The Nation has no alternative. Bush must GO!

Each month we find out about another illegal surveillance program that our government is running in complete disregard of our constitutional system. First they admit to tapping international calls and now we find out they are recording called numbers for nearly every domestic phone call in the nation. What comes next month, surfing all the calls for key words?

We know our government is kidnapping people and shipping them to secret black prisons for torture. We also know that both US citizens and others have been locked up without any charges or anything even resembling due process.

These actions are just not what America is. We never used to believe that Might Makes Right. We used to be a nation that had moral standards. We used to be a nation where the government and especially the president obeyed the law. Now anything the "decider" says is needed for his vision of the War on Terror is OK. That is not who we are.

Now if all that illegal activity was not enough, the administration is planning another pre-emptive and pointless war against Iran. Our government is already responsible for over 100,000 deaths and several hundred billion dollars wasted in Iraq with no end in sight. It was started under obvious false pretenses. How can we sit here and let this happen again in Iran?

To use the quote the president could not get right, Fool me once, you’re a fool. Fool me twice, I’m a fool. If congress and the people let ourselves get fooled again, at the expense of tens of thousands of more deaths, the rest of the world will rightly consider us a dangerous rogue nation with no moral standards at all.

If we let this continue without opposition, we lose our heritage and our freedom together with our moral compass. This generation simply does not have the right to sell our children’s birthright for anything, let alone a series of nonsensical scare tactics. We need to remember the advice we got from Benjamin Franklin, "If a people give up their freedom for temporary security, they deserve neither" and will have neither.

To recover that moral compass and the reputation that goes with it, we can do no less than impeach the president. If we do not force him to suffer the supreme penalty that a president can suffer, we will never get our proud nation back. Letting him get away with all this criminal activity will set the precedent for future presidents. They will just start at today’s level of moral depravity and push the envelope even further.