Kucinich may be with the American people and way ahead of the DC curve.

Kucinich Files Articles of Impeachment Against Cheney
By Joshua Holland 

Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced yesterday that he would file articles of impeachment against vice president Dick Cheney. The charges are among the most serious ever contemplated under either domestic or international law.

The resolution claims the Vice President “purposely manipulated the intelligence process” and “fabricated a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction” in order to “deceive the American public” and the Congress and launch a war of aggression against Iraq. It also accuses him of actively seeking to launch a second war against Iran. (You can download the complete text of the resolution here, or view a clip of Kucinich’s press conference here.)

Not only do the charges constitute the “high crimes” that were contemplated by the founders as the basis of impeachment, they’re also included in the principles set out during the Nuremberg Tribunal that followed World War II.

The judges that made up the Tribunal said that launching a war of aggression was “not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”

Other legal precedents were established at Nuremberg. Principle Three is unequivocal: “The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible Government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law.”

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