The prevailing "wisdom" of our corporate media is that impeachment of President Bush is a left-wing fantasy. As a result, there is virtually no coverage in the media of either the majority sentiment for removing Bush from office or even of the key issues that make this president a poster child for impeachment.

Take the several polls by Zogby International on the impeachment issue. Last June, Zogby polled Americans across the country and found that some 42 percent favored impeaching the president if it were found that he had lied about the threat posed by Iraq in order to justify an invasion. That is a higher percentage of people in favor of impeachment than there ever was for the impeachment of former president Bill Clinton during his entire impeachment ordeal. Yet the poll was not mentioned by any major media news organization.

In November, Zogby repeated the poll. This time, 53 percent of respondents from all over the nation said they thought the president should be impeached and removed from office if he lied about the war. That poll to was totally blacked out.

A third poll early this year found 52 percent of Americans saying Bush should be removed from office if he broke the law and had the National Security Agency spy on American citizens without court warrants. Well, of course he did do that—the president has admitted he did so and says he will continue to do it--so the latest poll was really saying that 52 percent of Americans think he should be sent packing.

That poll too was largely ignored by the major corporate media.

Left-wing fantasy? Are we saying that the majority of Americans are left-wingers?

I don't think so.

But the media are not the only ones who are trying to dismiss popular sentiment for impeachment.

The leadership of the Democratic Party is doing the same thing.

While researching our book on impeachment (The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office, St. Martin’s Press, due out in late April), my co-author Barbara Olshanshky and I have found that members of Congress—even firebrands like Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)—have been strong-armed behind the scenes by the Democratic National Committee not to introduce an impeachment bill in the House. Rep. John Conyers, the ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, where such a bill would be considered, has submitted three bills that relate to impeachment—a proposal for a special committee to investigate possible impeachable crimes by the administration and bills to censure both the president and the vice president for refusing to answer questions from Congress on impeachment-related issues--but that's as far as the Democratic congressional leadership is willing to go.

As the Wall Streeet Journal reported in a March 6 article on the impeachment issue, Democratic Party leaders fear that party support for impeachment could lead to a backlash as happened to Republicans who supported Clinton’s impeachment.

This is of course nonsense. The effort to impeach Clinton over his sexual escapades was always viewed by the majority of Americans, Democratic and Republican alike, as a farce and an embarrassment. As the Wall Street Journal notes, support for Clinton’s impeachment never rose much above a quarter of the electorate--the hard right element of the Republican Party.

The issues that are driving popular sentiment for Bush's impeachment are much more serious:

* The conspiracy of lies that got the country into a war in Iraq that has already cost some $400 billion and that ultimately may end up costing over $2 trillion, and that has cost the lives of 2300 Americans and over 100,000 Iraqis.

* Obstruction of investigations into what the administration knew about the 9-11 attacks before they happened, and why nothing was done to prevent them.

* Undermining of basic Constitutional freedoms, from First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech, assembly, press and religion to Fourth Amendment guarantees against unreasonable search and seizure and Sixth Amendment rights to a fair trial, to the even more basic rights of citizenship.

* Abuses of power, including the blatant violation of the law in the case of the president's violation of the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act, the use of over 500 "signing statements" to simply ignore laws passed by Congress, and the ignoring of court orders, as well as the use of government power to attack individuals, as in the case of the outing of underecover CIA agent Valerie Plame in order to publish her whistle-blowing husband, ambassador Joe Wilson.

* Trampling of international law through the authorization of policies of torture of captives and the rounding up and deporting of law-abiding residents based solely upon their ethnicity and religion, all of which have made America a pariah in the international community and needlessly inflamed hatred of America across the Muslim world.

* A criminally negligent attitude towards governing that has brought us the disaster and needless death of hundreds of people in New Orleans, the fiasco of the Medicare drug "program" for seniors, and the chaos of post-war Iraq.

* A criminal know-nothing obstructionism with regard to the urgent crisis of global warming, which even the Pentagon has concluded threatens the national security of the United States far more than any rag-tag band of terrorists.

