Another Fine Mess for Bush: Impeachment

Just before President Bush ordered his attack on Iraq on March 20, 2003, a draft resolution to impeach him was being circulated among anti-war lawmakers. The loudest voices advocating impeachment were those of former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and University of Illinois law professor Francis A. Boyle who had proposed impeaching President George Herbert Walker Bush for his war in Kuwait. If Bush wins this election, what are the odds that an impeachment resolution will be brought before Congress? The odds are good. But what are the odds that Prez Bush would actually be impeached? The GOP numbers in Congress are stacked in his favor. It would seem that if Bush wins this election any campaign to impeach him would easily be defeated. However.... One of the fun-things about a Bush win would be to watch the civil war in the Republican camp. And that’s a sure thing you can take to the bank. In which event, a vote to impeach Bush might have a surprising tilt to the left. Without Secretary of State Colin Powell (he says he’s had it) to make the BushMen look humanoid, and with National Security Advisor Condi Rice acting like a BushBot from Planet W, and Rumsfeld in line to be dumped, and Type-A heart-attack-prone Cheney on shaky health turf and Bush’s own mental and physical health being questioned...well, guys...if Bush wins, the people who put him in will surely get what they deserve. Oh...and then there’s the mess in Iraq, and the soaring deficit, and the Health Care mess, and the Social Security mess, and finding ways to pay for the war while lowering taxes. Not to mention soldiers beginning to tell the truth about the ill-conceived war in Iraq and Congressmen on both sides of the aisle feeling emboldened to rat-out George W. Bush. If Bush wins, the only thing to decide will be: Should President Bush be impeached for war crimes or misdemeanors?