US still needs its own ‘regime change’

by Ben Tanosborn in Turkish Daily News ...If Americans want change and they really mean it they must force it at the local and state level and forget about the people they've sent to the Capitol in D.C. It's the small towns and big cities that need to make declarations rebuking U.S. foreign policy and its byproduct: war, war and more war; rebuking jointly the president and the vice-president and calling for both their impeachments. Until there is such a groundswell of public opinion, and it becomes conclusive that we must stop beating around this Bush, there will be little hope for change and definitely no end to the involvement in Iraq....
Ben Tanosborn is a lawyer and political commentator based in Vancouver, WA, United States

If the US had a British-style system where allowances are made for a change in leadership of the country when citizens express a "no confidence" vote (and certainly, Pres. Bush has a big "no confidence" vote right now), we might be witnessing a regoranziation of our government. But we have a stable two-party bureaucracy in which calls for impeachment are rhetorical at best.

The groundswell of public opinion is already here, but we must be organized outside the two parties. Independents must speak out on behalf of the American people, and we need to organize at the grassroots. -NH