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Old 06-27-08, 02:46 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Thread Starter Re: Mainstream media yawns as Kucinich offers impeachment

Cain McBush on the impeachment of Bush.

Think Progress After Impeaching Clinton, McCain Now Dismisses Idea Of Impeaching Bush: ‘I Do Not Agree With It’

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Yet in 1999, he voted for the impeachment of President Clinton. At the time, McCain stressed that a president must be held “accountable to the rule of law“:

Kucinich: 'We went to war for the oil companies'
The Raw Story | Kucinich: 'We went to war for the oil companies'

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In March of 2001, when the Bush Administration began to have secret meetings with oil company executives from Exxon, Shell and BP, spreading maps of Iraq oil fields before them, the price of oil was $23.96 per barrel. Then there were 63 companies in 30 countries, other than the US, competing for oil contracts with Iraq," the Ohio Democrat said during a speech on the House floor.

"Today the price of oil is $135.59 per barrel, the US Army is occupying Iraq and the first Iraq oil contracts will go, without competitive bidding to, surprise, (among a very few others) Exxon, Shell and BP."

YouTube - Ron Paul on Iran & Energy (C-SPAN 6/26)


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To pay for the war that has been going on and the domestic spending we have been spending alot more money than we have. So what do we do?
We send the bills over to the Federal Reserve. They create new money. In the last 3 years our goverment through the Federal Reserve and the banking system created 4 trillion dollars of new money. That is one of the main reason why we have this high cost of energy.
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