The greatest threat to America today, lies not in Iraq, but in Washington. It takes the form of a Republican controlled Congress, and a president locked into some perverted messianic vision.

We need look no further than The Project for the New American Century and it's report entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century" to find the template for the Bush administration's foreign policy. Part of that strategy involves securing a reliable flow of oil from the Middle-East, which is exactly the aim of any war against Iraq, despite the administrations claims to the contrary.

President Bush has seriously compromised world stability with his "First-Strike" doctrine, which can only encourage other of the worlds governments to adopt the same policy, and carry it out. This policy flies in the face of over two centuries of US policy, and the Monroe Doctrine.

At home, with the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Homeland Defense Bill, and other Acts and Orders, Congress has concentrated more power in the hands of President Bush than the German Parliament gave Adolph Hitker after the burning of the Reichstag in 1931. As a result, we have an unprecedented assult on American civil-liberties. We see resident aliens, and foreign-born US citizens seeking political assylum in Canada. When, in our nations history, has such a thing come to pass?

As for the administrations budget plans, we need look no further than the state of Texas and its looming $5 billion budget shortfall to see the fruits of President Bushs' economic policies. Just as he bankrupted Texas with his ill-considered tax-cuts, so will he bakrupt America.

The State of the Union cannot tolerate much more of the Bush administration without suffering serious and, possibly irreparable harm. The legal grounds already exist to impeach President Bush and remove hin from office. It is time for Congress to do so