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Kucinich Seeks to Impeach Cheney

US Politics & Gov't  (tags: )


- 576 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
CLEVELAND -- Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a vocal critic of the Bush administration's war in Iraq, plans to introduce articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney TODAY!
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Kathleen R. (571)
Tuesday April 24, 2007, 2:34 pm
HURRAY for moral and brave men like this -- Go Man Go!!!!!
Peace~
 

Blue Bunting (794)
Wednesday April 25, 2007, 1:50 pm
Impeachment

On this page you will find Congressman Dennis Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment against Richard Cheney, along with supporting materials. Here is a transcript of the press conference at which Kucinich announced the Articles.

CLICK HERE TO ask your Congress Member to support impeachment proceedings against Vice President Cheney.

CLICK HERE TO ask members of the House Judiciary Committee and Speaker Nancy Pelosi to help move this forward.

CLICK HERE TO tell the media you support Rep. Dennis Kucinich's articles of impeachment.

Find an event near you to support impeachment on April 28th.

Listen to the song: Raw Story article on Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment, April 24, 2007.

CLICK HERE TO READ "SUBPOENA DICK"

CLICK HERE TO READ "THE PEOPLE VERSUS RICHARD CHENEY"

CLICK HERE TO READ AN INDICTMENT OF CHENEY FOR PLAME LEAK

CLICK HERE TO READ A RESOLUTION PASSED BY the Franklin Roosevelt Legacy Democratic Club

Watch Cheney, the Unauthorized Biography

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/cheney
 

Kathleen R. (571)
Wednesday April 25, 2007, 5:11 pm
I really like Kucinich and Edwards!!! They are really decent human beings!!!
Peace~
 

Robert K. (400)
Wednesday April 25, 2007, 8:10 pm
Right on Kathleen, Kucinich is my man, and I like Edwards which may have a better shot. Thank you Ron for article, and Blue for all the sites.
 

Blue Bunting (794)
Thursday April 26, 2007, 12:36 am
BIG TIME....Joe Klein translates Dick Cheney.

Cheney's Lament

THE VICE PRESIDENT: I usually avoid press comment when I’m up here, but I felt so strongly about what Senator Reid said in the last couple of days, that I thought it was appropriate that I come out today and make a statement that I think needs to be made.
Translation: I wanted to go onRush Limbaugh, but he was busy.


I thought his speech yesterday was unfortunate, that his comments were uninformed and misleading. Senator Reid has taken many positions on Iraq. He has threatened that if the President vetoes the current pending supplemental legislation, that he will send up Senator Russ Feingold's bill to de-fund Iraq operations altogether.

Translation:: I, on the other hand, have taken only one position of Iraq, despite any changes in the situation on the ground: I have never missed an opportunity to mislead the American people.


Yet only last November, Senator Reid said there would be no cutoff of funds for the military in Iraq. So in less than six months' time, Senator Reid has gone from pledging full funding for the military, then full funding but with conditions, and then a cutoff of funding -- three positions in five months on the most important foreign policy question facing the nation and our troops.

Translation: The President and I have been entirely, consistently wrong. Anyway, we're winning, so what's the fuss?


Yesterday, Senator Reid said the troop surge was against the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group. That is plainly false. The Iraq Study Group report was explicitly favorable toward a troop surge to secure Baghdad. Senator Reid said there should be a regional conference on Iraq. Apparently, he doesn't know that there is going to be one next week. Senator Reid said he doesn't have real substantive meetings with the President. Yet immediately following last week's meeting at the White House, he said, "It was a good exchange; everyone voiced their considered opinion about the war in Iraq."

Translation: Picky, picky. The Iraq Study Group was not opposed to a temporary surge, in order to ease the way for American withdrawal by, uh-oh, darn it, March 2008...which, [expletive deleted] idiots, is exactly what the [expletive] Democrats are proposing. The Iraq Study Group was also in favor of direction negotiations with Iraq and Syria, which we have, uh, ignored. Which is why there are real fears that next week's Cairo conference will be a bust. If only those damn Arabs would listen to reason.



What's most troubling about Senator Reid's comments yesterday is his defeatism. Indeed, last week, he said the war is already lost. And the timetable legislation that he is now pursuing would guarantee defeat.

Translation: Damn that Bob Gates for saying the Congressional debate was valuable. Why the hell can't we get a loyal SecDef. Where the hell is Rummy?


Maybe it's a political calculation. Some Democratic leaders seem to believe that blind opposition to the new strategy in Iraq is good politics. Senator Reid himself has said that the war in Iraq will bring his party more seats in the next election. It is cynical to declare that the war is lost because you believe it gives you political advantage. Leaders should make decisions based on the security interests of our country, not on the interests of their political party.

Translation: We have never played politics with Iraq. We didn't schedule the initial authorization vote for just before the 2002 elections. We didn't cook the intel. We had nothing to do with the Mission Accomplished banner. The Navy told Bush to put on the flight suit. We didn't ignore the insurgency and spend vast resources on the Iraq Survey Group to look for non-existent WMD. Karl Rove never told Republicans they could use the war for their benefit. We never questioned the patriotism of people who opposed the war. I'm not questioning Harry Reid's patriotism now. And if you can't get that through your thick heads, you stupid, stupid Americans...you stupid Americans impatient with our master plan for VICTORY in the middle east...you...you... well then, as I once explained to Pat Leahy [expletive deleted].

 

Kevin Carty (10)
Saturday April 28, 2007, 11:49 am
Well as we can see this went about as far as dennis is going to go in his bid for the white house, NO WHERE where are the radical liberals during all of this it seems like all the democrates are staying as far away from this as they can possibly get. WISE CHOOICE.
 

Kathleen R. (571)
Saturday April 28, 2007, 10:25 pm
Kevin, people all over ARE contact politicians on a DAILY basis. Don't think its a joke just because (Bush's) media doesn't mention it. It is HUGE on capitol hill. How can it be wise to avoid the people who TRULY try to be peace keepers? It would be much wiser if the remaining die-hard Republicans would get off their egos and run away from Bush's tyrany!
Peace~
 

Kevin Carty (10)
Sunday April 29, 2007, 6:33 am
Since us remaining die-hard republicans only make up about 50% of the population, i for one dont think that we are about to throw up our hands> Although it may be HUGE in liberal circles it isnt in the republicans.
 

Blue Bunting (794)
Friday May 11, 2007, 4:41 pm
Bill to impeach Vice President gets a fourth co-sponsor
 

Andrew W. (4)
Sunday October 19, 2008, 5:49 pm
The impeachment process is possible and/or can be used for criminal prosecution even after George W. Bush leaves office—giving the American people a sense of hope. Even though impeachment while Bush is in office does not seem likely due to the complicity of Congress relative to the illegitimate Iraq War, Kucinich’s efforts relative to impeachment and the efforts of hundreds of Americans relative to impeachment are not wasteful collectively. For example, such efforts are beneficial in that (1) legitimate accusations made in the course of Bush’s presidency appropriately and importantly inform the American people and the world of Bush’s abuses of power, corruption, and dishonesty; and (2) legitimate accusations, for example, in Dennis Kucinich’s excellent book, “The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush,” may contribute to some impeachment and/or punitive process against Bush after he leaves office.

Dennis Kucinich is my role model. Kucinich is simply the best. Congressman Kucinich has, in any case, done invaluable, noble, and exemplary work in pushing for impeachment so vigorously and single-mindedly.

Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
 
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