Gettysburg DFA Supports Cheney Impeachment

Written by: Bruce Neylon on Jan 16, 2008 5:24 PM EST

DFA Chapter Endorsement of Cheney Impeachment 

We, the Gettysburg Area Democracy for America, recommend that Congress adopt a resolution of impeachment of Vice President Richard B. Cheney (H.Res.799), which has been introduced and sent to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

 We do so after a thorough and dispassionate review of the issues, for the following reasons:

 The office of Vice President of the United States is every bit as sacred a trust as that of the office of President. Richard B. Cheney has violated that trust and thereby severely damaged the interests of the United States.

According to the first article of the impeachment resolution, originally introduced as H.Res.333, Mr. Cheney has manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens of the United States, not once, but twice. 

First, he was the force behind the fabrication of a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use of U.S. Armed Forces to invade and occupy another sovereign nation. He and the Bush administration lied to us. They had no legitimate rationale for the invasion; that invasion was therefore illegal.

Second, again, to justify an invasion of Iraq, Mr. Cheney fabricated a relationship between the Saddam Hussein regime and Al Qaeda. 

Finally, according to the second article in the resolution, despite the absence of evidence of any real threat to the United States, Mr. Cheney has openly threatened military aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran, thus undermining our national security.

By themselves, the above points certainly are enough to impeach—that is, indict—Mr. Cheney so that he might be bound over for trial in the U.S. Senate. We can cite several additional reasons to impeach Mr. Cheney, but the two articles in the resolution do suffice, so we recommend House approval of that resolution.  

Mr. Cheney and the Bush administration simply must not be allowed to escape the accountability that comes with impeachment.

History must not give them a pass.

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