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Kucinich: Seek truth, not 'fake political unity'
Kucinich: Seek truth, not 'fake political unity'
Nick Juliano | RawStory.com
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) says he won't cease his efforts to hold the president and his administration accountable for their alleged abuses of power just because George W. Bush will be returning to his Texas ranch come January.
Kucinich says he wants Congress to create a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" to examine what really went on within the Bush White House in the aftermath of 9/11 and the lead up to the Iraq war. He says only an independent body with truth-seeking as its goal -- rather than "fake political unity" -- can repair divisions that have emerged in an increasingly polarized nation.
During a brief press conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday, and in an interview with RAW STORY afterward, Kucinich said he would introduce legislation to create a commission before Congress finishes its current session at the end of this month. He said his proposal would be modeled on Truth and Reconciliation Commissions that followed periods of upheaval in other countries, such as the end of Apartheid in South Africa or to consider genocide in Rwanda.
He said the Bush administration's transgressions rose to the level of other countries that have seen the need for Truth and Reconciliation Commissions.
"We've seen a dramatic erosion of our civil liberties and disruption of cherished constitutional provisions. Over a million innocent Iraqis have been killed. There's an attempt to grab the national resources of Iraq," he said, referring to attempts to exploit the country's oil reserves.
"So actually, this kind of a process would lend itself to a spirit which all Americans are looking for. ... 'How do we reunite our nation?'" he continued. "But you can't do it just through some fake political unity. The only way you can do it is to is to seek the truth, and we haven't really done that."
Kucinich said the commission he would propose should have the ability to subpoena testimony and documents and also retain the ability to recommend prosecution of any possible crimes it uncovers. Like Truth and Reconciliation Commissions of the past, though, it also should be able to grant blanket amnesty to anyone who agreed to provide a full accounting of their actions while in the White House. He said the work of previous bodies like the Iraq Study Group and 9/11 Commission also would be examined by his new commission.
Congress and congressional committees already have many of the powers Kucinich described, such as the ability to subpoena witnesses, compel testimony through the threat of prosecution and grant amnesty. The problem is it's been hesitant in exercising them. (Before Kucinich arrived at the press conference, activists lamented Congress's failure to hold Bush administration officials like Karl Rove and Harriet Miers in inherent contempt -- i.e. ordering the Capitol Police to lock them up until they agree to comply with subpoenas demanding their testimony.)
"Congress has had the opportunity to act, and it's failed to do so," Kucinich acknowledged to RAW STORY. "But Congress can still create a process where the work can be done, and that's what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission will do."
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Kucinich's efforts, even if his bills are passed, will get no further than Conyers' efforts to impeach Bush. How can they impeach Bush & Cheney when they were part of the 9/11 conspiracy and plans to attack Iraq? If they go after Bush and Cheney, they will be exposing themselves to criminal charges.
Why is it people like Kucinich only want to investigate what happened between 9/11 and the attack on Iraq? Why don't they investigate who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks? There are numerous demolition experts who claim that the towers could not be brought down by airplane collisions at the top, but that they were brought down with explosives at various levels and at the bottom.
There are interviews with Aaron Russo on YouTube in which he discusses 9/11 and the phony terrorist threat.
On that fateful day 9/11 the United States government headed by little george Stupid totally and utterly failed in it's number one mission to keep it's citizens safe from foreign attack. Remember that the multi billion dollar greatest Air Farce in the world failed to intercept one single hijacked airplane even though this incident last for several hours.
After the attack little George Stupid, instead of flying immediately to Washington to take command of the situatiuon and show leadership to the nation, instead hop skips around the country in Air Farce one like a scared rabbit to avoid being attacked himself.
Then lttle George's response is to start wars with two countrys that never threatened the United States. Today we are at war in Afghanistan; Afghanistan or even the Taliban never attacked us, it was a bunch of criminals hiding out in the mountains of Afghanistan that attacked us and they were mostly Saudi Arabians. The Iraq war was a total put up job' little George Stupid did not like Sadam Husein because he dissed his daddy, so this was a good excuse to get rid of him, and the rest is tragic, million lives lost history.
