So what do you want for the new year? 'Cause I'm feeling impeachment-ish.
Saddam Hussein was hanged just one crime against humanity, and not for the scores of crimes he committed during his decades long dictatorship.
How come, then, can't we impeach George Bush on the following 10 crimes?
- Violating the United Nations Charter by launching an illegal war of aggression against Iraq without cause, using fraud to sell the war to Congress and the public, and misusing government funds to begin bombing without Congressional authorization.
- Violating U.S. and international law by authorizing the torture of thousands of captives, resulting in dozens of deaths, and keeping prisoners hidden from the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- Violating the Constitution by arbitrarily detaining Americans, legal residents, and non-Americans, without due process, without charge, and without access to counsel.
- Violating the Geneva Conventions by targeting civilians, journalists, hospitals, and ambulances, and using illegal weapons, including white phosphorous, depleted uranium, and a new type of napalm.
- Violating U.S. law and the Constitution through widespread wiretapping of the phone calls and emails of Americans without a warrant.
- Violating the Constitution by using signing statements to defy hundreds of laws passed by Congress.
- Violating U.S. and state law by obstructing honest elections in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006.
- Violating U.S. law by using paid propaganda and disinformation, selectively and misleadingly leaking classified information, and exposing the identity of a covert CIA operative working on sensitive WMD proliferation for political retribution.
- Subverting the Constitution and abusing Presidential power by asserting a "Unitary Executive Theory" giving unlimited powers to the President, by obstructing efforts by Congress and the Courts to review and restrict Presidential actions, and by promoting and signing legislation negating the Bill of Rights and the Writ of Habeas Corpus.
- Gross negligence in failing to assist New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina, in ignoring urgent warnings of an Al Qaeda attack prior to Sept. 11, 2001, and in increasing air pollution causing global warming.
Iraq is ... ahem ... a democracy (cough, cough) that held accountable it's despot for the crimes he committed. We, the people of the the United States --the greatest democracy in the world (cough, cough, cough, cough), can hold accountable George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and all in the executive who broke the rule of law.
It's not like we're asking for the noose ... right?
Thanks to our friends over at AfterDowningStreet.org
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Cheney is even scarier
Submitted by Teacher With a Tude on 3 January 2007 - 3:57am.
Personally, unless we manage to take both of them out together, it would make me nervous.
impeachment
i hold mixed feelings about impeachment.
not bc i don't think he deserves it, but bc i want the country to move forward by focusing on healthcare changes, increasing min. wage, and getting out of Iraq, among other issues. i feel that an impeachment would take the focus of Americans away from these issues, almost like the war on drugs. politicians would be uniting us against another "cause" wo working for and providing us with solutions to things that have plagued this country long before George W. Bush took office. that is why i want Congress to stand up to the President and not worry about butting heads with this assclown. also, i think that Bush and his cronies are criminals, so they should pay a higher price than impeachment, both for their war crimes and for their financial crimes. and bc i believe that politicians look out for each other--- even when they are members of different parties, i trust very few of them no matter what their platform is--- perhaps another form of punishment is called for, one that effectively sends a message that these behaviors will not be tolerated by Americans. maybe Bush and his friends and all other corrupt politicians should be tried by a jury of their peers (which is us!) to remind them that the offices they hold do not make them above the law or above their peers.