"Silent majority"? I don't think so. Bush's opposition has been most vocal primarily due to a sympathic press.

Hmm ... maybe the press should be sympathetic to the 26-percenters that still can't find their heads without the help of a proctologist or a barium enema?

"Silent majority"? I don't think so. Bush's opposition has been most vocal primarily due to a sympathic press.

IMPEACH CHENEY

DO YOU HEAR US NOW?

Indeed, some House members not associated with Kucinich’s resolution are now openly calling for immediate hearings into Cheney’s impeachable actions—specifically lying the country into a war in Iraq, and threatening war with Iran.
One indication of the change in the political climate in the House is the announcement by Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL), a six-term congressman and a member of the House Judiciary Committee, that he will call for the Judiciary Committee to take up Kucinich’s impeachment bill. This is significant because Wexler, no left-wing hothead, is not a co-signer of the Kucinich bill.
In an email message to constituents, Wexler said:
"I share your belief that Vice President Cheney must answer for his deceptive actions in office, particularly with regard to the preparations for the Iraq war and the revelation of the identity of covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson as part of political retribution against her husband."
"...Cheney and the bush Administration have demonstrated a consistent pattern of abusing the law and misleading Congress and the American people. We see the consequences of these actions abroad in Iraq and at home through the violations of our civil liberties. The American people are served will with a legitimate and thorough impeachment inquiry. I will urge the Judiciary Committee to schedule impeachment hearings immediately and not let this issue languish as it has over the last six months. Only through hearings can we begin to correct the abuses of Dick Cheney and the bush administration; and if it is determined in these hearings that Vice President Cheney has committed High Crimes and Misdemeanors, he should be impeached and removed from office. It is time for Congress to expose the multitude of misdeeds of the Administration and I am hopeful that the Judiciary Committee will expeditiously begin an investigation of this matter."
Also calling for prompt action by the Judiciary Committee in the wake of the Tuesday House vote was Carol Shea-Porter, a first-term Democrat from New Hampshire, who also is not a sponsor of the Kucinich measure. In explaining her vote to send the Kucinich bill to the Judiciary Committee, she said:
"It is the duty of the Vice President to faithfully execute the laws of the United States of America and to defend the Constitution. There is growing evidence that the Executive Branch has ignored some of our laws and has attempted to bend the Constitution to its will. Members of both parties decided that this issue is too important to ignore. I voted with my Republican and Democratic colleagues to investigate the Vice President’s actions in office."
She characterized the resolution sending the bill to the Judiciary Committee a "strongly bi-partisan vote."
With these kinds of endorsements and calls for action, it is clear both that Speaker Pelosi is looking increasingly pathetic and out of touch with her "impeachment is off the table" mantra, and also that Judiciary Chair John Conyers (D-MI), who seems to have been intimidated by the Speaker for the past year, but who earlier had been a leader in exposing the crimes of the Bush/Cheney administration, is getting strong support for taking a bolder stand.
Stephen Cohen (D-TN), a member of the Judiciary Committee who is a co-sponsor of the Kucinich resolution, says he thinks that there will be an impeachment hearing in the committee.

DO YOU HEAR US NOW?

We're "liberating" those Iraqi's (who havent fled the country in the millions) ... from their limbs and heads! At least they're not being forced to wear Burka's right? Where’s your patriotism?

So what if weapons inspectors told Dubya that the places he was citing as having WMDs ("we know exactly where they are") were searched and CAME UP CLEAN! Chalabi and Curveball said otherwise! Are you saying that believing Curveball (a guy who was summarily dismissed by every intelligence agent with a brain in his head) was wrong? Are you implying that the $27 million of taxpeyers' money we paid to Chalabi (and guy who still has a jail cell waiting for him in Jordan for almost single-handedly bankrupting that country) was a waste?

Do you mean that heresay from past administrations on what Saddam had and the bullcrap from Chalabi and Curveball was somehow LESS reliable than the IAEA and the results of real-time searches by weapons inspectors indicating Saddam had nothing? How un-American of you!

So we invaded anyway – to set up a secular, American-made, puppet government, at gunpoint, that Iraqi's historically tribal-minded citizens never asked for, aligned with Israel of all things, to be America's new proxy in the region while it's trying to privatize their oil. Why would they have a problem with that?

So what if we're the same foreign government that bombed their entire infrastructure (sewage, water systems etc) to bits, let their anti-Saddam uprising get slaughtered by Saddam after it abandoned them in 1991, and approved sanctions that killed a million Iraqi children?

