Vox clamantis in deserto, you are the voice of someone yelling the truth in the wasteland, the land of the USA!!! It´s a pity but I have felt the same many many times. I like to ask with the voice of Cicero calling for Catilina´s removal in the Roman Forum -namely Bush and his cohorts in this particular instance. But ... to what purpose? History will tell, because we have ears but do not want to listen! Will Obama listen? I doubt it the way he is turning out these days.

I marched in the protest just before the war began...you know, the one where over ten million people worldwide took part, and the Criminal-In-Chief referred to as no more than a "focus group". I joined other Americans afterwards in continuing protests in my town. I've also written my congressman and senators more times than I can count, and have expressed, each time more bluntly, my desire to see this President, and all of his co-conspirators, impeached and tried for war crimes, with the full weight of the law specifying the punishment for their endless crimes. Tell me what else I can do within the law?

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was in the United States recently visiting family and friends (I have been living in Guatemala for the past 15 years) and I realized that just about everyone is in debt. Besides that the main concerns are getting the kids to soccer and baseball and watching sports on television and deciding what new movie to see on the weekend and planning the summer vacation and what about the Bills' second year running back and the hit and run car accident he had on May 31st. The truth is that no one has the time, nor the inclination to get riled up about our military torturing the Iraqi prisoners - that's "over there". And that is very sad, thank you Major General Taguba for reminding us that these actions come under the serious charge of "war crimes". I can only hope that some folks back home take this as seriously as I have.

Until we the American people go to the streets in major protests we are as guilty as Bush and Cheney. I was illegally in East Germany in 1988 and witnessed 1 million East Germans parading down the streets of East Berlin. They brought down the hated "wall", not Ronald Reagan, or even Gorbatchow. The East German people took their "inalienable rights" into their own hands. What in the hell is going on in America ? Why has the nation let itself be conned by these crooks. They are so bold faced in their crimes they don't even deny them. Instead they have built an until now impermeable "wall" bricked with "executive privilege". It is time to take our country back, and that should start with record demonstrations demanding the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. Only then will the backboneless Democratic Congress see that "we the people" will not accept anything less. Wake up Mrs. Pelosi !! Real democracy starts from the bottom, but it takes courage, a commodity I fear the spoiled American people is poorly lacking. They are more concerned with gas prices. People like General Taguba are setting the example with their courage. Let's tear down the "wall" dividing our trodden principles with the painful reality of our broken system. Only we the people can do that, insisting that all politicians do our will.

To hell with impeachment; I say we use "enhanced interrogation techniques" on the terrorists who did violence to our nation - the ones who usurped power, shredded the Constitution, lied, cheated and emptied the National Treasury; I say we use s little water-boarding on them and force them to admit their crimes; I say we bring no charges, but keep them imprisoned at Gitmo for the rest of their unnatural lives: I say no habeas corpus for Bush, Cheney Rumsfeld, Rove, Addington, Libbey, et al; I say they deserve the same sort of ignominious fate as Rudolph Hess at Spandau. You'd think after the last eight years,people would have enough of Fascist nonsense. But living here in the buckle of the Bible Belt, I can assure you there are plenty of good citizens of the Reich who have not learned their lesson. They will gladly cast their vote for more of the same rather than vote for a black man, They have learned nothing in the nearly a century and a half since Lincoln uttered these words: "Yet, if God wills that this war continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." It would seem America still has a long way to go and much to suffer before the debt is paid.

