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Science > Abortion |
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"james g. keegan jr." |
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30 Aug 2007 04:28:47 PM |
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Remove Bush over war lies |
newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nybres0826,0,6942248.column
Newsday.com
Remove Bush over war lies
Jimmy Breslin
August 26, 2007
There had been the sound of many feet on a Brooklyn street at the
first funeral, of firefighter Joseph Graffa-gnino, and at the second
funeral, of firefighter Robert Beddia, a fire engine sounded in front
of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue. In my office about an
hour later, slips of paper came silently out of a machine, the slips
coming from the Department of Defense and carrying the names and ages
of the 14 soldiers who were killed in Iraq when their helicopter
crashed. Four were under 21 and nine 25 or under. Of course the first
thought was how the city at this time could handle such calamity if
the 14 dead were New York firefighters or police officers. This gives
a good view of the catastrophe that happens in Iraq, day after day.
But as the soldiers die at a time of national Alzheimer's, there was
virtually no reaction to the 14.
When anybody you elect tries to end the war, Bush blocks all
intentions with a veto or threats of a veto that prevent it. And his
Supreme Court is ready to validate whatever he does, this court with
its five Catholic justices, and a chief who falls on his face a
couple of times that we know of.
Our politicians despair that there can be no way to override Bush and
save our young and everybody of any age in Iraq.
Of course there is. By all the energy and dignified disgust of a
nation that needs it to keep any semblance of greatness, there is an
extraordinary need for an impeachment of this president and his vice
president.
You start an impeachment with an investigator who starts to develop a
case. That's what got Nixon out. He had the most expensive, elaborate
defense in the world, and when they were pressed his assistants
folded and Nixon quit. I wonder whether Bush and his people can do
any better when pressed.
I have here in front of me a large number of pages that I keep for
their significance. They are from a United States Senate hearing and
are titled, "In Re Impeachment of President William Jefferson
Clinton."
He was only the 42nd person in our nation to make the commitment to
"faithfully execute" the Office of the President and to "preserve,
protect and defend the Constitution."
He was being impeached over lying about girls.
Bush the President is our 43rd. He lied to the nation to get us into
a war in Iraq that is without end. Every young person who has died
leaves drops of blood on Bush's hands and those of everyone around
him. He lied to the nation and daily he tries every greasy way to
undermine the Constitution he is sworn to uphold. Thus making his
oath false.
Clinton's charges seem frivolous. But Bush appears to have committed
high crimes and misdemeanors and must be thrown out of office in the
disgrace that he is.
Bush, reminiscing the other day over something that further scatters
the mind, compared the end of Vietnam with the Iraq war that thrills
him so much because it makes him a wartime commander.
I don't know why Vietnam is on his mind. He skipped the thing to have
his teeth fixed in Texas. Showing such utter confusion causes
questions of how much evil he carries in his mind and how much of
stimulants.
He raises the end of Vietnam. If you want to know what that was like,
Bernie Edelman, who went from Flatbush to Chu Lai, yesterday opened
the book, "Dear America," that he compiled with the New York Vietnam
Veterans. The pages consist of letters written by veterans of Vietnam.
One is by Air Force Lt. Richard Van de Geer, a helicopter pilot
assigned to assist in the evacuation of Saigon in 1975. This letter
is on 15 May 1975, the day he was killed.
"The aircraft that landed on the Midway - landed about 50 feet away
from mine - and the man who got out of the aircraft had been quoted
approximately a week earlier as saying that any South Vietnamese who
had left the country was a coward and that everybody should stay in
South Vietnam and fight to the bitter end. This very same man was the
first man to arrive on the USS Midway and to my knowledge the first
to be recovered by the 7th Fleet. The man was Gen. Nguyen Cao Ky,
vice president of the Republic of South Vietnam. Now I really don't
have any personal feelings about the war here. I really don't care
one way or the other in regard to who is right and who is wrong
because that is a waste of time, a waste of thinking. But I did find
myself feeling that I wish he had been shot down."
Officially, Lt. Van de Geer was the last man to die in the Vietnam
War. His name is listed as last on the memorial in Washington. If
Bush wonders from his dentist's chair about the end of Vietnam, Van
de Geer gives you a fair idea.
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get real. like jesus would ever own a gun or vote republican.
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