* A culture of corruption in Washington that makes earlier epic scandals like Teapot Dome look penny-ante, with over 60 Republican members of Congress (that’s better than one in four!) linked to just one bribing lobbyist and with war-profiteering by Republican-linked corporations running rampant.

These are all issues that cry out for action, and for saturation coverage in the nation’s media.

The polls showing majority support for impeachment make it clear that the public knows all this intuitively, even though people have to get their information from personal observation, from the Internet, or by reading between the lines, because the media are more focused on the Oscars and the latest dramatic murder or kidnapping, and even though the supposed opposition party, for the most part, is afraid of its own shadow.

The prevailing wisdom is that all such talk about impeachment is fantasy, and yet out in the country, some candidates are finding that calling for impeachment brings down the house.

If those candidacies—and others that are being supported by groups like ImpeachPAC catch fire and start winning Democratic primaries in late spring, and if those candidates go on to win seats in Congress in November, I am predicting that their spineless colleagues will realize that the public wants action on all these issues, not just business as usual.

With the American public so on edge about so many issues, it might, in the end, not take that many radical upsets in November to create a whole new mood in Congress.

For other stories by Lindorff, please go (at no charge) to This Can't Be Happening! .

Reauthorization of Patriot Act Vote Record.

Why don't we talk about impeachment and criminal treason against the People of America ?

Long sentences seizure of ALL assets and new open elections held for new members.

The ones that *didn't* betray the Bill of Rights and therefore the contract between the People and its government...