Torture is treason. Bluntly put, this is what we are trying to comprehend individually and as a nation. Torture overwhelms human standards expressing, in effect, every violation that can be perpetrated against a human being. It unmistakably violates at root all the Articles of the Bill of Rights and the very intention of the US Constitution because torture is the ultimate corruption of power. Members of the Bush Administration have violated the Geneva Conventions and the Convention Against Torture. They have also violated Federal law - an impeachable offense - because the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution makes the treaty domestic law too. Major General Taguba reminds us that the victims of torture do not recover but actually carry the scars of such treatment invisibly for the rest of their lives. Citizens must realize that the very existence of torture implies the breakdown of Law, Due Process, and accountability from those in power. Once incriminated in crimes of torture its proponents and apologists must work to erode the democratic laws in place that would hold them accountable. Americans who believe in the greatness and possibility of our Nation must fully realize that people who are imprisoned indefinitely without charges and tortured are not prisoners. They are slaves. This is what the Bush Administration and its collaborators have done and what they represent. They must be held accountable. Therefore, "War Crimes" is the term and impeachment is the remedy. Major General Taguba has acted in the greatest tradition of democratic patriotism, military honor and courage by speaking out "defending the Constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic". Each of us must do so too.

A response to comments above - The "American People" aren't letting them get away with anything, "they" have guns to our heads, just what are the "American People" supposed to do? Complain? We do plenty of that, they do not listen, Threaten them with impeachment? They dissemble and continue, Write a Congressperson? They are part of the problem. It's time the "American People" took a look at the source justification for all this sickness. What is needed is a longer historical perspective on what happens inside empires. America must take a step back and understand that jet fuel, aka Kerosene, even an ocean of it, is incapable of aerosolizing 110 floors of concrete or melting 4 inch steel girders. America Has Been Had. Wake up or suffer.

I fully agree with the General As a WW II veteran ASN # 12087329 I say that we Americans are the current "good Germans of the Third Reich" ! We are all guilty of doing little to stop these atrocities ! Thomas Jefferson had the answer ! Where is Bush's God in all this ?

Why I would voite for impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney The President and Vice President have acted with unprecedented abandon for the U. S. Constitution and the basic principles of International Law by provoking and executing an attack on the sovereign nation of Iraq without due cause. The resulting loss of lives, torture and maiming of innocent civilians constitute unjustifiable violation of the Geneva Convention and human rights. Using unsubstantiated premises of weapons of mass destruction, connection to known terrorists groups, and other unsubstantiated imminent dangers to the U. S. and/or U. S. interests,and ignoring all reports to the contrary, carried out a campaign of death and destruction throughout Iraq. If this does not constitute a basis for articles of impeachment, then we shall likely never find a more egregious reason for impeachment of any person under the U. S. Constitution, and we shall have failed in our responsibility, as a people, to uphold the virtues that our forefathers long ago established for our government.

They Live, We sleep "They use their tongues to deceive. The venom of snakes is under their lips. Their mouths are full of bitterness and curses and in their paths nothing but ruin and misery and the fear of God is not before their eyes! They have taken the hearts and minds of our leaders. They have recruited the rich and the powerful and they have blinded us to the truth. Our human spirit is corrupted! Why do we worship greed!? Because outside the limit of our sight, feeding off us; perched on top of us from birth to death are our owners, our owners, they have us, they control us, they are our masters! Wake up! They are all about you, all around you!" From the blind street preacher in "They Live" by John Carpenter

Thank you General Taguba for standing on principle. You are one voice that critically matters in what has happened these past 7 years. And there are other voices of integrity that have yet to speak out. Word to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

I also shall NOT vote for any one who doesn't suppost Kucinich. This is past a joke - it is a national tragedy. I often wondered how hundreds of thusands of German citizens stood by while Hitler constructed his hekk on earth. Now I know.

