The new Congress may have the motivation, courage and honor to move strongly against the Bush administration on the Iraq War. We will see.

The American people need to stay on this case too, providing encouragement and support for senators and congressmen/women.

On the issue of impeachment, it certainly seems justified. However, like Nixon, impeachment of Bush and Cheney will result in a Republican replacement who would most likely grant pardons. The suspects would escape justice.

It might be wiser to pursue justice through criminal and civil legal actions after these people leave office, and redeploy troops from Iraq through other means.

Two articles looking at these psychological and tactical issues are below:

Congressional inquiries on Iraq War can enhance honor and strength of America

By Steve Hammons
American Chronicle
November 9, 2006

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=16328

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Going in circles: Vietnam, Iraq, calls for impeachment

Steve Hammons
American Chronicle
January 12, 2007

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=19080

Bravo, Peter Barta.  You have managed to put our six nightmarish years under the Bush Administration and a complicit Legislative Branch into one concise paragraph.

History will not only find our present “leaders” wanting, history may record a blow-by-blow series of events that led to the fall of this once great “city shining on a hill.”

I have my alarm clock set for IMPEACHMENT. Anything less is a waste of my time. Let’s cut to the chase already.

Yes “it won’t stop us…” from killing more innocent people and sacrifying more young U.S. troops in vain. “Papa” Cheney is always right. He’ll send his daughters and Bush’s princesses to Iraq.

I totally support the Senate resolution to tell the president and the American People that sending another 22,000 troops to Iraq is a mindless sacrifice of young American lives.  The president took us into this war using untruths and fabricated “Foreign intelligence”.  Our president and vice-president have made a mockery of our prestige abroad and lost the trust of our allies and citizens.  If not for the vice-president, I would whole-heartedly indorse impeaching the president.  Our newly elected Democratic leaders, along with support form Republicans in the house and the senate must stop any more bloodshed in Iraq and bring our troops home.

There are thousands of people dying in a war based on misrepresentations and lies, world opinion of our country is at a record low, the pointless U.S. occupation of Iraq is serving as a lightning rod for extremist groups around the globe and what does the Democratically “controlled” Congress, armed with a clear mandate from the American people, do? They seek to pass a non-binding resolution saying that maybe we shouldn’t send more troops into the quagmire? History will judge these politicians who, thrust upon the world stage, did very little indeed; as will the parents, friends and loved ones of those who will die in this disastrous conflict because nobody in Washington has the backbone to stand up the worst president in our nation’s history. And that’s not even touching on the concentration camps, secret trials and domestic spying that have made our Constitution wanting. History will indeed judge our current “leaders”...and find them wanting.