We just need to impeach Cheney, then Bush

Apparently there will be a privilege vote tomorrow on Dennis Kucinich's articles of impeachment against Cheney, which now have 21 co-sponsors. That's right, 21 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed on to a bill calling for an investigation of the Vice President by the Senate.

The most serious charge is that Cheney deliberately altered intelligence reports to deceive the nation into invading Iraq. In addition to the strong circumstantial evidence (everything he said prior to the invasion has proven false), this charge is supported by the fact that a Pentagon office was created out of thin air, inserted into the intelligence hierarchy ABOVE all the intelligence agencies, then used to pass happy-pants bullshit from Ahmed Chalabi and his cohorts into official reports without any vetting. It is also supported by the fact that intelligence documents on Iraq were rejected and ordered rewritten by Cheney and by reports of him and Rumsfeld stalking the halls of intelligence agencies and holding meetings with staffers pressuring them to draw the conclusions Cheney wanted, for example that the WMD threat was credible. A simple comparison of analyses done prior to Cheney's efforts or outside his sphere of influence with analyses done under his thumb shows how drastically different the conclusions were.

Congressman Jimmy Duncan was one of the scant few Republicans with the integrity and courage to see through the deception and folly and vote against invading Iraq. Please call him, thank him for his decency and honor, and ask him to vote for a House debate on Kucinich's articles of impeachment rather than for tabling the bill and sweeping Cheney's deceptions under the rug.

It is the duty of Congress to assert checks on the power of the executive, and recent assemblies have been pathologically incapable of responsible behavior. Our federal government has undergone a radical shift away from its traditional triumvarate form toward a unary executive, and this must be stopped and reversed now. A federal election replacing the President is wholly inadequate toward this end. An investigation of this administration is long overdue.

Please call him, thank him for his decency and honor, and ask him to vote for a House debate on Kucinich's articles of impeachment rather than for tabling the bill and sweeping Cheney's deceptions under the rug.

Oops. I did this in the wrong manner. I was so frustrated with Duncan's response to my correspondence regarding SChip, I sent him an email last week wishing he would support the HR 333 bill letting him know I didn't really expect him to follow the will of the people. I left out the being nice part.