Impeachment Watch: forms of accountability

Powell's Chief of Staff Proposes Impeachment |From AfterDowningStreet.org:

On Thursday, May 10, 2007, Lawrence Wilkerson, speaking on National Public Radio, proposed impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.[Wilkerson is a Retired Army Colonel, the former Chief of Staff at the State Department from 2002 to 2005 under then Secretary of State Colin Powell.]...

Wilkerson said in early comments on the show: 'This administration doesn't know how to effect accountability in my opinion.' But he did not raise the possibility of impeachment until after a member of the audience had phoned in.

The first caller who was put on the air demanded an investigation of the lies that launched the war, and asked for accountability 'all the way up.' In response to [neocon Ken] Adelman's claims that history would hold people accountable, the caller said 'I would love to have a job where, worst case scenario, my historical record is flawed.'

[Moderator] framed the question in terms of alleged limitations of the U.S. political system, and Wilkerson replied: 'Well I do think that that's a reality of our system. However, let me back up just a minute and say that I really do think that our founding fathers, Hamilton, Washington, Monroe, Madison, would all be astounded that over the course of our short history as a country, 200 plus years, we haven't used that little two to three lines in Article II of the Constitution more frequently, the impeachment clause. I do believe that they would have thought had they been asked by you or whomever at the time of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia 'Do you think this will be exercised?' they would have said 'Of course it will, every generation they'll have to throw some bastard out'. That's a form of accountability too. It's ultimate accountability."