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 George McGovern: Impeach Bush and CheneyPosted on Jan 6, 2008
One-time presidential candidate, World War II hero and former Sen. George McGovern penned a bombshell of an Op-Ed piece in Sunday’s Washington Post, trotting out a list of impeachable offenses that he said President Bush and Vice President Cheney have committed and asserting that the case for their impeachment “is far stronger than was the case against Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew after the 1972 election.”
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By joecoretti, April 27 at 5:15 pm #
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bush and all his cronnies should be hanged in the city square like they did to mussolino.
Report thisBy John, January 11 at 11:12 pm #
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Below is my response to article by George McGovern on Impeaching George Bush:
Old men soon to meet their Maker act and speak with more authenticity than perhaps in their youth. I recall Jimmy Carters recent book ‘Peace not Apartheid’ where he spoke the truth about the Israeli-Palestinian issue to much malignment. Now 85yr old George McGovern speaks the truth about our current admin. How my sense of right and wrong rejoices to hear truth in a country where cognitive dissonance seems the norm!
When the Democrats took control of the house and senate exactly 1 year and a week ago today, I hoped John Conyers motion to impeach Cheney et al would be heard, but Nancy Pelosi reveling in her status of first woman speaker of the house and not wanting to bite the hand that delivered that position to her, tabled it. What were the real reasons why accountability did not see the light of day? I heard reasons such as ‘Don’t want to be divisive’ or there were ‘more pressing issues i.e.: health-care, homeland security, education and energy proposals. Great sound bytes to force feed an unthinking populace into compliance with their complicity.
The reasons sounded good. Medical care and teaching our children are important so let’s move on and forget they trampled our constitution, the glue that binds us as a civil society and lied on numerous occasions. Perhaps we should follow the example of our ‘leadership’ of dismissing the criminal acts of our president and his underlings and dismiss the criminal’s acts of our populace. It would certainly free up some money for health care and education. Choosing to walk down this dark road should never occur. Whether raised Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or Buddhist or even agnostic or atheist we were all raised to believe (correctly so) that the universal order of life is such that wrongs must be righted to the best of our ability and forgiveness sought. Acknowledging a wrong had occurred or been exposed always came first and only after addressing and resolving in some manner did we move on with the other issues and challenges of life.
That Bush et. al are guilty of committing crimes, is no longer even a question, it is an established fact, yet they walk among us unscathed, unfettered, even smiling defiance in the comfort they cannot be ‘touched’ What are the real reasons we suspended the universal order and allow this? What will be the cost to our emotional health for this fog we live under each day, this cognitive dissonance where grievous wrongs have been committed to fellow members of this world stage. A stage we have allowed our leadership to hijack for the benefit of a few. What will be the price we pay for our physical safety from those very same world stage members whose country we ruined and whose populace we killed? How many have we offended abroad by our ongoing insistence of pretending all is OK?
I firmly believe we the people have lost control of our country to big business and wealthy individuals interests. We live in an Orwellian world where the few control the masses with such a deft touch we don’t even realize it. The United States leadership is bought and beholden to them. Our two party system is broken, we need a third party. All the wonderful presidential candidates we pin high hopes upon are illusory in my opinion. To stay the course does not bode well for America. Please support any efforts to impeach these criminals and let’s create a world where wrongs do not go unpunished and good men prevail.
John Rowe
Tacoma, WA
Report thisBy sdemetri, January 9 at 11:08 am #
That is precisely what I mean.
Report thisBy Greg, January 8 at 5:04 pm #
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the apathy and then not become PARALIZED with FEAR!!(I have to laugh) when the MSM and Faux News is telling you what to think,..
In reality,...when one considers the current crop of candidates for the 2008 election, one thing can be said of the lot of them,....it is no wonder that they all made it to the TOP on the current Judicial Watch’s list of the 10 Most Corrupt Politicians…
http://judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-announces-list -washington-s-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-2007
...not only are most of todays front runners mentioned but so are the names of the very people who were elected and we currently rely on to clean up the mess OUR government has become.
Report thisIt’s nothing short of a National disgrace of monumental proportion.
