Impeaching The "Attack Dog"

Dennis Kucinich, a Democratic Representative from Ohio, introduced articles of impeachment against the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney. He introduced these articles yesterday which consist of three articles of impeachment. The first accuses Vice President Cheney of making up the accusation that weapons of mass destruction were in Iraq, which has caused a great deal of public outcry over the years. The second article accuses him of fabricating a connection between al-Taeda and the Iraqi government, which has also been proven to not be the case. The third article refers to what Cheney is doing currently, which is "threatening war against Iran." Kucinich has claimed that threatening Iran with the possibility of a war is a violation of the Constitution, but I have never heard of such a thing (he probably knows the Constitution better than I do though).

Some people claim that Kucinich is simply doing this for his own political gain since he is relatively unknown among the Democratic candidates for president. He claims that he is doing this to Cheney through the following quote: "Our country couldn't afford this last war. We can't afford to go into another one. And somebody has to challenge the conduct of this Vice President." He also claims that he is targeting only Cheney because he believes that the country isn’t ready for two consecutive impeachments. Many people throughout America have been calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney and for the Congress to stand up to the Executive for quite some time and they have finally responded both with these articles of impeachment and with the recent war funding bill with an attached timetable. Although these reasons probably had a great deal to do with it the fact that he introduced these articles of impeachment at this time suggests that he has ulterior motives for impeaching the Vice President since he is not currently a Democratic frontrunner. Perhaps he feels that this will give him the advantage of some positive press and positive sentiment from the Democratic base as well as boosting his name recognition among the American people.