ould I say it on the air? I believe it and feel the statement is accurate: President George Bush has committed impeachable offenses. Yes, I believe it with the same conviction that his most ardent fans know him to be inspired by God.
Should we call for his impeachment? Would I say it on the air? No, probably not at this stage, but following the November Congressional and gubernatorial campaigns, there'll be time enough to try to retire this man before he does any more damage. If not we and the world have two more years of warfare, diminished US influence and fewer friends. Two more years of dividing not uniting this nation. Two more years of the mission anything but, accomplished.
The President continues to say that we must "Stay the course" in Iraq. What course? According to the latest estimate issued by the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins the war's Iraqi death tally has now surpassed 600,000. And we are rapidly approaching the time when the number of our troops killed in the quagmire of Iraq, matches the slaughter of the innocents at the World Trade Center.

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The day is rapidly approaching when we learn, officially, that the nation's population has surpassed 300 million. It'll likely be in excess of 400 million by 2043. By then we could well be a majority of minorities.

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The Nuclear Club consists of the United States, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, China, Pakistan, India and perhaps Israel and, once upon a time, South Africa. Now we add North Korea and possibly, soon, Iran. North Korea shunned the world and thumbed its nose at the United Nations and tested an atomic device. So much for the past 15 years of diplomacy aimed at halting the spread of atomic weapons and deterring the North Koreans from letting their nuclear genie out of the bottle. And Iran is watching with fascination as to how we and the world react. North Korea, in the past, has sold all manner of conventional missiles and nuclear know-how. It seems very possible that this nation on the verge of starvation, could start selling small nuclear devices to Islamic terrorists.
Iran is watching and with each passing day becomes more likely to abandon the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, defying the United Nations, and testing its own device (the one that they claim they aren't making!). The consequence of that might well be the start of a Middle East atomic arms race.

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Perhaps you can help me out with this... do you cringe at some of the standard expressions utilized by so many of our radio and TV interviewers these days? How about "if you will" (what the hell does that mean?). "so to speak" (what the hell does that mean?). "As it were" - were it? "Let me ask you this...". Just ask and don't ask whether or not you may ask!
"In a manner of speaking" - I don't understand. "Give me a sense of..." If the interviewer had done his or her homework, they wouldn't need to ask the question. There are so many more, but they cause me to cringe and perhaps even miss the most famous of them all "you know" - I don't.

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Book recommendation: "State of Denial" It is most enlightening. It's Bob Woodward's third book about the Bush administration. I keep reflecting on what might have been. The then CIA Director George Tenet claimed that he was "not getting through to Rice", Tenet felt he was getting "the brush off " from her. Think about it, here we are towards the end of 2006, and we are only just learning that our (now) Secretary of State had brushed off the CIA Director's warning some two months before the terrorists attacked on Sept.11. 2001.
The first two books were, frankly, quite complimentary about George Bush. I have my doubts whether Woodward will have easy access to the West Wing or the Executive Mansion in the future... of this administration.
More later,