Case for Bush Impeachment (Original)

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Judge strikes down Bush on terror groups
By LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondent
1 hour, 2 minutes ago



LOS ANGELES - A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutionally vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.

The Humanitarian Law Project had challenged Bush's order, which blocked all the assets of groups or individuals he named as "specially designated global terrorists" after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

"This law gave the president unfettered authority to create blacklists," said David Cole, a lawyer for the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Constitutional Rights that represented the group. "It was reminiscent of the McCarthy era."

The case centered on two groups, the Liberation Tigers, which seeks a separate homeland for the Tamil people in Sri Lanka, and Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan, a political organization representing the interests of Kurds in Turkey.

U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins enjoined the government from blocking the assets of the two groups.

Both groups consider the Nov. 21 ruling a victory; both had been designated by the United States as foreign terrorist organizations.

Cole said the judge's ruling does not invalidate the hundreds of other designated terrorist groups on the list but "calls them into question."

Charles Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice, said, "We are currently reviewing the decision and we have made no determination what the government's next step will be."

A White House spokeswoman declined to immediately comment. At the time of his order creating the list, Bush declared that the "grave acts of terrorism" and the "continuing and immediate threat of future attacks" constituted a national emergency.

The judge's 45-page ruling was a reversal of her own tentative findings last July in which she indicated she would uphold wide powers asserted by Bush under an anti-terror financing law. She delayed her ruling then to allow more legal briefs to be filed.

She also struck down the provision in which Bush had authorized the secretary of the treasury to designate anyone who "assists, sponsors or provides services to" or is "otherwise associated with" a designated group.

However, she let stand sections of the order that penalize those who provide "services" to designated terrorist groups. She said such services would include the humanitarian aid and rights training proposed by the plaintiffs.

The Humanitarian Law Project planned to appeal that part of the ruling, Cole said.

"We are pleased the court rejected many of the constitutional arguments raised by the plaintiffs, including their challenge to the government's ban on providing services to terrorist organizations," Miller said Tuesday. "However, we believe the court erred in finding that certain other aspects of the executive order were unconstitutional."

The ruling was still considered a victory, Cole said.

"Even in fighting terrorism the president cannot be given a blank check to blacklist anyone he considers a bad guy or a bad group and you can't imply guilt by association," Cole said.

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EU to report on CIA rendition claims


Peter Walker
Tuesday November 28, 2006
Guardian Unlimited


A Boeing 737 BBJ with registrations N313P and N4476S, which may have carried terror suspects. Photograph: Toni Marimon/Airliners.net



The United States looks set to face renewed pressure tomorrow when the European parliament releases a report on allegations that the CIA flew terrorism suspects to secret prisons around the world.
Italian MEP Claudio Fava was today presenting the report to the parliament's four-strong temporary committee on illegal CIA activities in Europe, and will hold a press conference in Brussels tomorrow afternoon to discuss his findings.

They are likely to be similar to those he produced in April in an interim report that said the US intelligence agency had operated more than 1,000 so-called "extraordinary rendition" flights over EU territory in the past five years.

It said the CIA had kidnapped terrorism suspects, and Mr Fava suggested some EU governments were fully aware of the flights.
The MEP used data from Eurocontrol, the European air safety agency, and information gathered during three months of hearings and more than 50 hours of testimony by individuals who said they were kidnapped and tortured by American agents. He also considered information provided by EU officials and human rights groups.

"That report was a summary of what he had learned so far. The new report will present the latest findings," a European parliament spokesman said today.

The interim report was adopted in July by the European parliament, which reminded EU member states they had a "positive obligation to prevent human rights violations on their territory".

The temporary committee - of which the Liberal Democrat MEP Sarah Ludford is vice-president - will discuss the latest report before it is presented to the parliament.

Claims that the CIA was holding terrorism suspects in eastern Europe, Thailand and Afghanistan first emerged in the Washington Post in November last year.

According to the US newspaper, the so-called "black sites" were established following the September 11 attacks, and held around 30 suspects.

It is claimed that rendition flights allowed suspects to be questioned in countries where they had no rights under US law. Amnesty International and other human rights groups have heavily criticised the US over the allegations.

Washington has refused to say whether secret CIA jails exist, but insists all its anti-terrorism operations fall within international law. It has also rejected claims by some detainees that they were tortured in captivity.

