|
Impeach Bush
The most recent Impeach President Bush effort -- ImpeachBush.org --
sent out the following e-mail:
July 1, 2005 we reported that 42% of Americans favored impeachment if Bush
lied about the war in Iraq. That figure has now increased to 53% according
to the latest Zogby poll. 53% of the people said that they agreed with the
statement: "If President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for
going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable
through impeachment."
Each person in the ImpeachBush.org movement should be aware that it is the
work that everyone has done in the last two years that has led to a sea
change in this country. Bush’s support has declined dramatically and the
call for impeachment is now in the air.
Major personalities, peace organizations, veterans groups, environmental
movements, civil rights leaders and labor unionists are starting to demand
impeachment. The impeachment movement is growing every day. With your help
we can continue to spread the reach and influence of the movement.
The Riots in France...
Patrick Buchanan offers a look at the French riots in
Human Events:
The Romans conquered the barbarians—and the barbarians conquered Rome.
So it goes with empires. And comes now the penultimate chapter in the
history of the empires of the West.
This is the larger meaning of the ritual murder of Theo Van Gogh in Holland,
the subway bombings in London, the train bombings in Madrid, the Paris riots
spreading across France. The perpetrators of these crimes in the capitals of
Europe are the children of immigrants who were once the colonial subjects of
the European empires.
Mark Steyn of the Chicago Sun Times writes about the Arabs' explosion of
riots in France:
The notion that Texas neocon arrogance was responsible for frosting up
trans-Atlantic relations was always preposterous, even for someone as
complacent and blinkered as John Kerry. If you had millions of seething
unassimilated Muslim youths in lawless suburbs ringing every major city,
would you be so eager to send your troops into an Arab country fighting
alongside the Americans? For half a decade, French Arabs have been carrying
on a low-level intifada against synagogues, kosher butchers, Jewish schools,
etc. The concern of the political class has been to prevent the spread of
these attacks to targets of more, ah, general interest. They seem to have
lost that battle. Unlike America's Europhiles, France's Arab street
correctly identified Chirac's opposition to the Iraq war for what it was: a
sign of weakness.
What are we?
E. J. Dionne of the
Washington Post writes about the Democrats coming to a vision of what
the Democrat Party should be:
Democrats are obsessed with visions, messages, programs and narratives. The
party's leaders, thinkers and consultants have held a slew of meetings and
are said to be close to a statement of hopes and principles. They are
determined to apply the tactical lessons Newt Gingrich taught when he
offered a Contract With America in 1994. There is a collective rush to the
nearest thesaurus as Democrats consider a Compact With America and a
Covenant With America. A Bargain or even a Concordat can't be far behind.
Personally, I'm still fond of the word Deal (as in "Square," "New" and
"Fair"), but I guess that word is just too 20th century.
Bab's babble
"If there was ever a time in history to impeach a President of the United
States, it would be now. In my opinion, it is two years too late … Shouldn't
war be an absolute last resort? We went to war because we were misled. And
we should be angry because of the 2,000 American soldiers and the 200 armed
coalition forces that have died. We should be livid because of the 15,000
American soldiers that have been horribly maimed and wounded. We should be
disgusted because of the 30,000 innocent Iraqi civilians that have been
killed and the 20,000 that are wounded after administration officials
claimed that the US was going to liberate the Iraqi people. When does it
stop? It stops with the indictment and impeachment of this corrupt,
power-hungry, greedy group of incompetent leaders. How many more have to die
before this happens?"
- Barbara Streisand
|
