Putting It on the Table: Kucinich Says Bush Risking Impeachment
“The degree to which this President continues to take steps to go to war against Iran without consulting with the full Congress is the degree to which he is increasingly putting himself in jeopardy of an impeachment proceeding." - Dennis Kucinich
THANK DENNIS AND ENCOURAGE HIM
Here's the full press release from Kucinich's website:
Kucinich: The White House Is Up To Its Old Tricks; Is Preparing the United States for an Attack on Iran : President’s Actions Could Lead to Impeachment
Washington, Jan 26 - WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 26) — Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) accused the White House of mounting a media blitz to prepare the U.S. public for an eventual attack on Iran. Today The Washington Post reported the Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran’s influence across the Middle East.
“The White House is up to its old tricks again: Providing information by anonymous sources and portraying Iran as an aggressor in Iraq,” Kucinich said.
“The President is mischaracterizing U.S. action vis à vis Iran. In fact, the U.S. is already engaged in offensive and provocative acts against Iran. The President’s strategy, by portraying our involvement as only being on the defensive, is laying out the groundwork for him to attack Iran and bypass authorization by Congress,” Kucinich said.
The Washington Post article stated:
“A senior intelligence officer was more wary of the ambitions of the strategy. ‘This has little to do with Iraq. It’s all about pushing Iran’s buttons. It is purely political.’ The official expressed similar views about other new efforts aimed at Iran, suggesting that the United States is escalating toward an unnecessary conflict to shift attention away from Iraq and to blame Iran for the United States’ increasing inability to stanch the violence there.”
Kucinich said, “The White House spin machine is at it again: this time providing justification for a new war — a war against Iran.” Kucinich pointed out that while the term ‘officials’ is mentioned 21 times in the Post article — not once are the officials identified by name.
In his January 10 address to the nation, President Bush asserted that succeeding in Iraq begins with addressing Iran and Syria. “Iran is providing material support for attacks on American troops. We will disrupt the attacks on our forces. We'll interrupt the flow of support from Iran and Syria. And we will seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq,” Bush said.
“The Washington Post is quoting strategically placed Administration sources who are providing justification for an attack against Iran,” Kucinich said. “This new twist on Iran, a country this Administration refuses to have free and open diplomatic talks with, is stating the Administration’s case for war.”
“The degree to which this President continues to take steps to go to war against Iran without consulting with the full Congress is the degree to which he is increasingly putting himself in jeopardy of an impeachment proceeding,” Kucinich said.
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it's a joke
and the powers to be in this great country wanted to impeach Clinton for having sex wirh an intern. What a joke! It cost the taxpayers a few million(thanks to the right wingers), but no american service men or women were killed or injured. How about taking care of the american people who have no health insurance, the american children living in poverty,the american elderly with no money for prescription drugs, because they have to pay school taxes. Make this great nation safe at home first by protecting the american people in their homes and streets. We pay taxes here, not in Iraq.
You are so right, this
You are so right, this current adminstration needs to be impeached so we can restore our freedoms, this president took us into a war that had zero aka nothing at all to do with 9/11, No WMD's, Nothing.
To Quote from a man who lost the race in the election last year in florida.
It had to do with Oil, It had to do with Money and it had to do with raw imperial power.
Bush, Cheney, Alberto Gonzalez and the whole oil mafia need to be removed from office and indicted for treason.
hilary is in Iowa
sucks to be her. the votes are in D.C. with the protesters.
hilary is in Iowa
sucks to be her. the votes are in D.C. with the protesters.
So Few
Only a handful in Congress should be left to govern, Kucinich being one of them. We need a new Congress entirely. Impeachment is not enough.
State of the Nation
The power elite has concentrated more power and wealth in fewer hands.They have greater media control,thru concentration of media ownership. This basically amounts to state sponsored propaganda (Pravda) We are undergoing an experiment in social engineering-control thru repression, intimidation, domestic spying, false imprisonment and the deterioration of our public education systems.
The neocons used fear, and false claims about our national security,patriotism, and national interests, in order to further their insane ideology of US world domination thru war.(PNAC) Corporations such as Cheney's Halliburton & Bechtel and thousands of other contractors have made billions of dollars on this war thru no-bid, unsupervised contracts.
