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Edited by
beeorganic
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I'm from St. Louis. We love our Anheuser Busch. My statements were formed by critical thinking, observation, and research. I have something even better then that though.  I was raised with manners and don't like to put people down or call them names because they have a different opinion from me. I also don't do that because I am secure with myself. If your statements were formed by critical thinking, observation, and research I'll claim to be from MO too (for this one post)... Show me . Equating Bush solely to Katrina (for example New Orleans)... you have overlooked and/or absolved politicians like Ray "Hold the busses" Nagen, FORMER Governor Kathleen "huh, what... what do I do here" Blanco, and the people who made the CHOICE not to leave (I.E. taking personal responsibility). Partisan observations and selective reseach do not informed, educated opinions make. The lady doth protests too much methinks. The frustration and contempt you and your ilk may have in your misguided opinions about blaming Bush for things like Katrina is only rivaled by my frustration and contempt I have for those who fail to understand the basics concept of how our government operates. It pleases me beyond belief though that you are secure with yourself and feel the need to affirm that here... the only thing missing is "and doggone it, people like me" a la Stuart Smalley.
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Edited by
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Thu 01/15/09 09:34 PM
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deke you have either been living under a rock or are being deliberately ignorant.
Maybe you just think that if a president does it it is constitutional? Bush is a traitor. |
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Edited by
nogames39
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Thu 01/15/09 09:31 PM
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Im still a little challenged on this forum can someone change this for me so it will be a link or give me advice how to do it? like I did above? type: (url)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4DykmZz_YA (/url) except, change the parenthesis to square brackets. |
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Thx Nogames.
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Bush wasn't truthful to us.
I remember him always saying "nukelar". There is no way he would be using that word after Yale. Then, the only explanation is that he wanted knowingly to look "dumb", so that we wouldn't suspect too much. |
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Anyone caught the word about borders and security?
He said something like this "It's not that our borders would protect us, but we must bring liberty and democracy to other nations, that will protect us"... Yeah..Forgot the whole thing about, that "others" might look at the current "democracy" in USA and want nothing of it, can't blame them either. And the whole idea of the border is not being important..I almost threw my shoe at the TV...lol.. |
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Funny how presidents surely like to receive credit for this and that. It is only when it comes to be blamed, they "never really had any power"...
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listen to what bush has accomplished Quite the list!!!!! LMAO AND, All that too! |
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Edited by
Winx
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Thu 01/15/09 11:01 PM
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I'm from St. Louis. We love our Anheuser Busch. My statements were formed by critical thinking, observation, and research. I have something even better then that though. I was raised with manners and don't like to put people down or call them names because they have a different opinion from me. I also don't do that because I am secure with myself. If your statements were formed by critical thinking, observation, and research I'll claim to be from MO too (for this one post)... Show me . Equating Bush solely to Katrina (for example New Orleans)... you have overlooked and/or absolved politicians like Ray "Hold the busses" Nagen, FORMER Governor Kathleen "huh, what... what do I do here" Blanco, and the people who made the CHOICE not to leave (I.E. taking personal responsibility). Partisan observations and selective reseach do not informed, educated opinions make. The lady doth protests too much methinks. The frustration and contempt you and your ilk may have in your misguided opinions about blaming Bush for things like Katrina is only rivaled by my frustration and contempt I have for those who fail to understand the basics concept of how our government operates. It pleases me beyond belief though that you are secure with yourself and feel the need to affirm that here... the only thing missing is "and doggone it, people like me" a la Stuart Smalley. Ahhh...Show Me.  I have not absolved Nagen, FEMA, and the bunch. I even dislike the fact that the money wasn't spent on the levies prior to Katrina. I do not point the finger at the poor people with no transportation to leave, though. I do believe that Bush could have handled it better from the get go. No, this lady did not protest too much. I kept it short.  I didn't need to affirm. I thought you were capable of reading between the lines of what I said. I was mistaken. |
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The negative, un-Constitutional things that he has done outweigh the few good things that he has done. please explain all the unconstitutional things he's done Where have you been hiding? Under a rock? |
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Edited by
becca777
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Fri 01/16/09 03:41 AM
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One panel I watched last night said that history may deem him as one of the strongest presidents in history, however, he will also be deemed as one of the worst.