Rights groups have called for Britain and other EU nations to explain what they know about the flights. It is alleged that Prestwick airport in Scotland was used for such CIA flights.

The interim European parliament report said it seemed "implausible" that at least some EU nations did not know about the flights.

In June, human rights body the Council of Europe also accused EU states of colluding with what Swiss senator Dick Marty, investigating the issue, called a "spider's web" of disappearances, secret jails and clandestine flights.

"People should not be allowed to disappear into thin air, regardless of the crimes of which they are accused," the Council of Europe secretary general, Terry Davis, said.

"The only effective measures against terrorism are those which stop more terrorists than they help to recruit."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,1959130,00.html
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I can't see how you believe the media. They only deliver half of the story.
I know you're going to come back and say you know the people that met him, I can say the same thing, when in fact I have not.
Site your sources!
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Originally posted by Heryt:
I can't see how you believe the media. They only deliver half of the story.
I know you're going to come back and say you know the people that met him, I can say the same thing, when in fact I have not.
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I can't see how you don't believe the media, other than you buy lock, stock and barrel into the conservative media's spin that the media always lies.

Bush himself admitted in September to the existence of secret CIA prisons, something we have been talking about in THIS thread for months before that admission finally took place. 

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Bush: CIA holds terror suspects in secret prisons
POSTED: 8:10 a.m. EDT, September 7, 2006
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The CIA operates secret prisons abroad for holding key suspects in the war on terror, President Bush acknowledged Wednesday.

Though Bush said the United States never tortures suspects, "alternative" interrogation methods are used to glean information from them. These procedures "were tough, and they were safe and lawful and necessary," he said.

Bush's acknowledgement came as the president announced that he was sending legislation to Congress that would authorize military tribunals for terror suspects and set clear rules to protect U.S. military personnel from facing prosecution for war crimes. (Watch reaction to Bush's speech -- 1:55)

Also on Wednesday, the Pentagon issued a revised Army Field Manual that requires detainees be "treated humanely and in accordance with U.S. law, the law of war and applicable U.S. policy." (Watch how nudity, duct tape and electric shock are now banned -- 2:28)

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that tribunals convened at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were unconstitutional.

The High Court also ruled that al Qaeda operatives were protected by the Geneva Conventions, which ban "humiliating and degrading treatment." Bush called that mandate "vague."

The Washington Post first reported in November that the CIA was holding terror suspects in secret prisons overseas, including in former Soviet satellites in eastern Europe.

The White House would not confirm the report, but an investigation by the Council of Europe found evidence of a "global system of secret detentions and unlawful transfers."

Necessary tools
Secret prisons, alternative interrogation methods and military tribunals are integral to keeping Americans safe, Bush said Wednesday.

"In this new war, the most important source of information on where the terrorists are hiding and what they are planning is the terrorists themselves," he said. "To win the war on terror, we must be able to detain, question and, when appropriate, prosecute terrorists captured here in America and on the battlefields around the world."

While many are familiar with Guantanamo Bay, Bush said the CIA maintains other holding facilities for prisoners, including "key operatives" involved in the September 11 attacks, the attack in 2000 on the destroyer USS Cole in Yemen, and the 1998 attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. (Watch Bush admit U.S. has secret prisons -- 6:01)

"These are dangerous men with unparalleled knowledge about terrorist networks and their plans of new attacks," the president said. "The security of our nation and the lives of our citizens depend on our ability to learn what these terrorists know."

Fourteen al Qaeda operatives in CIA custody have been transferred to Guantanamo to face military tribunals, including Ramzi Binalshibh, Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the reputed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, the president said. (Profiles of the detainees)

"With these prosecutions, we will send a clear message to those who kill Americans: No matter how long it takes, we will bring them to justice," he said to applause from the assembled administration officials and guests.

Legislation en route
Though the details of the proposal are unclear, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, R-Virginia, began circulating draft legislation on the tribunals two weeks ago. Key players met with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, on Tuesday to discuss the proposal.

Legislation is expected to be passed before the November elections, a senior State Department official said.

Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who officials say has admitted to being Osama bin Laden's bodyguard and driver, filed the lawsuit that led to the Supreme Court's ban on tribunals.

In a concurring opinion, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote that Congress had not issued the president a "blank check." But he added that "nothing prevents the president from returning to Congress to seek the authority he believes necessary."