By Maani, January 8 at 2:30 pm #
lodipete:
“Interesting bits floating around about whistleblower Sybel Edmunds and the Bush connection to Mideast/Pakistan graft,money laundering and terrorist funding and use of Turkey as a base to train terrorists.”
If you want more - lots more - on this, read “One-Way Ticket to Crawford, Texas” by Karl Schwarz. Schwarz actually interviewed Edmonds - and HE isn’t under a gag order. The book is hopelessly badly written, but absolutely chock full of amazing stuff in this regard.
sdemetri:
“He said it was his belief that if the democrats move on impeachment of Bush and Cheney, Bush would invade Iran, call a national emergency, declare martial law, and cancel elections. Ralph Nader announced this in a clip a short while back...Would a black ops operation in an American city, blamed on Al Qeada, do the same thing? The executive orders and legislation giving the executive the power to declare US territory a war zone, and subject to extraordinary executive powers, such that military forces may be deployed is in place. All we need is the trigger to be pulled.”
You mean a “false flag operation” like 9/11? Yes, it would have an enormous effect, allowing Bush to postpone elections indefinitely. Indeed, there are many people out there (and, no, they are NOT all “kooks” and “conspiracy nuts") who believe that the scenario you suggest is at least a potential possibility.
After all, (i) Bush can unilaterally declare any person - even an American - an “enemy combatant,” subject to up to three years incarceration without access to family or lawyers, (ii) having undermined the Posse Comitatus Act, he can now unilaterally declare martial law without the consent of Congress, and invoke both the National Guard and...(wait for it...)...Blackwater (who have a contract with the government to assist in “national crises and emergencies) to enforce it, (iii) having undermined habeus corpus, he can now hold “enemy combatants” indefinitely, and (iv) with the expected passage of the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, certain speech could be considered “treasonous,” allowting detention of any and all dissenters - which is in DIRECT contravention of the DOI and the Constitutional right to free speech.
As you say, all it needs is the “trigger”: perhaps a biological, chemical or (God forbid) nuclear “attack” on a major city, or perhaps multiple cities - say, in August or September. This would give Bush the excuse to postpone elections under the guise of a “national emergency.”
And anyone who thinks “it can’t happen here” is sadly mistaken, and doesn’t know their history.
Peace.
Report thisBy Greg, January 8 at 12:09 pm #
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it’s hard to avoid the apathy and not become PARALIZED with FEAR!!(I have to laugh) when the MSM and Faux News is telling you what to think,..
In reality,...when one considers the current crop of candidates for the 2008 election, one thing can be said of the lot of them,....it is no wonder that they all made it to the TOP on the current Judicial Watch’s list of the 10 Most Corrupt Politicians…
http://judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-announces-list -washington-s-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-2007
...not only are most of todays front runners mentioned but so are the names of the very people who were elected and we currently rely on to clean up the mess OUR government has become.
Report thisIt’s nothing short of a National disgrace of monumental proportion.
By BruSays, January 8 at 11:32 am #
I repeat: NOBODY CARES
Talk talk talk talk talk....
Blog blog blog blog blog....
Until we address and CHANGE the issue of our electorate’s apathy, we’ll go nowhere with impeachment. Go out on the street and ask people who their two state senators are. I bet 90% can’t answer. Ask them who Britney Spear’s ex is, and 90% will know.
Report thisBy ocjim, January 8 at 10:40 am #
It is true that in the history of impeachment no one is as worthy as Cheney and Bush.
But let’s face it. As it stands now, it could not be done. No way enough Republicans can forget their partisanship and vote the way they should. In fact, many in Congress are as complicit as the corrupt Bush and Cheney, so it’s like voting against yourself.
We have so few statesmen/stateswomen in government that the good of our country would never be considered.
As several have suggested, we could wait for a larger majority of Democrats and hopefully a Progressive president and still charge Bush and Cheney after the 2008 election.
Charging both is important because not to would definitely set a precedent of no accountability coming from the highest offices. A democratic system must have equal treatment before the law. There is no royalty in the US. Remember?
