A Warm Fuzzy

Reading this article gave me, what we of the seventies would call, a warm fuzzy. Not because impeachment was hinted at, well maybe that too, because there is something that we on the left have not seen in seven years.

With his go-it-alone approach on Iraq, President Bush is flouting Congress and the public, so angering lawmakers that some consider impeachment an option over his war policy, a senator from Bush's own party said Sunday.
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GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a frequent critic of the war, stopped short of calling for Bush's impeachment. But he made clear that some lawmakers viewed that as an option should Bush choose to push ahead despite public sentiment against the war.

"Any president who says, I don't care, or I will not respond to what the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else, or I don't care what the Congress does, I am going to proceed — if a president really believes that, then there are — what I was pointing out, there are ways to deal with that," said Hagel, who is considering a 2008 presidential run.

We have been called anti-American for the single crime of disagreement. We have stood and watched as they took our country's credibility and good standing and flushed it. We have watched as these people waged and illegal war of aggression on the innocent peoples of Iraq while turning their backs on the true (if there ever really was one) WOT. We watched in horror as New Orleans drown. Shock overtook us as we stood glued to our TV's on September 11, 2001, only to find out later that they knew - they had a file, which they ignored. Vacation was more important. We cringed as our liberties disintegrated, all in the name of fear safety. We watched as they changed the Geneva Convention to allow the torture they had already been practicing.

Now, here we are, watching again. This time, for the first time in seven years, we are seeing something new.

Accountability.

It's about damn time!