- After being lulled into the morning corporate media hype
concerning Vice President Dick Cheney's trip to George Washington Hospital
for a routine check up on his blood clot in his leg, and, perhaps with
a bit of prodding from the weak-kneed House Democratic leadership, Ohio
Rep. Dennis Kucinich postponed yesterday's noon press conference where
he was to introduce three articles of impeachment against Cheney. Kucinich
delayed until 5:00 pm the press conference on his impeachment bills. The
delay was due to what the media indicated was a mid-morning Cheney medical
emergency and not a routine visit. The corporate media, as they have in
the past, manufactured the importance of the Cheney doctor visit to switch
attention away from the Kucinich announcement. As always, Fox News lead
the way, in coordination with Cheney's office (Cheney and Fox News Managing
Editor Brit Hume are close friends), and then MS-NBC and CNN followed their
lead.
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- Kucinich's bill, which has no co-sponsors and has been
criticized by the ever suspect Rahm Emmanuel, the House's chief Democratic
caucus policy maker, contains three articles of impeachment against Cheney.
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- Article I - In his conduct while Vice President of the
United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath
to faithfully execute the office of Vice 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 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.
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- Article II - In his conduct while Vice President of the
United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath
to faithfully execute the office of Vice 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, 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.
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- Article III - In his conduct while Vice President of
the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional
oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice 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 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.
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- Several of the supporting reasons for the impeachment
articles run counter to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
and other neo-con doctrines, which have been embraced by Emmanuel and his
colleagues. These include:
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- - Cheney actively and systematically seeking to deceive
the citizens and Congress of the United1 States about an alleged threat
of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
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- - Cheney pressured the intelligence community to change
their findings to enable the deception of the citizens and Congress of
the United States although Preceding the March 2003 invasion of Iraq
- Cheney was fully informed that no legitimate evidence
existed of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
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- - Cheney subverted the national security interests of
the United States by setting the stage for the loss of more than 3300 United
States service members; the loss of 650,000 Iraqi citizens since the United
States
- invasion; the loss of approximately $500 billion in war
costs which has increased our Federal debt; the loss of military readiness
within the United States Armed Services due to overextension, lack of training
and lack of equipment; the loss of United States credibility in world affairs;
and the decades of likely blowback created by the invasion of Iraq.
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- - Cheney actively and systematically sought to deceive
the citizens and the Congress of the United States about an alleged relationship
between Iraq and al Qaeda. In particular, Cheney ignored Defense Intelligence
Terrorism Summary No. 044-02, issued in February 2002 by the United States
Defense Intelligence Agency, which challenged the credibility of information
gleaned from captured al Qaeda leader al-Libi. The DIA report also cast
significant doubt on the possibility of a Saddam Hussein-al-Qaeda conspiracy:
''Saddam's regime is intensely secular and is wary of Islamic revolutionary
movements. Moreover, Baghdad is unlikely to provide assistance to a group
it cannot control.''
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- - Despite no evidence that Iran has the intention or
the capability of attacking the United States and despite the turmoil created
by United States invasion of Iraq, the Vice President has openly threatened
aggression against Iran.
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- - Cheney's deception upon the citizens and Congress of
the United States that enabled the failed United States invasion of Iraq
forcibly altered the rules of diplomacy such that the Vice President's
recent belligerent actions towards Iran are destabilizing and counterproductive
to the national security of the United States.
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