Impeachment and Debushification

This past weekend Rep. Dennis Kucinich, with the help of people like Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson and anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan ramped up his efforts to oust the Bush-Cheney regime by announcing legislation aimed at impeaching Cheney first.

Republicans heaped abuse on Kucinich's efforts, and most Democrats, afraid of being accused of collusion with enemy or some such thing, ignored them.

The Bush-Cheney regime will certainly be impeached -- in fact is in the process of being impeached, convicted, and run out of town -- but not in the United States. The young Shi'ite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, now easily the most powerful politial figure in Iraq, has had a letter read in parliament which calls Bush the evil one.

Professor Juan Cole explains: "In Islamic lore the Mahdi or promised one will return at the end of time to restore the world to justice. He will be opposed by an evil one-eyed figure, the Dajjal, which is usually translated the 'anti-Christ' by analogy with apocalyptic Christian beliefs. Muqtada called Bush the Dajjal."

Al-Sadr's letter was read aloud in the Iraqi parliament by Liqa' Al-Yasin, a female MP and member of Moktada's bloc of legislators. It says in part "While you once predicted that your picture would hang in Iraqis' homes, now it is under their feet...You have destroyed the reputation of the West among Easterners generally." Moktada also accused Bush the Dajjal of, among other things, desecrating the Koran.

If Bush wasn't such a pathological liar, and if he believed one word of what he says about democracy, he would be backing the formation of a unity government under Moktada al-Sadr, the only politician in Iraq who might be capable of somewhat uniting the ethnicities, sects, tribes, and factions, or at least convincing them to bury their various hatchets.

But he doesn't believe his own lies. And he lies through his teeth, like the Dajjal he is.

I would strongly recommend following Professor Cole's daily coverage of these events to anybody on this board who's interested in these matters, which seems to be most of us.