Even though it seems too late to some (myself included) for Congress to conduct a successful impeachment of either our current president or vice president to remove them from office before their terms are finished, I would never discourage anyone from pursuing such a course. Whether there's enough time left or not, impeachment of Bush administration principals should be pursued to reinvigorate rule of law in American society, show the White House's current occupants that even presidents cannot circumvent the law with impunity and remind all future presidents that no one is above the law in this land.

I'm doubtful, however, that Congress truly has the stomach or even the necessary votes to carry out impeachment proceedings against anyone operating from inside Bush's lair. Accordingly, I rate the chances of impeachment at zero. There's reason to be heartened, though, about the hope that justice will be meted out to at least some guilty parties, and that reason is pronounced "indictment."

Mr. Bush and his helpers all remain subject to indictments in appropriate courts of law for their alleged offenses; and since those offenses include war crimes charges akin to accusations of committing murder, that means they can be taken to court any time during the remainder of their lives. Indeed, my own research has unearthed tons of fertile indictment soil in which many high profile feet could be planted.

For example, a look at: U.S. troop actions carried out on Mr. Bush and Co.'s orders in places such as Ramadi, Falluja, Baghdad and Tikrit, Iraq; the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq; and many other scandals involving killing and mistreatment of innocent Iraqi civilians by U.S. troops reveals violations of numerous treaties, charters, conventions and other international agreements as well as of U.S. federal law and the U.S. Constitution.

The agreements I've researched so far that are legally binding on all U.S. executive branch officials and which actions taken or ordered by Mr. Bush and his cohorts have all but shredded through multiple transgressions against each one include: 1) The 1787 U.S. Constitution; 2) The Fourth Hague Convention of 1907; 3) The 1945 United Nations Charter; 4) The 1945 Nuremberg Charter as incorporated by the U.N. General Assembly through unanimous votes in 1947 and 1950; 5) The U.N.'s unanimously approved 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (recognized since as customary international law); 6) The Third Geneva Convention of 1949; 7) The Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949; 8) The U.N.'s 1984 Convention Against Torture (CAT); 9) The 1996 U.S. War Crimes Act as amended; and 10) U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441 passed in 2002.

That adds up to ten (and counting) good reasons to seek appropriate indictments against Bush administration officials. All of the international agreements listed above were signed by U.S. presidents or their representatives; were either duly ratified or passed by the U.S. Congress according to procedures stipulated in the Constitution; or were signed by representatives of the U.S. government within the confines of the U.N and under the authority of its Charter.

I and others have been and are working on developing indictments against those in the Bush administration who've allegedly broken these laws for submission to appropriate U.S. and international jurists, attorneys and courts. For as long as it takes, justice requires investigations of the Bush government, the assembly of grand juries to weigh evidence when necessary and the issuance of indictments where appropriate. Upholding and protecting the rule of law in our country demands that we do no less.

Finally, the sad truth is that most of the politically aware citizenry of the United States lacks a sense of the gravity of this situation and so, seemingly, do the vast majority of elected politicians in the country. For multiple reasons which I won't go into here, the American people have been unable to adopt the sense of urgency and necessity required to bring the Bush administration to justice. Rather than being discouraged by this fact, however, I believe it should serve as a catalyst to ratchet up our efforts to do just that.

Yes, there is much work to do before indictment day, and I say we roll up our sleeves and triple our resolve to get there. Imagine that glorious moment when "The Decider" has to enter his "not guilty" pleas. Together, we can make it happen.