On Impeachment: The War Won't End While Bush Is President

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On Impeachment: The War Won't End While Bush Is President
by Turkana
Thu Aug 23, 2007 at 08:36:07 AM PDT

The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2154354,00.html noted something interesting in Bush's speech, yesterday:

President George Bush sought to buy more time for his Iraq "surge" strategy yesterday by making a risky comparison for the first time with the bloodshed and chaos that followed the US pullout from Vietnam.

Making it clear he will resist congressional pressure next month for an early withdrawal, he signalled that US troops, whom he hailed as the "greatest force for human liberation the world has ever known", will be in Iraq as long as he is president. He also said the consequences of leaving "without getting the job done would be devastating", and "the enemy would follow us home".

This is something I've been arguing for some time: the war will not end as long as Bush and Cheney are in office. The only way the war will end before 2009 is to remove them from office.

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Whatever Congress does, Bush will refuse to comply. If they defund, he will take the money from wherever he has to. He now assumes that he can get away with anything. There is nothing to prove this assumption mistaken. If the many crimes he has already committed do not lead to impeachment, there is no reason to believe that any ever will. So, we can scream all we went about the perpetual war. It will not end as long as Bush and Cheney are in office. The only way to end the war before 2009 is to force Bush and Cheney from office.

more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/23/11323/4445