When will Bush finally be impeached?

Digg just surfaced a story that made me think of this again. The story announced "White House Changes History: Erases 'Mission Accomplished' Banner" and claimed that the Whitehouse had silently modified the video of the speech "Dubya's" had held on May 1st 2003 announcing that major combat operations in Iraq had ended. By cropping the video, so the claim, they removed the fat and proud "Mission Accomplished" banner hanging over Dubya's head and with it what, given the current, tragic mess in Iraq, is embarrassing for Bush.



However, the claim of this video is likely to be wrong since not only this video seems cut (due to the black bar covering the bottom of the image), but all the other ones on the respective site as well. I have a hard time to believe that they cut all videos just to cover up the manipulation of this one, especially since the speech itself is unmodified and its content embarassing and naive enough to haunt Bush still today.

While this claim is likely to be false and highlights the importance of double checking the validity of ones claim (or the claims of others for that matter) it does not mean that there is nothing to hold against Bush. Actually there is as much that I frequently ask myself: So when will this guy finally be impeached? Should the American congressmen/women really allow him to say in office, unimpeached, until January 20th 2009?

• Didn't his wiretapping program violate the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and isn't his assertion "that FISA hampered intelligence gathering in the war on terror, so as commander in chief he could ignore it" highly alerting from a civil liberties perspective? (also: Illegal wiretapping was one of the grounds for articles of impeachment against Nixon)
• Didn't he and his adminstration missinform (or deliberately deceive) the Congress about Saddam Hussein being linked to Al Quaida and the presence of Mass Destruction in Iraq; a claim partly supported by the allegation that Saddam was buying uranium in Africa, which has been prooven false in the meantime?
  
• Didn't he and his administration "facilitate mistreatment of detainees in violation of the Geneva Conventions and US statutes"?

There seems to be a strong legal case against G.W.Bush (excellent article in foreignpolicy*) and an impeachement could shed the necessary light and guarantee accountability where and to the degree deserved!

Eric Schwartz is slightly more creative at making his point. Hilarious (even though worth a PS)! Check it out:


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PS: Clinton was not actually impeached for having received a blowjob but on grounds of "perjury to a grand jury" and "obstruction of justice". He was aquitted by the Senate.

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