We Must Investigate Bush/Cheney

I think Congress or some body of government must investigate the Bush Administration's arrogant use of executive power and war crimes. I don't buy the argument that we cannot survive it. We need to cleanse the system of the kinds of corruption that enabled the Bush/Cheney crowd to pull a coup, fake the evidence for war, torture, and enrich their Enron, Halliburton, Oil Company, and Blackwater pals.

I definitely agree with John Nichols who wrote in The Nation:

On the matter of presidential accountability, the House has been less than it should be ever since. The chamber that refused to hold Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and their henchmen to account for Iran/Contra abuses--and that took impeachment "off the table" even after revelations that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney had committed acts that former White House legal counsel John Dean identified as "worse than Watergate"--has remained a bystander as successive presidents have engaged in ever more sinister abuses of authority.

Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Constitution subcommittee, who has long urged Congress to get more serious about checking and balancing executive excess, is now rightly arguing that evidence of the Bush administration's complicity in torture must be addressed. "Horrible abuses were committed in the name of the American people, and we cannot look the other way or just 'move on,'" he says. But Congress must also confront its own complicity: members must recognize that their repeated refusals to address abuses by sitting and former presidents have facilitated a breakdown in the constitutional order.

From Senator Robert Byrd: Our Obligation to Investigate