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Kucinich Files Articles of Impeachment Against Cheney

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted April 25, 2007.


Kucinich may be with the American people and way ahead of the DC curve.

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Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced yesterday that he would file articles of impeachment against vice president Dick Cheney. The charges are among the most serious ever contemplated under either domestic or international law.

The resolution claims the Vice President "purposely manipulated the intelligence process" and "fabricated a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction" in order to "deceive the American public" and the Congress and launch a war of aggression against Iraq. It also accuses him of actively seeking to launch a second war against Iran. (You can download the complete text of the resolution here, or view a clip of Kucinich's press conference here.)

Not only do the charges constitute the "high crimes" that were contemplated by the founders as the basis of impeachment, they're also included in the principles set out during the Nuremberg Tribunal that followed World War II.

The judges that made up the Tribunal said that launching a war of aggression was "not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

Other legal precedents were established at Nuremberg. Principle Three is unequivocal: "The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible Government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law."

As the Kucinich resolution makes clear, Cheney's alleged crimes violate treaties ratified by the U.S. Congress -- meaning that they are also part of United States law -- second in force only to the Constitution itself.

In most of the world, this would be considered a grave matter. Given the enormous loss in blood, treasure and prestige that's resulted from the disastrous occupation of Iraq, it should be here, as well. But in Washington there seems to exist a perverse rule that's followed slavishly by the DC Press corps: the more serious the matter, the more one should treat it as a joke.

So it was that the news was greeted with the derision that only a city cloistered in a bubble like DC's could muster when discussing an illegal war that's killed more than a half-million human beings.

The trivialization started with the media quoting unnamed "Democratic aides" making statements like: "We'll see a Kucinich Administration before we'll see a Cheney impeachment."

Today, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank turned his middle-aged frat-boy analytical skills to taking Kucinich down a peg; his typically dismissive lede:

"I do not stand alone," Dennis Kucinich said as he stood, alone, in front of a cluster of microphones yesterday evening.

That passes for funny in Dana Milbank's mind. Milbank (who is himself a very, very short man) also got in a few crucially important thoughts about Kucinich's height:


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I don't agree with impeaching Cheney or Bush, for that matter, but if Dennis can make the...
Posted by: HughScott on Apr 25, 2007 12:51 PM   
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treasonous bastards squirm, go for it!

Hugh E. Scott, editor of King-George.biz -- the only website with hardcopy proof of White House corruption.

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» RE: impeach Cheney and Bush Posted by: Ripcord
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Good Luck, Dennis
Posted by: MAD on Apr 25, 2007 1:04 PM   
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Here's hoping that your plane doesn't blow up shortly after take-off or you don't accidentally drive off some icy (dry) bridge. We all know this has absolutely no chance of succeeding but it's nice to see that someone in D.C. still has a sack.

As for Cheney . . . I wouldn't worry about him being dethroned any time soon. His guardian angels, i.e. Halliburton, Exxon, Northrup and AIPAC will never, ever allow such a gross miscarriage of justice. Cheney's a patriot and good for the top 1% who direct this 3-ring circus. There's simply too much latent war profiteering to be had. The big boys won't cut him loose just yet. Once we have added Iran to our ever-padded CV of fucked up oil grabs, then it'll be Terror Alert: Red all the time and the round up can get underway.

In a way, the prospect of an impeachment is even more frightening than the status quo. It backs them into a corner and I think this admin. will do anything to remain in power.

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» RE: Good Luck, Dennis Posted by: peacefullaim
Is Impeachment Enough?
Posted by: starvinmarvy on Apr 25, 2007 1:15 PM   
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Here we have an administration,with Cheney the obvious ringleader,who do not serve the American public but rather serve the needs of their their own hierarchy.Will what they do,decide,
benefit their constituents?Are they taking "we" the general public into consideration before initiating their ultimate game plan? Will we as a nation see less restrictions/taxes/inconveniences while we try to raise our kids...our families? Is this administration doing the "will of its people"...or have we become the "serfs" they hope we are? Having said this.......is just throwing them out of office justice? Or should they stand before us and be judged for crimes they`ve committed against not only we as a nation, but
against all humanity?

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Impeachment is to good for this scum
Posted by: The Big Raven on Apr 25, 2007 1:19 PM   
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I would rather see this pig being made to duck walk with blacked out googles and handcuffed to bush.
Go Dennis Go!