Report thisBy John Borowski, January 8 at 10:39 am #
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The stench is not only coming from the closet of Bush and Cheney, but is coming equally from the Republicans’closet. (Aka Conservatives right-wingers) Many of the doings that warrant impeachment by Bush and Cheney were given thunderous applause by the Republicans. (Aka Conservatives right-wingers) There is only one ephemeral hope that by some miracle the majority of Americans will exponentially increase their intelligence, maturity, and character. If the miracle doesn’t occur the right-wing media will continue to inundate their brains to vote against their basic interests by exploiting their lack of intelligence, maturity, and character.
Report thisBy voice of truth, January 8 at 9:17 am #
“Impeachment was something I previously opposed, not because it is unwarranted, but because I believe our country has been under so much stress during this administration that we just can’t take much more and continue to hold it together.”
Now that is one hell of an argument for impeachment! What a nut. And who the hell is McGovern. This man is more irrelevant than what the Democrats in Congress think of the loonies on this blog! Wake up to the world folks.
Report thisBy tdbach, January 8 at 7:18 am #
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People often confuse “impeach” with “throw out” or “overthrow.” Which makes some get excited and some get nervous. But that’s not what impeachment is. It’s a process. It’s “going to trial” where the court is Congress and - most important - rules of evidence, compelled testimony under oath, and thorough and disciplined investigation come into play. If members of congress – or even a broad consensus of Americans - SUSPECT that this administration has violated laws, it is their duty to impeach. How else can the people – and history – get to the bottom of what has been done (if anything).
If Congress doesn’t fulfill its constitutional obligation by impeaching, we who have long accused Bush and Cheney of abuses of power will never have our suspicions either confirmed or put to rest. If we are right, justice will never be served and crimes of breathtaking consequence will go unpunished. The rule of law will be irreparably weakened. And a cloud of suspicion will hang over our government – no matter which party is in power – for a generation or more.
Trials don’t just serve the retribution-minded victims; they serve the suspicion-burdened accused as well. Let the chips fall where they may. To ignore impeachment, to turn a blind eye to what you suspect might be wrongs in the hope that we can “move on,” is to leave a cancer untreated. The surgery may have undesirable side-effects, but the disease will almost certainly kill you without it.
Report thisBy sdemetri, January 8 at 7:13 am #
That we are unable to, in a timely manner, address these eventualities is a sign of a glaring weakness in our guiding document.
Are Ms. Pelosi and the rest of the democratic leadership being held hostage to the tyranny of this admin?
Report thisBy sdemetri, January 8 at 7:06 am #
Mass. Rep. John Olver holds a PhD from MIT, has the benefit of 60+ years, is not known for maverick ideas or positions. When 2/3’s of his constituents voted for impeachment, I believe, it was last fall, he told them he could not support that effort. He said it was his belief that if the democrats move on impeachment of Bush and Cheney, Bush would invade Iran, call a national emergency, declare martial law, and cancel elections. Ralph Nader announced this in a clip a short while back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIO-tCPSfHA
Would a black ops operation in an American city, blamed on Al Qeada, do the same thing? The executive orders and legislation giving the executive the power to declare US territory a war zone, and subject to extraordinary executive powers, such that military forces may be deployed is in place. All we need is the trigger to be pulled.
Report thisBy lodipete, January 8 at 5:44 am #
Interesting bits floating around about whistleblower Sybel Edmunds and the Bush connection to Mideast/Pakistan graft,money laundering and terrorist funding and use of Turkey as a base to train terrorists. I’ve often also wondered about the attempted coup against Chavez as well. If there’s any Bush/Cheyney involvement in the Enron fiasco, there’s a “high crime & misdemeanor” if ever I heard one. this administration is a giant rock hiding all kinds of filth that needs to be exposed. Maybe Reid & Pelosi are accomplices rather than prosecutors.
Report thisBy Greg, January 8 at 5:37 am #
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80% of the comments here seem to beleive Impeachment is needed and in order, yet they debate about it’s success and any chance it will happen, well I beleive that if you inform your friends and family of what you beleive and take some action,
http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com/
and for those that disagree with the belief of Nancy Pelosi, that Impeachment is “off” the table, they should tell her that Impeachment is “on” the agenda and if she’s not going to take action then, here’s an solution they should try,
http://www.petitiononline.com/everyman/petition.html
if everyone takes action just maybe something might happen and at least awaken many more Americans to the current nightmare OUR government has become.
