Thank you, George McGovern, but, a question: Why did it take you so long to come to this position? The impeachable offences of the Bush administration have been so many that only a dunce or a republican could think that Bush and Cheney weren't impeachable. Nancy Pelosi ought to be inundated with petitions from the American people demanding impeachment. Call your Congressional representative and demand impeachment. Do so at least once a week as I have been doing until they see the light. Maybe McGovern's coming out for impeachment will now give it a boost. We cannot allow Bush and Cheney to leave office without accountability. If Congress refuses to impeach then we the people should set up our own tribunal to impeach.

Thank you, George McGovern, but, a question: Why did it take you so long to come to this position? The impeachable offences of the Bush administration have been so many that only a dunce or a republican could think that they weren't impeachable. Nancy Pelosi ought to inundated with petitions from the American people demanding impeachment. We cannot allow Bush and Cheney to leave office without accountability. If Congress refuses to impeach then we the people should set up our own tribunal to impeach.

I've read articles critical of Bush inc. by McGoven for at least a couple years now.

Impeach and prosecute. Only a trip to Gitmo or some like facility to get the truth out of them. We know what they've done right under our noses but what about all they've done and know about that we're not aware of. How many terrorist attacks have they been warned about and how many of their buddies are getting rich with our boots on the ground are just a few of the questions that need to be answered. Make them talk and prosecute them for their actions to the fullest extent of the law -- they deserve no less than what the rest of us would get.

Thank you George McGovern for your objective account. The country was in far better hands under Nixon than under Bush.

Watergate was nothing compared to the folly of this most destructive President ever.

Our liberal madam Nancy thinks otherwise. Is McGovern a fringe nut case?

I hope the conspicuous advice of someone as highly esteemed among Democrats as George McGovern will put more pressure on the party leadership to let impeachment go forward.

The crypto-neocons in the DLC and the Republicans are involved in a three-way love triangle with power and money. Pelosi isn't going to call for impeaching Bush any more than Liebermann would do so.

Worrisome is that she herself is next in line for presidency, after the VP.

The speaker of the house is chosen by the house, which is 232 to 200, Democrat over Republican. So this ratio, evidently, still favors a Republican.

I've always admired George McGovern since I worked locally on his early seventies campaign for president against the evil one, Dick Nixon. Once again he speaks the truth concerning the truly vile Bush regime. I wish him well and I wish for Cheney to be impeached before Bush answers to the war crimes tribunal. Oh, what a day!

Better late than never, George.

I think it gets more important as the election of a new president gets closer. A trial in the Senate will make it very clear to Bush's successor precisely what s/he needs to do to restore American democracy and get America off the rogue-state list.

George Mc Govern makes a great point. The crimes perpetrated by Bush, Cheney and their Corporate Sponsors are all Criminal. Tbey need to be investigated by a special prosecutor, immediately. They need to be investigated, under the RICO statutes and be held accountable, criminally and financially responsible for their crimes. They should be handed over to a war crimes tribunal at the Haig, to answer to the World Nations for their crimes. Now would be a good time to start the Impeachment process. If any congressmen or Senators are blocking this, including Pelosi, they should be removed from office and charged with obstruction of Justice. If a Supreme Court Justice, tries to block this they should be subject to an immediate ethics investigation. Start with Scalia, and his duck hunting trip with Cheney proceeding his ruling on the Energy Summit and Keeping it secret, this guy is a dirty as a full outhouse, to allow this kind of raping of the American People, is simply treasonous. Is our system of just broken? You bet your bippie it is. Time to bring in new and honest politicians, who are not afraid to seek the truth, and who will swear to stand for the constitution at all times!

To workreno : Thanks for setting bakunin straight . I'm sure he posted his call for impeachment before on CD , along with Ray McGovern . I wonder what my favourite female vocalist , Maureen McGovern thinks about this?Methinks she is in agreement with her namesakes

I think we should impeach both of them and dispense with the long drawn out investigation and trial. Just waterboard them until they confess. Oh, ya--and then we can make waterboarding illegal.

Who is McGovern talking to? Ordinary Americans have no power to impeach, Congressional Republicans are more interested in their party than in the country or their branch of government.

Are we to assume that McGovern is making an appeal to the do-nothing Democrats in office?

He's not calling for impalement . . . yet.

