WASHINGTON - Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich defied his party leadership on Monday by calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush for launching the Iraq war -- but his move was not expected to go anywhere.



The Ohio representative outlined his intention to propose more than two dozen charges against Bush on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Kucinich, a former presidential candidate, accused Bush executing a "calculated and wide-ranging strategy" to deceive citizens and Congress into believing that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly said she opposes trying to remove the Republican president who leaves office next January because such an attempt would be divisive and most likely unsuccessful.

Kucinich, an outspoken Iraq war critic who has consistently voted against funding the war and led anti-war efforts in Congress, offered a resolution to impeach Vice president Dick Cheney in April 2007. That also failed to move forward.

Many Democrats and civil liberties groups have accused the Bush administration of providing misleading information before the 2003 Iraq invasion as well as violating the rights of U.S. citizens with its warrantless surveillance program. The White House denies the charges.

Update 1:

Last night Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 articles of impeachment on George Bush. He read them all into the record over four hours last evening. Robert Wexler co-sponsored.

I am not asking you to barrage Congress with pleas to listen to our demands, which by now are well established, documented, and represented in the blood of 1.2 million people in Iraq, in the crimes done against humans, American and not, in our name.

I do propose that you contact everyone you can about the need to repudiate these criminals.

We want a situation where no president, and no government can get away with what the Bush regime has done, becuase people living in this country will not accept it!

Here are a few comments from leaders of the movement:

"The situation today is more serious than the conditions that provoked the American Revolution. If we stand by now and allow this government to openly torture, abrogate habeas corpus, carry out unjust, illegal and immoral wars, and spy on all Americans, may we be damned by history."

- Dr. Loo, co-editor/author of Impeach the President: the Case Against Bush and Cheney, Associate Professor of Sociology at Cal Poly Pomona, serves on the National Steering Committee of the World Can't Wait.

"In light of the illegal war in Iraq, the systematic torture of prisoners in US custody, the illegal surveillance of Americans, and George W. Bush's refusal to carry out his constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws, impeachment proceedings should be initiated immediately and a criminal investigation launched against the President of the United States."

- Marjorie Cohn, President, National Lawyers Guild

FULL TEXT of articles of impeachment for George Bush here

The corporate news media has barely convered this story. Here is a list of media outlets. You know what to do!

There is hope in people resisting all this! Keep the message going out to the world, which can't wait!

Donate to support these efforts today!

Debra Sweet, Director, The World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime

Update 2:

Under circumstances that can best be described as "suspicious," the kucinich website was crippled early this morning a few hours after Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 extensively documented Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush.

Until we can restore the website and implement additional security measures, you can find the full list and detailed Articles here and here.

If you would like to show your support for the Congressman's efforts, please go here to offer your comments and provide us with contact information so that we can continue to keep you informed.

Thank you

Committee to Re-Elect Congressman Kucinich