CNN news--VT towns (5) call for articles of impeachment--yes they just

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did a few minutes news item on this.

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1. said they call upon Bernie Sanders to puth forth artiles of impeachment.

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3. best news I have heard in days. (anyone hear of msnbc doing the same?)

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9. i wonder if Bernie is even one of Conyers signers?

[jasmeel]

2. WhooHoo!

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6. yes a pleasant surprize--maybe it will be catchy?? (msnbc or fox?? )

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10. k

[Quakerfriend]

4. Wow! I did not know that 5 towns were putting this on the table!

Go VTers!

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7. there was an artilce on DU today about this (believe it said 4 though)

[niyad]

5. don't forget-c-span covered the harper forum on impeachment TWICE

that I know of.

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8. yes, I watched it (another lovely event that cspan covered)

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11. Vermont Town Backs Bush Impeachment--posted earlier on DU

Tue Mar-07-06 04:13 PM
Original message
Vermont Town Backs Bush Impeachment

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2006/ma...

NEWFANE, Vt. (AP) - In a white-clapboard town hall, circa 1832, voters gathered Tuesday to conduct their community's business and to call for the impeachment of President Bush.

"In the U.S. presently there are only a few places where citizens can act in this fashion and have a say in our nation," said select board member Dan DeWalt, who drafted the impeachment article that was placed on the warning - or official agenda - for the annual town meeting, a proud Yankee tradition in New England.

"It absolutely affects us locally," Dewalt said. "It's our sons and daughters, our mothers and fathers, who are dying" in the war in Iraq.

The article, approved 121-29 in balloting by paper, calls on Vermont's lone member of the House, independent Rep. Bernie Sanders, to file articles of impeachment against the president, alleging that Bush misled the nation into the Iraq war and engaged in illegal domestic spying.

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12. "B. misled the nation into the Iraq war and engaged in illegal domestic

The article, approved 121-29 in balloting by paper, calls on Vermont's lone member of the House, independent Rep. Bernie Sanders, to file articles of impeachment against the president, alleging that Bush misled the nation into the Iraq war and engaged in illegal domestic spying.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-vermon...

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13. says even Rice is toned down-

....It was also on display when Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice traveled recently to Egypt. There, she referred to certain "setbacks" to political openness in Egypt, but did not directly call President
Hosni Mubarak's government on the carpet.

"Middle East rulers are delighted at the prospect of a less demanding stance from the American government," says Mr. Gerges, noting that Secretary Rice did not publicly upbraid the Egyptian government for putting off local elections for two years.

Some rulers in the Islamic world may be breathing sighs of relief, but experts say that what may be happening with US government circles is a dovetailing of rhetoric and action.

"The policy of the Bush administration concerning democracy-building always proceeded along two tracks, with rhetoric that was somewhat far-reaching accompanied by the second level of actual diplomatic contacts with Arab countries, which have been very cautious," says Marina Ottaway, a democratization expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.

[ellenfl]

14. is this in addition to the previously reported

ne municipalities that were going to call for impeachment or are they the only ones?

i hope this is a new bunch making the call.

ellen fl

[Hutzpa]

15. Don't get too excited yet, CNN, MSNBC I don't trust

either if these stations, I'll play the wait and see game.