I wish I could find the panel info now, but it was late and between the plane crashing into the Hudson and Bush's address, I was switching alot. |
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I know we cant blame all the economic mess on Bush. But plz tell me one time he was honest about what was happening. How many State of the Unions....Funny the Six pack Joe knew it was happening.....He leaves us in two unfinished wars. Iraq will become worse than the place we were lied to believe it was when we pullout!!!!! Sorry I spent 6yrs in the Gulf.....OBL still on the loose or dead but not by our actions...Our boarders and ports still not secure. Our infrastructer falling apart. We bailout the same people who helped create this mess. No plan on energy. Now we are forced to cut benifits to people who need them, not because they are lazy or drug additics but because they lost their jobs, cant sell their home to relocate so they can even look for a new one!!!!!
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Edited by
Fanta46
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Fri 01/16/09 07:57 AM
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THE FIRST FOUR YEARS
THE BUSH RECORD More than 300 Crimes against Nature Source: Natural Resources Defense Council JANUARY 20, 2001 White House freezes all rules set at end of Clinton term�including tougher ones for raw sewage JANUARY 20, 2001 Bush proposes opening Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling FEBRUARY 12, 2001 Energy Department puts off enforcing new efficiency standards for air conditioners FEBRUARY 15, 2001 EPA delays new rule protecting wetlands from mining and development MARCH 7, 2001 Fish and Wildlife Service withdraws report calling for protection of endangered salmonids MARCH 9, 2001 Bush appoints oil and mining lobbyist as deputy secretary of Interior MARCH 13, 2001 Bush reneges on campaign promise to reduce carbon dioxide emissions MARCH 16, 2001 Bush administration refuses to defend in court rule protecting 58 million acres of wild forest MARCH 20, 2001 Bush withdraws proposed stricter limits on arsenic in drinking water MARCH 28, 2001 Bush administration rejects Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change APRIL 9, 2001 Bush budget proposal cuts $500 million from EPA MAY 10, 2001 Bush administration refuses to name industry participants in Cheney energy task force MAY 12, 2001 Bureau of Land Management allows continued grazing on endangered-tortoise land in California MAY 17, 2001 Bush releases energy plan heavily favoring fossil fuels and nukes MAY 17, 2001 Forest Service reduces citizen and scientific participation in decision-making MAY 22, 2001 EPA officially suspends stricter limits for arsenic in drinking water JUNE 19, 2001 States and others sue Energy Department over air-conditioner rules (see FEBRUARY 12, 2001) JUNE 21, 2001 Timber lobbyist Mark Rey appointed to key post in Forest Service JULY 2, 2001 Oil drilling off Florida coast proposed by Bush administration JULY 23, 2001 Bush budget proposes cutting 270 EPA inspector jobs AUGUST 2, 2001 Army Corps of Engineers kills plan to protect Missouri River wildlife by changing stream flows AUGUST 8, 2001 Army Corps of Engineers weakens wetlands protections by slackening permit requirements AUGUST 12, 2001 National forests opened to roadbuilding and logging by Forest Service rule changes AUGUST 14, 2001 EPA delays tougher rules for toxic power-plant emissions AUGUST 17, 2001 Federal judge's decision to ban drilling off California's coast appealed by administration AUGUST 27, 2001 Cattle still grazing on tortoise habitat in California, despite BLM agreement to move them AUGUST 28, 2001 Bush administration proposes missile-defense test installation in Pacific; environmentalists sue AUGUST 28, 2001 Bush administration reconsiders ban on recycling radioactive metals into consumer products SEPTEMBER 