Nixon/Agnew in 2008!

Unfortunately, Until such a time as you are able to see this discussion occur on the set of CNN or one of the major news networks I doubt this issue will ever reach mainstream Americans, which means it will never be acted upon.
I ask myself how did Bill Clinton ever get impeached for such trivial matters and I realize it was because it was on "every" news media and was being drilled into the American conscious every single day.
There is no such reporting on television regarding the crimes of Bush and Cheney. It amazes me that the general public does not seem to care in the least that the American public was lied to about the "supposed" weapons of mass destruction. All people say is "Well, we can't just pull out of there now." Everyday people just don't seem to want to be bothered about anything beyond what Britney Spears is into this week. Until that changes we will continue to have an uphill battle.

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I have always admired McGovern. We youngsters of 14 yrs. in '72 were lobbying our parents to vote for him. He has been onto Bush/Cheney's monkey rot for some time (check into Democracy Now achives, for one). Here is a person of respect and experience within the 'beltway'.... let's see how long it takes for the media to discredit him with the OLD business of his run for Potus.

We need many more of his political types to "come out of the closet" NOW on this matter!
Am I correct that John Anderson ('84 run) has also been vocal on this matter? I'm pretty sure Carter has been calling for their removal for some time too. Who else....?

Mr. McGovern has been vocal on the matter of our twisted government for sometime now.

Maybe he and a few other decent men could outline a plan for the removal of these murdering pimps from the Whitehouse.

When you are all out in the streets demanding impeachment then you can be critical of the decision makers. You have to outnumber the people that support GW and Cheney. Apathy does not stop at Nancy's office.

The folks that seem to be wondering why it took so long for the senator to come out on this issue should check out Out of Iraq- a Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now 2006 by George McGovern and William Polk- somehow the current pols pretend they can't even formulate a concept for exit until oh maybe 2013 I assume when all the signing statments are uhm in place- also check out The Impeachment of George W. Bush by Elizabeth Holtzman former US congresswoman and member of the nixon impeaachment panel to whom the senator refers in his story- peace

Thank You Senator Mc Govern!

If Bush and Cheney were impeached, Nancy Pelosi would become president. We now know that she has secretly condoned, aided, abetted, connived at, misprisoned and otherwise supported both war crimes, including torture, forced disappearance and murder, and unconstitutional invasions of privacy of millions of Americans. Her public rhetoric notwithstanding, these facts reveal her to be a closet neocon with no respect for international and American law or the Constitution. While I favor the impeachment and removal, as well as criminal trial, of Bush and Cheney, any such initiative must incorporate replacement of the Speaker with an ethical person.

Impeachment of both the president and vice president is more pressing than who the next Democratic nominee, (and consequently the next president) because no one has ever dared to step on our Constitution like this administration, and so the people must teach the lesson, that no one will ever be allowed to do so again!

http://www.petitiononline.com/everyman/petition.html

As for the speaker all concerned may want to sign this.

Hummm....

Wish the current crop of Democrats had McGovern's historical perspective. If current Congressional leadership continues to ignore its responsibility to the Constitution and the rule of law, maybe it should be subjected to impeachment proceedings of its own....

BTW, bakunin.... i like the handle! Have used a variant of it myself, in other venues.... guess we're here dealing with the lesser of evils, or maybe damage control, eh?

"Their conduct and their barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world.""

This country has also been reduced to a "historic low" in the eyes of its own citizens who have evolved into thinking, feeling and compassionate beings.

tell me where do i sign the petition ? ......impeachment = better late , than never .please , don't let them getaway...do it while they are still in office !!!!!!!!!

George may not make it until this November, he is 85. Maybe he just wanted to go on the record about this group and the harm that they have done.

Destroying the world is intelligent?

So, Jimmy Carter, what are you waiting for ? It's your turn now.

What does ABC, NBC, CBS, have to say about this?

Pelosi has insisted that impeachment is off the table. One major reason given by some Democrats has been that they don't have the numbers.

I did a bit of research on Goggle and found that surprisingly they were telling the truth.

In a nation of 300 million, there are about 6 million Jewish-Americans. At the same time, the Congress comprising a total of 535 members contains a whopping 43 Jewish-Americans. If 6 million have 43 reps, then a small calculation would show that the remaining US population (300 m – 6 m =294 m) should proportionally have 2117 reps and not just 535 – 43 = 492.