Here's the list of traitors vs. patriots*

Not Voting 1


By Home State

Alphabetical by Senator Name

Akaka (D-HI), Nay*

Alexander (R-TN), Yea

Allard (R-CO), Yea

Allen (R-VA), Yea

Baucus (D-MT), Nay*

Bayh (D-IN), Nay*

Bennett (R-UT), Yea

Biden (D-DE), Nay*

Bingaman (D-NM), Nay*

Bond (R-MO), Yea

Boxer (D-CA), Nay*

Brownback (R-KS), Yea

Bunning (R-KY), Yea

Burns (R-MT), Yea

Burr (R-NC), Yea

Byrd (D-WV), Nay*

Cantwell (D-WA), Nay*

Carper (D-DE), Nay*

Chafee (R-RI), Yea

Chambliss (R-GA), Yea

Clinton (D-NY), Nay*

Coburn (R-OK), Yea

Cochran (R-MS), Yea

Coleman (R-MN), Yea

Collins (R-ME), Yea

Conrad (D-ND), Nay*

Cornyn (R-TX), Yea

Corzine (D-NJ), Nay*

Craig (R-ID), Nay*

Crapo (R-ID), Yea

Dayton (D-MN), Nay*

DeMint (R-SC), Yea

DeWine (R-OH), Yea

Dodd (D-CT), Not Voting {Bastard-Coward unless under life support in IC}

Dole (R-NC), Yea

Domenici (R-NM), Yea

Dorgan (D-ND), Nay*

Durbin (D-IL), Nay*

Ensign (R-NV), Yea

Enzi (R-WY), Yea

Feingold (D-WI), Nay*

Feinstein (D-CA), Nay*

Frist (R-TN), Nay*

Graham (R-SC), Yea

Grassley (R-IA), Yea

Gregg (R-NH), Yea

Hagel (R-NE), Nay*

Harkin (D-IA), Nay *

Hatch (R-UT), Yea

Hutchison (R-TX), Yea

Inhofe (R-OK), Yea

Inouye (D-HI), Nay*

Isakson (R-GA), Yea

Jeffords (I-VT), Nay*

Johnson (D-SD), Yea

Kennedy (D-MA), Nay*

Kerry (D-MA), Nay*

Kohl (D-WI), Nay*

Kyl (R-AZ), Yea

Landrieu (D-LA), Nay *

Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay*

Leahy (D-VT), Nay*

Levin (D-MI), Nay *

Lieberman (D-CT), Nay *

Lincoln (D-AR), Nay *

Lott (R-MS), Yea

Lugar (R-IN), Yea

Martinez (R-FL), Yea

McCain (R-AZ), Yea

McConnell (R-KY), Yea

Mikulski (D-MD), Nay *

Murkowski (R-AK), Nay *

Murray (D-WA), Nay *

Nelson (D-FL), Nay *

Nelson (D-NE), Yea

Obama (D-IL), Nay *

Pryor (D-AR), Nay *

Reed (D-RI), Nay *

Reid (D-NV), Nay *

Roberts (R-KS), Yea

Rockefeller (D-WV), Nay*

Salazar (D-CO), Nay *

Santorum (R-PA), Yea

Sarbanes (D-MD), Nay *

Schumer (D-NY), Nay *

Sessions (R-AL), Yea

Shelby (R-AL), Yea

Smith (R-OR), Yea

Snowe (R-ME), Yea

Specter (R-PA), Yea

Stabenow (D-MI), Nay*

Stevens (R-AK), Yea

Sununu (R-NH), Nay *

Talent (R-MO), Yea

Thomas (R-WY), Yea

Thune (R-SD), Yea

Vitter (R-LA), Yea

Voinovich (R-OH), Yea

Warner (R-VA), Yea

Wyden (D-OR), Nay *

I actually implied that there was a shred of good in the Dems.

In this one case. I said it.

I must now throw up.

Take a long hot shower with lye soap.

Ukraine admits selling strategic nuclear missiles to China and Iran

http://english.pravda.ru/world/ussr/22-03-2005/7927-0



NEWS BRIEF: "RUSSIAN GENERAL CONFIRMS IRAN HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS!

http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1660.cfm



North Korea Lending Iran a Hand to Develop Nuclear Missiles

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=1334218



Russia warns US against striking Iran



Iran Is Building Nukes in Underground Locations

Russia provided critical assistance in the development of Iran's Shihab missile, which has an ever expanding delivery range and can carry a warhead designed for a nuclear charge.

more than 1,000 Russian technicians are now installing "peripheral" equipment. He said that 750 Iranian technicians who were trained in Russia

Iran received its first shipment of 90 tons of enriched uranium from Russia



the reactor can produce a quarter ton of plutonium per year, which is enough for at least 30 atomic bombs

"Iranians are conducting a massive cover-up about the reactor."

Russia, under Putin, has encouraged Iran to tough it out with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Iran-EU nuclear talks fail

http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=10743

Iran, Russia reach atomic agreement



The agreement to sell 18 nukes to China and Iran was fraudulently arranged by official Ukrainian departments

The above-mentioned deal resulted in what Washington was afraid of most: China and Iran got hold of the up-to-date strategic weapon. The Russian strategic bomber plane Tu-160 is armed with X-55 missiles. The range ability of the missile is about 3,000 kilometers. It is capable of flying at low altitudes, which makes it hard to be intercepted.



Israel prepares for feared nuclear attack by Iran

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/world/12/17strikingiran.html



The China factor in Iran

China, in its increasingly urgent search for secure long-term energy supplies, especially oil and gas, has developed major economic ties with Iran.

China Backs Russian Plan

China's arms trade with Iran has been more comprehensive and sustained than that with any other country.

China has sold thousands of tanks, armored personnel vehicles and artillery pieces, several hundred surface-to-air, air-to-air, cruise and ballistic missiles as well as thousands of antitank missiles, more than 100 fighter aircraft and dozens of small warships.

In addition, it is widely believed that China has assisted Iran in the development of its ballistic and cruise missile production capability. In addition, China has supplied Iran scientific expertise, technical cooperation, technology transfers, production technologies, blueprints and dual-use transfers.

In sum, Iran is more than a strategic partner for China. In the wake of the US unilateral decision to go to war against Iraq, reports from Chinese media indicated that the leadership in Beijing privately realized its own long-term energy security was fundamentally at risk under the aggressive new preemptive war strategy of Washington. China began taking major steps to outflank or negate total US domination of the world's major oil and gas resources. Iran has become a central part of that strategy.



Iraq and the deepening US disaster there has severely constrained possible US options in Iran. In 2003, in the wake of the Iraqi "victory", leading Washington neo-conservative hawks were vocally calling on Bush to move on to Tehran after Saddam Hussein. Now, because of the "bloody quagmire" in Iraq, the US is severely constrained from moving unilaterally. With 140,000 troops tied down in Iraq, the US military physically cannot support another invasion and occupation in yet another country, let alone Iran.