At home the repugs have given big biz corporate interests such as oil and drug companies billions in tax cuts and subsidies. Billions more in corporate profits are taken off shore (not taxed) The war has been put on the national credit card. The majority of Americans are only now beginning to realize the fantastic sums of money which have been spent in Iraq and the detrimental affects this will have on
our standard of living for years to come. They used Enron accounting practices to hide what they were doing. Iraq is costing us ten billion a month while our domestic programs continue to be cut.
These policies exist in order to steal other peoples resources and exploit their labor. These countries know what we are doing which is why America is hated world wide. This Administration of right wing neocons are willing to lie, slander, torture, imprison, kill and escalate this war to maintain their control. They ignore the Constituion and break our laws. They ignore the public, the election results, the recent bi-partisan panal on Iraq and now the recommendations of our Congress.
14 American Intelligence agencies both foreign and domestic stated that this war and the current foreign policy made us less safe. The New York Times published these conclusions in Sept of 2006. As usual this news was quickly ignored or forgotten. The Admin. claims this war is conducted to make us safer while 14 of our Intelligence agencies conclude the opposite. Why is this not front page news?
This is state controlled media i.e. propaganda.
They have conducted their sleazy illegal deals (Abramoff, Delay)in secret. They operated for six years with no oversight. None. All of these machinations have been done in the name of the American people for the sole purpose of consolidating the wealth and power of the richest families in America
(See Peter Phillip's Project Censored)These policies are detrimental and dangerous to the rest of us.
It has taken six years for some Americans to wake up. This is a painfully slow process for those of us trying to educate the public. These criminals have attacked every single area of our lives including public education and health; our domestic safety nets for the poor, the elderly and our kids, and homeland security eg.the borders and Katrina. They have reversed many environmental laws which took decades to put in place.
It will take years to reverse the damage done. The majority we have in Congress is very thin. We are in a critical period. Please contact your representatives and tell them how you feel. This website is an excellent source of information / email links. CitG
Get to a court...
...and get some kind of an intervention order slapped on both Bush and Cheney, and get them put away some place until they can be evaluated by mental health professionals. They've clearly lost touch with reality, and need to be gotten away from that nuclear trigger. Whatever's left to do about this mess can be done later, including investigations and impeachment proceedings.
R Ap
MILITARY MUST ARREST THEM, THEN IMPEACH THEM!
It's like faxing, e-mailing into 'nothingness' when all you get back is reply e-mails and never any written or faxed reply back, for imploring them to arrest this murderer NOW, not a week after the GBU encased nuclear W-80 warheads (nukes) have punched not so neat holes (craters) into the Iranian soil.
short of everyone who wants to stop this war suddenly showing up in Iran as human shields, our only hope is that the sane military leaders who haven't been forced out or resigned, go with a couple brigades of marines and army that haven't deployed, and 'arrest' the president and vice president, and lock both of them up for acts of treason.
short of this, nothing we can do to stop this mass murderer and war criminal, Mr. Kucinich. There are apparently not enough sane dinocrats and republican members of the House and Senate to stop this out of control dictatorship from murdering tens of thousands of people more in Iran, in our name.
not enough time to impeach. barely enough time for the military to go 'arrest' these men and put them away until the impeachment trial can go forward.
we'll have lost an aircraft carrier or two in the Persian Gulf, after we've provoked the Iranians to retaliate against us for some form of military action against them.
Iran Bush agression
Acording to Biden and a few other senators, The plan for war with Iraq included most of the middle East. These senators had to rewright the wording that was sent to Congress. Bush was ready to go after the whole middle east.
Bush is Ignorant and Extremely Dangerous
http://tinyurl.com/2vvcx4
IMPEACH PNAC> "OUT" THE CABAL !
http://tinyurl.com/a8uz9
AIPAC is pushing us to war with Iran for Israel
We must not allow anyone to push us into a war with Iran.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nch43wy8Zb8
On the Table, Indeed.
Unless they want more involuntary intercourse with the Bushists, Congress must put IMPEACHMENT back on the table, instead. Cut the sons of Bushs off at the bills (fiduciary and statutory) and then file genuine articles Of IMPEACHMENT!
Stop this obscene foot-dragging!! Impeach and indict for 9-11!!
