Posted on 06/16/2004 4:55:03 PM PDT by Vision Thing
WASHINGTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., appearing Wednesday with law professors who want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush over the Iraqi prisoner abuse, declined to endorse the idea himself.
Instead, Kennedy opted for a political plug.
The best way to solve things "is to elect John Kerry," said Kennedy, appearing beside two Harvard professors at a news conference upstairs from his Senate office.
The professors presented a letter signed by more than 400 legal scholars urging members of the House and Senate to consider impeaching the president and any high level administration officials who approved the Iraqi prisoner abuses.
Kennedy said the administration must be held accountable for the abuses and any policies that condoned them, and no one — including the president — should be immune to answering questions about the abuse. But asked by reporters about impeachment, Kennedy referred the question to the professors, Henry J. Steiner and Christine Desan.
Among those signing the letter were former O.J. Simpson defender Alan Dershowitz and the Rev. Robert F. Drinan, a former Massachusetts congressman who teaches at Georgetown University.
Kennedy,Kerry,H. Clinton should be Impeached
I thought Dershowitz is on record for supporting real torture??????
Of course he didn't. He may an idiot, but he's not that stupid.
These 400 legal scholars need to take up permanent residence in Palestine.
The same "legal scholars" who said that Clinton shouldn't be IMPEACHED because "it didn't rise to the level of a crime"?!
The senior Senator from MA is just following the lead of the junior Senator from MA: Flip-flopping his way towards political advantage.
One moment of sobriety.
I'm sure he had a drink immediately after his cowardly announcement.
Iraqi prisoner abuse??? These fools are teaching law?!
God help us.
If only he'd put one in the bottle.
Was not Tubby Ted notified of the abuse before Bush?
Yep. I guess Dershowitz is peeved that the Abu bunch were "too amateurish" (which rises to the level of impeachment on his planet, I suppose).
This is waht we have teaching our kids? 400 idiots who are stupid enough to think they can impeach a President with no evidence against him? Geez never again say to me that intellectuals should be listened to because of their intelligence. Even Fat Teddy the drunken fool had to give this bunch the heave -ho.
These legal scholars are sweating bullets each day that GWB is President. Bush is bad for their business.
Former congressman Rev. Robert F. Drinan, S.J., spoke Tuesday about his passion for human rights activism, his experiences in politics and urged tolerance for Arabs and Muslims around the world in wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
“Muslims are not our enemies — to call them terrorists is wrong,” he said. “We are united as a nation; we have to do more to be civilized,” Drinan said.
Drinan emphasized the peaceful nature of Islam and called all Americans to be calm and fair in their response to the attacks. He also warned against creating a culture of “hysteria” similar to that which resulted in the World War II Japanese internment camps and the U.S.’s former fears of communism.
Drinan said his hope for fair and cautious action extended not only to the American public, but to the government as well. He recommended careful evaluation and questioning of every measure to be taken domestically and internationally and noted that in such a tense situation, the U.S. is “quite capable of making a big mistake.”
Currently a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, Drinan is a former Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts who served on several prominent committees, including the House Judiciary Committee and the House Select Committee on Aging. He has been a committed human rights activist and worked internationally with organizations such as the United Nations.
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I guess they forgot and left out the part of him being a LIBERAL FORMER DEMOCRAT SENATOR FROM MASSACHUSETTS!
If only he'd put one in the bottle.
Even better: He should stuff a big political plug over the mouths of these activist legal scholars.
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