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Why haven't Cheney and Bush been impeached?

  Washington Post  

A chat with Frontline Producer Michael Kirk. Frontline producer Michael Kirk was online Wednesday, March 26 to discuss his two-part film "Bush's War," which reviews the genesis and full history of the five-year U.S. war in Iraq, drawing on fresh reporting and interviews and more than 40 previous Frontline films that have documented the war on terror. . .

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The Bush administrations arguments do not meet the test of facial plausibility . . . a policy of, by and for torturers. . .

  Harper's  

A single article of impeachment for torture -- would force House Members and Senators to defend our values or defend the torturers -- with the world, history, and their families watching.

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I don't see the connection between [torture] and impeachment.
— Nancy Pelosi 9/9/2007

  Ed Schultz  

Don't see it, huh Madame Squeaker? -- Do you see that failing to ACT to stop ongoing torture make you a war criminal too? Look at the treaties you are bound by. You'll see that it's true. You'll also see that universal jurisdiction applies to such "Nuremberg" violations by those who act as a firewall against accountability for war criminal regimes.

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