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February 25, 2008

Acts of Fortitude and Integrity of Impeachment

By Dom Jermano

who said we need to cram Impeachment down their throats? Impeachment is a principle that serves as a medicine toward preserving democracy. It's long overdue. Taking the medicine will cure the fear factor; it will bring a New America and leave a great Bush Legacy for the future. He and Cheney will be honored and respected through the ages.

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Acts of Fortitude and Integrity of Impeachment

Obama is not putting forces together to impeach Bush and Cheney. He will make himself a deceiver if he supports impeachment when he said he wouldn't. Just like he said he didn't vote for the Iraq war but continually votes to fund it. He has emailed me telling me his opposition to Impeachment. He clearly supports the Constructionist View of Avoidance.

People who advocate fear threats in order to prevent Impeachment proceedings are not going to stop the inevitable. And that is when we have the Bush Administration see how Impeachment will help their party and America politically. Our contracted history shows quite a hypocritical America in concern to bringing justice to the Executive Branch. America is showing its colors of dysfunction in applying Justice to Administrations who have clearly broken the law while they managed to have gotten away with it.

All sitting Presidents from Harry Truman and after have all lied to the American people, and at the cost of American lives. Yet the governing body is impotent toward bringing justice to innocent injured parties. Foreign countries in the world know this and are skeptical toward practicing real Democratic principles.

We should not fear to be attacked with violence because of Impeachment to the American people. This seems to be a major factor in the issue toward our Democratic process. In fact Democracy needs to accept Impeachment as a way of settling issues of law that give administrations an out in concern to providing Justice toward their mistakes during the course of their terms in office.

Another real reason why we have not seen Impeachment is because we have never been able to clearly think how it is successfully applied. Is Impeachment a bad thing, for the sitting President or a good thing?

People who fear Impeachment are not dealing with logic, or hope. Our first objective is to assure Bush and his administration that it is in the best interest of the nation. This will be the first successful Impeachment in America's history.

Think of what that means. It will clean the slate; so to speak from past criminal administrations. The threat to terrorism will diminish. Other foreign governments will change their attitude toward the US; with the likely result in more governments wanting to govern with Democratic principles. We can show that Democracy is not made from force, but by principles and law. Those who believe otherwise are on a course of continued animosity, threats, and belligerence.

Look at Pakistan for the moment. Granted Mrs. Bhutto was assassinated, and it was a violent act because she was actively seeking to oust Mushareff. Also it was an election process that had Impeachment overtones. Her assassination may have been prevented if people realized that Impeachment was not a bad thing or condition to sitting political leaders in power.

If Mushareff was assured in showing him why he should allow his Impeachment for his own benefit, and the country, then I am sure Bhutto would not have been assassinated. Pakistan was able to vote and form a new Parliamentary Government and begin to be able to replace Mushareff without using violence from their side.

Mushareff a military dictator has had control of the country for years, using acts of Marshall Law. But the people of Pakistan continued their nonviolent struggle and have finally defeated Mushareff. They are getting back their Democratic Government. Now the Bush Administration has all along been supporting Mushareff. I call it the Bushareff Regime, but Bush is unable to stop the new Real Democracy now developing in Pakistan.

Pakistan of all places in the world is now becoming the first Real Democracy, in having defeated a Military Dictator without the use of force, but with courage and devoted perseverance to the struggle. They are succeeding in this before America has reached this achievement. As far as Impeaching Mushareff, it is not seen yet, but the gloves are off when it comes to Bush and his Administration for supporting oppression in Pakistan instead of supporting Democracy.

America should be following similar principles. Bush and Cheney and the CIA are not going to like it at first, but they need to take the medicine, because of their truly mistaken deeds. Granted they took out Saddam, but they must be held accountable for the innocent children and families they had a hand in killing. They will blame Saddam, but it was not a Saddam bomb that killed those innocent people in Iraq. It was American made, and delivered. It was American weapons that originally armed Saddam, and American policies that incited the region into volatility. We hold responsibility for the injuries of the innocent.

The fact that the Kurds have been in a protracted long term civil war with Turkey in border skirmishes happen all the time. Who is to say Turks did not kill Iraqis thinking they were Kurds and blamed Saddam? Who is to say Kurds didn’t kill Iraqis to assure they had a place to inhabit and occupy while they fought the Turks, and then conveniently blame Saddam. Our intelligence in Iraq was not right about WMD, and we are to think the Bush administration knows the real facts to people killed in North Iraq while others blame Saddam?

