Ounce of Prevention
For the moment, Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton is a victim of the septic-cynicism toward the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. The septic system of the Bush/Cheney administration is just too deep to reach the bottom of it, and provide accountability for their malfeasance, before their terms expire in January, 2009, assuming the deciders allow their terms to expire at all.
Mayor Chilton was quoted in the Chapel Hill Herald, “I think the fact is that Congress is not likely to take any action on this topic. The president deserves probably something worse than impeachment, but I think we can all see that’s not really going to happen.â€
In a recent Guardian story, George W. Bush is reported to have been swayed to Dick Cheney’s view not to trust a future administration to deal decisively with the alleged threat from Iran. Cheney is hell bent to make war on Iran, just as he and Bush were hell bent to make war on Iraq.
Tens of millions of people marched on every continent to prevent the invasion of Iraq.
The failure of this peace movement, the largest the world has ever seen, provides us now with a pound of cure for the thousands of U.S. servicemen and women slain, the tens of thousands of wounded and maimed, the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths
and the millions of desperate refugees. A nation in ruins.
Bush and Cheney would have us believe that the cure for this malady is to start another war. The peace movement is both emboldened by unseating Republican majorities in the House and the Senate and embittered by the failure of the new Democratic leadership to hold Bush/Cheney accountable for their tragic litany of crimes.
The peace movement will have to work harder to convince skeptics like Mark Chilton that the impeachment of Cheney, then Bush, is a necessary prophylactic for another war, an ounce of prevention. Join the Carrboro born and bred Grass Roots Impeachment Movement and help our Congress and nation to take some preventative medicine.
John Heuer, co-chair
www.impeachbushcheney.net
Pittsboro