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Dick Cheney.....cop this!

They can't be too happy campers over at the White House with news today that a survey in the US concludes that almost half the population thinks George Bush ought to be impeached and 54% the same for VP Cheney.

MPS [this blog], as others, have published various pieces over the last little while which have strongly attacked Bush and Cheney. The calls directed to action being taken against them appear to be getting louder. This latest piece, by Robert Scheer, a contributing editor at The Nation magazine, couldn't be more direct or blunt:

"The unctuous owl has hooted again. Only this time, Dick Cheney's cave has been invaded by the sudden sunlight of judicial and Congressional revelations, making him appear more pathetic than intimidating as he once again charges critics of the Iraq war with giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

"A full validation of the Al Qaeda strategy" are the shameless, slandering words the most powerful Vice President in American history flung Monday at Congressional critics of the war--including those from his own party.

While he is still as dangerous as any cornered animal, Cheney stands brightly revealed as the main culprit in cherry-picking the evidence to make the case for a stupid, failed war. He has been exposed as a vindictive, inflexible ideologue, who attempts to destroy all who publicly disagree with him, such as former Ambassador Joseph Wilson and Wilson's CIA agent wife, Valerie Plame Wilson. His extensive ties and loyal political service to energy and defense companies such as Halliburton (which now, in a burst of honesty, is moving its headquarters to Dubai), reveal him to be a man of deep corruption."

Read the complete piece here. Meanwhile, as MFS is traveling in France at the moment, it is impossible to find an American prepared to say they support Bush - just to the contrary! So, who voted for this White House team in the first place?

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