Eleanor Clift writes in her Newsweek Column:

Under the guise of national security, Cheney has gotten away with curbing civil liberties, condoning torture and launching an unnecessary war. He’s also chipped away at environmental regulations and done myriad favors for his friends in the business world. His stealthy intervention undermined former EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman and led to her resignation. He shapes tax policy and energy policy and whatever else strikes his fancy, installing himself as president of Corporate America.

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COMMENT

How can an elected office-holder of such a description not be on trial for impeachable offenses?

 I honestly think a very serious argument can be made, based on evidence available publicly, that Alberto Gonzales, Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney are war criminals in the very literal sense of the word.  I believe their command role in ordering torture, international kidnappings and imprisonment incommudicado and hidden from international human rights inspections deserves serious international judicial inquiry. 

While I reserve comment as to the President of the United States, it seems clear that impeachment proceedings are required for the honor of the country. 

I believe impeachment proceedings are also appropriate to inquire into the roles of Mr. Gonzales and Mr. Cheney, if not Mr. Rumsfeld, for their conspiracy to violate constitutional safeguards by means of warrantless wiretaps among other examples.  According to at least 30 senior Justice Department executives who were willing to resign their jobs over the matter, the White House continued operation of a presidentially approved extrajudicial and ultra vires unconstitutional violation of several of the first ten amendments, our “Bill of Rights”, and that this gross illegality was done with premeditation and malice aforethought after appropriate warnings.  In my mind, this is not merely a violation of their oath of office, it amounts to treason, a most vile undermining of the liberties of Americans and, therefore, of the world.

I believe Mr. Cheney and Mr. Rumsfeld deliberately misled this country into a voluntary war of aggression for the ulterior motive of personal power.  The power-mad idea of the “unitary executive” became nothing more than imperialism in disguise.  I believe these warmongers KNEW that there were no weapons of mass destruction nor ties to 9/11 nor even al-Qaida.  I believe it was a pretext as much as Sudatenland was merely Hitler’s excuse to roll into Poland.  They manufactured this war in Iraq for reasons of their own.

I honestly believe they should be impeached, convicted and handed over to The Hague for further criminal action.

In my opinion, this is the worst administration in our nation’s history and has been a complete disaster in every single area of government.  They have perverted our social compact by concentrating literally incredible — unimaginable! — wealth in the hands of a very few individuals, just as they have taken dictatorial political powers into their own hands.  This is not the democratic republic of the United States of America, it has become a wage slave version of an ascendant Old Confederacy, an imaginary aristocracy of “gentlemen” who know best for the rest of us, a landed gentry to benignly rule a nation of serfs and an empire of savages needing their guiding hand toward “civilization”.  Rudyard Kipling would have recognized these sabre rattling colonials from a half mile away.  I suggest we delegate someone to sit them down and read them the last chapter of a Mussolini biography.

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