13, 2001 EPA lies about Manhattan hazards after 9/11, calls area safe despite extreme toxic pollution SEPTEMBER 20, 2001 Forest Service proposes further reduction in citizen participation in policymaking OCTOBER 25, 2001 Interior Department weakens environmental rules for mining operations OCTOBER 31, 2001 Arsenic flip-flop: Under public pressure, EPA adopts higher standard after all (see MAY 22, 2001) NOVEMBER 2, 2001 Army Corps of Engineers retreats from policy of "no net loss" of wetlands NOVEMBER 5, 2001 Bush signs bill to boost spending for national forests, but with harmful logging riders NOVEMBER 29, 2001 Minnesota's Voyageurs National Park reopens winter lakes to snowmobiles DECEMBER 3, 2001 Army Corps of Engineers decides not to decommission Snake River dams in Pacific Northwest DECEMBER 14, 2001 Administration announces weaker standards for nuclear waste storage at Nevada's Yucca Mountain DECEMBER 14, 2001 Forest Service announces more roadbuilding on undeveloped forestlands JANUARY 9, 2002 Administration backs hydrogen-car research, but most hydrogen to come from fossil fuels JANUARY 10, 2002 Study shows big drop in enforcement of environmental laws under Bush JANUARY 10, 2002 Bush administration fights in court for new oil drilling off California coast JANUARY 14, 2002 Report shows Interior secretary squelched her own agency's criticism of weaker wetlands rules JANUARY 14, 2002 Wetlands protections weakened nationwide in flip-flop from Bush campaign promise JANUARY 14, 2002 Park Service okays more oil drilling in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve JANUARY 21, 2002 BLM preliminarily approves gas drilling in Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, Montana JANUARY 22, 2002 Forest Service sues to overturn ban on salvage logging in Montana's Bitterroot National Forest JANUARY 28, 2002 Bush supports Cheney's refusal to release secret energy-task-force records FEBRUARY 4, 2002 Bush slashes environmental-education spending FEBRUARY 4, 2002 Bush budget proposes cutting $1 billion from environmental spending FEBRUARY 4, 2002 Bush budget proposes $404 million to support timber sales in national forests FEBRUARY 11, 2002 Environmentalists sue Park Service for allowing motorized vehicles in Georgia wilderness FEBRUARY 14, 2002 Bush gives power plants ten more years to cut mercury and sulfur dioxide emissions FEBRUARY 14, 2002 White House unveils global-warming plan that lets C02 emissions continue at present rate FEBRUARY 15, 2002 Bush endorses plan to store 77,000 tons of nuclear waste in Nevada's Yucca Mountain FEBRUARY 15, 2002 Forest Service approves mining exploration in Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest FEBRUARY 16, 2002 Bush administration asks court to delay endangered-species protection in California FEBRUARY 19, 2002 Phaseout of snowmobiles in national parks delayed FEBRUARY 22, 2002 BLM proposes to let states allow vehicles in previously off-limits federal lands FEBRUARY 23, 2002 Bush's budget asks that taxpayers pay for Superfund cleanups instead of polluters FEBRUARY 27, 2002 Top EPA official resigns to protest Bush's effort to weaken rules for polluting industries FEBRUARY 27, 2002 Federal judge orders Bush administration to release Cheney's secret energy-task-force records MARCH 12, 2002 Bush administration belatedly complies with court order to protect desert tortoise MARCH 18, 2002 EPA exempts large category of power plants from lawsuits for Clean Air Act violations MARCH 25, 2002 Discovery that White House misspent $135,612 of clean-energy funds to print its energy plan MARCH 29, 2002 Pentagon seeks exemption from environmental laws APRIL 1, 2002 Deadline passes for administration to set first new fuel-economy standards since 1996 APRIL 11, 2002 Army Corps of Engineers approves mining limestone in 5,400 acres of Florida's everglades APRIL 14, 2002 White House kills program that