These are mistakes. They are real mistakes that this administration needs to accept for their misjudgments. Impeachment is there to solve that impasse. I say to Bush and his administration to take the medicine. Do not threaten to prevent the need for Impeachment. The sentences will not include execution or the death penalty. We will take care of you.

They need to think in the future, when they are old and die to this world; what kind of America will it be if they do not have Impeachment? There will be the constant animosity, the constant division and probably the same foreign outlook from countries who do battle with the USA instead of being supportive and nurturing the USA.

If America had a working Impeachment process, the world would see that we are not hypocrites to the mistakes we make. We apply the rule of law and Justice is recognized. Which is better? I say take the medicine. What kind of a leader would do that for the USA, George Bush perhaps maybe?

He would change instantly overnight. Instead of the most hated, he would become an icon of American History. He would be greater than George Washington, because he had the fortitude in seeing what must be done for the Life of Liberty and the Country. He would be seen as a man of compassion and his fathers words of a kinder gentler nation will come true, because even though their intent was to do good for America, things happened that they did not foresee.

Those things were the 2nd Degree Murder of innocent people in Iraq, and the use of torture, and Guantanamo. Bush and Cheney would come out to the bright side of Impeachment and inform us how they want to make it right in America, so we may go forward as an example to the world on how Democracy truly behaves.

I think such an act by Bush and Cheney would clearly see things happening to include people and investors coming to the rescue of America in its financial mortgage crisis, and economic uncertainty. More countries would be willing to listen to America and I predict America will expand in the World, for its principles and clear true meaning to the idea of law and its institutions. America would be united again.

There would be a great respect toward America from foreign countries. Other leaders would be beholden to us for such an example of honest judgment. Corrupt leaders would look within themselves to see that their greatness does not depend upon their military might, but upon how the people of their country respond to their honest act of impeaching them-selves and bringing justice to their nation, instead of disgrace.

I am certain people would revere such leaders, in such times of political uncertainty. People would respond in a positive supporting way. It is up to Bush and his father, and the CIA apparatus to come forward and do what's clearly best for the USA. We are not talking about giving up our dignity, or personal goals to liberty. We are not talking about ending the military, even though I myself think downsizing is appropriate.

We are talking about a real change that our candidates and leaders have no clue to. We are talking about being an example to honest self judgment. That being said would make America better than great, but an icon.

By having Bush and Cheney come forward and actually implement Impeachment on them-selves would prove they don't need another party to keep them in line. They know the parameters of justice, they know the rule of law, they know that to grasp that essence of freedom and obtain the highest credential from the Lord above they must not only be Actors of Freedom but also Beneficiaries of it.

With that being said they accept the crown of Impeachment for the greater good of America, and the world. I am not talking about resigning; I am talking about Bush and Cheney implementing Impeachment upon them-selves, and rendering the courts to execute Justice toward their condition. Their acts of submission will prove leniency and they will be sentenced accordingly. They will leave office not in disgrace, but in reverence and high dignity.

It will become a great story for all of mankind in my opinion. Indeed the hero's do come forward to do the good for our Nation and Country. Violence begets violence. But the men who accept responsibility are revered more than those who never participated. Simply ask Paul the Apostle. After this is done, and they live their respected lives in Security, (which I might add would be the same security they presently live under, because of the mistaken acts committed) I am certain a special recognition will come to the Bushes and Cheney for doing the right thing.

That something or special benevolence will come freely, having not been coerced or been forced to give to them. They will have had a great hand in shaping and forming America and actually leading it toward a better future.Our Country will prosper, terrorism will subside, because the acting forces of change are not seeking it militarily, and Republicans and John McCain would be held in high esteem with him probably becoming President.

Impeachment will become a positive tool toward Democracy and its political process. Impeachment will become real to the Constitution, and part of the governing process in the United States as our fore fathers had really intended.My view of George Bush and Cheney will change forever; from an outright hatred to them, to a sense of compassion and wanting to forgive them.

I really wish I could love and be supportive to them, but they have not proven to me their resolve. They have not won my heart. But if, and I am writing seriously here; they came forward and did this, I know the world would be so grateful toward the Bushes in what they have done.If not we are forever on the road of sorrows. I ask the President to please do this for our Country.

I know I would.



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Authors Bio:
American against War and Violence. Writer, English Teacher, Inventor, Creator of the First Manmade Floating Farm On The Ocean.... My companies name is ACET: Algae Charcoal Ethanol Technicorp. We grow Algae for Oil.

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