Dear Shambles (hope you don't mind if I leave your title off?)

I take your points. However, I ws not questioning other people's right to their viewpoints so much as wondering if I wished to encounter them in a context that I'd (wrongly, I now understand) assumed to be about other purposes.

However, you asked that I indicate something of my position.

Re impeachment, I only lived in the USA 1965-67. I don’t understand the political system and values enough to have any informed view. In general, I subscribe to the French view on these matters – your president like nearly every very (far too) powerful man has a high sex drive and too tempting opportunities for gratification. You know that. Why on earth place him in a position where he is forced to lie about what he does? What is it you want him to do, anyway? Be a good political leader or a saint?
Having obliged him to lie, you now seem to want to punish him for having let you find him out.

Re the Gulf, here is a song made by my friend, Ian Davison, one of many we made for simplistic point-making on the hoof when marching to protest about the last Holy Gulf Crusade. It still hits on my viewpoint pretty well.

WAR IN THE GULF
If you slaughter in the name of profit
If you do it in the name of greed
If you slaughter in the name of comfort
If you do it in the name of ‘need’
If you slaughter in the name of ‘the future’
If you do it for a grand design

CHORUS
If you do it, do it in your name,
But, don’t do it in mine
If you do it, do it in your name,
But, don’t do it in mine

If you slaughter in the name of strategy
If you do it ‘cause the time is right
If you slaughter in the name of impatience
If you do it ‘cause you need a fight
If you slaughter in the name of strength and courage
If you do it as a warning sign

If you slaughter in the name of ‘justice’
If you do it to ‘protect the weak’
If you slaughter in the name of ‘freedom’
If you do it with your tongue in your cheek
If you slaughter in the name of ‘democracy’
Or to toe the President’s line