'Sun' Columnist Ends 24-Year Run w/ Blast At Iraq War (Impeachment...)

[Hissyspit]

Columnist: "In retrospect, I lament not having advocated impeachment, even as achieving it was unlikely."


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Political Columnist Witcover Ends 24-Year Run at 'Sun' With Blast at War

By E&P Staff
Published: August 19, 2005 10:00 AM ET

NEW YORK Noted mainstream political writer Jules Witcover wrote his final column for The Sun of Baltimore, ending a 24-year run. He exited with a strong anti-Iraq war message, going so far as to lament that he did not come out earlier for the impeachment of President Bush.

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"At the outset, I received much e-mail accusing me of disloyalty and even treason, but as the situation in Iraq festered and Mr. Bush's rationales for the invasion crumbled, the mail began to turn around. In time I was criticized by some readers for not calling for Mr. Bush's impeachment for misleading the nation into war.

"I wrote then that there was a more realistic vehicle for expressing public disfavor -- the approaching 2004 presidential election. I argued that those who were against the war could use the election as a referendum on what I argued was an illegal war begun under false premises.

"Many voters obviously did so, but not enough, in part because the Bush campaign succeeded in making Democratic nominee John Kerry, himself ambiguous on the war, and his Vietnam service record the issue rather than the man who had started that war. In retrospect, I lament not having advocated impeachment, even as achieving it was unlikely.

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[LoKnLoD]

1. I am getting sick of hearing ...

I shoulda... I should of voted for Kerry, I should of stood up against the War. We all suffer for the next four year for all those dumbasses

[koopie57]

2. This guy and Powell's aide ....

How dare these people start apologizing and lamenting about having no choices in the matter. What they are saying is they knew better but didn't have the balls to stand up and now they want us to forgive them? Let them clear their conscience? I think not.