funded environmental research for graduate students APRIL 22, 2002 EPA citizen-watchdog resigns in protest, charging that agency |officials muzzled him MAY 3, 2002 New EPA rules allow mining operations to dump waste in waterways MAY 13, 2002 Administration asks judge not to limit waste-dumping from mountaintop mines MAY 13, 2002 Bush signs farm bill that pays big subsidies to polluting agricultural operations MAY 21, 2002 Ban on mining in and around Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest ends MAY 23, 2002 Energy Department cuts air-conditioner efficiency standards MAY 24, 2002 Bush-Putin summit produces nuclear treaty that puts no long-term limit on nuclear weapons MAY 24, 2002 Bush administration drops plan |for contractors to put environmental protection into projects JUNE 3, 2002 Oil drilling leases on more than 500,000 acres in Alaska signed by Interior Department JUNE 7, 2002 Interior secretary rejects proposal to limit offshore oil drilling in California JUNE 13, 2002 Missouri River restoration halted indefinitely by Army Corps of Engineers JUNE 13, 2002 EPA proposes weakening clean-air rules for 17,000 power plants JUNE 13, 2002 Judge halts Bush administration move to end habitat protection on 500,000 acres in California JUNE 17, 2002 Judge rejects Army Corps of Engineers plan to allow mine-waste dumping JUNE 24, 2002 EPA abandons plan to clean up storm-water pollution JUNE 25, 2002 Bush administration blames wildfires on environmentalists JUNE 25, 2002 Snowmobiling allowed to continue in national parks, though with some restrictions JUNE 25, 2002 EPA ombudsman testifies Bush administration pressured him to halt study of radiation standards JULY 1, 2002 Bush administration cuts funding for toxic cleanups to half of that requested by EPA JULY 2, 2002 Bush administration rescinds 4 million acres of protection for endangered California frog JULY 10, 2002 Judge orders administration to protect 400,000 Calif. acres for endangered Alameda whipsnake JULY 15, 2002 Navy given permit to use low-frequency sonar, a known threat to whales JULY 17, 2002 Bush administration opposes Senate bill to require 10 percent renewable energy by 2020 JULY 22, 2002 Bush's State Department says it will withhold $34 million from UN family-planning program JULY 25, 2002 Another top EPA official quits in protest JULY 26, 2002 Bush administration backs congressional proposal to exempt companies from disclosing hazards AUGUST 7, 2002 EPA proposes weakened water-cleanups; asks for "voluntary" efforts AUGUST 15, 2002 Conservatives praise Bush for skipping United Nations summit on sustainable development AUGUST 22, 2002 Interior Department claims new power plant won't harm air at Mammoth Cave National Park, Ky. AUGUST 22, 2002 Bush calls for increased logging in name of fire prevention AUGUST 27, 2002 U.S. opposes targets for renewable energy use at World Summit on Sustainable Development AUGUST 29, 2002 Interior Department approves billion-dollar plan to store water under Mojave Desert AUGUST 30, 2002 Foe of ecological restoration Allan Fitzsimmons named head of federal wildfire prevention SEPTEMBER 3, 2002 White House asks exemption from Freedom of Information Act in energy-task-force suit SEPTEMBER 4, 2002 Federal officials reject call to add white marlin to endangered list SEPTEMBER 9, 2002 States' EPA air-quality inspections shown to have dropped by 34 percent SEPTEMBER 13, 2002 EPA weakens proposed anti-pollution standards for off-road vehicles SEPTEMBER 15, 2002 EPA deletes global-warming section from pollution report SEPTEMBER 17, 2002 Bush replacing most scientists on chemical-hazard panel with those tied to chemical industry SEPTEMBER 18, 2002 Bush executive order cuts citizen involvement in review of road and airport projects SEPTEMBER 21, 2002 Killing of 34,000 salmonids results from federal diversion of Klamath River water in Oregon SEPTEMBER 27, 2002 