Thanks for making it easy

Staking out consistent political positions can be difficult. Sometimes people and events make it easy regardless of one’s philosophical commitments.

Such is the case with the Iraq War and domestic spying. Enough revelations have surfaced to show that Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney manipulated intelligence to gain support for the war in Iraq. We have also discovered that they willfully disregarded unanimous intelligence analysis from experts that Iraq would descend into a civil war once invaded.

Attorney General Gonzales at his latest Senate hearing admitted that the President had the right to perform surveillance on any U. S. citizen without due process, Constitutional protection, and for any reason. We have already seen enough cases where citizens who take unfriendly positions toward the administration have been harassed by law enforcement officers—Mr. Gonzales being the biggest offender.

Any decision about what to do politically in these cases transcends political party and philosophy. President Bush and Vice President Cheney must be impeached. Any Congressional candidate who does not support the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq, the protection of Constitutional civil liberties, and the impeachment of Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney should not be elected to office.

Yes, sometimes events and certain people make political decisions easy no matter what apologists say. The issue is no longer about an administration that is recklessly and grossly incompetent and corrupt. The President and his Congressional toadies are destroying justice and freedom, not only in the United States, but around the world. We must not let that continue.

The President has made the choices clear and easy for all those who still care about the republic, justice, and freedom.