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According to a recent poll conducted by American Research Group, Inc. 54% of adults in the United States of America, including 17% of Republicans, want impeachment proceedings for Vice President Dick Cheney.

"The vice president actively and systematically sought to deceive the citizens and Congress about an alleged threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. He has purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive us about the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda," Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) said.

Twenty members of the U.S. House of Representatives have united around the impeachment of Dick Cheney by signing on as co-sponsors of Rep. Kucinich's House Resolution 333. Mr. Kucinich introduced articles of impeachment against the vice president on April 24, 2007. Congressman Ed Towns (D-NY), who phoned Mr. Kucinich's office while visiting with several concerned constituents, is considered the twentieth House member to become a co-sponsor.

The U.S. constitution states that impeachment is warranted due to the "high crimes and misdemeanors" of Dick Cheney and possibly of the resigning Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove. Dick Cheney lied publicly in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq about the Iraqi government possessing Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). He continues to lie and contradict himself to this day.

President George W. Bush has also admitted to the illegal wiretapping of over 150,000 U.S. citizens, in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). This act requires a court order to be issued by the FISA court before wiretapping can be done. FISA allows for a certain period of time in which the government can conduct wiretaps before receiving the court order. But the Bush administration, including Dick Cheney, decided to flout this law by conducting taps between 2001 and 2005 without using the court.

These and other brazenly unethical and illegal misdeeds are being used as the basis for impeachment proceedings to come within the year by the U.S. House of Representatives. Following the outcome of investigation and a subsequent vote for impeachment in the House, the Senate would then move forward with a trail, and possibly the removal of Vice President Dick Cheney.

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