By Cindy Sheehan, 3/8/07
I was sitting in an airport by my gate—it is shocking how many of
my stories begin that way, these days—and CNN was on the video
screen. The program was The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. There was
a “tease” about the Scooter Pie Libby verdict and Wolf actually had the
gall to say: “How much more can the Bush presidency take?”
On a day where ten soldiers died in Iraq and over one hundred
Shi”ite pilgrims were blown to dust in the wind there, I am wondering
how much more the people of America and Iraq can take.
Credible studies show that almost 700, 000 innocent Iraqi civilians
have died due to our criminal occupation, and we know almost 3200 US
troops have died. Those deaths are inexcusable, wrongful and in the
words of Barak Obama and John McCain, for “nothing.”
What the rest of America, including apparently The Washington Post,
just learned was that the VA system is in shambles. Anyone listening to
soldiers and their families knew of the emergency situation in lack of
VA care for our veterans who have been physically, emotionally, and
spiritually wounded by George’s war for oil. The peace movement knew,
but we listen to our vets who are part of our movement. I don’t think
vets can take much more.
BushCo has lied about reasons for war; sanctioned torture; taken
away a centuries old right to habeas corpus; with the regularity of
clockwork, breaks federal law by spying on our emails and phone calls;
abandoned the people of the Gulf States during Katrina; has deployed
our young people for up to the fourth time in a war crime of an
occupation; guts and tramples on environmental laws; leaves every child
in America behind and has outed a CIA covert operative. What is going
to be the flash point for you to turn off your TV and carry a sign, or
banner and descend on the White House as oppressed peasants descending
on the castle of the lord of the realm with pitchforks and torches?
When the Articles of Impeachment were drawn up for Richard Nixon,
the 3rd Article was for abusing his office to “punish enemies.” What
Scooter did (with permission and encouragement from the VP and Karl
Rove) reflects not only on Doomsday Dick and his office, but the
Presidency where the buck should stop, but it never even reaches his
Royal Low-Ness, George Bush.
Our founders wrote the impeachment clauses in the Constitution to
rein in a president who wants to reign and not serve. Comments from the
founders on preventing an executive who became king-like were very
prescient and were written for precisely the crisis that our country is
in now. If the impeachment clauses are not used on this president and
vice president, then they will further be rendered meaningless and
every subsequent president should be bowed and scraped to (and not just
by Wolf Blitzer and the rest of the sycophantic media prostitutes).
My flash point was on April 04, 2004, when my oldest child was
killed for the criminally corrupt, incompetent and callous gang of
mobsters who like to refer to themselves as the “Executive Branch.” I
was tested in tears and I came out on the other side ready to fight for
every child of this world. My flash point was too costly and too
painful. What will yours be?
Please, urge your Congressional Rep to introduce Articles of
Impeachment against these High Criminals. Join us on March 17th for an
historic march on the Pentagon where we are demanding an end to the
twin nightmares of Iraq and the Bush presidency.
I don’t want your flash point to be mine.
Let’s stop them before that happens.