350 Turn Out for NYC Town Hall Meeting on Bush-Cheney Impeachment

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350 Turn Out for Town Hall Meeting on Bush-Cheney Impeachment

World Can't Wait's Sunsara Taylor warns war with Iran likely by Fall.

By Donald Paneth

The nature of the audience presented an observable difficulty: the majority were middle-aged or elderly, many carrying canes or pushing walkers. There was a scattering of young people, wearing an article of orange clothing in sympathy with those detained without recourse.

The peace movement seems to have run out of gas.

What do we do?

Impeach Bush and Cheney. Mobilize the millions.

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"The Cheney faction in favor of war against Iran is gaining ascendency," she warned, speaking passionately and gesticulating to emphasize her points. "War before this fall ... to change the regime." Those who are opposed to the war must "do something radically different," she said.

Rocky Anderson, tall, white-haired, the second-term mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, was the big political gun at the rally. Anderson quoted the American Revolutionary War leader, Samuel Adams, who said, "The liberties of our country, the freedom ... are worth defending at all costs."

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"Bush has betrayed all of those values," he said, calling for the impeachment of the president.

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Piffle. Now, if merely showing up could put those treasonous bastards out of office, the whole city would have jammed in.