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Impeachment is necessary to refute the Administration's "Unitary Executive" theories before that dictatorial philosophy is allowed to be adopted by a future Administration. But, the national Democratic leadership apparently wants that power for themselfves and grassroots Republicans are too f&$#ing stupid to understand that. If a Democrat had committed the same litany of abuses against the Constitution that Cheney and Bush have, they'd be screaming for impeachment. But, they're too blinded by their irrational partisan loyalties to stand up for the Constitution. It's disgusting.

Stations,,, If you read my earlier post you would Know I realize its more than just anti war,,, I use my real name and where I am from as I welcome folks to show me where I am wrong. My anti war comment stands alone on this issue. thats why I did not include it in my original post. In your anonymous haste to degrade people you dont agree with you must of missed that,,, Have a nice day !

Hey stations,,,, original comeback,,, In the words of hillary clinton,,,, YOU HURT MY FEELINGS,,, did I hit a nerve with you ? the truth hurt ? moron is the only response you have ? no info as to why I'm wrong ? and why do you use real name and where your from so I can comeback with a stupid one liner ?

It's about time that CNN started reporting on this issue. More and more prominent and level headed people are calling for impeachment hearings on both Bush and Cheney. The voices have been growing louder and louder every day yet CNN and the other main stream media organizations have continued to try and bury this story.

Everyone seems to have their excuses for why there shouldn't be impeachment hearings or how it is futile to even attempt it. However, what it comes down to is protecting our Constitution and the rule of law in our country. The President and Vice-President have broken the law. And they continue to do so every day. It is the sworn responsibility of Congress to hold them accountable and show the citizens (and the world) that the United States is still a republic that is ruled by law and not a monarcy (or a dictatorship) that is ruled by G W Bush.

Its more than JUST ANTI WAR ,MARK THE MORON FROM WILKES BARRE,CRAWL BACK INTO YOUR COAL SHAFT.

Well, this makes me realize again that I can't lean on politicians.

ANTI WAR ADVOCATES,,,,,,,,Its all in the name folks,,,, George McGovern is one as many of the comentors above,,, there is NO JUST reason to go to war to these people, there is NOTHING that can happen that will justify war to these people,,,Your wasting your time even trying to debate this issue with them if your not anti war,,,,What is sad is,, these are the same people who harbour hate to george Bush and any republican who supports him , wish them ILL-WILL and there families,and HOPE somthing or some one comes along to take there lives,,,

Actually, it being too late for impeachment, they should be frog-marched out of the oval office in handcuffs and into the international court at the Hague to be tried as war criminals, a fate they richly deserve.
I wrote (by snail mail) to all my current (and former) representatives and senators on impeachment and only got a response from Henry Waxman . . . so apparently it's not even worthy of response from one's elected representatives.

If you claim oil was the reason for Iraq, please turn off your computer and power in your house. Stop driving your car as you are contributing to the cause of the blame.
It is our government's job to secure energy resources for its people so you can't blame G.W. Bush for doing his job. His methods can be debated and made impeachable if you wish. However, if he is impeachable, it would have been done long ago. There are lots of loud people who want to take him down if they can. There are also the quiet people who will speak with their votes. Vote your conscience!

It is, it seems, a little late in the day for Mr.
McGovern to be calling for impeachment of
Bush and Cheney. And, he is being a little political
in attributing the failure of the democrats to act on
impeaching these two criminals by attributing their
failure to "a lack of courage and statesmanship...."
Only a former politician would be so kind; the
Democrats have SOLD OUT! End of story!

Whether you agree completely with ex-senator McGovern, we can all agree on one issue. The leadership of the United States needs moral fiber.

Stop looking backwards or you will hit a brick wall.

Start Looking FORWARD with Obama and move into the future.

Look at all the attacks and lies spewing from the Clinton Campaign attacking Obama.

IT IS TIME FOR A COMPLETE CHAGE!

NO TO BUSHES
NO TO CLINTONS

YES TO ANYONE ELSE!

A belated comment re: why won't congress impeach Bush/Cheney. These two and their cronies represent a "political moffia" in the US!!!!!! They have used any tactic available to achieve their objectives and to make themselves and their buddies richer! They are a disgrace and yet they wield such power that the woosie Democrates are afraid of them. It's a DISGRACE. The governing body of our great nation are a bunch of CHICKEN S--. I hated Nixion and what he stood for but I would take Tricky Dickie back in a minute when I look at what this country has become. I LOVE my country and I cry everyday when I look at what we have become thanks to BUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can only say, I'm glad I'm old and won't have to live with the consequences of what the last eight years has wrought for too much longer. I feel our only hope is Hillary-–she's a smart, real person who has her feet firmly planted in reality.
Thank you,
Gwyneht B. Pappert
Hudson, Florida

I bet that Mr. McGovern remembers 2002, when the PATRIOT Act was being passed and the executive branch was threatening Iraq with war over WMDs that were clearly not even proven to exist. I bet he was asking the same kinds of questions as me: "How is this happening? How on earth does 9/11 justify this kind of knee-jerk response, throwing our civil liberties out the window and threatening an apparently peaceful country with war?"

But guess what? The Congress totally went along with it. They either didn't ask those questions, or gave the wrong answers.

So who has clean hands to impeach the president? Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich (who as it has already been mentioned, would like to impeach Cheney), and probably some others, but probably not enough to make it anything other than the ridiculous partisan farce that the Clinton impeachment was.

I agree. President Bush and his administration should be impeached The American people owe this to the world. He is an embarrassment to our country and Cheney has been working to steel the tax payers money.

This whole problem, alright at least half this problem wouldn't have posibly happened had we decided to recount the votes whenever voter counting disaster took place in florida. Instead Gov. Bush helped his bro out and got him in (it woulden't have hurt had kerry stood his ground) but you get my drift. The war might not have been over by now had Kerry won, but we might have been a step closer to the right direction.

Interesting comment by McGovern and nice to hear somebody with some experience have an opinion about the highly questionable conduct of the republic's dynamic duo, even if he is a democrat. We have seen a president without real moral issues for quite some time. It would be refreshing to a new president with some moral fiber!

The Bush presidency is the direct fault of the Democratic party. There is no way either election should have been so close as to allow a few votes to even matter.
Al Gore lost because he was too close to Bill Clinton, and he didn't know how to behave in public (something he has worked on and I believe learned from) Kerry lost because from a field of better candidates, the Democratic leadership allowed him to buy his way into the nomination.

Both elections were a case of who do I dislike least and compared to Gore and Kerry, the voters were split down the middle allowing the "creative" votes to matter.

W won two elections where it was the Presidency was the Democrats to lose, and they did so in a fine manner. You want to see the Republican's keep control of the White House? Pick Hillary as the Democrat's nominee and you will guarantee it.

This is all about the War in Iraq, Afganistan, and Terror from "Wimp" who could not fight his way through wet toilet paper. What Bush and Cheney are guilty of is not fighting to "WIN" which is better than McGovern who with the help of the Media and US Government and the American People, not the US Military, lose the war in Viet Nam. The dems know they are still the Post Viet Nam Democratic Party and they are afraid to let the AMerican People know they still are weak on securtiy and defense and believe terrorism is for law enforcement to fight since it is not a war.

To Renee,
Thanks for your service. I believe that you deserve the same level of benefits that WWII vets got: housing loans, education grants, superb health care, rehabilitiation if needed, and disability compensation if rehab isn't possible. And first class all the way. You and I might disagree on whether you should be in Iraq, but we can certainly agree that you deserve the best when you get back home.

Renee says, "All of you call yourself Americans!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!! Have you forgotten what happend September 11th, 2001! "

We well remember what happened on September 11. Osams bin Laden arranged for some Saudi Arabians to drive airplanes into three buildings, killing 3500 Americans. We invaded Afghanistan and replaced the Taliban with an elected government which we hope will survive, despite the growing strength of the Taliban. Osama bin Ladin, though, is having a nice dinner right now and making a new videotape ridiculing us.

Then, we attacked Iraq for reasons that had nothing to do with 9-11. It was because we wrongly believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Our government was either lying to us about WMDs or was just stupid – take your pick. I choose stupid myself, since the former head of the CIA now says in his book that the "slam dunk" comment was the worst mistake of his life.

The war in Iraq has cost another 3500 lives and no WMDs have been found.

During the War on Terror, terrorists and Iraqi insurgents have killed about 7,000 Americans. During that time aspirin has killed 5 times as many Americans and tobacco killed 50 times as many.

Confronting fundamentalists who would set up theocratic totalitiarian nations is important, but it is not the only problem in the world.

Is Pelosi a Republican or a Democrate or she is nothing at all. She has to listen to the American public who elected her.

7 years of economic expansion, longest in US history.
Tax cuts for all taxpayers, total taxes paid by the top 1% UP, highest ever.
Two new democratic country's and 63 million newly freed people.
No Child Left Behind
911 stewardship, followed by the highest ranking by any President.
National debt down to less than 1% of budget, ahead of schedule, and in the face of a spend/spend liberal congress.

Can you hear that lame duck quaking??

He's right of course.

Man this guy can really draw a crowd on the internet!!!

I'll be so happy when Bush and Cheney are just factoids in the history books.

And defacto examples of how NOT to lead a nation!!!

Typical left wing cry baby. Make accusations and compaints AFTER the fact and not offer any incite to who he would like to see from his own party win the Presidency and what route to "make things better" for the Dems other than impeach a lame duck Pres. Maybe he has no clue, like the rest of them, of what to do other than accuse and name call.

Mark Ruffalo- Bob in Frankfort??? Really?

Do you really think that the end-all decision to impeach Bush is legit because Mark Ruffalo supports it?

Isn't his wife named Sunshine??? Wasn't he in the movie, "13 Going On 30?"

I rest my case.

What a great world it will be when the Democrats have the white house..I am really confused about what light bulbs I need to buy and what insurance I should carry. Can't wait till the Dems are are here to guide me

Like all hate based diatribes, this one vibrates with vitriol and forgoes fact. There is a reason bi-partisan support is lacking and it has nothing to do with politics or courage. There is no fondation in fact for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice-president Chaney.
On the other hand, there is strong evidence that Senate Leader Reid and House Speaker Pelosi are completley incompetent and deserve to be ousted from their seats in congress.

The Administration has disgraced the USA. Let's disgrace them back. Impeach them both, now.

National debt INCREASED 50%; Possibly the SEVEN largest deficits in U.S. history; Possibly?? - possibly because he isn't finished yet. Historically, wars meant increased taxes and financial sacrifices while they are going on. (Talk to ANYONE who lived through World War II). Bush has given tax breaks instead and pushed this debt onto generations to come.
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"Mission Accomplished" over 1,700 DAYS ago! We did topple Saddam's gov't.– so why do we have 190,000 troops and thousands of paid guards still there?

Is reading "The Pet Goat" while Americans are dying in our cities ANYONE's idea of leadership?. Films show he was told about the second attack, but never asked ONE question or made any effort to contact the Pentagon or anyone else. As Karl Rove told ABC, Bush did this so that he wouldn't "disturb the children". Forget about the other 290 million Americans who were terrified and hoped for some message from "the commander guy".

4 days of misery on a bridge in a major U.S. city and the most powerful man in American can't take the time to make ONE CALL to the Pentagon to get help. While millions of Americans watched in horror day after day, almost any caring human being in the same all-powerful spot would have made one call to the Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, or even Air Force and said "I WANT A HELICOPTER ON THAT BRIDGE NOW!!!". Don't pretend this so-called "compassionate conservative" commander-in-chief didn't have the power to do it.. He just didn't CARE enough, Americans looked so pathetic and helpless for so long that it gave Fidel Castro, of all people, a chance to offer aid.

"Rumfeld will stay"; Your point– Bush LIED all the way to the end.

"We've never been 'stay the course"; Again, your point?– another blatant LIE.

Intelligence community blamed for Iraq and Tenet given our highest possible civilian award; Do you even know why he got the award? - George Tenet told Bush "slam dunk" and Bush did not fire, demote, or reprimand him, instead he gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Zero minutes in prison for Libby CONVICTED of twice as many crimes as Clinton impeached for. Speaking of Clinton, how many people did he pardon on his way out?? - Clinton pardoned several well-known people. The major difference is that they had COMPLETED THEIR JAIL TIME before being pardoned. The major exception was Mark Rich. Rich's defense lawyer personally went to Hillary Clinton and asked that she convince her husband to pardon Rich. Who was the lawyer that helped get him off? None other than Bush's buddy Scooter Libby.

“Hell of a job, Brownie”. So - just another example that Bush didn't know what he was talking about.

Not ONE thing in the original statement that wasn't a FACT. So facts are "moronic"?

"I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about (bin Laden)" - George W. ("I'm a uniter") Bush

Bien,

How much of American history do you know? You belong with Rucker from WV. Neither one of you are apparently capable of calculating facts and coming to a logical conclusion.
Without W., we never would have had a 9/11 attack. They would not have dared attack a country run by Al Gore, and thousands of young Americans would still be around today to counteract votes from excuses from citizens like you 2.

I agree with J. Rucker, WV ,and McGovern needs to find something better to do with his time.

All these people who drink their 5 dollar starbuck coffees, surf the news all day long an their companies dime and all they can write about is the terrible plight of our country. Spend some time in the high country of Jordan, or the valleys of Egypt. Then you will thank God for all you have. Get a life.

Matt

IMPEACH?

Do the nursing home bound by the name of Mr. McGovern know the word impeach?

I am greatful to this "idiot" president who wage a war on terrorism for this fanatical out of their mind blind follower of jihad. I till you my friend without this "idiot" president America will experienced another attack and setback this "idiot" president will emerge as one of the greatest president of all time mark my word.

Not only do they need to be impeached, but also tried for war crimes!

Not only do they need to be impeached, but also tried for war crimes.

How ridiculous! If President Bush was a democrat there would be no talk of impeachment. He has not lied, nor have they done anything worth impeaching anyone over. Look back at Clinton, the bulbous-nosed, car-salesman of a president who filthied the office by cheating on his wife, betrayed the country by handing over secrets to the chinese while that one asian guy took the fall, geee..... wake up America!
Stop calling good evil and evil good....

It has been time to impeach these two criminals for a long time. I just hope Congress has the guts to stand up for the rule of law and impeach these two.

Unfortunately, W and his Dick are too powerful to allow impeachment to happen, even though they are undoubtedly guilty of treasonous activitivities against the United States and deserve the proper punishments for their activities.
Thankfully, we have constitutional protections to prevent them from continuing their evil regime.

Obama/Edwards 08 for Change.

McGovern was the hand-picked candidate Nixon wanted to run against.

Muskie was comfortably ahead in all the polls and by precisely the same margins in all.

Enter clever Kenny Claussen, Deputy Communications Director at the White House, who, with Muskie stationery in hand, penned the Canuck Letter, which not only drove Muskie out of the presidential race but clean out of politics!

Nixon got the opponent he wanted.

Agreed 100% with McGovern. Probably too late to do much now, Unfortunately.

AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, NOW IN MY 50'S, I AM SO DISAPPOINTED WITH HOW OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM HAS BEEN BOUGHT BY CORPORAE WEASELS, WITH THEIR OWN AGENDA. WHOEVER GETS INTO THE WHITE HOUSE THIS TIME, WILL EITHER PLAY BALL, OR GET BOUGHT OUT BY THESE SAME WEASELS. WE NEED A SERIOUS UNITED EFFORT ON THE PART OF ALL AMERICANS, BY MEANS OF A WORK STOPPAGE, TO COLLAPSE THIS ECONOMY, AND RESTART OUR COUNTRY. UNFORTUNATELY, MOST ARE AFRAID OF LOSING WHAT SCRAPS THEY HAVE, UNKNOWINGLY LOSING THE REST OF IT TO THE WEASELS, LITTLE BY LITTLE.

I stand corrected, the correct link is http://www.worldcantwait.org

The well-spoken and talented actor, Mark Ruffalo, agrees with Senator McGovern wholeheartedly and asks people to consult http://www.worldcantwait.com on this youtube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9gLy8IReaU

For those attacking the character or service of Senator George McGovern and asking what he has done for America –
Honored Service as a bomber pilot pilot in WWII with over 20 missions over Nazi occupied Germany.
Honored service as a Senator for three terms from South Dakota.
Service to the world's underprivileged and hungry with prolonged service to the World Food Program.
These are just a few of the many accomplishments and services of the esteemed Senator. As a person who has heard him speak on a few occasions and had to opportunity to meet him, he is one of the most intelligent people I have ever met and has vision and an acute sharpness for a man of his years. I am honored to have met him and any that attack him with baseless nonsense really do not know who he is. Thank you Senator McGovern for your selfless service and continued voice for Americans.

National debt INCREASED 50%; Yes, it's never increased before during a time of war, or any other time for that matter.
Possibly the SEVEN largest deficits in U.S. history; Possibly?? Nice fact. See above also.
"Mission Accomplished" over 1,700 DAYS ago! We did topple Saddam's gov't.
"The Pet Goat" while hundreds died in American cities; Yes, he should have been reading Playboy instead........ that would have prevented a catastrophe already underway that could not be stopped.
4 days of misery on a bridge in a major U.S. city and the most powerful man in American can't take the time to make ONE CALL to the Pentagon to get help; State's job- what would the Pentagon have done here.
"Rumfeld will stay"; Your point?
"We've never been 'stay the course"; Again, your point?
Intelligence community blamed for Iraq and Tenet given our highest possible civilian award; Do you even know why he got the award? Our intelligence was not the only country that reached the same conclusions
Zero minutes in prison for Libby CONVICTED of twice as many crimes as Clinton impeached for. Speaking of Clinton, how many people did he pardon on his way out?? Many pundits agree that Libby did not deserve jail time.
“Hell of a job, Brownie”. So............
“Childrens do learn”. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman". At least this is not a lie.

I'm starting to wonder if there might be a country out there somewhere who would be willing to invade the U.S. in an effort to protect it's citizens from it's leaders and government???

The late President Ronald Reagan once said,

" Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We must fight for and protect our freedoms or we will be telling our children and grandchildren what it was like to truly be a free United States citizen."

Americans today are facing the greatest challenge that our forefathers dreaded 230 years ago. It is time to face the challenge again and voice our opinions before its too late.

For those of you bemoaning the fact that it's too late to do anything about impeachment –

On October 8, 1998, Henry Hyde introduced a resolution to the Judiciary Committee to authorize an investigation as to whether or not there were sufficient grounds to impeach the president.

The trial started on January 7, 1999.

The trial ended on February 12, 1999.

Take heart! We may still have time to salvage what is left of "Our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor"

But we'd better get busy.

Ya know the majority of us would LOVE to see Bush and Cheney impeached....me more than anything..I knew that we would regret the day we re-elected Bush.....the thing is though....all we are going to be doing is just wishing and praying that it happens....cause we all know it NEVER will....this is his last year people..THANK THE LORD!!!! so, we might as well just go on with what it is we are doing in our lives and just keep dreming it...cause that is all it will be is a dream. Hey we made it this far with the both of them in office...what is 11 more months...ya know..then we can be rid of those dumbos forever...and PRAY to GOD that the new president can even HOPE to fix the mess that these 2 doofeses have created!!!

Hey Ted from Riverhead. Glad you paused long enough in your backwoods toiling to come out to the road and give us all the benfit of your political insight. Your recent comments in this thread have been most enlightening, and they certainly move the political debate forward....NOT!! You should indeed be rightfully proud that you helped re-elect this disaster-in-charge and his vice-disaster. Numbskulls voting for numbskulls.

Now return to the woods, and your mash and still. You heard me! Git!!!!

To all people, especially J. regarding his comments regarding Guantanemo Bay that the prisoners are not American's; Do you realize that all of the countries of the world wer here before Ameica, with the exception of Austrailia, and who cares if another human being is American or not? With our diplomacy and respect we gained we can also lose it. Too many Americans think they are superior because they are American. Well I am an American and I belong to the planet Earth where all people are equal are equal, and all should be respected. The fact that America respects and has stood for this is what made them great, and if they stop respecting thhis it can make them fall! America is no the first country of the world, or empowered with being hte world's superpower for the rest of the world. Everything caqn change! Th emore arrogant Americans become, and the less caring about other countries, the more they will fall and be destroyed!

In response to: PHIL CYPRESS, TX,

By the level of intelligence, poor grammar and just nonsense you tried to write, I am led to believe that YOU are George Bush !!! Although it may seem you could be an iota smarter that Bush but you may have had help writing as he does.

"Richard in West Palm Beach Florida: An instrument has not yet been invented that can measure my indifference to your moronic ramblings………. or your intelligence."
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Please supply ANY information to dispute ONE FACT that I have offered.

President Bush and Mr, Dick should be in jail for fraud and crimes they committed . The soldiers that have died the families should have legal action agianst them.

God bless the troops they are the only ones with courage and honor.

The resons we went to Iraq were false and made up, The President is liable for those actions. "the buck stops with him" he should be personally liable.

The President and Dick the VP have done so much damage to this Country it will take 40 years to change.

He never did find Osma on his watch, so he failed the troops us and the people that died in 911.

he really believes that the U.S. is an Empire not a Country.

I don't know how you can sleep at night knowing you killed thousands of our troops and injured thousands more, not even counting the 100,000s of iraqes that have been killed or injured.

We need change, but not the same people. I diagree with some things Ron Paul says, but his Foreign Policy is right on

Congress voted for a war based on the fabrications the bush adminstration fed them and the american public. The president asked for the war to be approved based on false facts. It is his responsibility to ensure that those weapons of mass destruction were not only real but also iImminently ready to be depoloyed agaisnt the american people or our allies. This was not the case. Anyone who voted for the war based on the information we recieved from the president should not be held accountable.
The war on terrorism is the same as the war on drugs and our military resonse should be limited to the same. We do not hold people indefinatly because we think they might be selling a dime bag down the street.
In my opionion we have ultimatly lost to the terrorist based on the freedoms we have lost here at home. Even if we were to kill every single terrorist tomorrow we will still have lost based on this unfounded war and our lost freedom.

A whole generation of young people are growing up thinking this is the way the American government is supposed to be. Yes, we need to impeach Bush and Cheney if for no other reason than to illustrate what this country's morals really are.

What do you expect an alchoholic to do when you appoint him as president? Bush & Cheney have wrecked this country on everey facets of issues. Too sad! Americans need to wake and take action. These special interests gangs need to be held accountable for their crimes.

Richard in West Palm Beach Florida: An instrument has not yet been invented that can measure my indifference to your moronic ramblings.......... or your intelligence.

raquel, out of the gene pool

I concur with Mcgovern's comments on Bush and Chaney. These two idiots are an embarrassment to this country and an insult to the intelligence of every citizen of this country. Bush should have been impeached the day he lied to this country the reason he was invading Iraq. History will prove me right along with thousands of Democrats and disenchanged Republicans in this country.

I think everyone should have an opinion, that's what makes this country still great.
McGovern gives credibility and I aplaud his tenacity. Everyone should stop and read the constitution. Party has nothing to do with it, it is the responsibility of every delegate to do their job and impeach Bush & Cheney, or at least get the ball rolling on it.
Bob IL

First, impeach 'em. Then, send 'em up for war crimes.

Which country owns most weapons of mass destruction?
Which country have used the atomic bomb against an enemy?

Peace would be a good idea

To this debate:
Most of those opposing George McGowerns seems like all they can argument is his age! That is pathetic!

Before USA invaded Iraque 50 000 demonstrated against the invasion in Oslo. Oslo is a city of under 500 000. This large amount amount of people in the street have not been seen in Oslo since before the WW2.

For misleading the american people, for making the world more unsafe: please put the respnsible to trial.

Norwegian citizen

I think that McGovern is doing a good thing by Impeaching him because Bush has been in office to long. The longer he has been in there united states have never been so bad as it is now. also i agree with most of the people on here because he just makeing money for others and not for the state. Another thing i think the war has been going on to long and soldier dieing for nothing.

Hey, McGovern won his home state in 1972 & lost the other 49. If Gore could have at least achieved that in 2000, this topic would be moot.

"God bless America, and our wise and noble leader President Bush!!!"
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National debt INCREASED 50%;
Possibly the SEVEN largest deficits in U.S. history;
"Mission Accomplished" over 1,700 DAYS ago!
"The Pet Goat" while hundreds died in American cities;
4 days of misery on a bridge in a major U.S. city and the most powerful man in American can't take the time to make ONE CALL to the Pentagon to get help;
"Rumfeld will stay";
"We've never been 'stay the course";
Intelligence community blamed for Iraq and Tenet given our highest possible civilian award;
Zero minutes in prison for Libby CONVICTED of twice as many crimes as Clinton impeached for.
“Hell of a job, Brownie”.
“Childrens do learn”.

Argus said: "Notice that those who disagree with Sen. McGovern never make any effort to praise Bush or defend his policies. Instead, they fall back to the tried and true Republican slime machine tactic that refuses to address the issue, but attacks the messenger."

Absolutely right. In addition they all use the same rhetoric they learned from the sheep herders they get all of their information from. For a good example of blind, mindless regurgitation, see John's comment below:

"These enemies have clearly demonstrated by their actions and words they hate ideal of freedom on which our country stands. Remember these enemies willing spilled the blood of innocent Americans on and before 911……and most likely will again!"

Ted, I loved your comment on global warming catastrophe. What global warming? It's another political rhetoric that has blown up into a monster. Do some searching on the net. The only proof that warming is occurring unnaturally is a few computer models. I could create a model that would show a sneeze causing the earth and mars to swap places! The earth throughout time has changed climates, of which there is great scientific proof. We are arrogant to believe that our little selves could create such a catastrophe in such a short time. The earth will heal itself a long ways. I'm not saying ignore what we do, we should leave as little a footprint as possible, but politicians have blown all of this out of the water. I think the White House knows this, but only plays the politics game to appease the masses. Sickening.

Only ONE Presidential candidate supports impeachment: Dennis Kucinich.

None of the others have the guts to even mention it. NONE. Only Kucinich.

McGovern is still a loser. He is a bitter old man that can not get over the fact that America didn't want him.

There is something else to consider.

Although Bush and Cheney have committed criminal and treasonable acts bad enough to be sent to Leavenworth for the next 20 years, there may not be time enough to impeach them and remove them from office before they do more damage. However - and this is a very big point - history will remember Bush as THE WORST PRESIDENT ever to sit in the Oval Office.

One thing about history - people are remembered either far worse or far better than they were. Given the crimes committed by this administration, the attacks on the Constitution, the destruction of the Bill of Rights, the lies told to the American people - I have no doubt that history will remember Bush as the worst and I also have no doubt that history will not be kind to him.

200 years from now, when students are sitting in their classrooms learning about the early 21st century, about the major events that defined us as a nation, what will they learn? That Bush and company took what had up until then been our unalienable rights and ripped them to shreds? That they opened the door for the destruction of our Constitution republic to be replaced by a Patriot Act dictatorship? That every ideal that gave Americans their identity and standing and even national pride was destroyed bit by bit? That it was all done by the Bush administration who criminally committed acts that should have got them removed from office very early on but they were allowed to continue despite the protests of the American public?

WELL TOM >>>From NO... WHERE..maybe a large rock?

1> You answered the majority of questions with YES... ...
>Keep reading the articles .. you will pass someday!

2> Also Please note:
BUSH has successfully surpassed Saddam's KILL record ...!!.

** Be proud of your >>>boy...! there is less people like you ....everyday!

Disgusted!

Verily, none are so blind as those who will not see. Amazing, some of the shameful, ignorant comments against Senator McGovern (example: "draft dogging (sic) commie"). Though personally I don't believe in religion, let's have some Christian pity for these benighted souls. Imagine, with their limited mental capacities, the wretched lives these people must lead, where facts mean little and warped ideology is all.

"The two guys are the most dangerous world leaders today. They have done more damage to the world than any terrorist would hope to achive for hundred years.

How many lives have been lost in Irak only, and for nothing, only as a result of these criminal peoples orders (and not least young americans) based on total lies?

How much damage has this administraion contributed to the climate change catastrophy?

How much damage has this administration done to lower our opinion of America?"

To Anonymous in Europe: Right, none of the leaders in Iran, Venezuela, or Putin are dangerous at all. As for lives lost, they are American lives just like usual. The likes of you Europeans can't do anything, but you will be looking for a piece of the pie when this all works out in the end. Lastly, like we care about your opinion?? You will be the first to come running when a problem arises, despite your "opinion" of the US.

Good RICK I LIKED YOUR COMMENT..

There has been much worse U.S. president's that were not impeached...check out the history. This is promoting nothing but biased and blind hatred. Also, I thought the House impeachment of Clinton was unnecessary.

He's still in the wild blue yonder, I think.

I hope you american people will come to gether and make peace..for your own good and country.. Good Luck .. Hope to se peace soon... Mr Ken from norway..

I am sick of how the American people have suckered into the media and believe everything that they read or hear. The media is just as political as anyone in the White House or Congress people. They will only show or print what sells. After awhile, positivity does not sell, only the negative side. Wake Up! No one knows the whole story, only the people directly involved. That does not mean you. It's disgusting how much everybody rants that GB Jr. is only thinking about his pocketbook. BS. It's private contractors that are milking the government for everything it's worth. Wake up, maybe read a few books from both sides of the fence, and think for yourselves. You have allowed a partisan media corrupt any logical thought.

Rick2825

HOW MUCH FACTS DO YOU NEED friend?
I dont anderstand how you can stand by and se your country being abuesed..

Angela I agree with you, its time for tha American poeple to take back the country who the govermant its holding as a prisoner , they stole the country from YOU. TAKE IT BACK....

Facts please. It's funny how liberals like to complain about the evil Bush administration but never, ever, provide any facts to back up their claims. Anyone who thinks the Bush administration is oppressive clearly doesn't get out much. There are people in the world who live under serious oppression who would gladly trade their government for theso-called "oppression" of the Bush administration. The next time you liberals throw a pitty party for the poor oppressed Americans, make sure you invite a few North Korean peasants or maybe some Burmese monks.

TOM YOU ARE BRAINWASHED. do you really beleave your govermant and arprove the things they are doing to inesent people???? TOM shame on you, you should speek up for the little one big man

The purpose of impeachment is NOT to remove Bush and or Cheney from office because "we don't like them". The purpose of impeachment in this case is to clearly show our political servents that this level of imcompetence and dishonesty cannot be tolerated.

If we do not impeach (which means investigate to determine IF crimes have been commiteed)... If we do not impeach, then we say to future political servents that they can be this bad, behave in this way, and nobody will question them or stand in their way. We'll have no reason to expect government should ever work any better than this, and our democracy will be lost...

What amazes me... is the fact that people can sit at their computer chairs and criticise the politicians for being too weak or soft to do anything about Bush, when we as Americans should have stood up long, long, ago and fought for change.

Bush has made a mockery out of our country and our government and we as Americans have stood idly by and allowed it to happen. All the while, expecting the politicians to make the right choices for our country.

I may be too young to have been around during the days that people stood up for what was right and what they truly believed in, but I'm not too young to realize that the American people need to stop talking and start taking action. We can complain about the Bush administration all we want, but the fact is...we allowed it to happen. So maybe we should start turning the finger of blame to ourselves and than ask why in the world we would allow such an incompetent moron too run our country?

George McGovern was a coward and Quisling who wanted to surrender to the North Vietnamese and pull our troops out of South Vietnam w/o the release of our POWs. He said he would go to Hanoi and beg for their release on his knees. He also wanted to "reform" welfare in a way that would have made half the country elgible for welfare. He was a fool and idiot then, which is why every state except Mass. voted him down, and his own state threw him out of office. Perhaps he is just senile and wants attention, like a lot of washed-up public figures. In any event, the media shows their bias by giving him attention.
God bless America, and our wise and noble leader President Bush!!!

they did the 9/11 tho themselves, a carefull planed attack on there own people to get the support they need to go to war and they did it, the american people now this but dont seems to care about that, they are so sceared of the lies from the american govermant so nwbody have the guts to stand opp and say that america is taken over by some people who are making a lot of money with the bin laden grup. this people will do anything for oil and power and ofcourse worlddomination. I live in norway and se thing from another prospectiv.

