On Impeachment: The War Won't End While Bush Is President

[kpete]

On Impeachment: The War Won't End While Bush Is President
by Turkana
Thu Aug 23, 2007 at 08:36:07 AM PDT

The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2154354,00.html noted something interesting in Bush's speech, yesterday:

President George Bush sought to buy more time for his Iraq "surge" strategy yesterday by making a risky comparison for the first time with the bloodshed and chaos that followed the US pullout from Vietnam.

Making it clear he will resist congressional pressure next month for an early withdrawal, he signalled that US troops, whom he hailed as the "greatest force for human liberation the world has ever known", will be in Iraq as long as he is president. He also said the consequences of leaving "without getting the job done would be devastating", and "the enemy would follow us home".

This is something I've been arguing for some time: the war will not end as long as Bush and Cheney are in office. The only way the war will end before 2009 is to remove them from office.

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Whatever Congress does, Bush will refuse to comply. If they defund, he will take the money from wherever he has to. He now assumes that he can get away with anything. There is nothing to prove this assumption mistaken. If the many crimes he has already committed do not lead to impeachment, there is no reason to believe that any ever will. So, we can scream all we went about the perpetual war. It will not end as long as Bush and Cheney are in office. The only way to end the war before 2009 is to force Bush and Cheney from office.

more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/23/11323/4445

[Blackhatjack]

1. And the only way to keep Bush and Cheney from expanding the war into neighboring countries is...

... to begin impeachment proceedings.

AS the Commander in Chief Bush believes he has the power to do anything he wants based on the IWR the Congress passed.

[ClassWarrior]

2. Ending the occupation and IMPEACHMENT. One and the same.

NGU.

[spanone]

3. no shit...impeach now

[TwilightZone]

4. Bush has been making similar comments for some time now.

The concept is actually quite simple - Bush feels that withdrawing from Iraq "on his watch" would paint him as a failure in the history books. He wants the "failure" to be on someone else's watch.

[BlackHawk706867]

5. The war won't end, but the world might very well end with him as President! eom. ww

[demnan]

6. I absolutely agree

in fact I've been saying that for some time. But how do we get it done? Congress doesn't care!

[KoKo]

7. He won't be removed from office and the war wont end. Dems along with Repugs

want it to continue and want Bush to finish his term. They won't impeach Poppy Bush's son. It's that "loyalty to the system" thang....

[Jack Rabbit]

8. Turkana gets it

Now, if only the congressional Democrats would.