Should President Bush be impeached?
MUNCIE, Ind (patriotnews.com) I’ve noted elsewhere on these pages that I don’t like the idea of impeaching presidents. As a matter of national responsibility I think we should live with our electoral mistakes and tolerate those personal foibles of our presidents that don’t infringe directly on The Constitution or compromise national security. Now there’s unquestionably an argument to be made in favor of the proposition that The President compromised national security by invading Iraq, but it’s not an argument most Americans can make with a clear conscience. The fact is that the “level heads” that I expected to emerge during the Iraq argument instead hid in the sands in fear of being accused of giving comfort to the enemy, failing to support the troops or being rhetorically unpatriotic. For failing to take a principled stand when the fat was not yet in the fire, they are equally complicit with those who were leading the charge to war. That complicity robs too many democrats of the most
