This summer, I've been reading this book by the legendary Jimmy Bresnin on the Nixon impeachment called "How the good guys finally won." It follows the congressmen who brought the proceedings against Nixon. You wouldn't think that a book like that could be warm, human, funny, or optimistic, but it's all of those things. I highly recommend it to anyone- of course you have to search the web for used copies because it's circa 1975. Meanwhile, read what the NewsDay columnist has to say about our current criminal-president-
Impeach George Bush to stop war lies, deaths
Jimmy Breslin July 22, 2007
I am walking in Rosedale on this day early in the week while I wait for the funeral of Army soldier Le Ron Wilson, who died at age 18 in Iraq. He was 17 1/2 when he had his mother sign his enlistment papers at the Jamaica recruiting office. If she didn't, he told her, he would just wait for the months to his 18th birthday and go in anyway. He graduated from Thomas Edison High School at noon one day in May. He left right away for basic training. He came home in a box last weekend. He had a fast war.
The war was there to take his life because George Bush started it with bold-faced lies.
He got this lovely kid killed by lying.
If Bush did this in Queens, he would be in court on Queens Boulevard on a murder charge.
He did it in the White House, and it is appropriate, and mandatory for the good of the nation, that impeachment proceedings be started. You can't live with lies. You can't permit them to be passed on as if it is the thing to do.
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