This is my first diary, and I will apologize up front because I am probably going to be a bit sloppy on the grammar and spelling seeing as it is 6 am my time and I have about 3 hours sleep; I do beg your indulgence.
What compelled me to finally take the leap into diary-dom was this diary detailing the impending investigation and likely trial of Rumsfield in of all places Germany http://www.dailykos.com/...
Dear Congresswoman Pelosi....
I haven't written to a congressperson in going on 30+ years now, the last one being George McGovern to thank him for the letter and picture that he sent to my little brother and I for being so nice to my greatgrandmother.
Now if you have clicked the link to the above diary then you will note that I did write a comment there, but I wish to expand upon it. For the sake of clarity I will reprint it here for all to read and then expand on it as I go.
This is the reason why we MUST impeach NOW
and not very much later then it. If we drag our feet and do not attempt to do the right thing here then other nations will step up to the plate and do it for us. Or some could say in-spite of us.
The problem with that is it makes every American complicit in the crimes of the Bush administration since we had a means and method to bring them to justice and instead turned a blind eye to it. We become accessories after the fact, co-conspiroters if you will, of George W. Bush...
Can you live with being Bush' shield for what he has done? Can the democratic party?
I think not.
To do so once and for all removes any chance of redeeming the nations soul, or restoring its' good name and moral leadership. We just become another on a long list of ratfuck bullies in disguise that the annals of history is all to full of.
So Nancy, and please forgive the informality here as I tend to drop the niceties when my blood is up, if you are reading this, or if someone who is in a position to can relay this to the people in power now in Congress: You had best get off your dead ass and send these lying, thieving, torturing and murdering bastards packing ASAP if you value in the slightest the image of America that you held as a child: The America that we knew on 9/12/01, the one that saw the world united behind us as friends, mourning with us as family, the same nation that makes many of us in our less cynical and jaded moments of which that day was one as were the weeks after, shed a tear at the sight of our flag.
It is now on you, as it was in the case of your fathers and perhaps grandfathers to remove from power those who have sinned against humanity as a whole!
And it is even more important that you do so, because the were in power HERE.
I know that is an emotion laden argument for it, but what of it? I can also if you require, and as is hinted at in portions of the above, give you the cynical bastard version as to why it is the politically expedient thing to do; but I choose not to be that man right now. I instead, while awash in the glow of the restoration of what I pray is a constitutional government to my country; I will be more the idealistic boy who passionately loved his country not so much for what it was, which was plenty, but for what it represented.
And that was a nation of freemen and woman, a good and just people doing their level best to at every juncture of history when called upon to do the right thing no matter how hard or how costly, to show the other nations of the world that it CAN be done.
Now many will say that is a load of crap since it relies so much on the concept of American exceptional-ism, but I do not care; since what else could this nation composed of every people, every race, every creed of this world living in peace together be BUT exceptional!
Future Madam Speaker, that is what is at stake here: A betrayal of all that IS America both real and inspirational if we do not do the right thing no matter the cost.
Thank you for you time and attention.