by James Glaser
June 16, 2005

High Crimes and Misdemeanors are what are called for to impeach a sitting President and more and more I am hearing people say those words fit George Bush and his administration.

Cindy Sheehan, President of Gold Star Families for Peace, who lost a son in Iraq, has accused President Bush of lying to the nation about a war which has consumed tens of billions of dollars and claimed the lives of more than 1,700 Americans, including her son Casey Austin Sheehan.

Sheehan said this at an interfaith religious rally in Kentucky for President Bush to hear, "We're watching you very carefully and we're going to do everything in our power to have you impeached for misleading the American people." She went on with, "Beating a political stake in your black heart will be the fulfillment of my life."

I don't care who you are or what kind of power you have, when you hear those words coming from a grieving mother, you better be scared.

What really set this women off was when President Bush said that "it's hard work" comforting the widow of a soldier who's been killed in Iraq. Now remember George Bush has refused to go to even one funeral of a Soldier or Marine killed in Iraq, so he has never even seen the power of the grave side sorrow that is inflicted on a grieving family.

Frank E. Lockwood, writing in Kentucky.com, wrote that Ms. Sheehan said, "Hard work is seeing your son's murder on CNN one Sunday evening while you are enjoying the last supper you'll ever truly enjoy again. Hard work is having three military officers come to your house a few hours later to confirm the aforementioned murder of your son, your first born, your kind and gentle baby. Hard work is burying your child 46 days before his 25th birthday. Hard work is holding your other three children as they lower the body of their big brother into the ground. Hard work is not jumping in the grave with him and having the earth cover you both."

I think it is a High Crime, that George Bush has no idea of what he is doing to families of those who are killed in his war. I think it is a High Crime that George Bush refuses to honor even one dead American, by going to a funeral and the burial after.

The last several weeks there has been much talk on the internet about two memos that were published in British papers about How George Bush and his administration "fixed the facts" to get a war going on in Iraq and the thing that caught my ear, was when Bush and Prime Minister Blair were asked about it this weekend, they were not upset with the question. They knew what the question was about and they did not get indignant. To me, they sounded like they had done just that, and I think the fact they think they can get away with it, is a High Crime.

It really didn't take those memos to convince me that George Bush sent thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis to their deaths or to a lifetime of living with horrible wounds. We all know that George lied when he talked about "drone aircraft" coming from Iraq with poison gas. Or that Iraq was buying uranium to make nuclear weapons or that we found mobile biological weapons labs. We knew over a year ago that there were never any Weapons of Mass Destruction and that George knew this long before we did.

No, George Bush is not a Pol Pot nor an Adolph Hitler, or even a Joseph Stalin, but he is a pretty big mass murderer. He has destroyed the lives of tens of thousands of Americans like Cindy Sheehan's life. He has blown hundreds of billions of borrowed money (Which our children will have to pay back) to fight a war that he wanted so bad that he would lie to get it started.

On top of that he pretty much has destroyed America's credibility when it comes to telling the rest of the world of some really dangerous country in the future. Now matter what George says now, I'm not buying it and I doubt if many others will.

George didn't pull the trigger, and he didn't drop the bombs, but he might as well have. This war in Iraq is George Bush's War all the way and even if he won't take any responsibility for it, the world knows what he has done.