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» RE: Impeachment is to good for this scum Posted by: Eat Politicians
Dennis I don't care if you were 3 ft tall
Posted by: Hedda on Apr 25, 2007 1:52 PM   
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You're more of a man than, all of washington combined! W/ cajones to match! You put the impeachment in motion ....the rest of america will create the ground swell !

You RAWK!

Kucinnich 08 !!!

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» RE: can charisma Posted by: Ripcord
He may be short...
Posted by: babs on Apr 25, 2007 2:00 PM   
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... but he's got some big cohones.

go Dennis.

Bringing Cheney to ground is smarter than going after meat head W. If only Rove could be netted as well.

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» RE: big "cohones?" Posted by: Ripcord
He should bring impeachment proceedings against Bush as well...
Posted by: EagleMB on Apr 25, 2007 2:31 PM   
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Impeachment proceedings are equivalent to a person bringing a lawsuit, or in this case a frivolous lawsuit. The fact that the liberal community dislikes Bush does not translate into proof of an impeachable offense. There is no evidence that Bush or Cheney have committed a high crime.

Let impeachment proceedings commence and be rejected. Let Bush be vindicated in a public forum. Of course, the liberal lie machine will undoubtedly create some conspiracy theory like they did in the 2000 and 2004 elections, but it is no secret that truth is the enemy of the liberal ideology.

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» RE: WMD Posted by: EagleMB
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» Here is what's impeachable: Posted by: surfreality
» Hamdan Posted by: surfreality
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Call your congressman today
Posted by: Gregory R Purcell on Apr 25, 2007 3:24 PM   
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The only way this is going go foward is if there is a popular outcry for impeachment. Call the Dems stiffen their spine Call the GOP tell them Cheney is a crook and if you support him you are dead to me. Call your congress man now.

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Poor Kuchinich...
Posted by: vangogh69 on Apr 25, 2007 3:35 PM   
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He thinks the country is run by respectable, Constitution-following men and women? Poor dear, did he miss out on 2000's election? Did he miss out on 9/11? Did he miss the illegality that was/is the occupation of Afghanistan? Iraq? Oh no, he VOTED FOR THIS SHIT! So now, he says (rightly) that Cheney is criminally negligent; but, he fails to say that he too, by voting for authorization and funding, is also negligent. The greater majority of the dems, in fact, share responsiblity for Cheney/Bush actions, which is why they'll be no impeachment. The fact that he's hanging his premise on "misuse of intelligence" both insults my own and shows he's still stepping around the bush: if I could, in 03', gather what was what in Iraq WITHOUT access to this Holy Grail called "intelligence", then why couldn't he see it? Oh wait...

Perhaps he was too busy patting Kerry on the ass while Iraqis died in the streets.

Keepin it real baby!

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» RE: Poor Kuchinich... Posted by: xgroverx
» RE: Poor Kuchinich... Posted by: Hedda
unity2
Posted by: Perfectclue on Apr 25, 2007 3:44 PM   
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Hannah Arendt, explained that Hitler and fascism did not drop from the sky, but was supported, financed by Corporate Capitalists, and corrupted middle class layers, theselves agents of class ideology, class nationalism and class imperialism for German Corporate Fascism. The point to her famous quote, "the banality of evil", is to expose all levels of class corruption, in a class society, and how it produced the disaster of the Holocaust, wars of aggression, dictatorship, and class laws being used, already corrupting democracy, to further strip rights from ordinary citizens, and find scapegoats, Jews, today Arabs, "ragheads", "immigrants", to hide behind the class rot and class tyranny of German Corporate fascism, today Amerikan corporate fascism.

The public must get a clue, relate some fundamental relations, disenfranchisement, the class corruption, class despotism on their liberties, rights. Class corrupts democracy, so long as the middle class, the basis of the social claim to all ideologies, as the social mechanism, is crippled, limited, subordinated, corrupted by upper class rule, instead of a universal middle class, inherently reflecting revolutionary moral values, revolutionary center, into class hierarchies, class elites, with class ideologists, themselves agents of class corruption, shock troops for class tyranny.

This would explain why the phony opposition, phony democracy, phony anti war positions, of both the democrats, class appeasers, and republicans, class thugs, is pushed as real alternatives, when in fact they should be prosecuting, executive, legislative, judicial class elites, all corrupted equally by class ideology, and class standards, as war criminals, complicit in the "banality of evil", corrupting middle layers endorsing fascist foreign policies, imperial policies, class nationalism, which betrayed the universal national ideology of revolutionary liberals, internationalists, of the Enlightenment, to produce a corrupt false class unity of the nation state, extended to class Empire.

