More than two centuries ago, the Founders o this country set orth a pro-cedure or Congress to ollow in the event o grave abuse o power by the Chie Executive. That process is impeachment. In the ace o the monumental deceit and disregard or the Constitution that we have witnessed on the part o thePresident over the past seven years, Congressman Kucinich’s initiation o this process is neither anciul nor utile, neither vengeul nor vindictive; it is the sober ulllment o his sworn duty as a Congressman to ollow the law without regard to personal consequence and misguided political stratagem. It is, quite simply,an act o patriotism.
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Elizabeth de la Vega
, Former Federal Prosecutorand author o
United States v. George W. Bush et. al
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This collection o impeachable oenses should be viewed as a sampling o the crimes and abuses o President George W. Bush and his subordinates. Bushhas had many accomplices — rst and oremost Vice President Cheney. But our Founders created a single executive precisely so that we could hold that one per-son accountable or the actions o the executive branch. It is high time we did so, and millions o Americans will be urging their representatives to support theeort being led by Congressman Kucinich.These articles establish, and hearings would establish urther, that President Bush was ‘the decider’ behind countless abuses o power. And, o course, his public comments have time and again advertised his indierence to the laws heis violating. Not only does overwhelming evidence show us that Bush knew hisclaims about WMDs to be alse, but the president has shown us that he consid-ers the question o truth or alsehood to be laughably irrelevant. When DianeSawyer asked Bush why he had claimed with such certainty that there were somany weapons in Iraq, he replied: “What’s the dierence? The possibility that [Saddam] could acquire weapons, I he were to acquire weapons, he would bethe danger.” What’s the dierence? Hundreds o thousands o corpses and a atal blow tothe rule o law among nations. That’s the dierence. Unless we remove impeach-ment rom the Constitution by ailing to exercise it, in which case truth will nolonger matter any more than justice or peace.
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David Swanson
, creator o ImpeachCheney.org, WashingtonDirector o Democrats.com and co-ounder o the AterDowningStreet.org.
Overload is the main problem—I call it outrage atigue. The sheer multitude,not to mention magnitude, o impeachable oenses tends to dull the senses.The opportunity to dig into just one or two provided some space and ocused the mind. At the same time, the deeper one digs, the more unimaginable the dirt that comes up. Earlier, I had not taken the time to sit through the abundant evidenceo the unconscionable ways in which George Bush and George Tenet teamed up—including, in Tenet’s case, lying under oath—to stave o charges o misea-sance/maleasance beore the attacks on 9/11.The Founders pledged their lives, their ortunes, and their sacred honor to cre-ate a system in which we could protect ourselves rom unbridled power. Today,we cannot let a 21st Century string o abuses and usurpations stand without challenge.But the experience o the past several years shows that there is a very highhurdle in our way: no Common Sense. I reer, o course, to the courageous inde- pendent journalism o the likes o Tom Paine who stirred the innate dignity o Americans toward sacrice or independence and reedom. Tom Paine would be horried to see what has become o his proession today—with browbeaten journalists and ormer general ofcers doing the bidding o the corporationsthat own/pay them.In my view, impeachment proceedings are essential to:
• Reestablish the separation of powers in our Constitution as a check on the
so-called unitary executive’;
• Prevent a budding—and catastrophic—US attack on Iran by exposing it as
yet another war o aggression against a country posing no threat to the US;
• Call attention to the blood already drained from our civil liberties and stanch
the bleeding.Impeachment proceedings may be the only way to orce the captive media toinorm normal citizens about what has been going on in our country. Thomas Jeerson underscored the importance o this when he said: “Whenever the peo- ple are well inormed, they can be trusted with their own government.”
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Ray McGovern
; ormer Army ocer and CIA analyst;co-ounder, Veteran Intelligence Proessionals or Sanity
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President Bush, Cheney and other US officials have violated numerous domestic and international laws governing crime of aggression, war crime, torture, etc., and they should be not only impeached by the US Congress but also be…
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