It is clear that the Democratic Party is viewed as emasculated and having no real influence on Bush and Cheney.

In fact, it could be said, without exaggeration, that Barney (the dog) has had more influence on Bush than the Democratic Party.

Yes, the Democratic Party has had less influence than Barney, but perhaps a similar influence as Barney’s poop —- in that Bush knows it’s there, is annoyed by the smell, and simply steps away.

Perhaps the Democratic Party, in deference to the fair advertising doctrine, should really change its name to the Barney Poop Party (or BPP). This name change to BPP would also convey a somewhat foreign party acronym sound (like a Kurdish or Pakistani party) and better reflect the contempt with which the Bush global dictatorship holds the Democrats.

Oops, sorry for getting off-topic —– let me get back, ‘on message’.

Well then, in summary, perhaps the Democrats could actually grow some, impeach Cheney with his own ‘one percent’ logic, and thereby avoid falling the little bit lower toward being a party named for dog poop.

All right, let’s be fair and apply Cheney’s own logic to Kucinich’s issue of whether Cheney should be impeached.

It is well known (in fact there is a book about it) that Cheney was the originator and promoter of the Bush doctrine by which the Iraq war was launched — “The One Percent Doctrine”.

According to Cheney’s own logic, the ‘one percent doctrine’ states that because the outcome would be so terrible, that if there is only a ‘one percent chance’ that Iraq might plunge the world into nuclear war— then preemptive action is required to prevent such a massive danger to the people of America.

OK, in the manner of the famous “Dirty Harry” movie line, “ask yourself, punk” is there a ‘one percent chance’ that Cheney might cause the launch of a nuclear war on Iran before Jan ’09??

As Cheney himself might say (if he were honest), “Well, have you been counting, punk?” “I don’t remember if I have fired 5 wars or six — so do you want to try me?”

The bottom line is clearly that there is at least a ‘one percent chance’ that Cheney will cause Americans to be involved in a nuclear war before Jan ’09 — and thus by Cheney’s own logic ACTION to address that risk to the American people must be taken!!

Due to the calls for impeachment to the Capital Bldg, the coward, fear-driven, unfaithful “terrocrats” have actually had [our] phone numbers changed. Can you believe this? I had called 800-862-5530 all last week to mandate support of the Kucinich impeachment bill HR333… Call today [Our] “Government” has disconnected this number… You “we the people” can no longer get through. How irrelevant are “they” “our government” now? Anybody here have “their” new number?

Still, I think impeachment (which obviously is not going to happen given partisan balance in Congress among other things) would send a good message to the world and ourselves.

It is not clear that the embers of the American democratic tradition will continue to (barely) glow much longer…no guarantee they will survive beyond the current corporate-crafted “quadrennial election extravaganza” (see Edward S. Herman’s dark reflections on dying/dead democracy and authoritarian peril in the November 2007 Z Magazine [where I have a piece on health care "reform" in the 2008 elections]).

The assault on First Nations’ people laid critical foundations for subsequent international U.S. atrocities in all kinds of fascinating and horrifying ways .

Basically, the same article could, and should have been written of Hitler’s actions up to 1940, except that Hitler didn’t have as sophisticated a PR scam to hide his murderous actions.

Hitler only had Goebbels’ scheme to set up a thinly veiled phony government in the biggest of his captured territories; ‘Vichy France’. Whereas Bush and Cheney have their entire global corporatist Empire well hidden (in plain sight) behind the ‘Vichy’ facade of their own nominal country —- ‘Vichy America’.

Excellent article. — which shows great understanding of the hubris of imperialist war crimes and the audacity of the propaganda that presents them as being ‘normal’.

Impeachment of both Bush and Cheney would be the wisest way to fight terrorism. It will send a message to the world, that the USA is not as hopelessly F’d up as they might have thought.

From the beginning it was the Native peoples, the socalled Indians; Independent, and soverign nations with borders (reservation borders!) guarantied inviolable by the White Father in Washington, according to treaties. But one nation after the another was crushed “for the good” of the God fearing Euro-Americans. And people of First nations fought your wars; With 10,000 casualities in the WW I alone! But I never see a single contributor to these informative pages point to these ongoing crimes.

Those Nations surviving suffer today under US bondage as ever before. In your peisons you have many innocent persons of First Nations today, i.e. Lakota-Anishinabe political prisoner Leonard Peltier who has suffered injustis under the corrupt US government since 06.02.76 Your Goverment said they did not know who killed the two FBI agents, for which Peltier is suffering two consecutive life sentences. But this innocent man, standing up for the rightds of his people has to sit behind bars in a “Guatanao” like style. The court hearing was a FARSE , and so the blocking of reopening the case, FBI actinons to defame and keep him in prison, the government witholding 11,000 investigation documents for the sake of the country’s security!!! God bless!!!
There are no doubt that the US Government itself sacrificed the two FBI agents as a pretext to armed showdown on Pine Ridge, SD 1975

Likewice I am convinced that the White House, possibly in coopera- tion with it’s Israeli protégé, perpetrated the crime against the Twin Towers; necessary for the support of the public US for a “war on terror”. A war for oil waged by today’s worst Terrorist Regime.

American people, you are carrying a tremendous burden of crimes on your backs for not checking your government. This cannot be ” the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave, does it? The Democratic Party is like a dead watchdog on the porch, and impeachment of the culprits doesn’t seam likely at all. When are you going to turn the page?

Millions of innocent people the world around has suffered and died because of you, and you know if you look into your history and not listen to the Military-Industrial complex. You do not even have Civil Rights anymore, neither Social Security. Tens of Millions suffering under the powerty level……..

I sincerely believe that the US has to be reshaped totally for the good of the people, and for the sake of the whole world.

It is unnessesary to mention Iraq and Iran, you know it all, and I commend the DC and all it’s superb writers for narrating on these subjects. You are regarded a God fearing people, but the acts of the nation make me look at Christianity as a tool for imperialism, and religious wars! And we of European nations have so many relatives in your country, surely not better than other warmongers, I guess. I’m ashamed ! No less am I ashamed of the rest of the world who is sitting “on the fence” watshing the US and the British. INTOLLERABLE

I sincerely believe that the US has to be reshaped totally for the sake of the people, and for the sake of the whole world.