The Case for Impeachment

The new incoming Speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, has made it abundantly clear that Bush’s impeachment is off the table. Her reasoning and the reasoning of many close political observers is obvious: Democrats have only 2007 to solidify their electoral gains by demonstrating that they, in fact, have a practical agenda to solve the many problems catastrophes that Republicans have left behind. Moreover, establishment Washington and pary insiders have convinced elected Democrats that the American public would not tolerate impeachment at this time. Frankly, I’m sympathetic to the practical and "rational" reasons against impeachment: Democrats will have a lot on their plate over the next year and, of course, media pundits and establishment Washington would jump down their throats if they got wind that Democrats were seriously considering Bush’s impeachment.

And then… I come across items like this, and think, Damn it, he’s right:

Impeachment: you think the world is not watching?

So it’s not politically convenient to try to impeach?

So there will be no price paid for being the worst president ever, apart for the promise of the judgement of history?

So Democrats also think it’s okay to go invade another country, to get several hundred thousand of its inhabitants killed, to proudly practice and promote torture around the world, to tear up the Geneva Conventions and a whole load of international treaties, and to go grab random foreigners around the world to put them in Guantanamo and throw away the key?

So not only was Bush reelected with a real majority, but the opposition essentially says that what he did is not so profoundly illegal that it deserves to be duly sanctioned?

Way to go.

The world is watching. And it will not forget. Our current leaders may be cowards, but they won’t always be there. Haven’t you noticed how being anti-American makes you a popular politician and makes you win elections around the world?

Fear will not be enough when the whole world is convinced that America will not correct its current ways, and that the problem is not just the current administration.