A larger portion of the American people have asked for this for a longer period of time than the segment that wanted Bill Clinton impeached. There are major differences between lying about an affair with a consenting adult than lying about Iraq. The consequences were that Hillary & Chelsea were embarassed. Compare that to thousands of my brothers-in-arms being killed & maimed.

Who really cares about what McGovern has to say??? He is as much as a loser now as he was in 1972... Like President Bush and Mr Cheney said and did all of this on their own!!!! We live in a Democracy – the Senate, Congress, Intelligence, etc etc had a play in all these actions too – should we impeach of all of them too.... Let's exile all the citizens who agree with the actions... Remember since this War has started we have ZERO terrorist attacks on US soil..... Let's withdraw all the troops and then we can build metal detectors in every establishments and schools in the US... Then the companies that make metal detectors would be a great stock to purchase...

It is about time but why has it taken this long for someone of stature to speak out? Thousands of lives lost, ruined. Many in Congress and the Senate should be impeached for allowing these atrocities to go on for so long. As for Bush, Cheyney and Rice, they should be hung like Sadam.

We all know Rudy’s stance on books. When Ron Paul stood up to him and explained that 9/11 did not occur in a vacuum, but rather the attacks were a reaction to failed American policy, Giuliani (the mayor of New York on 9/11) was astonished. "I don't think I have ever heard that before and I have heard some pretty absurd explanations for September 11th." So like any respectable debater, Paul gave Rudy a reading list, which vindicated his argument. This list including the 9/11 Commission Report and a book by the former head of the CIA’s bin Laden Unit, Michael Scheuer. Unfortunately Paul doesn’t understand the mind of Rudy. The books he assigned were filled with big words, no pictures, and rational arguments – virtually assuring that the former mayor (during 9/11) would not look at them.

Given that Giuliani (who was mayor during 9/11) hasn’t dropped out of the race and apologized to the American public, one can only assume that he hasn’t been doing his reading. So I have a solution. Giuliani should see the new film, Charlie Wilson’s War. Though based on a book written for adults, the film contains few sentences, making it an apt choice for the former mayor.

The story follows Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson’s crusade to supply Afghani militants (mujahideen) in their fight against the Red Army. Almost a billion dollars of sniper rifles, bullets, machine guns, rocket launchers, antiaircraft guns, grenades, surface to air missiles, and an array of mines were given to these fanatics. The logistics and politics of Operation Cyclone is the topic of this film, adopted by Aaron Sorkin. Witty dialogue and outrageous characters make this a madcap adventure into the dark world of politics, complete with Mossad agents, strippers, and evangelicals.

While one can read about blowback and the devastating consequences of clandestine intervention, seeing the deeds done hits viscerally. It seems, as Bismarck said, that to retain our appetite for sausages and foreign policy, one ought not see them made. But this is what we want. Americans should be disgusted with the fact that we helped arm Muslim extremists – that their tax dollars were given to terrorists and murderers. What Charlie Wilson’s War does is unflinchingly expose the American people to the corruption and danger of our world-policing foreign policy.

Those familiar with Congressman Ron Paul and his philosophy of nonintervention will see Charlie Wilson as his antipode. Whereas Paul stresses staying out of the internal affairs of foreign nations, Wilson dedicates himself to the proposition that everything is the business of America. He, like Rudy Giuliani, clearly had never heard of blowback – the concept that our actions can have unforeseen implications.

In the polarized world of Wilson, there is only Good and Evil. At the time, Communist Russia was the Devil himself and had to be stopped at all costs…even if it meant sending weapons to bin Laden’s friends – the future Taliban. And while there was no explicit mention of bin Laden, there doesn’t need to be. Whether we armed bin Laden is irrelevant. The movie makes it clear that we allied ourselves with religious zealots, including Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (who is now listed as a terrorist). Even if we didn’t directly fund or train him, did we not support his cause? Were these rebels not labeled "freedom fighters"?

A powerful illustration of this flip-flopping comes when some powerful Congressman goes to the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan to chant, "God is Great" in Arabic. Imagine doing that today! And this is exactly what Ron Paul is decrying. He understands that the world is complex and changing, filled not with monoliths but nuance. He is too humble to profess to mete out perfect justice.

Eventually Wilson gets it. So does he seek to rectify the situation by eschewing future intervention? Nope. The solution is more money – this time to build schools and infrastructure. Afghanistan was to become the 51st state, for America to rule and westernize. If the medicine isn’t working, reasons Wilson, the only answer is a higher dosage

Contrast this view with that of Dr. Paul. Just as the Soviets of yesteryear were the boogeyman, today Islamofascism is. And just as some said we needed to accept totalitarianism at home to fight the Red Menace abroad, so too today do we have the neocons who sound the clarion call against the archaic notion of rights and liberty.

But Paul says we need to understand blowback. We need to understand our enemy if we ever hope to protect ourselves. Our war against the Soviets created unintended consequences. Who knows what the War on Terror will create. Unless there is a direct threat against America and the retribution is targeted and declared, all intervention must necessarily be deemed unwise and intrusive.

Far from an archaic relic, Ron Paul’s foreign policy of noninterventionism is the only viable one for the real world. Ron Paul is the only one sensible enough to understand that no council, Congress, or commander-in-chief can rule the world. How can a man like Giuliani, who reads only neoconservative tracts with titles like World War IV, be expected to understand much of anything?

Like Giuliani, Wilson snarkily demeans this philosophy when he responds that America’s inaction is a result of Congress’s "tradition." But there’s nothing wrong with a tradition of peace and obeying the Constitution. It’s the tradition Ron Paul wants to bring back.

What disturbs me the most, however, is the real Charlie Wilson. On CBS’s Sunday Morning, an interviewer asked him if had any regrets. He brazenly replied, "None. What’re you gonna regret?"

I’m not sure. Maybe it could be the arming of butchers and despots who killed thousands and paved the way to September 11th. Just a thought.

January 7, 2008

Max Raskin [send him mail] goes to high school in New Jersey. He was a summer fellow at the Mises Institute in 2007.

When did they open the crypt and let this guy out?

they are criminals who must be taken down by the law. it shudnt be a problem with all the evidents..

"Clinton had eight YEARS. Why did he leave the problem for Bush to solve? If Bush was supposed to prevent the attack with eight months of data, why couldn't Clinton do it with eight YEARS worth?"

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Clinton: 8 years of data
Bush : 8 years of data + 8 months

Complete respect towards McGovern. It takes courage to come up and say something like this. However, if he has the courage to say it, we need congress to have the courage to agree on this. These past 7 years have been completely barbaric. I live abroad, and it is 100 % true that many countries around the world look down upon us.

Should the United States still be considered such a superpower? The dollar decreasing, the national debt and the imminent occupation of Iran. The United States of America should be an example to the rest of the world. Well I should stop before the CIA ends up at my door.

McGovern Who?

I know he was the millionaire on Gilligan's Island that also did the McGoo cartoons.

Just what America needs another loser who wants 15 more minutes of fame. I guess we can expect Bill to be doing it next when Obama is President.

Bush and Cheney CRIME REPORT: >>for those of you keeping score:
Fraud with election results in Florida/Ohio
-Failure to heed intelligence that could have prevented 9/11
-Failure to lead a successful war campaign in Afghanistan
-Failure to capure Osama Bin Laden
-Defrauding the nation to declare war on Iraq
-Shady issuing of Halliburton contracts
-Coverup of past AWOL situation while in the Air National Guard
-Valerie Plame incident
-Firing of U.S. attorneys
-Illegal wiretapping and intelligence techniques
-Tacit endorsement of torture
-Holding captives without charges or trial at Guantanamo
-Criminal neglect of Hurricane Katrina crisis
-Fake news reports and staged press conferences
-Absolute refusal to cooperate with investigations into any of these misdeeds
- Assassination, execution and annillation of an innocent country
All of this, plus his abhorrent political positions, which are intolerant, warmongering, theocratic, and economically simpleminded and impractical.
What a disgusting, criminally corrupt adminstration! Not only should they be impeached one by one, they should be in jail!!

OK PEOPLE, ALL OF YOU IN FAVOR OF BEGINNING IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, PLEASE PLEASE DO MORE THAN LEAVE A COMMENT ON CNN. CALL AND WRITE YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND INSIST THAT THEY SUPPORT IMPEACHMENT.

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ONE OF THE FREEDOMS WE STILL HAVE LEFT (TO VOICE OUR OPINIONS TO OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES) AND DO SOMETHING TODAY!!! (YES, TODAY - NOT TOMORROW, NOT NEXT WEEK - DO IT TODAY - YOU WILL FEEL GOOD FOR HAVING PARTICIPATED IN YOUR GOVERNMENT AND STANDING UP FOR AMERICA, I PROMISE.)

Richard, West Palm Beach, FL 11:37 am

"Bush had 8 months to prevent 9/11 and miserably failed. He had EVERY BIT OF SPY INTELLIGENCE that Clinton had PLUS 8 MORE MONTHS OF DATA."

Hmmm. Eight months. Clinton had eight YEARS. Why did he leave the problem for Bush to solve? If Bush was supposed to prevent the attack with eight months of data, why couldn't Clinton do it with eight YEARS worth?

Because, the intelligence wasn't that good. Ask me why the defense intelligence budget decreased after 1992 to pre-1980 levels? Go ahead, ask me... I dare you. The overall intelligence budget dropped sharply after Clinton took office too... hmm... well, that MUST be Bush's fault.

Should Clinton be impleached for failing to do his sworn duty to protect this country? No. Should Bush be impeached for trying to do his sworn duty of protecting this country? No.

Let them stay and let them go down in history as two of the worst officials in US History. Impeachment takes the nations business and puts it on hold. We can not afford to be on hold.

To all of the people here who have any support to impeach the president, get off the blog and write a letter to your congress representative. If you do no tget a response then start writing again, visiting their office. Start demanding the rights you have as American people! Start demanding the changes you want. Too often people are busy going to amusement parks, filing their taxes, paying student loans, etc....... Start rising! Start exercising your rights! Befofre this topic ever came up I have written to several congress! No one respojnds! If I was in the states now, I would be doing what I am telling you to do! I am doing it from overseas!

To the person who asks about how Bush has lied to the American people? Read the book 'The Price of Loyalty', 'The Economic Hitman', the Downing Street Memos, Listen to Fireman Testimony of 911, ask about the destroyed tapes of firemen that the fires were under control, asl to see one video of the crash into the south tower showing that is clearly a commercial aircraft? Start investigating and start rising up!

No one should criticise any politician or speak until they have done their part and whatever they can!

Also I think many people are scared and now not afraid to speak up because the Bush term is ended, clearly, and before it may have been dangerous to speak up!

Now it is more safe! So speak up at the time it is safe! Rise together and take action now that it is safe!

You have a problem with timing. It would take more than 18 months to create any hearing and the current congress can't agree on anything to date. At the same time, the Clinton years offered just as much impeachable offenses and I didn't see anyone moving more agressively during that administration. Sounds more like sour grapes from an old Demo that wanted some press time.

I fully agree with Mr. McGovern and have advocated for it for at least 3 years. I am disheartened that current members of the House and Senate (with the exception of Mr. Wexler and a few others) don't want to bother; and/or, don 't think it's too much of a distraction in an election year. I don't buy it. If moral values are so important ( and they should be) as those on the right profess, they should support articles of impeachment irrespective of party affiliation, as the values embodied in our Constitution and Bill of Rights continue to be eroded. The precedent of not impeaching (accusing) is the most dangerous to our Republic, notwithstanding Speaker Pelosi's realization that without a filibuster or veto proof majority, the result of a trial in the Senate is in doubt. Additional high crimes and misdemeanors continue to mount; numerous articles of impeachment are warranted. Our founding fathers warned us when they said "if we can keep it".

George McGovern, once again, hits the nail right on the head. Bush and Cheney have raped the Constitution in the name of national security. Way too many people have blindly (and dumbly) gone along with the dictatorial desecration of all the freedoms President Bush claims to love. Senator McGovern - whether the right wing nuts want to admit it or not - is one of the most decent men to ever serve in the United States Senate. When someone of his quality of character calls for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney, every American should listen.

And for those of you who want to label McGovern as nothing more than a faded 60's radical, you might want to know that he served honorably and heroically as an Air Force pilot during World War II, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross. It's amazing how followers of a frat boy like George W. Bush who used his wealth and family connections to avoid military service are so willing to denegrate the patriotism of genuine war heroes like George McGovern. It's the same old right wing double standard. Even after seven years of corruption and violations of human rights and civil liberties, it's amazing that some people will bash a decent man like George McGovern in favor of the Bush line of b.s.

CNN is there a reason that you have had this as you ticker headline for the last two days.........You left-wing bias is sickening and more less you are using a old used up loser like McGovern to do your dirty work. Cnn you are pathetic.....

I totally agree with George McGovern. I have signed petitions for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney but wonder where they have gone. Upon receiving numerous telephone calls from Democratic contenders I have advised them that I will make a contribution when I see the candidate initiating impeachment proceedings.

I am praying for President Bush and Vice President Cheney. I am praying that they are impeached, removed from office, and held accountable for their war crimes.

Bush had 8 months to prevent 9/11 and miserably failed. He had EVERY BIT OF SPY INTELLIGENCE that Clinton had PLUS 8 MORE MONTHS OF DATA. Condi Rice had info on her desk about the danger and ignored it. Bush was so unconcerned, he took vacation for the month before 9/11 and never contacted George Tenet.

"grow -up" and stop fantasizing that the terrorists completed their activities and then did nothing for 8 months right before 9/11. You can bet they weren't on vacation like Bush. It's unlikely they spent their time reading "The Pet Goat" too.

The only intelligence Clinton was worried about was Cuba........... for it's cigars!! Yea, Condi had info on her desk that said "empty the WTC, here come some planes". Idiot. You probably think the batter that made the last out is the one who lost the game, right? It's a long process, and we know what Bill was doing, er I mean WHO Bill was doing. The first WTC bombing and USS Cole were not enough to wake up Bill and Al, so let's just blame W. instead.

The last eight years makes former President Clinton's impeachment look so silly. I wonder if there is a way to have an impeachment officially reversed?

>>>EXILE BUSH TO IRAQ!!

!! This would solve many problems and be …a .. low cost to the tax payer!!
I'm sure Iraq won't have any political patience …for Bush's war crimes…s and
he would be sentenced quickly, fairly and cheaply!!

AHHH …….THE SWEET TASTE of Democracy!!!
> Isn't that one of Bush's Quotes?<

Yes. Please Impeach them both. Now. It´s time Bush and Cheney are held accountable for their words and for their actions, which were clearly criminal, and much worse then Nixon, Clinton, or any presidential scandal in recent memory.

They almost brought America to a 1950´s McCarthy reality... replacing "communist" with "terrorist" and the US continues to hold "terror suspects" overseas without any right of attorney, trial, or due process. What kind of example is this to the world? If the US is allowed to torture suspects, then what will nations like North Korea, China, or Iran do to their prisoners? Thank you sir, for speaking out and being a true citizen. I hope Congress takes his appeal seriously and Impeaches Bush and Cheney in ´08. The US and the world would applaud justice finally being carried out against these criminals. Halliburton? Torture? Weapons of Mass Destruction? Afghanistan? Iraq? Guantanemo? Illegal surveillance? Hurricane Katrina response? The list goes on and on... and I believe George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are criminals, and I know that others believe the same. Impeach them in 2008!

Well put, McGovern. I agree, and not just because everyone else does either. Pres Bush and all of his men have literally "ruined' this country's economy, the little guy doesn';t stand a chance. The war was totally uncalled for and our poor troops and their families have suffered unneeded agony. Many of them have lost something they can never get back..... like their son or daughter. No other country has respect for the US anymore, and I agree they both need to be punished for the way they have lied to all of the American people.

It is about time, hopefully something will actually come from this, even though it is a little late to get much done. After they get them impeached, I would like to see trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Only then will the people of the world see justice being served.

This is 100% true! Impeach and arrest these 2 criminals for the sake of American History while we still have a chance. Bush and Cheney have made a mockery of the constitution and the reputation of America for financial gain, greed and hatred.
How could ANYONE support these 2 thugs? They BOTH belong behind bars! This should have been a top story only the "loyal" fellow republican will never see it this way... just like in the time of Hitler.

Amen. Vermont is the only state to cry impeachment for these war criminals. I don't think it is ever too late to tell the world that we can correct ourselves and I fear if we don't sent this message via impeachment and arrest, our greatness will be forever lost.

Oh yes, right-wing logic works! Just take a look at W - the picture of a logical man indeed - please. And Dick and Rove, logical men only if deviousness is logic.
The truth is that Congress approved the invasion because it was presented with false and fabricated "evidence". From the Downing Street Memo on down the evidence of the fabrication has only accumulated and it more than constitutes grounds for impeachment. If the administration wants to argue against this evidence, that is a matter for the Impeachment trial before the Senate.

"im sure everyone here knows it only takes a couple months to plan 9-11 right , thats why they keep saying it happened on bush's watch , grow -up a plan like that took years of planning, remember they trained pilots , that is not something that happens overnight, they infiltrated our country and had been here planning and training for years prior to the attack , this was not an " ok everyone in the car lets go kill americans" dont you dare blame Bush for the inaction of the democrats in office when the plan was hatched ,"
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Bush had 8 months to prevent 9/11 and miserably failed. He had EVERY BIT OF SPY INTELLIGENCE that Clinton had PLUS 8 MORE MONTHS OF DATA. Condi Rice had info on her desk about the danger and ignored it. Bush was so unconcerned, he took vacation for the month before 9/11 and never contacted George Tenet.

"grow -up" and stop fantasizing that the terrorists completed their activities and then did nothing for 8 months right before 9/11. You can bet they weren't on vacation like Bush. It's unlikely they spent their time reading "The Pet Goat" too.

Hold on. Are you sure you want to impeach them? Do not forget what the hypocritcal Bible-thumpers tend to do with their messiahs.

Geroge Bush and Dick Cheny would then be even more virulent than ever. A flesh AND mind eating bacteria we would never be rid of.

Instead, focus on how to repair the damage these two ghouls have done to our nation and the world. Focus on the election!

EXILE BUSH TO IRAQ!!

!! This would solve many problems and be ...a .. low cost to the tax payer!!
I'm sure Iraq won't have any political patience …for Bush's war crimes...s and
he would be sentenced quickly, fairly and cheaply!!

AHHH …….THE SWEET TASTE of Democracy!!!
> Isn't that one of Bush's Quotes?<

One candidate has suggested to invade Pakstan if he is the president. No wonder so many people in the world are hostile to American today.

If we are ready to the third world war , then let our troops invade Pakestan.

I can not believe McGovern's statement in reference to President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
McGovern has no respect for the President or Vice President.
McGovern has not had to face all of the terrible events President Bush and Vice President Cheney have had laid upon them while in office.
I think McGovern not making the Democratic ticket for President speaks for itself.

For you whackjobs – Congress voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq. Iraq failed to comply with numerous UN resolutions and the UN failed to respond. The US Congress reviewed intel and came to the conclusion – that Saddam Hussein had WMD. The same conclusion was reached by Putin, Great Britain, and other nations. Even Bill Clinton in his second term stated S. Hussein had these WMD. A lie is a statement in error in attempt to mislead. Was Bill Clinton lying about the WMD? Putin? T Blair?

I am sick and tired of these liberals and their ridiculous opinions.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say anything about the removal of a president for any type of action taken whatsoever. And if it does, then the Constitution must be destroyed.
Bush and Cheney have done absolutely nothing wrong during their entire tenures.
If you believe anything differently, then you belive that Bigfoot planned and orchestrated 9/11 while wearing an Elvis costume.
Anyone who even remotely disagrees with this president or his policies, or any action or statement of the Republican Party, belives that the moon landing was faked.
Moonbats!

Indisputable evidence has forced me to support this call for the impeachment of Bush & Cheney. While the possibility exists that Bush was ill advised, it is unbelieveably true that Cheney, with fine intelligence & passion, skilfully manipulated the office of the President, to commit these horrible & unjustifiable acts, which I am absolutely sure gave him extreme orgasmic satisfaction. It is very sad indeed to observe the systematic erosion of respect & honour of this great supercharged nation – The United States Of America. This nation was blessed with the ability to maintain world peace & order, but on the contrary, there was blatant abuse of it's military supremacy for very wrong & inhuman reasons. It is very ironic when Bush states his intent to bring the perpetrators of crime to justice, while him and his followers escapes the application of the national & international rule of law. What a shame.

Will all of you morons just stop complaining! who gave bush second terms? they were and are US!!! so wake up OK!!! we made the mistakes.. bush is just being a bush! he messed it up on his first term, and we LOVES HIM!!!

there are so many disagreement to their policies, but none of so called american express it out publicly! All we do just sit n complaints... typical american!!!

The two guys are the most dangerous world leaders today. They have done more damage to the world than any terrorist would hope to achive for hundred years.

How many lives have been lost in Irak only, and for nothing, only as a result of these criminal peoples orders (and not least young americans) based on total lies?

How much damage has this administraion contributed to the climate change catastrophy?

How much damage has this administration done to lower our opinion of America?

The answer by the way is NO ONE. Bill Clinton won with only 43% of the popular vote. Need I remind everyone of Ross Perot. The both parties are thinking that if you don't tote their line your aren't a good Dem. or Rep. Why do you think people blame Dem. losses on poor Ralph Nader. People voted for him because they didn't get what they wanted from either of the major parties. Can you all please think for yourselves!

this country will never be right if we don't start impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney. Future leaders must know that they cannot get away with ignoring the law. Impeach. Impeach. Impeach!!!

"a lack of courage and statesmanship on the part of too many Democratic politicians."

In reading some of these comments it is obvious the only impeachment is brought up is the 2000 election. Every time the vote was recounted Bush still had the majority. Thank God the Founders put the Electoral College in place so there would be clear winners (whinners). I blame that debacale on the Al Gore. If he had been a man an conceded defeat (like he was planning to) on election night this country would have been more united. But he got to a point of no return and had to ride it out to the bitter end. I ask this question. Who had a majority of the popular vote (for the country) in the '92 election? See if any of you can remember that far back as to who was running.

If it doesn't scare you that there are no impeachments proceeding started yet against the most corrupt President in the history of the United States....IT SHOULD. You should be really scared that the people who govern this country are either so inept or so blackmailed that they can't impeach the most "slam dunk"
guilty president in the history of the United States.

Forget all of the excuses about congress precious time, dividing the nation, he only has x months left in office and the rest of the BS excuses....We are talking about holding the guy with the highest office in the land accountable, for crimes against his own people.

Those kinds of things don't have "excuses", you just do it.

How could this possibly be? Is our government and system of checks and balances so broken that it won't even impeach a president whose impeachable offenses are already known and don't even need to be investigated....Offenses that he has admitted to on National Television?

Just the mere fact that no one seems to be able to even start the proceedings should have people wondering what is going on in Washington....Have you called your congressman or senator today? Have you told them you will vote against them if they don't support impeachment?

That is the only currency these people will listen to.....that and being recalled

bush is low down scum

bush is low down scum

If anyone should be impeached it is the American belief that somehow when we have a bad administration it's not "our" fault. Our democratic way of life put him there. He had no credentials other than his last name to be President. Our society allowed incompetence to lead us. Whether you voted for him or not isn't the issue. You have to accept that our system allows such people to assume power. I didn't vote for Bush or agree with him, but I am, as an American citizen in a democratic society also to be blamed for, Iraq, 9/11, Global Warming, illegal wire taping, torture etc. This is our fualt. When you accept living in a democracy you must also accept the fualts of your leaders as your own. If we ever once did that, we would be more careful and thoughtful who we elect.

I certainly agree with the constitutional issue here. You guys really should not dismiss Ron Paul ideas on this government – see, if we go with ANY of them (Obama, Romney, Clinton, McCain, Huckerbee etc..) we are simply propagating the myth of big government controlling our people and our lives. We don't need this war, we don't need this welfare state, we need sound economic policy and Ron Paul is the only one that speaks the truth and clearly has the true voice of change. His voice of change is to completely bring us back to what this country was founded on – life, liberty, and happiness under a fiscally sound constitutional government. None of these other "candidates" are about change. We need a real future for our country, and the only way its gonna happen, is to rethink our government and what it does. Ron Paul speaks the truth – forget these other people.

Scott said "They only seek to pad the pockets of the individuals that put them in power." I voted for them, where's my check?

The poor old fool!

McGovern's still alive? Wow!

You have to be kidding! GW will be long gone before Congress gets around to this – you're about 5 years late on this one...

>>WE ARE A GREAT COUNTRY! WHY CAN'T WE AGREE TO STOP BUSH AND
….SHOW THE WORLD OUR ABILITY TO DO WHATS RIGHT!

BUSH IS KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE TO COVER HIS MISTAKES!
BUSH WILL NEVER ADMIT HIS MISTAKES..MOST KILLERS DON'T!….WE WILL
HAVE TO "INCARCERATE" HIM AND ADMIT ..WE MADE THE MISTAKE OF

PLACING HIM INTO OFFICE!

WE OWE IT TO THE INNOCENT TO STOP THE KILLING …!!

Disgusted Army Vet > who laid is life on the line …for what ?

……. Bush is destroying everything we VETS sacrificed for!!

Many of the offenses committed by this administration are impeachable offenses, a few with precedent. However, I believe that there is also a case to be made that the complete failure to uphold and defend the constitution actually meets the standards of treason.

It leaves a nauseatingly empty feeling in the pit of my stomach to acknowledge that the American public will stand by and let this administration calmly walk into history without making them accountable for their sins – both criminal and moral.

If we still had a military draft as we had in the Vietnam era, Bush and Cheney would likely already be out the door, bodily removed from the White House by the largest number of outraged citizens ever to descend upon this nation's capital.

Draft or not, out beloved young men and women have been conscripted to fight the Afghani and Iraqi wars for private, economic reasons. History will ultimately demonstrate that as fact and no double-talking spin master will be able to put lipstick on that pig and win a beauty contest with it.

The sickening reality is that it doesn't matter what country on earth and its respective culture you inspect – human nature dictates that unless issues directly affect a person as an individual there is insufficient incentive to power a movement that results in a decisive, collective response.

Instead, apathy and sheep-like inaction ultimately prevails. Cheney and his pals know this basic truth all too well. All they have to do is hide behind their spin doctors and wait for the day they can slip out the back door to catch a private plane to Dubai for the "Mission Accomplished" party.

I can't believe the stuff I'm reading here! It is mainly a collection of unsubstantiated accusations, half-truths, and outright lies propogated by the media and repeated by ill-informed, uneducated people. If there are only "2 or 3 Bush/Cheney supporters" responding to this posting it's because we all have jobs and have much better things to do than whine and complain all the time.

I am so supprised to see the amount of disrespect given to President Bush and Vice President Cheney. I know that after September 11th attacks we went on a defensive and instead of being attacked now we are a more pro-active country. I know that all politicians have good and bad points but people lets wise up has our country been savagely attacked again in the manner of September 11th last time I checked we have not been. Sometimes it takes events horriffic as it may be to happen to our Country and our people to wise up and chart new courses so as to remain the greatest country on the face of the earth. As a citizen I am angry with job loss in my state of Ohio, I am angry with not being able to secure employment even with College edjucation and a Law Enforcement backround, however I choose to leave these things in God's hands as he can handle them better than I can. I challenge our Country to pray for our President and Vice President and the rest of the world leaders and for peace. We all seem to rush to judgement instead of taking care of our own when we make mistakes. Is Impeachment what we need I think not our men and women in battle don't need that hanging over their heads as they battle, and I gotta believe that our country does not neet another scandall or any further pain , people lets do what we as Americans do best when we are unhappy with our leader we elect a new one and give that person an opportunity to serve our best interests and the good of the common man. Thanks for listening lets support our country and our President and Vice President like good Americans and make changes through elections let us not continue to destroy the respect for both of those offices. Thanks God Bless

I voted for Bush two times and would vote a third if he could run again....

It really is ridiculous to impeach a president who engaged in sexual activity with a consenting adult and refuse to impeach a president who lied the country into a dreadful war. Frankly, I would like to see Bush and Cheney charged before the International Court at the HAGUE.

I have read most of the 836 comments but found a few (6/7) that is against the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. But will the wish of most of the peoples be reached on that point?

No wonder CNN has lost all of their viewers to FOX. Most of their viewers are as crazy as McGovern. The people knew he has a flake in 1972 and nothing has changed. I am not happy with Bush either but Impeachment would be a big waste of time and money just like it was with Clinton. Bush may be bad but Pelosi,Reid and the whole Congress are worse.

There is some evidence that Bush has a medical condition called "pre-senile dementia," which is essentially early onset Alzheimer's disease.

This would explain a lot.

Bush shouldn't have been president in the first place! Remember – Gore got the popular vote....Bush won soley because of Florida. Interesting how that worked since his bro is the Governor.

I love the idea of impeaching Bush, although it should have happened years ago. I know for myself, that as worthy as it sounds...I just do not have the energy to watch the country go through with it right now. I'd like to focus myself on the upcoming elections this year and figure out who is the best person for change. I think we all have Bush fatigue.

Come November, one way or another, the Death Star will collapse...and we'll all be able to turn over a new leaf and breath a sigh of relief. Hopefully that person will govern this country the exact opposite way it has been run for the last 7 years. There are only a few people I can see doing that – and they all happen to be Democrats.

I wanted to extend my deepest of sympathies to the entire American people who are the real victims here. The acts of both of these monsters should not go unpunished as their greed has only created seeds of hate and terror that will comeback to haunt the American people years to come!! This war was a sham from day one and the greatest tragedy was that these animals used the blood of American soldiers; men and women; to wash the filth off of their hands. They have exploited the strong patriotism of the American people; which is admired by the rest of world, to stuff their own pockets deep with wealth for generations to come. They aren't the ones that need to be held accountable either. Don't forget to add Tony Blair (lucky he got out in time) and Stephen Harper to the impeachment list!!

Good for McGovern for standing up and stating this. While I agree that immediate impeachment would be a START to what ought to be coming to them, I also feel that it may be too late to impeach them. Still, what they've done to this country is at best appalling, let alone embarassing.

We (the people) should impeach Congress as well. They are just as much to blame as Bush/ Cheney.

Not only do I agree that it is WAY PAST time to impeach both of them, but Bush should have been tried for manslaughter by neglect after the Katrina debacle.

Please "Move On" with your impeachment proceedings Dummycrats! The more you spew your hateful, nonsensical rhetoric the easier it is for moderate Americans to move away from illogical liberal ideas and policies. Call your representatives in the House to begin the impeachment process!

Finally a real Warrior(50 missions plus in the flying coffin B24) who never shunned away from fighting for his country talks straight about the chicken hawks who stole their way into political office. Instead of wasting our resources impeaching them perhaps it would be better to send their whole crew to the Haugue for War Crimes. Once they are convicted they can sit in Spandua prison for twenty years. Then once their settled in the home for wayward facsists. We can get our country back on track to live up to its creed and look out for what's good for all of us. We have gone from a country of the people for the people and by the people to one of, for the corporation, of the corporation and by the corporation. No values, no morals and especially no decency. The first monopoly to be busted up thoroughly is the media empires who mold opinion to satisfy these corporations. They have marginalized many of our cantidates and stolen the issues and kept the debate from taking on the real problems we are facing as a world and country.

How can we impeach Bush and Chaney without including the incumbent Republican legislators of the Senate and House whose gross actions enabled the pair to wreck this nation? Forget B&C (history will immortalize them as trash) and concentrate on getting every incumbent politician removed from Office ASAP. Then, we the people must hold the feet of the replacements to the fire never again entrusting our responsibility to govern ourselves to professional politicians. The Constitution needs amendment; laws require to be changed and people-proofed; and the Nation must never forget how we lost hold of our government to those who enriched themselves at our expense and our reputation. Remember that the Legislators who were part of this are now running for the President of the United States. Dare you allow Clinton, Obama, McCain ect. to gain power? My answer is NO!

Please "Move On" with impeachment proceedings far-left Dummycrats. The more you spew your hateful, nonsensical rhetoric the easier it will be for moderate Americans to reject liberal policies.

