Should America impeach President Bush?

Immpeachement should only be the beginning

By: Rachel Matecki

Posted: 3/30/07

If you support this country and its troops, you would also most likely support the formulation of a plan to bring our men and women home from Iraq. And though the election for president is over a year away, some believe it is not soon enough.

A poll located on the Web site Commondreams.org reported that 52 percent of American adults believe President George W. Bush should be impeached. Twenty-three percent are Republicans.

And why not? If we can impeach Clinton for lying to the public about a personal matter, we can certainly kick Bush to the curb for retreating to a hunting trip every time something goes wrong. Claims dealing with Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, America's falling short in aiding Hurricane Katrina victims and news of domestic spying without warrants are just a few from a very a long list of reasons he should be impeached. But we all know these things. I am not here to state the obvious.

Bush, along with his administration, has deceived us all. Not only is his impeachment necessary, but the removal of his entire administration wouldn't be a bad idea either. According to The American Conservative magazine, even officials in the British government find the administration's take on Iraq to be removed from reality. British Foreign Minister Jack Straw said, "The lid on the pressure cooker has come off. There is no doubt that the current situation is very serious and it is the most serious we have faced. It plainly is the fact today that there are larger numbers of people, and they are people on the ground, Iraqis, not foreign fighters, who are engaged in this insurgency."

Bush owes our nation, among many others, an apology. He has ruined our reputation as well as our credibility, which wasn't very respectable in the first place. When dealing with Iraq, the president pursued a very narrow ideology. He has bullied foreign policy to the point where it has alienated enough people to make other nations too suspicious of his true motives. He has cast us out of favor with two-thirds of the planet, most recently Iran. The Bush Administration continues in a downward spiral toward a conflict with these nations. We are no safer than we were previous to Sept. 11, and what's worse is that we are most likely less safe due to the constant prodding of other nations, their opinions about democracy and laws concerning weapons of mass destruction.

Our president is on a high horse, and he needs to be knocked from it. What happened to the war against terror? It seems that our leader has completely lost sight of the real reason our men and women are fighting for our country overseas. We are basically going to war alone. You can wish and hope that things could be different, but they aren't. We need a leader that is true to his or herself and true to our nation. Our leader needs to listen to the rest of the world's wants and needs while also informing others about what our nation calls for.

Thirty-five years ago, according to BBC, Israel won a war in six days. How many of you are aware that the war in Iraq has actually surpassed the amount of time needed to work things out in WWII? We need someone to patch things up with the rest of the world, not treat it as inferior. If Bush had started this process earlier, we may have had more allied support, but he has turned some of our traditional friends against us, making it harder for our nation to manage concerns such as Iraq and Iran, not to mention threats that will undoubtedly surface years down the road.

We need to clean up the mess we have left throughout the world, and what better way to do so than appoint someone who actually knows what he or she is doing? It doesn't matter if the presidential election is next year. We need all the help we can get. Electing someone new as soon as possible would give us more time to allow ourselves to wipe the slate clean of this snobby, deceitful attitude and repair the collection of broken promises our current president has presented to the rest of the world.