escape to insanity

There was an article yesterday in the news about the reasons our wonderful leader Bush could and probably should be impeached. It cited a poll conducted by a non-partisan polling organization, stating that about half the country (based on the poll figures) would support an impeachment of G-Dub.

The poll found that 53 percent agreed with the statement, “If President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment.” Forty-two percent disagreed, and five percent said they didn't know or declined to answer. The poll has a +/- 2.9 percent margin of error.

- From Bush Impeachment Effort Gains Traction

Here's the list of reasons the article provides as to why Bush deserves to be impeached. In the interest of saving some space, I've shortened the bullet points to just the reason itself and dropped the extended commentary for each one. You can read the actual article to get the rest of it.

• The signing statements - an egregious abuse of power and undermining of the Constitution. (…)
• The NSA warrantless spying. (…)
• The outing of Valerie Plame (…)
• Lying the country into war (…)
• Obstruction and lying to the Congress and the 9-11 Commission (…)
• Bribery. (…)
• The loss of New Orleans. (…)

Now, I'm not as up to speed on my politics and the political goings-on of late, so some of the reasons don't mean much to me. For instance, I didn't follow the Valerie Plame thing when it was happening. All I know is something about someone dropping a name they shouldn't have, I don't really know. I'm sure it was bad, whatever happened, but I don't really follow politics closely enough to really have a solid picture of what happened. In any case, some of the others are certainly valid. Lying the country into war. Yeah. Bush claimed undeniable proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction with which he could attack the country, and we had to go in right now and get 'em. Hmm… a few years later and still no Iraqi WMDs have been found. Amazing, isn't it? And now, we're stuck in a war that most of the country doesn't want to be in, but from which we can't really afford to just get up and leave. NSA warrantless spying. This one's pretty obvious, I'd think. BushCo managed to make it okay to spy on American citizens (and non-citizens, sure) to make sure we catch “the terrorists” and protect 'merica. Great. Whatever happened to privacy? Gone. Secret detention centers, into which just about anyone suspected of being an “enemy combatant” can be tossed and held indefinitely without trial.

Which brings up another wonderful point. The loss of habeus corpus, which supposedly according to some things — like that trifling piece of paper, the Constitution — cannot be terminated or suspended. Great. Keith Olbermann had something to say about that, which is a fantastic bit of journalism that I highly recommend you watch.

So yeah. I'm not going to waste your time ranting about how much Bush is screwing over our country. There's plenty of other sites you can read about all that. Suffice it to say that if Bush were to be impeached, I would fully support every moment of it. Where do you stand?