Report thisImmeadiate Action is the only cure for the Buch/Cheney Administration
By BobZ, January 7 at 9:39 pm #
I voted for McGovern in 72 and how things would have been different if he had been elected. Thousands of American GI lives would have been spared in Vietnam. I have alway’s admired McGovern and his book about his WWII experiences were great reading. The Democrat’s had their chance a year ago to bring charges against Bush and Cheney and did not have the courage to do so. Now it is too late. It would totally obscure the election battle and energize the Republican diehards to defend Bush by voting for a Bush lookalike. Better to just let Bush and Cheney wither on the vine, but keep them on a short leash.
Report thisBy Thomas Billis, January 7 at 9:07 pm #
When the Thomas Jefferson of our time, Nancy Pelosi, decided to unilaterally ammend the Constitution to her liking by taking impeachment off the table George McGovern is whistling in the wind.I hear that Nancy will submit her list of what parts of the Constitution are off the table next year in the coming months.I hope it is not free speech I have grown rather attached to it.
Report thisBy mackTN, January 7 at 8:54 pm #
...even though it may not come to pass, it needs to be said.
And I am grateful that McGovern included Hurricane Katrina in this litany of crimes against our country. The handling of our worst natural disaster was outrageous, with Bush backslapping good old Brownie while his mother was demeaning citizens as refugees whose residency in the Houston Astrodome was better than any home they’d ever had.
Does it take a rocket scientist to figure out that one would need a disaster czar to oversee the distribution of monies paid out to contractors because more than likely fraud would occur?
And our good old Democratic leadership, not even the cojones to give these guys a tongue lashing in place of an impeachment.
they are the uncle tom’s of the left. the only leadership they could muster up was to try to hustle an outrageous immigration reform bill into law, not once, not twice, but a gazillion times in every kind of shape imaginable.
They could muster up energy for that immigration reform bill but couldn’t even work up the nerve to ask for an itemized receipt for the billions of dollars Bush picks from our pockets.
Report thisBy mackTN, January 7 at 8:40 pm #
Let’s hope he stays in Israel.
Report thisBy Kimball Corson, January 7 at 7:48 pm #
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I believe a sound multi-count claim can be made out that Bush has violated his oath of office to uphold the Constitution.
Report thisBy Dan McClenaghan, January 7 at 6:51 pm #
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The congress doesn’t have the “glands” to do the necessary impeachment thing; so why don’t we the people just grab some torches and do the tar and feathers thing.
Somebody’s got to make a move…
Report thisBy lenny, January 7 at 6:04 pm #
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I didn’t read the other comments so this may have been covered.
Report thisGeorge McGovern is at the top of my most admired people. He is a genuine hero for piloting a B-24 through all the required missions against the most difficult targets over Germany. I’m thankful for anything he writes and give him top credibility.
By amos_hart, January 7 at 4:34 pm #
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Ha! It would take this Congress 10 months to find the John. Fat chance. Cheney first or Bush? McGovern is as relevant now as he was 40 years ago.
Report thisBy BruSays, January 7 at 4:25 pm #
Here we are, once again, preaching to the choir.
And the church is empty.
I salute GW=MCHammered for reminding us of Greg Bacon’s long list of lies put forth by this administration. Choose any 2 and you have grounds for impeachment. But…
The problem isn’t that there are no reasons for impeachment.
The problem isn’t that it’s not politically expedient to choose this time for impeachment.
The problem isn’t that Pelosi didn’t act or McGovern waited too long to act.
The problem isn’t that this administration won’t permit impeachment proceedings.
The problem isn’t that the Democrats don’t have candidates who will push for impeachement.
THE PROBLEM IS NOBODY CARES.
If, after all that has happened, our electorate truly cared, then Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rice and Rumsfeld would already be behind bars and we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
Report thisBy A Khokar, January 7 at 4:11 pm #
George McGovern insists that Bush and Cheney are guilty of numerous impeachable offences for repeatedly violating the Constitution and transgression of national and international law. As well as nonsensical war against Iraq which has resulted into killing of some 4000 Americans and 600,000 Iraqis butchered. And that all of this has been done without the declaration of war from Congress as well as; it is in defiance of the U.N. Charter and in violation of international law. The reckless disregard for life and property in foreign lands and constitutional law, has been accompanied by the abuse of prisoners, including systematic torture, in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949.
