Dennis Kucinich has taken a meaningful forward step that is essential for the preservation of democracy and world stability.  Kucinich today introduced articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.

When Kucinich was interviewed by Wolf Blitzer of CNN he was asked whether this step might be a mistake since "we are at war," his response was directly on point.  Kucinich told Blitzer that we went to war based on a series of lies.  These lies were repeatedly propagated by Cheney and Bush.

For those wondering whether George W. Bush rather than Cheney should have been singled out, should this vital step gain the kind of grassroots support that it deserves then it is only a question of time before the chief executive, in name at any rate, is singled out in the same fashion.

A key point raised by Kucinich is Cheney's ongoing effort to instigate a war against Iran, which he stated violated Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution.  

The Bush Administrations will go down as one of the darkest periods in American History.  There's no doubt about that. It will take time and guts for us Democrats to repair the injuries that have been done to our national life, the way we are viewed by other countries, our Constitution, and even the idea of Democracy itself.  

(And it will take a steady moral compass to keep us away from the temptation to argue that the worst of the attacks on civil liberties, the crippling of habeas corpus, the laws permitting indefinite detention, 'extraordinary renditions,' and the like were "only bad because bad men administered them" and, because they are useful and we are virtuous, we can be trusted not to misuse them if they remain on the books. They must be repealed, and precautions taken that they may never be reinstituted.  Not just because the Republicans -- or some other party that arises from the splintered shards of the GOP -- might regain office, but because these are too dangerous to remain even in our hands, as virtuous as we might remain.)

And yet, I am arguing that there is a good argument to be made that not only would impeachment be a mistake, it might not be justified, legally.