Impeachment Happening in Congress Right Now!

Congressman Dennis Kucinich is on the floor of the House of Representatives right now introducing 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush.

Bob Fertik, President of Democrats.com, said: "We've waited seven years to find one Member of Congress brave enough to stand up for our Constitution, for which generations of Americans have fought and died. We are thrilled and honored that Dennis Kucinich has chosen to be that one genuine patriot. We congratulate him on his historic leadership, and pledge to do everything in our power to persuade Congress to adopt all 35 Articles and put George W. Bush on trial before the Senate of the United States, exactly as the Founding Fathers wanted."

Fertik continued, "Some might question why Congressman Kucinich has done this now. My question is why 434 other Congress Members have not done it before. Despite the uncountable and unspeakable crimes this administration has committed, George Bush and Dick Cheney remain in power and immune from prosecution. Congress must impeach Bush and Cheney now - before they further abuse their power by pardoning for all of their crimes."

David Swanson, creator of ImpeachCheney.org, Washington Director of Democrats.com and co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org coalition, said: "Congressman Kucinich is the first, but we will be pressuring 434 other Representatives to join him. We must act to prevent an attack on Iran and to reestablish the rule of law for future administrations.

"Bush has had many accomplices,  first and foremost Vice President Cheney. But our Founders created a single executive precisely so that we could hold that one person accountable for the actions of the Executive Branch. It is high time we did so, and millions of Americans will be urging their representatives to support the effort being led by Congressman Kucinich.

"Bush's public comments have time and again advertised his indifference to the laws he is violating. Not only does overwhelming evidence show us that Bush knew his claims about WMDs to be false, but the president has shown us that he considers the question of truth or falsehood to be laughably irrelevant. When Diane Sawyer asked Bush during a televised interview after the war was underway why he had claimed with such certainty that there were so many weapons in Iraq, he replied: 'What's the difference? The possibility that [Saddam] could acquire weapons, if he were to acquire weapons, he would be the danger.'"

Swanson continued, "What's the difference? Hundreds of thousands of corpses and a fatal blow to the rule of law among nations. That's the difference - unless we remove impeachment from the Constitution by failing to exercise it, in which case truth will no longer matter any more than justice or peace."

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11. 10-06-2008 21:50

How many AMERICANS did Bush kill?

Here are some rough estimates of how many AMERICANS have died associated with the policies of the Bush Administration. 
 
1. 4,094 US servicemen in killed Iraq, 517 killed in Afghanistan (29,978 and about 2,500 wounded, respectively; hundreds of thousands psychologically scarred)(see: US casualties in Iraq and US casualties in Afghanistan.) 
 
2. It has been estimated that 20,000 under-5 year old American infants die avoidably each year - disproportionately African-American and Hispanic one presumes - due to warped Bush priorities; that\'s 20,000 x 8 = 160,000 dead American infants under Bush (see: How Bush killed 100,000 American infants .) 
 
3. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Cigarette smoking causes an estimated 438,000 deaths, or about 1 of every 5 deaths, each year. This estimate includes approximately 38,000 deaths from secondhand smoke exposure (see: CDC Fact Sheet 
Tobacco-Related Mortality .) 
 
4. Decent Governments legislate to minimize harm to citizens from \"life-style choices\" (e.g. obesity, alcohol, smoking, cars, drugs etc) or at the hands of others. The following data are from the Centre for Disease Control for 2004 - multiply by 8 to get the Bush-complicit Death Toll : total from disease and violence 2,397,615; \"life-style\": heart 652,496; cerebrovascular 150,074; nephrotic disease 42,480; chronic liver and cirrhosis 27,013; hypertension and renal hypertension 23,076; diabetes 73,13; accidents: 112,012; suicide: 32,439; assault, 17,357  
(see: CDC data on American avoidable deaths.) 
 
5. About 30,780 Americans die each year in gun-related deaths i.e. 30,780 x 8 = 246,240 deaths under gun-toting Bush Administration (see: US gun-related deaths, 2001.) 
 
6. About 15,000 Americans die each year from opiate drug-related causes i.e. 15,000 x 8 = 120,000 deaths under Bush, and substantially due to Bush restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from about 5% of world share in 2001 pre-invasion to a current 93% of world market share  
(see: UN Office on Drugs & Crime, UNODC.) 
 
6. And you can add another 3,000 American deaths to Bush\'s \"body count\" if former president of Italy, law professor, senator-for-life and intelligence intimate Francesco Cossiga is correct and the US and Israel did 9/11 (see: former Italian president Cossiga: US & Israel did 9/11.) Even Al Gore believes that Bush was criminally negligent over 9/11 (see \"The Assault on Reason\"). 
 
That\'s a lot of AMERICAN deaths in which George W. Bush is complicit in addition to the estimated 5-9 million violent and non-violent post-invasion excess deaths in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories (see: Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan, Biofuel and Climate Genocides – Silence Kills and Silence is Complicity). 
 
Dennis Kucinich\'s list of Bush\'s crimes is just the beginning.  
 
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