Although Mr. Kucinich is at least saying "something"; his comments about the whole horrible,obscene situation are tantamount to calling the Civil War: "that little bit of unpleasantness we had". Stop the indecent and euphemistic foot-dragging!!! The Bush/Cheney regime is the most CRIMINAL and NEFARIOUS group ever to illegally seize power in the history of our nation. To read that these politicians are so "tentative" that they cannot "call a spade, a spade", is truly vexing. How can anyone say :" If he does the same thing with Iran, he risks impeachment"? This president has committed enough irrefutably impeachable crimes that one hardly knows where to begin. Actually, it is quite a simple process to determine where to begin: How about with the most heinous crime of all ?? How about with that crime upon which every other atrocity has been predicated (and "justified") ?? In other words: How about with the "false flag" operation of 9-11-01 ?? The fact that the crime of 9-11-01 was an "inside job" is 100% PROVABLE !!! The fact that Bush and Cheney were the domestic terrorists who engineered this horror is irrefutable and undeniable through scientific, forensic, and other factual logistics. (including the absolutely IMPOSSIBLE "story" put out (with malice) to the American public by these cover-up masters). Yes, it is time to stop "mincing words". This travesty of not immediately ousting and trying these depraved CRIMINALS is inexcuseable, and a blight on the soul of our nation. And, by the way......we already have a president to lead, the minute we DO THE RIGHT THING. His name is Al Gore. He won the popular vote by more than 600,000 votes; and it is provable that he also won the electroral vote (until it was ILLEGALLY stopped by this "coup d'etat" administration). We owe amends to Mr. Gore. We owe honor and TRUTH to the victims of 9-11. We owe decency to God.
On The Table? . . Hell, We Can't Even Get It On The TV!! . .;-)
On the table?, hell we can't even get it on the TV!!! . . . ;-)
Hey, kidz . . . CSPAN is broadcasting from the DC March . . .
http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS
Interesting, here in North Cackilacky . . . CSPAN is suddenly not available on Time Warner's Cable network . . . all other channels are working fine . . .
. . . when you call in to report it . . . the "auto-attendent", . .. after telling you that your Fourth Ammendment Rights are going to be violated as a matter of company "Policies and Procedures" . . . tells you that "due to high volume, your call cannot be handled at this time . . . please try again in 10 minutes"
I wonder if Time Warner ever heard of "Operation Mockingbird", kidz? . .. ;-)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_louise_01_03_03_mockingbird.html
Broadcast Fairness Doctrine (R.I.P. 1949-1987)
"Let’s IMPEACH the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
He’s the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war"
- Let's Impeach The President by Neil Young
peace.
Hey Kidz! Check Out My Complaint To The FCC .. .;-)
Hey kidz! Check out my complaint to the FCC . . . ;-)
(clipped e-mail from a fool to the FCC)
"Dear Sir or Madam,
I wish to register a complaint against Time Warner Cable Vision.
I charge that they are deliberately blocking the feed of the CSPAN
coverage of the DC Anti-War Rally going on today in North Carolina
and perhaps elsewhere.
This is unacceptable.
Of course, I don't really expect the FCC to do anything given
your track record of protecting the fascist fear propaganda war
machine of Israel and BushCo while justifying it all with
"Privitization" brought on by the demise of the Broadcast
Fairness Doctrine (R.I.P. 1949-1987) and the Telecommunications
Act of 1996.
I have been in the Telecommunications Industry for over
30 years and the war crimes propaganda that the FCC
has turned a blind eye to over the past six years makes
me sick to my stomach and ashamed of both my industry
and my country.
The treasonous actions and inactions of the FCC remind me
of those of the NSA under General Michael "Fourth Amendment" Hayden,
and leave WE THE PEOPLE asking, "Have you AUTHORITIES
at the FCC ever actually READ the US Constitution???"
I think you are ALL War Criminals and I look forward to the day
when you finally stand trial before WE THE PEOPLE for your
fascist crimes against the PEOPLE of the United States and
of the World.
Sincerely,
Frederick C. Blackburn
(+1) 910.xxx.xxxx"
Ah, yes, the FCC . . . protecting us from "Boobies On TV" . . which from good ol' John "Let The Eagle Soar" Ashcroft's "boobie covering" actions at the Justice Department is apparently the #1 threat to the country . ..;-)
"I've had enough of watching scenes
Of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth"
- Give Me Some Truth by John Lennon
peace.