He also claims that the conduct and their barbaric policies have reduced the image of United States to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world.He is trying to give; morality a call!
But has he really tried to peep behind the closed doors of White House and found the real forces at work behind this; which tends these figures like Bush and Cheney to remain on their toes all the time. This may be his; a hypocritical face not to reveal the truth; that it is in fact the policy of ‘American Adventurism’ at its play; which is complexity of deep seeded policies and the mind set of US of securing US hegemony in the world; that is what which should matter him the most and be point of contention for him.
American adventurism is strife; it is the fearsome agenda of all the debates held concerning the future of humanity in the entire world. The divisive policies implied in execution through deception and fallacy by US is awful. The dismantling of sovereign states and to bring the havoc in the lives of millions and millions of defence less destitute people and to dislodge them and wipe them off from the face of earth; just in pursuance of rapacious greed of US;, are the crimes against humanity?
Anarchy, mayhem in the house of adversaries and media manipulation in order to upkeep the climate of fear of terror, in our own society is the order of the day. The evidence of government sponsored terror and how they use the fear of terror to control own society is seen bursting out at the seams. This horrific climate is keeping the world in its grips; now for decades.
We find that US top political parties; Conservative as well as Democrats; both are in full agreement in pursuing this common dream of their hegemonic aspiration in the world.
Today it is Bush and Cheney’s team and tomorrow we will have another set of figures; we will find that they are pushing the same evil policies forward.
* My killers they don’t change; only they change their faces and flags.
Report this*What a strenuous journey of mine; even my milestones and traversed spans; all travel with me
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By weather, January 7 at 1:52 pm #
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‘show me who you walk with and I’ll tell you what you are’
Please free us from the remarkable arrogance and manipulating deceit that is Israel.
Report thisBy John Borowski, January 7 at 12:41 pm #
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CEO Rick Wagoner of GM states that seventy-five percent of sales will come from countries outside of the US in the future. The two conundrums I have are how the foreigners in China, India, and Russia will buy cars or trucks that range in price from fourteen thousand dollars to one hundred thousand dollars on their pay scale? The second conundrum is, will the Americans switch to bicycles? If you delete all the companies and American people that make their living on vehicles, I would think that they had better start to brush up on farming, thig-a-ma jigs or ice box making. (Only an old timer knows what an ice box or a thig-a-ma-jig is) Is this Wagoner’s pipe dream for globalization? (Meaning to lower Americans’ living standards and quality of life that will equal the foreigners status) For this plot to fructify they would have to sell foreigners Smart Cars. (Nickels do come faster than dollars)
Report thisBy robert m puglia, January 7 at 12:38 pm #
i thank sen. mcgovern for his well considered opinion as expressed in the (sunday 6 january) washington post. i thank him also for his courage, wisdom, civility and service.
respectfully,
Report thisrobert puglia
By Miriam, January 7 at 12:36 pm #
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Congressional Democrats will never oppose Bush or his wars with the required vigor.
And here’s a hint as to why:
”George Bush is coming to Israel this week. He will take pleasure in his visit. One can assume that there are few prime ministers with a giant photo of themselves with the U.S. president hanging on the wall in their home, as our Ehud Olmert boasted last week that he does… There are also few other countries where the lame duck from Washington would not be greeted with mass demonstrations; instead, Israel is making great efforts to welcome him graciously. The man who has wreaked such ruin upon the world...is such a welcome guest only in Israel....”
“...The world feels enmity toward him and even the U.S. is already sick and tired of him. Only here [in Israel] is he accorded honor and glory.”
