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If you would like to help Kucinich, please contact members of the House
Judiciary Committee and demand a hearing on the articles of impeachment:<br>
Committee Email: <a set="yes" linkindex="138"
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Committee Phone: 202-225-3951<br>
John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) Chair 202-225-5126<br>
Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) 202-225-5635<br>
Melvin L. Watt (D-NC) 202-225-1510<br>
Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) 202-225-3072<br>
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) 202-225-7931<br>
Howard Coble (R-NC) 202-225-3065<br>
Trent Franks (R-AZ) 202-225-4576<br>
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<p><img src="cid:part1.08070900.01000102@mailbag.com" align="right"
border="1" hspace="5" vspace="5">Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), two days
after <a set="yes" linkindex="126"
href="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Kucinich_presents_Bush_impeachment_articles_0609.html">presenting
35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush</a>, urged
in a statement that a key House committee commence examination of the
articles.</p>
<p>“It is now imperative that the Judiciary Committee begin a review of
the 35 articles,” said Kucinich. “I will be providing supporting
documentation to the committee so that it can proceed in an orderly
manner.</p>
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<p>“The weight of evidence contained in the Articles makes it clear
that President Bush violated the Constitution and the US Code as well
as international law,” said the Ohio lawmaker, whose efforts to impeach
Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have been largely ignored by the
mainstream media.</p>
<p>The House of Representatives <a set="yes" linkindex="127"
href="http://rawstory.com/news08/2008/06/11/house-voting-to-send-impeachment-resolution-to-judiciary-committee/">approved
Kucinich’s motion today</a>
to refer the articles of impeachment to the Judiciary Committee,
chaired by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI). Kucinich said on Wednesday that he
would meet with Conyers this week.</p>
<p>Conyers has yet to release a public statement on the motion, but has
in the past not been supportive of impeachment efforts. The resolution
to impeach Cheney, which Kucinich presented in April 2007, remains
stalled in the committee he chairs.</p>
<p>“It is the House’s responsibility as a co-equal branch of government
to provide an effective check and balance to executive abuse of power,”
Kucinich continued in the statement. “President Bush was principally
responsible for directing the United States Armed Forces to attack Iraq.</p>
<p>“I believe that there is sufficient evidence in the Articles to
support the charge that President Bush allowed, authorized and
sanctioned the manipulation of intelligence by those acting under his
direction and control, misleading Congress to approve a resolution
authorizing the use of force against Iraq.</p>
<p>“As a result over 4,000 United States soldiers have died in combat
in Iraq, with tens of thousands injured, many of them permanently
impaired,” explained Kucinich. “Over a million innocent Iraqis have
perished in a war which was based on lies, a war which will cost the
American taxpayers as much as three trillion dollars.</p>
<p>The Ohio lawmaker said that it is now “incumbent” for the Judiciary
Committee to review evidence he presented. He promised that if the
committee failed to hold any hearings on the resolution within thirty
days, he would repeat his efforts. He <a linkindex="128"
href="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2008/06/kucinich_vows_to_keep_up_impea.html">told
one reporter Wednesday</a>,
“Leadership wants to bury it, but this is one resolution that will be
coming back from the dead. … I will be bringing the resolution up
again, and I won’t be the only one reading it.”</p>
<p>Kucinich closed in his statement, “We must not only create an
historical record of the misconduct of the Bush administration, but we
must make sure that any future administration is forewarned about the
constitutionally proscribed limits of executive authority and exercise
of power contravening the Constitution.”</p>
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