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By David Swanson

New Hampshire State Representative Betty Hall is the chief sponsor of a resolution to be voted on this week in the state legislature, a resolution to petition Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney. Hall asked people to Email her their thoughts, and she is receiving more than one Email per minute, almost all of them from New Hampshire, but some from other states and countries, and every single one of them supportive of impeachment. Here’s a sampling:

Hi Betty,
I met you read more

By David Swanson

Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney now has more cosponsors signed onto it than any resolution to impeach President Richard Nixon ever had. But separate resolutions to impeach Nixon, some with a handful of cosponsors, many with no cosponsors at all, were filed by the dozens. Today, Kucinich’s resolution stands alone.

“Back in 1973,” Barbara Ellis wrote in a recent paper that has inspired a new strategy among advocates read more

10. If we just wait one more year, only a couple of more hundred thousand Iraqis and some hundreds of US troops will die – nothing to get excited about.

9. In the next year we’ll probably only launch at most one more foreign war beyond the ones we’re running now.

8. Our actions might not provoke an attack in this country, and we can worry about that after it happens.

7. Even starting in 2009 we’ll still have several years left in which we can try to reverse global warming read more

By David Swanson

I just interviewed Tracy Barker for an hour.

You can find the clip at http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net/audio/2008/#february

She is one in a string of sexual assault and harrassment victims who suffered what they did while employed by Halliburton in Iraq.

Her particular story is the worst I’ve heard and far worse than I had thought before conducting the interview. She was initially harassed sexually in the Green Zone in Baghdad. When she reported on her supervisor to a Halliburton read more