Well stated! Let's get it done!

I think its too late to charge them with impeachment. If it's possible i'd wait until they are out of office to bring any charges against them so they would have to spend their own money to defend themselves; thats what it'sall about isn't it MONEY. These two have so trampled the U. S. Constitution, and stretched the executive powers to the point where I will never vote for a Republican again. And that to me is a shame, since we need people who are willing to vote for a person, and not just a party.

im sure everyone here knows it only takes a couple months to plan 9-11 right , thats why they keep saying it happened on bush's watch , grow -up a plan like that took years of planning, remember they trained pilots , that is not something that happens overnight, they infiltrated our country and had been here planning and training for years prior to the attack , this was not an " ok everyone in the car lets go kill americans" dont you dare blame Bush for the inaction of the democrats in office when the plan was hatched , Clinton was warned about Osama but was to busy playing with cigars to care , and the (some)american people were so busy calling for impeachment they didn't notice , democratic congress has been in office a year and has done nothing, absolutly nothing, when the democrats dont get their E.I.C. on time this year they'll be calling to impeach congress too , how about an imagration bill, a health care bill that actully has something to do with healthcare,, how about anything , hell just vote on anything, i'll take a bill to ban paper clips as long as i know my Dollars arnt being wasted on salarys for in active congressmen on vacation in the Hamptons , yeah impeach our president and vice president, let Pelosi run american , from her beach house cause she sure hasn't been in washington lately!!!!!!!!!!!!

While I can't wait for these two to be gone, I remember the Clinton impeachment debacle and the destructive effects it had across America. So I dont favor impeachment. I would hope that we can begin to focus on the messes that both parties have created. There are far too mny pressing issues in our country going forward. We need for Our academic, business and government to begin getting us off the oil standard and develope alternative energy policies. Address our crumbling infrastructure and increase in violence in our society. Good ridence to Bush/Cheney and the Republican concept of loyal opposition, i.e. Obstructionism. Here is my new rule for congress to operate by, if you have a good idea bring it, debate it and make a good law from it, not the junk we have been getting for the last 70 years.

Something I find to be both revealing and vicariously embarassing is that the VERY few pro-Bush posters almost inevitably resort to 8th grade level name-calling (i.e. "liberal loonies") in place of making informed and convincing defenses of the non-elected President they claim to admire. Interesting too how many of their posts are rife with horrific grammar and mispelling of the same ilk The Decider has made his mainstay. And to those who harp "he has kept us safe since 9-11", please remember two crucial things.....Bush ignored warnings that summer from his top security advisors that Al Qaida had something BIG in the works, likely to take place IN the U.S......Bush's response was to take yet ANOTHER month long vacation at his pseudo-ranch in Crawford......also......there was an eight year gap between the first attack on the World Trade Center and the 9-11 attack...so the lack of an attack here since 9-11 can hardly be immediately credited to the Cheney/Bush regime who have damaged America far more deeply and more effectively than Bin Laden could have ever hoped to in his wildest dreams. They made their wealthy friends even more wildly wealthy while trashing America on almost every conceivable level, with deception and rigged elections central to their efforts. Impeach both NOW as a first step towards insuring that our country can never again be hijacked by power hungry greedy traitors.

McWho? The guy's name sounds like a government issue hamburger. Every once in a while you have the politician-turned-cantakerous-old-man who comes out and says something outrageous, and it's news for a couple of days.

Now it is almost time for their terms to be up and the call is out for impeachment. I think that all three, since they were leaders need to go to jail. I have always said this when it was unpopular. If they get away with all of the illegal things they have done, then an example will be set and others will do the same and site Bush and Chaney as their example because they will have gotten away with it. I truly believe in the Bible. Remember how Bush tried to run on his campaign on his belief in the Bible. He overlooked the part that said, "Blessed are the Peace Makers for they will be called Children of God." We know that he cares more about making his friends rich (over 100 American corporations are in Iraq making profits in the eleven digits figures, got this off the internet) than the lives of our young people. I truly believe that God's grace is off of America. The evil people are winning the battle between good and evil. We have lost our conscious because we called good bad and bad good. We are in the time when big corporations let people go who have worked with them for decades and call it down-sizing. We need prayer and more prayer. When we finish, we need to fast and pray more for the lives lost, for the poor and those who are suffering because of this administration.

Mr. McGovern said of Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, "They have lied to the American people time after time."

How has the president lied to the American people? What are the lies?

As far as I am concerned, Democrats are calling for impeachment to retaliate for Clinton's impeachment.

Why are focusing on this? What good is this going to do for our country if we impeach a president and vice president when the term is basically over with. The focus right now should be the potential presidential candidates. If Bush and Cheney were going to be impeached, it would have happened a long time ago anyway. I really think this is more out of true hate than anything else. Again, lets focus on who is going to be our next leader.

Dear Steve,

This country listens to "Old Fools" every day.

Damon,
You are a world-class hypocrite. First you tell us who don't support the imperialistic Bush doctrine to shut up, then in the very next sentence you tell us you, as a soldier, are fighting for free speech.
No you aren't, nor are most of our soldiers. You proved it in your own comment. I don't know exactly what you ARE fighting for, but it is most certainly NOT free speech or you wouldn't be telling dissenters to shut up.
BG
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." – Thomas Jefferson (maybe he should shut up, too)

They have not been held accountable for anything they have done. It is a mystery to me why they have gotten away with so much. In the past democratic presidents have been nailed to the wall for much less. I guess big money talks.

All of you call yourself Americans!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!! Have you forgotten what happend September 11th, 2001! Have you forgotten about the war in Afganastan! I think so!!! Be thankful that you live in a country where you can talk out about the government. Over there you will be killed for what you are saying. They don't have that right you have. My friends are in this war, I defend my country and so does my husband and to see what this McGovern wants to do and what you people have written about our President and Vice President......well is this not treason! Neither President Bush or Vice President Chaney should be impeached. And let me guess....all of you wanted Kerry to become President. Like that would have been better. I am scarred for this election. To see who will be come our next leader frightens me as a military member. But let that next leader take our troops out and you see what happens......you don't think we will get another attack. If that is so you all are blind. You are going to wish we had Bush or Chaney back in office. What they have done takes more courage to do than you can even think of. Not one of you that has spoken out against our President is a true American. If you don't like that policies that you are living under get out of my country! But as my duty....I still defend ignorant, cowards such as you people every day. Be Thankfull if you can!

Throwing arounds words like "impeachment" and the hope for removal from office does nothing but hurt this Republic. Ever since the 2000 election the Left has looked for ways to discredit and weaken this administration. I ask this question. What crime has been committed? The burden of proof is on the accusers. This is just as bad as the Right and what was done when Clinton was in office. This does nothing but weaken our country. Just because you don't like an elected offical does not mean we should resort to extraordinary means to remove them. Call it the "California Effect". Ever since they removed their governor, (Gray Davis) even though they had just elected him, beause they didn't like the way he was handling the budget.

I personallly do not believe that Bush won either election. I believe this was a conspiracy to place him in office. 911 simply played into his plans. The intelligent people in America, know that Iraq was not involved in any terrorist attack against the USA. They also know that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. The fact that they African-American males were forced to fight in a country where capital punishment was lynching, is an total insult to all African-Americans with a independent mind. Bush-Cheney administration betrayed and lied to the American people. Which is treason. They have murdered more innocent Iraqi people, women, children, etc. than we want to count. The number of brain damage and mentally unstable will amount to a form of Genocide. The fact that they will never have to answer for their action, give me very little confidence in my country constitution and as for the the rules of the Geneva Convention, well they spit on that. The bible says "you reap what you sow". They will answer to GOD. He can't be bought. Don't hide behind the troop, these misguided young men, don't hide behind the concept of patriotism. What Bush-Cheny did has nothing to with either. This is greed, arrogance, imperialism, and racism at is worst.

Laws have been broken and NO ONE should be above the law. Late or not, the law must be upheld and justice served.

As for some of the comments posted all that can be said is: How sad and a perfect example of how we got into such a mess in this country.

Instead of looking at the facts and evidence concerning this subject, the arrogant, willfully uninformed, intolerant, and small-minded public verbally attacks the character and family of the person with whom they disagree.

We as Americans must NOT be uninformed during the coming election. We must not allow orchestrated fear and twisted information to decide the outcome of the presidential election. We must not rely on any one network or news source for the truth – do research, be informed, otherwise we’ll be abetting and empowering the next tyrant.

These two will go down in history as brave men who stood up for freedom. Their legecy will be that they are not cowards. Not like the wimps we have in congress at this time. Democrats = cowards.

There are some pretty amusing posts by the right-wingers on this thread. To summarize some of their sentiments:

- George McGovern, a b-24 fighter pilot who flew 35 missions in WWII is a traitor and a hippie.
- The fact that so many people on this board cannot stand Bush is evidence of CNN.com’s liberal media bias.
- Anyone who disagrees with anything the U.S. government has done since 9/11 is a ‘60s radical.

I hope plenty of moderates are reading these paranoid, delusional right-wing rants. November can’t get here fast enough.

I totally agree with McGovern, however it is far too late. This country has been reduced from a model powerhouse to a laughing stock because of these morons. The said part is its not just those two but the idiots who support them.

I can't believe the Bush supporters that have nothing better to say other than calling McGovern stupid and crazy. Can any of these people actually articulate a real argument above the 3rd grade name calling? Perhaps this shows the intelligence level of the Bush supporters.

Back in '72, McGovern warned us that the Nixon administration was corrupt and was up to some serious skullduggery. Nixon was elected in a landslide. Regardless of what you think of his politics, his integrity is unquestionable. Personally, I don't want to start impeaching every president who is of a different political party than the majority of Congress.

Republicans in the nineties used the impeachment clause simply as a political ploy with no justification except Clinton's adulterous sex-play. Many of Clinton's Republican accusers probably discussed the impeachment proceedings with their own mistresses.

We've endured so much for so long from this absolutely incompetent administration that a few more months won't kill us.

As for all of you who love to ridicule McGovern and other "socialists" I have two comments:

1. You have no idea what socialism, communism, liberalism, and conservatism are. Read a book or buy some encyclopedias or something.

2. You were the same folks who were telling us four and eight years ago that Bush/Cheney were giants among men, with the hearts, brains, and guts to rescue America from all of its problems. Do you imagine that we're going to believe you now after you led us down the garden path twice already?

LOL!!

McGovern is as close to a traitor to this country there is!
how anyone can even print what he says is beyond belief! why cant he and Carter, who the American people told to go away by their lopsided losses, just shut up!

Bush and Cheney are great Americans! they protect us from terrorists and the enemies of this country, like the Left who are here!

Long live Bush! The left still cant accept the fact they are losers!

an impeachment proceding would have Clinton and Kerry as Defense witnesses for all of their anti-Iraq statements! LOL

the left is sooooo nuts!

Do any of these things sound familiar?

He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
• For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
• For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
• For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
• For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
• For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
• For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses.

For some they do ring clear. We went to war against another tyrant for these actions to gain our independence. How can we now stand by idly while this happens to our fellow humans?

The main reason for impeachment is to prevent future presidents from having a prescient in the wholesale trampling of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights by executive authority under the alledged "Patriot Act". The primary responsibility of the President of the United States is to uphold and protect the US Consitituion and the Bill of Rights against domestic enemies and if you don't think that facisism can't happen here your wrong. Impeachment would reestablish the balance of power between executive, legislative and judicial branches of the federal government and is needed before Bush/Cheney leave office.

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During the time of President Nixon- Watergate, Former George McGovern did covered up ad lies about Pres. Nixon and save his name and life and run to Russia and cried and comfort from Russia's First Secy that time and stayed with there for two weeks !!. That time at Demo. Convention at Watergate Hotel at Miami , Fla. Russia's First Secy was ready delivery $ 25,000,000 to help G. Mcgovern to win the President race for Democrat !!, delivery through to President Castro, Cuba to Watergate. Mc Govern should apolizied to President Nixon and his people of McGovern !!. He should be "unfaithful" history to America people !!. Do not make another mistake to impeach President Bush or Cheney from McGovern, Mc Govern is the one owe apolizie to every America people ever since what he had done by made greatest mistake to impeached against Pres. Nixon !!!!. Our great HERO goes to Pres Nixon history. Some body inside Democrats knew it by now.

I cannot believe that I am even wasting my time commenting on an idiot report such as this. Why won't the media concentrate on something worthwhile versus this waste of hot air.

Wake up and smell the roses America. Do something that is good for once rather than throw angry verbage between idiots on both sides.

god help us.

"I really loved Joe Biden's stopgap threat to the Bush administration: If you lay a finger on Iran, I'm going to impeach your sorry asses."

Do you suppose Biden actually said that, or did he plagiarize it from someone else?

Talk, talk, talk, . . . . . .

It will never happen. The great decider is a favorite among the great dumb of America who apparently just keep getting dumber. Most Americans have no concept of what the constitutionmeant should mean before both Bush and Cheney usurped the amendments, bypassed the bill of rights, and simply ignored the instrument our country should live by. While it is true that the president usually picks friends and cronies for his staff it is NOT true that he and Cheney should enrich thier friends from the office. Makes me wish I worked for Haliburton!
I had a chuckle when Bush touted the fact? that he is a Christian and then lied, lied, lied . . . about everything? I personally think Christianity is a great idea, whenever people like Bush and Cheney start it.

McGovern says “…barbaric policies…”

What about?…Twin Towers, the Pentagon, people getting their heads sliced off on prime time TV, unnecessary mass suicide bombings, also the nation’s cities being constantly threatened, etc....

Impeachment at this time is NOT WORTH IT. TIME TO GO FORWARD.

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McGovern was a loser thirty years ago...still a loser....typical Democrat....always throwing mud....will they...will politicians in general ever learn...the average american is disgusted with all this mud slinging...grow up folks....your mud is from the pig pen.

Never happen, but it should.

I agree whole-heartedly with McGovern on this. I believe Bush should have been impeached shortly after him being voted into office for another term. He has reduced the United States to such a low I am really embarrassed to say that I am a born and raised U.S. citizen! Out with Bush, in with a DEMOCRAT! As the saying goes, "I'm too poor to vote republican!" It seems that almost everytime a republican is in office, they run the U.S. into the ground and then a democrat has to come in and clean up all the republican's mess. Let's get Bush out of office asap!

I fail to see the significance of this loosers comments. Perhaps he should join up with Carter and start a movement. This country should not be running a world wide popularity contest. The Governments job is to protect its current citizens and future generations regardless of world opinion.

Impeach Bush and Cheney? I think they should be tried for treason. They did everything humanly possible to destroy this nation at its very core.

Actually, it's to late to impeach either Bush or Cheney let alone both of them. Even it the US House of Representatives actually decided to do it'd Constituitional duty and impeach either of these gentleman. The US Senate would never have enogh time to hold an impeachment trial prior to their leaving office. And I think it is safe to say, neither would see fit to resign, facing impeachment for the good of the nation.

Congress impeached Nixon, because Nixon tried to coverup something that he was not even personally involved in, nor did he have personal knowledge of at the time of occurance.

Congress impeached Clinton, because Clinton attempted to not admit he had an extramartial affair. Something that if you are in any way familiar with the antics of American Presidents is not unheard of in American history nor until now something that decried public attention.

Congress has failed to impeach either Bush or Cheney, despite the numerous violations of the United States Consitution they have been involved in, the violations of Treaties, international laws, the selective enforcement of federal laws and in other circumstances the out and out blatant disregard to federal laws. They have lied to Congress, the America people and represented information in a matter as to support their personnal adgenda's regardless as to the actual facts. They have committed more impeachable actions than the past 10 administrations combined.

Curretly, the only thing that impeachment would achieve is giving back to the American people a government that was capable of maintaining the checks and balances that our founding fathers put into place.

Jen –

Maybe Pelosi wouldn't be a good President, maybe she would, but we'd only have to put up with her one way or another for about 6-8 months. And at least the Democrats seem to at least listen to the pulse of the nation. Bush ignores it completely, unless you have at least $150 Million in the bank.

I live in New Orleans. Bush's actions following the storm should not only be impeachable but criminal.People lost their lives here due to poor preparation and ignorance by his top level management("Heckava job Brownie"). He should answer for that. It's still a mess down here. His mishandling of the war (whether one agrees or not with it's justification) also cost lives and misery. He stole an election,gave huge no-bid contracts to Haliburton, allowed security firms like Blackwater USA to operate unfettered. sabotaged the EPA, and ridiculed Global Warming. It goes on and on.G.M. gives a reasoned voice in response to the insult of the Bush/Cheney admin.

This guy is nuts. Lying to the America people is not a crime against the Constitution. Starting a war with bad information is not a crime and until the Courts decide if the wire tapping is a crime, they broke no US laws. Holding people in Cuba, again is not a crime, they are not US citizens. Again, until the courts rule no laws have been broken. If they rule against the Administration and he still does it, then yes he broke laws, but until they can prove it, it is not going to happen.

Besides what does it matter, it would take months to impeach him and they he would have to go before the Senate for trial before he could be removed from office. There is no time for this, he is a lame duck. I only hope the next present is not as stupid.

Good morning everyone.

I guess most of you are all to young to rmember why George McGovern wasn't
elected into office ??

He and his group were full of lies and misdoings. He was so "dirty" his own party refussed to get behind him.

This is the pot calling the kettle black....do your own research for those on this sight that are to young to remember............

I can honestly say that Bush didn't receive my vote. There are numerous republicans who believe Bush is doing a good job, to me that is very disturbing.You elect and idiot and he is going to act like and idiot.Lets don't forget about the rest of the republicans in congress who stood by there leader and ran our country down. The fact that bush and Cheney are still in office tells you something about whats going on in Washington.

To John B in Dallas Texas regarding your coment – I don't care what our "image" is to the rest of the world. The rest of the world has never liked America, anyway.

This is why Bush has gotten away with so much, and attitudes like yours are the reason the rest of the world do not like us.

I have lived outside of the US for 7 years, in a Muslim country, also traveling frequently around Europe for my work. I openly and freely say I am American and a Christian. I can instantly think of 50 Muslim people I know that would give their life yo defend me, and I am loved by all people I meet and do business with, Arab and Europen.

People around the world love Americans, but they don't like Bush or American's like you, and neither do I !!!!!!

That's All!

Whether you think McGovern is just saying what most people in this country feel, or if you think he's an irrelevant relic of a bygone era, one thing is undeniable by anyone with a brainstem.

Bush and Cheney HAVE broken numerous laws. They have bullied unconstitutional laws thru the legislature, and at every turn have done whatever they can to halt any programs to make this country better within our own borders (and I'm not talking about "border security") I'm talking about education, social security, health care reform (whether you think socialized medicine is the answer or not, there is no dispute the system is broken).

Let's look at the facts:

NCLB – Broken

Valerie Plame – Outed by a member of this administration – no real action taken

The surplus at the beginning of Bush's administration has been turned into a record deficit that even Reagan would have thought was screwed up.

The credibility of the United States has been ruined around the globe.

Thousands dead in a war that has nothing to do with "Keeping America Safe" and the War on Terror. Before we invaded, there was no Al Quaeda in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein considered Osama binLaden an enemy, not an ally.

No real effort has been put into trying to locate Osama binLaden in several years. We found Saddam in a matter of weeks. How is it that bin Laden has eluded "the most powerful country in the world"?

NUMEROUS fourth amendment violations (warrantless wiretapping). FISA provides for retroative warrants, but Bush still refused to follow the law.

Need I say more?

Amen, Amen and Amen again.

Circumstamces tell me that the 9-11 attack was set up somehow between
the admnistration and the Saudi Arabian Government. It happened just
a few months after they took over the office. They have always been good
friends in the oil business. Is it not strange that all but one of the terrorist
in that attack came frim Saudi Arabia ?

This was done just for the purpose of gathering reasons for invading
Iraq, not for the sake of democrocy but to gain control over the oil out put
in that country. That is why Halburton got the blank check for theur work.
Dick Cheney helped Harburton in the first Gulf war and then became CEO
of the company prior to his term as Vice President. He call all of the shots
through George Bush and never anything in writing. He stated recently
in Lansing Michigan that If you do not put anythin in writing then it cannot come back to get you in trouble.

He knew all of the angles and how to cover his tracks.

Robert D. McPhee

Sign me up! You can all say how bad it would be for the country, but just IMAGINE. 1 more year of Bush... This man needs to go.

to all of you who say our country was loved and respected prior to bush , i say sept .11 , they loved us so much they killed almost 4000 of us , we were so respected they flew planes into our buildings houseing your families and mine , but they respected us in the morning , wake up people , Bush is the only reason more civilians have not died , our military dies for our civilians and are proud to do so , to say anything else is a slap in the face to the men and women fighting to keep your family safe, if you dont like bush fine you shouldn't have elected him twice , you had a chance to vote remember he was not appointed , keep in mind in this war so called failure , we have not lost a single life to terror on American soil since 9-11 , less soilders have died in the last 5 years of war than civilians who died 9-11 , we stopped a brutal dictator who was harboring terror, commiting genocide, torture,rape, chemical warfare on his own people, true it escalated but i'm sure your not going to blame Bush for the actions of radical islam, so we fight them there instead of hear where your children can be blown up on the school bus this morning like in iraq , all this crying for peace, love, impeachment, bla-bla reminds me of another group of libirals from the 60's and 70's we called them hippies, they smoked pot,tripped acid and called for the impeachment of JFK remember them , make love not war !! i remember they spit on our returning troops , what you liberals do now is the exact same thing so support our troops,,our president ,fight terror, stay strong , so what if arabs hate us , as long as they fear us !!!!!!!!

Should have gotten rid of these fools years ago. The real shame is that Congress didn't stop the invasion of Iraq back in 2003. Using the American military machine to settle a personal score w Hussein should NEVER have happened. If we had gone into Afghanistan w shock and awe, we probably would have taken out Osama and most of his pals. Instead, Bush couldn't spare the resources due to his planned invasion of Iraq, and we went int Afghanistan w a rinky-dink force. The soldiers did a great job, but they lacked the manpower to really take care of business. Now, Afghanistan is a mess, and the Taliban is resurgent, and we never got Osama, or Mullah Omar. Terrific. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld should all be tried for Treason.

I think McGovern is right on. If the president and vice president are impeached the world may once again respect the United States. Everything he said seems to be true.

I agree with McGovern. How can we get our representatives in government to proceed with these actions? Let's get the people's voices heard and acted upon. Do something.

It is a huge mistake for Dems to go this direction. Concentrate on making sure we elect the right candidate rather then raise this issue for the GOP and FOX NOTNEWS to rally around. After they leave office there will be plenty of time to investigate and bring charges if any are warranted. Unless of course Bush blanket pardon’s the whole administration.

I think it's troubling that these so called "millions of Americans" believe this impeachment nonsense. If there's your so called millions, why wasn't Bush defeated at the polls? I find the posts of these impeachment people to be low in intelligence. What is really going to happen is when you elect a true idiot, Barak Hussein Obama, and then when you go to the shopping mall, you get your legs blown off in a terrorist attack, you'll wish Bush and Cheney were still there to protect you.

Don't think it can't or won't happen. Be carefull what you wish for.

Finally, it is long past due. These two "leaders" of ours have seriously tarnished the American image and, in my opinion, have let our country fall from its former greatness. Bush and Cheney managed to spend our money on war, a bad war at that, and neglected our education, our healthcare, and our economy. Its time for them go, we shouldn't have to wait for the next election for that to happen.

Bryan said:

"Thomas Jefferson once stated that the elected official that speak out about the troops and try to undermine them in time of war was a treasonous act. "

I can't find any quote from Jeferson that makes that claim, you want to enlighten the readers and I with the actual quote?

Here are two that I did find...

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. "

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. "

The real story here will be what Nancy and Harry say about McGoven's comments.

I think it is noy only the congress, senate, nor the republicans or democrats, but also the people. You and me!

How many people have put pressure on their congressman to start the impeachment process and asked for an investigation into many things you want answers for?

Me myself have written to several congressmen and senators demanding the president is impeached. and for investigations into many things people around the world are questioning. The only one who responded is Hillary Clinton, and I heard that she actually reads her mail and considers the views and ideas of people who write to her. Seems to be true, because she responded to me.

The squeaky wheel gets oiled, so if the congress, senate, democrats or republicans or whoever are not acting, and have failed, how many people here on this blog have written to their congressmen or started putting pressure on them?

And if you want someone in office that is not afraid to stand up and take action, then don't look to Obama. He is nothing but a good motivational speaker, and only good for talk. If you want a candidate who is not afraid to take action and will listen to your views, then look to their senate records regarding speeches and voting records.

But I am doing my part from here by writing to congress and the senate.

I will NEVER vote Republican again.

My income has suffered, my business has suffered, and my family has suffered.

My elder parents are now suffering thanks to their new and 'improved' Medicare. The only things the new Medicare did was put money into the pockets of companies, and provide piss poor service.

The Iowa caucuses and most likely the NH primary are a complete reflection of how this country feels about Bush and Cheney. The American people want fresh faces, not corrupted by the political machine in Washington. All they (Bush/Cheney) care about is lining their pockets with money from political interest groups. Bush is so despised that his negativity may have even crossed party lines and thus Hilary Clinton is being affected in the polls. People just don't believe in politicians who have been in Washington for this long. They have been corrupted and are basically worthless to the real interests if the American people. The most obvious example is the auto industry, already in shambles. Does anyone out there think that more fuel efficient vehicles are not already in existence?? But that spells trouble for the oil companies who line W's pockets – so he is obviously more concerned about sprucing up his Texas ranch than helping to save the world's environment from its #1 polluter – the United States. That in itself is a crime and unfortuantely I don't see any long time politician who has been exposed to these powerful lobby groups, making any major changes. Thus – its time for new blood in Washington. Personally, I'm not sure if it should be a Republican or Democrat...just new blood and fresh faces!

YES to impeachment!!!!!!!

I've grown to be less supportive of the Bush administration .... but come on, we should care with what George McGovern thinks because of what?

Poor old George seems to have a short term memory problem. The accusations of lies, etc, are false and mean spirited. Perhaps he should offer actual examples (but then he doesn't because they simply don't exist). It's getting a little tiring hearing the same old lies about Bush. I think George is just bitter about losing so hugely years ago.

McGovern, you are on to something that I have been saying since the beginning. Time to reve it up and charge Bush and his entire cabinet with CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. HE IS A MURDERER. WE LOOK LIKE FOOLS BEFORE ALL OF OUR ALLIES AND EVERYTIME SOME COUNTRY DON'T JUMP TO HIS WHIMES HE'S DEGRADING THEM BEFORE THE WORLD. CALLING CHINA, COMMUNIST, CALL FRANCE, ANY MERIAD OF NAMES.

We have lost our respect and integrity around the world, in case Slavery or Racism, or Poverty and Medical Insurance fiascos in America didn't do it.

To even add insult to Injury you got at 38% homelesse rate in St. Louis, MO and 28% are our Military.

Jail Hillary Clinton

Thi guy should be ignored. Bot the Bush haters love him

It is amusing to me how those who less than a decade ago were not really sure what constituted and impeachable offense have suddenly decided they know exactly what it is – they just can't state it with any specificity. McGovern's claim that Bush and Cheney, " have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time" is an amusing notion of what constitutes an impeachable offense. What laws have they transgressed? Better yet, since when is lying to the American people time after time an impeachable offense? If that's the case, then isn't every President who ever broke a promise guilty?

McGovern is nothing but a bitter old man who still thinks the only reason he lost to Nixon was Watergate; if anything, Watergate cut down Nixon's margin of victory.

YESSS!!!

POLITICAL STRATEGIES

i follow the primary in iowa and new hampshire, all i can say is that the republican voters are cheaters. they pretend to be indepedant and vote for Obama because they think it's going to be easier for the republican party to win the general elections in january 09 is Obama wins the primary for the democratic party. All of them Clinton would be a strong rival for them and that's why the republican now are trying to push Obama toward winning the primary.

they are cheaters

Who doesn't think the Iraq invasion/occupation was poorly justified, planned and executed. OK.... it was botched! BUT.... we can't just walk out and create a genocide. Clinton went into Bosnia to prevent further genocide. We walked out on SE Asia and Cambodia created a genocide which won an Oscar. Only the Democrats could look past there self proclaimed human/women's rights interests in exchange for a political gain (Bush loses the Iraq war).

Post 911, is this country did not learn that we have to be premptive in finding and killing the terrorists, then we have learned nothing. I for one want my phone, mail, email, travel, banking, etc etc etc monitored LOOKING OUT FOR TERRORIST ACTIVITY.

Please Federal, State, County, Local governments protect my family from the people who want to fly them into skyscrapers turning them into flaming bits of human flesh!!!

Get a grip liberal Democrats. Take your legislative frustration out in some other form. You are so fixated on Bush & Cheney, your foaming at the mouth (just like you accused the Republicans of when they were fixated with Dick Clinton.)

I know numerous people that would vote for the impeachment of the president and the vice president. I believe that Bush is a murderer and he knows exactly what he is doing. He isn't sending his kids over there to be killed is he?

I certainly agree with this honorable man. This not a political item. This is about morals and national security. These men are traitors.

Bush and Cheney are honorable men. Men who stand by their word. America is not ONLY hated around the world America is LOVED around the world as well.

Liberation of Iraq was the right thing. Not expecting terrorists to infiltrate the peaceful communities in Iraq to stage attcks against Soldiers was a mistake. In response the surge was the right thing.

In my opinion ANY method needed to get information from terrorists regarding attacks against Americans and any other human beings should not only be authorized, but encouraged. It's unbelievable that people can stand back after an atttack and wonder how the intelligence community didn't know it was going to happen. At the same time when the intelligence community uses "creativity" to get information which leads to the prevention of an attack, then those same people will say "that is hurtful to them".

The only assurance remaining when Bush and Cheney leave office (honorably) in 2008 is my hope that the American people will put a team in office that will have a similar thought process. Like Hillary and Obama...

... that's some reverse psychology:)

it is, in fact, sad that it takes some politicians almost 8 years to figure out that W and Dick are disgrace to the humanity, and not only a shame to the american people. i agree with the previous comment – impeachment is not enough. these men should face the adequate punishment for the crimes they've committed.

825 comments and almost all of them (except those, which are anti -McGovern) pro-impeachment. We have to do it and ASAP, otherwise these war criminals would be retiring with the benefits and too much money to handle and no responsibility for what they had done to the world.

George McGovern is just another example of a clueless liberal. How America is viewed in the eyes of the rest of the world is irrelevant when compared to the dangers the entire world faces from murderous islamic extremists. His attitudes have always bordered on and possibly crossed the line of treason.

Ross wrote on January 7, 2008 8:43 am ET
"I Think Cheney should run for president, He would beat the rest of the WIMPS running"

I think you need to read up more on Cheney. He has been elected ONLY ONCE in his life (for a congressional seat from Wyoming early in his life). He has been appointed to all other positions he has held since. He knows very well that he cannot win which is why he is not running. He is the WIMP !

It's about time. I agree with the whole "superficial partisanship" idea. The republicans need to take their blinders off and see what their leaders are really up to. The democrats need to discover their "intestinal fortitude" and stand up to this administration. It seems that all too often in politics, people are too concerned with the near future (their immediate political careers) and ignore the big picture. If we don't send a message to politicians in general that the kind of behavior that the Bush administration has been getting away with under the guise of protecting Americans from terrorists is wrong, things will continue on their downward spiral toward dictatorship and Big Brother being over everyone's shoulder.

Once the U.S. is done with them, let's turn them over to the international war crimes tribunal. I'm sure that the rest of the world would like to see justice served too.

George is so right !! What has happened to America? When did everyone become so afraid of demanding that our leaders follow the rules? When everything became about power and money, instead of right or wrong. When the rich decided everything for everybody. It has become a money war and those that don't have the cash, don't have the power.