Interior secretary okays gold mining on sacred Indian site in California SEPTEMBER 30, 2002 New EPA water-quality report shows U.S. waters are getting dirtier OCTOBER 1, 2002 Fish and Wildlife Service reverses order to increase Missouri River flow to protect species OCTOBER 3, 2002 Conservationists urge White House to release $36.5 million in conservation funds for farmlands OCTOBER 4, 2002 Bureau of Land Management approves largest oil and gas drilling exploration ever in Utah OCTOBER 8, 2002 EPA water administrator says war on terror leaves little money for water cleanup OCTOBER 8, 2002 Bush stacks panel on lead poisoning with people tied to the lead industry OCTOBER 8, 2002 Federal workers reveal memo from EPA chief encouraging them to support president when off-duty OCTOBER 9, 2002 Bush administration sides with auto industry in suit against California's emission rules OCTOBER 10, 2002 Administration failed to assess vulnerability of chemical facilities to terrorists, GAO says OCTOBER 15 2002 Superfund cleanups drop to 42 per year from average of 76 under Clinton, report shows OCTOBER 16, 2002 Judge finds Forest Service violates Endangered Species Act by not protecting spotted-owl habitat OCTOBER 17, 2002 Bush administration told by federal judge to release energy documents in Sierra Club lawsuit OCTOBER 31, 2002 EPA halts funding at seven Superfund sites NOVEMBER 1, 2002 Bush administration threatens withdrawal from historic UN population accord NOVEMBER 5, 2002 Polluters paid 64 percent less in fines under Bush than in last two Clinton years, report shows NOVEMBER 11, 2002 Bush administration supports renewed elephant-ivory trade NOVEMBER 12, 2002 National Park Service proposal would allow 1,100 snowmobiles a day in Yellowstone, Grand Teton NOVEMBER 21, 2002 Natural-gas drilling at Padre Island National Seashore in Texas approved NOVEMBER 22, 2002 EPA proceeds with weakening Clean Air Act rules for power plants NOVEMBER 27, 2002 Forest Service proposes rule changes to increase logging, grazing, mining on 192 million acres DECEMBER 2, 2002 Bush administration plan for oil drilling off California coast ruled illegal by federal judges DECEMBER 4, 2002 Bush administration asks for five more years of study before acting on global warming DECEMBER 12, 2002 Federal court rules against administration, upholds roadless rule for 58.5 million acres DECEMBER 12, 2002 White House proposes tiny increase in automobile fuel economy: 1.5 mpg in five years DECEMBER 13, 2002 Federal judge blocks Army Corps of Engineers' Snake River dredging plan in Pacific Northwest DECEMBER 16, 2002 EPA's new factory-farm rule favors big agribusiness polluters DECEMBER 18, 2002 White House budget office values elderly lives 63 percent less in environmental cost-benefit analysis DECEMBER 20, 2002 Federal judge blocks Interior Department from permitting oil exploration in eastern Utah DECEMBER 30, 2002 EPA proposes two-year exemption of oil and gas industry from storm-water pollution rules JANUARY 6, 2003 Bureau of Land Management rule change gives states leeway for new roads in wildlands JANUARY 10, 2003 Bush budget requests $6.4 billion for Energy Department's nuclear weapons activity JANUARY 10, 2003 Bush administration proposes pulling federal safeguards from 20 percent of U.S. wetlands JANUARY 13, 2003 Pentagon plans to ask for exemption from environmental laws on millions of acres JANUARY 16, 2003 Environmental personnel scratched from USAID policy bureau JANUARY 17, 2003 Interior Department proposes oil exploration on up to 9 million acres of Alaska's North Slope JANUARY 19, 2003 Pentagon continues lobbying for exemptions from environmental laws JANUARY 21, 2003 EPA refuses to ban weed-killer atrazine, a possible carcinogen JANUARY 22, 2003 EPA retains unsafe limits for toxic perchlorates JANUARY 24, 2003 Manatees get federal protection, thanks to lawsuit settlement JANUARY 27, 