Bush Impeachment Over Iraq Gaining Momentum.
CAIRO, March 25, 2006 - As US President George W. Bush's approval ratings
in polls are lower than for any American leader in recent history, more
American lay people support the impeachment of the wartime president for
misleading the American public and lying to them about his war on Iraq, a
leading US daily reported Saturday, March 25.
"Bush says there were weapons of mass destruction, but there wasn't. Says we
had enough soldiers, but we didn't. Says it's not a civil war -- but it is,"
Ira Clemons, a window cleaner from Vermont, told the Washington Post.
Asked whether he would support his congressman's call to impeach Bush,
Clemons replied emphatically: "Why not?
When asked the same question, Colleen Kucinski from Massachusetts wagged her
head "yes" before the question is finished.
"He picks and chooses his information and can't admit it's erroneous, and he
annoys me," she said.
"Without a doubt. This is far more serious than Clinton and Monica. This is
about life and death. We're fighting a war on his say-so and it was all
wrong," she added, referring to former president Bill Clinton and Monica
Lewinsky sex scandal.
Residents in four Vermont villages voted earlier this month at annual town
meetings to impeach the president for lying about Iraq having weapons of
mass destruction, the paper said.
A Zogby International poll showed that 51 percent of respondents agreed that
Bush should be impeached if he lied about Iraq, a far greater percentage
than believed Clinton should be impeached.
Bush acknowledged for the first time last December Iraq was invaded on wrong
intelligence and took the blame for the invasion-turned-occupation.
"As president, I'm responsible for the decision to go into Iraq -- and I'm
also responsible for fixing what went wrong by reforming our intelligence
capabilities. And we're doing just that," he said.
He further admitted that faulty assessments on Iraq's weapons of mass
destruction damaged US credibility.
Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights said this
administration needs to be "slapped down."
"Bush is saying 'I'm the president' and, on a range of issues -- from war to
torture to illegal surveillance -- 'I can do as I like,' " he said.
"This administration needs to be slapped down and held accountable for
actions that could change the shape of our democracy."
He was referring to reports about Bush's approval of harsh interrogations of
prisoners captured in Iraq and Afghanistan, tactics that human rights groups
such as Amnesty International say amount to torture.
Bush also admitted last December that he had authorized the National
Security Agency (NSA) to carry out domestic spying without the necessary
court warrants.
The Republican-led US Senate Judiciary Committee announced on Friday, March
24, it would hold a hearing next Friday on a call by a Democratic lawmaker
to censure Bush for his domestic spy program.
The Senate has censured a president, which amounts to a formal rebuke, only
once before and that was Andrew Jackson in 1834 in a banking dispute.
"If the president says 'We made mistakes,' fine, let's move on," Rep.
Michael E. Capuano (D-Mass.) told the Post.
"But if he lied to get America into a war, I can't imagine anything more
impeachable."
The impeachment of Bush further drew support from prominent legal experts
and professors like Harvard's Laurence H. Tribe and former Reagan deputy
attorney general Bruce Fein.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted last month to urge Congress to
impeach Bush, as have state Democratic parties, including those of New
Mexico, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin.
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