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Drake,
As I wrote to you, I am concerned that people might get faulty information from your article. I'm sorry you interpret such concern as "being upset." Did it upset you?
I have not seen the poll you chose to rely on, ignoring all the other ones, but I doubt very much that it listed impeachment as an option. The top two priorities is hardly an exhaustive list of priorities - as suggested by your article, and goals for a new Congress in January are hardly relevant to an alleged "news" story six months later.
You have not addressed the question of why the Globe doesn't simply conduct a poll. That may not be your decision to make, but you are qualified to have an opinion on that failure.
You have not addressed the lack of evidence for the Bush-martyr fantasy or for the claim that the Democrats are busy getting something else done.
I'm glad that you've now, albeit out of print, added torture to the short list of acceptable impeachable offenses - which previously had contained only illegal spying. But just because someone has only written about the spying and the torture is not an indication that they would back up your argument that the other crimes are not impeachable offenses. And the reason it is a problem to write about the spying in the conditional is not that Bush or Cheney has already been impeached, but that your article suggested that we don't know whether they are guilty. A public confession on TV, topped off by a federal court ruling of guilt, leads me to find this disingenuous. What possible explanation could you have for omiting such facts? Sure, an editor could have done it, but I have yet to see your resignation from the Globe.
David
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