2003 Bush administration proposes privatizing thousands of National Park Service jobs JANUARY 27, 2003 California's giant sequoia threatened by Forest Service proposal to resume logging nearby JANUARY 29, 2003 Bush administration wins court ruling that legalizes mountaintop-removal mining permits JANUARY 30, 2003 Bureau of Land Management proposes rollback of Clinton-era restrictions on grazing JANUARY 30, 2003 Exemptions to phaseout of ozone-destroying methyl bromide planned by Bush administration FEBRUARY 11, 2003 EPA drafts new rules to relax toxic-air-pollution standards FEBRUARY 20, 2003 National Park Service finalizes rules allowing snowmobiles in national parks FEBRUARY 25, 2003 National Academy of Sciences panel strongly criticizes Bush's global-warming plan FEBRUARY 27, 2003 Bush's "Clear Skies" plan allows much more pollution than if Clean Air Act were enforced, critics charge FEBRUARY 27, 2003 Transportation Department speeds up environmentally harmful road projects FEBRUARY 28, 2003 Oil drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge his "greatest wish," says high-ranking Interior official FEBRUARY 28, 2003 Wilderness protection for millions of acres in Alaska's Tongass forest rejected by Forest Service MARCH 4, 2003 National Park Service slaughters 231 Yellowstone bison MARCH 7, 2003 Paul Wolfowitz tells military leaders to find reasons to exempt military from environmental rules MARCH 10, 2003 EPA exempts oil and gas industry from President Clinton's tighter water-pollution rules MARCH 13, 2003 EPA withdraws another Clinton-era water-pollution cleanup rule MARCH 13, 2003 EPA official testifies in Congress in favor of exempting military from environmental laws MARCH 18, 2003 EPA allows sludge dumping in Potomac River to continue for seven more years MARCH 18, 2003 Fish and Wildlife proposes removing protections from endangered wolves MARCH 18, 2003 Federal judge orders Interior Department to continue protecting manatees MARCH 18, 2003 GAO again criticizes Bush administration for failing to reduce security risks at chemical plants MARCH 25, 2003 Park Service adopts plan for Yellowstone/Teton allowing1,100 snowmobiles a day APRIL 1, 2003 Bush administration drops court battle to allow California offshore drilling APRIL 1, 2003 Bush administration barely raises SUV gas mileage requirements, to 1.5 mpg more by 2007 APRIL 3, 2003 Bureau of Reclamation again diverts water from Klamath River, where salmonid kill occurred APRIL 4, 2003 New U.S.�Mexico pollution treaty signed, but lacks funding APRIL 7, 2003 Bush administration asks UN to remove Yellowstone from endangered world heritage status APRIL 8, 2003 Protection plan for 76-mile stretch of California coast abandoned by National Park Service APRIL 9, 2003 Interior Department paves way for new roads on federal lands in Utah APRIL 10, 2003 U.S. Fish and Wildlife signs off on plan to reopen Imperial Sand Dunes to off-road vehicles APRIL 20, 2003 Toxic cleanups still lagging: 41 percent fewer Superfund sites cleaned up by EPA, report says APRIL 21, 2003 Sharp criticism of Bush administration air-pollution policies by independent panel APRIL 24, 2003 White House unveils pro-industry chemical security bill APRIL 28, 2003 White House bans EPA from discussing perchlorate pollution MAY 2, 2003 Vehicle fuel economy drops to 22-year low of 20.8 mpg, says EPA report MAY 2, 2003 Permits for cross-border power lines from Mexican power plants illegal, says federal judge MAY 5, 2003 Navy's use of sonar causes "stampede"�and possibly death�of marine mammals in Puget Sound MAY 7, 2003 EPA drops "senior death discount" calculation (see DECEMBER 18, 2002) MAY 13, 2003 Fish and Wildlife Service signs off on mining in Montana's Cabinet Mountains Wilderness MAY 14, 2003 White House's $247 billion transportation plan slashes environmental protection MAY 14, 2003 EPA proposes easing, delaying smog-control rules