Hamdan's attorney, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Charlie Swift, said asking Congress to approve procedures that the Supreme Court already struck down was "an opportunity for nothing more than more mistakes."

"For me, representing Mr. Hamdan has been about defending our values as much as defending him," Swift said. "Our values are not demonstrated in the commissions, at least no commission that's been authorized to date."

Democrats had similar reactions.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California called Bush's proposal "long overdue." California Rep. Jane Harman, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, added, "It's a shame that it took a Supreme Court opinion, a law banning torture, and public outcry to get him here."

GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a reserve military judge who has taken a leading role in the debate over military tribunals, said the U.S. needs to move quickly to implement military tribunals that will withstand judicial scrutiny but still hold terrorists accountable. He conceded, however, that there is likely to be some butting of heads between the Oval Office and the Senate Armed Services Committee.

One contentious issue, Graham said, will be whether a tribunal could use classified information.

"I do not believe it is necessary to have a trial where the accused cannot see the evidence against them," Graham said in a written statement. "I fear that creating such a procedure would not be well-received by the courts. The military legal officers serving in uniform have also expressed concern that this could establish a precedent that could be used against our own troops."

Allegations that Americans have tortured prisoners captured in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere have dogged the Bush administration since April 2004, when graphic photographs of Army reservists mistreating prisoners at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad became public. (Watch Bush explain why Iraq is central to the war on terror -- 1:51)

The president's speech was intended in part to address international concerns about the secret prisons, a senior State Department official said.

The official also said there were no detainees still in the secret CIA prisons but that the CIA still has the authority to detain suspects.

Copyright 2006 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/06/bush.speech/ 

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Do you realize these are people that skinned other people alive and ok just let them go?
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I'd have to say that two rights don't make a wrong. Not only are we holding those guys, we actually have been torturing them. America should be better than that, else we're just like any other country.
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Riiiiiggggghhhhhttttt Byron; we impeached Al Gore right along with Billy Boy, didn't we? ROFLMAO. Why waste the tax payers money? By the time he got impeached and anything else beyond that; he'd be out of office anyway. Do you even bother to read the papers or is your ear grown fast to NBC?
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Riiiiiggggghhhhhttttt Byron; we impeached Al Gore right along with Billy Boy, didn't we?
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Nope, you must have the wrong information.


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ROFLMAO.
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Great internet abbreviation! I should use that everytime I'm talking to you.


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Why waste the tax payers money?
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The government is always wasting taxpayers money, why do you want them to be specific about it?



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By the time he got impeached and anything else beyond that; he'd be out of office anyway.
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They should get hold investigations, and if he did anything criminal (and I already know the answer to whether he did or not), he should be impeached.

Sorry, even a Republican President is not above the law, "Prig."


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Do you even bother to read the papers or is your ear grown fast to NBC?
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Durrrrrrr, do you read the papers, or do you just flip on FOX News? Yes, you do. 

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Byron have I called you names? I have a few that fit but I haven't used them. How could I possibly have had enough yet? What of consequence have you said?
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Basically that Bush and the Bilderbergers should be put on trial for their imperial war crimes.
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 The case for impeachment of President George W. Bush

Table of contents [hide]

1 Constitutional Basis
2 Ramsey Clark's Articles of Impeachment
3 Issues
3.1 George W. Bush's domestic spying
3.2 George W. Bush's phone records spying
3.3 Hurricane Katrina
3.4 Criminal Offense of Exposing Valerie Plame
3.5 The Global Detention System
3.6 Rendition
3.7 Interrogation Techniques at Guantanamo Bay
3.8 Lying to Congress about need for preemptive war in Iraq
3.9 Pre-Preemptive War in Iraq
3.10 Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the prime training ground for foreign terrorists
3.11 United States used weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
3.12 Destruction of Evidence from Ground Zero at the World Trade Center
3.13 Coverup of the WTC (9/11) Investigation
3.14 Plundering the Treasury
3.14.1 Social Security Trust Funds
4 Political Will
5 Quotes
6 Books
7 External Links
7.1 Articles & Commentary
7.2 Pro-Impeachment Websites
7.3 Other Websites
7.4 Documents
8 SourceWatch Resources (related to "impeachable offenses" cited in External Links)