When someone of the stature and statesmanship of Senator McGovern stands up and selflessly points out what is clearly obvious to the rest of the world–action is mandatory. Bravo Senator.
If treason by the executive branch weren't enough, a much more pressing question exists. What happened to all of the checks and balances that supposedly exist to prevent disproportionate and unacceptable conditions from occurring?
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The king of liberals speaks out! He and Jimmy Carter are so irrelevant most people don't even know who they are. Let the people speak through elections, they will do that soon anyway.

To all of YOU who criticize and weigh in on McGovern's ridiculous comments and charges against President Bush: YOU are the very citizens President Bush pledged to lead and protect against further terrorism to maintain YOUR FREEDOM. He has been true to his word, has not faltered one time in his decision, and this country has remained safe and free. Whether you accept his success or not, YOU have been part of his responsibility. Although you are in no way patriot citizens who support their President in good times and bad, you have reaped the benefits of this country's efforts to maintain peace and establish Democracy throughout the Mideast. Only good and positive benefits will come from President Bush's efforts, for he has not flinched at the challenge. YOU, who criticize the President of this Nation most harshly, should spend more time reading, learning, reflecting and understanding history than writing unkind, untrue, and hateful comments about the very man who has kept you safe and free since 9/11. When President Bush laid his hand on The Bible and chose to protect this country and abide by the Constitution, perhaps he should have made his pledge ONLY to those persons who pledged to stand and support him. Where would you hatefilled commentators be at this point, if this were so? Only History will dictate President Bush's success or failure, and he will surely be known as one of the Greatest Presidents of this century. Too bad that YOU do not understand world affairs as exist or what his efforts will produce for future generations of Americans, as well as for foreign governments abroad. President Bush is a brilliant man, as seen through his accomplishments, and YOU have only shown to the World your personal level of ignorance in your comments, to which YOU proudly sign your name.

I also find it amazing that there are idiots in this country that still support Bush and think he is right? I thought Bush was the country's biggest moron, but after reading these comments, I find there are bigger morons, the ones who blindly follow him.

As impossible as this seems, George McGovern is even more off-base than he was in 1972 when the Ameican people rejected his politics in record-breaking numbers. His opinions are inconsequential.

Impeach Bush and Cheney now and send a message to the new Presidential candidates that the American people are fed up with crooked elitist politics. Let us show that "we the people" are taking back the direction of America. Clinton, Obama and Edwards all talk about "change" during this election. Well this will demonstrate that we want and EXPECT great change and that if they do not do right by the nation, then the people will act. No more of this pull a 4-8 year term, open our borders to whomever, sell military contracts to your friends, invade a country sacrificing the lives of so many young Americans and foreign civilians, run a country so poorly that thousands of Americans are foreclosing on their own American dream, cannot afford to buy gas or heat their homes. Under George Bush's leadership, America has been in an abusive relationship, and like in an abused home, we're afraid to get out. Well let today be the day we say no more. Republicans, Democrats and Independents UNITE! We won't take it anymore and we won't take it from the new president either. Do right by the people or your out!

It will be a great day when Bush is out of office and Al Qaida starts attacking American interests around the globe again, much like they did for the ten years prior to 911. Then because they are ignored they will continually get worse until they pull off another 911 or probably worse, something that crushes our economy and effects ever single American. It amazing nothing has happened since the start of this ugly war but you cannot deny the fact that it hasn't and is most certainly because of the war. So just wait until the days that this war is all over and you can feel safe at home with your family knowing this tyrant is out of office, that is what you should fear the most, because that's when an attack is most likely.

It's high time more of our Nations retired leaders stand up for our Republic and call on our Congressional leaders to do their Constitutional duty, unfortunately I believe it's very likely that an investigation would bring the back door politics to light and implicate themselves as co-conspirators against our rule of law, thus impeaching themsleves. There's no other GOOD reason as too why they continually refuse to start an investigation. My long standing Senator and newly elected Congressman will not receive my upcoming vote. They are not being vocal enough, so they're not doing their job, time for them to leave.

when congress and the senate get past rational comments should they not be retired? I believe 80 is a bit old for any office

>>BUSH 43 IS KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE TO COVER HIS MISTAKES!
WE ARE A GREAT COUNTRY! WHY CAN'T WE AGREE TO STOP BUSH AND
....SHOW THE WORLD OUR ABILITY TO DO WHATS RIGHT!

BUSH WILL NEVER ADMIT HIS MISTAKES..MOST KILLERS DON'T!....WE WILL
HAVE TO "INCARCERATE" HIM AND ADMIT ..WE MADE THE MISTAKE OF

PLACING HIM INTO OFFICE!

WE OWE IT TO THE INNOCENT TO STOP THE KILLING …!!

Disgusted Army Vet > who laid is life on the line ...for what ?

....... Bush is destroying everything we VETS sacrificed for!!

Not worth it... Time to go forward.

Here's a quick question for all those who don't want to see Bush and company impeached:

Given what Bush and company have done, their violations, their lies, their stripping of civil liberties, their disregarding the Constitution - please explain why you believe they shouldn't be impeached and please give reasons why you think that what they've done isn't criminal, impeachable and treasonous.

Impeachment would show the world we're not in complete lockstep with whatever these war criminals do and say. Remember, they represent US, the people, because we "elected" (ha ha!) them, so whatever they do, the rest of the world thinks the American people give it two thumbs up, then go back to more important things like studying American Idol contestants with excruciating detail.

And to those who pump out the "there hasn't been another 9/11" form letters: dont you find that odd, because all the other presidents haven't had a 9/11 PERIOD, let alone "another", so from a techical standpoint, that gives Bush the worst homeland security record....we're supposed to be thankful that he didn't trip up AGAIN?? And what if, God forbid, there is another terror attack of 9/11 proportions on America under Bush's watch? Would you call for impeachment then, since your hero failed at the only thing you crow about, or would there have to be a "third" or "fourth" time? I bet it would only take one (or even talk of one) if there was a Democrat in office...

I'm amazed that CNN would even report such non-sensical rhetoric. This makes me think of a quote:

"He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it." – Moby Dick

Get over it already. If they had truly broken the law, they would've been impeached by now. The problem is, however questionable their actions were, they were still within the law.

I guess it's easier to be destructive than constructive, though.

If they are impeached, which they absolutely should be. PLEASE, for the love of God and this country, impeach Cheney FIRST! I couldn't stand the thought of that man being the President for even a minute if Bush was removed from office.

I agree with McGovern! Bush and Cheney SHOULD be impeached! In fact, they should have been impeached years ago for their crimes! Too bad we don't have a Congress that would actually do what is morally and legally right in this instance!

Yea this man sounds like a man of reason??????????????????????Give me a break this idiot is just as naive and ignorant today as he was 30yrs ago. Sorry mental midget BUSHS policies are working and you only sound like a bitter man with sour grapes. Please tell me what is so tragic with Bush? What rights has he taken away from you? Are you protected ? Really I know it is hard for you liberal morons to think and actually be realistic but please try to do it. Bottom line is you dont like Bush cause he has beaten you in every single way on every single issue.......LIBERALS, BUSH OWNS YOU.........

Well said, and it's about time. These two war criminals are responsible for getting us into an unneccessary war, ruining the economy that President Clinton had made great and ruining our country's reputation in the world. When Saudi's attacked the US on 9/11, who does moronica Bush go after? Iraq. That makes sense.

He has spent this country into a hole, when President Clinton had balanced the budget, but now in the last year of his term he want to holler fiscal responsiblity. What about all that money going into a hole in Iraq? When our own children are denyed health care?

He is such a moron and an idiot. He has violated the constitution, wadded it up and thrown it away and Darth Cheney is right there with him. These two should be executed.

Explains why he didn't make it for president back in '72. Some old politicians should learn when to shut up...its his time.

I find it amazing it has taken this long for ANY politician to says these things. McGovern is correct. You wouldn't keep any personal friend around if they had done to you what Bush and Cheney have done to this country. Anyone out there have a friend they stay close to when they lie to you and get you involved in fights then run away?

McGovern's position fails to take into consideration that we are under attack by Islamic Fundamentalist entrenched throughout the Middle East and that Iraq is but a battlefront in the global war on terrorism.

The extremist we are killing their today would otherwise be bombing our Embassies, attacking our subways, or crashing more planes into our homeland.

I would much rather have our well armed troupes killing them where they live than our ill equipped polices departments trying to track them down after they have committed some heinous an cowardly act of terrorism.

Certainly, McGovern is right, but unless the Congress can push an impeachment and removal proceeding through in less than a week, it would be an utter waste of time at this juncture. The damage has been done and the previous Republican-controlled Congress was complicit in the crimes of the bush administration. Rather, let's get these thugs out of office first and then thoroughly and openly investigate their crimes. Those found guilty should be given the maximum time in jail. Those found guilty of war and international crimes should be handed over to the World Court for prosecution. The President and Vice Preseident should not be immune from criminal prosecution – they cannot be allowed to operate outside the law, since it sets a dangerous precedent.

Just as George McGovern was right about Vietnam so also is he right about impeaching those two traitorous criminals.

This needs to happen. Impeach both of them ASAP.

I disagree with most everything that Bush/Cheney has done over the last eight years. Not only did they get us into a war that was completely unnecessary, they prosecuted the war ineptly and may have caused many more lives (mostly Iraqi) to be lost than necessary. They have needlessly and carelessly antagonized a large part of the world. They have also acted questionably – in a constitutional sense- in how they have pursued the "war on terror."

That being said, I get concerned with cries for impeachment on the basis that you do not agree with the policies of a sitting president. Impeachment is very serious business and I don't think we should start going down that road based on partisanship or a philosophical difference of opinion. It is bad for our country in the long term. I thought the Republicans were inappropriate in their impeachment of President Clinton and I think it would be equally inappropriate to impeach Bush or Cheney (unless someone can explain to me and provide evidence of a high crime or misdemeanor they have committed.)

Let's just get over Bush/Cheney – what's done is done and they are becoming irrelevant now – and start to seriously consider who out of the new crop of candidates, whether Democrat or Republican, has the intelligence, experience and strength of character to tackle the big issues that he or she will be facing – including the ending of the Iraq war, the Iran issue, global warming, healthcare, Medicare, immigration, etc. I am a little biased being a Democrat, but I think we have some good choices there and at least one good Republican choice in John McCain (with whom I disagree with on many issues but like his qualities as a man and a leader).

I'm a true conservative and I agree 100% Impeach Bush and Cheney together. The Nancy becomes president and Hillary's got a real problem. You socialists are a scream!

I don't think that the typical American is all that "hot" for an impeachment. I don't suspect it will happen. This looks like partisan bickering, to me.

Here's my take on the state of the Union:

I am very concerned about the economy. I am very concerned about the amount of money we have spent on the Iraq war. (I suspect we will be there for 50 more years). I am very concerned about our nation's deficit. I am very concerned that we are supporting communist China in such a big way.

I care about my own wallet.

I don't care what our "image" is to the rest of the world. The rest of the world has never liked America, anyway.

That's all.

Impeach? YES!

W, use it in a sentence... "Impeaches sure taste good."

I agree with him. The whole Iraq war and whatever other one they are planning is all about protecting their investments in foreign oil and total domination. These two have totally ignored the wishes of the American people and have suceeded in dragging our country down to the point where everyone hates us.

I thought they should have been impeached 4 years ago

A bitter, out of touch indivdual. Was he for the impeachment of Bill clinton?

Get over yourself already. This isn't news, it's CNN and Clinton's revenge. This country could not withstand the upset of an Impeachment. It would weaken us, take us to a vulnerability that we cannot afford.
Bush's a lame duck, leave him lie.
You think you wans Pelosi to run this country? HAHAHAHAHAHA! Now THAT would be hilarious!

Surprise, surprise. CNN leads off with Bush hate instead of focusing on the real politics of today. ie, Hillary's stunning collapse in the NH polls..

Political Science 303 Folks.

When there is zero political courage in Washington D.C., THERE IS ZERO REPRESENTATION.

Only when the ELECTED OFFICIAL puts the interest(s) of the constituent first, at the express risk of his or her political survival will Representative Democracy work in the 21st century.

Impeach the entire Government, I say. Call a special emergency election. Throw each and every one of these bums out....NOW.

Representative Government simply does not work folks. Participatory Democracy is the wave of the future, via the Internet.

Get rid of Bush and his pathetic cronies now before they STEAL ANOTHER ELECTION.

The People v. George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America.

This is the real Impeachment here folks.

Rick from Colorado

should have happened 7years ago he nor his dad were for this country they wanted to be dictators,

Am SO tired of "politics" over personal integrity – clearly what some are doing.
Why make such a comment (McGovern) at this time ? Yep, politics !!

g. h.

I agree 100% and more people in respected positions or whom have held respected positions should speak out and let their true feelings about the subject be know.

you country is screwed...period...

We need a national poll on this subject, right now:

"Should Congress begin impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States?"

And, if no poll is conducted, I'd say that's newsworthy in itself.

Dick Cheney spent the first few months in the office of vice president over
at the fbi offices gthering the dirt on all politicians that Hoover had collected
while in power. He now uses this information as leverage to get votes in
the way they want them. This has been going on since early in 2001

This is the way they have been able to get the US Military into Iraq and
give The Halburton Company a blank check. These are all oil people and
all actions are for their own selfish greed.

I am for impeachment and more severe charges.

Robert McPhee

why would anyone listen to this old fool?

unless you're cnn.

It's amazing that people are jumping on the bandwagon now to impeach Bush and Cheney but did not support those of us who were calling for impeachment when they first committed the offenses they are now citing as reasons. You just have to love these politicians who have to wait to see which way the wind is blowing and, of course, until Bush and Cheney are almost out of office any way. Where were they before this term even started?

Nobody cares about the rights of the people any more in this country, unless it's going to get them some attention for their own benefit. The citizens have been calling for impeachment for a long time and nobody has done anything about it. Once Nancy Pilosi got what she wanted, she took impeachment off the table.

Notice every lame comment supporting Bush & Cheney attacked the messenger and not the message. They know deep down that they are supporting war crimes and it gnaws on their soul. Criminals always blame everyone else and find excuses for their behavior. They simply don't care about the 100,000+ innocent people killed in their war and to hide their lies. Impeach Bush and Cheney, then start war criminal proceedings. Just read the legal conclusions of the Nuremburg Trials, particularly the one that talks about starting a war of agression. Those convicted were hanged. There is nothing to debate.

If you think Congress is moving at a snail's pace now, then by all means, begin impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney. I agree the two deserve it, but remember...Congress has a SLIM Democratic majority, and there are some Democrats (think Lieberman for one) who tend to side with Republican interests. Congress has been unable to accomplish much of what it hoped to do when it took power in 2006 because of this.

It's too bad that we aren't able to call for a "no confidence" vote (like California?) and recall our leaders, Bush and Cheney.

Where do I sign? Let's finally do this!

I think Mr. McGovern has lost his mind.

Isn;t this a bit too late? I mean they should of impeahced those 2, years ago. Instead they get re-elected? Now,during the final year of their term in office this subject comes up. what difference is it gonna bring? The damage has been done and it's gonna be hard for any of the next presidents to clean up the mess.

It's amazing that people are jumping on the bandwagon now to impeach Bush and Cheney but did not support those of us who were calling for impeachment when they first committed the offenses they are now citing as reasons. You just have to love these politicians who have to wait to see which way the wind is blowing and, of course, until Bush and Cheney are almost out of office any way. Where were they before this term even started?

Nobody cares about the rights of the people any more in this country, unless it's going to get them some attention for their own benefit.

George you are OH so right!!!!

Thank God for the liberals, they will surely save us all. More like open up the borders completely and give whatever is left to the Chinese government.

Clinton vilolated what the White House stands for and all he had to say was "I did not have sex with that woman".

You people are all pathetic. You will get your wish when Obama is president because then it will truely be over.

Where did they dig this guy up?

This guy was, and still is, about divisiveness. On top of that, he is still sour grapes about losing in one of the biggest landslides in election history back in...1972! Wow, 35 years have passed and he is still spewing the same garbage!

George, please take this tired act back to the liberal loon retirement home where it belongs. And don't worry, you'll have company soon enough in the person of one Jimmy Carter - another sore loser who put this country in such economic straits in the late 70s that we needed a REPUBLICAN to get us out of it.

I have too say to all those people out there that impeachment is not supposed to be used as a political tool. There is only two presidents in American history that have been impeached, and neither one was removed from office. The offences that are talked about by McGovern are not only almost impossible to prove but in most cases not impeachable.

No matter what the case with the Iraq War which is what i think is McGovern's last straw was done legally. No matter where you fall on the spectrum, crazy left to far right, congress approved it with the same knowledge that Bush and Cheney had when they wanted to invade.

McGovern get you law and history right prior to writing an editorial where you look like a "loony" with the rest of the washed up. No matter what you feel about war, not one person can tell me staying in Iraq at this point is a must to hold stability in the region. Even if McGovern's claims are correct and we should have never went it. Either way it is not impeachable!

So to everyone that wants to impeach a president just because they do not agree with their views, Grow Up!!

Hum, I'm confused- Now would we much rather have someone disclose the the TRUTH and work through that; or Would we rather be lied to and live with it?

AMERICA- SEEM LIKE TO ME YOU DON'T KNOW IF YOU ARE COMING OR GOING?????

Governer- you are right, don't give up. Hell we all have skeleton and inperfactions. WE THE PEOPLE WILL SHOW THE WORLD THAT SOME OF USE NEVER PARTICIPATED IN THE THEFT OF BUSH AND CHANEY BEING IN OFFICE.

THERE IS A TIME TO RISE AND A TIME TO FALL. THEY ARE FALLING OUT OF OFFICE. BECAUSE WE SEE AND EVERYONE ELSE SEE.

A GREEEEEDY HEART IS A POOR HEART THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE MURDERED COUNTLESS AND HAVE ONLY A HAND FULL OF FOLLOWERS NOW.

THE CURSE THEY HAVE WILLED TO THEIR FAMILIES WILL LAST FOREVER AROUND THE WORLD. THEY WILL FOREVER BE HATED. THEY DID IT TO THEMSELVES NOT US.

YOU LIVE BY THE SWORD YOU DIE BY THE SWORD.

YOU CAN FOOL SOME PEOPLE BUT NEVER ALL!!!!!!!

GETTEM OUT!!!!!!

I have yet to read/seen/hear ANYONE present a clear-cut case for the impeachment of the President and/or Vice President. While there are many strong feelings of resentment from diehard liberals who cannot stand anyone remotely conservative, it appears that McGovern is following Al Gore's trend of speaking out as another Democratic loser to a Republican President. Bitter feelings are not enough to justify impeachment. If someone could outline the specifics of the President's alleged crimes, I might be more sympathetic to the cause. As it is however, not a single person has connected President Bush's "crimes" to the constitutional articles they violate. Faulty information is not the President's responsibility. If the CIA messes up, and the President uses that information, which was accurate at the time, then the worst that anyone here can do is accuse him of being hasty and irrational (which he has been on occasion), but not of deliberate deceit to a degree that other Presidents have not used. Now I can sit back and watch liberal extremists (who will deny being so, of course) attempt to discredit and insult me.

Impeachment is the leveling of charges (similar to an indictment in criminal law) and does not require a supermajority. Does Mr. McGovern give us any insight into the specific charges that should be leveled? Since the opposing party has a majority in the House and Senate, why haven't they brought any charges? I'll give an example: Perjury before a grand jury and obstruction of justice ARE impeachable offenses.

I believe he is right.

i agree with John - where were these people way back when....when this view wasn't held? you're right, of course, George - but way too late, man! when are we as a nation going to start paying attention?? i have no faith anymore....cattle.

Too little, too late. Over a million innocent people have died in this satanic agression. We have added a new word to our vocabulary "terrorism". We have lost our feedom, privacy, and rights " patriot act". We have shown the world how ruthless we are as a nation, which regrads Columbus invasion a " discovery", there were 70 million people on this continent before 1492 invasion. we are a nation of hypocrits. We claim that we won " the war on terror " that we have created in the first place. we have harbored all the tyrons in the world and funded them for decades, so they may "Protect our Interests". Those Dictators are the terrorists we planted thoughout the world. We encouraged them to steal bring to us the wealth of their nations as investments ( how lawfull & ethical to harbor stolen property knowingly). we have over 50,000 injured servicemen who have been maimed for life not withstanding all the dead people & and shatered lives. We have this administration to thank . Congress, & the house is as guilty as Bush & Chaney, they allowed it to happen, watched it happen, perhaps encouraged it to happen. We need to soul search our core values, and speakout.

Do you know that our natonal debt has nearly doubled since Bush was elected?

Yeah, everything is there to get Bush kicked out of office. Misrepresentation, unsactioned actions, all of it. And anyways, if Bush has all the rights we have, shouldn't he be subject to all our laws also? Anyone remember that Andrew Meyer kid who got tasered last year when he asked John Kerry if he thought Bush should be impeached? well, he was causing quite a ruckus.
This was on the very front page at the very top of that page because Mcgovern is a former SD Senator.

Where's Osama? Bush and company should have been impeached the moment they gave up on the guy that attacked us. Does he not remember 9/11?

I think it is noy only the congress, senate, nor the republicans or democrats, but also the people. You and me! Does anyone know the process of impeachment? Starts in the congress who decides by majority if the president is impeached, then the senate makes the sentence. How many people have gatered together and put pressure on their congressman to start the impeachment process? Me myself have written to several congressmen and senators demanding the president is impeached. The only one who responded is Hillary Clinton, and I heard that she actually reads her mail and considers the views and ideas of people who write to her. Seems to be true, because she responded to me. But look people, I am only one person! This never results in much change. My husband keeps warning me to be careful or I can get in trouble, but I told him if anyone wants to join me I am not afraid to seak what I believe or that I can get in trouble. So people, please try to take some action and join together. The squeaky wheel gets oild, so if the congress, senate, democrats or republicans are not acting, then start putting pressure on them, start speaking up, and join together. If anyone is wonderring why it has taken so long, then start taking some action. Write to your congress and start putting pressure on your congressman. And if you want someone in office that is not afraid to stand up and take action, then son't look to Obama. He is nothing but a good motivational speaker, and only good for talk. If you want a candidate who is not afraid to take action and will listen to your views, then look to either Ron Paul, Huckabee, or Clinton. Regardless of democrat or republican, these are the three who can make change. I live in Egypt, so it is difficult for me to gather together with anyone, but if I lived in the States I would for sure be organizing groups. But I am doing my part from here by writing to congress and the senate.

Is the evidence against Bush stronger that it was against Bill Clinton when he was impeached? I noticed that you did not mention Slick Willy.

All you people stating that bush should be impeached are ignorant. First he must have committed a crime! If protecting out county from terrorism is a crime then I need to look at a move here soon. When those planes flew into our buildings not long ago we were attacked, with people like this we must attack or they will. I have the utmost respect for our men and women serving to protect me and my family. I have also had to face the fact that if we weren't over there they would be here. Get a clue you libs.

Right on, Mr. McGovern! This adminstration's complete and criminal disregard for the Constitution is nothing less than treasonous.

Such grievous actions as these two have undertaken would have been punishable by hard time in the stockades, or even executiion, 200 years ago.

Yes, it's time to stop the runaway train that is the Bush-Cheney administration, before it runs over any more of our rights and does any more harm to the world.

The terrorist group responsible for the destruction of America is the Bush/Cheney gang. It's been an inside job folks,sorry. They have lit the fuse and are going to blow up the works,meanwhile grabbing as much of the gold as their fists and saddle bags can hold.

Too little too late George M.
Where were all of our democratic representatives hiding these past 7 years?? With the gangster tactics of this administration everyone has kept their heads down.

Remember our motto? LIFE, LIBERTY,and THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Happiness is something these thugs know nothing about and actively pursue it's destruction.

A sad and sorry state of affairs

I couldn't have said it better myself.
The truth will set you free boys.

How long has George McGovern been senile?

It's amazing...responses seem to take only two different forms:

1) McGovern's right and Bush/Cheney should be impeached.

2) McGovern wasn't successful in his election bid thirty-some years ago, so his opinions are worthless. This tactic is called an "ad hominem" attack and is a well-known logical fallacy used by those with no valid argument.

Thankfully, those who agree seem to outnumber those who don't by a huge margin.

At least we'll see some change in 2009...I just hope it isn't backwards 60 years by electing some hillbilly Creationist minister. At least all the Democratic contenders understand the concept of "separation of church and state."

I so agree with this sentiment! I can't believe that the citizens of this country have not risen up in arms to impeach Bush and Cheney – they are guilty of many crimes and have put our once fine democratic country into a deep hole – morally, fiscally and in many other ways around the globe. Wherever I go, when I see non-Americans – I tell them not to hate Americans – just hate our government! But it is up to all of us to make sure we get a big change in November 2008 – unless they steal the election from the people again.

McGovern is right. Again ...

It's about time someone said what needed to be said and saw that the Emperor wasn't wearing any clothes....And is truly clinically insane to boot.
Where do I sign on....

Why can't the old dogs like McGovern and Jimmy Carter go quietly and gracefully into the politicians retirment home?? They had their time, their shot and NEITHER of them was up to the fight. Don't go away mad George, just go away.

YES! Impeachment should have been done years ago!

Bush and his bunch are criminals. They've violated their oaths of office, violated the Constitution, denied people of their civil liberties, LIED to the American public and Congress - and that's only the tip of the iceberg.

How much more does Congress need to start impeachment proceedings?

Does Congress have to be the ones to do it? Can't ordinary citizens and city/county/state governments start impeachment proceedings?

Come on! Let's get off our apathetic backsides and take our country back!

Yes, now I remember the clear mandate of the people what swept Mcgovern into the White House. No, wait, maybe that was a collective acid trip the Dems had. How else do explain Jimmy Carter after that?

Talk about kool aid drinkers, this place is full of them (and it)

OMG THIS JUST GOES TO SHOW- PEOPLE HAVE NO JURIDICTION OVER THEIR OWN OFFSPRING. HOLD YOURSELF RESPONSIBLE, SLACKER/ LOSER. ANOTHER DUMB AND LAZY AMERICAN WANTING SOMEONE ELSE TO THE BE THEIR KIDS ROLE MODEL. Some Parent are too dumd or is the cause of their kids using dope.

THE WAY YOU TALK and IF YOU WERE MY PARENT I WOULD USE CRANK TOO!!!!!!!!! I HAVE ALL RACES IN MY FAMILY- SO WITHOUT SEEING COLOR OBAMA ROCK!!! SHOW THIS COLOR CRIPPLED NATION WHAT UNITY IS ALL ABOUT.

IMPEACH THOSE LIARS. GOVERNER THESE ARE THE SAME CHICKENS WHO VOTED THE S.O.B's IN OFFICE, IGNORE THEIR STUPIDITY. YOU ROCK!!

Jimmy, Iowa January 6, 2008 10:29 pm ET

My teen ager just told me it was ok to smoke pot and snort crank because Obama did. Obama YOU BETTER EXPLAIN TO MY CHILD NOW> I WILL HOLD YOU RESPOINSABLE if any thing happens to my child. I don;t know how to get this message to you so I will send it in every blog I can until you answer. THIS IS A SERIOUS ISSUE YOU OPENED UP WITH OUR CHILDREN. NOW RESPOND>> YES I AM ANGRY

They should be impeached

x

To all of you trumpeting the success of the Bush administration in keeping us safe,

Do you remember 9/11? It was on his watch. Regardless of whether or not it would have happened were another person in charge that day, saying that we haven't had any attacks since is proof of effective counter-terrorism is faulty logic at best. That we haven't been attacked is not proof of a successful defense. We could just as easily praise Bush for protecting us against yeti, godzilla, and UFOs.

Its looks lik eit is about 100% in agreement with Mr McGovern. Not one person has posted a single reason why these two crimninal should not be held accountable. You can drop the "left extremist" nonsens too. Tho only one in disagreement left are the extreme luntatic fringe. Making arguments like McGovern is irrelelevant is typical reupublican dodging. It does not matter who is saying it, the discussion should be about the rule of law. THe laghuable defense ot the Bush CHenney Cabal that Mcgovern lost is hillarious. As if this descredits him somehow? I think he was clearly redeemed when Nixion turned out to be a lying crook and was thrown out of office. Now you singnuts argue that Bush and Chenney should be excused of their crimes because the person claiming so, was nt elected and lost to the worst presidentin history, prior to Geroage Bush? The wheels have come off the republican party, you have ZERO credability left and you have been exposed as a few partisan winguts. You deserve the thumping your going to get in the next elections, you earned it.

One last question for you supporters. What would Bush have to do before you thought he should be impeached? Is their a line he could cross in your eyes or is it Bush no matter what. Tell me again what Bush Derangement SYndrome really is!

McGovern is still alive?

Ok, impeach Bush, Cheney and all of those in Congress that voted for this war. They all contributed and saw the same intel reports. They were elected to be an check and balence to the White House.

Empty the government and start over.

Many people on here have no idea what constitutes "high crimes and misdemeanors" or an "impeachable" offense. Many people are upset with the war and the policies of the Bush Administration, but they seem to be going overboard with their reactions. I'm not justifying the behavior of the Administration, but enough with the knee-jerk commentary. Just because you don't like what's going on doesn't mean the actions of the Administration warrant impeachment. Rather than flail our arms and cry impeachment, let's focus on making sure we elect the right person as the next President of the United States.

I Think Cheney should run for president, He would beat the rest of the WIMPS running!

He is an idiot. I find it funny to watch people throw around vague accusations.

I also find it funny that everyone wants to impeach these two but say nothing of Congress that voted for the war (Hillary, you go girl!) and worked with them on many issues.

And finally remember you're all in the minority – more than half the people in the Country voted for them. Cry about 2000 if you want to.

I agree: empeach the bastards. Here's an even better question that my father poses all the time as we laugh at the fact that a man like President Bush ever came to power: how is it that a country like the US could vote such a man into office a second time? Our personal household theory is that Americans who voted for Bush are either very ignorant or brainwashed. "War on Terror"? Give me a break... That's a Bush euphemism used as an excuse for doing whatever the hell he wants, despite world opposition. Think communism. People were so brainwashed and controlled with "communism" that the idea of socialism, a very Christian idea, was almost completely wiped out of the American psychy. Now, you have problems with decaying cities, a huge underclass, etc, etc. If those two men are ever stupid enough to invade Iran, I hope the American people wake up and declare an insurrection, because if they don't, then the international community will.

Canada

Senility at it's best,this old man needs to go away.America didn't like him back then and doesn't want to hear from him now.

Cheney and Bush aren't just guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors; they are international war criminals as well. They should both be impeached, convicted, removed from office, tried in an international court as previous war criminals have been, and then be sentenced to, at the very least, a lifetime of hard labor (after first being waterboarded, of course). They have seriously damaged our constitution and have destroyed our credibility worldwide. They must be made to pay the price for their actions!

To Matt from New York – Read the book by Greenwald, the Constitutional lawyer from New York, for evidence of impeachable acts by Bush and Cheney. There is plenty of evidence for impeachment. Impeachment is about determining if impeachable acts have been committed, not about the precedence of bad determinations.

What about the Supreme Court's decision in the 2000 election. Perhaps it was them who changed the course of history for this country.

I wonder if Gold Spoon Bush is going to China before he leaves office so the Chinese can thank him in person for selling us out?
I'm sure on his next trip to the middle east the Saudis will thank him for paying them back for making his family rich when George senior lost everything and they had nothing.
The Iraq war? All lies the whole way.
Bush and Chaney belong in prison for treason to the people of the United States at the least and that is a fact.

McGovern was a rambling idiot in 1972 when he was trounced in the biggest landslide presidential victory by Richard Nixon, and he has proven that 36 years later he is still a rambling idiot.

Wow, the libs really look up to such a person? All you have to do is say something anti Bush, and the come running! I would be ashamed. No wonder CNN is going down the crapper!

Yeah,

Let waste some more time and not do anything for the country Democrats and Republicans both don't help anyone out but themselves. How much would an investigation and impeachment cost and how long. Bush has one year left, why bother. I wish some democrats would quit crying about Bush and do something to make a difference. Clinton especially is hoping for the I hate Bush group, if she had a chance at election she is not going to do it by saying oh I hate this, I hate that. She has to say what she is going to do and not just tell people what they want to her. All the canidates need to stand up and say I will do this, or this, or this. But not just say it, say how you are going to do it. By the way Republicans are not any better. Someone give please give me some affordable healthcare, Republican, Democrat, anyone? They only have been talking about it since Bill Clinton was elected almost 16 years ago. He couldn't do anything, George Bush couldn't do anything. Why because Republicans sat there and said I hate Clinton, and Democrats sit there and say "I hate Bush".

