How about a little something today on impeachment?
In December 1998, the U. S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President William "Bill" Jefferson Clinton by approving two of articles of impeachment. These articles alleged that the Bill Clinton while serving as President of the United States of America had provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony to a grand jury in regards to "sexual indiscretions" with two different women at two different times. One incident with a woman by the name Paula Jones occurred while he was Governor of Arkansas, and the other incident involved a relationship with a woman by the name of Monica Lewinski while Clinton was serving in the Office of President.
The actual impeachment trial began in the United States Senate in January 1999 and in February 1999 The Senate voted not guilty.
Some years later, along comes a President by the name of George W. Bush, who lies to the American people and lies to the United States Congress in order to lead the United States into a military conflict with the country of Iraq. This so-called "war" has now lasted longer than World War II with the loss of thousands of American and Iraqi lives.
Apparently lying about sex is an impeachable offense, but lying to march our country off to war is not an impeachable offense.
Has not George W. Bush as President of the United States committed perjury? Has not George W. Bush as President of the United States attempted to cover up his false and misleading statements to the American public and to Congress? Has not George W. Bush committed a treasonous act by his deceit and betrayal of the trust the U.S. citizens vested in him as President? Has not George W. Bush jeopardized the security of the United States? Is not George W. Bush guilty of the resultant manslaughter and murder of thousands of American and Iraqi lives? Some people say yes to all those questions.
Some people have asserted that George W. Bush should be impeached, tried and convicted, and removed from office as President of the United States. Are they nuts? That's a wrong first move in my opinion.
I say the first move is to impeach a Dick.
If Bush were removed from office, Vice President Dick Cheney would become President. Oh, my gosh!! Can you imagine Cheney as President? We need to impeach and remove Dick Cheney first, and then impeach and remove Bush.
It's probably too late to do that now, but one can dream. Can't one?
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