There's been plenty of talk about Overton windows. Well, right now, opposing the war on Iraq is in the "policy" column. Impeaching Bush and Cheney is working its way over from "reasonable" to "sensible." The idea with the Overton window seems to be that once something's to "reasonable," you leave it alone; you want to push on the EDGE of what's acceptable, to move that edge in the direction you want to go.
It's time to start talking about where to hold the war crimes trials.
We DO want war crimes trials for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and whoever else turns up. There are several good reasons for it: it puts an emphatic full stop on the end of this imperialism shtick, so that other countries are more likely to BELIEVE that we've given up randomly invading people. It gets rid of the criminal element that's been running the Republican Party for the past thirty-five years, or at least will help convince 'em to stop yelling so much. It gives the government a chance-- not a great one, but the best chance we'll have-- to recover some of the billions that have seeped into executives' Swiss bank accounts. And, of course, there's plain old law and order; they probably did commit these crimes, therefore we try them.
Once you've decided to start the process of putting Bush and Cheney in prison, you've immediately got to ask: WHOSE prison? Who'll run the trials? Who'll have jurisdiction over this pile of unpleasant people once they're in orange pajamas? The rest of the world would probably rather see them tried in the International Criminal Court at the Hague. However, most people in the US would want them tried here. They're bastards, but they're OUR bastards, and anyway we don't bow to nobody national sovereignty blah blah blah!
Plus of course there's the question of what punishment is appropriate. Life in prison? Hanging? Exiled forever to a Siberian woodcutting village? (Bush actually might like that one, just like brush in Crawford...) Eh, whatever.
The point is, this is the sort of thing we need to start thinking about. Treat it as a given that their crimes will come to light, and they'll be removed from office, and we'll need to try them SOMEWHERE... because when you assume that, the people who listen to you are more likely to start assuming that too.