I really hope someone moderate wins because I get sick of these parties fighting, they get nothing done.

PS I hate no one. But please someone do some work.

I would like to know what Kool-Aid these Bush-loving neo-con clowns are sipping. They get stupider by the minute and are never more stupid than when they try to defend the administration of these warmongering cowards who ducked their own war. At last, most of the American people realize that this Emperor has no clothes.

Dumbya is a war criminal and should be tried for treason along with his entire administration.

For those 20% of you that still support this idiot, why? Wake up, people!

I am in TOTAL agreement. The Bush administration has been a disaster for the United States of America. Far worse than any we have ever seen. The ramifications of this debacle will be felt for generations.

MCGOVERN IS AN IDIOT AND ALL OF YOU WHO FOLLOW HIM.....

BUSH DID HIS BEST WITH THE IMFORMATION HE WAS GIVING......

THIS COUNTRY IS SAFER TODAY THAN IN 2001

THE TROOPS ARE DOING THE BEST JOB THEY CAN WITH NO SURPORT OF THE DEM. CONGRESS....

BUSH ALSO HAS NO HELP FROM CONGRESS

THE MEDIA AND THE DEM. MAKE ME SICK...

IF A DEM. WINS THE WHITE HOUSE ALL HELL WE BREAK OUT AND THIS COUNTRY WILL BE UNSAFE..............

This is probably the only thing McGovern ever got right in his life. Must be old age. Impeachment was already put on the table by a few brave souls and promptly removed by the spineless leaders. Why are their no elected officials that have the integrity and the courage to properly represent the citizens of this country ? I guess it's all about the money........so sad.

Mr McGovern ought to take his senile, liberal, anti any war, anti republican butt back home

Thanks Senator McGovern! The Bush Presidency has been a nightmare. Since he stole the election in November 2000, George Bush has disgraced the United States.

Impeachment will not solve our problems, it will only help Bush and Cheney hide their criminal activities. Continue with the investigation, the American has the right to know what this administration has done from subverting our constitutional rights, turning this country akin to fascism.

go get em mcgovern.

Getting rid of the political power of Dick and Bush would be a blessing not only to this nation but to the entire world. They have done nothing but cause death and destruction while fattening the pockets of their already welathy friends. I honestly believe both want to start a war in Iran as well and may very well do so before their terms are up. Do something now before this nation takes a look at its next Depression. We're way past a recession and have been for months now.

Big question...why do politicians become self rightous and real once they leave Washington D.C. This man has been out of DC longer than Ive been alive and now he wants to impeach Bush and Cheney...I agree but if this old man can see the reasons and justification for impeachment, how come some of the people in DC cant make the case...reason politics is run by rich people, blue bloods who literally defend each other...that is the reality...even if you impeach both of those men the big question is: Have innocent people died, killed, tortured and how come we have allowed this to happen...

I gotta say I agree. If I'd been accused the way this administration's been accused, I'd demand my day in court.

Unless I was guilty, in which case I'd hem and haw and blame it on my dumb friend Scooter.

Who could possibly take any statement from a loser like George McGovern seriously

Thank-you Mr. McGovern, for so eloquently and honestly stating what so many of us have thought & felt for SO LONG. I'm not sure if this country can survive another year of the present administration. I'm not even sure we can ever repair the overwhelming damage inflicted by the twins of destruction. Our reputation is completely shot to hell- decent American people are looked upon with distrust and abhorrence. Small wonder- but painful none-the-less. Mr. McGovern is also very correct in saying that an impeachment attempt, albeit completely appropriate, will never happen.

Wow, what a sad bunch of "I Hate America" Liberals on this page. And what a bunch of people with short memories. Regime change was MOST DEFINITELY a policy that the Clinton administration was in favor of, yet so many idiots try to act like GW Bush invaded Iraq and deposed Hussein just on a whim.
And of course we hear the same tired BS about how GW Bush and Cheney invaded Iraq just to benefit the military-industrial complex, (and be sure to ALWAYS mention Haliburton, Bechtel and Blackwater – you get extra "Leftist points" if you mention them!). Wouldn't if be sad though if GW and his administration invaded Iraq and Afghanistan because they truly believed it was in the best interests of stopping future attacks on this country? Yeah, but no Liberal can believe that – it would shatter their illusions of GW as the most evil American of the last 200 years.
As most of you might recall, American interests were attacked time after time during Clinton's time in office. The first attack on the WTC, the attack on the USS Cole, embassy bombings in Africa, etc. Clinton's response was to lob a few cruise missiles at Iraq, and at Bin Laden's camp (too late, of course). In other words, no real response at all. At least George Bush has sent terrorists a message – we will come after you.
So by all means, elect a Democrat and end the global war on terrorism. And expect a much-worse "9-11 style" attack to soon follow. But of course, there will be no impeachment of a President that allows the 2nd 9/11 to occur. Simply pathetic, the lot of you...............

Had McGovern been running the country on 9/11 he would have apologized to the terrorists and surrendered. Personally I'd rather a Bush/Cheny approach – with all of it's warts – rather than a wimp (re: McGovern, Gore). Look...few appear happy with the administration's performance...but what is the alternative? Yeah, let's go elect a 1 term junior Senator to run the country...or a NYC Mayor...or the wife of a prior President! Come on America...Where is the brilliant leadership we really need?????? Why can we (yes, WE...we the People)...find someone among us that is of FDR, or Jefferson or Lincoln caliber???

McGovern is absolutely correct. This administration is a disgrace. It is a shame that the Democrats do not have the guts to even try to bring impeachment forward. Imagine if Al Gore were president and did what Bush-Cheney have done. Can't you just hear Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and the other Bush boasters ranting and raving about Gore and calling for his impeachment. Think about it. Only one more year to Deliverance Day, January 20, 2009.

Tom,
Bush was never elected by anyone. He stole the election just like the idiot in Kenya by the name of Kibaki. Then again, see how power can corrupt...

Yes, Yes, Yes I have been saying Mr. McGoven's sentiments for the last 3 years.
The republicans tortured President Clinton over a private matter but Bush has been getting away with murder. Impeachment NOW come on Congress show some guts.

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

Is this true? Yes, but only the latter part of the statement was true. I'm an Asian immigrant living in the U.S. I often read Asian news and discussion. In these media, America was cynically accused all kinds of ways. The statements like "Iraq Invasion was for oil" and "911 was a conspiracy" was easily made believed there.
Most Americans do not know what's really going on outside the country. There's serious propaganda against the US, spreading by, I believe, hard line Muslims around the world. The propaganda that even liberal Americans play along with it. One columnist in Asia Times – Kaveh L Afrasiabi, who I believe used to work under Khomeini's government – wrote many articles about the U.S. These articles showed me that he had bias against the U.S. So, who write for the U.S. in these international magazines? I'm afraid no one does.

When the world put America in a court that doesn't provide any defense lawyer, why would you be a witness to help accusing it? It seemed like, in those Asian media I read, I was the only tiny defense lawyer trying to show the readers the other side of the story. I tried hard to explain that for most Americans, democracy is more important than oil, but it may be too late. So what America can do now is 1st, shut up Rosy O'donnell and 2nd, start fighting back through the media.

It is about 7 years late to Impeach those liars and crooks but like the saying " better late than never". Never in the history of the United States has there been so much corruption, lies, criminal acts by all politicians ( knowing Bush will save them ), wasting of money, and just plain incompetent actions by our government than during the Bush years. Also, I am sick of being punished for working and being a productive member of society by my health insurance rates goiing up , co-pays going up , etc while the lazy filth of our society, the welfare recipients, continue to get 100% paid medical, no co-pays, pay no taxes and just plain rewarded to sit home, make more babies who eventually go on the welfare rolls, cry about there situation and commit criminal acts. Give working America free health care and make the bums fend for themselves. They too could work if they chose but why would they when they have it better than the working people.

Wow, I didn't realize there were so many Constitutional Law experts amongst us, or are they just venting their dislike to Bush/Cheney? Most likely the latter...as I doubt a single poster can cite an instance where their freedoms have been eroded. I suppose the posters believe their outlandish claims are validated by the volume of loons that posted similar ridiculous charges. Isn't it nice to have the personal freedoms to criticize our Government without repercusions? Idiots!!!!

I love it when folks start to demean an individual for his views. "McGovern lost 49 states in a presidential election" or "McGovern is an old bitter man who wants attention" like somehow because they write a post on a blog, they know more about american politics than anyone else. Bury your heads deeper in the sand, in fact how about you head over to the desert and live there where there is plenty of it. Apparently you are so desirous of it you are willing to send your children to die on it. And this argument that we are somehow being "protected" by this action is like saying "see there aren't any elephants trampling Washington, our war against them is working" oh wait the elephants are trampling Washington...

Impeachment takes too long. HELLO LEGISLATORS, here's another one for you to spend long hours painstakingly drafting up so it can be vetoed. What happens to an employee that is not performing on the job?

I write about scientific research all over the world. Some of these scientists devote years to their work. Others devote their ENTIRE LIVES. We need to listen to what they are saying. For those who do not believe that glaciers are melting, take a look at the video on my website http://www.lindarosezajac.com

fr Tom:

>..President Bush has kept this country from suffering another attack since 9/11 and these "ingrates" continue to act like our terrorist enemies around world by attacking the President for everything including the weather…..<

Oh puhleeze. The thing the shrub will be remembered for is his LACK of attention when 9/11 happened, he kept reading to a kindergarten class about a goat. Oh, also for lining his own pockets.

I thought McGovern was dead

I voted for him in 2000. And, I'm a red blooded american who is very conservative. All that said, I'm aghast at what has happened under this administration. It has sucked the life out of generations to come, and forced a finsncial burdne on generations yet to come – a debt never seen in the histrory of the world. It has bloodied nations abroad, it's ignored border security, and sucked long standing allies into war using corruption and lies.And the death, and human losses...it can not be measured. The deciet, and blind eye is repulsive. This is true, non-partisan fact. Its recorded in the history books for all to read. However, the worst side effect of the Bush adminstartion that I have witnessed is the inability of our entire govermenrt to act accordinly. ALL of our elected officials (all of congress and the senate) failed (fail) to do THEIR duties and protect the interest of the American people from further damage by Bush's policies and actions. Shame on them. People want to know why a black guy named Obama is kicking everyones butt for the upcoming presidential elections????? Becasue we've seen what the "white" establsihment has done this past decade, and the American People are desperate for anything, or anyone that is NOT what IS.
I've given up on this Country.

It's so sad when public displays of senility are widely reported like this. At least Reagon had the decency to keep his drift out of the public view. Poor George!

George McGovern ? Isn't that a synonym for the word "biggest -loser" ? When the
far left strong arm goverment types don't agree with a policy, they spew personal
hate, envy, and trot out the old liberal war cry of impeachment. George we would be all bearded and wearing berka's if your ilk ever had power. Worry about this country and yes our relation to others, but, as Washington mused; nations "interest" dictate their reactions, not because they like or dislike us. McGoverns foolishness just isn't funny anymore, its tiresome, close to extinction, yet more dangerous in todays world.

Where do plants like Stan Goodman (oxymoron, huh!) and Derek Emery, the former even claiming to have once been a Democrat (LOL), come from? Press hating Bush? The majority of the electorate bringing the nation down to the level of a banana republic? Invasion of Iraq because it was the only place where certain chemicals come from? Pathologic WINGNUTS, that grow in every blog post, seem almost as disingenuous and dishonest as "the most trusted name in news" CNN.

Is George McGovern basing this on his vast experience as a former POTUS? That right his liberal azz was kicked to the curb by America. Sour Grapes.

This kind of nonsense is why McGovern never was a truly viable candidate for the presidency , even in the golden age for his far left wing politics. To some, the transgressions of the Nixon administration vindicated Mcgovern. In reality, they simply postponed the relagation of Mcgovern's politics to history's trash heap.

Forget impeachment since that will never happen. The real question to ask is why they were re-elected in 2004 when the people who have been misled and lied to put them back in office to continue what they started. It is one thingto have Bush's brother put him in office the first time but there is no one but the American people to blame for the second time.

If these two are impeached, which there is no doubt they should be , look who becomes president, Pelosi, oh my god from the toilet right onto the sewer.

I am happy to see that not all is lost and that there are plenty of good americans that think like I do. Mr Mc.Govern you lost the election and did not learn nothing from it,
thats wy you lost and remain a big loser.

Exsoviet:

Don't be too bothered by these fools. They are just the same type that would be communist party appartchiks during the Soviet days keeping busy by spying on their neighbors. They are leftists who in their hearts really don't like their own country or themselves and thrive on self-delusion and the advancement of evil.
Oh, and "BDS" stands for Bush Derangement Syndrome if you didn't know. Do a search for it if you're interested. It's a real pathology and on heavy display here.

It seems about true to form for rabid republican posters to largely avoid the issues and rant like high school punks. Calling a man senile or a lefty moonbat or other similar things just because he is an elder politician of a different political bent does nothing to elevate conservative principles or advance the cause. It just tells Americans what to expect to pass for political thought from so-called conservatives if they are re-elected. If you "elect" a C student as president and expect a great statesman you are deluded, but if you elect any American of any party as president and see him eviscerate the constitution, deplete the treasury, damage the presige of the nation, fail to properly use our military might, have his administration expose and disclose the identity or our agents, tamper with the objectivity of the federal judiciary and federal prosecutors, and otherwise undermine the foundation of the economy, democracy, and justice, then you do have a the building blocks, however late-constructed, for impeachment – defined in the terms given us by the founders.

McGovern's irrelevance only increases with time.

He would have our president crawl on his knees to Osama bin Laden to beg for an end to Islamist terrorism.

I agree, Impeach those lairs!!!

How do the people stand up for themselves? Are the people willing to walk away from their jobs, perhaps lose their jobs, to go march on Washington in protest and demand impeachment? Unfortunately, the answer, for now, is no. No one is willing to take the risk to stand up and be heard publicly. Too afraid of the consequences of speaking up, when there shouldn't be any consequences for free speech.

"Free speech zones"?

Do I remember the Presidents car being egged during his second innauguration?

The President of the United States should be at the very least an intelligent and honest man. This Bush is neither.

Education, knowledge and free speech are cornerstones of the power of the people, sadly, the majority of the population is not knowledgable about current events in this country, much less the truth about politics and our leaders, where does our education system rank among other nations now? Free speech, the Govn't has made us too afraid to stand up publicly and be heard. Those things should change.

I really got a kick out of the delusions of the BDS sufferers here. Thanks, y'all!

But as usual it makes me ponder the deeper question of what happened to these fools in their lives to poison their brains so much. Was it somethng formative in youth? Some kind of indoctrination that warps a normal mind into that of the Western Leftist? Maybe it was a combination of factors but it all adds up to a waste and a tragedy.

Yes, Yes, I agree, Bush and Cheney should and MUST be IMPEACH.
The most sacred document for all American's is our CONSTITUTION and these two individuals has violated it.

Calling for an impeachment against a politician is a laughable subject in it's entirety. Asking the political machine to police itself ! I hate to wake any of you people up, but it won't happen. Birds of a feather stick together and if one goes down it will have a dominoe effect on a lot of the crooked swine. The whole political gang should be indicted under the *RICO STATUETS", and I mean both parties.

Seems as thought good 'ole Georgie Mac is throwing stones not only at the President, but at Congress, and Senate. Wouldn't he be more accurate, to suggest impeaching all of the American Politicians?

Can we please send McGovern and Jimmy Carter somewhere? The American People were not interested in their thoughts, ideas, and policies in '72 or '80.
Only CNN and Libs with no facts are interested now.

America got exactly what it voted for in Bush and Cheney.
They knew what they were getting, and if they didn't, they weren't doing their homework.
We are now paying the price.

The only arguement and Bush/Cheney supporters have throughout these posts is that McGovern is a washed-up, weakling. Obviously, they don't disagree with him, or else there would be some good arguements why they SHOULDN'T be impeached? I haven't found one in the 700 or so I've read.

If you don't like the answer, attack the messenger. Good work fellas.

As a 38 year military vetran, with 5 hostile fire tours (including 2 in the current conflict), I am glad to see someone, such as Mr McGovern stand up and say what many of us think.

Everyone, serving the people of the United States, takes the oath to "defend the constitution of the United States against all enimies, foreign and domestic". The current administration has violated our constitutional protections and laws, ignored rules of decency and international law, the the United States pushed for after World War II, and appears to consider the citizens as servents of the government rather than seeing the govenment as an instrument for consolidating the need of the people.

The need to have this group removed as the "legal" representation of our country needs to go through our representative and legal branches, prior to the end of the current governing cycle so the next (or more) administrations do not spend large amounts of time explaining our lack of backbone to the population and the rest of the world.

I have to agree that both Bush and Chaney are guilty of impeachable offenses, especially where related to their oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. However the true failure in our country does not belong to them alone, it belongs to our electorate who put them and the cowardly congressional members in office. If we are going to be a strong nation we need to start by being strong and responsible citizens.

It does"nt speak to well of you folks willing to listen to a loser like Mc Govern.
I would be willing to bet most of you don't even know his record but are willing to jump on the wagon with him just because he speaks out against Bush.
Have any of you stop to think about all the things that were dumped on president Bush right after he took office? I do not recall in my almost 60 years another President that has had to fight the battles he has since day one.
Can you imagine the trouble we would be in if Al gore had been elected? We would probally have been taken over by another country by now.
It is time to be realistic and see that President Bush has kept us safe and prevented other attacks on us.
People let's grow up and act like responsible adults and give the President credit for what he had done for us. I am a registered Democrat and say Thank You to our Commander and Chief for a job well done.

DRH

I hate to mention this, but being incompetent is not grounds for impeachment, neither is being gullible.

What proof, that is concrete evidence, that the President lied, and in doing so violated a law (i.e. perjury)? Not liking a President's policies is not a reason for impeachment.

If you do not like the way the government has spent the tax dollars that you have sent, I think you need to look at congress as well since they are the ones who, in conjunction/agreement with the President, pass the federal budget every year.

By the way, having traveled to approximately 20 countries, including the Far East, Western and Eastern Europe, South and Central America, most people still love America and Americans. It is the only country in the world where you can come from anywhere and be adopted as an American (assuming you do so legally). I could live in France for 50 years and the French would never consider me a Frenchman, just as an example.

It has been my observation that the most hatred for America and Americans, not counting the Middle East who hate everybody (including themselves), comes from Americans.

Have a great day – Tony

I wish McGovern could look this sullen and concerned over the slaying of millions of innocent unborn children.

All you people who have commented sincerely scare me as an American. You want to impeach them because you do not like them, not because you have proof of anything. I have never, not once, in eight years seen any solid proof that either of them did anything illegal.
I love the fact that you turn and twist Iraq in any way that suits you. Was the war about oil? Yes, it was. It was about securing a vital resource to our nation. Like it or not, this nation revolves around the use of oil and if our oil goes away, so does our economy. If you think it is bad now, then imagine how it would be if Saddam Hussein was in control of about 30 to 50 percent of the world's oil and could simply turn it off. He tried that twice and failed thankfully. He was going to try again.
Securing that resource meant giving the people their a voice which Bush has done. I think it is truly disgusting that people say horrible things about Bush for giving people democracy. Is it perfect? No. Did he implement a plan well? Early on, no. Have lots of people died from infighting? Yes. Have things improved? Yes.
Finally, you say he is the worst president ever and that is your right to have that opinion, but back it up. He has helped keep our economy strong through 9/11 and multiple major national disasters. A strong economy does mean that people are getting rich, but that helps us all because good businesses that want to stay strong reinvest in things like their workers.
I know you are going to say that the economy is weak now and that is true. But remember, if you are going to say that the economy is weak now, you have to admit that it was strong at one point as well which means Bush helped it get that way.
Finally, you can disagree with me all you want, just try to do it without so much venom. Also, try to add some facts that back up your points more so they are more legitimate. Just because other people say the same thing you do does not make you legitimate.

Where was McGovern when Bill Clinton was lying to congress? We all know that he was strangely silent. This is not a matter of conscience, but old line partisan politics as usual.

I want to see all the crimes laid out in detail, then go from there.

The liberal democrats in this country have something in common with the radical muslim terrorists: they hate our President. Disagreeing with the President's policies is a matter of preference and I don't fault them for that. But hatred is dangerous and history has shown the suffering and oppression that can come from unbridled hatred.

George and Dick are an embarrassment to the entire world. Time after time after time after time they prove their stupidity. I just cannot believe we haven't impeached them yet. It has nothing to do with politics as some say and everything to do with abuse of power and ineptitude for the job.

You are right but a tad late, George.

Honor, Courage, Intelligence, Statesmanship, and dedication to Constitutional Law has no place in American politics. Bush, Cheney and all their breathless supporters were given the Democratic Blessing when FEARLESS NANCY wiped the impeachment issue off the table.

This Nation is destined to drown in the rather unfragrant pit of self-indulgence. And for that end, we all can thank those folks, both past and present, that came forth from the same mold as Bush and Cheney.

Only someone who is clearly out of touch would demand our president be impeached. Mr. McGovern should pick up a U.S. history book and read. Historically, this nation more times than not, has not had the stomach for war. Unfortunetely for us as a nation, too many people are still around from the Vietnam era. They remember the crap that went on and now think it's happening all over again. Unlike in Vietnam, the stakes are much higher in Iraq, and retreat is not a realistic option anymore. People tend to forget that all U.S. presidents, not just George W. Bush, but all presidents when making a decision to go to war or not, act on the intelligence that ia available at that time. Since when is it so startling that the C.I.A dropped the ball. Clearly, there was a breakdown in the intelligence that was coming over seas. President Bush did what he thought needed to be done. It bothers me also when the media only gives the people half the story. Everyday, we here a daily update of how many troops are killed in action, never a daily breifing on how many of the enemy is killed. No wonder 70% of the country wants out of Iraq. Someone tells you everyday about how many we lost, and nothing of the progress being made, you're going to get sick of hearing it. Lastly, the rights granted to soldiers of a foreign power under the Geneva agreement, in no way applys to terrorists. Terrorists' name by definition means scumbag. These dirtbags have no loyalty to one particular nation, therefore we should do what we need to do, to make sure Bin Laden is captured or killed, Al-Qaeda is broken, and the war won. Sincerely, Loren M. Fowler

It's about time! We impeached Bill Clinton for telling a lie. We kicked out Nixon for his coverup. What are we waiting for re Bush and Cheney? They've repeatedly lied, covered up, and in their administration they've made every effort to destroy our country's reputation. The economy is in the tank, unemployment is rising, we're in a senseless war while our enemy publicly laughs in our faces. We need to kick them out of office now....BEFORE they start a third war....this time with Iran; even though they've already been proven wrong about that country too. Where is the courage of our Senate and House? Is that covered up as well??

Mc.Govern, in reality he sould retire in the border of Pakistan and Afganistan and drink Tee with the same people that feel like him, its a shame that we have people that use the little brain that they have to put our country down and all the good people in it. It does not matter if you are for or against the President, but to put mud on our country wehn good kids are given there lives and thank god that he newer was electet to that office, but you see, we do have a democracy, we have ewen nerds that can speek out, ewen with out brains. Mc.Govern, please return to your hole.

WAY TO FROTH UP THE TROOPS,,,,, Mr mooney,,,,,, All the haters and wacos will come out from under there rocks on this story,,,,,,, just when I thought it was going to be alright to get on with the future of our great nation,,, BAM ,, another " GOING NO – WHERE " Impeachment story designed to rally up dem candidate support,,,,, COME ON ,, REAL presidents ,,Ones that were actually elected ,, like Clinton and Carter have looked into the pssibility of impeachment have pressed the issue , investigated every avenue of hope for impeachment and come up short. Why is that Mr. Mooney,,,, If there was Real criminal merit above and beyond a shadow of doubt, like so many believe. These two great dem leaders and there powerful friends " IN THE KNOW " , would have found it, used it, and started the impeachment process long ago. This current administration is simply not that good at hiding things,, I believe we can all agree on that one fact, and that being said Would have slipped up, left a trail, or had some-one defect and spill the good stuff by now . all the finger pointing has to do with this war on terror, and in times of war under every past president things happened,,, by the day, by the minute,,, and not always good things,, war things,,,, war is hell, war is ugly , there is NO nice way to conduct a war,, there is only to WIN,,,,,,,, the only argue ment there is ,,,,is how we got to Iraq in my oppinion,,,,the facts of that will be sealed for fifty + years There was only a couple of no votes in congress not to go ahead with this war on terror after 9-11 ,,, that is what will stand in the way of impeachment on every issue on the war and BUSH WRONG DOINGS.

Rhetoric and more rhetoric, lets face it "We the People" as a nation are complacent and have not joined together for change for decades. McGovern forgot to mention Rumsfield and Rove to complete the axis of evil with Cheney. Bush is a drunkin moron and a puppet dancing to whatever string daddy Bush wants to pull using his old advisors to perpetuate his old agendas.

Of course those two should be impeached. Duh. I am, however, continually amazed at those who still think Bush and Cheney represent anything near the ideals of what America is supposed to mean. Their 'Amerika' is not mine.

Well, the Tory/Loyalists are about 30% of the population. The rest of us have to keep an eye on them from now on.

"It has long been said (ostensibly by Benjamin Franklin, but we can't be sure) that 'democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.'" ~Bill Moyers

Poor George M.!

He just doesen't get it.

Honesty, courage, inteligence, Statesmanship, Honor and dedication to Constitutional law has no place in American politics. Bush, Cheney and all their panting supporters were given the Democratic Blessing when FEARLESS NANCY wiped the impeachment issue off the table.

You are right but a tad late George. This nation is destined to drown in the rather unfragrant pit of self-indulgence.

And for that end we can all thank folks, past and present, who were welped from the same mold as Bush and Cheney.

It doesn't surprise me that those who oppose such an idea as impeachment of Bush and Cheney have made their argument for such opposition by saying that the accuser, McGovern simply isn't qualified to make such a statement. Well, neither am I, neither is the opposition and neither is anyone else who has posted a comment on this issue. The fact of the matter is, our government is broken, our congress and senate are not doing their jobs, and in the eyes of many Americans, neither is our president. If our government worked the way our forefathers meant it to work when they drew up our constitution, the American people would at least be given the opportunity to hear all of the evidence for and against the accusation of impeachment of our current president and vice president or any president and/or vice president for that matter. Should Bush and Cheney be impeached? I don't know if they SHOULD be but I do know that as I PERCEIVE their performance, I personally feel that our government should at least hear the evidence and our congress and senate should THEN make a decision based on that evidence. For our congressional leaders to simply say that impeachment is off the table is a slap in the face of every single American citizen. I would think that those who oppose impeachment should welcome impeachment proceedings so that the evidence could be heard and if innocent of the accusations, the president and vice president could be exonerated once and for all. This would also help to put the American people put at ease by knowing that our government works and cares enough to hear the evidence in the matter. The point is, it's not whether or not Bush and Cheney should be impeached, it's the fact that our government is broken and none of us will ever know if they really should have been impeached.

We are always putting blame to our president.

Remember when Bush didn't act right away after 9/11, we were ranting.

And now, we are ranting again because he did his best to save our country from more disaster.

So what?

i have wanted to b an american since cowboy days, now i am 55 over with 2mid-aged boys after 9/11 i asked them to enlist in the usa and help with dealing with their problem in afghan, my sons thought me crazy but they did think about it.
then 2003 another war?a wrong invasion?for oil?or whatever? the conspiracy for wealth had begun, with the lives of young americans who still think they r on the right track, the lies have led all astray, missing E mails, tapes, planes, tanks, documents and all the monies unacounted for, indict the whole bushclan the judges too. impeach clinton for lust? impeach bushclan a must.
lucky for me, my sons r still around.

Easy to speak up when the country's opinion has changed to match your view. Wuss.

Now that the Iraq war has turned in AMERICA'S favor, and the liberal and leftwing news media houses don't have the flow of negative news to churn out and make Bush horrible, CNN is leading the way with w statement from McGovern calling for Bush and Cheney to be impeached.

Not only does CNN know this is impossible, but that Bush and Cheney did not break any known laws, even with allegations of lying and violating the Constitution. Everything these men stemmed from 9-11. They were not perfect in executing strategy, but their mission was clear: PROTECT AMERICA and AMERCA'S INTEREST!

Hey, did you guys know that former NBA player and former New Jersey Senator, Bill Bradley, issued a statement this past weekend endorsing Obama? That's powerful stuff, but why isn't CNN bothering to make that an item on its TICKER? Well, that doesn't sell by generating people's anger against Bush and Cheney, even though people are more preoccupied with the candidadtes for 2008.

Talk about being a source of distraction, you have to wonder what is CNN's motive with this McGovern tripe?

When was the talking points memo handed out to ya'll? What a bunch of sheep!
I wonder how many posters on this site even graduated from high school and understand how government works, the true balance of power and who knew what when all hell broke loose! The only knowledge they have is probably from School House Rock's "How a bill becomes a law"! Give me a break!

America is now, the new Rome.

While I agree in theory that they probably should be impeached, I tend to agree with Ron Paul on the subject that Impeachment is such a large step that you really have to have a full and open investigation prior to impeachment. Without such a step, a successful impeachment would likely be ridiculed as merely a "partisan" political step, and an unsuccessful attempt would be seen as a failed attempt by "partisan" democrats to oust a sitting Republican President.

With an investigation, as long as it is open and transparent for the most part whatever the decision, it would at least have some evidence and be researched.

I'm currently writing from KL, Malaysia and have been traveling India and SE Asia for at least several months and have become exhausted by all the questions asking why Bush, Dick, and Rummy haven't been charged with War Crimes and kicked out of office.

I'm tired of making excuses for the lack of action on the part of the Congress and Senate to impeach, which should have been done years ago.

As an insider, on the outside looking in, America looks terrible to the World and I'm ashamed of our politics – Its easier to tell people I'm Canadian and avoid the abuse thats destined to punish me.

McGovern makes vague generalizations without specific legal charges. Most of the charges he makes in the article are political, not legal. Specifically:

* Having an unpopular war is not an impeachable offense;

* Having a poor federal response to a natural disaster is not an impeachable offense;

* Lying is not an impeachable offense, even when one is under oath at the time, for precedent caselaw, look at the impeachment trial of William J. Clinton;

* Elizabeth Holtzman is not the ultimate arbiter of justice in America, therefore violating the law in her opinion is not an impeachable offense;

* Taking military action without a declaration of war is clearly not an impeachable offense. If it were, McGovern should have called for the impeachment of every President since Carter;

* Having "clumsy, mistaken policies" is not an impeachable offense;

* Disagreeing with parts of one's own Administration and agreeing with other parts is not a high crime and misdeamanor;

* Suspending habeas corpus is not an impeachable offense – if it were, President Lincoln should have been impeached;

McGovern, like all other liberal Democrats who lay these ridiculous charges, wants to impeach Bush because he disagrees with him. This is an irresponsible and dangerous expansion of what should be a legal proceeding, not a political one.

If George McGovern had his way, disagreeing with him would be a crime; in fact, if people like Holtzman and McGovern had their way, simply being a Republican might be a crime. The nation would be vastly more damaged by the implementation of McGovern's recommendation than it has been by the Bush Administration. We must be a great nation by avoiding the kind of political persecution that McGovern recommends.

Indeed, this philosophy of McGovern and the radical left – that Bush should go on trial for his political beliefs – let's call it McGovernism. And as we call it that, let's remember another "ism" that operated along similar lines earlier in our history: McCarthyism. That's the basic path that McGovern is advising we follow, and it leads away from democracy and responsible governance, not towards it.