And where was the Democratic Party all this time? Either cheering little George Stupid on or refusing to hold him accountable for any mistake, abuse of power or out right breaking of the law for the last eight years!
We were not attacked by any foreign terrorists. The evidence in existence currently shows that something other that what the official government version is, took place that day.
The only way we may ever objectivly decide what took place that day, is to weigh the current evidence against any, the Bush Administration may enter into THEIR defense during a criminal trial.
To date, the only investigations that have occured are those that were controlled and minipulated by the very people who are suspect at having direct as well as indirect involvment into the events of that day.
Only DICK knows 100% of what really happenned that day.
Osama Bin Laden and Mohamed Atta problably Were framed as PATSIES, the same way they did with L.H.OSWALD: "I AM JUST A PATSY" he said.
And BUSH is so HYPOCRITE that he will speak about 9-11 today
Im not interrested in hearing what this murderer, this criminal has to say except his plea of guilty in a plea bargin.
to plea bargaining!!! Treason CAN NOT be plea bargained!!! Sentence him and the gang to what he sentenced all the Soldiers and Iraqis to: DEATH!!!
RA, dead criminals, escape from the reality of living their life in total confinement. Trust me brother, serving life is much worse than the death penality. When your dead, your dead, and punishment is over. but, when you wake up every morning in a cell, and your life is totally institutionalized, controled, you have to eat that crappy food, (and it is) and you know this is your lot, for the rest of your life, even if it is in medium security, trust me brother, it's a miserable existence.
And I can assure you, it will be miserable for George Bush, Dick chaney, and all the rest. And they'll be segrigated from everyone because of who they are. They won't be safe around any other inmate. ever! So that means a solitary existence seperated from EVERYONE except correctional officers.
So I say keep em alive! And in doing so, they'll suffer a miserable existence! And all they'll be able to do is remember what was, but is no more. And as they stare at those 4 walls inside that cramped cell, they realize what now is, and they'll realize, and have plenty of time to ponder, what their lot will be from that moment till they take their last miserable breath, which wont come soon enough, for them.
to execute would be to drop to their foul sense of morals. That is, none. Much more civilized to safely remove from society.
May their web of deceit that has plagued our world for decades continue to dissolve and expose those that would seek to deceive and exploit. May their plans be stopped by our collective actions and may they be safely removed from society and placed in prison where they can observe a world community that has learned to share and care for one another and the world.
Let us be teachers. Perhaps, they will evolve before it is too late.
It can happen here...
These criminals should be kept alive to be available case study. What we have learned from their type, should be documented.
NO PAROLE! NOT EVER!
I would require NO chance of parole! AND...putting him in a cell with "Big Bad Bubba" wouldn't hurt either. (Well, maybe him, I hope.)
Remember that fella Jeff Gannon/Guckert? Solitary would be better, since we don't know which way he plays, or if he plays both ways.
That guy had access to the White House often, and never signed out on numerous occasions, seeming like overnighters. Seems he has some pics, too.
IF I understand you correctly, your refering to furlough situations? BUSH CHANEY and the others are to much of a security risk, as well as flight risk to ever be considered for a statas allowing fourlough., day passes.
They would always have to be protective custody statas to protect them from harm.
No, Scott, I'm saying don't put him in with Bubba, since indications are that he may be a switch-hitter.
WHERE DOES THIS INFO COME FROM?
Hey BTW, are you going to be in temporary command of this ship while David is up in mass?
Chip, are you as excited as I am about this conference? Im so excited I can't sit still. I can't wait for monday, or tuesday to hear Davids report here as to how it all went!
Chip, there is only ONE thing I love more than civil disobedeience, and that is a good rightious court room battle. A desperate courtroom battle of good against evil. And brother, there is nothing more breathtakingly beautiful than watchin the dynamics of the law being played out. And if this gets into a courtroom, it'll be the case of the countries history!
The Wiki has pretty comprehensive links. Yes, I'm excited by the conference, and by the fact that it will be live-streamed and can be watched later by recorded video. Link is in the upper right hand corner.