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Constitutional Basis
"Bribery is one of two crimes cited in the Constitution as grounds for impeachment - and the Big Pharma/Medicaid and Big Tobacco/lawsuit settlement cases may qualify." [1] (http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0620-22.htm) as may off-record settlements with the financial industry after the Enron collapse.
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Ramsey Clark's Articles of Impeachment
• Former Attorney GeneralRamsey Clark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey_Clark)'s Articles of Impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General John David Ashcroft:
1. Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law; carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of tens of thousands of Iraqis, and hundreds of U.S. G.I.s.
2. Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war.
3. Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable.
4. Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.
5. Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
6. Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.
7. Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.
8. Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant."
9. Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense.
10. Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after full hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held by the government.
11. Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who are not citizens who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive who acts as indicting official, prosecutor and as the only avenue of appellate relief.
12. Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and locations of persons who have been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government in the United States, including in response to Congressional inquiry.
13. Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and elsewhere and denial of the right to public trials.
14. Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client privileged communications by the government, even in the absence of a court order and even where an incarcerated person has not been charged with a crime.
15. Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the United States, prior to hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association with any entity that at the discretionary designation of the Executive has been deemed "terrorist."
16. Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and authorization of domestic spying by federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement in noncriminal religious and political activity.
17. Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional right of legislative oversight of executive functions.
18. Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and abrogation of the obligations of the United States under, and withdrawal from, international treaties and obligations without consent of the legislative branch, and including termination of the ABM treaty between the United States and Russia, and rescission of the authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the International Criminal Court.
• Source: Impeach Bush, 2003 (http://www.impeachbush.org/).
• survives here (http://thirdworldtraveler.com/Politicians/Articles_Impeach_Bush.html)
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Issues
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George W. Bush's domestic spying
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George W. Bush's phone records spying
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Hurricane Katrina
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Criminal Offense of Exposing Valerie Plame
See:
• Treasongate: Beyond Karl Rove
• Elizabeth de la Vega's "Smoking Guns and Red Herrings. What Should We Expect Now that Fitzgerald Has Announced the Indictment of Lewis 'Scooter' Libby?" (http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=32241) and "The White House Criminal Conspiracy" (http://tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=32550) posted by Tom Dispatch, October 28 and 29, 2005.
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The Global Detention System
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Rendition
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Interrogation Techniques at Guantanamo Bay
ABC News reported June 15, 2005, [2] (http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/print?id=852458) that "interrogation techniques used at Guantanamo Bay Detention Center in 2002 triggered concerns among senior Pentagon officials that they could face criminal prosecution under U.S. anti-torture laws ...
"Notes from a series of meetings at the Pentagon in early 2003 -- obtained by ABC News -- show that Alberto Mora, general counsel of the Navy, warned his superiors that they might be breaking the law.
"During a January 2003 meeting involving top Pentagon lawyer William Haynes II and other officials, the memo shows that Mora warned that 'use of coercive techniques ... has military, legal, and political implication ... has international implication ... and exposes us to liability and criminal prosecution.'
"Mora's deep concerns about interrogations at Guantanamo have been known, but not his warning that top officials could go to prison.
"In another meeting held March 8, 2003, the group of top Pentagon lawyers concluded -- according to the memo -- 'we need a presidential letter approving the use of the controversial interrogation to cover those who may be called upon to use them.'
"No such letter was issued."
On June 15, 2005, "the White House insisted that tactics used at Guantanamo Bay are now -- and have been -- legal.
"'All interrogation techniques that have been approved are lawful and consistent with our obligations,' said White House press secretary Scott McClellan."
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Lying to Congress about need for preemptive war in Iraq
• "To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." --Judgement of the Nuremberg War Trial (http://home.earthlink.net/~platter/nuremberg/judgement-nazi-regime.html#supreme-intl-crime).
• "To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked. Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be 'a high crime' under the Constitution's impeachment clause. It would also be a violation of federal criminal law, including the broad federal anti-conspiracy statute (http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/ts_search.pl?title=18&sec=371), which renders it a felony 'to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose.'" --John W. Dean
• Justifications for the US-Iraq 2003 war: "preemption" or "preemptive war".
• The secret Downing Street memo, July 23, 2002.
• Letter to George W. Bush Signed by 88 Members of Congress (http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/letters/bushsecretmemoltr5505.pdf), May 5, 2005, re the "troubling revelations in the Sunday London Times apparently confirming that the United States and Great Britain had secretly agreed to attack Iraq in the summer of 2002, well before the invasion and before you even sought Congressional authority to engage in military action."
• The leaked Cabinet Office briefing paper, July 21, 2002: "Iraq: Conditions for Military Action".
• Downing Street Memo Campaign.
• George W. Bush: The War President.
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Pre-Preemptive War in Iraq