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/941823.html
Report thisBy Sharon Ash, January 7 at 12:13 pm #
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Impeachment was something I previously opposed, not because it is unwarranted, but because I believe our country has been under so much stress during this administration that we just can’t take much more and continue to hold it together. Impeachment proceedings will be stressful for our country. However, I had a retired, career military, explain why we must impeach, from a perspective I had not thought of, and it made me change my mind. The point they made was that even though the military had been sent into Iraq, under what is now known to be false pretenses, the military believed they were going to defend this country, and all that embodies, including our Constitution. If we fail to uphold our Constitution and hold Bush and Cheney accountable, then what did they die for? If we do not care enough to stand up for our Constitution, then we certainly have no right to expect the military to give their lives for it. Sometimes you must do the right thing, even if it creates stress. This is one of those times.
Report thisBy rage, January 7 at 11:45 am #
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Impeachment is too good this bunch. We need to do the Lord’s work. Can I hear the congregants cry out for GITMO? Let the Lord hear you scream Abu Griaib For DumyaCo!
Report thisBy jaosn, January 7 at 11:05 am #
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Although i agree that it is impossible for impeachment (i agree with lodipete policy completly) it’s just great that people are finally talking about it....
Report thisBy lodipete, January 7 at 10:53 am #
Over at CNN.com,there’s a story about Iranian ships “provoking” the US Navy. Here we go again.
Report thisBy pvtucaz, January 7 at 10:29 am #
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It’s a shame that the Republicans have trivialized the impeachment process with the nonsense they tried against Bill Clinton. As justified as it NOW is, I don’t believe that the American public and especially Congress will move forward.
Report thisBy Bourgeois Deviant, January 7 at 10:10 am #
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While I agree that the Bush administration has gone without accountability and reprimand for six years too long and that the congressional Dems are more ineffectual than anyone could have anticipated, there is a subtext here that few have mentioned.
Power. The GOP had it, ran the table and forged more for the office of the chief executive. Pelosi, Reid and crew know this full well. They also know that a Democrat, barring ineptitude exceeding that of the Gore crew and others in 2000, will be in the White house on ‘08. To impeach Bush now, admittedly for all the right and totally justifiable reasons, would effectively rescind most of the abilities and powers created in the last seven years. That should and needs to happen, but the Dems in place to make that kind of call are more game for the power grab, I fear.
I just hope I am wrong and the words of McGovern will resonate into real action and just consequences that have debilitated our once great nation.
Report thisBy Conservative Yankee, January 7 at 9:58 am #
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By Maani, January 7 at 7:56 am
“As an aside, Hillary supported Kucinich’s resolution for impeachment. I’m not sure if or how the other candidates stand. Might want to keep this in mind as you consider your support.”
WHERE do you get this stuff from???
Hillary (to my knowledge) has NEVER even semi-supported Impeachment of GW BUSH, AND she has said she intends (if elected) to use G.H.W. Bush along with her husband as “roving ambassadors.”
GHW Bush would not work for an administration which was attempting to put his son in jail....or worse.
Also, let us look at the past record… the Clintons deep-sixed the investigations into Iran Contra. They curtailed investigations into GHW Bush’s relationship with Saddam Hussein.
They had no stomach for holding several lying congresspeople accountable for “crimes and misdemeanors” related to war and profiteering. Given this record what insight (maybe through ESP) makes you believe the complicent Clintons would hold anyone responsible for anything?
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/123107Parry.shtml
Report thisBy GW=MCHammered, January 7 at 8:49 am #
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For the posterity sake, IMPEACH AND EXILE BU$H-CHENEY:
They lied about Jessica Lynch’s rescue (even according to Jessica).
They lied about the way Saddam’s statue came down.
They lied about protecting American skies, even as they closed Air National Guard bases.
They lied about protecting America when they rebuked southern Border Guard authority.
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(and from #121732 by Greg Bacon posted at TD on 12/21)
They lied repeatedly--and still do to this day--about Saddam Hussein having connections to al-Qaeda.
They lied about the intelligence briefings both then NSA head Condi Rice and GW Bush had received in the Summer of 2001.
They lied about knowing the possibilities of someone using an airplane as a weapon to attack buildings.
They lied repeatedly--and still do to this day--about using torture techniques on prisoners.
They lied--and still do--about not spying on Americans unless they have a court order.
They lied in the outing of now former CIA undercover operative Valerie Plame Wilson.
They lied about the FISA Court--Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act--not issuing warrants in a timely manner.
