Calls for Bush and Cheney impeachment mount with evidence
Justin Gero
Issue date: 1/25/08 Section: Ed-Op
As we enter the last year of George Bush's presidency, there have been an increasing number of calls for his, as well as Vice President Cheney's, impeachment.
On Jan. 6, former Senator and 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern wrote a Washington Post op-ed piece saying, "I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president."
Even though his presidential hopes were hurt by dirty tricks like the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to Nixon's resignation in 1974, McGovern steered clear of calling for Nixon's impeachment. In his Post article, McGovern argued, "The case for impeaching Bush and Cheney is far stronger than was the case against Nixon."
McGovern joins former counsel to President Nixon, John Dean, who said in 2004 that he believed that the Bush Administration's deception leading up to the Iraq War should result in impeachment. In an interview with Bill Moyers on PBS, Dean said he believed that some of the actions of the Bush administration are worse than Watergate.
Critics contend that only a small number of people want impeachment. However, a poll by the American Research Group found that 70 percent of voters say that Vice President Cheney has abused his powers.
Congressman Robert Wexler, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, recently took to the web at www.wexlerwantshearings.com hoping to get 50,000 signatures on an online petition calling for impeachment hearings of Vice President Cheney. Wexler surpassed his goal within the first 24 hours, and since it was posted in mid-December, the petition now has over 210,000 signatures.
Some critics also claim that there is little legal ground for impeachment hearings to proceed. George McGovern might say that Bush and Cheney have "lied to the American people time after time," but is there any evidence of this?
According to the Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism, President Bush and other top administration officials made 935 false statements about "the national security threat from Iraq," in the two years after Sept. 11, 2001. The study examined "speeches, briefings, interviews, testimony, and the like," by President Bush and seven top administration officials. It was found that President Bush, "made 232 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and another 28 false statements about Iraq's links to Al Qaeda."
On Jan. 6, former Senator and 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern wrote a Washington Post op-ed piece saying, "I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president."
Even though his presidential hopes were hurt by dirty tricks like the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to Nixon's resignation in 1974, McGovern steered clear of calling for Nixon's impeachment. In his Post article, McGovern argued, "The case for impeaching Bush and Cheney is far stronger than was the case against Nixon."
McGovern joins former counsel to President Nixon, John Dean, who said in 2004 that he believed that the Bush Administration's deception leading up to the Iraq War should result in impeachment. In an interview with Bill Moyers on PBS, Dean said he believed that some of the actions of the Bush administration are worse than Watergate.
Critics contend that only a small number of people want impeachment. However, a poll by the American Research Group found that 70 percent of voters say that Vice President Cheney has abused his powers.
Congressman Robert Wexler, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, recently took to the web at www.wexlerwantshearings.com hoping to get 50,000 signatures on an online petition calling for impeachment hearings of Vice President Cheney. Wexler surpassed his goal within the first 24 hours, and since it was posted in mid-December, the petition now has over 210,000 signatures.
Some critics also claim that there is little legal ground for impeachment hearings to proceed. George McGovern might say that Bush and Cheney have "lied to the American people time after time," but is there any evidence of this?
According to the Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism, President Bush and other top administration officials made 935 false statements about "the national security threat from Iraq," in the two years after Sept. 11, 2001. The study examined "speeches, briefings, interviews, testimony, and the like," by President Bush and seven top administration officials. It was found that President Bush, "made 232 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and another 28 false statements about Iraq's links to Al Qaeda."
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Mark
posted 1/25/08 @ 4:41 PM EST
Thanks for writing and running this story... America needs to wake up fast and hold the obvious criminals in BushCo accountable or else Hillary or Obama or any future presidents/vice-presidents will continue to destroy what is left of our Constitution! Impeach now!
Kara
posted 1/26/08 @ 7:18 PM EST
I talk to people all the time about what Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Ashcraft and the rest of the neo-cons have done to our country and I'm ashamed and surprised at the apathy. (Continued…)
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