| By Wynn & Barbara - Jul 9th, 2008 at 1:52 am EDT |
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Last month, Kucinich introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush in the form of a privileged resolution.
Kucinich, a former 2008 Democratic presidential candidate, spent four-hours reading the impeachment articles into the Congressional Record last month. He accused the commander-in-chief of a wide range of high crimes and misdemeanors, such as lying to Congress and the public to win support for the Iraq war.
The impeachment articles introduced by Kucinich last month took place a few days after the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a long-awaited report on prewar Iraq intelligence that concluded President Bush and Vice President Cheney knowingly lied to the public and to Congress about Iraq's links to al-Qaeda and the threat the country posed to the U.S. in the aftermath of 9/11.
“These articles of impeachment are about accountability,” Kucinich said. “I think our country is at risk. We’re setting a terrible precedent for future administrations if we choose to turn a blind eye to the crimes committed by this administration."
The House of Representatives referred the Bush articles of impeachment to the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI).
Conyers has yet to release a public statement on the motion, but has in the past not been supportive of impeachment efforts. The resolution to impeach Cheney, which Kucinich presented in April 2007, remains stalled in the committee he chairs.
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OUTRAGED ABOUT THE OIL WAR LIES AND DEATHS, DOMESTIC SPYING, IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT DUE PROCESS, AND TORTURE? HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Tell our Colorado U.S. Senators and Representatives to remember the oath of office they took, promising to uphold the Constitution. Tell them to support impeachment hearings:
http://www.democrats.com/impeach
Contact the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and urge them to begin impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/judiciarycommittee
Join our local Impeach Colorado Coalition's weekly honk-to-impeach protests:
http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/event/detail/visibilitysignwaving/4jrxy
Read more:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/bushaction
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/cheneyaction
The time is always right to do what is right. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Maybe if the Democratic Party leaders took the lead in having a true investigation into whether or not Mr. Bush and his cohort have committed impeachable offenses against the Constitution we would not be in this deep hole.
But since the Democratic leadership doesn't take the Constitution seriously than we are left with willful co-conspirators to subvert the Constitution.
Pelosi and Reid can k*ss my *ss because it was they who are out of touch with what the Constitution stands for. Mr. Bush is a known quality of impeachable and treasonous acts committed. Now I know that Pelosi and Reid are of the same cloth.