Cheerleading for another war
The rhetoric has increased substantially in recent months regarding Iran. It’s making me think “shades of Iraq … shades of Iraq.” Are we really going into yet another war? We already took our eye off the ball with Afghanistan by invading Iraq for no reason, and now it looks like Bush and cronies are trying to get our attention off our failures in Iraq and Afghanistan with another war? Ridiculous. I really do hope (and expect) that the American people will not stand for this.
Fox News (snort) reports that the Iranians are supplying Iraqis with weapons to kill U.S. troops. I don’t if we’re supposed to take this on their word, of course (remember the whole “Iraq had WMDs” things?). But even assuming that it’s true, it’s no different than what the United States did with over a half dozen countries during the Cold War. Hell, look at how much support we gave to the Afghanis in their war against the Russians. And look at where it got the Russians, spending large fractions of their GDP on a pointless, unwinnable war. They ceased being a superpower nation due in no small part to exhausting themselves in Afghanistan.
Look at where the United States is headed these days. It’s not good. Debt is out of control, the current wars are costing billions of dollars per week, and our administration is making noises and greasing the wheels to get into a war with a third country?! Have they no shame? To think what they wanted to impeach Clinton over, but apparently, impeachment “isn’t an option here”. Why, exactly, isn’t it?
February 11th, 2007 at 17:47
I should point out that Clinton was impeached…
February 11th, 2007 at 19:02
When I use the word impeached, I mean actually thrown out of office. That didn’t happen with Clinton. He was only impeached by one house of the legislature; it takes both of them to actually get rid of a president.
February 12th, 2007 at 13:40
According to the United States Constitution, the Senate does not have powers of impeachment. Only the House of Representatives can impeach a president, as it did with Presidents Johnson and Clinton. However, in both cases, the Senate failed to convict either president and both retained their positions. Impeachment proceedings were begun against President Nixon but he resigned before they could be completed, so he was not impeached, but Presidents Johnson and Clinton were impeached. (See, for instance, the Wikipedia article).
February 12th, 2007 at 15:04
Yes yes, I know the technical details of impeachment, I’m just saying that when you mention impeachment, the average person is thinking “getting thrown out of office”, not the kind of impeachment of Clinton which doesn’t actually result in the president leaving office.