Tom Regan wrote in the June 30, 2005, Christian Science Monitor that the U.S. and Britain commenced a secret air attack campaign in Iraq as early as mid-2002, which documents such as the Downing Street memo may show. [3] (http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/2005/0630/dailyUpdate.html)
"Michael Smith, defense writer for the Sunday Times of London wrote (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1669640,00.html) this past Sunday [June 26, 2005] that 'The American general who commanded allied air forces during the Iraq war appears to have admitted in a briefing to American and British officers that coalition aircraft waged a secret air war against Iraq from the middle of 2002, nine months before the invasion began.' (This bombing capaign is referred to in the Downing Street memo.)," Regan stated.
The Raw Story reported June 27, 2005, that "A U.S. general who commanded the U.S. allied air forces in Iraq has confirmed that the U.S. and Britain conducted a massive secret bombing campaign before the U.S. actually declared war on Iraq. ... While the Downing Street documents collectively raise disturbing questions about how the Bush administration led the United States into Iraq, including allegations that 'intelligence was being fixed,' other questions have emerged about when the US and British led allies actually began the Iraq war." [4] (http://rawstory.com/news/2005/The_unofficial_war_U.S._and_Britain_led_massive_air_campaign_before_Iraq_war_be_0627.html)
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Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the prime training ground for foreign terrorists
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United States used weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
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Destruction of Evidence from Ground Zero at the World Trade Center
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Coverup of the WTC (9/11) Investigation
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Plundering the Treasury
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Social Security Trust Funds
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Political Will
Nothing happens in politics without a "political will" to make it so. Political will to question George W. Bush is not going to come from his partisan legislators on the hill, or from his benefactors in corporate media, but there are . other sources available for garnering a momentum
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Quotes
• "All public policy should revolve around the principle that individuals are responsible for what they say and do." --George W. Bush, 1994. [5] (http://g0lem.net/vortal/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9)
• "Impeachment is the direct constitutional means for removing a President, Vice President or other civil officers of the United States who has acted or threatened acts that are serious offenses against the Constitution, its system of government, or the rule of law, or that are conventional crimes of such a serious nature that they would injure the Presidency if there was no removal." --Ramsey Clark, July 18, 2003. [6] (http://www.votetoimpeach.org/)
• "Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George III and had in 1776 accused the king of all the things that George W. Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people; Being above the law; Criminal abuse of authority." --Ramsey Clark, July 18, 2003. [7] (http://www.votetoimpeach.org/)
• "I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style. That's what happened in the -- after the 2000 election, I earned some capital. I've earned capital in this election -- and I'm going to spend it for what I told the people I'd spend it on." --George W. Bush, November 4, 2004. [8] (http://home.comcast.net/~cyroth/politics.html)
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Books
• John Bonifaz, Warrior King: The Case for Impeaching George Bush (2003 book) (ISBN 1560256060).
• Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror (2004 book) (ISBN 0743260244).
• John W. Dean, Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush (2004 book).
• Paul O'Neill, The Price of Loyalty. George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill (book 2004).
• Joseph C. Wilson IV, The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity (2004 book).
• Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack (2004 book).
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External Links
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Articles & Commentary
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Pro-Impeachment Websites
• Bush Occupation (http://www.bushoccupation.com).com.
• CODEPINK4PEACE (http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?list=type&type=24).org: "Indict President Bush. We couldn't stop him from taking office, but we can ensure that his presidency ends as the public disgrace that it is."
• Impeach Bush (http://www.impeachbush.tv/).tv.
• Impeach Bush Now (http://www.impeach-bush-now.org/).org.
• Impeach Central (http://elandslide.org/elandslide/petition.cfm?campaign=impeach&refer=home) website.
• Impeach George W. Bush Petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/ddc12/petition.html), petitiononline.com.
• "Stop the War. Impeach Bush ... Cheney, Rumsfeld & Ashcroft! (http://www.rise4news.net/impeach.html), rise4news.net.
• The Four Reasons (http://www.thefourreasons.org/).org; The Four Reasons for Responsible Citizenship website.
• Topple Bush (http://www.topplebush.com/index.shtml).com.
• Vote to Impeach (http://www.votetoimpeach.org/).org.
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Other Websites
• Wiki the Presidency.org (http://www.wikithepresidency.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) created by People For the American Way.
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Documents
• 'Impeachment Documents Relating to a U.S. President," (http://www.lib.auburn.edu/madd/docs/impeach.html) Ralph Brown Draughon Library.
• "Guide to Impeachment and Censure Materials Online," (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/impeach.htm) Jurist website.
• "George W. Bush, et al., Petitioners v. Albert Gore, Jr., et al. on writ of certiorari to the Florida Supreme Court (http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=case&vol=000&invol=00-949), December 12, 2000. "Case Law" at FindLaw.com. See Bush v. Gore (http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Bush_v._Gore) in the dKosopedia.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_case_for_impeachment_of_President_George_W._Bush
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Forget about what kind of influence you think you might have on government. Democrat, Republican... try dictatorship. Been that way for a while. What kind of things do you think are discussed in secret rooms at secret times by the most powerful people on our planet, let alone this country? That's right - it goes beyond continental borders. The real government is kinda sorta everywhere all at once. There wouldn't be such tight and squelching reins on everyone's otherwise ready-to-pop anarchist freedom dreams. It's all there for public amusement... this... game of politics and mass media. Makes everyone feel like they're part of a great club or something. A really terrible, tyrannical, perfectly safe and prosperous club. With couches and TVs and schnazzy Motoguzzis and "insurance." Question the reasons why you might feel even in the slightest that you have an affect on the way things go for such a mighty corporation.. err.. government. Err, country. Wow! I'm just SLIPPING up everywhere, aren't I? Read, or listen, to some more of my ****-'n-vinegar here:

www.kairologic.com

And then stay tuned, because I will soon have my patent set in stone for the radiant energy turbo. Power your home with crystal and metal. Forever. And KCUF the DOE (I mean military) and their scandalous wars on power, I mean terrorism, for good. Let 'em bathe in the tectonic plate lube until the fires of magma from the eruptive jim-jams set 'em to be eternally apologetic. Oh, and stay in a nice safe place away from fault lines and oceans and old volcano caps.

May the rose bloom on your cross.

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Lux Et Veritas,
Brendan

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Kristina

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McKinney introduces bill to impeach Bush
By BEN EVANS, Associated Press Writer
Sat Dec 9, 1:06 AM ET


WASHINGTON - In what was likely her final legislative act in Congress, outgoing Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney introduced a bill Friday to impeach President Bush.


The legislation has no chance of passing and serves as a symbolic parting shot not only at Bush but also at Democratic leaders. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has made clear that she will not entertain proposals to sanction Bush and has warned the liberal wing of her party against making political hay of impeachment.

McKinney, a Democrat who drew national headlines in March when she struck a Capitol police officer, has long insisted that Bush was never legitimately elected. In introducing her legislation in the final hours of the current Congress, she said Bush had violated his oath of office to defend the Constitution and the nation's laws.

In the bill, she accused Bush of misleading Congress on the war in Iraq and violating privacy laws with his domestic spying program.

McKinney has made no secret of her frustration with Democratic leaders since voters ousted her from office in the Democratic primary this summer. In a speech Monday at George Washington University, she accused party leaders of kowtowing to Republicans on the war in Iraq and on military mistreatment of prisoners.

McKinney, who has not discussed her future plans, has increasingly embraced her image as a controversial figure.

She has hosted numerous panels on Sept. 11 conspiracy theories and suggested that Bush had prior knowledge of the terrorist attacks but kept quiet about it to allow friends to profit from the aftermath. She introduced legislation calling for disclosure of any government records concerning the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.

But it was her scuffle with a Capitol police officer that drew the most attention. McKinney struck the officer when he tried to stop her from entering a congressional office building. The officer did not recognize McKinney, who was not wearing her member lapel pin.

A grand jury in Washington declined to indict McKinney over the clash, but she eventually apologized before the House.

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  posted 12-09-2006 01:24 PM                       
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McKinney?,LOL

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And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
it's Later Than You Think
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