When a majority of people are opposed to war, and all of its class elites, democrats, republicans, neocons, zionists, liberal class appeasers, are completely ignoring the wishes of a slowly informing public, no thanks to the Corporate Media and their liars, you know we are close to revolutionary chages. We do not need a crippled, subordinated, corrupted, and corrupting, middle class, "bourgois" feminists, "bourgeois minorities, equal opportunity class mercenaries, along with their class hiearchies, that filter out democracy, and fundamental change, like Pelosi on impeachment and war crimes trials. We do not need the Corprorate Media cheering Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Biden, Edwards, as "rock stars", as the superficial opportunists, who grovel for class imperialism, espeically AIPAC, the Israeli lobby, when there are others like Nader, Kucinich who really are more like the "rock stars" opposed to this corporate fascism, and global capitalism. But then the public is slow to learn these fundamental relations of class corruption, and it is time to point out that eliminating class hierarchies, which corrupt even the U.N. charter through the Security Council, would end this rot once and for all. Is any one out there learning, listening????

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I'm public
Posted by: craftne on Apr 25, 2007 3:57 PM   
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and I am making an outcry.

I concur with the articles of Impeachment that I have read against Cheney.

I support Dennis Kucinich in his integrity. He is the only one not celebrating the bill passed recently by his party financing the war if we get out by the time Bush is out. Goody. Just what Bush wants and what we didn't. Kucinich has stated he believes the Democratic leadership should reflect what we voted them in to do. End this administration's war.

NOT in my name. Our troops are not defending us. They are the agressors. They are not defending our freedom, they are forcing the Bush Administration's ideals in the Middle East.

Go Dennis!

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Presidental
Posted by: YogiBear on Apr 25, 2007 4:55 PM   
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Right on Dennis! Here's to hoping you don't "accidentally" get shot in the face. You ever vacation in Franklin County NC, come by for a beer and some chow. I'm the only Leone in the book.

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ICF!! Go for it Dennis!
Posted by: chief of okeefe on Apr 25, 2007 5:10 PM   
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Brilliant strategy!

Impeach Cheney First! A new battle-cry if there ever was one. We can retire ITMFA (Impeach the M%^&-F^&* Already) for a while and get Cheney first.

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» RE: ICF!! Go for it Dennis! Posted by: dustinblythe
The Little Guy
Posted by: opeluboy on Apr 25, 2007 6:23 PM   
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It's stands like this that encouraged me to support the last Kucinich campaign and to again support him in '08. That, and every other Democratic candidate is a whore.

One other thing. I'm 6'1", but I learned a long time ago not to mess with the "little guys." Toughness has nothing to do with height. Proof: Millbank would be a punk if he were 6'6".

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» RE: The Little Guy complex Posted by: Ripcord
Thank You
Posted by: weatherking on Apr 25, 2007 11:02 PM   
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As one of the most, dare I say it?, evil,self serving individuals that I have ever encountered, albeit only through T.V., getting rid of this particular Vice President would be a great advancement for the American Dream launched in the 1700's. He has guided this nation of great ideals into a miasma of hellish endeavors such I have not encountered since the great West's wiping out of the of the indigenous inhabitants. Now I'm pissed, and anything we can do to eliminate this threat to world peace will be greatly appreciated.

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Kucinich has the right idea
Posted by: Democritus on Apr 26, 2007 6:26 AM   
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You would have thought that after Bill Moyers exposed the flaccid Washington press corps in his PBS special last night, that fawning Administration lapdogs such as Dana Milbank would have seen the light. Try as they might to derail Kucinich's impeachment express, however, Dennis has popular opinion on his side. Impeaching Cheney first is a good idea for two reasons: (1) the obvious reason that if Bush goes first, we don't want Cheney in charge, and (2) the more important reason that if Cheney is fighting impeachment charges, he can't be doing more mischief and committing more high crimes and misdemeanors.

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Well, they had to get rid of Agnew first too-
Posted by: WitchyNy on Apr 26, 2007 7:03 AM   
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IMPEACH THE BASTARD!

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Can't have Cheney...
Posted by: Bbear41 on Apr 26, 2007 7:18 AM   
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...As president. GOT to get rid of him first. But don't give Dubya a chance to appoint a new VP.

