[Marxism] Indict, Impeach and Prosecute Bush (and Cheney) Now!

[Gitchee Gumee <gitcheegumee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Senate Hearings on Bush, Now
    By Carl Bernstein
    Vanity Fair

    http://www.vanityfair.com/features/general/articles/060417fege08

    Monday 17 April 2006

    In this VF.com exclusive, a Watergate veteran and Vanity Fair contributor 
calls for bipartisan hearings investigating the Bush presidency. Should 
Republicans on the Hill take the high road and save themselves come November?

    Worse than Watergate? High crimes and misdemeanors justifying the 
impeachment of George W. Bush, as increasing numbers of Democrats in Washington 
hope, and, sotto voce, increasing numbers of Republicans - including some of 
the president's top lieutenants - now fear? Leaders of both parties are acutely 
aware of the vehemence of anti-Bush sentiment in the country, expressed 
especially in the increasing number of Americans - nearing fifty percent in 
some polls - who say they would favor impeachment if the president were proved 
to have deliberately lied to justify going to war in Iraq.

    John Dean, the Watergate conspirator who ultimately shattered the Watergate 
conspiracy, rendered his precipitous (or perhaps prescient) impeachment verdict 
on Bush two years ago in the affirmative, without so much as a question mark in 
choosing the title of his book Worse than Watergate. On March 31, some three 
decades after he testified at the seminal hearings of the Senate Watergate 
Committee, Dean reiterated his dark view of Bush's presidency in a 
congressional hearing that shed more noise than light, and more partisan rancor 
than genuine inquiry. The ostensible subject: whether Bush should be censured 
for unconstitutional conduct in ordering electronic surveillance of Americans 
without a warrant.

    Raising the worse-than-Watergate question and demanding unequivocally that 
Congress seek to answer it is, in fact, overdue and more than justified by 
ample evidence stacked up from Baghdad back to New Orleans and, of increasing 
relevance, inside a special prosecutor's office in downtown Washington.

    In terms of imminent, meaningful action by the Congress, however, the 
question of whether the president should be impeached (or, less severely, 
censured) remains premature. More important, it is essential that the Senate 
vote - hopefully before the November elections, and with overwhelming support 
from both parties - to undertake a full investigation of the conduct of the 
presidency of George W. Bush, along the lines of the Senate Watergate 
Committee's investigation during the presidency of Richard M. Nixon.

    How much evidence is there to justify such action?


    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_041806Z.shtml

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     "...the shores of Gitche Gumee,
     by the shining Big-Sea water..."

     gitcheegumee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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