another viewpoint...
And criminal prosecution won't follow impeachment -- you can't have both. Polls show that right now Americans favor accountability -- a majority says they're for impeachment because that's the only option they're given. But the process will be a wrenching one, and there won't be the stomach to drag the country through it twice. If Congress were to impeach, that would be that; the conventional wisdom would be that justice was served, the rule of law re-established and the Bush administration brought to heel.
Consider who that would let off the hook: Rumsfeld and Feith and Yoo and Cambone and Gonzalez and Ashcroft and Wolfowitz and a half dozen others. Bush and Cheney would be booted out of office a few months early and all of the rest of the cabal that brought us to where we are today would end up rehabilitated, only to reemerge in some future administration like so many of the veterans of Iran-Contra have.
Source: AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Bush and Co. don't deserve impeachment
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