How the right is winning
If impeachment can only occur with a sexual act this president is free to do whatever he pleases. The same minority that throttled the CLinton administration with impeachment proceedings is the same minority controlling the country and the Bush administrations policies.
So what is next ??
OUTTA LINE, OR INLINE/ONLINE QUESTION?
A FOOL-SOFTENER FOR CONSTIPEACHMENT
from San Francisco Bay Guardian
(Imagine the Vice Precedent Cheney's [icey] answer)
~Trail Mix
~Steven T. Jones
" Artist General's Warning: Recu$al question could be bad for Bush's political health...
...The question is this:
Will you agree never to accept
any personal profits flowing from any military action you authorize or promote?
Masley has been harassing journalists all over the country, trying to get them to ask it of Bush and the rest of his war cabinet...
...After all,
Vice President Dick Cheney has profited
handsomely
from actions he took as Poppy Bush's secretary of defense, most notably deciding to outsource many military functions and then becoming CEO of Halliburton, which then got the no-bid contracts to do that work.
Who knows, maybe mainstream journalists might even begin questioning why a war cabinet of Texas oilmen lied their way into occupying some of the most oil-rich regions of the world. Or maybe that's asking too much. "
http://www.sfbg.com/38/53/x_trail_mix.html
WHOA!
Takin' us to WAR?
~You ForGOT to "ReCU$E" Yourselves!
AND NOW TO A FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION OF RIGHT & WRONG
WAITING LIKE AN ELEPHANT IN THE BUSH-ESTATE
FORTUNE$-O'-WAR ROOM
MORAL ARGUMENT(S)AGAINST ASKING IT?
~NONE.
WATCHIN' 'EM SQUIRM? PRICELESS.
"ANYBODY-WANT-SOME-WOOD?"
--W, "nervously", in debate with Kerry
Re: Presidential Portfolia,
Conflict of interest question...
CRAMP THEIR GUILE
Imperfect but Plausibly-"Effective" Compliance
to be "Increasingly" Monitored by the Blogosphere:
WE THE VAST MAJORITY APPROVE THIS 'QUESTION'
Don't Believe it, Media?
Poll the Nation
& See for Yourselves...
FROM PATRIOTS FOR A FAIR
CONTRACT WITH AMERICA:
AN "OATH" OF MARTIAL OFFICE
FOR A DEMOCRACY: A MODEST PROPOSAL INDEED
To Strike or Not-to-Strike?
~A Potentially National Moral Funnybone
In Requesting of Public Servants Exercising
Fatal Authority In Our Name A Formal
"DECLARATION OF DISOWNERSHIP"
--A For-the-Record Concession That
NO ENTITLEMENT EXISTS
to Present or Future Personal Profit 'Demonstrably Connected' to Any War (or Bloodshed) Authorized, Promoted, Advanced or Otherwise "Engaged on Their Watch":
We the People
Hold Ourselves
Deserving of "An Explanation"
Should the Answer to This "Recu$al-for-Life" Question be "No".
If the Answer is "Yes",
Then Be It Understood:
Martial Planner Agrees to Surrender-on-Demand
Said Profit--
(Deliberate or "Unintentional", Exposed or "Discovered")
to Veteran Benefit Groups, College Funds For Children of the Fallen, etc...
TRUTH TO POWER:
Healthy for the Media,
Good for Democracy--
Bad for "Our Due" Mind$et
Public Servants
MORAL MULTI-TASKING:
~A Question of Courage
in a Measure of Character~
~For the Asking!
Reposted July '06 @:
http://www.kyndmusic.com/2006/07/01/artist-general-warning-recusal-quest...
http://AOFthemovie.com
Impeachment Dethrone
I believe impeachment is too kind a word for a man who acts more like a Dictator. George Bush continues to over-ride the will of the people and Congress. Am I the only one who sees his horrible grin every time he talks about doing his own thing? I may get shot but I created a domain name DETHRONEBUSH.COM in order for people to at least see what they are thinking in bold letters. I parked it over at sedo.com and I just hope someone with the finances to develope it gets it. I am totally finished with any support for this Dictator.
