To the editor:

When President Clinton lied to Congress about his affair with a White House intern, the Republicans united in impeaching him for high crimes and misdemeanors. Now we have President Bush, who has lied to Congress about Iraq’s nuclear capability and other weapons of mass destruction and who has plunged this nation into war on false information. Now that seems to me like a high crime and worthy of impeachment.

Hundreds of Americans have lost their lives, and millions of dollars are being delivered to Halliburton and other cronies of President Bush and Vice President Cheney while the Bush administration tells the American people they must sacrifice. Where is the indignation and self-righteousness of the Republican Party, including our own Kansas delegation, that impeached President Clinton? Bush lied and people died, and the Republican Party does nothing. Oops, I forgot that the Republican-controlled Congress voted themselves a pay raise.

It will never happen, but if military service were compulsory for age-eligible children of Congress, how many of our war-hungry politicians would send their own children off to war on such shabby information? Apparently, it is all right to promote war, as long as it is someone else’s children who fight and die in it. Apparently, it is all right to profit from this war while telling the American people they must sacrifice. And with 10 million unemployed people in the country, and economic prospects dismal, it is OK with the Republican Congress, including our Kansas delegation, to raise their own salaries.

David Hann,

Lawrence