During the discussions today on the alleged abuses of Iraqi prisoners there was a suggestion that if the Congress doesn't get the answers it wants it may ask for resignations, including that of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield.
Throughout the Bush administration there has been a continual series of problems pop up, from lies about weapons of mass destructions, to disclosing the identity of a CIA operative, to harming the economy to benefit a small segment of society, yet the only one who has paid any price has been former Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill. Yet reading his book makes one wonder if he got off lucky, getting to leave the insane asylum.
The person who seems to escape all judgment is George W. Bush and based on the scandals, perhaps he is the one who should resign. He was never elected and once the Supreme Court installed him, even though he lost by 500,000 votes, he has governed as if he won by 5 million votes, ignoring the public and thumbing his nose at the world.
It's time for Bush to go. And if he goes, Dick Cheney needs to go also. It's time to restore honor and dignity to the White House and even more important, it's important to restore America's honor. No longer should the world look with disgust and disdain at America.
The United States has always promoted ourselves as the "city on the hill," but the Bush Administrators is getting the world to think of us as the "thugs in the gutter."
My suggestion is that George Bush resigns and Dick Cheney names Al Gore as his Vice President and then Cheney resigns, fulfilling the wishes of the American public, as expressed at the voting booth in 2000.
Maybe then the world won't have such a poor view of America and it will give us a chance to make the world better AND safer.
