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Congressman Jim McDermott, representing Washington’s 7th district, stood up on the House floor to give his official support to efforts to impeach President Bush.
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From Kucinich.usTwenty members of the Judiciary Committee attended the six hour hearing, during which twelve witnesses, including myself and four members of Congress testified. In this hearing I called for the Impeachment of the President for misrepresenting a case for war.This week I will present members of Congress with Impeachment petitions submitted by those of you who have signed the on-line impeachment form.I need your help. In the next few days we must redouble our efforts to get more signatures on the online petition at kucinich.us. I’m asking each of you to please contact at least ten of your friends to go to www.Kucinich.us now and sign the Impeachment petition that will be delivered by me. Wednesday night is the deadline.
Introduces 35 articles of impeachment against the President.
Article 33 - Failure to respond to high level warnings about the attacks.
Article 34 - Obstruction of Justice into the Investigation into the 9/11 Attacks.
Article 35 - Willfully endangering the help of 9/11 first responders.
WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) -
Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich defied his party leadership on Monday by calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush for launching the Iraq war — but his move was not expected to go anywhere.
The Ohio representative outlined his intention to propose more than two dozen charges against Bush on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Kucinich, a former presidential candidate, accused Bush executing a “calculated and wide-ranging strategy” to deceive citizens and Congress into believing that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly said she opposes trying to remove the Republican president who leaves office next January because such an attempt would be divisive and most likely unsuccessful.
Kucinich, an outspoken Iraq war critic who has consistently voted against funding the war and led anti-war efforts in Congress, offered a resolution to impeach Vice president Dick Cheney in April 2007. That also failed to move forward.
Many Democrats and civil liberties groups have accused the Bush administration of providing misleading information before the 2003 Iraq invasion as well as violating the rights of U.S. citizens with its warrantless surveillance program. The White House denies the charges.
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Open letter to congress from Ken at WeAreChangeSeattle.org:
Since the recently released, but long supressed, NIE Report stating the opposite of what the executive branch has been stating for months while trying to lead us to war with Iran reveals that the dangers posed by Iran are completely hyped lies. Does this mean the irrational and lemming-like supposed fear of at least some in congress that if they moved on impeachment that this would lead to an attack on Iran can now subside? Does this mean that impeachment CAN be not only on the table but can be moved upon aggressively?
Thanks. I’d greatly appreciate it, as would most of our citizens.
source: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/03/hadley-nie/
-Ken
Apparently, according to this congressman, it is to avoid pushing King George into attacking Iran, declaring martial law within the U.S.A. and preventing the 2008 elections from occurring.
Ralph Nader (the man some people, who are somewhat narrow-minded, blame for Bush’s appointment as the first King of the U.S.A.) reads a quote from a letter response from faux (aren’t they all at this point?) Congressman John Olver (D-Mass.) to his constituents whose several towns councils have passed resolutions demanding the impeachments of King George and Viceroy Dick.
Important quote from the video:
“Made fully aware of the overwhelming majority of his constituency resolved for impeachment, Congressman Olver vehemently refused. Rather, he expressed his opinion that the current autocratic executive (meaning the White House), would attack Iran from the air, declare a national emergency, institute martial law, and call off the 2008 elections were the Democrats to initiate impeachment.”
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