Because of Iran's size, a ground invasion may require twice as many troops as in Iraq, says Richard Russell, a Middle East specialist at the National Defense University in Washington. While an air campaign could take out Iran's air defenses, it could also trigger terrorism and oil disruptions. Washington is internally split over the issue of a successful nuclear strike against Iran.

Iran is a vast, strategically central expanse of land, more than double the land area of France and Germany combined, with well over 70 million people and one of the fastest population growth rates in the world. It is well prepared for a new Holy War. Its mountainous terrain makes any thought of a US ground occupation inconceivable at a time the Pentagon is having problems retaining its present force to maintain the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations

You posted this quote from a STRATFOR document.

upon which the other few 'news agencies' carried.

http://www.cuttingedge.org/na/na260.htm

weak

:>)

then the other links:

****

[from an Israeli News Outlet with all the attendant apologies for Zionist aggression under the figleaf of defense speaking from Hex's obvious

agenda...]

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/world/12/17strikingiran.html

-It has acquired dozens of warplanes with long-range fuel tanks to allow them to reach Iran and signed a deal with Germany for two submarines reportedly capable of firing nuclear missiles.-

*****

Let's see, what else?

this link:

http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=10743

And this quote from which you peg upon this link

Hex C &Ps ( scroll up to suit yourself) the following:

"Iran, Russia reach atomic agreement

The agreement to sell 18 nukes to China and Iran was fraudulently arranged by official Ukrainian departments

The above-mentioned deal resulted in what Washington was afraid of most: China and Iran got hold of the up-to-date strategic weapon. The Russian strategic bomber plane Tu-160 is armed with X-55 missiles. The range ability of the missile is about 3,000 kilometers. It is capable of flying at low altitudes, which makes it hard to be intercepted."

*****

again, this same link w/ actual published by aljazeera.

http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=10743

"ran-EU nuclear talks fail

3/3/2006 11:00:00 PM GMT

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Last-minute ministerial talks between Iran and the European Union to avoid UN actions over Tehran's nuclear program ended Friday without agreement, BBC reported.

The talks in Vienna were requested by Iran before International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) holds a key meeting, due on March 6, that could recommend the imposition of UN sanctions on Tehran.

Correspondents say the talks failed because Iran refuses to give up its right to enrich uranium as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, while the EU insists that Tehran stop this process.

Enriched uranium can be used to generate fuel for civilian reactors or atomic bombs, depending on the level of enrichment.

Foreign Ministers from the UK, France and Germany said they will listen to Iran but won’t present any new proposals.

Ealier this week, a letter from the EU to Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, warned Tehran that any progress would depend on Iran stopping uranium enrichment and cooperating with UN inspectors.

After the two-hour meeting, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said today's talks "were carried out in a constructive atmosphere but finally we were unable to reach agreement."

"The IAEA board deliberations on Iran's nuclear program will happen next week and they will be of great significance -- either we'll achieve a deal enabling renewed negotiations or the matter will be referred to the Security Council," he added.

No more talks were scheduled, but John Sawers, the British Foreign Office's political director, said the EU3 were willing to meet Iranian officials again at short notice if they had something new to say.

Russian proposal



Larijani was heading for Vienna from Moscow after talks there that didn’t result in an agreement on a Russian proposal to enrich uranium for Iran on Russian soil, a move designed to ally Western fears over Tehran’s nuclear program.

On Thursday, Larijani accused Washington of scuttling Moscow talks. “America is lying, trying to destroy the Russian proposal," Larijani said at a press conference in Moscow. "The Americans' insistence on handing over the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council means the destruction of the Russian proposal."

The IAEA referred Iran to the UN Security Council last month, but left a month to allow time for more diplomacy before any action by the UN.

IAEA chief Mohammad El-Baradei said Thursday that Iran must take steps to restore confidence about its nuclear plans and that the West must give incentives if Friday's talks are to succeed.

Meanwhile, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the IAEA and other international organizations of being politically motivated in their actions.

