ONLY seven months remain in the harmful tenure of President Bush, which has inflicted painful damage on America. Soon, thank heaven, he and his White House clique will be gone.

Unable to wait, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, introduced a resolution last week to impeach Bush. The Ohioan spent five hours reciting grounds for removal, focusing chiefly on the unnecessary Iraq war started by Bush. Then the House voted 251-166 to send the impeachment case to the Judiciary Committee.

That sounds like a powerful action, but it really was just a vote to put the issue into a dead-end void where it will be forgotten. Kucinich is being treated as an oddball.

The Philadelphia Inquirer commented:

"With the Bush presidency down to months, many are asking: What's the point? Well, there is a point, and give Kucinich credit for trying to make it. Each day, Americans are gaining more detailed information that suggests it was not so much erroneous intelligence that led the Bush administration to conclude war was necessary; it was hubris. The president and [Vice President] Cheney discounted any counterargument to war because their minds were already made up. They refused to believe they could be wrong. In fact, evidence suggests they didn't care if they were wrong about Saddam Hussein's having weapons of mass destruction. He was a bad player and they wanted him out of the way."

As we've said many times, the White House twisted evidence and manipulated patriotism to pull America into the Iraq invasion that the Bush Republican faction had wanted since the 1990s. As a result, more than 4,000 young Americans are dead, U.S. taxpayers have lost a half-trillion dollars, Iraq has been shattered and Muslim fanaticism has been worsened - all because of a war that was unnecessary.

This conclusion was reiterated June 5 by a U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report. Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., declared:

"Sadly, the Bush administration led the nation into war under false pretenses. ... Top administration officials made repeated statements that falsely linked Iraq and al-Qaida as a single threat and insinuated that Iraq played a role in 9/11."

Since all the White House reasons for the war turned out to be untrue, Americans still don't know what private motives caused the Bush clique to clamor fervently for the invasion. Was it to get control of Iraq's oil? Was it to protect Israel? Was it to finish Bush's father's old vendetta against Saddam Hussein? Was it all of these?

Rep. Kucinich's action was just a gesture, to put the impeachment case on official record. We're glad he did it.

Unable to wait, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, introduced a resolution last week to impeach Bush. The Ohioan spent five hours reciting grounds for removal, focusing chiefly on the unnecessary Iraq war started by Bush. Then the House voted 251-166 to send the impeachment case to the Judiciary Committee.

That sounds like a powerful action, but it really was just a vote to put the issue into a dead-end void where it will be forgotten. Kucinich is being treated as an oddball.

The Philadelphia Inquirer commented:

"With the Bush presidency down to months, many are asking: What's the point? Well, there is a point, and give Kucinich credit for trying to make it. Each day, Americans are gaining more detailed information that suggests it was not so much erroneous intelligence that led the Bush administration to conclude war was necessary; it was hubris. The president and [Vice President] Cheney discounted any counterargument to war because their minds were already made up. They refused to believe they could be wrong. In fact, evidence suggests they didn't care if they were wrong about Saddam Hussein's having weapons of mass destruction. He was a bad player and they wanted him out of the way."

As we've said many times, the White House twisted evidence and manipulated patriotism to pull America into the Iraq invasion that the Bush Republican faction had wanted since the 1990s. As a result, more than 4,000 young Americans are dead, U.S. taxpayers have lost a half-trillion dollars, Iraq has been shattered and Muslim fanaticism has been worsened - all because of a war that was unnecessary.

This conclusion was reiterated June 5 by a U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report. Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., declared:

"Sadly, the Bush administration led the nation into war under false pretenses. ... Top administration officials made repeated statements that falsely linked Iraq and al-Qaida as a single threat and insinuated that Iraq played a role in 9/11."

Since all the White House reasons for the war turned out to be untrue, Americans still don't know what private motives caused the Bush clique to clamor fervently for the invasion. Was it to get control of Iraq's oil? Was it to protect Israel? Was it to finish Bush's father's old vendetta against Saddam Hussein? Was it all of these?

Rep. Kucinich's action was just a gesture, to put the impeachment case on official record. We're glad he did it.