Bush/Cheney's intent is now blatantly evident. Day by day the overall agenda of the Bush/Cheney administration pictures out with clarity. Beginning in 1992, at the end of the G.H.W. Bush administration, Dick Cheney, then Secretary of Defense, drafted the Defense Planning Guidance Plan (DPG)which, over time through to 1997, and with the a large cadre of prominent members of that administration--names we all know in the present--(William Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis Libby, Jeb Bush, Zalmay Khalilzad, Donald, Fred and Robert Kagan, Mark Lagon, Gary Schmitt, Abram Shulsky and many more, a raft of military officers, and Northrop Grumman Corp and other industrialists,) became the committee creating the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). It was/ is blueprint for what has become the George W. Bush administration. By September of 2000, it became the reformulated RAD (Rebuilding America's Defenses guidance document for the incoming administration, a declaration of world military supremacy and control, beginning in Iraq--"change of regime." But, it said, it would be difficult to implement with the public, it "would take another Pearl Harbor. . ." Read on. . .a must---to understand. Fast forward to 2008, by way of 9/11, a tragedy never forensically investigated--a crime scene closed to exposure ( even the two chairs of the 9/11 Commission are calling for a new investigation because of information and material that was withheld from the committee.) . And then there was the manufactured and deceptive intelligence propaganda selling WMD terror( we have just learned about by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report and also McClellan's book disclosure) and the 'shock and awe" firebombing to plunge us into an 'planned' unnecessary and immoral war. Never mind the hundreds of violations and actions that undermine the Constitution, emasculate the balance of powers foundation of constitutional government, the hundreds of signing agreements and Executive Orders that egregiously reveals Bush's contempt of the Law and his declaration of his"decider" imperial power, the usurpation of power and presidential privilege, a regime memorialized by its penchant for secrecy, and the largest debt in history--sinking the economy and the value of the dollar. Just go to the current revelations that show the extraordinary permanent building projects all over Iraq, the largest most luxurious embassy in the world at a cost (not yet finished) of over a $billion, 30 bases and pushing for 58 permanent bases in Iraq alone, pushing the a Maliki government for an agreement that grants immunity INDEFINITELY to not only military personnel, but private mercenary and other contractors of whatever nature, grants U.S. control of air space up to 30,000 ft--in other words---all the essentials for a permanent occupation.Bush, at its inception said it would last for generations---how did he know? McCain inadvertently said 100 years. (IT IS THE PLAN) The Iraqi ministers are complaining to the U.S. Congress, "It would impair Iraq sovereignty," said Ali al Adeeb.They don't want the occupation to continue. And where is 'what's his name. . . oh yes, Osama. . .Bush says now, 'oh, he's not important." He never was. He was a U.S. asset remember--fighting with the CIA and Afghanistan against Russia. Here is the visual---the evidence in black and white--the plan. The War was not about Saddam, or terrorism, or democracy (their sovereignty) it was about expansion of hegemonic control--a permanent foothold in the Middle East---you got it---to protect our interests---black gold--rivers of it running through pipes across the rugged mtns from the Caspian Sea. And the cost--the published amount---$12 billion a month. Upwards of over $2 trillion in the short term---what is long term? And according to the GAO military accounting when first we began supplying money--there was over one $trillion 'unaccounted for in the Defense Budget. How can you lose a $trillion? Our national debt is now stretching $10 trillion with the economy in peril. The cost in human life---let me count the hundreds of thousands, including over 4000 of our soldiers killed,unnumbered wounded, 25% of our troops returning home with serious mental wounds medicine will not cure, shocking hundreds of soldier- suicides a year, and the maiming continues, estimated 4 million Iraqi exiled---to raise questions of United State's integrity into the future. Connect the dots, it makes quite a picture of intent, most of which are impeachable offenses. The witnesses are gathering with speed. Add your own to the long list and lets get on with the business of cleansing this government---NOW. Our Washington representatives need to be held accountable for their lack of accountability in doing their job. What vested interest keeps them from keeping their Oaths of Office? And where is this REAL issue of Impeachment and integrity of government talked about in the current campaign? Have you read that McCain is a 'signatory' on the PNAC project--which truly makes him a Bush clone; a third term--indeed, but devastatingly so. I don't know where Obama sits, as a Senator--will he Impeach? Anyone asking THE question? How about rescuing one or two of the other candidates---who WILL talk about the real issues. The Republic hangs by a thread, we are in a Constitutional Crisis ---no one seems to hear the alarms clanging. Wake UP America--this is a perfect storm raging!!! The many Rivers are rising?

