Meeting to focus on Bush impeachment...

[Independent_Liberal]

http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/index.php?ntid=44461&ntpid=2

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Meetings to focus on Bush impeachment

By Steven Elbow
June 22, 2005

The Madison chapter of Veterans for Peace is planning a series of town hall meetings to discuss the impeachment of President Bush.


Retired UW Professor Bob Kimbrough hopes the meetings will spark a serious discussion on impeachment.

"It's pretty much in the air now, thank goodness," he said.

The state Democratic Party has called for the impeachment of Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and some Democrats in Congress have broached the subject.

Kimbrough, Buzz Davis and Don McKeating of Madison Veterans for Peace, Chapter 25, are organizing the events.




"The purpose, since it's a town meeting, is to hear what other people have to say," Kimbrough said. "We're going to keep our presentations short."

Criticism about how Bush and administration officials took the nation to war in Iraq is growing, particularly in light of the so-called "Downing Street memo," which hit the British press early last month. The memo suggests that Bush lied to the public about when he made the decision to go to war. The memo states that facts and intelligence were being "fixed around the policy," and that the U.S. had no clear exit strategy after deposing Saddam Hussein.

The National Veterans for Peace, based in St. Louis, issued charges against the president for war crimes, breeches of U.S. and international law and crimes against humanity.

The local chapter is planning several meetings to discuss the charges, but only the first has been scheduled at 6:30 p.m. next Wednesday at the Public Safety Building in Stoughton.

"We want to take it one step at a time, test our format and see how it goes," Kimbrough said, "then line up a bunch of them after that."

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I bet this town hall meeting isn't invitation only

and that these folks get a lot of feedback, both pro and con. Those who are against impeachment will be able to air their views, which will be helpful for our side, because then we'll know what we need to do to convince them otherwise (I'm assuming here that there are a few Bush supporters who don't believe he's God incarnate and that maybe, just maybe, he's made some mistakes).

More power to the fine folks of Madison!!!!!!!!

[undeterred]

2. Yay for Madison!

We've got a lot of insurgents here. :patriot:

[1monster]

3. I suspect, that for the first time in history, an impeachment of a sitting

President is going to be forced on the Congress by the citizens of the United States.

The impeachment hearings on Richard Nixon came about because an opposition party was in power and they had enough evidence to sway the members of the Republican party that RMN had committed "high crimes and misdemeanors." The Republican leaders of the day were still honorable men (Barry Goldwater, Howard Baker, etc.).

Since the Republican party no longer stands for anything but greed and grasping power by whatever means available, and they are in power, it will have to come from the people. It is starting at the grass roots level.

The hunted look that Bush is wearing lately doesn't come from, as another thread suggests, fear of becoming a "lame duck President." He is seeing PRISON ORANGE looming large in his future. And he knows his political mentors and allies will leave him out to dry in an attempt to save their own skins.

[Independent_Liberal]

5. Interesting that you put it that way...

I was thinking the same thing myself.

[jmcon007]

4. caution: These meetings need to be video taped.....

I agree that the meetings will be open to both sides, but if neocon reps are there to do nothing but disrupt the meeting, that disruption needs to be shown to the American people in contrast to the sanitized version that Rove wheels out.