Impeach this wretched president

Millions saw through George W. Bush well before March 19, 2003. (Remember, that was 3,292 American military lives ago--and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives ago.) Not long after Bush's infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech--on May 1, 2003, 3,153 American military lives ago--more and more Americans, along with most of the connected world, came to recognize the trail of lies about weapons of mass destruction, Al Qaeda in Iraq and all the rest of the imperial mandacity cranked out by Dick Cheney and Karl Rove. But the arrogance in the White House only continued to mestastasize.

Then came the Democrats in November. And then came the national polls that showed the favorable rating of The-President-Who-Would-Be-King slipping and sliding and crumbling. But there is perhaps no more immoveable a mulishness than that of a Pretender King, and so we are now in this wretched state that we are.

Congress has promised yet more war money to Bush if he will agree to a timetable for leaving the battleground of a thoroughly insane civil war. But Bush continues to deny there even is a civil war in Iraq. And he swears by his new "surge," even as the atrocities go up instead of down.

The uncovering of all those warmongering lies, the neglect of troops in the field and in the veterans' hospitals, the merciless extensions of troop stints in Iraq, the sheer waste of billions of dollars in collusion with the likes of Halliburton, nothing seems able to change the mind of the American Emperor.

But there is a way of hope. They used to call it dethronement. Today we call it impeachment. Congress should stop stalling.