How they have managed to get such a disproportional number of members in the US Congress is a credit to their intelligence. Perhaps they really are the chosen people because instead of 10 reps which is the fair share for 6 million, 33 more are chosen as Congress members.

Now, the reason why Pelosi does not have the numbers is that these 43 Congress members (10 in Senate, 33 in House) have their own friends among other reps who could be arm-twisted to do their bidding. The 43 and their friends in the Congress would never allow impeachment as long as Mr Bush is doing Israel's bidding by attacking Arabs/Muslim nations and trashing Palestinians.

Fortunately, you don't have to look far for AIPAC in this—the AIPAC is in our House!

Please don't try to anti-Semitic me. I love intelligent people. They've grabbed all the good places: in the Administration, in Pentagon, in banks, the media, the Hollywood, the whole shebang. I really respect them.

Now that Bush's days in office are numbered, a lot of people seem to be coming out for impeachment. Too bad that by the time it gets organized, Bush's term will be up and the point will be moot.

Somebody who caused the deaths of so many innocent people should have to face a far more severe penalty than just losing his job.

To hell with impeachment.
Indict GWB and his whole neo-fascist circle-jerk for felony murder and conspiracy.

Their offences aren't just "political."
They're CRIMINAL.

Liberty & Justice,

SJ

www.spartacusjones.com

Ezeflyer,

No, not at all.

Experience has shown me that I've got to use some kind words so that I would have a chance to say what I want to say. Otherwise some non-gentile guy or gal may call CD, complain about anti-Semitism, and CD would remove my post. It has happened before. My real feeling for those kinds of people can only be shown them by my middle finger.

The truth - spread far and wide -
will set us free -
from warmongering corporate pimps
and all the misery that they create.

and hell yes! if anyone deserves to be locked up
in a steel and concrete cage - it is bush and cheney

You guys are right, Mcgovern waited too long. Same with Bob Woodward. He didn't point a finger until it was way too late. The reason I think maybe we got rid of nixon early, was that the SOB and his partners in crime didn't control the media.

The media is at the source of all our problems. The war was, in a great part, facilitated by Judith Miller of the New York Times (the daughter of mafia interests) in her fraudulent reporting. Impeachment will not solve our fortune 500 puppet problem. We have to boycott all forms of MSM. They are already telling us who to watch in the presidential race by only covering the campaigns of the corporate lapdogs. Sever your cable, your dish, your direct tv. Cancel your newspaper/mags subscriptions. Send that money to sites you trust like CD. We can overthrow this crooked system if we pick the right targets.

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Miller was criticized for her reporting on whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD). On September 7, 2002, Miller and Times reporter Michael R. Gordon reported the interception of metal tubes bound for Iraq. Her front page story quoted unnamed "American officials" and "American intelligence experts" who said the tubes were intended to be used to enrich nuclear material, and cited unnamed "Bush administration officials" who claimed that in recent months, Iraq had "stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb."[8]
Miller added that "Mr. Hussein's dogged insistence on pursuing his nuclear ambitions, along with what defectors described in interviews as Iraq's push to improve and expand Baghdad's chemical and biological arsenals, have brought Iraq and the United States to the brink of war." Although Miller conceded that some intelligence experts found the information on Iraq's weapons programs "spotty," she did not report specific and detailed objections, including a report filed with the US government more than a year before Miller's article appeared by retired Oak Ridge National Laboratory physicist, Houston G. Wood III, who concluded that the tubes were not meant for centrifuges.
Shortly after Miller's article was published, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld all appeared on television and pointed to Miller's story as a partial basis for going to war. Subsequent analyses by various agencies all concluded that there was no way the tubes could have been used for uranium-enrichment centrifuges. Miller said of the controversy, "[M]y job isn't to assess the government's information and be an independent intelligence analyst myself. My job is to tell readers of The New York Times what the government thought about Iraq's arsenal." Some have criticized this position, believing that a crucial function of a journalist is to independently assess information, question sources and analyze information before reporting it.[9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller_%28journalist%29

John Conyers has the bill to impeach Cneney. Call or write him.

Independence is great, and everyone should be so,

unless (! of course ! ) one is the thrall of the
beast masters

… and then one's soul is but a jewel cast upon swine