Truth and Lies

Watch this YouTube embed of then private citizen Dick Cheney being brutally frank about his participation in the first Gulf War. Everything, and I mean EVERYthing that has occurred in the War in Iraq was predicted by Dick Cheney 13 years ago. He also predicted what will occur when we leave: fragmentation of Iraq. A “quagmire”.

This isn’t an administration that went blindly to war without a clue as to what was going to happen. They knew exactly what would happen.



And then here’s this next one again from earlier this year. I thought it would be good to look at it once again in light of what Cheney said in 1994.



If we don’t have grounds for impeachment now, we never will.

Kucinich: Impeach Cheney First

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D – OH-10) is, just at this writing, announcing the introduction of House Resolution 333 on the impeachment of Dick Cheney. He put off the announcement earlier in the day because of rumors that Cheney was having trouble with blood clots in his leg.

Prompting my amazement at the news that blood runs through the Vice President’s veins, and not ice water pumped by a cold, cold heart.

Text of the resolution is here.

Asked why he is going after Cheney and not Bush, Kucinich responded “’if we started with Bush’ and he actually got impeached, ‘Mr. Cheney would then become president.’”

Well gee, why didn’t I think of that?

That’s why you order up a twofer. Impeach both Bush and Cheney. I guess that’s too tall an order for people, but as this activist writes, if you impeach Cheney first, not only do you go after the greater of two evils, Cheney doesn’t elevate to the Presidency, and facts from the investigation of Cheney will clearly implicate Bush in Cheney’s many crimes.

Kucinich offered three articles of impeachment.

Cheney “has purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests”

Cheney “purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda in order to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests.”

And finally,

Cheney “has openly threatened aggression against the Republic of Iran absent any real threat to the United States, and done so with the United States proven capability to carry out such threats, thus undermining the national security of the United States.”

Concluding:

“In all of this, Vice President Richard B. Cheney has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as Vice President, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

Wherefore Richard B. Cheney, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

”’I'm pretty sure Kucinich is tilting at windmills here. But I am gratified that someone finally went through the motions to get this thing filed. Now that it is out on the shelf for all to see, Americans who are righteously outraged with this man finally have something to focus on.

On Impeachment: Why the Heck Not?

Sometimes I think the only people who read blogs are other bloggers. It’s very nearly true. Take for instance the posting at musings. I saw it yesterday, or was it the day before? In it, muse questions the sanity of mounting an impeachment effort now when we are so close to putting a Democrat in the White House again. A waste of time, muse says, and only serves to put “Dead Eye” Dick Cheney behind the president’s desk for a few months.

Then this morning, what do I see but another posting on the planned April 9th Houston impeachment demonstration at Bay Area Houston. John mulled over the possibilities and concluded that it would be a waste of time, best not to take the eye off the ball when there are so many other things to accomplish.

Something in blogdom that I like to call a “virtual ditto”.

In the comments, muse even takes John to task, calling him a “copy cat”. I think it’s nice to have someone see your idea and repeat it. As they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

But I’m not going to ditto muse’s idea. I like the idea of impeachment. I think what we are missing is that the last time we had an impeachment, it was a long drawn out affair, weeks and months in the news, with nothing else happening, and with a special investigator who came up with nothing other than a lie about having sex with an intern.

We’ve got lots more on Bush. It even spills over to Cheney – who I sincerely believe is behind just about every bad idea to come out of this administration.

Impeach them both.

They didn’t know about Abu Graib? They didn’t have to know. They are responsible for it and every other bad thing that has happened in Iraq. They have blood on their hands and it is time to end this nightmare. They took us to this war of choice with their lies.

It wouldn’t take all that much time. All it would take is resolve. You don’t have to prove that they have committed high crimes and misdemeanors; all you have to do is find them guilty of them. It’s politics, not a judicial process.

Then we can have President Nancy Pelosi serve out Bush’s term, maybe with Vice President Feingold.

I’ll not be at the demonstration, although I am sorely tempted to attend. What I want to do is go to this event in Richmond and see if the staffers know whether my congressman will be going along with this idea.