Impeach Bush Cheney
These arrogant killers must be brought to justice now. Are you reading this "Nancy Pelosie" and democrat majority? Many of us Indenpendents voted you in for one reason and that was to get rid of BUSH CHENEY! We will remember what you did in 2008
Let the trials begin you spineless losers
ONE AMERICA
BE AMERICAN FIRST------FIGHT FOR AMERICA NOW:
WE NEED TO UNITE FOR ONE CAUSE, AMERICAN GOVERNMENT FOR AMERICA &
AMERICANS ONLY. NOT FOR FOREIGN
INTEREST.
ALL MUST UNITE NOW FOR THE MOST
IMPORTANT CAUSE IN OUR LIFE-TIME.
NATIVE AMERICAN;
AFRICAN AMERICAN;
HISPANIC AMERICAN;
ASIAN AMERICAN;
RED, YELLOW, BLACK, WHITE, OR BROWN
AMERICAN. WE THE PEOPLE (CITIZENS)...
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS TO WORK
FOR US AND OUR BENEFIT.
ONE AMERICA. Where OUR campaign begins,
and will end as candidates seeking to serve us
the AMERICAN people, not what has been past
practice by this and other administrations.
We will be the only lobby. No more special
interest groups. Business corporations,
theology quick change artist, foreign interest
groups. No more PORK_BARRELLING.
Demand fair taxation by all, stop all the FRAUD,
and let there be no more tax free property or
income.........Campaign funding by tax-payer
public financing. With limitations.
We as Americans will swear allegiance to each other. Our leaders will have to swear their allegiance
to us.
ONLY special interest group, will be from individual
state committees, USA states, not the State of
Israel, or any other poisonous regime.
Senators & congress members staff, shall comprise of individuals from their represented areas. Not foreign students or from foreign interest groups.
Our ECONOMY, Borders, energy, trade, health care,
manufacturing, Social security, & liberties.
Complete reform of the corrupt system of
governing, will be a MANDATE from the people.
Our University grants and Scholarships shall be
for American citizens, no more giving our tax
money away outside the USA.
Israel has received a grand total of $84.8 billion, excluding the $10 billion in U.S. government loan guarantees it has drawn to date.
And if you calculate what the U.S. has had to pay in interest to borrow this money to give to Israel, the cost of Israel to U.S. taxpayers rises to $134.8 billion, not adjusted for inflation.
Put another way, the nearly $14,630 every one of 5.8 million Israelis had received from the U.S. government by October 31, 1997, cost American taxpayers $23,241 per Israeli. That's $116,205 for every Israeli family of five.
None of these figures include the private donations by Americans to Israeli charities, which initially constituted about one quarter of Israel's budget, and today approach $1 billion annually. In addition to the negative effect of these donations on the U.S. balance of payments, the donors also deduct them from their U.S. income taxes, creating another large drain on the U.S. treasury.
Nor do the figures above include any of the indirect financial costs of Israel to the United States, which cannot be tallied. One example is the cost to U.S. manufacturers of the Arab boycott, surely in the billions of dollars by now. Another example is the cost to U.S. consumers of the price of petroleum, which surged to such heights that it set off a world-wide recession during the Arab oil boycott imposed in reaction to U.S. support of Israel in the 1973 war.
Other examples are a portion of the costs of maintaining large U.S. Sixth Fleet naval forces in the Mediterranean, primarily to protect Israel, and military air units at the Aviano base in Italy, not to mention the staggering costs of frequent deployments to the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf area of land and air forces from the United States and naval units from the Seventh Fleet, which normally operates in the Pacific Ocean.
We all are aware of the suffering our own people
are/have been going though, from KATRINA and other such disasters. No more disproportionate
AID.
Let your representatives know the demands.
Public awareness from Public forums, not
by a controlled media.
WHICH Candidate will stand-up for America, and take a position
against the Foreign lobby AIPAC. Take a position of no more AID
to the Welfare state of Israel. State how Mossad led us into this WAR in Iraq, and trying to build a case against Iran.
That candidate will not have to raise 100 Million to win. Just
let Americans know you are with them. A committment & allegiance
to American citizens noit foreign lobbies, or organized crime
bosses.