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unhappycamper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-21-07 08:54 AM
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Unimpeachable logic
Unimpeachable logic
by P.M. Carpenter | Jul 20 2007 - 10:00am


Hindsight. If only the Founders had had Mr. Bush's hind to behold, the latter would have provided the former with plentiful reason to modify Article II, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution; to wit:

"The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, or for relentlessly brandishing illogic, or an absence of logic, or circular logic, before the exasperated body politic."

It goes without saying there are high crimes and misdemeanors aplenty to remove Mr. Bush on, but the "illogic" addendum to Section 4 would have been supremely convenient for simplicity's sake: his stupendous flare for insulting logic's good name is on public and daily display; no mystery about it abounds, hence no complex congressional investigations and all that accompanying fuss would be needed.

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At the time of our urgent invasion, the administration served up an assortment of other elaborate irrationalities as well -- all quite explicit: Iraq's certain possession of weapons of mass destruction, which was unproven; the failure of diplomatic efforts, which were never launched; the nobility of humanitarianism, which surely would kill thousands; the exportation of democracy, which was predictably hopeless.

But the subsequent urgency of resolving the post-invasion mess has since overshadowed the further urgency of uncovering all the illogicalities wrapped in duplicities that thrust so many Americans in harm's way to begin with, of whom more than 3600 have since died. So logical questions are stifled, and the demand for likely impeachable answers is postponed.

Still, in this post-invasion era, the administration's illogic of old has fathered the new: We remain over there because of al Qaeda in Iraq, which attacked us on 9/11, although it did not. And we shall stay there because we must eliminate al Qaeda in Iraq, which our presence created and now nourishes. Furthermore we must stay there because al Qaeda in Iraq is the chief troublemaker, which it isn't.


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RFKJrNews Donating Member (760 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-21-07 09:09 AM
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1. Treason? Yup.
And that's just one offense they are guilty of, at least according to RFK Jr. in his speech at LIVE EARTH two weeks ago.

During a tour of mountaintop removal sites in West Virginia this week, RFK Jr. declared:

“It’s important to impeach Bush as a civics lesson — to say to the American people that America doesn’t torture people,” Kennedy said. “We do not intercept the telephone conversations of hundreds of thousands of American citizens illegally.

“You can’t just tear up the Bill of Rights,” he said. “He has to be impeached. The American people have to remember how sacred the Constitution of the United States is.”

Why the hell isn't this man running for President?

There is a growing movement to to draft him into the race. If you support Bobby, please visit our website at http://RFKin2008.com and SIGN THE PETITION, which we will forward to Mr. Kennedy, along with your comments.

IMPEACH BUSH AND CHANEY NOW!!!

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