I couldn't agree more. We spent how many millions investigating Clinton for a real estate deal and his personal peccadilloes. This administration has cost the lives of how many? Clinton's errors didn't cost any lives, and yet we impeached him! McGovern is right. Congress is worried about the Armenian genocide; while Americans worry about health care, retirement, outsourcing, the cost of living, etc. Hello?!

I've thought often of Nathan Hale's purported comment at the time of his execution by the British that he "Regrets that he has but one life to give for his country." I can imagine Bush and Cheney thinking they regret that they have but thousands of other people's lives to give for getting their money. I grew up reading about the founding fathers and the true patriots who founded this country. Have we no people of great character left in America? I don't see any. One more year of Bush-Cheney – and then how many decades paying for what they have done to this country?

It is wasted time and political capital to deal with this red herring. Obviously criminal wrongdoing on this administration's part would be a slam dunk but it would also be fodder for the rightwing leading up to the election. The minority party has dragged out every bill and played obstructioists at every turn and it would be better to point this out than to look as though you are going on a witchhunt. Leave that trash to the Republicans and the swiftboaters, It is what made them the minority party in the first place.

McGovern is right but a lonely voice, and lonely voices are rarely heard. Not enough statesmen, only politicians. There isn't enough courage or moral fortitude left and our modern Rome slips and slides on self-interest. The boldest stroke on the part of self-interest was to take down Dan Rather. We will eventually fall. But, for what its worth, McGovern is right.

I think it is noy only the congress, senate, nor the republicans or democrats, but also the people. You and me! Does anyone know the process of impeachment? Starts in the congress who decides by majority if the president is impeached, then the senate makes the sentence. How many people have gatered together and put pressure on their congressman to start the impeachment process? Me myself have written to several congressmen and senators demanding the president is impeached. The only one who responded is Hillary Clinton, and I heard that she actually reads her mail and considers the views and ideas of people who write to her. Seems to be true, because she responded to me. But look people, I am only one person! This never results in much change. My husband keeps warning me to be careful or I can get in trouble, but I told him if anyone wants to join me I am not afraid to seak what I believe or that I can get in trouble. So people, please try to take some action and join together. The squeaky wheel gets oild, so if the congress, senate, democrats or republicans are not acting, then start putting pressure on them, start speaking up, and join together. If anyone is wonderring why it has taken so long, then start taking some action. Write to your congress and start putting pressure on your congressman. And if you want someone in office that is not afraid to stand up and take action, then son't look to Obama. He is nothing but a good motivational speaker, and only good for talk. If you want a candidate who is not afraid to take action and will listen to your views, then look to either Ron Paul, Huckabee, or Clinton. Regardless of democrat or republican, these are the three who can make change. I live in Egypt, so it is difficult for me to gather together with anyone, but if I lived in the States I would for sure be organizing groups. But I am doing my part from here by writing to congress and the senate.

Thank you Mr. McGovern. And praise for speaking openly. We must urge our Senate and House to see impeachment proceedings through to completion. Truth and Justice require it. And our people deserve it.

When the next president is inaugurated our nation should ask Halliburton to leave full time for the Emirates, not just move their main offices there, and discontinue their American business connections.

Do you think Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney are aware of how Americans really feel about them? The White House Press meetings are a farce; they assume all people watching can be fooled.

If it were not for this internet blog would you be talking to your neighbors about this situation? Many are afraid to speak openly. In San Diego the tv and radio and newspaper are controlled, they are one voice: supporting Mr. Bush. We need to act immediately. Our future requires it. They are after our net now. Impeachment Immediately! Please!!!

Just wanted to thank George for his courage to say what needed to be said.

How about crimes against humanity?

Shame on you, CNN, for printing Steve Austin's comment (5.36pm, 1/6) about "time to get the country...out of the jews control". This is racist and distasteful, and, hopefully, not indicative of the views of either CNN, or the many other correspondents who have chosen to comment on this topic, either prior or subsequent to Mr. Austin.

Given the numbers of people across the world who have read this comment and may be dismayed by it, I suggest an apology and retraction would be in order.

How about crimes against humanity? “Guilty “

Ol' Georgie is getting senile, methinks. There's no reasonable case for impeachment here unless you're a left-wing Democrat who doesn't care about protecting this country and is ready to hand us over to the terrorists. Then impeaching a President in time of war for fictional crimes makes perfect sense.

Just for review, it should again be mentioned that during World War II, George McGovern served as a B-24 Liberator bomber pilot in the Fifteenth Air Force, flying 35 missions over enemy territory from bases in North Africa and later Italy, often against heavy anti-aircraft artillery. McGovern was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross... so he is a man very unlike Cheney or Bush.

WmSF, Reg.Army 1969-71, son on active duty USArmy

Here's a better idea....

Get Superman to fly around the world backwards very fast to turn back time to the year 2000 and make sure we elect Gore decisively this time.

It is time the people of the United States stand up for themselves if our government/congress/senate isn't going to. It is time for Cheney and Bush to realize they don't have free license to toss our Constiution around and use or disregard it as they see fit. Make an example of them, show the powers that be they can't ignore the law, or the people who elected who elected them.

What's so depressing is in spite of all we know about this administration, all the comments from childish, petulant, idiots Bush traitors, who have put loyalty to the GOP, and their own frail egos, above that of the nation. It's not patriotism. It's not supporting the troops or loving the country. It's belligerence and denial. Politics really IS personality. People support Bush & Cheney because they are LIKE Bush & Cheney. Sadly, about 30% of our country seem to be scoundrels. That's too many.

LOL!

The illusion that the USA elects our leaders through fair and open elections is a myth. The fact is that our poltical systen has long ago been acquired by powerful corporate interests. The Bush Admin is just the most visible example of the collusion between gargantuan coprorate interests and government.

While I, and millions of other Americans, believe that Bush/Cheney should be impeached, it is very doubtful that it would ever happen.

I agree wholeheartedly that Bush and Cheney should be impeached for their lies and deception tactics that led us into a totally senseless and unnecessary war which todate has caused the deaths of nearly 4000 U.S. Armed Forces men and women, over 30,000 wounded, over 1000 U.S. civilian contractors and at least one million Iraqi men, women and children. Not to mention the trillions of dollars it has cost and continues to cost our country. McCain is wrong when he states that the surge is working. It might be militarily, but not politically, which was the whole purpose of having the surge, according to Bush and Cheney. The Democrates in Congress and the Senate desperately need to rise up and start doing the peoples work. Hold Bush and Cheney accountable – It's the LAW!!!

Oh and I will say this also. They make claims of christianity ? Well then God say you might get away with your crimes by man but you will face the most to be feared someday, he will judge you and give you your just deserves for their sins. Remember God knows all and God Judges all ! AMEN

George McGovern's run at the presidency was what caused me, a lifelong Democrat, to cast my first vote for a Republican candidate - for ANY office. My rationale was that, although I knew that Nixon was a crook, I had faith in the Constitution's ability to deal with crooks (and history has confirmed that faith). I did NOT have faith in the Constitution's ability to deal with a president's determination to give away the store. George McGovern is still the sap he was in 1972.

The war(s) in Iraq and Afghanistan were and are necessary and crucial, and people like McGovern (who appear to be a majority of the electorate, judging by the latest news from Iowa, Wyoming, and even New Hampshire), are in the process of bringing the US down to the level of a banana republic. That the press, in its obsessive hate for George Bush, eggs on the new isolationist trend is an exercise in irresponsibility.

What do Americans think was Saddam's motive in invading Kuwait, making war on Iran, and threatening the same for Saudia (together, proprietors of about half the petroleum on the planet)? Had he not been stopped, he would have been in a position to control the entire world economy, and with it the world order. Could any combination of states have confronted him then? How? Tanks and aircraft, if nobody has noticed, run on petroleum. And McGovern thinks trying to stop Saddam was impeachable?

Furthermore , where were all you dumb A's when 911 happened ? oh ,I know, you were all hoping for another attack on our nation or maybe you were hiding under a rock somewhere . Lives were lost , not just in New York but Washington D.C. and Penn. My hats off to the unselfish Americans That Gave and continue to Give there lives for Our Freedoms

And I so agree with you Mr. Mcgovern, it is about time that someone with some status said these words. I clap my hands for your courage to stand up and say these words. I could not ever agree any more.

Ian wrote:
"McGovern is a draft dogging commie, and those are his best attributes. He is still trying to justify his failure to serve in the military."

He was a bomber pilot in WW2. So do tell, what have you done for your country?

By the way, Communists are no longer our enemies... they are now are trading partners and have the power to bring our economy to it's knees.

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"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, It is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, Laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to Laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

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Wow. Still bitter from 72'... get over it McGovern.

It's ignorrant people like Mcgovern that has destroyed our reputation with other nations .I seem to remember when it was considered treason to speak against our contries war efforts McGovern is no better than the islamic extremist that have become part of the alquida groups .some people tend to forget they can live anywhere they so choose go live in Iraq , for you seem to support them more than any True Blooded American would .Any body that does not support Our troops including all theses so-called presidential candidates(Clinton Obama and the list goes on ) should be made to leave our FREE country and live in a third world country

George McGovern... a loony in 72 and today. Like it or not we are in this war, like it or not, we are actually winning it (gasp). George McGovern should be quiet and go back to whatever corner he has been hiding in for the last 35 years. Thank you...

I absolutely agree with McGovern. I visit China often and their view on America just sucks ass ever since Bush came along. Bush is by far the worst president America ever had, if not in a long time.

Where are the Asa Hutchinsons now (Its not about sex, its about lying!!), or Henry Hydes (What are we showing our children?) during Clintons impeachment fiasco.

This administration and their pals have repeatedly lied and lied about every policy initiative. They have defrauded and plundered the treasury, shovelled billions to their cronies and have bankrupted the country. Destroying every ounce of American prestige developed over the last 200 years, this sinister group of ugly Americans running this administration, have caused untold misery for the future generations of Americans. Dropping bombs on wedding parties in Iraq and Afghanistan, they have wrecked any semblance of sanity in world affairs and made America a PARIAH in the eyes of the world.

Cheney demonstrably lied to the 9/11 Commission: he told the Commission that he didn't get to the PEOC until half an hour after he was actually there, according to several witnesses including former Transportation Sec. Norman Mineta. Firstly, lying to federal investigators is an impeachable act. Secondly, why would Cheney need to lie about his whereabouts that morning, especially when he knew that a rogue plane was about to slam into the Pentagon, as recounted by Mineta.

I have never heard anything more disgusting than the democrats debate. It certainly was all the men against Hillary. I don't know how those men are feeling now but I hope they are ashamed of themselves. I would never vote for Edwards, Obama or Richardson after that performance. By the way, I am wondering why Edwards and Richardson are getting so warm and fuzzy around Obama. Do they think he is going to be our next president and they want to be first in line for positions? Never happen boys.

The people writing in defense of Bush, or those attacking McGovern are consistently the most ignorant, benighted, and hateful people on this blog – like the evil Republicans they are hypnotized to support. They lack knowledge, facts, insight, education, and intelligence. They do have emotion – ugly, low, violent, and abysmally ignorant – which leads them to attack the good, the humane, and the intelligent, and to blindly support the demagogues their minds are controlled by, such as Bush, Cheney et al.

Fear is the emotion that rules them, and a lack of self-esteem, based on their inability to think for themselves. They are the products of Hate Radio – Limbaugh and his cowardly, vicious ilk – and their weak minds make them dupes to televised and broadcast rightwing propaganda spewed out by corporate media forces aligned with Bush and his genocidal policies. They would be happier in Nazi Germany than in a democratic republic supposed governed by a Constitution.

While most current Democrats are cowardly weasels who are facilitators of the evil Bush, and therefore criminals in their own right, McGovern and Carter are not. They should both be heros to all Americans. They are role models – thinking, caring, experienced, and mostly humane leaders.

A day late and dollar short old George. Bush has already done irreparable hard to our country and the world. Impeachment to too good for him.

Mc Govern. Please take Jihad Jane Fonda-Money, and Cindy ShiiteHand Fonda-Money with you to Can'tUhDuh, eh. Also please take da good Dennis Kucinich, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid wid you also, eh. They love dose types up dere, eh. Oui. Jus you go on up dere to da Hate White Nord eh. Dose goot Canadiene lov you long time McGovern. Eh. Oui.

To Can'tUhDuh wid luv, eh. Viva Le Can'tUhDuh!!!!

carry out the impeachment case already!! its extremely overdue!

Compared to Bill Clinton's alleged offense (lying about a matter that was never the nation's business), Bush and Cheney are a thousand times more deserving of impeachment. They have done immeasurable damage to our country, damage that will take many years to rectify. They have vandalized the Constitution, and dragged America's most cherished ideals through the mud for all the world to see.

And, ALL OF YOU WHO VOTED FOR THEM ARE GUILTY TOO, especially THOSE OF YOU WHO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THESE LIARS EVEN TODAY. In your defense of Bush and Cheney in the face of their long list of misdeeds, I hear your guilty conscience talking.

if you are so worried about the current admin, why don't so start worring about
the next one, if Obama gets elected then that will be like opening adoor for muslim
extremeist to come at the U.S. again and again. The American people need to
stop and think real hard about who they vote for and who is behind the person
they are voting for.

Yes, Yes, Yes please impeach Bush and Cheney!

This is a question for CNN.
Why does it take so long for my posts to be moderated?

I have to agree with someone else here who questioned why others haven't publicly mentioned impeachment. I know Pelosi said she wouldn't seek impeachment when she got into office. And I wonder why? In 2006 the democrats were given a chance to shut down the Bush administration and nothing has happened. No significant investigations, no funding cuts, nothing. Almost makes you wonder if the Democrats aren't just the minority branch of the Republican party. Bush and Cheney definitely need to be brought to justice and impeachment isn't strong enough. But since the president holds the attorney general's career in his hands nothing will be done. My advice is get out and vote everybody who has been complicit with Bush and his cronies out of office.

History once again proves its value. It requires wisdom from the First Republican Commander-in-Chief to frame the malfeasance and hypocrisy of the current, sorry leadership of this nation. Lincoln was a complex man who understood the basic values of compassion, sacrifice, and principal. He was, in short, simple, and yet profound words, everything that an American leader should be.
We would do well to remind ourselves of the classic proverb that deals with history. Today, avarice, greed, and blind stupidity has supplanted every value set forth by Lincoln, and nearly the entire value set of the American nation as a whole. In their shortsighted, mean-spirited arrogance, the current generation of American political leaders have forgotten history. What they have also forgotten, is that along with themselves, they are dooming a nation to relive that history.
So long as those who lead set themselves up on high, above even the principles upon which this nation has been founded, the people whose liberty they have been charged to preserve shall continue to pay a terrible price.
Let us remember Lincoln's inaugural address of 1864, wherein he spoke the greatest summation of the American character that has ever been uttered. America's current leadership has forgotten that speech, as well as the character of the man who spoke to history in that address.
The American people need to remember it now, more than ever before.

Roci

Of course they should be impeached but we all know it won't happen.
what does blow my mind is the Faux News crowd who will swallow the kool-aid about these crooks.
Chuck

P.S. Have you ever noticed that when Republitards post here there are usually numerous spelling and gramatical errors.
I don't think some of them turn the pages very fast if you know what I mean

I am glad to see some one, in the upper crust of the American government finally go public about the crimminals than are ruining this wonderful country. Unfortunately it is a little late, seven years to late. Bush and his gang should have been imprisoned when they corrupted the Florida elections. I f the normal man on the street had committted the crimes that these crooks have committed they would be in a maximum security facing a firing squad for comitting acts of treason. It maybe too late for impeachment, but they still can be tried for treason. The crimes that have been comitted fall under the same category as Sadam, Hitler, and all other power, money hungry dictators. All I can say is remember the Tea Party..

McGovern and other emotional fools are the reason the Republican Party will win the next election hands down. They cannot stop showing the world just how smart they are and how uninformed we are. The emotionaly immature leadership of the party known as the democratic party are ufo types and conspiracy theorists. Tell the ol fool Mcgovern to take his pill.

In all the e-mails supporting Mr.Bush and His V.P. I have not heard a one give a good reason why America should NOT impeach these so called....men.. They have instead attacked Mr. McGovern...But fail to address his words....Why ? Maybe they know in there harts that what this Man has stated.......IS TRUTH... They find solice in demeaning the man.......Call him stupid or a failer or Marxist....yet keep missing what Mr. McGovern has stated . We are a nation (or used to be) where a man could be taken at there WORD and that has meaning... Have we gone so far that simply slandering the man behind an idea changes the reality of what he said ? How sad America...because if that is true.....we are no longer a FREE nation because the document that out Nation is founded on is comprised of WORDS ....and thoes WORDS FORM IDEAS AND THE IDEA IS WHAT ...........WE..........STAND.....FOR !!!

WE THE PEOPLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some just don't like the truth......they crave the lie because it makes them feel
SAFE.........Im tired of being fed fear by this Administration..Stand up straight America....we must face WHO WE ARE......

WE THE PEOPLE.......

Thanks Mr. McGovern...........the past can always teach the present about the future..........

Eric

Make sure to check this analysis of Clinton's downward spiral, as she clearly looks to be in very big trouble especially as her own advisers are now quoted as saying that South Carolina is lost for good.

Keep at em George! You were right in 72 and you're right now!

I agree whole heartedly with the Senator. Never in my 61 years have I seen such arrogance in a president or an administration. I cannot express the shame I feel
towards my country. I cannot watch newscasts of the 911 events. This country is so close to having a second American Revolution it's not funny. What Nixon did is nothing compared to what this cowboy from Texas has done to America. Something has got to be done to break the strangle hold the corporations have over our constitution. RIGHT-ON GEORGE!!!!!!! Did I mention that Saudia Arabia is the country that we should have bombed into a glass factory subsequent to the 911 attacks. I actually hate those people with a passion.
Semper Fi

Okay, CNN, where's my comment? You are becoming more childish every day.

When you take a look at the Rush Limbaugh/Fox News talking points the Bush treason defenders are using, you realize that they are treason enablers.

This country is not an organic being, It is more than a collection of people or a geographic area but rather it is a society organized around a system of laws, with no one above the law, and with the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land.

Every offense against the constitution, be it a "signing statement", disregard of congressional subpeonas and the destruction or 'loss" of documents, or plain disregard of laws (like The FISA act) and then the attempt to get retroactive immunities for breaking the law, is an offense at the very core of this country, the Constitution.

To systematically undermine the laws of the land and the Constitutional system is pure treason. Those that defend this, including the treason defenders here and on
republican propaganda organs are treason enablers. We have to root them out of positions of power and influence at all levels, much like fascists were purged from many european socities after WW2. They have been a growing cancer upon America and have been engaged in unprincipled "jihad" against us for some time.

It's time we noticed and deal with the danger. It many ways it's already too late.

Well, impeachment has merit. Bush is hardly the first president to pull stunts that were not fully legit. He has a vision, a method it is just that he cuts his margins too thin in order to try to get approval for his policies. He has people coming after him that will approve those thin margins just to watch him fail. If he is impeached they should stand next to him at the firing grounds. Say in iraq several demoncrats went along with the policy just to hang him later. John kerry and Senator Clinton are guilty of this.

I support bush. I have agreed with him on most points, even the reasons why he lied. Presidents often use rhetoric that may not be totally correct.
The iraq war, what went wrong was he went to cognress with a request for 300 thousand troops, it was denied. 200 thousand, denied, 144 thousand, approved, after all who would taken over an islamic country with that few boots?
Katrina what went wrong was the domestic spending bills. Too much was shifted towards the gwot efforts here at home and abroad without dual use efforts to shore things up and those levies were pronounced bad when i was in preschool. I graduated 2 years ago.
I think the republic is almost done with this presidency.

When will the mainstream media do its part in making a true a case for the american public to realize that impeachment is the only way that our country will heal and prosper! This story seems to be getting a large response online and that is where it will end. We will hear about Brittney Spears spiral down and all the election mud slinging while convienently CNN and FOX bury the clear facts that would support this impeachment process! God help us all, Lets hope Lou Dobbs, Jack Cafferty, or Anderson Cooper can actually report on the facts of how we got ourselves in the mess we are in.

So how do we get this going!? What will it take!? We have 10 whole months to get him out and charge him with crimes against humanity. As the people, why can't we have him impeached? Why do we have to wait for someone else to do it!? Rise up!

McGovern.... Zzzzzzzzzz..........
CNN = TRASH

I wish the media wasn't controlled by the government and would talk about this like they should if independent. Then Ron Paul would also be a leading candidate for sure. But instead we live under the control of the government and media combined into people believing lie after lie. Yes there are a lot of people who don't, but way too many who do. And if they weren't so brainwashed they would look into Ron Paul for president instead of another Bush/Cheney duo to control our control again and ruin everything. Ron Paul would get us out immediately from not just Iraq and Iran, but all the other countries that we have bases set up in. He would make your dollar not lose so much value every year while you get paid the same or less. Didn't everyone forget gas prices were under a dollar before Bush was president. The national debt is over 9 trillion. If the Federal Reserve without a gold standard (that Ron Paul wants back) prints unlimited money, your dollar loses value every day. The canadian and american dollar are just about even now. The Euro was worth less than the Dollar and now it's not even close. The American people don't want this, but this is what we get when the government controls the media, and all all of our privacy is invaded thanks to the CIA and FBI(which Ron Paul wants to get rid of and fix). Hopefully more and more people will care and not just be blind and not care.

In 2000 even before he was the nominee of the GOP I began distributing information through the internet and in person about what a disastrous choice Bush would be to become President.

Since I lived only a few blocks away from him (and Cheney too for that matter – I still don't know how they got around that law) and was very familiar with his time as Governor of Texas and the crooked deals he pulled during his tenure. He did some of the same things in Texas that he went on to do in Washington. He declared the state's Public Information/Open Records Act did not apply to certain boards to which he had appointed his friends to manage billions of dollars of public money. He did things that would have gotten any other person without his daddy's aid thrown in jail.

Can you believe that he used to host Execution Parties in the Governor's Mansion and was seen by many people mocking prisoners about to be executed.

He even declared to the Texas Legislature in May of 2000 that "there is too much freedom."

He and Cheney should not be impeached only – they should have their asses thrown in jail with a couple of big dudes named "bubba" and "killer." Then we could sit and watch to see if they bend over to pick up the bar of soap in the shower when they drop it.

They really can't be as stupid as they act, they just think that we are too stupid to notice or care about their illegal shenanigans.

Bob
Dallas

George McGovern is a very well respected man in this Country. What gives you the right to discount what he has to say. He is just one of millions of American's calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. In all past administrations there has never been such an out- cry of impeachment or anti bush-cheney sentiment. As for Pelosi and Congress they are just as guilty and will soon be dismissed. If Americans know what is best for them and care about saving our Country they must remove them. Vote to impeach now! They must be removed one way or another. The Sooner, The Better.

Looks like bashing and nothing more. Its amazing more of the blame game. I highly recommend you change the source of your news to FOX.

It's obvious that many of the neo-cons who comment here have already 'drank the Koolaide'.

Of course, the Republican Criminals should have been impeached a long time ago, but they won't be because the Democrates have no Balls and the Media have a very short attention spans. "Oh look something shiny on the White House lawn!" [eye roll emoticon] Thank god for Jon Stewart or I would have given up all hope by now. *sigh*

Will the conservative commenters here please stop attacking McGovern and Carter and start defending yer boys? ...... or can you?

Impeached, no more mister nice guy ! dick'n bush must be indicted, convicted and executed ! Then we can have lie detectors in any future presidential debates ! Please read the political party statements of purpose in your voters guide. The only party goals or purpose that makes total sense is the GREEN PARTY. However I will register as a Democrat to vote for Edwards in the primary and re- register to the GREEN PARTY for the November election. If GORE does not enter the race, Edwards is the only person that has the best principles and courage to reverse the the total unbalance, mis-leadership, corruption and secrecy that the war criminals using fear and treasonous acts of cowardly behavior that the dick'n bush KLAN has produced. I would pay $49.99 for their pay per view execution.

All you Bush people have been sleeping for seven years WAKE up and don't be so close minded about Bush. Where are all the GI's now, how many miles away? Hmm let think 250,000 GI's 10,000 miles away. How safe are we?

This guy's a total loser. I'm originally from South Dakota BTW. Just because Nixon was wrong doesn't mean that this guy is right.

Dear George McGovern,
Tuck Your Tail Between Your Legs And Find Yourself A Good Hiding Place.
When The Islamic Radical Terrorists Come Knocking At Your Door You'll Wish
That We Would Have Kept Them Away From Our Shores.
A Backbone And An Open Mind Are Good Things To Have.
You Seem To Think That An Open Mouth Is Better Than An Open Mind.
I Don't Want Our Country To Become Another Lebanon.
I Hope That If You Had Been Elected You Would Have Used Whatever Means
Possible To Keep Our Country safe.

james,tampa,fl says:

"Old George sure has the high moral ground. His daughter wonders off in the snow and freezes to death and had an illegal abortion performed on her with George's buds, and had a DUI overturned , and now he's raising his self-righteous voice to condemn a man who responded to terrorist, which is his responsibility. Then ole George blames the genes on his children's alcoholic binges. Yep, here he goes again, ignoring his family, with all their problems, and trying to solve ours! NOT!"

My, my, there is another thread on the Ticker that concerns "Swiftboating".

You write about the tragic death of his daughter, abortion and addiction to alcohol, all of which have absolutely nothing to do with the distinguished ex-Senator's current opinions about the criminality of George Bush and Dick Cheney or in fact anything at all relevant to this discussion.

Please sir, if you cannot respond with reason do not spew such filth into this space.

Yes, let's do it!

Excuse me...what does that mean...my "comment is awaiting moderation"? Did I say anything that might be construed as profanity? I would like to know why my comments are being reviewed before being deemed "appropriate". I'm hoping that CNN is reporting all views. After all, isn't the press still "free' in this country?

I forgot to mention the very telling difference between George McGovern and George W. Bush. McGovern volunteered as a bomber pilot in World War II, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery. George W. Bush was awarded an assignment in the Texas Air National Guard by a friend of his father, and deserted. This difference speaks volumes about what it takes to rise to the top in modern-day "America."

Very well put, indeed. If the impeachment fails, the national dialogue will serve to (hopefully) innoculate us from future abusive administrations. Funny that the right-wing supporters responding negatively to this article resort quickly to name calling and abuse...

finally...somebody is making sense of the travesties committed by the offense administration

I agree 100% with every word. And please pass the message to Sen. Gene Taylor

Wake up America. They are effin traitors. When are you all are going to take all of these scumbag, chickenhawks down?

Let's do it.

Well said, Mr. McGovern! I have sat and pondered countless times why no one has moved for impeachment? I think the message we were sending Congress last year when we voted Democrats in was that of impeachment, but soon after winning, Pelosi announced impeachment was not an option, thereby incidentally voiding her credibility with staunch Dems who know Bush is a poster child for corruption and injustice.

The very fact that he stole the 2000 elections made him dangerous from the beginning. Some of the posters on this forum have suggested he has made America safer: Safe from what? Safe from wars that he himself started? Bush is a liar and a coward who dodged any aspect of warfare himself, but carelessly sacrificed thousands of young American lives on the precipice of a lie-a lie he knew he was telling (WMD). Thank you, Mr. McGovern, once again for having the wisdom and tenacity to bring home reality to an American public that often overlooks the obvious. Impeach Bush in '08!

These two and their cronies should not only be impeached but should be tried for treason! What they have done is inexcusable on any level and we as a nation should WAKE UP and BE OUTRAGED AT WHAT THESE TRAITORS ARE DOING! If you aren't upset at what they've done with our trust, you're simply not paying attention!

To the Hague with the war criminals.

For the diehard Brushies: Try researching beyond the mass media. look up white phosphorous and Iraq. or . . .

Rebuilding America's Defenses, Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century, The Project for the New American Century, September 2000. (where your Iraq war Really came from.) or. . .

Bill 1955 – Another government agency coming to spy on YOU!

How long does moderation take? Forever?

I totally agree; these two criminals should be impeached NOW.

There are so many more charges that should have been brought-up against Bush like; Allowing ONLY the Bin ladden family fly out of the country after 9/11 ( this should be treason). Failure to respond to two national emergencies in a timely manor (9/11 and Katrina).

This administration should go down in history as the most damaging to our country to date...

Where do any of you get your ideas of impeachment and your grounds, If Clinton didn't get impeached then neither should Bush. Your big case is he lied to the American people Clinton did the same thing, Heck Reagan did about Iran-Contra and he in a lot of peoples eyes is considered one of the greater presidents. Show me your facts other than you hear somebody say something and thats your opinion, don't listen to the biased media, form your opinion not Seasn Hannity, or Dan Rathers opinion. Because the only grounds you have are purely curcumstantial. And Come on worse than Nixon, the Democrats are just getting impatient about getting into the White House, huh I guess they don't like stability in America.

This is a great Statesman, a true humanitarian who knows just what it is we are losing and what it is we have lost. How many more of these brave icons have to come forward before our congress listens. WE THE PEOPLE also demand that the President and Vice President be held accountable for what they have done and are continuing to do. Thieves, liars and murderers!!
If any of you have an opportunity please look up Naomi Wolf and her 10 steps. See the unbelievable paralells between Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, etc. and this administration. It's a wake up call that I hope is not too late!
IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH! ! !

This is about as good a case as can be made for impeachment by a mainstream political figure. The Bush gang is actually worse than McGovern makes them out to be. The negligence before the attacks of September 11, 2001 was willful, and we still don't know how deeply the Bush gang was involved in making the attacks possible.

McGovern is also too kind to Bush 41. The first invasion of "Iraq" was a double-cross, Saddam Hussein being told we would have no problem with his action against "Kuwait." Saddam actually had a legitimate grievance against “Kuwait.” They were slant-drilling oil from “Iraq.”

It at least is a matter of some significance that the Washington Post printed McGovern's op-ed. The corporate media, including CNN, have mostly served as enablers of the Bush criminal regime since before it was bestowed in office. The harm done to the country is real. It will be interesting to see in the coming years how much our toadying media share in the reaping of what we, as a nation, have sown.

in about 12 hours this thread will be forgotten by everyone !

i can smell the stink of bush/cheney (and most republicans) all the way from here – Wellington New Zealand. you americans are seeing the final days of empire. you'll be a second class country soon because of the ignorance and stupidity that you unleashed on the world with bush/cheney (although you really started downhill with reagan).

When the Republicans and Democrats first formed their candidate list, I thought, "Oh my God, what are we going to do"? I have watched more debates on both the Democrat and Republican sides this election year than ever before. I particularly liked the way Fox and ABC/CNN worked the NH primary on Sunday night. To have both the Demo and Repub top candidates on the same night. Then ABC/CNN had a seperate Republican debate.

We need to do more of this in the up coming debates!!!!!

I still can't truly make up my mind as to who I am going to vote for, even being a Republican....I have however been able to discard certain candidates.

Thank you for your good jobs of working together networks!

