Time for a little pre-emption of our own...
I was never an impeachment fanatic. Known criminals are often not charged or not prosecuted for various practical reasons. The right-wing would have a fair chance of successfully portraying bush's impeachment as partisan revenge for Clinton's. And the best revenge against the bush criminals and their agenda would not be impeachment, but rather the electoral annihilation of the republican party, which is where we are headed as the public finally awakens to the corporate pillaging of our economy and the batshit reckless incompentence of our neoconservative foreign policy mandarins.
However, the great Ray McGovern (a former CIA analyst turned progressive scholar and activist) provides a persuasive reason why impeachment is absolutely necessary. The reason is that impeachment would enbolden members of the US military to refuse presidential orders to participate in a war against Iran.
Air strikes on Iran seem inevitable, unless grassroots America can arrange a backbone transplant for Congress. The House needs to begin impeachment proceedings without delay. Why? Well, there's the Constitution of the United States, for one thing. For another, the initiation of impeachment proceedings might well give our senior military leaders pause. Do they really want to precipitate a wider war and risk destroying much of what is left of our armed forces for the likes of Bush and Cheney? Is another star on the shoulder worth THAT?
http://www.buzzflash.com/...
Dennis Kucinich agrees and believes that impeachment may be:
the only remedy which remains to stop a war of aggression against Iran.
http://www.commondreams.org/...
I urge those Democrats who, like me, were quietly skeptical of impeachment and content to allow bush to have a final year and a half with which to destroy to the republican party, to think about McGovern's point. We need to impeach him to stop an attack on Iran, the blowback from which would be beyond contemplation.