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I have been retired for more than 20 years, so I know what Social Security means to the elderly. Yet we have President Bush still pushing his plan for personal accounts, which would be a disaster. They can use IRAs for that.
Another thing that angers me is the snickering about the filing cabinets full of useless IOUs. The U.S. government promises to pay those. I realize that under the Bush administration they may be useless, because it wants to run the U.S. government as Bush did his private businesses — into the hole.
Every day there is more evidence that the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction or terrorists. It was a Bush whim so he could call himself a war president. I have a much more appropriate title for him.
Also, I have a solution for the Iraq war. Draft Bush’s daughters and the children of those who profit from the war. Give them 10 days’ training and ship them off to the front lines in Iraq. We will quickly end this war when they risk some of their own blood.
Lastly, the Republicans were up in arms and wanted to impeach Clinton for having sex in the Oval Office, when he hurt no one but himself. Bush has had sex with the whole darn country with his invasion of Iraq and huge tax cuts to the wealthy. Where are the impeachers now?
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24 June 2005, 18:09
Letters, 6/23: Impeachable offenses
I thank the Lincoln Journal Star for printing (on the front page, even) the reasonably comprehensive story of how the Bush administration distorted (and lied) about the rationale for attacking Iraq ("Spilling the secrets," June 19). The Bush administration dismisses these memos as old news! If these memos are "old news," why has not the Journal Star told us about them a long time ago?
Cooking the "evidence" to justify the longstanding plan to invade Iraq really fits quite well the definition of impeachable offense, namely "High Crimes and Misdemeanors." Surely, Clinton’s "hanky-panky" was ugly and regrettable for a president, but hardly an impeachable offense. If impeachment of Clinton was attempted, how can the current revelations regarding Mr. Bush and his colleagues (including the vice president) not be considered impeachable offenses?
If readers do go to the Web sites the Journal Star published, they will find that much serious discussion about just such an effort to impeach this president.
Leonard R. Lee, Lincoln
http://www.journalstar.com/articles...
Impeach Bush for Iraq lies
June 21, 2005
President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should be impeached for lying to Congress and the American public in its push to invade Iraq.
Our Congressional delegation should, in support of Rep. John Conyers from Michigan, lead the beginning of impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney for high crimes and misdemeanors in violation of international law and the Constitution.
Recent information brought forth by the infamous Downing Street memo shows us that invasion of Iraq wasn’t the Bush administration’s "last resort", but was its intent all along. Killing people in the name of "American interests" ought to carry a burden of proof that the President never achieved, but claimed anyway.
Peace and democracy can only be achieved through good-faith attempts at educating people and nurturing life, not threats of death. Imagine if, in Iraq (or in Nigeria or Equatorial Guinea, or countless other places), our government sent good-faith ambassadors to lobby for the poor and underprivileged whose natural resources are stolen for profit rather than sending soldiers to fight and die in efforts to secure property for American and multinational corporations.
Where is the outrage? Where are the voter’s voices in the "free market" milieu? The Bush administration’s easier choice, rather than seeing the democratic process through, was to lie to the public, abetted by a lame press corps that helped restrict debate on the issue of whether or not to invade.
Craig Chevrier
Vermont Green Party
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26 June 2005, 22:55
Bush is engaged in a massive corruption scam. He wants to take the Social Security funds, which are relatively safe in government hands, and give them to his corporate friends. In turn they will "invest" your money, abscond with it, or otherwise divert your money into houses, Lear Jets, fancy cars, houses on the Riviera for themselves while you watch your "investment" shrink to nothing. This is the same scam that the Bush neocons are doing with retirement funds..so they will only pay you 25 cents for every dollar you put in the accounts. He calls this PRIVATIZING. I call it PIRATIZING. His friends are voracious pirates, and when they see large sums of money in some deposit they will figure out a way to get their dirty greedy hands on it, leaving you crying and bitter without recourse. We must FIGHT Bush and his corrupt schemes before the great mass of people are swindled out of their life savings, and the Bush friends live it up in whoopee style in their million dollar homes. They are SCUM and the way to treat SCUM is to scour it away with energetic rubbing..not by talk. Bush and company ignore talk, ignore poverty, ignore corruption, ignore death and destruction, but they snap to attention when they find a way to make money from natural resources or from people.
Peter fredsib