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Question: Why was Nixon impeached? Without going into a long explanation of the period, the personalities, the legal issues, etc., I just want a simple answer to this question. Wasn't it basically because Nixon was caught spying on the Democrats? So, you would think that this would become a precedent for impeaching any president. However, when The Observer uncovered evidence that the National Security Agency issued a directive to increase spying operations upon the UN missions of those countries that were key to a UN resolution authorizing US intervention in Iraq, hardly anyone in the US seems to have noticed or care. You would think this was front page stuff - the ticket for a young journalist to become another Bob Woodward or Carl Bernstein. At the least, those foreign missions directly mentioned in the leaked memorandum (Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Mexico, Guinea, and Pakistan) should be yelling foul. At this moment, in fact, there should be a motion put forward in ...

I have come to the conviction that President-Select Bush is, in fact, a leftist. Serious! And there can be no denying it, for in all my 20-odd years of activism I have never known anyone to do as good a job at recruiting people to take to the streets then George W. Bush. Furthermore, he has managed to galvanize not just Americans, but people across the globe to unite in a common struggle against a commonly-recognized enemy. I think it is time we inaugurate the 5th International and proclaim the Dubya as it's presiding leader. Arguably, if this were the only criteria, then maybe Nixon should have also been regarded as a leading leftist. But Nixon was hardly as adept as Bush. Bush has managed to bring masses out on the streets, to call and mail representatives, to engage in political activity on a nearly unprecedented scale prior to acting! He's a genius! The Shrub has not just managed to bring people to the streets, but to fight for their rights, fight against poverty, fi...