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December 10, 2006 at 00:29:36

US Rep. Cynthia McKinney's Full Remarks on Her New Bush Impeachment Bill

by Matthew Cardinale     Page 1 of 2 page(s)

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This article courtesy of Atlanta Progressive News.

(APN) ATLANTA -- US Rep. Cynthia McKinney today became the first US Congresswoman to introduce Articles of Impeachment against President Bush, as well as Vice President Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.



Atlanta Progressive News has obtained the following remarks prepared by the Congresswoman, and has learned she was not allowed to read them on the US House Floor. The remarks are expected to become part of the Congressional Record but will not be available on thomas.loc.gov until next week.

The Congresswoman has scheduled an interview with APN for tomorrow to discuss her legislation. Stay tuned here for more.

The remarks are reprinted here in full:

Mr. Speaker:

I come before this body today as a proud American and as a servant of the American people, sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States.

Throughout my tenure, I've always tried to speak the truth. It's that commitment that brings me here today.

We have a President who has misgoverned and a Congress that has refused to hold him accountable. It is a grave situation and I believe the stakes for our country are high.

No American is above the law, and if we allow a President to violate, at the most basic and fundamental level, the trust of the people and then continue to govern, without a process for holding him accountable, what does that say about our commitment to the truth? To the Constitution? To our democracy?

The trust of the American people has been broken. And a process must be undertaken to repair this trust. This process must begin with honesty and accountability.

Leading up to our invasion of Iraq, the American people supported this Administration's actions because they believed in our President. They believed he was acting in good faith. They believed that American laws and American values would be respected. That in the weightiness of everything being considered, two values were rock solid: trust and truth.

From mushroom clouds to African yellow cake to aluminum tubes, the American people and this Congress were not presented the facts, but rather were presented a string of untruths, to justify the invasion of Iraq.

President Bush, along with Vice President Cheney and then-National Security Advisor Rice, portrayed to the Congress and to the American people that Iraq represented an imminent threat, culminating with President Bush's claim that Iraq was six months away from developing a nuclear weapon. Having used false fear to buy consent, the President then took our country to war.

This has grave consequences for the health of our democracy, for our standing with our allies, and most of all, for the lives of our men and women in the military and their families--who have been asked to make sacrifices--including the ultimate sacrifice--to keep us safe.

Just as we expect our leaders to be truthful, we expect them to abide by the law and respect our courts and judges. Here again, the President failed the American people.

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Matthew Cardinale is Editor of Atlanta Progressive News. He has written previously for the Sun-Sentinel Newspaper, Shelterforce Magazine, The Advocate Magazine, The San Francisco Bay View, and the Berkeley Daily Planet Newspaper. He has also written for numerous online publications including OpEdNews, BuzzFlash, CommonDreams, AlterNet, RawStory, and TruthOut.

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Harpist, unemployed blue collar worker, and Bush basher living deep in the heart of Texas.
PappyHarpist, unemployed blue collar worker, and Bush basher living deep in the heart of Texas.

Kudos again.

I applaud the bravery of Cynthia McKinney. I think the time is right for what she did. I only wish she were returning to congress in January to stuff this down every weasley throat in congress...both houses.

Blessed be!
Pappy

by Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 860 comments) on Sunday, December 10, 2006 at 2:08:35 AM
 


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Kriss PerrasKriss Perras is the founder of PCH Press, Malibu's only daily newspaper. She was born August 3, 1966 in Hawthorne, California. She has spent most of her life in California, but graduated High School in Arvada, Colorado. And, she has had a love-affair with writing, poetry, photography and film since she was in grade school.

She is United Nations' Certified in International Humanitarian Law and the Law of Armed Conflict. She's been appointed to political party positions and has been ...

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Help Cynthia Impeach Bush

Matthew Cardinale is an excelent journalist and I'm glad that he covered this for APN.
I have started a blog about the Impeachment proceedings here http://help-cynthia-impeach.blogspot.com

Please take a look at it for the latest news on the impeachment proceedings, media reaction to it and ways in which you can help.

All the best,
John Geraghty

by Kriss Perras (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 2 comments) on Sunday, December 10, 2006 at 6:11:57 AM
 

 

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