[Vision2020] Impeach Cheney?

[Tom Hansen]

Two words:

WOW and COOL!

Here are the text of the resolution and virtually tons of supporting
documents.
 
http://kucinich.house.gov/SpotlightIssues/documents.htm

This should be very interesting to follow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)


-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Paul Rumelhart
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:00 PM
To: Vision2020
Subject: [Vision2020] Impeach Cheney?

I haven't seen this talked about much, but there is a bill (HRES 333) 
before the House that calls for the impeachment of VP Dick Cheney for 
"high crimes and misdemeanors".  The bill is sponsored by Rep. Dennis 
Kucinich, D-Ohio, was launched on Tuesday.  Here are some news stories 
on the bill:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18297390/
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/24/kucinich.cheney.ap/index.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,267968,00.html

You can also go to: http://thomas.loc.gov/ and search for HRes 333 by 
Bill Number to read the actual text of the bill.

I'm not sure I agree with it, from a legal standpoint, because the major 
areas that are covered probably aren't even illegal.  I don't know how 
impeachment works and I don't know if the actions necessarily have to be 
illegal or not.  Was anything Hitler did a crime in Germany?  Anyway, he 
is accused of lying to the public and to Congress about WMDs, knowing 
before-hand that there weren't any, and for saber-rattling against 
Iran.  I disagree with his doing all of that, but I don't know that he 
should be impeached for it.  Maybe for making torture ok, taking away 
habeus corpus, warrent-less wiretaps, and other things that I would 
assume are crimes.

It sounds like there isn't much backing for this.  Has anyone run into 
this in the news?  I found a couple of news sites using Google, but 
didn't find anything on the MSNBC, CNN, or Fox News websites directly 
about this.  Maybe it was featured on Tuesday?

Paul

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