January 16, 2008

George McGovern

BuzzFlash interviewed George McGovern in 2004, and the headline for our conversation was, "Let's be Explicit and Clear: George McGovern Was Right About the Vietnam War -- And He's Right About the Iraq War."

And he's right again in calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney in a January 6 Washington Post commentary.

McGovern -- who was the Democratic Peace candidate for president in 1972, a former senator from South Dakota, and a WW II hero -- makes the case directly, bluntly, and persuasively:

Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. Their conduct and their barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world. These are truly "high crimes and misdemeanors," to use the constitutional standard… .

Ironically, while Bush and Cheney made counterterrorism the battle cry of their administration, their policies -- especially the war in Iraq -- have increased the terrorist threat and reduced the security of the United States…. Today, after five years of clumsy, mistaken policies and U.S. military occupation, Iraq has become a breeding ground of terrorism and bloody civil strife.

Impeachment is unlikely, of course. But we must still urge Congress to act. Impeachment, quite simply, is the procedure written into the Constitution to deal with presidents who violate the Constitution and the laws of the land. It is also a way to signal to the American people and the world that some of us feel strongly enough about the present drift of our country to support the impeachment of the false prophets who have led us astray. This, I believe, is the rightful course for an American patriot.

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