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Another Day in the EmpireNow the “New Al Gore” tells us “he doesn’t agree with calls for impeaching the president due to lack of ‘time’ and ‘consensus,’” according to Daily News & Analysis. “Many democrats feel that Bush should be impeached for allegedly misleading the country deliberately in the lead up to the war in Iraq.” Heck, simply impeaching Bush would be akin to a gentle slap on the hand, considering the magnitude of his crimes. If Democrats had any spine, they would demand Bush be arrested as a war criminal and would not sit down and shut up until the Commander Guy did the orange jumpsuit promenade. Of course, this will never happen, and the “New Al Gore,” same as the “Old Al Gore,” will never demand Bush be arrested and see the inside of a super-max cell for the rest of his natural life, same as he will never call for the arrest and prosecution of another war criminal, his former boss, Bill Clinton.

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