I wasn't going to write this diary but it has bugged me for hours. There is absolutely no Press on this release save the original article I will be linking to. During the Vietnam War when the Catholic Priests and Nuns decided to come out against the war it was big news and reported on continuously so why not now ? After doing some Googling and finding only one Blog/ messageboard, DemocraticUnderground, I decided it needs more than a casual mention in a open thread.
"The National Coalition of American Nuns is impelled by conscience to call you to act promptly to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for ... high crimes and misdemeanors," the group wrote in a letter written on behalf of its board members.
"Impelled by conscience", that is a pretty powerful statement when made by a coalition of Nuns after a discussion and then a vote don't you agree ? More on the flip.
I personally pretty much gave up on Impeachment a few months ago when it became clear to me that it wasn't likely to happen. Once I accepted that into my head and heart I started on my own type of campaign, but I will talk about that farther down. That said, while stewing over this lack of coverage I thought about all the airtime and print the Religious Right gets anytime they fart about some issue they want heard. Once again the " Liberal Media " has shown they aren't liberal at all, and it's just more propaganda to coverup the facts of life and this illegal war in Iraq. You can bet if the Press were Liberal this next part would be on the Front Page of every paper.
The letter says that impeachment is warranted for their "deceiving the public under the false pretense that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction" and "destroying" the reputation of the United States and the good will of other nations.
"The time for impeachment is now — before the example of George W. Bush’s regime is set in stone," they wrote. "Future generations will thank you for preserving the freedom of our nation and its relation to the entire human community." Coalition of nuns calls for impeaching Bush and Cheney
While I believe there is still time to Impeach these two crook and traitors, and that once it got going the majority of Americans would get behind it if all the lies and crimes were exposed for all to see, with irrefutable evidence, I doubt that Congress has what it take to make that 1st move. If Conyers were a man of his word he would of started the process by now.
Since I came to the above conclusions a while back I decided to start trying to get people to make our Candidates for President commit to bringing criminal charges once they take office. My one man movement has been named " Ask the Question ". Today it is not quite a one man deal because others have begun to think along the same lines.There has even been a diary or 2 on the same issue here at dkos. I started by just dropping comments in Open Threads, and in the comment sections of diarys where it fit the topic, as I still do when it fits.
The Question is to Hillary, Obama, Edwards, Gore and any other candidate :
Will you promise if elected, to direct your new Atty. General to appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate all the crime and corruption of the Bush Admnistration ? Crimes in violation of Civil Rights, War Profiteering, Torture, War Crimes, Domestic Spying, Etc. and will you further swear to bring them to trial and to do it without issuing Pardons to anyone found quilty of any crimes ?
I have yet to hear any Candidate even mention this issue in passing. When Pres. Ford made the claim that it was best to let our country heal rather than prosecute Nixon and Agnew and others, it was damaging to our country and set up what has happen with Bush and Cheney. If Nixon had gone to jail then I have no doubt that Cheney , the chickhawk that he is, would not of had the guts to chance ending up in prison. If that is true, none of what has happen in the last 5 years would be destroying our country today.
If you have the chance during the next 500 days to confront any candidate I beg of you to ask the question, and demand a answer. The future of our nation rests on how this is handled after Bush leaves office. He should never be free to go on a speech-giving tour to "refill his coffers with expensive speaking fees"
Crossposted at Daily Kos
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