MAY 21, 2003 Christine Todd Whitman, embattled EPA chief, resigns MAY 30, 2003 Park Service opens Maryland and Virginia's Assateague Island National Seashore to Jet Skis MAY 30, 2003 Forest-fire plan eliminates environmental review of logging projects under 1,000 acres JUNE 2, 2003 Energy Department announces$2 billion to $4 billion plan to build new "mini" nukes JUNE 3, 2003 Energy Department funds study on how to ease effects of global warming for Alaska oil drillers JUNE 5, 2003 Forest Service plan would triple logging limits in California's Sierra Nevada JUNE 9, 2003 USDA reverses Clinton ban on most logging and roadbuilding on 58.5 million acres JUNE 20, 2003 Defense Department reneges on plan to test for perchlorate pollution at U.S. bases JUNE 23, 2003 Bush administration again deletes references to dangers of global warming from EPA report JUNE 27, 2003 Federal judge halts timber sale in Montana's Kootenai National Forest JULY 1, 2003 Autopsies link Navy sonar to porpoise deaths, environmentalists charge JULY 8, 2003 Federal court rejects Cheney's argument for keeping energy-task-force records secret JULY 12, 2003 EPA refuses to regulate perchlorate and other drinking-water contaminants JULY 17, 2003 Energy Department lobbies Congress for law to get around court ruling on nuke waste JULY 17, 2003 Federal judge rules administration must redo water plan for Oregon/California Klamath River JULY 22, 2003 Army Corps of Engineers ruled in contempt for defying order to change Missouri River flows JULY 24, 2003 Bush administration softens demand for outsourcing of federal jobs, including at national parks AUGUST 8, 2003 Bush administration settlement of timber suit could double logging in Northwest AUGUST 11, 2003 Bush taps anti-environmental Utah governor Mike Leavitt to head EPA AUGUST 26, 2003 New EPA rules ignore mercury pollution from chlorine plant AUGUST 27, 2003 EPA excludes 17,000 facilities from upgrading pollution controls when installing new equipment AUGUST 29, 2003 U.S. court rules against EPA's loopholes in mountaintop-removal-mining regulations SEPTEMBER 2, 2003 EPA weakens ban on selling polluted sites by reinterpreting law SEPTEMBER 2, 2003 EPA refuses to regulate ballast-water discharges from ships SEPTEMBER 4, 2003 EPA finds 274 violations of laws for dumping mountaintop-mining debris SEPTEMBER 22, 2003 White House's own study concludes benefits of environmental regulations far outweigh costs SEPTEMBER 23, 2003 Forest Service estimates $2 million lost in timber sale from Alaska's Tongass SEPTEMBER 24, 2003 White House recommendations would undermine public participation in environmental planning SEPTEMBER 25, 2003 EPA proposes deal that would let polluting factory farms avoid prosecution OCTOBER 1, 2003 Bush fails to renew energy-conservation program that saved government $300 million a year OCTOBER 6, 2003 EPA rules that farmers can't sue pesticide makers if chemicals fail to meet stated claims OCTOBER 10, 2003 Interior Department overturns limits on acreage where gold mines can dump waste OCTOBER 10, 2003 Judge orders Interior Department to stop stalling on owl habitat protection OCTOBER 10, 2003 EPA proposal to allow warmer waters behind Oregon dams threatens salmonids OCTOBER 10, 2003 EPA inspector general criticizes agency for lax enforcement OCTOBER 13, 2003 Bush administration proposes lifting ban on importing endangered species OCTOBER 13, 2003 $18.6 million Forest Service study says outsourcing its jobs would rarely be cost-effective OCTOBER 17, 2003 EPA announces it will not regulate dioxins in sewage sludge dumped on land OCTOBER 31, 2003 EPA declines to restrict use of pesticide atrazine NOVEMBER 4, 2003 Superfund cleanups lag for third straight year NOVEMBER 4, 2003 Environmentalists criticize revised everglades-recovery plan for failing to ensure natural water flow NOVEMBER 13, 2003 Park Service workers charge that Bush