Garrison Keillor: Impeach Bush

[kskiska]

The man was lost and then he was found and now he's more lost than ever -- and he's taking us into the darkness with him. It's time to remove him.

Mar. 01, 2006 | These are troubling times for all of us who love this country, as surely we all do, even the satirists. You may poke fun at your mother, but if she is belittled by others it burns your bacon. A blowhard French journalist writes a book about America that is full of arrogant stupidity, and you want to let the air out of him and mail him home flat. You hear young people talk about America as if it's all over, and you trust that this is only them talking tough. And then you read the paper and realize the country is led by a man who isn't paying attention, and you hope that somebody will poke him. Or put a sign on his desk that says, "Try Much Harder."

Do we need to impeach him to bring some focus to this man's life? The man was lost and then he was found and now he's more lost than ever, plus being blind.

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One such prisoner, Mohammed al-Qahtani, was held naked in isolation under bright lights for months, threatened by dogs, subjected to unbearable noise volumes, and otherwise abused, so that he begged to be allowed to kill himself. When the Senate approved the Torture Convention in 1994, it defined torture as an act "specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering." Is the law a law or is it a piece of toast?

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The peaceful lagoon that is the White House is designed for the comfort of a vulnerable man. Perfectly understandable, but not what is needed now. The U.S. Constitution provides a simple ultimate way to hold him to account for war crimes and the failure to attend to the country's defense. Impeach him and let the Senate hear the evidence.

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[gristy]

1. posted here, too

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x543352

[pstans]

2. Keillor is great

His book "Homegrown Democrat" is a must read.

[xxqqqzme]

7. yes, yes, yes - I loved

Homegrown Democrat. Everything he describes in that book is like he lived next door 2 me.

[wtmusic]

3. the 1994 convention wasn't just the "Torture Convention"

It was the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Let's keep that in mind.

[existentialist]

4. You beat me to it

I was going to post this article, albeit edited down to the four paragraphs a bit diefferently, but I found your post on a search.

(Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" can be heard Saturday nights on public radio stations across the country.) < INC. Services, Media Tribune by Distributed reserved. rights All Keillor. Garrison 2006>)

[rodeodance]

5. i used to listen to him a lot when i lived in

Mpls. Still love him.

[rodeodance]

6. "The peaceful lagoon that is the White House"

....The peaceful lagoon that is the White House is designed for the comfort of a vulnerable man.

[alarcojon]

8. This line should be used, and frequently

"How about turning over American ports to a country more closely tied to 9/11 than Saddam Hussein was?"

[Martin Eden]

9. When will we see the TIPPING POINT?

More voices are being raised calling for impeachment, and chimpy's poll numbers continue to plummet.

If this continues, more truth-tellers like Paul Pillar may be emboldened to step forward, and at some point (hopefully soon) a tipping point will be reached where impeachment becomes not only a real possibility -- but a likelihood.