From Political COrtex:

U.S.: Respect World-Wide Demands for Bush Impeachment   
By Bob Kendall
09/14/2008 10:57:40 AM EST

"In the September 11 Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Levi Pulkkinen reveals that Seattle Congressman Jim McDermott is joining the call to oust Bush, stating:
"Impeachment group won't let even the election stop impeachment."

Cleveland Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich has long advocated the impeachment of George Bush.

"Chiefly at issue, McDermott said, is Bush's decision to mislead the country to war with Iraq.


"'It's increasingly clear to me that we were led into a war without any justification whatsoever,' McDermott said in an interview Wednesday. 'And the president deliberately did this, it wasn't an accident of any kind.'"
Linda Boyd is the founder of Washington for Impeachment. Boyd met McDermott a day before his announcements, and was delighted with McDermott's decision to join the ever widening call for impeachment.

"We have been in a state of emergency in this country for seven years now," Boyd said. "We know that Americans torture people. We know that Americans stand guard over innocent prisoners. We know Americans are killing children in Afghanistan, and Iraq and in Pakistan."

Even though Bush might not be dismissed from office, impeachment would go into the historical records, which could prevent future presidents from following Bush's example to justify his abuse of power.

When McDermott question the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 he was harassed as an ally of Saddam.

"People brushed me off and called me 'Baghdad Jim,' made some comments," McDermott said. "They said `I trust the president.'"

Recent revelations in three books influenced McDermott to recognized the tragic realities of the misbegotten Iraq War.

One book was Bob Woodward's latest, "The War Within!" Another was "The Way of the World" by Ron Suskind. "Suskind reported that Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri was working with the C.A.A. before the invasion.

The third book that influenced McDermott's decision to join the growing ranks for George Bush's impeachment is Vincent Bugliosi's work, "The Prosecution of George W. Bush," which is currently on national best seller lists.

"McDermott said he met with Sabri before the war, imploring him to allow weapons inspectors full access to the country to avoid war. Sabri said the Iraqis would but that doing so, wouldn't dissuade Bush."

McDermott states: "There's nothing that requires that impeachment be done when someone is in office."

He continued, "The time has come for this guy to pay for what he's done."    ..."