January 6, 2008 (LPAC) - George McGovern, former Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate against Richard Nixon, published a call for the immediate impeachment of both Bush and Cheney, as an administration far more guilty of high crimes than even Richard Nixon. Impeachment is "unlikely," he says in an op-ed in the Washington Post, not only because of the Republicans, but because of "a lack of courage and statesmanship on the part of too many Democratic politicians." He details the many crimes of the Administration, comparing the Iraq fiasco with the policies of the first President Bush in Desert Storm. "Impeachment," he writes, "quite simply, is the procedure written into the Constitution to deal with Presidents who violate the Constitution and the laws of the land."

He concludes: "At age 85, I won't be around to witness the completion of the difficult rebuilding of our sorely damaged country, but I'd like to hold on long enough to see the healing begin."