Deadeye Dick

Should the powers at the center of the Bush Putsch decide that an ’08 election is not in the best interests of a self-terrorized America, it will mark the fourth coup-d’etat in recent American history. The first was accomplished with bullets in Dealy Plaza 1963, and the other two by means of a stacked and corrupt Supreme Court, Diebold, and voter intimidation and disenfranchisement in 2000 and 2004.

Some believe that so egregious and so numerous are the crimes committed by the Bush/Cheney Administration that they would be foolish to risk being held accountable by voluntarily leaving office, when an easy evasive remedy is so readily at hand, especially since Barak Obama recently went on record in favor of referring possible criminal matters to his new Attorney General for investigation. Hillary Clinton will be hard pressed to make the same assertion. And while McCain surely won’t, the prospect of exacting some form of justice on the Crawford Cowboy and his sneering sidekick Deadeye Dick will surely be compelling and could tip the balance away from the dangerously unstable and belligerent McCain, who offers four (or yikes! eight) more years of McSame.

All of the crimes committed by Bush/Cheney are impeachable (that impeachment has been ‘off the table’ is one of the worst acts of cowardice and abdication of duty in American history); some, but not all are ‘pardonable’. It is not clear whether a President can pardon himself, but as Gerry Ford found out, pardoning an unpopular ex-President is perilous for a new President, and a likely guarantee against re-election, and would be doubly so for a Democrat. In any case, war crimes and crimes against humanity are not subject to pardon. Invading a nation based on lies and killing up to a million people is not pardonable.