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Questions for Republicans, Democrats, and Others

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By David Swanson

A question for Republicans: Do you want to hand a President Barack Obama the right and power to spy on any American citizens he chooses, including his political opponents, without any court-ordered warrant, in blatant violation of the law and the Fourth Amendment?

A question for Democrats: Do you want to hand a President John McCain, who has already openly said he will use it, the right and power to spy on any American citizens he chooses, including his political opponents, without read more

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Full Text of Articles of Impeachment

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Congressman Dennis Kucinich Introduced 35 Articles of Impeachment Against President Bush on Monday Night

The full text of the articles is available at:
http://chun.afterdowningstreet.org/amomentoftruth.pdf

Extensive documentation to accompany each article will be posted later today. Watch these websites:
http://kucinich.us
http://democrats.com
http://afterdowningstreet.org

Congressman Kucinich has laid out an extensive indictment of the president. Here is the index of article titles:

Article I
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Kucinich Shows How To Block Attack on Iran

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By David Swanson

A recent poll found that a full 7 percent of Americans want to attack Iran: http://dontattackiran.org But 93 percent agreement and a dollar won’t even get you a Metro ride in Washington, D.C. The Congressional Progressive Caucus held a press event on Tuesday and publicly urged the Bush Administration to engage in diplomacy, which is sort of like asking a mule to dance in the ballet. We’ve read more

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No Body Armor? No Presidency!

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By David Swanson

What if you were the president of the United States and you chose to fight an aggressive war against another nation and to occupy it indefinitely, and you scheduled the war to suit your political timing? And then what if you learned that most of the deaths and injuries of U.S. soldiers were the result of a lack of body armor and vehicle armor, but you continued the occupation for years and years without bothering to provide the needed armor, as the casualties mounted and you dumped read more

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Be in Milwaukee on June 19

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Peace, Impeachment and Election Day: Which Comes First?

A leading national activist for peace and impeachment, David Swanson, will speak on “Peace, Impeachment & Election Day: Which Comes First?” in a Milwaukee appearance on Thursday, June 19.

Swanson will speak at 7 p.m. in Cudahy Hall, 1313 W. Wisconsin Ave., on the Marquette University campus. His talk is sponsored by the Iraq Moratorium, Peace Action-Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Impeachment Committee, and the Marquette University Center read more

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Impeachment Happening in Congress Right Now!

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Congressman Dennis Kucinich is on the floor of the House of Representatives right now introducing 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush.

Yes, 35. He’ll be reading for a while.

Watch C-Span Now!

If you don’t have cable, go to a bar and tell them to put it on C-Span 1!

Or watch at the Video/Audio tab at
http://c-span.org

Take your laptop outside and turn the volume up!

More details coming later tonight!

Action in the House coming later this week!

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Racism, Sexism, and Self-Censorship

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By David Swanson

I posted a blog recently comparing the occupation of Iraq to rape. I later deleted it.

Over at Shakesville there’s a whole discussion about that fact, to which I just contributed this comment:

Response from David Swanson. Actually you don’t write letters, because you never sent me a letter or a fax or an Email. But I did just find this. I took the post down because of a misunderstanding related to racism that I thought was crazy until I saw this misunderstanding related read more

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