To the editor:

I should like to compliment the Journal-World for printing Garrison Keillor’s column of March 6. He believes President Bush should be held accountable for war crimes and the failure to attend to the country’s defense. Keillor goes so far as to declare that Bush should be impeached and let the Senate hear the evidence.

Realistically, with the Republicans in full control of the House, the Senate and the Supreme Court, the chances of Bush being impeached, let alone convicted, are virtually zero. We may never know the full extent of the president’s involvement in the misconduct or crimes involved, including the torture of prisoners, surveillance of Americans without warrants, and plans to turn control of six major U.S. ports to the United Arab Emirates.

Bush has finally conceded he was mistaken about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction due to faulty information. Yet, he used it as the chief reason for invading Iraq. As columnist Jim Hoagland said (Journal-World, Feb. 26), “What did the president not know and when did he not know it?” Tragically, thousands of Americans and more thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed or wounded due to his “misinformation.” Now Bush says we must continue the fight, no matter what.

I doubt if we shall every know the answers to the deception and wrongdoing in this administration as long as we have one-party complete domination. America has already paid too high a price for Bush-Cheney’s mistakes. Can America endure two more years of them?

Harold Piehler,

Lawrence