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Letter: Reasons for impeachment
Editor, Leader:

In Steve Hurley's letter to the editor in the Dec. 26 Leader, he calls campaigning for impeachment a waste of time. The first phrase of his last paragraph is "I may be missing something," so I'd like to bring up several points I feel Steve may be missing.

Yes, it is very late in the term to start impeachment proceedings, but since our representatives seem more influenced by large donations from corporations that profit from Bush's wars than by their constituents, we want to convince them that enough people are starting to pay attention so that money for TV ads might not be what elects them in 2008. If we can do that, the impeachment proceedings need not take so long.

I see a hope that the people of our country can be awakened from the trance induced by fearmongering of profit-motivated media monopolies, and that an impeachment campaign may help do that. Also, if impeachment is carried as far as a trial in the Senate, it could be a chance for the Republican Party to regain some of its lost integrity and credibility, as with Richard Nixon's resignation. I was talking with a Republican friend recently who said she was really distressed that it was all right for them to lie.

Steve writes that "time would be better spent helping the person you would like to see as the next president." The person I would very much like to see as our next president is Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who has filed for impeachment of Dick Cheney. I see my two campaign efforts enhancing each other.

Finally, even though I feel that Kucinich is the only candidate from either party who is proposing plans that could move us in really responsible, sustainable directions, I do not want him or anyone else to inherit the precedent of illegal power abuse that not holding Bush, Cheney and company responsible for would leave for future presidents.:

WILLY STARK

Port Townsend