Common sense dictates that Bush must be ousted

Editor,

The Bush administration continues to pursue a failed policy in Iraq even after the National Intelligence Estimate said its policy has increased aggravations and terrorism in the world. Numerous military experts, such as Gen. Anthony Zinni and Eric Shinseki, have said the war was a fiasco from the beginning. President Reagan's former National Security Agency director, Gen. William Odom, has said a civil war is already underway, and the reasons for staying are flawed.

President Bush needs to be impeached. The nightmare in Iraq has presented a good case for the Constitution to be amended to allow for a recall of the president even if he or she has been elected twice. After all, Gray Davis had been elected twice as governor of California when the citizens of California decided that re-electing him was a mistake. Why can't the citizens of the U.S. be given a chance to right a wrong and recall an incompetent president who time and again has shown a lack of engagement and a lack of willingness to deal with facts, choosing ideology instead?

We wasted more than $100 million on investigations when a president used a cigar as a sex toy, yet we will not depose a president who has wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on some vendetta over his old man and given out no-bid deals in a fashion that would make Mayor Chávez blush with envy. This war has emboldened Iran and al-Qaida, and Osama bin Laden remains free.

It is time for common sense - to refer to Thomas Paine - to finally prevail, and for the next two years to be a slow and agonizing political death of Bush.

Brandon Curtis

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