This Report in Support of Articles of Impeachment Against Bush and Cheney is long, but it's really a fast read.
Here's a 911 memoriam video, but don't watch it if graphic images would bother you.
THE PHOTO ABOVE, IN THE WINDOW OF THAT VIDEO, IF YOU LOOK CLOSLY BEHIND THE FIREMAN, YOU'LL SEE A SECTION OF HOMOGENIC STEEL I BEAM WITH MOLTEN SLAG RUNNING DOWN IT'S LENGTH AND ALSO NOTICE HOW STRAIGHT THAT BEAM HAS BEEN CUT IN TWO. NATURE IS NOT EVER THAT PRECISE, ONLY MAN IS. THATS EVIDENCE COUNTER TO WHAT THE OFFICIAL STORY ALLEDGES. THAT STEEL BEAM WAS INTENTIONALY CUT. THE SLAG RUNNING DOWN IT'S LENGTH PROVES THAT. NO OFFICE FIRES COULD DO THAT PRECISE A CUT. NOT EVER. NOTICE ALSO, HOW IT IS CUT AT AN ANGLE. THAT IS TO ALLOW THE WEIGHT ABOVE TO FORCE IT EASILY FROM THE LOWER PORTION AT THE CUT LOCATION.
They may have goten rid of the physical evidence, but the photo evidence is just as good. they failed to take photos into consideration. They should have been smarter, too bad now.
I don't need to see the bodies, or any more death.
I want to see vindication for that day. We can't get any through impeachment, well bully. lets get vindication directly out of a courtroom. We don't need any lame congressmen and women for vindication in a courtroom! In fact, we may just see the day arrive where we have these lame silent congress people sitting up in a courtroom, as defendents fighting for their lives against vindication the law demands!
I don't need to see the death and distruction. I think about it every waking moment now, of my life.
and if there HAD BEEN A TRUE THREAT TO THE U.S. that day, do you think Andrew Card would have 'leisurely' walked into the room, and politely interrupted the son of a bitch? I think not.
there was no 'external' threat to the U.S. that day, or else the Secret Service would have gone in there, grabbed the son of a bitch, and hauled him BODILY FROM THE ROOM, explaining to him that his life may be in danger.
but no, he sat there for about 9 fucking minutes, reading that stupid assed story to those school kids.
Nobody with a working brain would ever excuse the Secret Service of not IMMEDIATELY TAKING THE PRESIDENT OUT OF THE ROOM IN A TIME OF DANGER, but these fuckers knew there WAS NO DANGER TO THE PRESIDENT.
though at the time, I doubt he was in on the plot, people in the Secret Service obviously were apprised of it, as were the perpetrators, Cheney and Rumsfeld.
this wasn't a tactical oversight. this was because they knew that THERE WAS NEVER ANY DANGER TO THIS ILLEGITIMATE FUCK ACTING BADLY AS A PRESIDENT WITHOUT HAVING BEEN ELECTED AS ONE...
9/11, The Patriot Act, The Military Commissions Act, The American Police State, The Unitary Executive, the familar words of fanaticism: a day that has changed everything; we must take the fight to the enemy; strike them down preemptively; without hindrance from our quaint laws; interrogate them with new techniques until they confess; listen to their hidden conversations; those who question are dangerous indeed; they pander to our enemies; we shall deal with them soon enough (note Hitler's absolute insane rage at dissenters when he utters those words of hate) "Hitler's 9/11: The Familar Words of Fanaticism" Link CLICK HERE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmfzDHyN9G0
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and Powell have used fear and the promise of security to pave the way for unlawful and unconstitutional policies. To an uncomfortable extent, we have ourselves to blame for allowing fear and panic to cloud our judgement and for supporting the words and actions of the unreasonable few in the name of patriotism and self-preservation "Bush & Hitler-Their Scams Compared" Link CLICK HERE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12pwkeVk7B8
By declaring marshall law Hitler then addresses an unbelieving Reischstag by seizing total dictatorial powers, suspending indefintely the nation's Constitution, forbiding on penalty of death, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and outlawing freedom of assembly, Link CLICK HERE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fStD2rDjPBM