Op Ed:
IMPEACHMENT:
Is It Too Late
To Save Our World?

"True" conservatives speak out against the A-Bomb Button in Bush's hand as it threatens all worldwide

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(BEND, Ore.) - Three famed authoritative writers, all from broadly-based political and cultural backgrounds, now see our nation on the very edge of economic, social and cultural degradation, due primarily to the absolute contempt for the Constitution demonstrated by our current President Bush.

"America as the land of opportunity has passed into history," says Paul Craig Roberts, Reagan Administration Asst. Secretary of Treasury, former Editorial Page editor for the WALL STREET JOURNAL and NATIONAL REVIEW, longtime "true conservative" leader.

"The U. S. economy continues its 21st Century decline, even as the Bush Regime outfits its B-2 stealth bombers with 30,000-pound monster 'bunker-buster' bombs for its coming attack on Iran."

"In grasping and exercising Presidential powers, Cheney has dulled political accountability and concocted theories for evading the law and Constitution that would have embarrassed King George III", states Bruce Fein of SLATE, famed online magazine of the Washington POST.

Fein, too, is deeply "true conservative". He was associate deputy attorney general under President Ronald Reagan and was a member of the ABA Task Force on presidential signing statements.

Then comes also Stephen Crockett: "The United States has been in a prolonged Constitutional crisis since the Supreme Court showed it had been corrupted by partisan politics when the Bush vs. Gore ruling was issued in December 2000." Crockett is co-host of Democratic TalkRadio.com.

All agree, by direct statement or extremely clear and obvious implication, that an overwhelming fear across the world is for "the Bush-hand on the A-button"...literally threatening the continuing existence of us all. The dark, malign Cheney-shadow cast over all Bush-postures adds very threatening weight built from well-known past events.

Each writer makes his case with an exceptionally full and contemporaneous, comprehensive outlay of actions, attitudes, statements and continuing "clear Presidential directions" to Congress and publicly --leaving no possible question unanswered with clear historical statements firmly "on the record" --for any answer we really need-now.

Surely, taken together, their world-view and detailed insights into our current status as a nation --AND "the democratic leader of the world!"-- should be useful to all of us at this very demanding moment in our own history, and that of our world.

My purpose here is to summarize and present for your own cogitation what those three have shown fully and persuasively in their own public statements. My hope is that it will focus your attention exclusively and exquisitely, for the next few reading-moments, on precisely what our early-21st Century American History will now necessarily show in politically-provocative terms:

Providing there IS ANY further American history!

The truth is that fear for our future, in this Atomic Age, MUST and definitely DOES shape and drive the entire political, economic and cultural continuance of any and all situations, events, considerations --and policies!!-- for every nation on Earth.

How can it be otherwise, after Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

With many more than original-casualties of 120,000, as the painful-lingering death-bringing rays did their work over months, after American usage of the ultimate weapon for whatever reasons, can it ever be otherwise?

We, the world's best pattern for potential democracy in their own homeland --for every other developing nation literally on Earth-- did unleash that ultimately most-horrifying hell-on-Earth blast against "our enemies" at the time.

Why should the world ever trust us NOT to "do-it-again"? How have we demonstrated and earned their trust in our credibility since?

What are we doing --right now!!-- not far removed from the former site of world-notorious widespread devastation and death?

This, too --as well as our own ongoing interior struggle vs those few determined to denigrate and demount our own democracy, for their own malign (and dollar-driven world-empire purposes) is clearly seen and taken into full account all across this Earth.

When they read our Constitution, offered to them as a model for their own consummation of the overwhelming search for real democracy, they will find our Founders included a remedy for "corrupt, dictatorial members of the Executive and Judicial Branches of government" --as Crockett correctly and concisely points out.

He continues: "The Bush Administration began by Republican politicians thumbing their noses at the rule of low. The past seven years have been an unending assault on Constitutional government, American political tradition, and personal freedom."

"Because Bush is willing to misuse his Presidential powers and the Supreme Court has been packed with radical, partisan Republican appointees, only impeachment hearings will reveal to the public the abuses of the Bush White House. Only impeachment will bring these powerful criminals to justice and preserve the Constitutional rule of law."

Fein puts it this way: "...President George W. Bush outsourced the lion's share of his presidency to Vice President Cheney, and Mr. Cheney has made the most of it. Since 9/11, he has proclaimed that all checks and balances and individual liberties are subservient to the President's commander in chief powers in confronting international terrorism."

Let's let Paul Craig Roberts add "the last word"; he has surely earned it after all those years of "true conservative" service to the nation, both at national level and in constructive media-publication: "...America is becoming a feudal society in which the super-rich compete in conspicuous consumption, while the serfs struggle merely to survive."

SO...What do YOU think? Has the time come for our own rapid action --perhaps actually "to save our world"?

Can we any longer wait for the right moment to apply that Constitutional remediation our Founders so foresightedly built into our beginnings-for-democracy?

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Reader Note: Many other published articles and Internet sources were also used for this Op Ed; all sources are available on request. Quotes are verbatim, summarized or shortened from the original; a full list of sources is available with the entire statement-used.

The three published pieces reviewed are available at these URL locations:
1. "Return of the Robber Barons"; Paul Craig Roberts; A Counterpunch Special Report on the Economy: www.counterpunch.org/roberts04242007.html
2. "Impeach Cheney: The vice president has run utterly amok and must be stopped"; Bruce Fein; in Slate 6/27/07: slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2169292
3. "Impeachment & the Constitution"; Stephen Crockett; at: www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2007/073107a.html "See also" entire issue of The NATION. 2/4/07, for "Behind The Crackup: Enron Conservatives, Crime in the Suites, and It's the System, Stupid" - comprehensive investigation of the Enron scandal, now prescient for further Constitutional abuses by the Bush administration thoroughly demonstrating the need to consider impeachment.