Impeach the Pair!

Enough of our citizens have to unite in this cause to hook the media in and the exposure will lure our elected officials to snag the guilty as a way to cleanse their guilt and complicity... This the th real world citizens.

There are many men and women of honor in the military who feel the same way as General Taguba. We must give thanks to him for speaking out in his own name, and in theirs. It is not too much to hope that one day our military leaders will proclaim that torture is incompatible not only with the rule of law and with democracy, but with the highest traditions of military service. Impossible? No: This is exactly what has happened in Chile, although it took some fifteen years after the end of the Pinochet dictatorship. And it appears to be happening in Argentina, another country with a history of "dirty war." The justification of torture as a means to get information is a lie, but that doesn't mean torture is ineffective. The real purpose of torture is terror. It's aim is to break the will not only of the individual who is tortured, but of everyone who fears that they may suffer the same fate. But torture does not only break people's will: It also produces resistance and hatred and moral revulsion. In the long run we can hope that the moral side wins. Torture also deforms the torturers. Most of the GIs who were put in this position were not sadists or bad people, but they had to become warped in order to carry it out. The process of recovery for a society that has practiced and suffered systematic torture as a policy can take decades. Reports like Gen Taguba's should be followed by Truth Commissions, to make everything public. If we're lucky, prosecution may follow. D.

I agree with Mr. Spero an Anon. I must add, however, that there is a deep tendency in the U.S. that has been here for a good long time, only now it is festering. Some call it the "chicken hawk" phenomenon, but it is really a cowardice running from top to bottom in our culture. Our representatives and too many of us are power whores in tough-guy clothing: sissy-bullies. We do not hesitate to kick the defenseless in the teeth when they are down. We kid ourselves that there is something courageous about siding with an illegitimate bully and we flatter ourselves that these monsters, supported by an army of lawyers, need our defense. Bravo Gen. Taguba (ret.), Bravo Dennis Kucinich, and Bravo all real people of real integrity!!

This is just the latest disclosure in a pattern of war crimes, including torture, that leads straight to the door of the Oval Office. It's like a criminal case where the evidence exists from many irrefutable sources, and it's all in plain sight. Now what's needed is a Congress with the spine to uphold the Constitution and impeach or criminally prosecute those who so damaged our country. Belva Ann

Impeachment is certainly justified. But it's not going to happen, and indeed it may be better so. Were Bush and Cheney to be impeached, that's as far as it would go- they'd lose their jobs and nothing more, which is way too lenient. What needs to happen is for them to be tried by an international war-crimes tribunal- after they have left office- and imprisoned like any other murdering thugs.

it is clear to anyone with a brain and a willingness to accept the truth that the bush administration has broken law after law after law. the united states government has lost all legitimacy. the executive branch did so by it's actions. the legislative branch did so by not holding the executive branch accountable for it's illegal actions. the judicial branch did so by appointing a president. the following familiar words come to mind: "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

I'm so tired of hearing about impeaching the president. Big deal. They'll still be able to enjoy their sorry lives sitting on a bunch of blood money. Bush and all his cronies/accomplices need to spend the rest of their lives in a maximum security prison. Unless you need to impeach before you can imprison, then fine impeach the bastards.

I agree wholeheartedly that Bush and Cheney should be impeached and tried for war crimes. I had an opportunity to see the movie"Taxi To the Darkside". I recommend it to everyone to learn of the atrocities perpetrated by our government in the name of "security". This war will continue as long as Washington is given the green light by not punishing the real criminals . I also think it unethical that many congressmen and women and others who hold high office are allowed to profit from the war through investments in military contractors.

thank you for your courage. Impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney. How dare they have committed these atrocities in our country's good name and gotten away with it. Do they think a flag pin in their lapels will do it?

If the leaders of this administration are not brought to account we Americans will suffer. Not only throughout the rest of the world but also internally will our reputation be tarnished. We will never know peace until justice has been heard.