I was delighted to join Democrats.com today because this is an organization that has its priorities straight.

By that I mean that it puts the number one issue facing America clearly on the front burner where it belongs.

That message is impeachment.  No Senator Harry Reid, No Speaker Nancy Pelosi, you are both wrong when you state that impeachment is a political decision to be reached or, in this case, ignored by elected representatives.

Read the Constitution and you will see that a different standard applies.  A chief executive and vice president take oaths to preserve and defend the Constitution.  They take oaths to see “that the laws are faithfully executed.”

When those oaths are breached by the commission of “high crimes and misdemeanors” then, Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi, the issue at hand is not political to be decided by expedient.  It is far more serious than that.  It involves the very life blood of the country since breaches of egregious misconduct suck the very existence out of the Constitution and the fabric of democracy itself.

Therefore there is a duty on the part of elected representatives to impeach.  It is a violation of international law, meaning treaties to which this nation is committed, with these commitments being therein written into the evolving U.S. Constitution, to engage in preventive war.

The claim that the Iraq War constitutes “pre-emptive war” is a trap that sadly many progressives have fallen into in using the term that the Bush-Cheney propagandists have used with impunity.  Pre-emptive war embodies self-defense and is justified under international law and by the Constitution. 

In this case a provable series of lies and a steady pattern of propagandistic deceptions were used to invade another nation without provocation, using the false claim of weapons of mass destruction.

On another front, the so-called Patriot Act has been used to perpetrate a series of violations of national and international law through preventive detention, repeated break-ins representative of a Communist or fascist nation, kidnapping citizens without probable cause from and to international destinations, and maintaining detention camps where prisoners were tortured in violation of the Geneva Conventions and held without probable cause or preferring charges against them.

Thank goodness more individuals are now taking action against such shameful violations of law and public decency.  One of these individuals is Representative Maralyn Chase of Washington.  Representative Chase will introduce a bill calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. 

On Thursday, January 17, a full hearing is slated concerning the bill sponsored by State Senator Eric Oemig.  This bill calls on Congress to conduct a full investigation and trial for both Bush and Cheney.

So Washington political representatives are moving forward on the most vital issue facing America today, that of the impeachment of Bush and Cheney.

How about your state?  It is time for action as death and destruction increase daily in Iraq and the Constitution continues to be pillaged and plundered.

In the nineteenth century British historian Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay warned concerning America:

“Your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the Twentieth Century as the Roman Empire was in the Fifth, with this difference; that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without and your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country, by your own institutions.”