Clear Pelosi From Impeachment's Path

No matter what happens now, our invasion and occupation of Iraq will forever remain one of the United States' most disastrous, burdensome and shameful international crimes. Those who argue we should remain there until we have achieved victory have not only failed to seriously consider the financial and humanitarian costs of doing so; they have failed to rightly consider whether we deserve victory. The sad truth? We don't deserve victory over Iraq any more than Japan deserved victory over us.

Tragically now, just as they did over Iraq, the Bush / Cheney administration is increasingly clamoring for another attack on another sovereign nation which does not materially threaten us. Apparently conspiring with Israel, and through a complacent and/or complicit corporate media, they are lying to us again: presenting only the evidence or intelligence they've chosen or otherwise manipulated to forward their secret agenda. As before, their misrepresentation (which can rightly be called lying propaganda) is creating in many Americans a frightening and false sense of vulnerability, suggesting a U.S. attack upon and war against another nation at peace - this time Iran - is necessary for our own security. IT IS NOT.

The only way to certainly prevent a repetition of the American-Iraqi disaster in Iran is to properly hold our government accountable for the disasters it's already wrought, in Iraq and at home, and to do it NOW. The Bush/Cheney administration must be impeached, removed from office and arrested without further delay.

At risk of re-stating what should be obvious, the Bush/Cheney administration is more impeachable than any in U.S. history, for failing to heed the many warnings of the attacks of September 11, 2001, for repeatedly lying to congress and the world, for waging a murderous war of aggression, for spying on U.S. Citizens without cause or warrant, for arresting and endlessly detaining anyone they wish (including U.S. Citizens) without charges, for rendering any of these prisoners offshore to deny them due legal protection, for brutally torturing anyone they see fit, for brazenly violating numerous international laws, treaties and accords, for ignoring and censoring scientific facts impacting our environment and public health, for subverting and circumventing the United States Legislature and Constitution with a heretofore unprecedented use of signing statements and dictatorial presidential directives, and for treasonously seeking and securing previously unimaginable legislation from complicit and foolish congressmen and women: laws already passed which hand the president absolute and potentially endless totalitarian power (over all our domestic governments, enterprises and properties, public AND private) should he decide it's time to take it.

This isn't politics as usual, and it's certainly not partisan politics. (After all, Pelosi calls herself a Democrat.) Moreover, it isn't right to wait for the next election ...or the next lie, the next disaster, or the next war. This is about timely law enforcement - the road to justice and healing. It's about safeguarding the civil liberties we've come to take for granted. It's about demanding the restoration of lost checks and balances in our government. Indeed, it's about saving our decreasingly free and democratic republic before there's nothing left of it to save. The Bush / Cheney administration - and every other profiteering crook in our traitorous oligarchy - must be fully exposed and punished!

Last year against Cheney, and again last night against Bush, Dennis Kucinich rightly delivered the goods - dutifully and clearly presenting the overwhelming cases for impeaching both. Today the corporate media silently yawned and most of the nation remains ignorant, largely because Nancy Pelosi remains as an entrenched and crippling obstacle, reliably protecting the status quo. To pursue impeachment, she has to go.