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For Democracy, We Must Consider Impeachment
By Midge Miller
Democracy is not merely the system of government we happened to be born into, a system that only asks us to vote for leaders from time to time. If democracy means we are a self-governing people, then it means we not only have the right but the responsibility to control the policies and actions of our government.
Many of us have resisted the idea of impeaching Cheney and Bush. But we now realize that by allowing this administration to continue in power, we become a party to:
Our Founding Fathers understood the misuse of power and gave us impeachment as a corrective measure. Facing such a disastrous series of wrongheaded policies, if we fail to use it, we signal to future presidents and other leaders that they too can ignore the will and the welfare of the people of our country and the world.
- Killing Americans and other people in wars of aggression.
- Imprisoning and torturing people.
- Endangering our economy and the environment.
- Neglecting health, education and other needs at home and abroad.
- Eroding our own liberties.