How to end the war...A challenge from Paul Craig Roberts

Bush is horrible, the war is horrible, but what can I do? Paul Craig Roberts has an answer and a challenge in How To End The War. First you should know that Dr. Roberts is no liberal or progressive.

He is a former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, former contributing editor for National Review, and a former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury.[under Ronald Reagan]

Other than George W. Bush and the war in Iraq "suck" we probably wouldn't agree with him on very much.

Dr Roberts begins by telling us how the administration lied to get us into the war and now tells us all is going well but it will take decades to finish the job. He discusses the cost, both human and treasure, of this decades long crusade. Go to the link, there is nothing new but it's worth a read.

So what to do?

Readers write in frustration: "Tell us what we can do." On the surface it doesn’t look like Bush can be stopped from trashing our country.

The congressional mid-term elections are a year away. Moreover, the Democrats have failed as an opposition party and are compromised by their support for the war. Bush has three more years in which to mire America in wider war. If Bush succeeds in starting wars throughout the Middle East, his successor will be stuck with them.

Congressional Democrats and Republicans alike have made it clear that they are going to ignore demonstrations and public opinion. The print and TV media have made it clear that there will be no reporting that will hold the Bush administration accountable for its deceit and delusion.

There still is a way to bring reality to the Bush administration. The public has the Internet. Is the antiwar movement well enough organized to collect via the Internet signatures on petitions for impeachment, perhaps one petition for each state? Millions of signatures would embarrass Bush before the world and embarrass our elected Representatives for their failure to act.

If no one in Congress acted on the petitions, all the rhetoric about war for democracy would fall flat. It would be obvious that there is no democracy in America.

If the cloak of democracy is stripped away, Bush’s "wars for democracy" begin to look like the foreign adventures of a megalomaniac. Remove Bush’s rhetorical cover, and tolerance at home and abroad for Bush’s war would evaporate. If Bush persisted, he would become a pariah.

Americans may feel that they cannot undercut a president at war, in which case Americans will become an embattled people consumed by decades of conflict. Americans can boot out Bush or pay dearly in blood and money.

Let's repeat the above challenge:

The public has the Internet. Is the antiwar movement well enough organized to collect via the Internet signatures on petitions for impeachment, perhaps one petition for each state? Millions of signatures would embarrass Bush before the world and embarrass our elected Representatives for their failure to act.

Sounds like a job for AfterDowningStreet.org . Would it result in impeachment? No. Would it force politicians to act? Yes, out of embarrassment if nothing else.