In the history of America we have never removed a president from office by impeaching him. Nixon was going to be but chose to resign his office to save his name from being the first.
Now with the latest administration we have exceeded boundaries never before imagined and we are not just stopping by for tea and biscuits, we are setting up permamnent bases. In order to get this far, many lies have been told. Dick Cheney spoke in 1994 about how going into Iraq would be a quagmire and when we finally had the attack on America he and Bush used the thrust and momentum of a nation to start going after those that attacked America, and then quickly moved us right into the heart of what we knew ALL ALONG would be a quagmire. A veritable black hole of street fighting and even civil war in a tribal war torn region.
In the two sided (R) and (D) race for president in 2008 of the U.S. of A. there are but a few candidates that have the conviction and voting record to pull the U.S. out of Iraq. I won't name names, if you actually cared about it you could quickly find them in the crowd. But I will say this, America WILL see more death and more violence the longer we continue with the failed foreign policy of nation building and meddling in the affairs of others.
Are we a nation of laws and consequences for our actions? Or are we a dictatorship or authoritarian system without any recourse when the nation gets steered into a war, into many wars over bad information and worse motivation?
Screw up, you'll be pardoned.
Cover up, you'll be exonerated and the book will sell millions.
Go to war over false pretense and assume that history will eventually be rewritten to ignore the act that resulted in lives lost over lies and an expensive bill passed on to many generations.
We have been barking up the wrong tree in Iraq for years now. Anyone who ever plotted to attack America are either in another country regrouping or in Iraq striking our troops who are acting as unwelcome police in a foreign land with a culture that has operated on a different wavelength since before the times of Jesus Christ.
What would Jesus do about this?
Or as the bumper sticker states, 'Who Would Jesus Bomb?'
What caliber rifle would Jesus use?
What rations or MRE's wold he grub on?
What web sites would he visit while on leave in the barracks?
What candidate in the states would reflect his views of peace, and respect for the soul of every creature, friend or foe?
I am not much of a religious guy, but I do wonder what the neo-con war mongers and the democrat lackeys who vote for their agenda to stay in office think to justify the vote for war, death, murder and mayhem when it contradicts the roots of what many of them preach while running for office (bible in hand on Sundays).
One last thought, people often ask me why I work with third parties like the libertarians instead of working on the (R) or (D) camps. I will let Ron Paul reflect why I flirt with and at the same time despise the idea. He gets disrespected on countless shows, he gets ignored and marginalized while standing on the most consistently Constitutional voting record in DC. At the same time he has huge numbers of grassroots supporters that have put his numbers into levels that are hard for the mainstream press to ignore, try as they might.
But see how frustrating it can be for one who voted against the war in Iraq, against wasteful pork spending, against the drive for more pollution by expanding the size of the government, and in general for the return to a Constitutional system of government and get sidelined by a quest for ratings.
America has lost respect for the underdog and moved into the winner takes all practice. America has, I pray temporarily, stepped out of line with most of the respect for individual liberty and controls over political powers that this nation originally claimed to be built on.
Of course, we started off on the backs of slaves and with incomplete respect for equal rights and treatment for all people. But must we throw the baby out with the bathwater when we have come so far?
If America is ever to become a great nation again it will be after we have restored the freedoms and responsibilities that adorn liberty. Where all share equal in the rights to interact and contract as they see fit.
Right now we are polarizing voters into activists or blown fuses who could care less about the way things turn out because 'it all goes corrupt'.
Can any of us make a difference?
I think so, and I hope so, and I work as if it were so.
I'd like to think we all want the same thing.
Most times I believe that to be true with all my heart.
Sometimes I question that.
Always I work as if I can make a difference.
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