Our own representative, Tammy Baldwin, now sits on that committee. Then it takes a majority vote of the House, where the Democrats are in the majority. The White House cannot block it with a veto. Cheney's bill of impeachment has already been officially introduced.

Will that stop them? I don't know, but it surely will slow and divert them.

Will it come to a trial in the Senate to remove them? Probably not, because time is short. But it will slow them by occupying their energy, perhaps cause resignations, and begin to get us out of this mess while we uncover the hidden truth about this whole corrupt epoch.

We must demand that Congress start the impeachment process now before the warmongers achieve their lethal benchmarks and fully bankrupt our future! Let's support every effort to demand this.