Et Tu Al?

Former US vice president Al Gore, a staunch critic of George W Bush, has said he doesn't agree with calls for impeaching the president due to lack of "time" and "consensus."

Many democrats feel that Bush should be impeached for allegedly misleading the country deliberately in the lead up to the war in Iraq.

"With a year and a half to go in his term and with no consensus in the nation as a whole to support such a proposition, any realistic analysis of that as a policy option would lead one to question the allocation of time and resources," Gore said during an interview with PBS.

Pressed on whether he believed that impeachment is a good use of time, Gore replied, "I don't think it is. I don't think it would be successful."

I have nothing but respect for Gore. (I even managed to suppress the memory of him face raping his wife on national television. It used to give me the willies.) But I think that he is wrong on this one.

I just don't think that these people understand how truly fucked up this President's thinking is. He may very well invade Iran. He may very well declare a national emergency and use the powers given to him by the Homeland security bill to declare martial law and take over the entire military and police force. He may increase the animosity with Russia until Putin decides to unilaterally remove Russia from any talks with the U.S..

There is just no end to how much damage Bush can do in the next year and a half. At least if he were fighting impeachment he would possibly be too focused on that to do anymore damage to our country or the rest of this planet. Isn't that alone worth it?