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I'm sorry
Terry
I apologize for writing sentences and thoughts that aren't simply and straight-forwardly constructed. Let me know which points were intolerable and I'll try again.
Summarizing is very hard for me!
Pat
I quit! I am on your side but you have to speak English to me when you speak. It was nice knowing you.
Take care.
Terry
I agree that this is political "posturing" as always by the Dems. The way I worded it in my email to personal contacts was: "The point is to encourage the Judiciary Committee members to take the July 25 "preliminary" hearings seriously (not just a Pelosi ploy to win votes among disenchanted Democratic voters) and to speak up in favor of formal hearings afterwards, preferably beginning within the 2 weeks following the July 25th hearing."
But
(1)we (you, me, etc.) have been working FOR a first step in the House (and, yes, I am aware of how few days in session remain for the 110th Congress!), so we owe it to ourSELVES and our country not to back down now... in fact, not until the Bush term is over or the Senate has embarked on impeachment. Let us use this opening to the Dems' DISadvantage! IF we could activate millions of Americans, we could force ANYthing, incl. impeachment!
(2)Dennis Kucinich himself has never given up, despite remaining nearly alone in the light. Not only does HE deserve to be supported, IMO, but he needs us all to emulate his sticktoitiveness!
(3)the #2 issue which I've always been working for is a DEBATE in the House (#1 being actual passage from the House to the Senate of Articles of Impeachment). So, Conyers is giveing only a 2-hour "discussion" (no time to expose the COMPLICITY of members of Congress) and this is only in the Judiciary, not the House floor. But the more attention we get (media, etc.) put on this small window of opportunity, the more some Represenatitves (up for re-election) may feel the heat to do something more than "posture."
IMO if impeahment does not happen, the Great American Experiment is over, and I will have no hope for my country ('tho I will be advocating for climate change policies and Global Solidarity from the ground up).
Again, I agree that we "should" vote (assuming a way to supercede fixed elections) out 85% of the members of Congress!
But as for the crimes of one Shrub, I'm happy if he gets prosecuted in an American court, but this won't require my activism. And my preference would be to ASAP have an International War Crimes Tribunal trying the many who can be charged directly with war crimes (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Ashcroft, etc.) and the many with complicity (Pelosi, Harman, Rockefeller)--if they don't pre-empt this by impeachment!
Don't get me wrong, though, I would like to see him held accountable for the many transgressions he has foisted upon us...In fact, nearly this entire Congress needs to go...
Yes, I felt like throwing in the towel in October 2007. However, I never feel a battle is lost until time is literally up!
I don't care about Shrub. There is too much to be done in this world than to spend one iota *myself* working on prosecuting him for his sins. I'll be glad for any prosecution that does occur once he's out of office. In fact, my preference would be--if there is no impeachment--that there be an INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR WAR CRIMES of a-l-l those accountable (per my post here, naming possible members of Congress, which should be included along with many members of the Bush Admin.).
BTW, if Bush *does* move out of the country (which I have no reason to believe he will), I believe that he is at risk of apprehension under their own warrants.
My reasons for IMPEACHMENT are:
1.) PRECEDENT (drawing the line) for all future holders of the office of POTUS -- that *they* will be accountable,
2.) To educate via investigations, as you say, the U.S. citizenry that we may take responsibility for our government's actions in the future,
3.) To show the world that, indeed, the U.S. is a nation of laws
BTW--Shrub doesn't clear brush. The cowboy routine was all political spin, an M.O. concocted for him. The guy is afraid of horses!
All the Best, Bruce
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