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WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a former Democratic presidential contender, said Monday he wants the House to consider a resolution to impeach President Bush.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi consistently has said impeachment was "off the table."
Kucinich, D-Ohio, read his proposed impeachment language in a floor speech. He contended Bush deceived the nation and violated his oath of office in leading the country into the Iraq war.
Kucinich introduced a resolution last year to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. That resolution was killed, but only after Republicans initially voted in favor of taking up the measure to force a debate.
Kucinich won 50 percent of the vote in a five-way House Democratic primary in March, beating back critics who said he ignored business at home to travel the country in his quest to be president.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a former Democratic presidential contender, said Monday he wants the House to consider a resolution to impeach President Bush.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi consistently has said impeachment was "off the table."
Kucinich, D-Ohio, read his proposed impeachment language in a floor speech. He contended Bush deceived the nation and violated his oath of office in leading the country into the Iraq war.
Kucinich introduced a resolution last year to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. That resolution was killed, but only after Republicans initially voted in favor of taking up the measure to force a debate.
Kucinich won 50 percent of the vote in a five-way House Democratic primary in March, beating back critics who said he ignored business at home to travel the country in his quest to be president.
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Date: 2008-06-11 01:03 am (UTC)We live in the Internet era - where we have 1000% information but perhaps not as much wisdom. I don't say this because I am a registered Republican (I am), but because the Dems have more than enough ammo absent this issue. Besides, if we have to hound every single questionable "truth" going into war, we would have to indict the following Presidents:
1. Abraham Lincoln (suspension of habeas corpus, lying about the results of Manassas Jct's first battle - aka Bull Run)
2. McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt (exaggerating the USS Maine explosion to justify the invasion of Spaniosh posssession in Cuba and the Phillipines)
3. FDR (for lying about the purpose of the Lend-Lease Act, and knowingly pushing America towards war starting after the invasion and division of Poland in 1939, according to his own documents, internment of Japanese-Americans)
4. JFK (Bay of Pigs, increasing Vietnam support sub rosa)
5. LBJ (Vietnam escalation - need I say more?)
6. Bush 43 (Weapons of Mass Destruction, risks of Terrorism through Iraq exaggerated)
We've had maybe 2 completely forthright wartime leaders since the Revolution: Bush 41 and Woodrow Wilson in WW1. The problem is that both wars completed principles but didn't finish the whole job. So, alot of presidents guarded their true intent with wars to assuage public opinion and deflect anger in democracies which grow more war-weary more quickly than do dictatorships, who use cults of personalities to rally populations, along with the threat of being shot.
We would set a very bad precedent if we take the power of the president's capacity to hide certain pieces of information. I am not saying W isn't responsible for a number of bad things prior to the war, but Kucinich should let history evaluate him, because an Impeachment proceeding might help Kucinich locally in Ohio, but it might actually keep GOP conservatives in the southern part of Ohio turning to the polls as well, and the Dems need Ohio back in the Blue column in order to win in 2008.