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Congressman John Conyers has introduced a bill to create a select committee to investigate and make recommendations on impeachment. This parallels how the impeachment proceedings against Nixon began. Several cosponsors have already signed on, despite Congress being in recess. You can ask your Congress Members to contact Conyers' office and add their names to H Res 635. We're asking everyone to phone their Congress Member's district office this coming Monday.
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Anyone here who lives in Congressman Jim Moran's district should thank him for having hosted an event like this one on Thursday with Congressman John Murtha, but question him about the remark he made there to the effect that impeachment is counter to the democratic process. Maybe someone could even deliver a copy of the US Constitution to Congressman Moran's office.

We should also thank Congressman Conyers for speaking at an event like this one today in Michigan, and Bobby Scott down in tidewater Virginia, and Diane Watson, Jim McDermott, Adam Smith, Bob Filner, Martin Sabo, Marty Meehan, and Jay Inslee. These members may or may not all be ready to join the majority of Americans in opposition to the war and support of impeachment, but they are willing to talk to their constituents, and that's more than you can say for most of their colleagues. And we should thank Mike Hersh and Christine Yorty and Karen Bradley, and Kevin Zeese, and everyone else who helped organize this event in Washington, and Andy Shallal for providing the location.

Before I close, let me just say one more thing about impeachment. All too often the response one hears to proposing it is "Well, yeah, but Cheney would be worse." Let me give you five reasons to stop worrying about Dick Cheney.

1. Cheney is running the show now backstage. We'd be better off with him up front as a walking advertisement for voting against Republicans.

2. Impeachment and removal from office are two separate things, one of which has never been done in U.S. history. The Republicans destroyed what was left of a Democratic Party by impeaching Clinton. They did not remove him from office.


3. An investigation into impeachment, as well as proposals for censure, serve an educational and political purpose in themselves and move us toward impeachment. Let's stop jumping five steps ahead of ourselves in order to fantasize about defeat.

4. It is impossible to investigate Bush or Cheney without incriminating the other.

5. If you cannot impeach for the highest crime imaginable, taking the nation to war on the basis of lies, then you can never impeach, or impeachment must be reserved for sex.

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David Swanson is the author of "When the World Outlawed War," "War Is A Lie" and "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union." He blogs at http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and works for the online (more...)
 

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