Former Green Beret talks about impeachment

Highly decorated war veteran Col. W. Patrick Lang is a retired senior officer of US Military Intelligence and a former Green Beret. Trained and educated by the US Army as a specialist in the Middle East, he served in that region for many years. He was the Defense Intelligence Officer for the Middle East, South Asia and Terrorism and the first Professor of the Arabic Language at West Point.

Col. Lang is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to meet to consider a bill of impeachment, as an opportunity for President Bush to clear his name of the serious accusation made by Ron Suskind in a new book, "The Way of the World," that President Bush, personally, ordered some documents forged and others ignored in order to lure the American people into support of a foreign war.

According to Lang, "[t]hese are charges that make Bll Clinton's difficulties with his libido look rather trivial."

Lang also had something to say a few days ago about offshore drilling. Drilling, as a way to get out of current high prices, is a "simplistic solution to the short term price situation [that] has never made a lot of sense to me." He caught one of America's so-called financial whizzes, Larry Kudlow, on MSNBC admitting that "[a]pproval of drilling will frighten the futures traders out of the market and the price will go a long way down."

In other words, high crude prices are not a result of a moratorium on domestic drilling, but rather a result of futures trading.

Of course, all of this is already generally known by people who get their information from sources other than corporate media shills, but it's always heartening to read where someone who couldn't possibly be labelled as a "wild-eyed leftie" by the fair and balanced crowd writes about this inconvenient truth as well.

It appears that, once again, in order to get elected, something of value is going to have to be sacrificed. In this instance, that something may very well end up being protected natural environments.

The solution to the problem of high crude prices is to put the cabash on futures trading and to insist that our teevee pundits start telling the truth about this complex problem, and stop lying to the public that, if we open up drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, within months gas prices will be down around $2/gallon.