They lied about Iraq having biological and chemical weapons.
They lied about Iraq having a nuclear weapons program...Yellowcake, anyone?
They lied about Saddam having mobile facilities for producing biological warfare agents.
They lied about Iraq having UAV’s--Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’s--that could deliver chemical or biological agents to the U.S.
They lied about finding WMD’s in post-invasion Iraq.
They lied about Iraq being an “imminent” threat to the United States.
They lied about the threat level of the then approaching Hurricane Katrina.
They lied about not knowing that the New Orleans levees were in danger of being breached.
They lied--and still do--about the need for an immediate fix on the Social Security fund.
They lied about the tax cuts going mostly to the middle class.
They lied about the 2003 Prescription Drug Bill cost Estimates.
They lied about the provisions of the “PATRIOT” Act.
They lied about the outgoing Clinton administration damaging White House property.
They lied about Bush’s service in the Air National Guard.
They lied about the level of care our wounded veterans were receiving.
They lied about the amount of federal educational funding states would receive.
They lied about using conservation as part of a National Energy policy.
They lied about the White House’s connections to the now bankrupt company, Enron.
They lied about their level of involvement in the attempted coup in 2002 of President Chavez of Venezuela.
They lied about Cheney’s involvement in awarding contracts to his old firm, Halliburton. (Cheney still receives a deferred compensation package from Halliburton)
They lied about the safety of imported prescription drugs from Canada.
They lied about the budget deficits being only “small and temporary.”
They lied about the fact that Bush and the WH do conduct focus groups and listen to polls.
They lied about the war in Iraq having nothing to do with oil.
They lied about former NFL star Pat Tilman’s murder in Afghanistan.
They lied about turning information over to the 9/11 Commission.
They lied--and still do-- about addressing the security concerns and vulnerabilities at chemical plants and ports.
They lied--and still do--about Iran having connections to aL-Qaeda.
They lied--and still do--about Iran being a threat to the United States.
They lied about Saddam Hussein refusing to allow U.N. WMD inspectors into Iraq.
Lied about the number of missing White House emails that by law, are supposed to be saved.
Lied about when the President knew and what he knew about Iran in the just released National Intelligence Estimate.
Lied about about Iran being on the path to making a nuclear bomb.
Report thisBy Maani, January 7 at 7:56 am #
All:
Even were Congress to begin discussing and moving toward impeachment today, the process takes so long that it would likely not conclude before the election.
Rather than impeach, I would like to see a commitment from all the candidates (Democrats, of course, since no Republican would do so) that among the things they will do in their first “100 days” is institute a special prosecutor, panel, tribunal or other investigation into the Constitutional abuses and/or other crimes of Bush & Co., leading to criminal charges if such are warranted. This needs to be a hard-hitting, non-partisan investigation, not a whitewash; it needs “teeth.”
As an aside, Hillary supported Kucinich’s resolution for impeachment. I’m not sure if or how the other candidates stand. Might want to keep this in mind as you consider your support.
Peace.
Report thisBy Don Stivers, January 7 at 7:37 am #
Thank you Senator McGovern. And I have been a life long Republican.
Report thisBy ocjim, January 7 at 7:27 am #
Look around you.
The good of our country is no longer the criteria for action of any kind.
It is the end justifies the means, especially among those with power and money.
Our culture perpetuates the lie of rugged individualism which justifies everyone fending for themselves. The result is a lack of a social contract, where the government provides security for its citizens, no investment in human resources, no investment in the infrastructure. All of our moneys go toward war, fear-building and commerce.
Therefore, our CEO president and CEO vice president are free to break the law and pursue their own interests above the general welfare.
Media, culture, and institutions all support this Machiavellian approach.
And guess who our representatives represent!
Report thisBy John Borowski, January 7 at 7:12 am #
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McGovern, Obama, and Kucinich are decent,and intelligent people worthy of respect by the American people. However, they astound me when they want to impeach Bush and Cheney. Don’t they know that in a dictatorship they can’t impeach the mythical devil? I can guarantee you sheep that Bush or Cheney will never be impeached. I can guarantee you sheep that a Democrat can only win an election in this country if he/she is seventy five percent for big business (Fascist). McGovern, Obama, or Kucinich will never be president of this country. The Electoral College has the right to elect the president, not you, and there is no way they will elect McGovern, Obama, or Kucinich. I know that what I write here is one hundred eighty degrees out of phase with what the media soups your brains, but the three above will never be president. We will see if I’m wrong down the road.
