You gotta love Jesse Ventura. Look at what he says about George Bush, Dick Cheney and all the rest of the chickenhawks:





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As I explain in the video below, I think this is not a very good idea, but I am amused. Here's the story of the town in Vermont considering the arrest of President Bush and Vice President Cheney:




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Hard to find any information about this, Google News currently only has 9 articles from the MSM. I think most people are looking ahead to 2008, Bush still has a year left, probably enough time investigate all the bad stuff that has happened the last seven years. Wexler believes he has a case 'stronger than Watergate.'

Thinkprogresss.org wrote today:

Last night, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) took to the House floor to urge the House Judiciary Committee to begin impeachment hearings into Vice President Cheney for "high crimes and misdemeanors."

Here again is Wexler's website which now has over 194,000 signatures for Impeachment. Here is video of the Wexler speech delivered to the House Floor.

Halliburton/KBR employees rape American women -- and there are no consequences. And now we find out that Blackwater gassed our own troops -- and there are no consequences. When are people going to get tired of this?

We explain how US troops were gassed by Blackwater employees in the video below:



If companies connected to Bill Clinton had done this during his administration, the Republicans would not have impeached him, they would have tried him for treason. Right-wing Blackwater does it and not a peep out of anyone.

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Incredible article from former Presidential Candidate George McGovern.

Below is just a snippet from the two page op-ed that appeared in todays Washington Post. I ventured out into the Internet and added a bucket load of links to the paragraphs below that might help anybody who still doesn't think Bush should be impeached.

But what are the facts?

Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. Their conduct and their barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world. These are truly "high crimes and misdemeanors," to use the constitutional standard.

From the beginning, the Bush-Cheney team's assumption of power was the product of questionable elections that probably should have been officially challenged -- perhaps even by a congressional investigation.

In a more fundamental sense, American democracy has been derailed throughout the Bush-Cheney regime. The dominant commitment of the administration has been a murderous, illegal, nonsensical war against Iraq. That irresponsible venture has killed almost 4,000 Americans, left many times that number mentally or physically crippled, claimed the lives of an estimated 600,000 Iraqis (according to a careful October 2006 study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) and laid waste their country. The financial cost to the United States is now $250 million a day and is expected to exceed a total of $1 trillion, most of which we have borrowed from the Chinese and others as our national debt has now climbed above $9 trillion -- by far the highest in our national history.

All of this has been done without the declaration of war from Congress that the Constitution clearly requires, in defiance of the U.N. Charter and in violation of international law. This reckless disregard for life and property, as well as constitutional law, has been accompanied by the abuse of prisoners, including systematic torture, in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949.

I have not been heavily involved in singing the praises of the Nixon administration. But the case for impeaching Bush and Cheney is far stronger than was the case against Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew after the 1972 election. The nation would be much more secure and productive under a Nixon presidency than with Bush. Indeed, has any administration in our national history been so damaging as the Bush-Cheney era?

How could a once-admired, great nation fall into such a quagmire of killing, immorality and lawlessness?...Read More...

You know I don't post without including a video, so today I will re-post the Robert Wexler's call for impeachment, he now has over 180,000 signatures.

Robert Wexler Op-Ed
Sign his Petition - 150,000 already have.

This is a real story. I have to preface it by saying that because it is so remarkable and unbelievable. ABC News is reporting that a 22 year old American woman was gang-raped in Iraq by employees of KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary at the time.

What makes it even worse is that the US government has done nothing about it for two long years. She has a Republican Congressman from Texas fighting for her and she still can't get the Justice Department to press charges or even comment on the case. This is maddening.

The terrible details of the case are explained in the video below.

Girl Gets Gang-Raped: Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR

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The rape kit was mysteriously turned over to KBR security personnel, the same company whose employees were accused of the rape. Unsurprisingly, the rape kit is now "missing." A lot of that going around lately. And KBR claims she must go into arbitration instead of a US courtroom because ... that's what's in her contract!

Are they kidding? Is this some sick joke? I think you might have been in slight violation of that contract when you allowed her to be raped and covered up the crime. Now, they have the audacity to cite her contract.

My God, look at what they're doing to American citizens and getting away with. When is all this going to be enough for you? If Iranians had done this to a 20 year old American girl, we would have invaded that country by now. But as long as it's the Vice President's company, it's all okay? Do people have no conscience? What if it was your daughter? We can't let them get away with this.

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Cheney gave an interview to Politico where he mocked male Democratic leaders masculinity for following Nancy Pelosi. What are we in 1834? Then this devolved into a back and forth among both parties basically talking about their penises without explicitly saying so. The greatest country on earth is led by a bunch of children. Check out the whole back and forth below:

Dick Cheney Calls Out Congress' "Stick" Size

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Good for Kucinich trying to keep up the momentum with his impeachment idea. Do note, the there is a healthy applause at the end, for the record the woman they zoom in on at the end standing and clapping is the mother of a soldier who has done three tours of Iraq. Wolf does his best to cut him off, I remember he wasn't as successful cutting off Obama or Hilary as they bantered back and forth about whose health care plan is better. Kucinich was given under 6 minutes to speak throughout the debate, I hope more Americans can find their inner Kucinich courage, me and the world is waiting.

Here is an article about the impeachment for your pondering.

