No one seems to be writing opinion pieces quite the way I would, so I decided to do it myself.

The name? Taverns are places where one goes to discuss the interesting events and things in the world, so this is my tavern.

I will offer my views on politics, economics, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
I will occasionally publish the entire article from another journal for purposes of causing discussion.

 

Should Bush be Impeached if He Lied about WMDs?

LA Times

Robert Sheer has an editorial in the June 17th LA Times that makes the point.

Perhaps the Republicans think they can stall until fragments of evidence of weapons of mass destruction are found, which would clear Bush's name. However, that won't do the trick. The president persistently claimed that the war was necessitated by the imminent threat of deployed weapons — "a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles," as the president put it, capable of dispersing a huge existing arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, including "missions targeting the United States."

We now know that the threat of deployed WMD was a blatant falsehood. What has not been established is whether the president was in on the lie. If he was, he should be impeached.

Bush has consistently lied about his policies on Social Security, Medicare, everything except tax cuts, and even on those he has been misleading. They are not an economic stimulator. He has other reasons for them.

A listing of some of the lies by Bush and his immediate cohorts is found here

But if he lied to convince the Congress and the American people to support the preemptive war on Iraq, then it is completely clear that he should not be President.
posted by Richard at 4:38 AM