Good for McGovern!!!!

it is ao puzzling to me as a Canadian how Americans tolerate the double standards of the Republicans and the lack of concern for unfairness. It is so clear that Chenny and George Bush has repeatedly lied to the American people and the world on so many issues and keep getting away with it.
IT is so clear that the Bush administration has committed so many impeachable offences .....so many and they keep getting away with it and they were so quick to go after Mr Clinton ,literally trying to entrap him to deny his affair
I guess a republican president is above the law , i have never seen anything like this in my life all that President Bush has gotten away with and has successfully drawn my country Canada in his personal war which was all started with a lie and has destroyed America's credibility and Americans just sit back and let it slide.
As much as i think Lou Dobb is harsh i must admit the man hits almost every nail on the head so hard the hammer is stuck in the wood ,he makes so much sense and so many people criticize him it is almost as if Americans are blind,deaf and dumb . Wake up America you are too powerful and important a country to be so ignorant of what your leaders do and get away with from time to time and it will cost you dearly one day too late,

The house of the People the Congress of United Stated, are full of Congressman and Senators all of then are “FAINTHEARDNESS”, all of then are corrupted.
Unfortunate the people forget the motto of our constitution “WE THE PEOPLE”, in the last part of constitution preface reed as fallow: In the end, however, no constitution can be self-enforcing. Government; officials must respect their oaths to uphold the Constitution; and we the people must be vigilant in seeing that they do. ( unfortunate the majority of the new generation only care above the new technology, using the cellular 24 hour a day, and work like a glutton for work to paid bill) and forget what the politicians that we elected do. Our government is corrupted. This is more reasons to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

What GWOT Has Wrought
On September 20, 2001, before a joint session of Congress, President George W. Bush declared, "Our war on terror begins with Al Qaeda, but it does not end there.... Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." As it turned out, those fateful words ushered in not a concerted worldwide campaign against militant fundamentalism but a wave of repression felt around the globe. Instead of being a standard-bearer for human rights and civil liberties, the United States lowered the bar, creating secret prisons or "black sites," erecting Guantánamo, rationalizing torture and curtailing civil liberties at home. The US-fashioned "global war on terror" (GWOT) was then replicated in country after country, adapting to local circumstances to provide rhetorical refuge for tyrants and forsaking democratic principles. As the articles that follow show, the "war on terror" has been invoked to arrest and torture prodemocracy activists in Egypt, round up street vendors and protesters in El Salvador, rationalize politically motivated assassinations in the Philippines, jail bloggers and censor websites in Thailand and condone military dictatorship in Pakistan. The criminalization of dissent is not new to these places, and it does not always reflect US intervention or security interests. But the "war on terror" is a new paradigm, and it has proven remarkably versatile and severely damaging. While purporting to protect democracy against its enemies, the "war on terror" has become one of them.

The Nation December 31, 2007

gh

I vote for a trial at Nuremberg for Bush, Cheney, Rice & Rummy. For those who are so far removed from reality that they still need more evidence, how about:

1. The United Stated Constitution
2. The UN Charter
3. The Geneva Convention (we will not torture) even enemy combatants must be given a tribunal (trial).
4. Bill No. 1955 – "Violent radical homegrown terrorist" bill – just recently passed the house — setting up another US government agency to spy on US Citizens
5. White phosphorous (chemical weapons) used on Iraqi civilians.
6. Selling our ports to Dubai.
7. Rebuilding America's Defenses, Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century, The Project for the New American Century, September 2000. (where your Iraq war Really came from.)
8. Any Executive Order, (July 2000, 2007) especially re: non-applicability of the Geneva convention. Operation Authorize Torture.
9. Blackwater – not subject to Military Code of Justice. State sponsored militia.
10. Militarization of the Police force. This means AGAINST US Citizens!!!!

AMERICA IS WAKING UP!!!

Would we want another government held accountable if they did to us what we have done to Iraq?

I am sure I will be put on the list by the facists of the current dictatorship. If they were not so wicked, Truth would not hurt so bad.

Research beyond the syndicated media. It will never tell you what you need to know.

This will probably be stuck in terminal moderation.

Waht in the world has George McGovern ever done for America??? Just sit down and shut up.
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He is a true patriot .. not a draft dodger like our current two clowns.

I have to agree with George McGovern, Bush is the worst President the United States has ever had, his total disregard for the well being of the citizens of the United States is appalling. Plus his destroying our credibility around the world is one of the worst things he has done. He has no feeling for anyone, or he would not put American lives in jeopardy by sending American soldiers to fight an illegal war in Iraq. He only cares about how much money him and his friends can make off the suffering of people not only in the United States but around the world.

I vote for a trial at Nuremberg for Bush, Cheney, Rice & Rummy. For those who are so far removed from reality that they still need more evidence, how about:

1. The United Stated Constitution
2. The UN Charter
3. The Geneva Convention (we will not torture) even enemy combatants must be given a tribunal (trial).
4. Bill No. 1955 – "Violent radical homegrown terrorist" bill – just recently passed the house - setting up another US government agency to spy on US Citizens
5. White phosphorous (chemical weapons) used on Iraqi civilians.
6. Selling our ports to Dubai.
7. Rebuilding America's Defenses, Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century, The Project for the New American Century, September 2000. (where your Iraq war Really came from.)
8. Any Executive Order, (July 2000, 2007) especially re: non-applicability of the Geneva convention. Operation Authorize Torture.
9. Blackwater – not subject to Military Code of Justice. State sponsored militia.
10. Militarization of the Police force. This means AGAINST US Citizens!!!!

AMERICA IS WAKING UP!!!

Would we want another government held accountable if they did to us what we have done to Iraq?

I am sure I will be put on the list by the facists of the current dictatorship. If they were not so wicked, Truth would not hurt so bad.

Research beyond the syndicated media. It will never tell you what you need to know.

This will probably be stuck in terminal moderation.

I am saddened to see so many attcak McGovern as an old fart. Some say they never heard of him. Maybe you should study some history . It is enlightening. Others say he is just mad that Nixon beat him . Oh we all know how good Nixon was. God forbid we should have had McGovern or Goldwater instead. As for Reagan , he was the first of the union breakers and middle class killers. I am a lifelong Republican and ashamed that Bush has labeled himself as one , and the party supported him. I never dreamed there could be so many Benedict Arnolds.

I don't know which saying George proves best to be true.......No fool like an old fool. Or once a fool always a fool.

the most important tool for keeping the GOP in line and the Dems from a veto proof majority may be the media and intimidation power of their talk radio monopoly. when americans get a new Fairness Doctrine or begin protesting and boycotting the local radio station for using public airwaves exclusively for spreading white house lies and propaganda with little or no chance for rebuttal, then this bunch will have to go.

In 2003 I had a bumper sticker that I prouldly put on my car that said "Impeach Bush!" At the time it wasn't a very popular notion. It is entirely too late to do so...unfortunately. And if we did, as some of the right wing pomps have pointed out, it would most likely backfire and ensure a republican white house victory. That we can't afford.

EVerybody keeps railing on the democratic congress for not getting things done. Even the media! They don't have enough votes! So America.....elect about 12 more democratic senators, and about 20 more congressmen "women" and see what happens!

THERE YOU GO AGAIN, MOONEY.......AT IT AGAIN! WHAT OTHER CRAP CAN YOU DIG UP TO DESTROY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATON AND THROW STONES AT THE REPUBLICANS DURING THE ON-GOING CAMPAIGN? DID YOU PAY MCGOVERN FOR THIS IDIOT MINDED CHARGE AGAINST THE BUSH/CHENEY ADMINISTRATION? YOU JUST DID THIS TO MAKE EVERY READER RILE AGAINST THE REPUBLICANS. YOU'RE A LOW- MINDED, DESTRUCTIVE LITTLE PERSON WHO IS A FAR LEFT- BIASED- LIBERAL. YOU'LL STOOP TO ANYTHING. WHY DON'T YOU TRY A POSITIVE APPROACH FOR A CHANGE? IN ADDITION, YOU TOOK ADVANTAGE OF A SENILE OLD MAN. WAS THIS YOUR IDEA OR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S IDEA? EITHER WAY, IT STINKS.

Let's impeach Pelosi and Reid, too...!

Finally a politician acting patriotic. America is in need of new leadership immediately. With the administration's rating so low it is about time a politician speaks for the people. Now it is time to act on behalf of the people. The list of wrongs this administration has dealt has become so long that it has made this issue difficult to discuss seriously.

We the people once again need a voice, and our politicians need to deliver our message into political action!

Politics aside , Bush and Cheney have overseen the most deceitful and anti -Constitutional administration EVER! I don't care if you want to indict every other politician . OK . That would merely add volumes to the case against Bush et al . Millionaires and only millionaires have profited from this administration. Gas is up up up , the war that was going to pay for itself has cost us almost 4000 dead , 12000 amputees and more than half a TRILLION tax dollars that we will pay for so far . Probably 3 trillion in the end , if there is one .Taxes for the middle class are the same , jobs are down , the value of the dollar is down, the debt is soaring as never before. Health care here is crafted for the rich. The middle class and the poor get the same care -lousy-no matter how much you are charged in your policies , if you have one. China holds our mortgage , and the OPEC nations control our destiny. I am surprised that when Bush visited the 911 site the Statue of Liberty didn't attack him. I also wonder if that fireman would stand next to him today the way he has treated the emergency personnel in health concerns. If anyone wants to play support the party with this guy you are un -American. Wake up!

McGovern??? He's still alive? Are you sure?

I admire McGovern for saying that Bush needs to be impeached.
George Bush has caused the most damage to this country more than
anybody and anything else.

Time out!
What happened to the part of the Constitution about third in line? Seems everyone wants to throw out whoever is in office if they can get their own agenda into office... regardless of their party

Thomas Jefferson once stated that the elected official that speak out about the troops and try to undermine them in time of war was a treasonous act. I think everyone needs to revisit the documents that defined this country.

If you want changed then vote in November!

McGovern hasn' t changed a bit...still crazy as he ever was and still talking nonsense like the fool he's always been. Sounds like he's really out of touch with reality. There is absolutely no reason that such action is warranted. Radical incompetent just wants his name in the news with all the Presidential candidates.

To Bob 8:24pm: A fraudulent misrepresentation is a statement of fact or opinion (when the listener is justified in believing the speaker), which is material (the listener would want to know its truth), is in fact not true, the speaker either has knowledge of its falsity or reckless disregard as to its truth, and it is intended to induce the listener's reliance, and the listener (U.S. citizens/Congress) are justified in relying upon such statements. Many people call this "lying." As far as the Bush/ Cheney Administration is concerned:

"Simply stated, there is "no doubt" that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." – Dick Cheney August 26, 2002

There is "no doubt" that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them. –
Gen. Tommy Franks March 22, 2003

I have "no doubt" we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction. –
Kenneth Adelman, Defense Policy Board , March 23, 2003

We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad. –
Donald Rumsfeld March 30, 2003

We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so. – George Bush May 3, 2003

I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein - because he had a weapons program. – George W. Bush May 6, 2003

"The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons." – George Bush, Address to the Nation, March 17, 2003

"The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program." Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists, a group he calls his "nuclear mujahideen" – his nuclear holy warriors. Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the past. Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons." – Bush

"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves "no doubt" that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." – Bush

For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on. – Paul Wolfowitz May 28, 2003

"No Doubt," as used above repeatedly means "positively sure" or "we know we are right." This implies HARD EVIDENCE and CERTAINTY, not simply circumstantial evidence. Further, Iraq's possession of WMDs was the basis for pre-emptive strike. However, none were found and now we know that Iraq never restarted its nuclear weapons program afterall. Thus, the statements as to the certainty that Iraq had WMDs are false.

There was no actual certainty as to the statements or else WMD's would have been found after 5 years of occupation. This strongly suggests that Bush and his Administration did not know if such statements were true or not. Therefore, such statements were made with disregard as to their truth.

In fact, the Bush Administration refused to declassify intelligence information for the Senate to consider before voting. Such information is highly suspected to show cause for doubting whether Iraq had WMD's. Some Senator's feel that the Bush Administration cherry picked its information to present its case and withheld contradicting evidence. This, if true, shows that such the Bush Adminstrations statements were made with knowledge of their falsity, and at the very least that such statements were made with reckless disregard as to their truth.

Considering how important such information would've been to Congress in voting to support the war effort, the statements regarding WMD's were highly material to the U.S. public and Congress.

In addition, the Bush Administration made such comments in order not only to convince the U.S. and the world that they were right to invade Iraq, but more importantly, to induce Congress to vote to approve the war.

Ultimately, such statements did in fact induce Congress to approve the war which is evidenced by Congress' vote and statements from senators that if they knew what they know now, they would not have voted to approve the war.

Futhermore, the president and his officers swore an oath to protect the constitution of the U.S. This means that they must respect our form of government and the balance of powers and not mislead Congress. Thus, Congress was justified in relying upon the Bush Administration's statements in voting to approve the war.

All of the above shows a mountain of evidence that the Bush Administration, on many occasions, made fraudulent misrepresentations to the U.S. public and to Congress. If that isn't cause for impeachment and more, then I don't know what is and that is only scratching the tip of the iceburg.

Impeachment is the legal process congress uses to prosecute the president for committing one or more crimes. You may not like what the president has done, you may revile him, you may think he is inept and unqualified for office, and you may even believe he has the IQ of a maggot, but you cannot impeach him because he has not committed a crime.

Okay, you don't like his foreign policy. You think he has mislead you and lied to you in some great conspiracy. You feel your privacy has been violated. Get over it and "move on", do something constructive.

Stop whining, set your picket sign in the corner, put out your joint, say good night to your partner, and dream about the perfect world you'll have when you vote for President Hillary Clinton. You deserve her.

We as a people are obligated to make it clear that the tragedies of 9/11 DID NOT constitute a get out of jail free card for Cheney and Bush to take any actions they may have deemed necessary to "protect" the United States. When disasters such as 9/11 occur, as they inevitably will in the future in some form or another, our leaders must know that they will be held responsible if they stomp on our constitution by illegally kidnapping suspects, keeping them in secret prisons, tapping their own citizens calls...The list goes on and on. This administration has been a pure disaster from day one. The only thing I can think of that would be a greater tragedy is letting Cheney and Bush leave their posts with a semblance of honor.

To Bob 8:24pm: A fraudulent misrepresentation is a statement of fact or opinion (when the listener is justified in believing the speaker), which is material (the listener would want to know its truth), is in fact not true, the speaker either has knowledge of its falsity or reckless disregard as to its truth, and it is intended to induce the listener's reliance, and the listener (U.S. citizens/Congress) are justified in relying upon such statements. Many people call this "lying." As far as the Bush/ Cheney Administration is concerned:

"Simply stated, there is "no doubt" that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." – Dick Cheney August 26, 2002

There is "no doubt" that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them. –
Gen. Tommy Franks March 22, 2003

I have "no doubt" we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction. –
Kenneth Adelman, Defense Policy Board , March 23, 2003

We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad. –
Donald Rumsfeld March 30, 2003

We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so. – George Bush May 3, 2003

I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein - because he had a weapons program. – George W. Bush May 6, 2003

"The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons." – George Bush, Address to the Nation, March 17, 2003

"The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program." Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists, a group he calls his "nuclear mujahideen" – his nuclear holy warriors. Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the past. Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons." – Bush

"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves "no doubt" that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." – Bush

For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on. – Paul Wolfowitz May 28, 2003

"No Doubt," as used above repeatedly means "positively sure" or "we know we are right." This implies HARD EVIDENCE and CERTAINTY, not simply circumstantial evidence. Further, Iraq's possession of WMDs was the basis for pre-emptive strike. However, none were found and now we know that Iraq never restarted its nuclear weapons program afterall. Thus, the statements as to the certainty that Iraq had WMDs are false.

There was no actual certainty as to the statements or else WMD's would have been found after 5 years of occupation. This strongly suggests that Bush and his Administration did not know if such statements were true or not. Therefore, such statements were made with disregard as to their truth.

In fact, the Bush Administration refused to declassify intelligence information for the Senate to consider before voting. Such information is highly suspected to show cause for doubting whether Iraq had WMD's. Some Senator's feel that the Bush Administration cherry picked its information to present its case and withheld contradicting evidence. This, if true, shows that such the Bush Adminstrations statements were not made with knowledge of their falsity, and at the very least that such statements were made with reckless disregard as to their truth.

Considering how important such information would've been to Congress in voting to support the war effort, the statements regarding WMD's were highly material to the U.S. public and Congress.

In addition, the Bush Administration made such comments in order not only to convince the U.S. and the world that they were right to invade Iraq, but more importantly, to induce Congress to vote to approve the war.

Ultimately, such statements did in fact induce Congress to approve the war which is evidenced by Congress' vote and statements from senators that if they knew what they know now, they would not have voted to approve the war.

Futhermore, the president and his officers swore an oath to protect the constitution of the U.S. This means that they must respect our form of government and the balance of powers and not mislead Congress. Thus, Congress was justified in relying upon the Bush Administration's statements in voting to approve the war.

All of the above shows a mountain of evidence that the Bush Administration, on many occasions, made fraudulent misrepresentations to the U.S. public and to Congress. If that isn't cause for impeachment and more, then I don't know what is and that is only scratching the tip of the iceburg.

the koolaid drinkers who still name-call non-koolaid drinkers will never
see the truth because they bear too much blame for our present situation.
if you voted for the cheney cabal,you are the problem because apparently
you can not learn from the past.
impeachment is a waste of time.
wait till they are out of office to indict ,then defending the cheney criminal gang
from
the felony indictments wont be paid for by taxpayers.
let the koolaid drinkers pay for it.
dick can use his halliburton stock
(he probably will want top bunk at the lock-up)

I agree with McGovern! You go George!

It's these people who stand behind Bush, are the reasons why this world is going to hell. If you can honetly not see the problems he has created and the crimes he is commiting then you need to do everyone a favor, find a cliff and jump off it thanks.

Enough talking, roll up the sleeves and send the criminals to the trial for crimes against humanity . Impeach Impeach Impeach

Exhibit No. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,001 of Clinton News Network writing and publishing a press release for some irrelevant, kook fringe leftist freak, i.e., George McGovern, who carried all of one state in 1972. Memo to all of you America hating fools of the Democrat party: There are 50 states in the USA, and this pea-brained dingbat only carried that cesspool of America hating fundamentalism, to wit: Massachusetts.

The people who are here and supporting Bush are the reason's our world is going downwards to hell. If you honestly can not see how poorly Bush is running this country then you need to do all of us a favor and find a cliff and jump off it. Thanks.

Funny that those folks who disagree (at least in the first third of the posts–I have my limits) didn't refute any of the points McGovern made. Not a one. Did they even read the article either here or the original on WaPo? I'm all for open forums, but what's the point of mindlessly calling names? In the original op-ed piece, McGovern lays out a reasoned case, the premises of which you may or may not agree with. That should be where you find points of critique. Noting that he lost to Nixon more than three decades ago (after, by the way, being Swiftboated) says nothing about his current argument. Please learn that name calling does not an argument make–of course the folks in our current political system in general have yet to learn this, so I guess I'm expecting too much of mere commenters on a website.

Judging by all the comments posted above me, the majority of people agree with this man. And that shows a lot. I don't understand why we can't take action and impeach them now?

Impeach Nancy Pelosi for dereliction of duty!

Just promise if you impeach Bush, that you also impeach Cheney, the only worse President than Bush would be Cheney.

Bush is by far the WORST president that we have ever had in our country's history. Bush is to American, what Hitler is to Germany.

I agree with Senator McGovern. Bush is waging an illegal war, or at least went about it in an illegal manner, is torturing prisoners, not abiding by the Geneva Convention/s... He is a liar and a criminal. He was elected by a screwed election, and re elected by Al Quaida's 9/11 attack... Impeach them NOW...

Ms. Pulley

I wish i really was George. I could wait until the election but my alter self decided to attck republicans now. I am far smarter than the real George. I would have waited until OBAMA was nominated THEN I WOULD ATTACK THE REPUBICANS! But of course my altered state is just plain dumb. Mr. McGovern, what a pitiful attempt at politicking when we are at war!! Shame on you you sorry pathetic excuse of a man!

bush and cheney have been systematically ripping this country apart and laughing at its citizens since the moment they cheated their way into office.

That they are still in office is cause for national shame.

McGovern – a man with the sand to say what needs to be said and what needs so desperately to be done.

It is pretty much well known that Mr. Bush cannot lead this great country that I live in. He cannot even speak with self worth. HE IS AN INUPT HUMAN BEING!!! Way to many of his BUSHISMS have been played. HE is no John F Kennedy, nor Eisenhower nor any of anything. And my god in heaven if his brother Jeb Bush, (god please know) as aspirations of leading this country.
PLEASE, to all the hardworking Americans in the United States of
America (we are the people that have made this country as great as it is) it is not any thing in Washington DC not a one.

I voted democratic, but now find that we elected gutless wonders in spite of all their bravado.

It is finally refreshing to hear from a real patriot like George McGovern, as opposed to the unbearable propaganda and shrill rehtoric continuously coming from the phony patriots who wear the trite American flag lapel pins while they do all they can to destroy the Constitution and all teh good our once-great nation used to stand for. The phony patriots should not only be impeached, but hung for treason. Bush and Cheney truly arethe essence of evil.

Aren't we a little late with these sentiments? It shouldn't have taken 7 years to figure this out or to feel it needed to be acted upon. Too little too late, if you ask me. What more evidence was needed to come to this conclusion? The U.S. will never be the same again thanks to the Bush Administration. We Americans should hold our leaders to higher standards or at least the simplest – and that is to represent the wishes of the American people. I voted for a President who built his presidency on misguiding Americans and the use of scare tactics and now I fully support impeachment. I used to be ashamed to be a Republican, but now I'm ashamed to be an American.

I agree.Bush should have been inpeached a long time again.

Did George Bush learn about democracy from Musharraf in Pakistan or did Musharrak learn about democracy from George Bush?
Both are doing some of the same things and making a mockery of the word democracy.
Musharraf is evidently getting away with arresting any political opponet who opposes him in the name of terrorism and George Bush is diminishing the personal rights of all citizens and foreigners in the name of fear or terrorism.
The CIA is right in the middle of all this and doing anything it wants with no consequences. Its a disgrace.
When will the CIA be sent to arrest our Senators, Congressmen, Supreme Court Judges,lawyers,schlorers or anyone else who opposes Mr. Bush?
Musharrak got away with it and George Bush still likes him.

You leftist are engaged in what some parts of the country is termed a circle jerk. Enjoy youselves.

Too late to consider Impeachment. The history books should have an asterisk next to Bush and Cheney. Did they really get elected or did they cheat, not once but twice.

I agree that Bush and Cheney are guilty of many impeachable offenses. They should be put on trial along with Rove for treason in the CIA leak case. Unfortunately McGovern is correct about the Democrat's lack of courage and the Republican's
"superficial partisanship". I thought that we are Americans first, then Democrats or Republicans, but it's apparent from some of the comments that these concerns are considered "whining" and that McGovern is considered a terrorist sympathizer or a crackpot. This demonstrates that some of us have put our partianship before our patriotism, sometimes to the point of blindness. Right on George!

you always know when you're dealing with a whitehouse spokesperson....

their favorite quote: "Clinton did it!"

what they left out is that Alan Greenspan said Bill Clinton was the best president the economy ever had.

what Alan Greenspan also said about IRAQ, "It was always about the OIL."

I guess Alan Greenspan is a lefty too........... right?

labelers don't have brains....and they try to get you to not use yours....they like to brand people....

as being lefties if they speak out about criminals....

take a bite out of crime, do the searches

and while you're at it,

SEARCH on PNAC Letter to Clinton, neocon, AEI

become an informed citizen, do the searches.

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Only those not running for office can afford to call a spade a spade.

I am glad to see that the number of EIB network Kool-Aid drinkers has dropped off significantly over the last year.

Yes they should be impeached and spend the rest of their lives in prison with a great big cell mate named Bubba. And no pardon from the next administration.

They will impeach a president for lying about having an affair on his wife but not anything else.

American principle used to be #1 in the world.
Now everyone hates us.

We have lowered the bar for every despot in existence.

Come on Democrats. How about FDR getting us into WW2? How about kennedy in Vietnam? Not one German, Vietcon or Japanese flew a plane on American soil. hawaii wasn't a state when Pearl was bombed! But FDR deceived the American people to get us involved. He turned out to be right, but HE could had been wrong. Lincoln was responsible for 600,000 american lives being taken. Was it slavery? Of course. The UNION of States was the reason. Bush had A RESPONSIBILITY to respond to ARAB ISLAMIC THUGS WHO HAD KILLED MANY AMERCANS WAY BEFORE 911 and not one attempt was made UNTIL BUSH WENT WHERE THEY LIVED! I don't care if it's Iraq or TURKEY! Go where THERY ARE AND STOP THEM! You self righteous fools complain about Bush when you haven't the darn sense to see the obvious until it slams you on the head! Radical ISLAMIC TERRORISM thru-out the world, and the likes of self righteous George whose family is riddled with alcoholics and sadly, his daughter died in the snow in 94 from freezing to death, and here he is concerned about AMERICA?? He is only concerned about GEORGE M! So you self righteous, ungrateful DEMO's and socialist HUSH!

actually the procriminal minded AKA BushCO and CRONYs

are posting so that it appears that there are people out there that believe the simple minded schlock that sayz that the

terrorists are not George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales and others of that ilk...

truth of it is, there is a bush family, and Republican connection to 911, while there is no IRAQI connection... there is also a UAE and SAUDI connection to 911, Marvin Bush...George W's brother has a connection with security at the WTC and at DULLES AIRPORT, port of entry for SAUDI ROYAL FAMILY AND THE AMBASSADOR OF SAUDI ARABIA....the ambassador has ambassadorial privelege to avoid search....Jonathan Bush, George W. Bushes Uncle was fined $25 MILLION DOLLARS FOR MONEY LAUNDERING SAUDI MONEY THROUGH THE RIGGS BANK IN NEW YORK....some of that money found it's way into the hands of those implicated in the 911 plot.....there is no IRAQI CONNECTION, just bush family and friends....

SEARCH on Securacom, Marvin Bush

SEARCH on Jonathan Bush, Prince Bandar, Riggs Bank

prove me wrong.

there is even a CIA connection to 911, as the CIA trained al Queada in Afghanistan, and who is al Queada...

SEARCH on APRIL GLASPIE, NYT Transcript, Saddam Hussein

and find out how George H.W. Bush tricked Saddam Hussein into attacking Kuwiat...

be an informed citizen not a cow, or a mushroom

don't let them heard you or keep you in the dark and feed you cow manure....

be a citizen, get informed.

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""Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses," McGovern writes. ""

Yep, judge, jury and executioner from a noteworthy, but not very effective politician.

Let's see who CNN will dig up next week to rally the liberal troops.

Madeline Notsobright maybe? Perhape Al "internet/global warming" Gore, or John "Lose" Kerry.

I'd prefer Teddy "The Swimmer" Kennedy, but he would be a the bar.

Go Mr. McGovern! Thank you for saying what so many of us are thinking. How many more people have to die for their failed ridiculous legacy? Lies, lies, lies. For those who suggest that B. Clinton was a worse scandal-monger than Bush. When Clinton lied, nobody died! Bill cheated on his wife. She should be angry and hurt. Not sure why you still are. She seems to have gotten past it. And you want to argue about character? G. Bush was arrested on DUI. He has so many scandals we cannot name them all. How about lining the pockets of his staff via Halliburton. How about failing to provide body armor to the brave men and women in battle? How about canceling health insurance programs for America's CHILDREN? He has a history of poor judgment. If he was in corporate America WITHOUT Daddy's money and influence, he would have been fired long ago. Frankly, he would already be in jail. His legacy is one of disgrace and failure. He has made this proud nation a laughing stock in the world. So far, all he is famous for is being the President during the time of the most devasting terror attack on American soil, for taking us into an unwinnable war on false pretences, and the being the least articulate president ever. His actions and policies have done nothing but inspire a whole new generation of terrorists who plot to take aim at America. His IQ should not even be meaured. It would be a further embarassment. Support Our Troops – Bring Them Home. Impeach Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld! Clean house. Bush has embarassed America long enough.

I can not believe mainstream media would even cover this story. Our media is controlled by the political parties and families in the first place. No president can be impeached in the USA ever. They just are not in control, but are being controlled by others behind the scenes.

For the same reason Arroyo in Manila, Musharraff in Pakistan, Chavis in Venezuela all will never be impeached. The people have not power. Anywhere.....

some of you need to come out of your caccoons and see how good we Americans really have it. maybe then youll stop crying. grow up

Impeachment is LONG overdue for these two. Of course they will use their standard operating procedure – "It's not patriotic for an American to speak poorly about the President" HA!!! It's unpatriotic NOT to hold our "leaders" accountable to the American people! We should ALL be speaking out! If you are not appauled you have not been paying attention.

ALL PEOPLE in this great United States of America , regardless of party, gender, background, must come together and realize it is US, WE THE PEOPLE, who are ALL being taken to the cleaners. This is OUR County, it does NOT belong to those who seek only to sell us out and profit from their power.

WE WILL TAKE BACK AMERICA in November- We the People will raise our collective voices and together we will say loud and clear- Enough is enough.

See you at the polls. GO OBHAMA!!!! You carry a message of hope and unity for ALL Americans to believe in. You don't play the political game or the religious card – You SHOW US by demonstrating your true convictions with your actions. each day. Thank God – a man who wants to SERVE instead of BE SERVED. You are a Godsend. People UNITE!!!

its a shame that people like Mc govern cannot influence the so called political leaders to do whats right. Where is the patriotism of the legislative leaders that swore to uphold the constituition? They have turned a blind eye, and are running scared of an administration that is running around like a bully in 1 st grade.

Simply put, George Bush and Dick Cheney – like all public servants – ( but wearing Christianity on his sleeve) swore and oath before God and the People of the United States to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. That law, which supersedes ALL law starts this way: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Bush and his henchmen have handed our nation to the corporations – private interests. There is evidence he has broken our laws. In doing so they have violated a solemn trust. By impeaching Bush and Cheney we learn what they have kept secret, we learn what secret deeds were done in our name, and we take the first important step toward reclaiming this nation for our people.

This is not the first time the demons of capitalism have invaded our government. Over a century a truly great Republican wrote in private some words that strike a chord today. Are we to let Bush and Cheney make what this man feared a reality? It's up to us all.
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching. It unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.
I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me & the financial institutions at the rear; the latter is my greatest foe. Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed."
___President Abraham Lincoln, Nov 21, 1864 (letter to Col. William F. Elkins)

Hear, hear! Mr. McGovern has hit the nail on the head! We've become lazy and indifferent to what has been happening to our freedoms under this administration and for what? We've lost many young Americans to a so-called "cause" that has never been reasonably or rationally explained to us. Our immediate, national interests have been glossed over by the lies we've been told by the current administration. The recession (which is not happening) and inflation (also not happening) have been devastating Americans who are on fixed incomes and has essentially destroyed the "middle class" in our country. We call for impeachment for a president who can't keep his zipper up, but not a president who is systematically destroying our freedoms and our economy! What does that say to a world who watches us? I do not wish to be included in the 'ugly American" description that those other nations have of us. I would certainly vote for impeachment of this administration, including Donald Rumsfeld, by the way, and hope for a renewal of our freedoms and the rebuilding of our country. Glad somebody finally stood up and said something!

when i was a kid i remember studying one thing that made america's government a unique one, and that was our checks and balances system.

bush has taken over congress, ignored the constitution and we all keep on with our daily lives. when president clinton had an affair, the republicans went gangbusters to impeach him. he was impeached but not removed from office.

what are we saying to our kids when the president lies to the american people, to the world, just to go to war in iraq, and we do not hold him or anyone accountable?

i guess it is, if you are a republican leader, you can do whatever you want. the current democrats are too weak and too focused on the upcoming elections to have the time to impeach. i find it very sad, and this is why i chose to be an independent. i'm sick and tired of partisan politics and equally tired of seeing our american government so corrupted by both parties. bush and cheney are evil in many ways, but the democrats have done nothing, nothing to stop them in their tracks.

one excuse i used to hear was that the democrats didn't have the majority so, ... hey, they can't really do much.

martin luther king was ONE man, ghandi was ONE man, eleanor roosevelt was ONE woman...

ONE person can have a very, very powerful impact in this world.

it would be nice to have just ONE person speak up and finally DO something substantial and i think impeachment is the first step.

Sadly, Mr. McGovern, this impeachment – no matter how just now – will never happen.

The Democratic Party (which in theory would lead the 'charge') has no stomach now for impeachment with the Elections so close. To attempt impeachment would surely polarize the country at this time and (in their minds) risk their best chance to regain the White House in 8 years.

On the other side, The Republican Party certainly has nothing to gain in impeachment. In their eyes, Bush is a permanent stain on history already and I can assure you that NO ONE will invoke Bush's name in a positive light (save to for the Christian Extremists). For them, impeachment would be a self-conviction that "their man" in the White House was an abuser of power and an unethical opportunist.

Nixon may be three decades ago, but it is STILL fresh in the minds of the party leadership and will continue to haunt them for some time to come.

Let's see if we learned our lesson this time around. The first sign of the pending diasater in the Bush white house was when the clown brought in all these dinosaurs from the Nixon era to fill his top cabinet spots. Rest assured when Bush and his croynies leave office they will be millionares many times over.

