Impeachment

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The impeachment movement is uniting and expanding. We’re joining with many other organizations to launch Impeach07, a coordinated series of actions aimed at impeaching Bush and Cheney through widespread public protest, creative dissent, media activism, education, and lobbying: http://www.impeach07.org

Bush and Cheney have misled this nation into an aggressive war, spied in open violation of the law, and sanctioned the use of torture — among numerous other offenses. Newsweek reported read more

By Evan Derkacz, Alternet
Guest post by David Swanson.

There is movement in the impeachment movement. And it’s motivated by a strange sensation: hope. In Olympia, Wa., on Tuesday, over 800 people crammed in for a forum on impeachment with Ray McGovern, Elizabeth de la Vega, and Dave Lindorff. Why?

Not, I think, because of those three people, each of whom I consider a friend and a brilliant speaker. Rather, the excitement was focused on Eric Oemig, a state senator, who was there to discuss read more

By David Swanson

Remarks at Emergency Impeachment Conference in New York City, February 17, 2007

It’s an honor to be speaking with these panelists and it’s great to be back in New York. But I want to ask you one thing about New York, because there’s something I heard Senator Hillary Clinton say and I want to know if it’s true. Is it true that if you live in New York you have to support this war? Can you live in New York and work for peace?

That’s what I thought.

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By David Swanson

Congressman John Conyers, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has used the following rhetoric repeatedly in recent weeks:

“George Bush has the habit of firing military leaders who tells him the Iraq war is failing. But let me tell you something. He can’t fire you. He can’t fire us. But we can fire him! We can fire him!”

You can watch Conyers say those words to a crowd of 500,000 on January 27th in this video:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/18494

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Remarks at United for Peace and Justice Pre-Lobby Day Event on Jan. 28, 2007
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/17921
By David Swanson

It’s an honor to be part of this obviously growing movement for peace and justice. Our president took us into war before Congress gave its so-called authorization. He did so without telling Congress or the American people and without Congress appropriating any funds for the purpose. In the summer of 2002, Bush took $2.5 billion – according to the read more

“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 read more

By David Swanson

On the same day that Bush delivered his state of the union address, eight state senators in New Mexico introduced a resolution (Senate Joint Resolution 5) that if passed would require their state government to send a petition to the U.S. House of Representatives asking that impeachment proceedings immediately begin against Bush and Cheney.

Over 100 citizens showed up for the introduction, and there were over two hours of citizen speeches at the announcement event. Reporters from read more

With Amy Goodman, John Nichols, David Swanson, Larry Everest, Mark Manning, Robin Andersen, Sam Husseini, Normon Solomon, Jeff Cohen, Peter Hart, Russ Baker, Sunsara Taylor, Peter Phillips
By David Swanson

At the National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis, Tenn., on January 13, 2007, a bunch of us got together and organized a couple of ad-hoc panels about the war and impeachment. On a day’s notice, we packed the rooms and drew crowds that wanted to discuss these issues as long as the read more