"The Vermont State Senate passed a resolution last week calling on the House of Representatives to launch formal impeachment proceedings against President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. It is an idea whose time has come.


Bill Gallagher, the Reporter's national correspondent, has argued repeatedly and convincingly that Bush and Cheney lied to the American people about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, the role of the White House in revealing the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame, the circumstances surrounding the friendly-fire death of star football player Pat Tillman in Afghanistan and any number of other matters of life and death.

Just last week, on the very day that Bush told an audience of enthusiastic supporters that withdrawal from Iraq would lead to more bloodshed and chaos, the Department of Defense reported that four American servicemen had been killed there. That, along with more than 100 Iraqi civilians reported by the various news agencies.

He is living in a fantasy world that has caused many observers to wonder if, in fact, he is mentally ill.

Of course, the same right-wing toadies who hounded President Bill Clinton to impeachment over lies about a sexual escapade now say that the lies of Bush and Cheney fail to meet that level of egregiousness.

Black is white and up is down if lying about consensual sex can somehow be considered worse than the lies that have led to the slaughter of more than 3,300 brave American soldiers over the past four years.

Newspapers and television news outlets numb their customers' minds with endless coverage of the death of some drug-addled show-business non-entity like Anna Nicole Smith, the firing of a hack disc jockey or the madness of a screwed-up Virginia college student who killed 32 people.

As of Saturday morning, 65 Americans had been killed in Iraq this month alone. Why isn't Katie Couric running montages of their photos on her newscast? They were about the same age as the Virginia Tech students, with many of the same hopes and dreams and families left to grieve. Could it be because the man responsible for those killings isn't some South Korean madman with a grudge against the world -- but is, instead, the president of the United States?"

Niagara Falls Reporter        www.niagarafallsreporter.com        April 24 2007