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This kind of gross incompetence can fall into the "high crimes and misdemeanors" category.
Peter the Rebel throws me off a bit by calling it a crime against humanity. No, this is not a crime against humanity; the torture taking place in Mr. Bush's off shore network of gulags is a crime against humanity. To be a crime against humanity, one should expect a certain amount of maliciousness in the action which seems to be absent here. There was no real malice against any one in Bush's negligence of the federal government's role in disaster relief. He was simply favoring the rich over the poor by cutting taxes for the wealthy and cutting back federal spending to make up for it. It was short sighted, not malicious.
It seems that in Bush's America, the old national security goal of fighting and winning two major wars simultaneously is out the window, let alone the neoconservative goal of being able to fight multiple wars at once. This cannot be done while cutting taxes and still maintain security at home, which includes the ability to meet a major disaster like Hurricane Katrina. Bush has not even been able to fight and win in Afghanistan or Iraq with his agenda. Now we find that the effort to do so, while reducing government revenues at the same time, and still prepare for a major disaster and meet an emergency when it happens.
This can be the basis of an impeachment trial. Unfortunately, Congress is also complicit in this state of affairs, as it habitually approved Mr. Bush's tax cuts and wars. We should make it a priority to examine the voting records of our individual Congressman and consider voting him out of office in 2006 if it turns out that he blindly supported Mr. Bush's agenda for disaster.
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