George McGovern wrote an essay for the Washington Post calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney

National Review, Jan 28, 2008

George McGovern wrote an essay for the Washington Post calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Most of it was a predictable anti-war aria: Saddam's Iraq was "a stable country with little or no capacity to threaten others"; Bush and Cheney have "increased the terrorist threat" (which is why we have had so many more 9/11s).

But he also wants Bush/Cheney impeached for Hurricane Katrina, and for Bush v. Gore and the "questionable" 2000 election "that probably should have been officially challenged--perhaps even by a congressional investigation." McGovern has lived so long, and is so sweet-natured when politics is not on the table, that he has become a cuddly old fud, a great-avuncular Mr. Magoo. But sometimes he speaks to the issues, and you remember why he carried one state in 1972, and finished fifth in the New Hampshire primary in 1984.

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