by Mike Sheehan

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) says the White House is “up to its old tricks” as it preps for a U.S. attack on Iran, according to a press release.

The 2008 Democratic presidential candidate warns that Bush’s actions could result in impeachment.

Kucinich accuses the Bush administration “of mounting a media blitz to prepare the U.S. public for an eventual attack on Iran,” according to the release, which cites a report that the President authorized the military to kill Iranians operating inside Iraq.

“The White House is up to its old tricks again,” says Kucinich, accusing the administration of “providing information by anonymous sources and portraying Iran as an aggressor in Iraq.” He continues, “The President is mischaracterizing U.S. action vis à vis Iran. In fact, the U.S. is already engaged in offensive and provocative acts against Iran.

“The President’s strategy, by portraying our involvement as only being on the defensive, is laying out the groundwork for him to attack Iran and bypass authorization by Congress.”

The six-term Congressmember, a long-time advocate for peace, blasts “the White House spin machine” for “providing justification for a new war … against Iran.” He adds, “The Washington Post is quoting strategically placed Administration sources who are providing justification for an attack… This new twist on Iran, a country this Administration refuses to have free and open diplomatic talks with, is stating the Administration’s case for war.”

Kucinich closes by warning, “The degree to which this President continues to take steps to go to war against Iran without consulting with the full Congress is the degree to which he is increasingly putting himself in jeopardy of an impeachment proceeding.”

The full release is available at Rep. Kucinich’s official site.

Read More at Raw Story

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by Joe Stinebaker (AP)

HOUSTON — Rep. Ron Paul, the iconoclastic, nine-term lawmaker from southeast Texas, took the first step Thursday toward a second, quixotic presidential bid _ this time as a Republican.

Paul filed papers in Texas to create a presidential exploratory committee that will allow him to raise money. In 1988, Paul was the Libertarian nominee for president and received more than 400,000 votes.

Kent Snyder, the chairman of Paul’s exploratory committee and a former staffer on Paul’s Libertarian campaign, said the congressman knows he’s a long shot.

“There’s no question that it’s an uphill battle, and that Dr. Paul is an underdog,” Snyder said. “But we think it’s well worth doing and we’ll let the voters decide.”

Paul limits his view of the role of the federal government to those duties laid out in the Constitution. As a result, he sometimes casts votes at odds with his constituents and other Republicans.

He was one of a handful of Republicans to vote in 2002 against giving President Bush the authority to use military force in Iraq, contending that only Congress had the power to declare war. At times, he has voted against funds for the military.

Paul bills himself as “The Taxpayers’ Best Friend,” and is routinely ranked either first or second in the House by the National Taxpayers Union, a national group advocating low taxes and limited government.

Read More at The Washington Post

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