"Regrettably most international organizations have turned into political organizations and the influence of great powers prevents them from taking fair and legally sound decisions," he said Friday on a visit to Malaysia.-

[ So tell me Whizz,,, why did you attribute your 1 quoted text and 2 your 'nuklure' package to this link?

*****

So this statement that you inserted into the referenced link was a comment by an anonymous author like yourself. And a deliberate attempt to insert unreferenced propaganda as being from aljazeera.

Let's see, anything else?

Nah That's enough for now.

a scattering of concuring sources - the main point is that RUSSIA HERSELF ADMITS IT

funny how you left that one out - especially since it's the FIRST ONE I POSTED

http://english.pravda.ru/world/ussr/22-03-2005/7927-0

The [*]US embassy in Kiev[*], however, set out its concerns about the situation. The above-mentioned deal resulted in what Washington was afraid of most: China and Iran got hold of the up-to-date strategic weapon. The Russian strategic bomber plane Tu-160 is armed with X-55 missiles.-

yet, nowhere else, in the entire article, any EVIDENCE or DOCUMENTATION or Quotes from a 'Known' source that

ahem...

Iran or Syria *** have**** *****any***** ****** nuclear***** weapons.

Nice try Whizz.

Maybe the source of the above 'information' is STRATFOR . Who would know? What's the matter,the IAEC didn't support your 'gotta' fry Syria and Iran' for Israel, 'cause they *making* a bomb scariokie?

Some scrap missiles and stuff but no mention of what would be notable..

.

Read the piece again.

- All the missiles, which had been sold to China and Iran, were expired, the lawyer believes. In addition, Bogdan Ferenz is certain that the missiles had been stored under terrible conditions, which turned them into scrap metal.-

Now does that sound like a nuclear transfer or scrap metal sales?

You see a nuclear event on the continental or off shore US interests can be inferred to have come from Iran or Syria, letting GW to escape impeachment.

Ukraine admits selling strategic nuclear missiles to China and Iran

http://english.pravda.ru/world/ussr/22-03-2005/7927-0



Russia Ready to Vaporize the Jewish State And then kick America ...

http://vialls.com/myahudi/sunburn.html

The Sunburn - Iran's Awesome Nuclear Anti-Ship Missile The Weapon That Could Defeat The US In The Gulf

http://www.rense.com/general59/theSunburniransawesome.htm



Iran: A Bridge too Far? by Mark Gaffney. 10/26/04 "ICH" -- Last July, ... The Sunburn can deliver a 200-kiloton nuclear payload, or: a 750-pound

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7147.htm



HAS RUSSIAN AND CHINESE MISSILE TECHNOLOGY DOOMED THE US NAVY IN ...

"The Sunburn missile has been sold to China. The SS-N-22s are part of a recent ... The Sunburn anti-ship missile is perhaps the most lethal anti-ship ...

http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1449.cfm



In point of fact, a battery of Sunburn missiles can easily sink the largest ... And, in 1987, during the Iran-Iraq war, the USS Stark was nearly cut in half ...

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=2439



NEWS BRIEF: "RUSSIAN GENERAL CONFIRMS IRAN HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS!

http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1660.cfm



North Korea Lending Iran a Hand to Develop Nuclear Missiles

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=1334218



Russia warns US against striking Iran

Ferrous Cranus is utterly impervious to reason, persuasion and new ideas, and when engaged in battle he will not yield an inch in his position regardless of its hopelessness. Though his thrusts are decisively repulsed, his arguments crushed in every detail and his defenses demolished beyond repair he will remount the same attack again and again with only the slightest variation in tactics. Sometimes out of pure frustration Philosopher will try to explain to him the failed logistics of his situation, or Therapist will attempt to penetrate the psychological origins of his obduracy, but, ever unfathomable, Ferrous Cranus cannot be moved.

...

very afraid

All those links are pretty good ( as I addressed them previously )

but did the reader ever view this link?

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/02/148667_comment.php#148722

That in order to prevent impeachment and further the push into war...

Iran and Syria the nuclear myth.

It's interesting that this link:

http://www.cuttingedge.org/na/na260.htm

-RUSSIAN GENERAL CONFIRMS IRAN HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS!

by STRATFOR Intelligence

Week of June 4, 2002

Notice the date stamp.