http://www.sptimes.com/2004/04/11/Columns/Bob_Graham_was_right.shtmlTALLAHASSEE - Sen. Bob Graham was left on a lonely limb last summer when he said, in response to a reporter's prompt, that George Bush's misadventure in Iraq met the standard of an impeachable offense. Even some Democrats hastened to disagree. As it turns out, Graham was right. It's his timing that was off.
As Graham acknowledged, however, impeachment is not a realistic prospect in a Congress controlled by intense loyalists of the president's party. Even so, historians may wonder why one president was impeached for lying about sex but his successor was not even investigated for a scandal as immense as Iraq.
The nation has never been led so badly, except, perhaps, by James Buchanan, who at the brink of civil war did not lead at all.
It is not simply that lives are being wasted because of pretexts that have turned out to be untrue, or that the situation is worsening with no relief in sight. There is also the spectacle, as Bob Kerrey framed it in a question to Condoleezza Rice the other day, of "a largely Christian army in a Muslim nation." This is a colossal disaster, as history could have warned anyone who had cared to pay attention. The Crusades may be only a passing chapter in Western history, but the Middle East remembers them as a fountain of evils that persist to this day.
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