I agree fully. IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY

Thank you Mcgovern. Bush and Cheney had fooled a lot of ordinary americans specially the Christian right. Both this traitors because of their past dealings with the Saudi Royal family and the Bin Laden family had collaborated with them and put our security at risk. They are both puppets of the Saudis that the Saudis hold them by the neck. It was fishy a few years ago when the King of Saudi Arabia visited the Bush's Texas ranch that the oil jump up after a few weeks, the first start of numerous oil price surge. Now with oil at a $100/barrell we haven't heard any relief from this two bastards.

Same goes with the Bin Laden family, Bush business partnership with Osama Bin Laden's brother in the late 1970's is a concern. Wonder why we still can't find Osama Bin Laden?

Now with the Iraq war. This war should not happen. It is used by Bush and Cheney to distract the ordinary american people to coverup what they had done. This war is a waste considering it was Bush's father, Rumsfeld and the CIA who put the Sadam Hussein in power in Iraq in the first place in the early 1980's and the Taliban in the late 1980's. Like bad Karma.

YES, YES, YES !

i campaigned for the Senator, when i was right out of college.
worked hard at it.

he's still on track.

YOU GO GEORGE you are still a winner, then and now.

Bush & Cheney will go down in history as the worst.
morons, both !

Old George sure has the high moral ground. His daughter wonders off in the snow and freezes to death and had an illegal abortion performed on her with George's buds, and had a DUI overturned , and now he's raising his self-righteous voice to condemn a man who responded to terrorist, which is his responsibility. Then ole George blames the genes on his children's alcoholic binges. Yep, here he goes again, ignoring his family, with all their problems, and trying to solve ours! NOT!

Bush and Chaney among others should be in prison for High Treason. Larry could be added to the list as well. There should be many from the CIA, the SS and the FBI that should be in prison right along with them. The atrocities that have been done are irreversible in many ways. BUT HERE IT IS!!! They are only doing what needs to be done to fill there part in prophecy.
YES! Whether you want to believe it or not – they had a purpose! JUST LIKE CAIN HAD A PURPOSE – (he slew his brother, while this government slew approx. 3000 (WTC)). There BLOOD cries from the ground! God knows! Make no mistake about it. They surely have a lot to answer to and they will along with the rest of the REAL TERRORISTS in this country. But what do you do when this country is failing monetarily? First, attack your own country, blame it on OSAMA and take us to war with another country that had nothing to do with it – to hopefully boost the economy. But, they overstepped their bounds and got a lot of laws passed that should not of been passed; i.e. HR 1955 that will eventually be used against the real American people. Watch and don't see if it happens, not to mention Home Land Security. Where does one begin to even attempt to fix this mess up.Won't happen! (WISH I HAD MORE SPACE) America! Wake Up! Look how far you have come. How our women use to have a high standard of morals but forsake them for the cause of knowledge, popularity and money. Look at the caliber of our men that will not do the right things and speak out against wrong morals but encourage it. What good does it do to talk about morals when people are saying "I've got my rights"! Watch were your rights have taken this nation to. It has (over a period of time SLIPPED in so... unawares) effected the entire world. I could go on but there is no need.

Another Democrat, like Carter, a failure who brings no value to the discussion.

I must say I am amazed.

Several posters here apparently believe Mr. McGovern is still in office, they obviously had trouble with the words "former Senator" in the introductory article.

Many others cannot muster the intellectual strength to attack the ideas, so they attack the man, particularly his age. I would not want to be the elderly parent of one of these folks, they will probably die alone in a nursiing home.

Others apparently believe that Richard Nixon was impeached for the Viet Nam war and know nothing about the crimes of Watergate (yes thats why all Washington scandals now have the "gate" suffix attached to them.) and I sure hope I don't need to explain what a suffix is, but sadly, reading some of these posts I fear that I might..

Richard Nixon was a constitutional criminal, who thought himself above the law, one who could do anything he pleased because he was the President of the United States. He was undone when the famous taping system was uncovered and by the testimony of John Dean in the hearings before the Congress.

When the US House of Representatives returned a Bill of Impeachment against him, to his credit, he did the best thing for the country and resigned the office. He is the only President to do so in the nation's history.

He was granted a full pardon by his successor, Gerald Ford so he would not be criminally prosecuted (which he would have been, given the political, social climate of the times.)

Even one as despised as Richard Nixon, (incidentally, his Vice-President, Spiro Agnew also resigned from office under a cloud of corruption charges) pales in comparison to the current inhabitants of of the White House.

But as much as I might want to see these criminals held to account for the damage thay have inflicted on our great country, I fear it is too late in the game to make it happen, even if the political will existed. I fear their terms would expire before the process could be carried out, it would be nothing more than a gesture.

History will be the judge of these two bumbling fools and I don't think it will be kind to either.

Amen to every word McGovern says, but haven't people been saying this for the past 7 years? I know I have!!! Yes, Bush and Cheney need to be impeached. They both need to be tried for war crimes, scandal, fraud - you name it, the gamut reaches a mile long. Nobody in authoritative positions in this country seems to care that the travesties of this administration continues to be pushed down our throats. Like sheep peacefully walking to the slaughterhouse, we simply take it.
When are we finally going to WAKE UP?

Your country is being led by two grossly immoral men who will be vilified by future generations. I have found so many discrepancies between and official 911 story and those told by professionals on the internet. America wake up! You are being led by Treasonous liars. Their War on Terror has caused the deaths of between 80,000 to 87,000 Iraqi civilians and 3900 American soldiers. All religions teach murder and theft are sins.

The simple fact is that if the Democrats went after President Bush with even one quarter the zeal as that of the Republicans when they went after President Clinton then George Bush would be impeached and removed from office. I would even venture to say that if properly presented to the American people the Republicans would be placed in a position where they would have to support this impeachment. Possibly even going as far as to send both the president as well as the vice president to federal prison for a very very long time. Not to mention the huge number of administration officials

while we're at it, get rid of Fat Cat Kennedy and some of the other money mongers...Hell Kennedy should have been rotting in jail for Murder YEARS AGO!!!!!!

Absolutely... impeachment. If we can impeach Bill Clinton for lying about sexual relations (no one DIED, mind you...), we can certainly impeach Bush and Cheney for crimes against humanity, and the world at large.

But will that happen? Without the top-down support of Nancy Pelosi and other top Democratic leaders, I'm not sure. And though I really, really hate to say it - it IS only a matter of months before they all leave the White House and we can be on our way to a better, more stable America.

Unless, of course, one of those nutjob Christian Bible-weilding Evangelical crazies gets elected; rosary in tow; and chokes America of it's final breath of any prospect of reconciliation from our "dark years."

OF COURSE Congress authorized the war. Who would have thought Bush et al would lie about so many things?

We (had) a misplaced expectation that the president wouldn't lie to Congress and the country.

I was one of the lonely voices that could see there was no hard evidence of WMD and did not support the war.

For example, the famous 'aluminum tubes' that were claimed to be Saddam's attempt to get uranium hexafluoride centrifuges. They were the wrong shape, wrong alloy, and were in fact conventional small rocket tubes that Saddam was allowed to have!
When this fact was made clear, the administration ignored it and continued to make their bogus claims.

George, why not claim you are dating Britney Spears or Anna Nicole Smith's baby is yours? We would believe either before impeachment of George and Dick.

And that's how you shut people up, by making them senile and irrelevant. Oh, I get it, Nancy Pelosi is a gutless wonder, no doubt that's an understatement but then so is impeachment. These greasy tycoons deserve far worse than a pardon by the next "paid for in full" president. But it still doesn't change the fact that George McGovern, no matter how kooky or senile some may say he is, he's right on about one thing: that the real nuts are running the White House and this country into the ground.

Impeachment would be too kind compared to what these rat bastards have done to our nation.

I am a born and raised Canadian! In Canada, we have watched, with shame and sadness, what has happened to our friends douth of us. lies, alterior motives, more lies, cover-ups, more cover-ups, etc. it just never ends with Bush and his admin.

Lest we forget the countless thousands of innocent Iraqis and Americans who have now paid the ultimate price for this disgusting person's arrogant, misguided leadership.

George W. Bush will be forever remembered as a very small man of character who inflicted a great deal of pain and evil during his much to lengthy time in office.

Take heart that Canadians resoundly despise this man. What any of us woudn't give to for just punch at his smug little ugly face. Boy would I make the most of it!

"Now let's see — no domestic attacks since 9/11 and Clinton did not want t o capture Usama when he could have — Clinton should have been impeached for ignoring the terror threat in the 80's"
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Get real. If you want to give credit to Bush for not allowing a SECOND attack on our soil, then you must believe the delusion that Bush has secured our borders and no foreign terrorists can sneak in.

Bush has TWICE turned down chances to get bin Laden. He even had one mission canceled that was already in flight.

Scorecard: Attempts on bin Laden's life before 9/11:
Clinton 1 Bush 0.

"I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about (bin Laden)."
- George W. Bush, the self-proclaimed "commander guy"

I agree with McGovern -impeach.

It's humorous and entertaining reading the 1% of the posts from the neocon element. Shrub or Dick could personally wipe out their families, in front of their eyes, and they'd still blindly follow both men and their agendas while spouting about how great our 'leaders' are. The neocons are a sick, deluded bunch.

I wonder if everyone who things GW should be impeached would feel the same way if one of your loved ones had been sitting in an office building in lets say...Atlanta or Miami or Boston or Chicago or Los Angeles or Seattle....or anywhere since 9/11 and had a loved one killed due to another air attack or suicide bomer or a dirty bomb attack in the US.

You people calling for an impeachment of the person who has kept you safe in your home, office, supermarket, etc have no idea at all what it takes to keep you and your family safe at night. It's easy to through words around and it's another to know the fight you have to fight no matter what it does to your personal reputation.

I think it is sick how people who enjoy the freedom we do will say awful things aobut he people who have the guts to stand up and make our country safer. I feel bad for every soldier who has died in our conflict but it is a conflict we did not start. And, in comparison to other conflicts which ensured our freedom our troop losses are not high. Each life lost in very unfortunate but please give their lost life some dignity by recognizing their fight was worthwhile!

there is a bumper sticker on my refrigerator that says it all. NO ONE DIED WHEN CLINTON LIED.

nevertheless, it remains clinton - who was attempting to cover up a consensual sexual relationship (something thousands of people will do TODAY) - who faced impeachment proceedings. and it was president clinton who was the victim of witch hunt after witch hunt (none of which reached any substantive conclusion, yet many of which wasted million$ of taxpayer dollar$).

the bush-cheney administration has abused power in untold ways, killing THOUSANDS american soldiers and innocent iraqis in the process. they have been caught in lie after lie, abuse of power after abuse...and nothing ever happens to any of them.

they've already been caught lying about what's currently happening - or NOT happening - in iran.

but they continue to be given free reign by a gutless congress, not to mention a blind eye from the nation's media.

the previous comment about including rumsfeld in any legal action is also warranted.

kucinich has been an advocate of this idea for some time now, and it's a shame that all the slimy democrats and überslimy republicans continue to let this travesty continue.

to say this has been the worst administration in modern history would be an understatement. and while impeaching them would be a fitting end to this nightmare, the damage they've done to this nation and to our relationships around the world very well may never be undone.

for being so outspokenly "christian," these two people, along with their cronies, have made a mockery out of not just the constitution, but the ten commandments. and judgment day awaits them, just as it awaits all of us.

it is indeed time, americans woke up, and challenged the current political administration, how could we possibly have allowed these two (bush/chenney) free reign to commit these treasonous, heinous crimes against americans and all of humanity...we must not allow this insanity to continue unchecked...they need to be held accountable for what they have done to the world

I believe that president Bush should be impeached becuse I think the reason we went to war was becuase of oil. Bush and Cheny are into the oil companies. Last week Bush was asked to open the reseveres and his reply was no because he would cut into his pockets. He is not concerned about what is doing to the middle-class.

Show me the solid proof and the where in the constitution it says that we can impeech him for those theoretical "crimes" and then maybe I will start to listen, but all of this stupid rhetoric about him lying to us and congress is geting the country NOWHERE. Congress continues to authorize spending for the war so you can nolonger acuse Bush of murder without doing the same to congress. And since when did this no name become an expert on impeachment, he couldn't even beat Nixon. ha, ha, ha.

For impeachment to go forward there must be a recognizable violation of the law.
Ex-president Clinton committed felonies and was impeached.
It took McGovern, the 85 year old hippy, the whole column to offer a possible offense, FISA.
To go off the deep end as McGovern did and go so far as to accuse the president of some kind of wrong in the 2000 election is childish. Gore & Co tried to violate Florida election laws, the U.S. Supreme Court forced them to obey the law.
Hurricane Katrina, a failure of city, county and state emergency preparedness, period.
Weapons of mass destruction? Prior to the G.W. Bush presidency the overwhelming majority of democrats including Mr. & Mrs. Clinton said Iraq had them . John Kerry, Al Gore and most other democrats agreed.
Torture for Pete's sake, compare water boarding to what the religion of peace fanatics do. Shut up about torture already.
It's time for McGovern to retire to the checker board, senility is overtaking . He's just a tired, worn out loser making noise one last (I hope) time.

In regards to Sam's comment:

Prove to me they lied
Prove to me they broke the law.

For those of you who agree with this guy, and are leaving comments as ridiculous as his, Put up or shut up.

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I appreciate your position and would really like to think that in their minds, at least, there was good reason to go to war with Iraq (at least those they claimed – WMD) Like other people I know, I supported the invasion with the intent of removing SH and making the world a safer place given the information that was being delivered at the time. And yes, like others I probably blocked all the information from the UN because I wanted to have more faith in my Government.

The evidence that Bush and Cheney manipulated the initial intelligence reports on Iraq and knowingly lied is so strong at this point that to deny it is delusional.

Sam wrote:

>>Prove to me they broke the law

NSA domestic spying and detaining American citizens from American soil and holding without charge and without Habeus, for two.

Do you deny that Bush committed these crimes?

I for one will always be grateful that President Bush had the guts to do what was right to keep our country safe since 9/11. Anyone who calls for him to be impeached is an idiot.

clearing away some of the smoke and mirrors which enshroud this White House might enable more of the voting public to find their voice. The dialogue is obsfucated by two horrible myths: first that we are at war in Iraq...not so, war has not been declared, and further, war powers are exercised by the Congress alone... there is no Constitutional provision for Congress to abdicate the responsibility to the President..therefore the "war" is clearly unconstitutional. Second , Mr. Bush was not elected...not twice, as many seem to believe. Nor once as many more seem to believe...the Supreme Court blocked the 2000 election, and through a clever and sinister abuse of power managed to hand the office to GW Bush...in 2004, he failed to win the election again as a result of voter fraud in Ohio, Florida, etc...Mr bush is the first and only UNELECTED President.T unseat him through impeachment would require integrity, honesty, courage, and patriotism that has escaped all bu a handful of individuals in Washington...God have mercy on us all, for our frailure to act renjders ua comlicit as well

I am sure that in few days this McGovern's "gemstone" will be placed on many Russian web sites. And you know what will happened next? Many thousands of russian "patriots" will scream "See... even american politicians think the same way". It happened in old Soviet Union and it is happenning today. Americans themselves fueling hate toward USA. People in many other countries do not have free press where they can hear two sides of the story. Wake up people. Look around you.

Ian wrote: "McGovern is a draft dogging commie, and those are his best attributes. He is still trying to justify his failure to serve in the military."

Check your facts. McGovern served with distinction in WWII. Who are you confusing him with?

It is strange that those who support impeachment are armed with historical fact while those who oppose it are just making ad hominem attacks against McGovern (and others).

The weak Democratic Congress put impeachment "off the table" for political reasons only. They knew that the Senate would not vote to convict because it's half Republican. And, since President Cheney would be far worse than President Bush, it would be necessary to impeach both of them. Pelosi would be, essentially, electing herself President if impeachment succeeded, causing the party in power to change. There is some merit in the argument that this would be seen as a coup d'etat.

I have supported impeachment since Ramsey Clark first published his draft Articles. I agree that the excesses of the Bush administration are so extreme that the only way to save the Constitution is to repudiate this administration's acts in law. Whether that is done by impeachment or by a post-election investigation and prosecution, new legislation or constitutional amendment clarifying the relative powers of the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch doesn't really matter as long as Cheney is prevented from starting any more wars or nuking anybody. But if we don't want to become a serial dictatorship, we need to do SOMETHING to reinstate the Constitution, Real Soon Now.

God bless America.

Of course McGovern is right – the whole Bush Regime should have been impeached some time ago. They have failed all of us miserably and have committed numerous crimes against humanity. God bless McGovern and all those, including Dennis Kucinich, who are spiritual enough and true to their own conscience enough to seek impeachment of these criminals. Let's go to their webistes and support them and contact your senators and representatives and demand justice be done. The voice of the people needs to be heard.

What a bunch of losers.

McGovern is an even bigger loser than Carter - at least Carter was elected president but forunately that mistake wasn't repeated. The only people who are interested in these guy's partisan misguided comments are other Bush haters.

All these Bush haters let that irrational hatred color everything they see - no matter how rediculous. For all you Bush haters out there who can't get past the election of 2000:

1 – If Gore's home state wouldn't vote him for president, doesn't that tell you something?

2 – If Gore had won his own home state, Florida would have been irrelevant.

3 – That bastion of Bush apologists The New York Times, among others, confirmed Bush won Florida and the Supreme Court made the right decision.

4 – Get over it - unless you have a time machine you can't change the past.

5 – And George, Jimmy and other relics from the past need to go back into the woodwork - you were irrelivant then and still are.

I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. McGovern. I have proudly been a Democrat all my life as have been my parents and their parents. I find it unbelievable that impeachment proceedings have not been instituted prior to today. I am very disappointed in our Democratic congress in that they are not willing to fight the fight to set impeachment in motion. We as a people need this to happen not only for this administration but for administrations to follow. Our Constitution is supreme and nothing and no-one is above that in our democracy.

tell the jerk to go to you know where

the congress is guily of breaking thier oath to up hold the constitution for refuseing to impeach these to traitors. we the people made our wishs clear in the last election. harry reid and nancy palosie should be striped of thier post.
scott bowling green, mo.

Thankfully someone of stature and integrity finally has the courage to demand the impeachment of Bush and Cheney who are nothing but war criminals. How can such a great nation allow two cowardly draft dodgers to "lie" the country into an unnecessary war?

JF

Let's see, Congress authorizes the war, gives President Bush all the money needed to continue the war, President Bush wins reelection with a majority vote and moonbats think he's an idiot worthy of impeachment? Moonbats, President Bush has beat you at every step while you have made yourself appear dumber than a box of rocks.

Bravo! It's about time someone expresses the courage to speak out
against this horrific, lying administration. If only Congress had the same
courage...

Seriously????? No really.... seriously? You've got to be kidding me. Don't you have anything better to do?

I'm in agreement with the majority here and McGovern. Impeach their a–es, yesterday. They are both undermining the security and global standing of our country to suit their needs. This is not acceptable. The spineless politicians on both sides of the aisle also need a wake-up call.

Thank God someone has the courage to say this. It's a little too late though.
I've had to work overseas in several dangerous countries for the last 6 yrs, and believe me.....the Bush/Chaney duo are despised by so many people. American lives were in in grave danger many times due to their politics. I say YES America, let's show some guts and get them out.

I am not a Bush lover, however not like you I can think logically. If Bush commited anything impeachable he would be gone long time ago. But noone yet could come with such evidence. I am sick and tired of hearing that he lied. If he lied, so Clinton lied too, ans Hillary amd Schroeder, and Putin, and many others. But nobody says they lied. Only Bush. Now, who can tell me does the fact that WMD were not found in Iraq means that they never were there? Come over to my house and try to find an expensive pen I lost 4 years ago. If you will not find it wll it mean it never was there? "Bush lied" is a lie. And it spread out by americans who simply hate the guy throughout the world and repeated by all kinds of enemies of this country. If you could read non English sites you would see what you are doing.

I agree with Senator McGovern's assessment. Impeachment proceedings for both Bush and Cheney should begin immediately.

I have been saying the same things as Mr. Mc Govern since the beginning of
"The Fourth Reich"
That Moron we have in The Oval Office was all together too happy to send our Military off to war.
First in Afganistan where we were supposed to be hunting Osama bin Laden.
They never really wanted Osama caught.
He is The US lapdog in the Middle East.
The Administration was just looking for a reason to put mass numbers of our troops in the area and Osama was a good excuse.
Even before they had given up on the hunt for him they started the propganda against Saddam.
(remember "Weapons of Mass Destruction")
I knew as soon as that kind of talk started I knew we were going to have troops in Iraq.
The Morons decided that their "Oil Buddies*" intrests were more important than our soldiers lives.

(*Mr Bush was trying to keep his daddy's employers happy and Mr Cheney was trying to help "His" company Haliburton make money off our troops suffering and the suffering of the Iraqi People)

I agree The Morons in The White House not only SHOULD be impeached... they should be facing major prison time(3000+ murder counts)
Congress needs stop trying to suck up to The Administration and do their job...TO CONTROL what Those Morons are allowed to get away with.

If they can not do that then they have no reason to be
"representing the will of the people"
which is what Congress is for...to represent the people's intrests...not their own agendas.
I love America but the people running it need a swift slap to the head.

Thank God we are lucky enough to have a president who has the fortitude and conviction to stand by, and act on his beliefs. George Bush recognizes that the greatest threat to the United States if radical Islam.

Sure, Bush has one of the lowest approval ratings of any president to date. But he currently is also ranked as the most admired man on the planet. Not my statistics, these are the ones reported by all of the news agancies – you just don't see them on the front pages.

There will be a point in time in the not too distant future when George Bush will be recorded in history as one of our greatest presidents. So we will let time and history speak for itself.

Calling for an impeachment now will do nothing but further divide and pre-occupy our governement in Washington and the people of the United States when we have far more pressing matters at hand – such as surviving the attack on our culture, our history, our beliefs and most of all, our existence.

Do the research yourself America, don't rely on the news media giants to feed it to you. Do your own homework, you will be amazed as to what you learn.

God Bless us all, we are the last best hope this planet has. And yes, our enimies want to destroy us, not for anything we have done, but because we refuse to lay down and be told how we should live our lives.

In eight years he never did produce Bin Laden. Everything got side tracked to Sadam Huessin which had everything to do with oil. Even national TV will go dark or snowy in February 17, 2009. Border cities will be watching spanish channels and the Mexican President. We will have to learn spanish and the Mexican President will be informing us as to current events. The U. S. will be going Digital and no more Analog signals will be available. Meaning those who cannot afford cable or satellite will have to resort to board games, puzzles or walking. Maybe this is best it'll make America healthier at least and noone will brain wash you into buying products that are no good for you anyway. Bottom line is where is Bin Laden?

Wow. Thats all I can say. This guy has no idea what he's talking about, or he does and is just trying to gain the support of the ignorant. I would like to know which laws were violated. Over in the Middle East the only people who don't want us there want us dead. And perhaps the lack of support for for impeachment is because all the congressmen know their is no grounds on which they can impeach Bush. This is a load of crap.

Damage had been done, naturally, the superpower devil would justified their evil deeds one way or the other. This world was made of problemhood as the saying goes. In this case a blind leeds another blinds.

Let us pray and pray to god for the innocent to be placed in heaven if you believe in god and who cares for the nonbelievers.

But one thing I do support Georgy Bush is keep on sending your troops to middle east for at least these sectarian -extremist would have a target to go with. Without which they would fight each other. Stupid people thinks alike..

I would have to ask, what can the American people do, to help George McGovern?

Quite an assembly of like-minded liberal koolaid drinking morons posting on this site. All McGovern groupies....very telling....and totally irrelevant. Now, have mommy tuck you in....it's getting late.

This is an idea that is long past its time. There were enough actionable "High crimes and misdemeanors" for any honest congress to impeach either or both as early as 2002, let alone now. The problem is that both Bush and Cheney know with a high degree of certainty that with the republicans currently in the Congress, that any bill offered by even a republican would never make it out of committee even if there was obvious evidence of criminally unconstitutional acts. I will go so far as to say that at this time most republicans in congress are so ideological that they have supported illegal / unconstitutional acts, and probably would actively contemplate further violence toward the constitution. I seriously worry that an attempt to refuse to comply with an electoral loss in November is probable given their absolute disregard for other provisions of the constitution.

I haven't read through all 600+ comments, so I don't know if this point has been touched on yet:

I'm afraid Congress really dropped the ball on this one. I've read and understand all the reasons for NOT bringing action against those two guys (and I'm generally not in favor any more divisive politics), but I feel that we set a dangerous precedent by not holding Bush and his men responsible for their actions.

The democratic majority (okay, barely a majority) that we voted into office in 2006 had an obligation to address the sort of obvious criminal acts that were within their power to correct, regardless of how unpleasant it would have been in the short term. Their willingness to turn their backs on Bush's actions is what precipitated their failure. They were attempting to deal with an Executive branch of the U.S. Government with a completely skewed sense of ethical and moral obligation to the people who elected it to power, all for the sake of preserving their seats in further elections. Now, that same cancer that they turned their back on is coming back tenfold by using no end of manipulative tactics to effective highjack the legislative process. Bush and his associates will continue to get exactly what they want through the last day of their term because the people we elected to represent us fell asleep at the wheel.

In the end Congress deserves a lower approval rating that Bush. Their narrow majority would have been a moot point.

Whatever your feelings, McGovern tried to save the nation from another 4 years of Nixon. Call him loony, call him a loser (losing in 48 states, as stated above) – but by thinking that way, you are saying Nixon was a better choice.
Just because the nation was crazy enough to vote Nixon in (like Bush – twice!) does NOT mean he was what this country needed. He was a cowardly creep, delusional, paranoid, and out for himself and his legacy – just like you-know-who...
We see how well that worked for both of them.

I applaud McGovern for coming out and saying what politicians on the Hill should be advocating. Bush and Cheney are a bunch of thugs!

So long overdue, but......better late than never!

This ball should of started rolling years ago.

Impeach! Impeach! Impeach! NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

The two criminals are guilty of war crimes and eveyone with half a bain, knows it. Only neocons, brain-dead Repubs, and the other half-wits with their heads in the sand for the last 7 years refute this truth.

Long live Senator George for giving voice to the rest of us – Standing by ready to act.

TO IMPEACH OR NOT TO IMPEACH

1.

"The process is too expensive,"

So are murder prosecutions. Drop them all, and the savings will be huge. Drop all criminal prosecutions, and we can cut taxes completely for every billionaire and his valet in our country.

Actually the loss sustained by our Constitution, the rule-of-law ideal and our reputation as a mature democracy in the event we fail to impeach Bush-Cheney will far outstrip any cost associated with the constitutional imperative that is impeachment in this open-and-shut case.

2.
"Stop blame-laying. Look to the future. Let us all get along."

Not so fast. There's a minor matter of accountability here. You cannot commit rapacious acts and, when caught, exhort the victim and the world to forgive and forget and get along.

3.
"McGovern is senile."

Okay, that's his excuse, and understandable, too, under the circumstances.

What's yours?

At any rate, shooting the messenger will not affect the truth one whit, sorry. Bush-Cheney are abominations pure and simple. If you have the guts, and can write, do this: Take two pieces of paper, one large, one small (trust me) and use them to list the 5 worst crimes of the Clintons and Bush-Cheney, respectively. Try to be semi-honest, if you dare. Let us hear from you when you are ready.

4.
"The Clintoms were worse."

Repeat the exercise in #3 above. If you don't convince your partisan self in a half-honest moment that Bush-Cheney are orders-of-magnitude more perfidioous than the Clintons, let us hear from you right away.

5.
"They were elected."

That depends on what Scalia, Scalia, Kennedy, O'Connor & Rehnquist mean by "elected." But, hey, let's not quibble about silly notions like democracy, rule of law, fair play etc..

I hired you to protect me and look after my interests. That does nt entitle you to attack and ravish me and besmirch my name. Now you pay

6.
"They have Congressional authorization for everything they did"

We noticed that. The co-conspirators are next - right after we take care of Bush-Cheney. There'll be House-cleaning (Senate, too) as never before.

7.
"It's futile."

Life's futile, but we live. The human condition and all that. .. Let's impeach and be done with it.

8.
"My President, right or wrong."

You are in the wrong country, pal. Try to use the soft, squishy stuff God placed between your ears. Don't outsource thinking to the fat old idiot on radio or the ditto heads bobbing on Faux TV.

January 6, 2008 10:01 pm ET

Just curious, who cares what the 72 dem nominee's opinion is? Why do these types of stories continue to make your front page, CNN?...Toby

Because it's relevent and extremely spot on. You think the "fair and balanced" Republican Govt. "news" channel/website would publish McGovern's article?

Nuff said! The most embarrassing and darkest moment in American political history is Bush & Co.

Impeach? jail is more like it! Criminals in every sense of the word! Nutjobs to boot!

Scott

Bush and Cheney should have been impeached when no WMD were found in Iraq. Following their impeachment they should have been held accountable by an International Court for war crimes. This madness should have stopped a long time ago.

George-I thought more of you-now I consider you out of date-I am 60 and and still have my capabilities-Sorry, and old McGovernite.

Impeachment would be justified!

Bush & Cheney have wasted their opportunity to leave a true positive legacy.
Instead they will go down in the history books as greedy profiteers.

Backwards "Robin Hoods", taking all they can for themselves, their
"special interests", and their "business partners/companies" ; and
all at the countries expense.

Thanks Beavis (Bush) & Butt-Head (Cheney),
for leaving the country in shambles.

P.S. Enjoy all your Blood-Money!

Its ok,,,

Too bad McGovern voted FOR the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Lucky for him, nowhere near as many US soldiers and foreign civilians were killed due to that one.

Oh, wait..

He also voted for a ***WIRETAPPING*** bill, too. He was for a lot of things before he was against them. Nice guy, legit WWII hero, but he was little different from the typical politician of his era.

George Walker Bush should by all rights and reason be taken from the whitehouse in chains and forced to stand trial for treason. The damage done to this country seems now almost beyond the point of no return. The blame does not lie with George Walker Bush alone-Congress has gone along with George and allowed Cheney freedom to ride roughshod over the constitution. At present our currency is so poorly valued Americans can hardly travel abroad- The crimes against our economy are now taking their toll. George Walker Bush is a name that will be long remembered – it wont be remembered for anything good.

I cannot understand the hesitation of this country to rid itself of the disgrace that currently occupies the whitehouse.

This is a great nation, it will recover- it may take many years- but know one thing.. George has not acted alone- Congress holds most of the guilt for going along with the president.

Well, Well,,, Who Found you and woke you up again.... Please, Please, Go back to where You, Mr, G. McGovern and maybe someone will let you out again, in again in 50 years....
You are as sick as a sick Dog, and as dangerous as one..

Jim.........

Those morons that discount McGovern and worship Bush should watch the movie "No End In Sight". They will probably discount that as slanted but it is only one of the documentaries and movies that point out the total abject failure of Bush.
How many movies have you seen that glorify the Iraq fiasco?

Is he senile? What would be the point?

Yeah,

All I see looking around is a bunch of fairly happy people – bowling alley packed, ice skating rinks full, people spending money on all kinds of items, people not worried about an attack on any particular day, etc, etc, etc. Unemployment barely at speakable levels, salary rates higher then ever, constant innovatations from businesses now that they are free to do so (note for one example that Apple didn't do Jack under the Clinton reign of terror).

Great time to consider impeaching a great leader there, idiot! More like, Mc(can't)Govern should be taken away in a stretcher to the funny farm.

I wonder where were all of you Bush/Chaney/war haters when Clinton bombed Serbians? Another double standard? Maybe no babies were killed in Serbia? Or maybe Serbia was more dangerous to USA than Saddam Hussein? Serbs were american allies in the war against Hittler. Did you forget that? Yugoslavia was very friendly to USA during cold war. ANd they stood many times against USSR actions. What Clinton did to them?? How come everyone forget this? It is disgusting to see how hate to Bush overrides any human logic.

George McGovern, still crazy after all these years.

What relevance does McGovern have?