The Courage Of Kucinich In Pelosi's House Of Wacks - CommonDreams.org

Then there is Dennis Kucinich - the diminutive giant in the House of Representatives. The American Congressman from the 10th District of Ohio who refuses to be silenced. The Democratic candidate for President who passionately upholds his oath to protect the people and Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies both foreign and domestic. Not as an oral exercise when sworn into office - but as a moral exercise every day in office.

For Dennis Kucinich, nothing and no one will suppress his allegiance to his country and to his abiding principle of "strength through peace."

So when Speaker Pelosi tells the cowards in her House that "impeachment is off the table" because the fight to impeach is too hard, Kucinich doesn't believe her. No one ever told him being a Congressman would be easy. No one ever told him maintaining democracy was a cinch. When the President and Vice President commit acts as egregious as lying the nation into illegal war, illegally surveilling their own citizens, endorsing and allowing torture, and more, the strong don't stay quiet...Read More on Commondreams.org...

This was Yesterday. What do you think?

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There are two critical things that will happen within the next year that will decide the fate of this country. One is the 2008 election. I believe the current Republicans have slipped over the edge. They are authoritarians with serious fascist tendencies.

I was a Republican my whole life until the Bush administration and I was called fascist countless times, so I don't use the word lightly. Even Sandra Day O'Connor, the former Supreme Court Justice that put Bush into office warned about the beginnings of dictatorship in this country.

Republican nominees like Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney are constantly justifying and excusing torture, spying on innocent Americans, bombing countries that are absolutely no threat to us and running roughshod over the United States constitution. None of these are conservative principles. The Republican Party has become radicalized.

It is difficult to ignore the war drum, so now I want to know your opinion about the possible war with Iran.
Yesterday Dick Cheney said the U.S. will 'not allow' Iran to have a nuke, but Iran continues to insist they are not developing nuclear weapons. Dick's warning complemented Bush's warning of WWIII last week. Fun times.

So with all this talk of war flying around, question is...

So Lynne Cheney has revealed that her husband and Senator Barack Obama are bipartisan family: eighth cousins, to be precise. (Hell, if James Earl Jones and Robert Duvall could pass for brothers in 1996's A Family Thing, I'll buy it.) And at least this cross-racial relation doesn't involve obvious coercion, a la Strom Thurmond and his black daughter.

In fact, if you look closely - and at the video below - you can see the kinship between Cheney and Obama...




P.S. - Please excuse the evil cat below. Ever since I criticized Ellen DeGeneres' cats, I've been attacked by some feline virus.

Ralph Nader speaks at Busboys and Poets in Washington DC about why the Bush Administration is unimpeachable in the eyes of some Democratic leaders. Here is an article from Nader.org that goes well with the youtube clip below.

Presented in the form of petitions to be sent to the Congress, the approving citizenry cited at least four "high crimes and misdemeanors."

They included the initiation of the Iraq war based on defrauding the public and intentionally misleading the Congress, spying on Americans without judicial authorization, committing the torture of prisoners in violation of both federal law and the U.N. Torture Convention and the Geneva Convention, and stripping American citizens of their Constitutional rights by jailing them indefinitely without charges and without access to legal counsel or even an opportunity to challenge their imprisonment in a court of law...Read More...

Dick Cheney is a very different man than he used to be. The present day Dick Cheney started a disastrous war in Iraq with almost no planning, got us stuck in a quagmire and seems to show no concern for the damage that has been done to our troops or the people of Iraq. And now, he is lobbying for an even more dangerous war with Iran.

Now look at the clip below for a completely different Dick Cheney. This is Cheney from 1992, where he says, "The bottom line question for me was -- how many additional American lives is Saddam Hussein worth? The answer -- not very damn many." What happened to this man?

Watch it:



Cheney said that Saddam wasn't worth very many American lives when we had lost 146 troops in the first Persian Gulf War. Well, has he been worth 3,801 more lives so far? Let alone nearly 28,000 more wounded. And it turned out that Saddam was less armed and less dangerous in 2003 than he was in 1991, when he actually invaded another country and had chemical weapons (for the record, I was for the Persian Gulf War and against going into Iraq in 1991 -- so I agreed completely with the 1992 Dick Cheney).

Now that we have captured and killed Saddam Hussein and found out that there were no weapons in Iraq, the next bottom line question is -- how many additional American lives is the civil war in Iraq worth?

I wonder how 1992 Dick Cheney would answer that question. We will never know, because we are looking at a radically different man. We have had Rand Beers, who worked on the Bush National Security Council with Vice President Cheney, on our show and he wondered whether Cheney's heart surgeries had changed his personality. These are serious people asking serious questions.

Here's another video of Cheney from 1994. Again, he sounds different and his ideas are better thought out and far more rational (and they also turned out to be completely correct predictions about Iraq). And here is a video of George W. Bush from a 1994 gubernatorial debate in Texas. He also sounds far smarter and more eloquent than the man we are painfully familiar with these days.

What happened to these guys? Is this going to be a case where historians tell us a hundred years from now, it turns out the president and the vice-president both had serious medical conditions that affected their thinking? That would be both tragic and comical -- because all of Washington and the press went along with these two guys who might have serious mental issues. They are at the very least clearly different men than who they were. But everyone in DC is still pretending that the emperor has his clothes on -- or his mind turned on.

It's time to ask an uncomfortable question: Is the country being run by two guys who have lost their minds?

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