Kucinich to Reveal Text of Impeachment Article Thursday at 2pm Press Conference

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Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) was expected to make his latest article of impeachment against President Bush, which will hit the floor Thursday, public Wednesday night ahead of an early Thursday press conference.

"There has been a breach of faith between the Commander in Chief and the troops," the Congressman wrote in a letter to his colleagues Tuesday.

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"Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 or with Al Qaeda’s role in 9/11. Iraq had neither the intention nor the capability of attacking the United States. Iraq did not have weapons of Mass of Destruction. Yet George W. Bush took our troops to war under all of these false assumptions. Given the profound and irreversible consequences to our troops, if his decision was the result of a mistake, he must be impeached. Since his decision was based on lies, impeachment as a remedy falls short, but represents at least some effort on our part to demonstrate our concern about the sacrifices our troops have made."

Rep. Kucinich will hold a press conference at Cannon Terrace in Washington D.C., at 2pm on Thursday, to discuss the article.

"At President Bush's request, Congress passed an authorization for the use of military force against Iraq on October 16, 2002," Kucinich opened in his Wednesday announcement. "At least a dozen key material representations made to Congress by the President in that authorization, in furtherance of Congressional action, were false at the time they were made. The breadth and depth of the President’s misrepresentations do not argue for incompetency as a defense, but for deceit as an impeachable offense."

"We have arrived at a teachable moment in our Constitutional history. Congress must insist on accountability. We must regain our rightful role as a co-equal branch of government charged with providing a check and balance to Executive abuse of power. In Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, our Founders placed the war power in the hands of the House of Representatives. This separation of powers was expressly intended to prevent a President from unilaterally summoning troops to war in the manner of a king.

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