Cheney Must Be Impeached

Article II, Section 4, tells us, "The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

If the Democrats have any respect for the mandate they got last November and the Constitution they swore to uphold, they must impeach Dick Cheney. For if Cheney is not impeached, the precedent will be forever set that the U.S. is a country of "men" and not of laws. And the aforementioned Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution will forever be rendered moot. This is no longer a debate about the War in Iraq. It is about the utter disregard of the law done openly by Cheney and Bush.

Both Bush and Cheney must be laughing at the Democrats lame attempts to demand that Cheney comply with subpoenas and other legal demands that all other citizens must comply with for fear of criminal prosecution. I was particularly amused at Rahm Emanuel's rediculous proposal to cut off funding for the VP when Cheney's lawyers argued that the VP is not a part of the executive branch. They have broken the laws of this nation frequently and they have participated in open and notorious criminal conspiracies.

The impeachment process will cleanse the nation by exposing this President and Vice President with a daily media story that Clinton had to face in 1998. And it will give the Congress the ability to present its case to the American people in an organized and understandable way. The country at large must know what these criminals have done and the impeachment process will allow those Americans who are not particularly political to be aware of their utter disregard of the law. Perhaps then, the real outrage will come.

Below is part of an article written by Sheila Samples that reinforces the need for impeachment:

Strike at the Root!

"We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men"~~George Orwell

Recently, Nova M Radio's Mike Malloy suggested the lethargy that appears to have descended on the American people is more "rage fatigue" than a lack of knowledge or comprehension of the damage wrought by this administration. I agree, although for many of us, rather than fatigue, it's more an inability to "focus" on any single atrocity about which to be enraged. There are just too many incoming horrors at any one time. We are in the throes of a national paralysis.

It's not that we don't know enough to be enraged. We know too much. About too many things. Our rage is splintered, spread too thin to be effective. For the past five years, people in this country and around the world have protested against Bush and Cheney's genocidal assault on two helpless nations. As they prepare openly for yet another bloody attack on yet another nation, we continue to sign petitions, hold meetings, march against the corporate machine -- all to no avail.

The issues catapaulting citizens into the streets are outrageous -- each one deserving of a "million man march" on its own merits. However, because we are frustrated by a relentless media blackout and by the deepening corruption, loss of freedoms and the tightening noose of tyranny, our cries are little more than a cacophony of discord -- an impotent racket.

Both Democrats and Republicans are branches of the same tree of corruption. When hacked off, a branch is instantly replaced by another, and another, each one stronger than the last. George Bush is but a snarled twig, waving at us with a frog in one hand and a firecracker in the other. As bodies of American citizens pile up in funeral homes and cemetaries across the nation; as more and more bodies of innocent men, women and children are strewn across the Middle East, it is becoming increasingly obvious the madness will not stop until we fell this tree -- dig into the darkness and strike the root. We must expose -- and impeach -- Dick Cheney.

Read more at:

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/07/06/strike_at_the_root