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Kucinich vs. The big guys
Posted by: Sylver on Apr 26, 2007 7:51 AM   
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In the field of "progressive" choices for the Democratic nomination, only Kucinich really stands out. The front-runners have vague, sound-bite based websites, with thin platforms, watered down for the general public. I urge everyone to compare the Obama, Clinton and Edwards sites to Kucinich's. The former are filled with PR generated generalities, with no real plan. On Kucinich's site, most of the articles are written by him. (and written rather well, I must say) His platform is broad and detailed, with a focus on true Democracy the way the framers of the constitution intended. This man is thoughtful, passionate and articulate, and just the kind of person that we need in the White house.
Unfortunately, many people, including most liberals, see him as "un-electable" because his platform is SO progressive. If you are a progressive, do yourself a favor and check out his website. What we need is to get a grass roots movement, that will bring him up to the front.

Don't forget about the debate tonight! I bet Kucinich will make the other candidates look silly.

Kucinich '08!!

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Keep it going!
Posted by: PJAW on Apr 26, 2007 7:54 AM   
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If you have a Democratic or moderate Republican Congressperson in your district, notify them that you support the Kucinich plan for impeachment of Dick Cheney. If you have a rabid right-winger, it may not be worth the trouble, spend your energy talking to fellow citizens instead.

If you're a "pragmatist" who believes this "can't be done", please just get out of the way until we get this bandwagon rolling and you can jump on later.

Will Cheney and his corporatist masters pull out all stops to prevent this? Probably. They've already shown that they have no reservations at all about killing anyone who might stand in the way of their vision of how the world ought to be. A vision I personally oppose (how about you?).

So the question we all face is, do we go along to get along and live a life of acceptance of their agenda, or work to create something better. Cheney and Bush and their masters are the greatest impediment to progress that we face in this country. Removing their hands from the levers of power is our first priority. Failing to even make an effort to do so is to fail as an "American". We have the constitutional method, and the imperative, for their removal, we should not hesitate to do so simply because there is some work involved. It would be far worse if we didn't have a constitution to support this and had to resort to violent revolution to correct the problem.

To those sincere patriots who know the value of this impeachment effort, take heart, our numbers continue to grow. Keep working and talking.

To those who want to sit on the sidelines making snide remarks as prelude to their anticipated moment of "I told you so", or who are waiting for an appropriately safe moment to join the movement, please just don't be an impediment. Take the time you would spend on those snide remarks to look inside and examine just what it is you really want to see happen. Then give some thought to actually working for it.

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WaPo's Disgrace
Posted by: Urstrly on Apr 26, 2007 7:58 AM   
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Having watched the video on the Washington Post site this morning of the Kucinich press conference, I was outraged. I've never thought Kucinich was a viable presidential candidate, never voted for him, but that's why he's perfect for this role. He's exactly right—politically, constitutionally, morally, etc.—and the Post reporter (and the Cleveland Plain Dealer's too) disgraces himself by blowing off a distinguished US Representative's attempts to put an end to this disgraceful regime. This wasn't journalism so much as it was a roast. They ought to return a few of those Watergate Pulitzer's.

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Kucinich for President? YES!!!!!!!
Posted by: gbreez on Apr 26, 2007 8:26 AM   
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There could be no finer representative of the people as President than Dennis Kucinich, imho. He has the courage to stand and speak truth to power, the courage to respond to the wishes of his constituents as well as the rest of the people of this country, the wisdom to wish to restore our rights as given to us by the Constitution and to preserve that Constitution, he has never voted for the war in Iraq, he is an honest man. Just that last should be enough to get him elected, if the world were sane. He is also a compassionate person who is humble. Know many politicians like this?
YES, Mr. Kucinich! Go after Cheney and I pray you survive this effort and then become our next President.

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Red Brown and Blue Party comment
Posted by: redbrownandblueparty on Apr 26, 2007 9:06 AM   
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I fear for Dennis' life. I wonder if he knows he's setting himself up to be a martyr. The rotten class elitists Perfect Clue refers to are talking about it now. Surround Dennis with LOL (Lots of Love). The demons gather but love is the more powerful force. A new Nuremberg Tribunal is needed for the new nazis and their class-mates. Ruppert was right. Cheney directed the whole 911 shell game. If Dennis backs the stockholder class rats into a corner, he's going to need more than big cojones to survive. If we've got any money in banks, we're implicated in high crimes and treason against Love. The Lover Government trumps these patriotic, patriarchic, idiotic pricks with the power of Love.

