Impeachment Articles Against Bush Presented In US Congress

Posted on Tuesday, June 10 at 08:46 by akston

David Edwards and Mike Sheehan, rawstory.com
Monday June 9, 2008

An Ohio Democratic lawmaker and former presidential candidate has presented articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush to Congress.

Thirty-five articles were presented by Rep. Dennis Kucinich to the House of Representatives late Monday evening, airing live on C-SPAN.

“The House is not in order,” said Kucinich to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), upon which Pelosi pounded her gavel.

“Resolved,” Kucinich then began, “that President George W. Bush be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate. …

“In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and to the best of his ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has committed the following abuses of power…”

The first article Kucinich presented, and many that followed, regarded the war in Iraq: “Article 1 - Creating a secret propaganda campaign to manufacture a false case for war against Iraq.”


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  1. by avatar Scape
    Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:58 pm
    Flogging a dead horse. Good on him for trying in his Sisyphean effort.

  2. by avatar Scape
    Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:49 am
    Oh, it's far too late but now at least it is on the congressional record.

  3. Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:11 pm
    Since the Constitution of the United States is no longer respected, nor followed by the toxic sludge in Washington, this won't go anywhere. It was Bush himself who allegedly called the Constitution a "Godammned piece of paper", even though it was written on parchment. This was the same guy who took an oath to uphold the ideals on that parchment, while having his hand on a bible. Congress is the least of this guy's problems.



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