So Many Reasons Why the World Can’t Wait
By Missy Comley Beattie
Gold Star Families for Peace
As of January 26, 2006, there are more than 250,000 reasons
why George W. Bush and Richard Cheney should be impeached. That number likely
will have increased by the time I place the last period at the end of this
article.
One of the those reasons is agonizingly real to my
family(the death of Chase Johnson Comley, killed in Iraq on
or 1,830 (we don’t know for sure because so many died that week) of the 2,238 American
dead and counted as I write this article. Casey Sheehan is Cindy Sheehan’s personal
reason. Thomas J. Sweet II is Elizabeth
Sweet’s personal reason. Daniel Torres is Sergio Torres, Beatriz Saldivar, and
Christina Torres’s personal reason. Jeremy
Smith is Amy and Maxx Branham’s personal reason. Eric Halvorsen is Dot Halvorsen’s personal
reason. All of these people with eviscerating,
personal reasons are members of Gold Star Families for Peace. These reasons
should be personal to all Americans.
For every death, there is an agonizingly eviscerating,
personal reason for the impeachment of the WAR CRIMINALS, Bush and Cheney.
Among those 250,000 reasons is a list of wounded soldiers,
16,420 as of this minute, although one website estimated 48,000 which means
that I should increase the total number of reasons why Bush and Cheney should
be impeached. This figure, too, will likely
change before I place the last period at the end of this article.
Also among those 250,000 reasons is the number of Iraqi dead
which according to General Tommy Franks, we don’t count. But somebody does. Their families grieve for the decisions made
by our administration just as my family grieves. The British Medical Journal says at least 100,000 Iraqis have been
killed.
And, included in those 250,000 reasons are all the wounded
Iraqis, many of them children. Again, that
list likely will change before I place the last period at the end of this
article. I have no figure to record here.
Probably, someone does.
Another of those 250,000 reasons is the number of
journalists and their translators killed while covering this illegal occupation,
a figure higher than in any other war.
Let’s factor in the 2,000 plus troop deaths since Bush
landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln, announcing under a Mission Accomplished banner an ‘end to major combat.’ Yes, I know
it is included in the total of 2,238, which likely will change by the time I place
the last period at the end of this article.
I add it to the already counted number of reasons for impeachment simply
because George W. made a mockery of the bravery of our soldiers with his
reprehensible photo-op on that day in May of 2003. And who can forget the blustery ‘bring âem
on’ challenge two months later?
Wait, let’s consider the 130,000 troops serving in Iraq
today in harm’s way and combine that number with the 250,000 reasons to impeach
George Bush and Richard Cheney.
Suddenly, we’re up to 380,000. Do
we have enough reasons yet? The world
can’t wait any longer even though by the time I place the last period at the
end of this article, there likely, tragically, will be so many more.