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Concerning "If not now, when?," I fail to understand why Republicans aren't most adamant about impeaching President Bush. They must not be as intelligent as power-hungry Democrats, who know that if Bush is allowed to set a precedent of imperial power for the presidency to stand until the end of Bush's term in office, then once a Democratic president takes over, they will be able to implement things that a radical liberal previously could only dream of.

Some consider the voting of congressional funding for Bush to be tantamount to supporting war, but according to our Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Congress can support war only by using its power "To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water."

Bush is also guilty of acting as commander in chief when, according to our Constitution, Article II, Section 2; "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States."

The president calling our military into actual service does not make him commander in chief. If Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are not impeached for their high crimes, the office of president will become nothing but an elected dictator, like the chancellor of Germany during the Third Reich.

Duane Grindstaff
Kent