So, this week a failed attempt to impeach President George Bush made the news, albeit the news is being hidden by the main news media. Apparently, the fact that 166 representatives think that the president LIED to us isn't enough.

Let's examine this closer... 166 people that we, the American People, voted for think we were misled into the Iraq War. That our president knew there were no bombs or weapons in Iraq, but let us go to war anyway. That Saddam Hussein had NO connection to Al Qaeda, but framed him anyway. That, to put it bluntly, he failed in his job in leading America's government.

Why is it always easier to come clean when it is after the fact? Scott McClellan's belated "revelations" about the Bush White House leave a bad taste in my mouth.

No kidding....propaganda...who knew? One only has to look back at press room videos from 2003-2006 and witness the deconstruction of McClellan to know that he knew he was lying nearly every time he opened his mouth. Before our very eyes he was transformed from UT frat boy who had landed himself a good job with a bunch of Texas Fat Cats, ("living the dream"), to a puffy bleary eyed robot who had sold his soul to the devil.

OK, there ARE second chances in life...he's still young...and hey, look at Oliver North. He got his own TV show! But what if ...just what if... back in 2003 when he was still ridiculing Helen Thomas, or Richard Clarke, or when he added to the misery of the Valerie Plame ordeal... what if he had just let go of the façade, looked out over the press corps and said, "I can't do this any more... Bush, get yourself another stooge."

Perhaps that would have been a tipping point and more "insiders" would have come forward. The same could have been said for Colin Powell, whose lifetime of honorable service will not save him from allowing himself to be used as a pawn.

To start with, props to the WWE for offering to settle the fight between Obama and Clinton. I would personally love to see these two wrestle for the nomination, and it'd save a lot of time. But, my money is that "Stone Cold" Steve Austin would 'stunner' them both to take the nomination.

In other news, I was pleasantly shocked by Bush announcing support for troop withdrawal in Iraq. This is very welcome news to me, not just as a Libertarian, but also as someone against the war in Iraq.

Since it began, I swore up and down we had no business being in Iraq. In my opinion, we were lied to in order to get troops over there to finish up our President's Father's work. And even Bush Sr. was against the war.

"I am a wartime President." - George W. Bush to Tim Russert before the 2004 Presidential contest.

Four years later and he's still very much a wartime president – it is in fact the most honest thing that can be said about his presidency. The next man or woman who swears the oath of office will inherit W.'s legacy and with it his mantel of Wartime President – none will relish and revel in it the way W. has and does.

Former presidents Abraham Lincoln (suspension of habeas corpus) and Harry S. Truman (seizing privately held steel mills) legitimized extraordinary executive acts as necessitated by wartime emergencies – both caught flak for it and both were rebuked by the courts. Bush has used the undeclared war in Iraq and more nefariously the War on Terror to pull off the most audacious and cynical power grab in the history of the American Presidency.

I don't think it is hyperbole to say that he has managed to blast a lasting crack in what seemed the most solid of American values –  the Constitutional system of checks and balances.

We have been taught and told that the War on Terror knows no single front and must be fought on all fronts at all times. The greatest weapon against terrorism, according to this President, is secrecy. Secret prisons, secret courts, secret wiretaps, secret renditions, secret violations of privacy and civil liberties.