[Video] Kucinich: Thank You, Impeachment Will Be Heard Friday

July 23, 2008 Bush Era, Impeachment Evidence 4

TRANSCRIPT: I want to thank you for the support which you have given to my efforts to hold this administration accountable for taking us into a war based on lies and for the destruction of the rule of law and the destruction of cherished constitutional principles.

Because of your support, this Friday in Washington, DC, I will make a presentation before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives at which time I will make the case that this president has violated his oath of office, violated United States law and international law, has separated our nation from our constitution, and has taken us on a course that has been so profoundly anti-democratic that it has threatened the core of our nation.

Because of your support, I have been able to advance this series of matters right to the table of the Judiciary Committee.

Because of your support, I have been able to create an opening so we’re finally getting a chance in Washington to discuss the abuses of power, to discuss a war based on lies, to discuss the whole architecture of constitutional principles that have been taken down.

Every serious matter that faces the people of this country today can be linked to an administration which is not accountable.

For example, the price of gasoline. You know that Vice President Cheney with the permission and blessing of President Bush held secret meetings with leaders of the oil industry where they laid out maps of Iraq far in advance of the attack on Iraq. You know and I know the war was about oil, and if we can force the vice president of the United States to have to testify, we can get the information that is necessary to be able to prove that not only has US law been violated, but that the public trust has been under a continuous assault by an alliance between the White House and the oil companies.

You look at the sub-prime lending fiasco with millions of Americans having the dream of home ownership threatened, and you look at an administration that took the cops off the beat at the Securities and Exchange Commission that enabled the Fed to look the other way when they should have been disciplining the banks. The American people had a right to expect the government would protect their interests.

When you look at the shakeout in the stock market and all these small investors who are losing their life savings, again the Bush administration and their alliance with interest groups, violating an oath of office, enabling these interest groups to steal from the American people, over and over and over again.

For the first time we are going to have a chance to raise these issues in the Judiciary Committee in the context of a hearing at which I am going to present the Articles of Impeachment so that the Committee cannot say, well, they just didn’t know. We are going to force this issue because of you.

We are in danger of losing our country to war based on lies, to destruction of our civil liberties, but it is your commitment and your willingness to stand up and speak out that has enabled me to take a stand and to say not only are we going to save what is right and save what is dear to us, but we are going to hold this administration accountable so that it never happens again.

This is truly our moment. Friday is the beginning. Thank you for supporting this effort with signing petitions, with your emails and your letters and your phone calls.

I pledge to you that I will continue my efforts to defend a way of life that the American people have a right to expect ““ to expect to have a government they can call their own ““ to expect to have a government that will tell them the truth ““ to expect to have a government that is worthy of the tradition of democracy.

Thank you.

4 Comments

  1. Dona,

    Kucinich is the proper spelling – just to be clear – your “kucinck” monicker reveals you to be completely lacking in any understanding how Rep. Kucinich is spearheading a desperate attempt by all of us to restore and protect YOUR Constitution and YOUR Bill of Rights.

    Kucinich has nothing to gain and nothing to lose by this. Stupid people don’t understand how much of a hero he is being and his constituents will give him another 2 years this November after he fended off the only real threat to his continuing to hold office with a GOP-funded “Pretendocrat” tried to steal his seat in the primaries.

  2. Bush so much like NIXON,From Nixons impeach articles,
    making false misleading,withholding information,allowing/encouraging witness to give give misleading testimony.

    Bush/Cheney has the same however worst and much destruction.impeach this war crime criminal.
    only the honest survive.
    Thanks
    DENNIS M MCCULLOUGH

  3. I cant stand both of the liars and thieves. But why is kucinick doing this and doing this now? For his own POLITICAL GAIN.

  4. Iraq leader in a article I read US should leave as soon as possible.
    Dennis Kucinich in my view Iraq does not US there we now.Pack up
    back home we come.Obama 16 month plan sounds as doubted as Obama stated earl he could
    bring home our troops in 2008,Obama also doubted.
    Hoping we here what Bush testifies,hoping he’s not drunk.
    WE should proceed and remove this burden to country Bush/Cheney,,,,,
    Bigger than Nixon.impeach only the honest survived.

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