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I wonder if......
Posted by: Voicedude on Apr 26, 2007 9:28 AM   
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I wonder:
if Dennis succeeds and Cheney gets impeached, if Dennis will sing "Sixteen Tons" again.

....just wondering!

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I stand corrected, but...
Posted by: vangogh69 on Apr 26, 2007 10:22 AM   
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Kuchinich voted no to the Patriot Act? Did he not stand behind Kerry and urge "unity?"

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KUCINICH-NADER-08
Posted by: kogwonton on Apr 26, 2007 10:22 AM   
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Kucinich is my boy. He is a courageous man. I supported him even when it was obviously hopeless. To be honest, if he did ever get to be president, I am sure he would be frozen out just like Carter was.

The criminals on both sides of the good cop / bad cop aisle (rep/dem) would see to it that he was embarrassed at every turn, and that he got no cooperation from anyone, ever. If Kucinich did like Carter did, and appointed a trusted friend to head up the CIA, you would just see the same thing happen - the CIA would go private (Oh, wait.... they've gone private and criminal with the GID, Mossad, ISI, and MI6 decades ago) and work to sabotage the president through some more illegal overseas election tampering (see paris peace talks a la Nixon/Kissinger, or iran hostage crisis a la Reagan/Bush).

One thing is for sure. These bastards are dangerous, but probably more dangerous when their backs are against the wall. Cheney has been pretty consistent about threatening the US with more acts of terror should a progressive ever take the presidency. Of course he has always been able to say he was just warning us of what Al CIAda would do.

How many of us would openly testify against a mafia don? What if they threatened your kids? Your wife? Your dog? What if they had the ability to completely trash your reputation with accusations of the sort that stick to the front page, even after the apologies make the back page.

The evidence against this administration is beyond the pale. The problem we see is not a lack of evidence, but a lack of testicular fortitude on the part of prosecutors, witnesses (some of them), congress, and the senate.

It took Kerry over ten years to get the biggest drug money laundering, terrorist financing, treasury looting bank ever discovered openly prosecuted in court. That bank was run (the U.S. branch) by Clark Clifford - the very man who AUTHORED the national security act which created the NSA and CIA. The bank had names like Hussein, Bin Ladin, Noriega, Medellin, Escobar, and of course Bush, associated with it (to name but a few). This bank, BCCI, was a creation of the Pakistani ISI, and the CIA, and was used to arm terrorists, and launder opium and cocaine money from at least two continents. This bank is connected directly to transactions between G.W.B. and members of the Bin Ladin family.

Kucinich is right. Bush is the little dummy on the lap of the ventriloquist, namely Cheney. Get Cheney out now, I say. I also pray for Kucinich's life. What I wouldn't give to see Kucinich and Nader on the same ticket, with a democratic primary victory. My only fear is that Al CIAda may not like seeing their buddies get the boot, and we should be prepared for that in any event.

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Empty barrel, loud Noise
Posted by: dayahka on Apr 26, 2007 10:43 AM   
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The emptier the barrel, the louder the noise...Filing impeachment papers against Cheney is just a nuisance activity with no chance of success or efficacy. All we have here is a lot of empty rhetoric. Nothing will come of it.

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Cheney is the engine, Bush is the caboose
Posted by: SALLY EVANS on Apr 26, 2007 12:05 PM   
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These traitors are without doubt the most horrible to infiltrate our country. But this 'train' involves a lot of other cars, all of which are corrupt. Thay have been on the fast track of destruction since Bush's father's crooked cronies in the U.S.SUPREME??? COURT in the 2000 'selection' blocked Al Gore from becoming president then proceeded riding the Fascist Line to imminent destruction. And then facts evolve proving once again that you cannot live a lie and crime does not pay. But, sadly, everyone else is paying for their mistakes. Cheney is apt to pull another 911 attack; he is such a bull head; he refuses to be defeated.

