Calls For Impeachment "I, too, feel that George Bush does not represent me and the Republican Party"

In Stoughton, Bush impeachment urged

Carol McKy of Middleton was the only self-proclaimed Republican in a room of more than 50 Wednesday evening who passed a motion urging Congress to begin the impeachment process for President George W. Bush.

"I, too, feel that George Bush does not represent me and the Republican Party," McKy said Wednesday at a meeting at Stoughton’s Public Safety Building held by the Madison chapter of Veterans for Peace.

Others predicted that Republicans would soon be seeking the exact same goal as Democrats: removing Bush from office.

"Imagine a bumper sticker. Save the Republican Party: Impeach Bush," Madison resident Jim Cobb said. "I beg to differ with the idea that impeachment is hopeless. In one year or so, Republicans will be shooting for impeachment."

Cobb said "the truth is an invincible force" and that it would drive the process. "The truth is out."

At Wednesday’s meeting, organizers explained impeachment and made the case that the Downing Street memo is evidence that the process should start.

"They planned the war before they went," Buzz Davis of Veterans for Peace said prior to the meeting referring to the series of memos that describe talks in 2002 between the British and U.S. governments during the lead-up to the war.

David said the Stoughton sessions and later ones (which have not yet been scheduled) are a means of helping the public think things through. Organizers urged citizens to circulate petitions calling for Bush’s impeachment and they handed them out in thick information packets. The group also unanimously passed a resolution on a voice vote to send a letter to Congress urging representatives to start the impeachment process.

Is impeachment realistic?

"I sure hope so," Don McKeating of Veterans for Peace said.

And many meeting attendees agreed, although they acknowledged that Republican control of the House of Representatives and the Senate is a major obstacle. To restore spirits, attendees spoke of protests in Madison during the Vietnam War era and grassroots efforts that they said were influential.

"I started out feeling hopeless," Bill Kline of Madison said referring to the Vietnam era, adding that he watched the situation change, and that improvement started with meetings like these. "We’re not a bunch of young radical students. I feel good about this."

On a bright note, Jane Jensen of Military Families for Peace told the crowd that her son, whom she hasn’t seen since November 2003, is coming home from Iraq today at 1:45 p.m. That brought applause from the audience, but when someone asked whether her son will go back, Jensen quickly replied: "Probably."

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