Report thisBy cadence, January 7 at 7:07 am #
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Now, he calls for impeachment? Now, when the rats have almost left the ship? Now, so they can leave office “in shame”? Mac-Govern (good name for the current crop of politicians) finally boldly goes where no establishment politician has dared to go, now, when it is safe to say: “These guys are bad.” OK. Thanks a bunch. Where you been? What difference would impeachment make now? This makes me furious.
Report thisBy Frostedflakes, January 7 at 7:04 am #
Pelosi should be impeached for not impeaching the Shrub and Vader. We have got to improve our political system regarding accountability, because this is not working.
Report thisBy QuyTran, January 7 at 6:53 am #
Our Congress still plays dumb until Bush/Cheney going into their graves ! Just hang them high before it’s too late !
Report thisBy Alejandro, January 7 at 6:51 am #
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With the Democratic Leadership rolling over for these criminals in our White House as well as through out the entire Govermental structure of our country . The only conclusion I can think of is, we need to arrest the whole damn bunch of them encluding all who through their docile compliant behaviour have contributed to the murder of so many innocent people. One must remember these people have no souls. They worship Mammom. We need to clean house and rid our selves of this demonic infestation, period…
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By troublesum, January 7 at 6:26 am #
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Great comment, right on!
Report thisBy troublesum, January 7 at 6:26 am #
Congressional democrats believe that public hand wringing is political action. They whine about how mean republicans are. Be glad these nutless wonders weren’t around in 1776; we would be singing “God Save Our Queen” today.
Report thisBy osage, January 7 at 6:07 am #
What’s the point of a democracy if government is free to violate our constitution and our laws without fear of accountability. What Democratic leaders failing to Impeach are doing is turning a blind eye to their constitutional responsibilties. No so-called reason or excuse is acceptable. Should a prosecutor fail to indict a murderer because the trial would be too lenghty and or costly? Is that how the law works in the United States of America? What example is THAT setting to the rest of the world, and especially to the dictators and despots who are given free reign to rule with an iron fist. Failing to uphold the law is aiding and abetting the criminal. Damn the Democratic leaders for failing to do what’s right based on political expedience. Shame on them for being so hypocritically corrupt.
Report thisBy Irene Lynch, January 7 at 5:42 am #
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We have no choice but to impeach Dick Cheney & then George Bush. All healing begins with excising the poisons that flood the body - in this case, the body politic.
Why else have a democratic society? To balance the health of America. Long-time coming.
Irene Lynch
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By Rob Wagner, January 7 at 4:32 am #
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I agree that what Bush and Cheney have done is far worse than anything Nixon, Agnew or even Clinton could have cooked up. Yet the Democrats in power and the voters who put them there are far weaker and less principled than any lawmaker who roamed the halls of Congress and the Senate 35 years ago. American voters today are mere sheep who do not have the inclination and the will to stand up to the bullies that have made a mockery of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
http://13martyrs.blogspot.com/
Report thisBy Expat, January 7 at 3:23 am #
It also helps if you’re the biggest, baddest, bully on the block.
Report thisBy Expat, January 7 at 3:21 am #
That’s pretty much my comment. Crime does pay, but it must be on a massive scale and then one is immune!
Report thisBy ElkoJohn, January 7 at 1:45 am #
Why does the congress refuse to impeach the most criminal prez in our history? Because 80% of the pols in DC belong to the good ole boys (and gals) club, which answers only to the big-money interest types, OR, they don’t give a damn about our constitution, OR, they think it’s unamerican to impeach Bush, but it was okay to impeach Clinton. Only Kucinich & R. Paul speak the truth, and look how they are barred from campaign debates. Wake up americans, better vote for Kucinich or Paul before it’s too late. Reject Nancy P, Harry R & the DLC. Thank you Sen. McGovern & Rep. Kucinich for advocating impeachment.
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