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I OTHER NEWS.................
Posted by: AlienSlave on Apr 26, 2007 12:36 PM   
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Denis Kucinich is invited to go quail hunting this weekend with Dick Cheney details at 11.
AlienSlave

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I like the cut of this blog's jib
Posted by: TheStranger on Apr 26, 2007 5:02 PM   
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And speaking of the W. Post, note that when Sen. Reid said the war is "lost" if we keep letting Bush run it his way, David Broder responded by saying the Democrats should take away Reid's leadership post. Broder and people like him actually think if anyone dares to turn away from D.C. dumbspeak that person must be cast out.

http://ivangoldman.blogspot.com/

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Thank you, Dennis
Posted by: Jeanne on Apr 26, 2007 5:12 PM   
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I have contacted my congress people urging them to support Kucinich's resolution.

I have been skeptical of Kucinich's chances as a presidential candidate, but as time has passed, I see him as the best candidate. He's got his record to run on. He has been opposed to Bush's War from the beginning. Vocally and loudly against it. He wins points for his perception and his perseverance. His tactic of impeaching Cheney first shows strategic planning. No one wants Cheney to succeed to the presidency. Well, Dennis is making sure to remove him first.

Kucinich 2008!

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» RE: Thank you, Dennis Posted by: Hedda
Geez!
Posted by: willymack on Apr 26, 2007 8:04 PM   
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You'd think people are mad at this guy, or sumthin.

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So what's with Pelosi? "Impeachment is off the table"?
Posted by: common intelligence on Apr 26, 2007 8:14 PM   
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Yah, the news media immediately imposed Pelosi's lack of support for impeachment. What's with this worthless hiding.

I said here in other articles before she was voted in as Speaker that she was the wrong person for the job because she always caves-in when the important points are brought front row and center.

Now here again the Democrates are showing their true
two-faced colors. As a group they can't be trusted to do the though stuff. Spineless against the NeoCons.
Dennis Kucunich is on the mark. Joe Biden too lamblasted Bush yesterday as a Con man, (in not so many words).

Yet the news media by-passes both of these congress men by shoving Obama and Clinton in our faces as if no one else was running for President.

What it seems like to me is the media, whom is controled by the Powers-that-be, are pushing them because it's the only way the Republican runners will have a chance to win (legally!).

Nancey Pelousy though is doing a hide behind secondary points of importance which will not change unless the government really changes. That means that the first business of the "New congress " should be no other than getting the Bush/Cheney control nullified. But then who are we left with ?...Nancey Pelosi?

Yup, it's a hopeless prayer. Business as usual here in the USA.
"We're not in Kansas anymore , Toto".

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08 Ticket
Posted by: Hedda on Apr 26, 2007 8:21 PM   
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Kucinich- Edwards

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Do it because it feels good!
Posted by: Jeanne on Apr 26, 2007 8:32 PM   
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Don't just do it because it's right. Do it because it feels good. Really. There might be "practical" reasons why it would be hard to do. But it would feel sooo good to get that b**t*rd out.

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Nuremburg Redux
Posted by: ashevegas on Apr 27, 2007 12:06 PM   
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People responsible for this irresponsible war need to be held accountable. How about a War Crimes Trial in the same vein as Nuremburg. Prosecute the following but not limited to:
Bush/Cheney
Wolfowitz
Rumsfeld
Rice
Powell
Perle
Kristol
Feith-Can anyone believe this guy is a prof, shame on you Georgetown.
and anyone else responsible for this please add!!

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gclef88
Posted by: gclef88 on Apr 27, 2007 12:22 PM   
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Dennis Kucinich did the patriotic and brave thing! He is the only one of our so-called leaders to stand up to the criminal element in the White House. It is only those who keep silent for whatever cryptic reasons who are complicit in the Iraq war and the laissez faire approach to the military industrial complex! This didn't happen overnight! It has been taking form for the past 45 years with growing apathy and selective ignorance!

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Kucinich Files Articles of Impeachment Against Cheney
Posted by: pfm on Apr 27, 2007 12:46 PM   
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Now Kucinich needs to file articles fo impeachment against George W. Bush

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citizen
Posted by: morrismetz on Apr 27, 2007 3:17 PM   
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Congress was reluctant to impeach Nixon,until popular opinion changed their minds. Write to Speaker Pelosi,Congressman Conyers and your representative and let them know you support Congressman Kucinich's resolution-333-To Impeach VP Cheney.

Check out www.impeachforpeace.com

If the American people want to do it, we can take back our Constitutonal Democracy. If you snooze you lose.

