The Downing Stree Memo: Impeach Bush

OK, I'm back, and I'm on the Downing Street Memo issue. This is an issue that the anti-Bush crowd must rally around. It's an opportunity handed on a golden platter: notes from a memo saying that the Bush administration in mid 2002 was talking about orchestrating a pre-emptive attack against Iraq.

Put aside the fact that Bush lied about WMDs, about Saddam having terrorist links, and about Iraqi involvement in 9/11. Apparently, that was not enough to keep disaster Bush from being re-elected.

Now, we have proof that the whole war was planned. Thousands of US troops died. Approximately a hundred thousand Iraqi citizens killed. And for what. A cynical self-interested scheme.

The American people should be outraged. Fortunately, there is a place for this outrage to be channeled:

The emotive and charged word "impeachment" was voiced yesterday on Capitol Hill as a clutch of Democratic congressmen, backed by distraught mothers of soldiers slain in Iraq, put together a piece of theatre that could become the summer's political drama.

John Bonifaz, a self-styled constitutional lawyer and anti-war activist, suggested there are sufficient grounds to launch an inquiry into whether the President should be impeached for lying to Congress about the justification for the war.

"The United States House of Representatives has a constitutional duty to investigate fully and comprehensively the evidence revealed by the Downing Street minutes and other related evidence, and to determine whether there are sufficient grounds to impeach George W. Bush, the President of the United States," Mr. Bonifaz said.

Impeachment, or at least an attempt at it, is essential right now. That is the only was to stop these fascists in the next four years. If Clinton can be impeached for lying about a blow job, then Bush can be impeached for lying about the war which has killed hundreds of thousands of people.