Impeach Bush and Cheney, urges McGovern

FORMER US presidential candidate George McGovern has called for President George W Bush and Vice-President Richard Cheney to be impeached, saying the case for such a dramatic step “is far stronger” than it was against former disgraced president Richard Nixon.

A former US congressman and senator, Mr McGovern was the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in 1972, but lost the election to incumbent Richard Nixon, who was forced to resign amid the Watergate scandal in 1974.

Writing in The Washington Post, Mr McGovern said after the 1972 election, he stood clear of calls to impeach Mr Nixon because he was afraid it would be interpreted as an act of personal vengeance. But “today I have made a different choice”, he said.