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Gore Once More Remember back in 2006 when speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi proclaimed that impeachment of George Bush was "off the table?” She indicated that the Democratic Party would make better use of its time enacting its legislative agenda, insisting that redress for what many had perceived as the president’s egregious violations of his office would assuredly come with the election of a Democratic president in 2008. Now, as the Democrats dismember themselves in a scorched earth primary season, the prospects for Pelosi’s vision of justice becoming reality are rapidly slipping away. With the election of John McCain as president, Messirs Bush and Cheney will not only be absolved of their misdeeds, their legacy will be enshrined for years to come in an interminable military engagement in the Middle East and in a right-wing Supreme Court that will likely change America until well into the foreseeable future. This doesn't have to happen. It is becoming clear with each passing

Iraq Plus Five - Ho Hum Five years after the US invaded Iraq, the war grinds on, unsupported by the majority of the American people or the Iraqi populace. The conflict in Iraq has now lasted longer than World War II and will end up costing many times more. If one is to believe the statements of the Bush administration and president George Bush’s presumptive Republican successor John McCain, the war is going just fine. The same arrogance and disdain for the intelligence of the American people that allowed this disaster to happen was manifested again in statements by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and John McCain yesterday. In his message to the country, the president again outlined the now famous narrative that if we don’t win in Iraq, al-Qaida will establish a stronghold from which it will be able to attack the United States. Never mind that we have all but ignored going after al-Qaida in Pakistan where, according to most observers, including our own government, Osama bin

The Dream Team is a Nightmare You have to wonder when the Democrats will wake up. After Hillary Clinton’s primary wins in Texas and Ohio brought her and Barack Obama into a near tie in pledged delegates, the media pundits, party apparatchiks and the ever-blissful Democratic primary voters began to opine that the party would have no choice but to unite by supporting a Clinton/Obama (or Obama/Clinton) ticket. This idiotic idea has now been publicly endorsed by none other than former president Bill Clinton who termed the union of his wife and Barack Obama as being a potentially “unstoppable force.” Perhaps I am missing something, but this hare-brained scheme seems to suggest that a Democratic ticket without a running mate who possess strong enough national security credentials to match those of John McCain’s would somehow still spell success for the party in the general election. Over the course of many months and during numerous debates, both Clinton and Obama have taken pains to unders