Who don't we impeach?


The Texas journalism professor Robert Jensen asserts that it is "impeachment all down the line " - a fine sentiment with strong historical precedents to back it up. Just read the delightful book by John Nichols on The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism (2006). Jensen argues that not just Bush and his Cabinet who led us into an illegal and stupid war, but also the Democrat leadership who also voted for war should be put in the dock. I would add to that list all those voters who re-elected in 2004 any Senator or Congressmen/women who had voted for war in 2003. Surely they are also responsible for the war in both a positive and negative sense - negative in that these voters did not punish the war criminals by not re-electing them; and positive, given the fact that what had become public knowledge by the end of 2004 about the origins of the war, meant that any vote for the Republican Party (the ruling party conducting the war) or even for the Democratic Party which went along with the war, was in fact a vote for continued war. Since the US already has the greatest number of people behind bars on the entire planet one wonders where we could put all these impeached war criminals? As an Aussie I would suggest transportation to a penal colony of some kind. Perhaps a sentence for "the term of their natural lives" in a post-Christian society with a trivially small military would do them a lot of good.

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Posted: Tue - April 10, 2007 at 05:46 PM        

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