They should be thankful we created the power vacuume that's resulted in all the carnage there! It's not like OUR SOLDIERS are dying in the same numbers as their civilian population – those dead Iraqi's are just "unavoidable collateral damage". Right?

Who cares if we can't beat two third-world countries with 1/000th the military we have after FIVE years of trying. Dubya (the guy who already got busted before for lying about us "absolutely" winning in Iraq when his Sec of Defense admitted we WEREN'T) just said we were "kicking ass"! And even though our latest “yes man”/general Petraeus is saying the same things that the top general (Ricardo S. Sanchez) said on 12/07/03, we can believe THIS guy! Right?

So what if the troop surge that was done specifically to help Iraqis meet their benchmarks so we can come home ISN’T helping them meet those benchmarks. It’s STILL “working”! Right?

C’mon … forget critical thinking and common sense you traitorous bastards!

BE PATRIOTIC!

It’s worked so far …

Right?

1. Saddam has nothing to do with 911, and most hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, our main ally in the region.
2. Saddam was our puppet and is regime was armed and financed by the CIA. It shouldn't be too hard for you to find the photo where Saddam shakes hand with Rumsfeld.
3. No WMD has ever been found. If there's any, it probably was supplied by the US sometime in the past.
4. More Americans were killed in Iraq than during 911. Over 500,000 Iraqis have been killed and over 2 millions have left the country.
5. The war is funded by your tax dollar, and borrowing from China, the country that DOES have nukes.

The utter destruction of the country of Iraq and the continuing "Civil War" will result in this country being exactly what we want the least – "A Fundamentalists Islamic Country" hating America and eventually throwing us out and depriving us of the oil that we are now spending a Trillion Dollars trying to get!

President Jimmy Carter had it right back in 1973 – we needed then to have a sustained policy to ensure energy independence from foreign suppliers. President Carter shifted the Department of Energy from Nuclear Weapon Development to Energy Research and Development. As soon as Ronald Reagan took office, those R&D efforts were almost completely stopped. The country went on a binge of rebuilding "battleships" and developing new weapon systems putting our nation into debt.

The current resident of the White House wants the private sector to develop our own energy resources!

Yes there are ~ 30% of people still supporting this effort. Most are living in areas where pork barrel defense spending is making their lives better, the rest are "uninformed" at best!

Wake up America – if we don't put our country to work fixing our own problems who do you think will? Wake up America and throw the "Greedy Old Party" out of office. It is going to take 10 – 20 years to get a fix on these problems but, if you keep electing the GOP, you only hasten the trip to the "bread line".

WE cannot afford to continue King Georges adventures!

Writing a silly love letter to The Decider is a waste of your time. You should know by now, The Decider doesn't read, so save your sentimentality for your diary and keep it safely locked away. You don't want to embarrass yourself, now do you?

Still, your poetic prose has inspired me, so here goes: my shot at silliness.

The Decider: A Haiku

George W. Bush
A cowboy Caligula
Bad man? Mad man? Both!

Dedicated to those in the know...

Peace.

Posted By Pete, T.S. FL : November 8, 2007 4:15 pm

Sorry your hate for Bush has overshadowed your rational thinking. We are winning over there and it is Pathetic you claim to have worn the uniform and you are rooting against your fellow brother and sisters. SHAME ON YOU ...

Posted By Jeff from Jersey : November 8, 2007 12:46 pm

Jeff,
That is a flat out lie, you moron. Deaths last month were at its lowest level in a year in a half. Please be educated on the facts before you run your mouth and look like an even bigger idiot than you already appear.

Operation Iraqi Freedom – whatever, that was not the reason for invading Iraq. Bush & Cheney do not care about the Iraqi people or the American people for that matter. They're both evil & should be impeached and imprisoned for the rest of their lives for war crimes. THIS WAR IS ILLEGAL & IMMORAL!

With due respect to your service to this country, I don't agree to your argument:
1. Congress was blackmailed to force their vote on fabricated lies. If Bush had pulled out immediately after the removal of Saddam, those who voted against this war could have been labelled as traitors by this administration
2. Saddam was never threat to US, nor he attacked us, had no connection to Al-Quida. He was just like any dictator who ruled his country and kept everyone in check. There were several other dictators, why did we not attack those countries (Answer-no oil!)
3. During Saddam's regime with sanctions in place, the country was in peace. Now there are 1000 Saddams and death toll is 1000 times than during Saddam
4. American style democracy can't be forced to other countries. Iraq needs some stick to control different tribes.
5. Al-quida never existed in Iraq during Saddam and now its the breeding ground
6. Lastly, Iraqi people still see us as occupiers and majority of them hate us.
7. Look at the cost of the war (human lives and money). The same money can be spent on our own people. We deny our poor children 35billion for 6 years whereas spend 8 billion a month.

