"How could a once-admired, great nation fall into such a quagmire of killing, immorality and lawlessness?" he writes. This reckless disregard for life and property, as well as constitutional law, has been accompanied by the abuse of prisoners, including systematic torture, in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949." Charter and in violation of international law. McGovern says that American democracy has been "derailed" by the administration's commitment to "a murderous, illegal, nonsensical war against Iraq … done without the declaration of war from Congress that the Constitution clearly requires, in defiance of the U.N.
Bush and Cheney "far stronger" than what was the case against President Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. McGovern also called the case for impeaching Mr. George McGovern, a former South Dakota Senator who ran on the Democratic ticket in 1972 as an anti-war advocate, wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post that, while he steered clear of calling for the impeachment of Richard Nixon in the '70s - fearing it would appear as "an expression of personal vengeance" against his opponent who won re-election in a landslide - McGovern said after seven years of the current administration, he has "belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment" of the president and the vice president. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is "the rightful course for an American patriot."
The former Democratic nominee for president who ran against a president later driven from office under threat of impeachment, today said that impeachment of President George W.
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