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know journalists with the courage to take me up on this?
Posted by: wahinkpe topa on Apr 27, 2007 4:11 PM   
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Dear Editor or Journalist:

My full name is Donald Trent Jacobs, however, I go by my Lakota name, Wahinkpe Topa or “Four Arrows.” I have two doctorates and am a tenured professor at Northern Arizona University and a professor at Fielding Graduate University. I am the author of 15 books and numerous chapters and journal articles. My last book, Unlearning the Language of Conquest, was published in 2006 by the University of Texas Press.

I am writing to see if you have the courage to write an article that brings impeachable actions on the part of the Vice President of the United States beyond those listed in Dennis Kucinich’s recent impeachment bill into public view. I am willing to either write the piece for you OR make myself available for an interview and you can write it, subject to my editorial approval.

In my 2004 book, American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone, (available for review at amazon.com), I and my co-author, University of Minnesota professor Jim Fetzer, make a strong prima facia case that Dick Cheney was responsible for a political assassination of the only U.S. Senator running for office who stood strongly against the Iraq war. In light of Wellstone being able to sway public opinion in October 2002 and by his re—election give congress to the democrats, he was a bigger threat than any CIA agent, and yet we know from the Gordon Libbey convictions that Cheney would stoop very low, beyond even the lies that Kucinich claims in his bill, to prevent anyone from stopping his war.

Additionally, we also believe that because Cheney was responsible for coordinating an unprecedented number of military drills on September 11, 2001, he may have also been involved in allowing 9/11 to happen. My chapter, “The Military Drills on 9/11, ‘Bizarre Coincidence or Something Else’” was recently published in a hardbound text entitled, The Hidden History of 9/11 by Elsevier of Holland, one of the most respected textbook publishers in the world. The facts here, if presented to the public, would also hasten the success of Representative Kucinich’s impeachment proceedings.

The media was not ready for our material in 2004 about Senator Wellstone’s death, although 69 percent of the people in Wellstone’s state believed the worse. “Conspiracy theory” allegations would have smothered any responsible reporting even by the most courageous journalist. I also understand that the American public’s hegemonic beliefs would make it difficult for many Americans to believe that Cheney could have been involved in 9/11. However, estimates are that more than half the population does not believe the 9/11 commission report and the evidence once again points to Cheney’s involvement. I believe that Kucinich’s bill about Cheney’s intentional lies would be strengthened by public awareness of the facts surrounding Cheney’s likely involvements in the death of Senator Wellstone and the attacks on the Twin Towers. This information in my research may help move Representative Kucinich’s impeachment to a reality unlikely without a growing public awareness of just how far Cheney and others went to make this war a reality.

Please let me know if you or your publication is willing to break the silence at this time.

Sincerely,

Four Arrows

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Does anyone remember when the guy in Gulfport Mississippi
Posted by: Hedda on Apr 27, 2007 5:01 PM   
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said "Go Fu*k Yourself, Mr Cheney" that was some funny stuff. Talk about your side splitter!! After all this time it still makes me smile! BTW, Has anyone heard from that guy? Is he still "around" (alive?). JK (sort of)
Here is an odd side note....
If I were goning to tell someone to "go fu*k themselves....I don't think I'd bother to call them Mr. When making a statement like that, I see no need for formalities. lmao

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Please Do this RIGHT - Do NOT FAIL - THE PEOPLE DESERVE BETTER LEADERS
Posted by: peace4all on Apr 27, 2007 5:13 PM   
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PLEASE DENNIS - MAY GOD BE WITH YOU - KEEP THE PRESSURE ON - WE AND OUR CHILDREN DESERVE ONLY THE BEST LEADERS - NOT JUST ONES WITH POWER AND HEAVY HANDED BACKERS - WE ARE BEHIND YOU 100% DENNIS ~ REMEMBER ROVE (rasputin) IS ANOTHER PERSON OF QUESTIONABLE PRACTICES AND DESERVES A COMEUPPANCE, GET RID OF HIM ALSO - I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THEM SHARING A PUTRID PRISON CELL ! GOOD LUCK AND DO NOT BE SWAYED BY CRONYISM AND THREATS - YOU ARE MY HERO ~ PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL !

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Kucinich for President!
Posted by: jparsons on Apr 28, 2007 4:21 PM   
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I know, I know, the two-party system would squash him again, but consider a country led by somebody with principles!

I felt moved to compose...I could go on at length. (to the tune of On top of Old Smokey/Spaghetti, depending on your age..)

