Dennis Kucinich May Be The Bravest American Of The Month
 Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Following weeks of slow news, everything had to go down while we were on vacation at the beginning of June. Figures. Not that this made as many headlines as it should have while we were gone! On June 9th, Congressman and former Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, from our home state of Ohio, presented 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush, in the House of Representatives.

The House of Representatives needs to consider a resolution, Kucinich said, to impeach the President, for a list of reasons that took more than five hours to read. Enabler Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has consistently said, of course, that impeachment is "off the table." Now Kucinich is working to set the table himself.

From misleading the American public about WMD's in Iraq, to violating the Constitution, to conflicting statements about Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, Kucinich laid it all out.

"The President willfully and falsely misrepresented Iraq as an urgent threat requiring immediate action, thereby subverting the national security interests of the United States." This set the stage, Kucinich said, for: the loss of more than 4,000 of our United States service members; the injuries to tens of thousands of US Soldiers; the deaths of over one million innocent Iraqi citizens since the US invasion; the loss of approximately $527 billion in war costs, which has increased our national debt, and the ultimate costs of the war between $3 and $5 trillion dollars; the loss of military readiness within the United States Armed Services due to overextension; the loss of United States credibility in world affairs.

"Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense, warranting removal from office."

That's just the beginning...there's much more. OpEd News calls the event "An Historic Moment Gone Unnoticed," and point out that polls have indicated at least 40% of the American public supports an investigation into the possible impeachment of G.W. Bush.

When they were both in the presidential race, Republican candidate Ron Paul mentioned that Dennis Kucinich was the candidate he most related to. Will Ron Paul jump on board with Kucinich's articles of impeachment? We hope so!

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