Where is the logic?

Granted, Saddam Hussein was an evil dictator but every soldier I've ever talked to who has been to Iraq has told me that invading the country and toppling Saddam de-stabilized it. I guess that-along with a coherent and cohesive exit strategy-is something the Bush administration and the neocons neglected to plan for. Now our young men and women are paying the price for their incompetence and arrogance.

Well done!

To: Ryan Indianapolis

Get a grip!

Murray, Prince George

Been there, done that, sorry for your 17 friends, I’ve lost thousands of brothers and sisters! One was too many!

Posted By Ryan Indianapolis : November 8, 2007 9:49 am

THANK GOD YOU ARE A MINORITY RYAN, THE WAR IS A FRAUD. WAKE UP, 9/11 HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IRAQ.

To the military people who have posted: Thanks for your service and don't let all the uninformed bring you down.

This poll shows the massive divide between the people and the government that exists today. We don't want pointless wars. We all know Iraq was a sham, a war for corporate interests. Why are our leaders so intimately connected to the same corporations that are profiting from Iraq while the American people fit the bill.

We also know that the "terrowist" angle is used over and over again to terrorize the public. Just last week we learned about Rumsfeld's snowflake memos, proof positive that the government (colluding with the media) manipulates the population using an endless war on terror! It's absolutely ridiculous and the American people need to grow up and understand that they've killed close to 4,000 patriotic US soldiers and 650,000 innocent Iraqis for scum like Bush, Cheney and the CFR.

"i've seen those progress not through the media or someone else, but through MY eyes"

You need to remember something sir. You are dealing with the left here, it doesnt matter how much more qualified you are to answer a particular question, they will always be right, and they always no what is best for everyone else. Keep up the good work, most of us will be cheering and praying for you.

Truly, you must be an imbecile. It was the "greatest generation" that got us embroiled in Vietnam. It was the baby boomers that both fought and opposed that war.

Each ensuing generation is faced with national challenges. Sadly, people such as yourself believe in some idealistic and naive view of the world that asks "why can't we all just get along?" Much of mankind is fundamentally flawed and history has proven this since the advent of civilization. It's not generational, my friend.

I hate to have to tell you this, my friend, but we-in the majority-are American citizens, too, and we have the freedom of speech. So, we do not have to shut up, sir, and I, for one, will never stop fighting for what I think is right.

I love my country too much to "SHUT UP".

This war is wrong and if it weren't, W and The Dick would not have had to lie about it for four years now to sway public opinion. I hope the warmongers are impeached and that we, the people, learn from our monumental mistakes and elect wise people to high office from here on out.

War is over and peace is possible because love conquers all.

Polls are an effective way to sway opinion of the masses with an Opinion of a small minority.

Posted By Gavin,Gainsville,Florida : November 8, 2007 12:54 pm 33

Yep, Gavin...you should be within Bush's administration...we don't want any of that scientific nonsense swaying the opinions of the American people. Let's just BS them into the dark ages. Are you a poli-sci major...if you are you need to pull out the dusty books buster because you're not the real world.

She said no withdrawal till 2013

She will not get us out..

Thank you.

Posted By TSgt, FL : November 8, 2007 11:37 am

To TSgt, FL: Learn how to spell and punctuate properly, then enroll in a refresher course on American government and the Constitution. Pay particular attention to that part about the First Amendment and freedom of speech. That seems to be something that you, for all your sanctimony, seem to have forgotten about.

Although I thank you for your service, that does not make your opinion any better than anyone else's on this forum. Moreover, I am a retired military officer and I have a number of friends who either have done tours or are doing tours in Iraq, and many of them DO NOT believe that any progress has been made there. Most of them have had their morale (not moral) brought down by the Bush administration and its insincerity toward the troops. What happened to the body armor and the armor plated vehicles that the commanders asked for but didn't get? What happened at Walter Reed with our servicemembers getting substandard medical care in ghetto-like conditions? And finally, why has the Bush administration consistently CUT funding for Veterans Administration programs since he came into office?

The fact that you serve doesn't make your opinion any better than anyone else's, nor does it make you correct. You don't have to have served to have an opinion, and criticism of this war is not unAmerican or unpatriotic. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Posted By Mark Columbus, Ohio : November 8, 2007 12:26 pm

You mean even more than 68 percent opposed the war a couple weeks ago? How exactly does that prove your point?

From you dollar to your war in Iraq and you guys deserve every minute of it.

You cannot run the world and trying it will be the end.