Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn’t a war about oil. That’s cynical and simplistic, they said. It’s about terror and al Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from weapons of mass destruction.
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Who profits from the Iraq war? More than a quarter of senators and congressmen have invested at least $196 million of their own money in companies doing business with the Department of Defense (DoD) that profit from the death and destruction in Iraq.
Sphere: Related ContentIn this case, Gallup, which has been polling Americans about as long as anyone else, now finds that President Bush’s disapproval rating, at 67 percent, is tied for the highest in American history.
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Sphere: Related ContentYou wouldn’t know it if you just watch TV news or read the corporate press, but this past Tuesday, something remarkable happened. Despite the pig-headed opposition of the Democratic Party’s top congressional leadership, a majority of the House, including three Republicans, voted to send Dennis Kucinich’s long sidelined Cheney impeachment bill H Res 333 to the Judiciary Committee for hearings.
The vote was 218 to 194.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has taken impeachment “off the table,” in line with Official Washington’s view that trying to oust George W. Bush and Dick Cheney would be an unpleasant waste of time. But there is emerging a compelling logic that an unprecedented dual impeachment might be vital to the future of the United States.
Sphere: Related ContentWith Bush stiff-arming Congress with one specious claim of executive privilege after another, impeachment is more imperative than ever.
The people understand this. It’s the politicians, even most Democratic ones, who are lagging so far behind.
Sphere: Related ContentLast week’s four-part Washington Post feature on Vice President Dick Cheney removed any doubt in my mind as to whether he and President George W. Bush have committed the kinds of high crimes and misdemeanors that warrant impeachment.
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