Vice President Cheney should resign

This is a letter to the Editor I wrote today.
When a private-sector executive, or a not-for-profit executive, or a university or hospital executive hires and retains a chief-of-staff who violates the law, the Board of Trustees usually expects the Executive to tender his/her resignation; because they are responsible for supervising the people who work for them.

Vice President Dick Cheney is the person that hired and supervised Scotter Libby. In my analogy, the people of America are the Board of Trustees. I expect Vice President Cheney to resign.

This is not a hair-splitting issue. The US Senate impeached President Clinton for his sexual improprietaries with an intern, a matter of no great historical consequence. If Vice President Cheney does not resign, then Senators Schumer and Clinton must begin the process of impeaching the Vice President. He clearly played an active role in deceiving the American people as to the true reasons the US chose to invade Iraq. Trying to discredit Ambassador Joe Wilson's report was one of these actions.

This deception of the American people, to me, is close to treason. Over 2000 American service men and women and tens of thousands of Iraqis perished; and resources were diverted from the true effort against Jihadist Terrorism around the globe.

Its time for a new, honest, Vice President -- one who can be straight with the American people.

Sincerely,
Robert J Schloss

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