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march, 2004

Vote Kucinich: Impeach Bush

by Frank Scott


   “we were almost all wrong...”

David Kay, CIA Weapons Inspector


Almost? Well, they did spell “Iraq” correctly. The  lunacy of this
administration is matched by the blundering  of our unintelligence
services. Most of the world could have told both sectors of the empire’s
ruling cartel that they were wrong, or just plain liars.

While candidate Dean’s moment of  goofy hysteria was replayed endlessly
on TV, ushering him out of the presidential sweepstakes , the litany of
lies and  syntax terrorism  of our court appointed emperor  have hardly
received the coverage and repetition they  deserve.


A “wardrobe malfunction”  exposing Janet Jackson’s boob for a split
second during the Super Bowl attracted more attention than the
“democracy malfunction” that exposed America’s boob for a full hour on
Meet The Press. But media  control of our consciousness has taken a
slight turn. The lapdog  reporters and pundits who  transformed a
thoughtless twit into a heroic  leader after 911, have  finally begun
asking questions that the world had already answered years ago.

Long before the end of the primaries, and in the tradition of money
politics, the Democrats may have settled on their richest candidate.
Kerry is a fellow  member, with Bush, of Skull and Bones, a ruling class
sect which brings the limited minds and unlimited fortunes of American
royalty together. Not coincidentally,and until future scandal, he has
been treated with new found adoration by the press. Meanwhile,  there
has been a  decline in our leader’s heroic stature, and a rise in the
perception  of the possibly criminal limitations of this cretin and his
clique. Members of that unholy alliance , who only differ  over whether
their patriarchal god has chosen American christians or Israeli jews to
rule the earth, may yet become inmates in, rather than controllers of, a
government institution.

Each day brings more death in Iraq, and less evidence of the  weapons
that administration nut cases still claim are hidden somewhere. Perhaps
on Mars, or  maybe still buried in the hole in which Saddam was  found?
Someone actually made that last claim, but most of the pathetic parrots
simply  repeat the feeble  “but he could have made them, someday” and
the time honored “ but he gassed his own people”. These are  effective
rationales for war,  among  impressionable types from the far right to
the near left.

But any humor is of the graveyard variety,  given the  disaster and
degradation in Iraq,  Palestine, and other places where the empire  has
extended its  power with a force never before utilized in so open and
unilateral a fashion. American world domination is nothing new, though
it has been  more obvious since the Soviet Union’s end . But this crew
of fanatics has caused more chaos at home and created more opposition
abroad than any regime of our recent past.

Things are so bad that many who  are repelled by the Democratic Party
will support its candidate, no matter how wretched he may be. They
justifiably  fear that  continuation of this government may bring
disasters far beyond anything that has already happened.

Even people who once saw impeachment as  unfeasible  have begun to
propose  welcome, if less potent efforts at controlling this renegade
regime. Some call for censure, and even a recall, and while neither move
is legally capable of throwing the bums out, they are at least signs
that the formerly helpless or fearful are  rising  in anger.

Those with  biblical reverence for the constitution, who yet  allow
this  gang  to maintain power,  only prove that without aroused people
to enforce its allegedly divine legality,  that document is useless
except for  its framers’ intent : to assure that the ruling class rules.
Getting it to work for everyone else is a lifelong task for democracy.
If Clinton was impeached for not quite screwing one rich groupie , Bush
should certainly be impeached for most definitely screwing all the
people of the United States.

The administration is  trying to  cover  its recently opened wounds,
with one ploy being  a  committee to investigate what went wrong with
our unintelligence on Iraq. But said committee won’t report  until after
the November elections, and is  likely to be composed of sleuths who
would have trouble finding a  Starbucks , let alone  reveal anything
about who misled or confused our court appointed White House disaster .

Even the sneaky pacifist tendencies of this alleged warrior have come
into question. Like most of his class  who send others to their death in
wars, he avoided service  through the legally sanctioned draft dodge of
the National Guard. But  it seems he was invisible during a certain time
frame, except for a dental x-ray that proves his teeth were bravely
serving the country . Whatever the opposition can come up with may help
to keep him on the defensive , but he can be kept from doing further
damage by the ultimate controlling measure:  he should be impeached.

Waiting for the  jellyfish  Democrats to find enough  spine  to affect
change before November 4 could be like watching the universe age.
Concerned citizens need to take action before then.  Those  previously
claiming to like Kucinich - the real progressive - but fearing he
couldn’t win, and who  supported Dean - the fake progressive - only
because he “could win”, can now rethink their  early compromise. The
remaining primaries should give Kucinich his greatest support,
especially if progressives hope to keep the centrist Democratic
candidate, whoever he is, from moving too far to the right, which he
surely will do .

Activists, progressives and other worried citizens  who are  having
nightmares about our future , need to wake up to  their democratic
duties . If they use the vote to support Kucinich in the remaining
primaries, and use the constitution to Impeach Bush in the remaining
days, democracy may yet have its day. And  the night may bring us all
better dreams,  or at least more peaceful  sleep .



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