Kucinich on Impeachment, By Dennis Bernstein

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Kucinich on Impeachment
By Dennis Bernstein 18/07/08 Flashpoints

Tell us what you see as being at the core of your call to impeach the President and the Vice President.

Kucinich: An attempt to destroy constitutional governance by violating numerous constitutional provisions, U.S. code and international law, taking us into a war based on lies, making a false case for the war, saying falsely that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, that it had the intention of attacking the United States, that there was a readiness to imminently attack, pursuing policies of torture, illegal detention, wiretapping, spying, rendition. I mean, there’s…you know these articles…

Bernstein: What’s the talk of the town in there? … Are there reverberations you’re hearing about that we might not hear about?

Kucinich: Of course, people are saying, this is a distraction. Yeah, we were distracted in 2002 by a President who said, “Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. It’s going to attack us.” That was a distraction. He took us into a war that killed over 4,000 of our brave young men and women who served this country, as well as caused the deaths of over a million innocent Iraqis. So, there’s really a question here as to whether or not sound moral principles are going to be governing our conduct of office. If we have information and sufficient reason to believe that this President has committed crimes, we have an obligation, whether there’s an election around the corner or not, to enter, you know, to move forward. Not only for the sake of history, but also for the sake of informing the next administration that such abuses of power will not be tolerated, and that we have a government of laws, not men.

Bernstein: And what do you say is the responsibility of those of your colleagues who know and turn a blind eye. Is there a special responsibility?

Kucinich: Well, we need to open their eyes, and open their hearts to what’s happened to our country over the last seven years. We’ve lost our country to deception, to fear. We need to regain our country. We need to regain America’s moral standing, not only before the eyes of our own people, but before the eyes of the world. We need a program which will lead us to truth and reconciliation. Impeachment was put in the Constitution for the sake of protecting the democracy. And so, you know. what I believe is that this, this is a time where we need to, if we’re going to make a new beginning in January, let it be a new beginning that showed that we were dedicated to the law. Let it be a new beginning that showed that no executive in the future will ever be tolerated telling lies that take us into a war that resulted in such destruction and an imperial world.

Continued:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20123.htm

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1. Bravo

Kucinich embodies the commitment to public service that is essential for a healthy republic. Too bad 90% of the Congress is bought and paid for by monied interests.

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2. "if we’re going to make a new beginning in January,

let it be a new beginning that showed that we were dedicated to the law."

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[midnight]

3. Just say Impeachement.....

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4. Bump