President George W. Bush should be impeached

"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." It is important to keep a clear mind on what "reputation" means. To the rest of the world, any political head will seem like a criminal. But to other people ruling countries the same way Bush is (all of them) these are all typical tactics in maintaining strained political relationships and operating well above the heads of the citizens. In actuality, it doesn't really MATTER what the people of the world think, because all the other world leaders know that these little "offenses" are the way the world runs. To assume that any man or group of men can run a country by following ideals is naive and unrealistic. Laws and morality were created to keep people in order, and are a tool of the governing power to make sure things run correctly. "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." No one outside of America has that view of America anyway. Aside from those who have been influenced by more American propaganda, of course. I do not feel the need to PROVE a case against such an ideal. I find that my explanation is simply much more plausible because the cold hard fact is that a country is run like a business. Even before the advent of modern science, the Greek Atomists proposed that the entire universe is meaningless and solely made up of colliding bits of matter. Along came centuries of worshiping the soul, morality, good, evil, God, beauty, and all of these romantic ideals, and we're again convinced that the world is simply a large series of physical reactions with no inherent teleology or meaning. Why would you ever want to reduce yourself to assuming that a country can be run with dreams and fantasy as absolute law? "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." Of course we're "defined" as a democracy. I refer my opponent to his own definition: "supreme power is vested in the people". Do you honestly believe that we hold supreme power? Why is smoking still legal? The country is ruled by money, not by integrity or the common good. As long as our representatives are human, enough steak dinners and rounds at the country club and trips to Hawaii are enough to convince them to vote one way or another. The only NON corrupt form of democracy is a pure democracy, in which we would be led by a country of idiots. If everyone had his or her say, we would die out instantly. This is why our country is led by the rich and the intelligent, and why the rest of us are kept in the dark about the atrocities that allow our country to even stay together. "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 don't need to. The burden of proof does not rest on the skeptic. I'm only treating them as what they are worth. "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." My opponent's proposal will be discarded. Half of the media will not cover it because they are in the pocket of the government. Independent press will not reach a wide enough audience. The Bill Clinton case was a fluke, because it garnered too much press to be let go. That's why the "impeachment" had to take place. the ruling was, of course, against the impeachment and everyone was content because it went through the necessary symbolic process. And this is the way it should be. Impeachment has never worked before, nor will it ever work. Freedom and justice are very much propaganda, otherwise Bill Clinton would not have finished his second term. "I will say this time and time again, my opponent offers no support for this unfounded claim. Unless he can prove it, you vote PRO." And I will say this as much as need be: The burden of proof does not fall on the skeptic. Much like how many of us need no justification to believe God does not exist, I need no justification to believe that freedom and human rights do not exist. The fact that a pastor preaches God does not prove God. The fact that the government, our teachers, and our television sets preach freedom and justice, does not show that they exist. Viewing the government as a maintenance organization that operates in black and white, we can understand that it will do whatever it takes to ensure that this country works. Viewing the government as operating under some set of ideals and unbreakable moral laws will create complications and restrictions that make this impossible.