President George W. Bush should be impeached

"Whose law? Our law? Or the arbitrary human rights laws that only a part of the world takes as a given? The backroom deals and political secrecy that go on in the upper levels of the government, of ANY government, are far above and beyond our concern. To impeach the president is an act of ignorance, like a group of children saying that their babysitter is violating the bed time rules she set for them. " Somehow, it seems that torture, lies, and turning our country into an international pariah are a little more serious than a babysitter violating bed time rules. This is more like the babysitter caring for the children while high, and physically abusing them. Do not listen to my opponent's attempts to make torture, perjury, forgery, and plagiary seem like trivial offenses. Bush's crimes are what led us to be so hated by much of the world. Impeaching him would show the world that we are respectable people. To often America is associated with Bush. Impeachment is throwing off that association. As for which crimes we are impeaching him for, federal crimes, crimes against humanity, and international violations. America's morality must be in the limelight in order to repair our image. "Criminals by whose interpretation? It's easy to point at a murderer and call him a criminal. But what about a soldier? How about the assassin who takes down the head of a dictatorial regime? It all boils down to purpose, and who's pulling th[e] strings, and for what reason. We don't know what goes on up there, but we can cling onto the propaganda and the mantras that we were taught (ironically, by the government) as children in order to point the finger back. It's ludicrous. In addition, this is not a democracy. At very best, we can call this a democratic republic, but it is more of an aristocracy. America is not the shining beacon of freedom for all mankind. We are not the land of the free, or the home of the brave. We're just like any other country, and we are run just like any other country, better than some, worse than others. Therefore, impeaching the president, the person who makes sure everything in the back rooms runs smoothly, in order to uphold nebulous ideals we have little to no objective justification for, is stupid. " First, anyone who commits torture is a criminal. Not only does it not work, but it destroy the humanity of an individual. My opponent has cynicism as his argument, arguing that corruption and criminality are necessary, but he never supports this claim. He just keeps acting like Bush is a dictator who cannot be touched. He also claims Bush makes things run smoothly, but clearly he does not, he has destroyed America's image as the land of the free and the home of the brave. Whether that image is accurate is irrelevant for this point, it is a good image to have and a bad one to destroy. "And what my opponent needs to understand is that we are far too ignorant to even BEGIN to understand what is good and bad for the country. To further extend the analogy, imagine if you will a 10 year old trying to supervise his own surgery, criticizing his surgeon. This is the gap between the civilians being ruled and the president himself. " My opponent needs to understand that we are a democracy (defined my Merriam-Webster as " a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections") and that we have the power to take control into our own hands, and get our representatives to impeach Bush. We are a more or less free nation, Big Brother hasn't sent me in for re-education yet, and that in order for my opponent to claim otherwise he would need reliable evidence. "My support is the argument that my opponent's definition of upholding justice (impeaching the president on ridiculously infantile charges) is merely an ignorant act based on ideals that have been forced on us since birth by our society. " He still hasn't supported this belief that that freedom and rights are nothing but propaganda. If he can prove that maybe you vote for him, but he can't prove that, because its not true. "I also clarify my point on impeachment harming our welfare: In my opinion, no impeachment will ever take place. The act carried out by congress will never be passed because it is purely symbolic. In order to give the illusion that the people have power over a president who "breaks the law", they include this act of impeachment. However, it's all for show. There have only been two prior attempts to impeach and both have failed. Thus, the only way an impeachment can ever go through is if the American populace itself, outside the know, decides to impeach the president as a group, without the aid of representatives. This is on the verge of revolution. It is also the ONLY way my opponent's proposal can go through. That is what I mean when I say that a call to impeach, should it ever be successful, is greatly harmful to our country. In the eyes of any other country leaders, this would be hilarious because the patriotism and propaganda used to keep us sheep docile would in turn destroy those who rule. " He again never supports this unfounded claim that impeachment is a symbolic act, rather than something that actually works. My proposal can go through with a simple vote from Congress. Freedom and justice are not propaganda, and they will be upheld. "As for my opponent's final point, it is laughable to even ASSUME we can punish our president, even if there is anything to punish him for (which there isn't). My opponent naively assumes that the few examples of Bush's "improper behavior" are enough reason to impeach him and justify the act. I say with a great deal of confidence that the man is responsible for much, much worse, including and not limited to assassination, global political conspiracy, etc. And I also add that this is all fine and dandy because it is part of how a country is run. Civil rights, human rights, good, evil, morality in general, these things do not transcend all human life. They are merely on the level of day to day civilian life. " I will say this time and time again, my opponent offers no support for this unfounded claim.