All hail to Kucinich
He’s sound to the core,
He’s taking on Cheney’s
Most fraudulent war

When our famous towers
Collapsed in a stack
Let’s not fight the Saudis
Let’s go bomb Iraq

The blood of young soldiers’
For power, oil and cash
Our new reputation
Is lower than trash

Can this be the guvmint
In the land of the free?
Please get rid of Cheney
Dubya’s own dubya em dee

(c) Jessica Parsons 2007

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Eagle has several things wrong
Posted by: kwms on Apr 28, 2007 5:23 PM   
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One of them is that Saddam would not allow weapons inspectors! The inspections were going full tilt, and the inspectors had to be ordered out of the country to let "Bush's Shock and Awe begin.

Bush himself appears to have forgotten this fact, and claims it was a reason to invade. Both Scott Ritter and Hans Blix pointed out a few more months of inspections would have shown proof of weapons capability.

Sorry I just got to this story. I have been out at an Impeachment rally.

Kathleen Williams

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Impeachment: good *first* step...
Posted by: sslyon on Apr 30, 2007 12:24 PM   
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The topic of impeachment is not getting appropriate public and media attention. A quick survey of recent media articles reveals why: impeachment is being treated as mere partisan retribution, thus it’s easily dismissed as just another example of “same old stuff” politics. That impression is dead wrong and it obscures the fact that the current movement to impeach is citizen action to address an unprecedented threat to our American democracy.
Massive evidence, beyond depth and breadth of anything seen in recent times, fully justifies impeachment of Bush, Cheney and others in our government. It is tragic that what isn’t growing is citizen confidence that impeachment could really happen and that it could change our political system for the better. The reason for that is seen in incompetent reporting, indicating that our media haven’t learned from their humiliation in the run-up to Iraq. Reporters haven’t learned to look through the spin and deception fed to them by “official sources” and to probe for sources of bedrock fact.
Making the case for impeachment is actually the easier part of the task ahead. That must be seen as dealing with the acute “symptoms” of a “root cause” problem which, if addressed now, can put America back on track for a secure, prosperous future. Informed activists aside, the root cause problem is our loss of confidence in equal justice, equal protection and Constitutional accountability. We’ve lost confidence in our Founders concept of American democracy, which in this administration has been referred to as… “quaint”. Thus, too many of us are drifting about in a fog of apathy and cynicism.
The evidence for all that is seen in low voter turnout, rampant corruption and incompetence in office, corporate influence, and infiltration of a religion. All are powerful indicators that we Americans are not taking care of business in our democracy. Large segments of our ‘now’ generation, lacking adequate historical perspective, seem to be accepting this sorry state as “just the way it is”. That, dear citizen, should scare the hell out of you.
Wake up! -the problem is in “us” people, not some faceless “them”. Changing politicians is a good short-term fix and will inform our action to address the more fundamental problems. “We” have got to become sufficiently informed and engaged to apply the wisdom of “We The People” effectively. “We” must look beyond pop news for clear insight. “We” must lead our elected representatives and they must follow. Only with competent citizen leadership can America avoid a future of crippling debt, military conflict and of endless G.W. Bushes, Dick Cheneys, Karl Rove’s, Tom DeLays, Ralph Reeds… and their analogs throughout our political spectrum.

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Read H.R.333.IH at Thomas.gov
Posted by: edf on May 1, 2007 12:25 AM   
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You will note that 'Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors' includes three articles of Impeachment


see the entire bill at www.thomas.gov select Bill Number and enter H.RES.333.IH

The three articles are:

ARTICLE 1) In his conduct while Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests, to wit:
....

ARTICLE 2) In his conduct while Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda in order to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests, to wit:
....

ARTICLE 3:
In his conduct while Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has openly threatened aggression against the Republic of Iran absent any real threat to the United States, and done so with the United States proven capability to carry out such threats, thus undermining the national security of the United States, to wit:
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Kucinich Files Articles of Impeachment Against Cheney
Posted by: hesse on May 12, 2007 10:26 AM   
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link to Vote Smart has been removed!
Posted by: yelsoma on May 14, 2007 8:57 PM   
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Thanks for bothering to reply to SCURRILOUS remarks about Kucinich, who has been the passionate opponent of the invasion and occupation long beFORE it happened.
He publicised a LIST of reasons why everyone should oppose it BEFORE it happened, and constantly showed how the US govt could and must disengage.
If only he had been listened to!

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