It isn’t enough to vote the president out of office. He must be impeached.

When it was discovered that President Johnson had fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin incident as an excuse for escalating the police action in Vietnam, he should have been impeached, or prosecuted for treason.

Do you think George Bush would have misled Congress, if President Johnson had gone to prison? As long as there is no penalty for feeding misinformation to Congress, we’re going to continue to get one version before our wars and get a different version when documents are declassified, which is long after we have buried our dead.

If Bush isn’t prosecuted now, why would future presidents think twice about telling Congress that some other bozo is an imminent threat to the United States?

It is the duty of our Congress and the judiciary to call the executive branch to account. President Bush has subverted the Constitution, a document he swore to uphold by conning our representatives into believing what weapons inspectors and our intelligence agencies knew to be false.

Because of an admitted misrepresentation of the actual situation, thousands of people are now dead. How many of our sons, daughters, nephews and nieces have to join them? Write to your representatives and demand impeachment now.

Tom Bulger, Wilton

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