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Resolution To Impeach VP Cheney Submitted
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has submitted a resolution, HR 333, to impeach VP Dick Cheney on charges of "high crimes and misdemeanors." The charges were submitted on 24 April 2007. Congressman Kucinich has posted his supporting documents online, including a brief summary of the impeachment procedure (PDF), a synopsis (PDF), and the full text (PDF) of the impeachment resolution.
And what about US that choose to call our Congressmen to do exactly the OPPOSITE!!! Flaming liberals are clearly trying to destroy our country, and this is just another glaring example of that. And yes, I have already mailed and faxed all four of my government representatives about this witchhunt, which is nothing more than a media play to get poor little Dennis Kuchinich some very badly desired attention. Just like everything else the liberal left pulls. PLEASE NOTE: The huge distinction between my statements - I never once used the term Democrat or Republican. Just Liberal.
Sorry man... the Internet pooped on me.
Nah, this is just the media showing that they know what a blowhard Kuchinich is. No one seems to remember what a crackpot his 2004 Presidential campaign was... I do. And I remember how soundly blown out of the water he was when he tried to do this very same thing then. :) It's just to grab attention. And the media knows it won't work.
Sorry man... the Internet pooped on me.
Yes, because the Bush team coerced the CIA to cook up false intelligence and cherry-picked data.
Actually, they just set Douglas Feith up with an office to independently go through unqualified intelligence in order to provide unqualified rationales for the administration's PR strategy for miring the US in an arbitrary war.
When I was a kid, we only had one Darth.
This is the problem that I have with these debates. People on both sides seem to be under the false impression that anyone who disagrees with them has no intelligence or is less intelligent than they are or is completely dishonest. What exactly do you mean by intelligence credentials? As measured by what? Level of formal education? Discipline of choice? Publications? Success? Your own assessment?
Fair enough. Mid-level analysts at the CIA, career military intelligence officers, career diplomats and state department officials.
Essentially, anyone who gets paid to do this and got their job through meritocracy vs. political appointment or personal connections.
Frankly, there is no way to accurately measure ones intelligence so such a claim is simply an attempt to intimidate the other side.
I meant intelligence as part of the intelligence community, meaning that they get paid to be an intelligence source on foreign activities or policy. I wasn't trying to make a point about IQ levels or something and if I'm intimidating in anyway it's to intimidate you into response, not a conclusion. Doing so would violate my own claims to identity and destroy any integrity to my arguments.
Time will tell whether invading Iraq was a good idea. Right now, it doesn't look good and it looks worse every day. However, depending on what happens to Iraq in the next several years, it might very well turn out for the better. It is really hard to judge these things while you are living through them.
After several years of hearing this line and given all the mid-level meritoriously appointed analysts who have said that every action taken has been a mistake, I'm going to take the liberty to go ahead and pass judgment. Whatever success will be achieved by the fall of Saddam could have been done cheaper and with less bloodshed and chaos The problem is not that people are living through this, it's that people are most decidedly not living through this. I'm sorry, but theirs a higher bar to reach than let's wait a few years and hope it all works out when it comes to war. We owe our members of the military and their families more than that. They offered to die for us, are you really willing to treat that offer so cheaply?
Arrogance is Confidence which lacks integrity. -- me
Of course, like any good conspiracy theory, you can't prove George Tenet didn't become an political tool of the almighty Bush administration.
However, we do know that Tenet flat out told Bush *not* to use the garbage intelligence yet Bush went ahead anyway and stated bogus unsubstantiated intelligence which he knew was such as if it were solid 100% certain fact.
That's a big freaking lie, Sparky.
Whatever the intelligence was, the democrats had the same exact intelligence. They have the same amount of blame. Bush lied doesn't cut it when you are on the senate and house intelligence committees.
No, it doesn't cut it.
I think the lot of them who voted for this war were either:
Complicit in the snow job, in which case they're guilty as well. or
Stupid enough to get duped by such a transparent scam, in which case they barely should be allowed responsibility for themselves, let alone anybody else.
Neither of those are comparable with taking that bogus nonsense to the State of the Union address and bald faced lying to the American people and Congress in order to sell a war which his cabal had been agitating for since at least 2000.
That is a number of major impeachable offenses right there.
You missed the point.
The point was: There have been extremely destructive incidents, such as the shooting of President Reagan, and every time someone from the Bush family was there.
Now just take any other family of which you know. Could you find several otherwise disconnected incidents in which a member of that family was there?
There was no claim that Bush family members did any of those terrible things. The interesting fact is that Bush family members were present.
You misunderstand the development of theory.
I watched the World Trade Center towers fall on television, as it happened. At the time, I thought to myself, hey wait a minute, something is wrong. "Something is wrong" is a very weak theory.
Later people began considering the fact that very strongly built buildings feel into a heap of powder and very small pieces. They began making theories. Many of those theories led nowhere.
The people who made the movie "Loose Change" helped enormously by presenting a lot of facts, and by presenting theories on which others could improve, or could disprove.
My writing a summary of the U.S. government corruption was just a part time unpaid effort, by someone who loves the U.S., but has little interest in politics. At the time, Loose Change was the best we had.
If the World Trade Center towers were demolished by explosive charges, it is now believed credibly that all of those charges would have had to have been released at the same time. That's not impossible.
Anyhow, if tall buildings have a failure mode in which they can collapse into powder, I would never work in one. Such a collapse has never happened before or since, howoever.
You made another mistake. If someone makes many statements, and one of them is wrong, that doesn't mean every statement is wrong.
And another. The intent of the summary of corruption was not to establish that I have credibility. I only gathered information. What is important is if the information has credibility.
In any case, I'm not the only one who believes that U.S. government has become corrupt in an unprecendented way. More than 30% of U.S. citizens believe that, maybe much more than 30%.
As I said, I hope you will write your own summary, particularly since you didn't like mine.