Can Bush Be Impeached Now?
by Charles Coughlin
An impeachment would be a completely natural thing for an opposition party to do given the level of corruption that went on under the Bush regime. Many Democrats want revenge for the Clinton impeachment while others are genuinely outraged by an illegal war and six years of undermining the Constitution. During the election the Democrat leadership was shying away from talk about impeachment. (Pelosi even said it would not happen.) This may only have been a tactic so that Republican voters would not have that additional motivation to go to the polls to save Bush. Well, the elections are over and it will be interesting to see where things go now.
During the last six years of Republican control, there has been no serious investigation of the pre-war lies or even the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib because the Republicans controlled Congress. Without a majority it’s virtually impossible to launch an investigation of anything no matter how glaringly wrong it is. This lack of accountability has given many Americans the impression that nothing will ever be done and that Bush will never be impeached. Added to this is the fact that the Democrats have been thoroughly gutless and incompetent in recent years, lacking the aggressive spirit and organization necessary for an impeachment. Finally there are the wire-pullers behind the politicians: namely the Israeli Lobby and big business. While George Bush was an obedient stooge for Israel and Big Oil, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll protect him when he gets in trouble. The neocons have already slithered away from Bush blaming him for the poor execution of the Iraq War and occupation. There’s a growing chance that Bush will become the scapegoat for the Iraq War and torture policies, which the Zionist neocons promoted and which the oil companies profited from. (more…)