8/02/2004 06:53:00 AM|W|P|projectpeace|W|P|Anger is an appropriate response to being attacked. Certainly the world is being attacked by the Bush Administration. Whether you consider the environment, the economy, or the social structures upon which our civilization has been built, the Bush administration is assaulting every dimension of our existence. I think in this case, anger, while understandable and justified, is not enough. Legal action is called for, beginning with impeachment of both the President and the Vice President, for abuse of power and repeaterdly lying to Congress. Beginning with subversion of democracy which stole the 2000 election, through the dismissal of a million black votes in Florida; continuing to the present underhanded dealings of the incumbent coterie of military-industrial profiteers waging wars for profit, short-changing our troops as they risk their health and lives among depleted uranium and Iraqi "insurgents." For the United States to regain the respect of the world, Bush and Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice and, yes, even Colin Powell, must be tried for the crime of starting a war. Certainly there can be no greater crime, which may be why it is taking so long for people to recognize it as such. The war in Iraq is too big a crime to be immediately, yet that is why the world is reacting to the U.S. with violence, outrage and revulsion. Crimes committed against the people of the Middle East and elsewhere precipitated the attacks of September 11th. It is time for the American people to admit their part of the responsibility for what happened. Aggressive economics and the support of violence, by factions within our government, provoked the attacks. If the American people truly want the threat of terrorism to subside, then the prosecution of people responsible for starting the war in Iraq must be carried out by an objective world court. Otherwise, the people of the United States will forever bear the guilt of the crimes committed by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the rest of their gang of thieves and murderers. "No honor without impeachment,No justice without prosecution." for peace, Paul von Hartmann Project P.E.A.C.E.Planet Ecology Advancing Conscious Economics |W|P|109145493687918394|W|P||W|P|projectpeace@gmail.com