Deep Gratitude for Dennis Kucinich

June 10, 2008 · Posted in Foreign Policy, Iraq, Scandals 

I will have much, much more to say about this. But for now, I just want to give high praise to Rep. Dennis Kucinich for having the integrity to press ahead with the impeachment of George W. Bush. During yesterday’s House session he spent four hours and forty minutes reading 35 articles of impeachment into the record.

Will this go forward? No. Not with the time he has left. But for history and posterity, the record will show a detailed account of the accusations put forward against President Bush.

Will he also read the accusations against Dick Cheney into the record?

One other thing: Scott McClellan will testify before the House in the Valerie Plame outing case.

Oh, and what should comprise the centerpiece of impeachment: The Senate Report issued last week, which concludes:

The “Phase II” report states — in terms clearer than any previous government publication — that there was no operational relationship between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, that Bush officials were not truthful about the difficulties the United States would face in post-war Iraq and that their public statements did not reflect intelligence they had at the time, and, specifically, that the intelligence community would not confirm any meeting between Iraqi officials and Mohamed Atta — a claim that was nevertheless publicly repeated.

Before taking the country to war, this Administration owed it to the American people to give them a 100 percent accurate picture of the threat we faced. Unfortunately, our Committee has concluded that the Administration made significant claims that were not supported by the intelligence,” Rockefeller said in a statement provided to The Huffington Post.

“In making the case for war, the Administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when in reality it was unsubstantiated, contradicted, or even non-existent. As a result, the American people were led to believe that the threat from Iraq was much greater than actually existed. … There is no question we all relied on flawed intelligence. But, there is a fundamental difference between relying on incorrect intelligence and deliberately painting a picture to the American people that you know is not fully accurate.”

And in other Bush egregiousness, parts of Iowa and Wisconsin are under water partly because levees failed.

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    Carl S.

    It's a point well-taken. However, a debate on the question requires information that hasn't been massaged by the keepers of that information. The only point of objective reference was the NIE, which Clinton didn't bother to read. That was her mistake. However, Bush shaped the rest of the presentation to present a case for war based upon lies and distortions, which is Article I of the articles of impeachment.

    For that, he should go down in history as the murderer that he is. I suspect the US will be atoning for many years for his oil-driven greed in the Middle East.
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    The problem I have with this is basic Civics - how government works: Congress declares war, not the President. This is the problem I had with Hillary's explanation for her pro-war vote: it was her job to voice reservations and question the intelligence BEFORE she voted, and let her vote reflect her true attitude about the whole affair. It was only after the fact, in the language of her campaign, that she dubbed it "George Bush's war". But the time to do her homework had already passed. And that is also the case for many other members of Congress.

    This is by no means a statement in favor of the war or the present administration. But let's be real in assessing the whole system that got us into our present state of affairs.
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    Yes, hats off for Dennis Kucinich! I was wondering what he has been up to and now we know. Looking out for all of us.

    Those levies breaking are a sign of more to come.

    We still haven't fully recovered from the Fernley levee breaks several months ago.
 

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