policies will "destroy the grand legacy of our national parks" NOVEMBER 14, 2003 Bush administration loses bid to increase ozone-depleting methyl bromide NOVEMBER 18, 2003 Administration admits blame for kill of 34,000 salmonids in Klamath River (see SEPTEMBER 21, 2002) NOVEMBER 18, 2003 EPA proposes looser regulations on dumping low-level radioactive waste in landfills DECEMBER 3, 2003 Bush signs "Healthy Forests" bill: more logging, less species protection on millions of acres DECEMBER 4, 2003 EPA seeks to reclassify mercury as "nontoxic" DECEMBER 5, 2003 Bureau of Land Management proposes weakening rules for grazing livestock on federal land DECEMBER 9, 2003 Federal violation notices to polluters down almost 60 percent; almost 30 percent fewer fines DECEMBER 16, 2003 White House abandons plans to weaken Clean Water Act protections for wetlands DECEMBER 17, 2003 Defense Department urged to protect endangered tortoise during robot race DECEMBER 17, 2003 Federal judge overturns administration decision not to protect orcas in Puget Sound DECEMBER 19, 2003 Forest Service opens grizzly bear habitat to snowmobiles in Montana's Flathead National Forest DECEMBER 23, 2003 Forest Service continues to allow logging in Tongass, world's largest temperate rainforest DECEMBER 24, 2003 Federal court blocks EPA plan to weaken Clean Air Act by exempting power plants from review JANUARY 1, 2004 Only 50 companies agree to Bush administration's voluntary plan to cut global-warming emissions JANUARY 8, 2004 $175 million Superfund shortfall prevents cleanups at 11 sites, slows down others JANUARY 7, 2004 White House proposes overturning ban on mining near streams JANUARY 9, 2004 Pentagon to seek more environmental exemptions JANUARY 9, 2004 Forest Service limits citizens' right to challenge logging plans by appeal or in court JANUARY 13, 2004 Federal court overturns Bush administration's weakening of energy efficiency for air conditioners JANUARY, 21 2004 Interior secretary asks to triple number of gas-drilling permits in Wyoming JANUARY 22, 2004 EPA scales back monitoring of smokestack pollution JANUARY 22, 2004 Interior Department opens 9 million acres on Alaska's North Slope to oil drilling JANUARY 23, 2004 Forest Service plans to boost logging on up to 3.2 million acres of Appalachian forests JANUARY 27, 2004 White House says EPA doesn't have to study pesticide effects on imperiled wildlife JANUARY 29, 2004 Bush administration proposes letting contractors police federal nuclear-plant safety JANUARY 30, 2004 Parts of EPA's mercury-pollution plan lifted verbatim from industry memos FEBRUARY 2, 2004 Bush budget proposes $10 million cut in funds for endangered species FEBRUARY 5, 2004 EPA admits twice as many children (630,000) in danger from mercury exposure FEBRUARY 6, 2004 Clean Air Act changes undermining enforcement, says former EPA official FEBRUARY 9, 2004 Energy development allowed inside Colorado and Utah's Dinosaur National Monument FEBRUARY 11, 2004 Forest Service plan allows mining, drilling in Alabama's national forests FEBRUARY 13, 2004 EPA no longer to require "worst case scenarios" from industry FEBRUARY 15, 2004 Forest Service allows poisoning of prairie dogs in four states FEBRUARY 16, 2004 White House ignores threat from gasoline additive MTBE FEBRUARY 18, 2004 U.S. Navy plans to dredge endangered turtle habitat in Key West FEBRUARY 18, 2004 20 Nobel Prize�winning scientists say administration distorts science for political gain FEBRUARY 24, 2004 Federal mine-safety official demoted after questioning mine accident investigation FEBRUARY 27, 2004 Missouri River management plan ignores fish protections MARCH 3, 2004 Administration proposes to relax rules on killing wolves in Idaho and Montana MARCH 9, 2004 358 conservation scientists urge administration to halt plan to import endangered species MARCH 10, 2004 Forest Service hires PR firm to promote Sierra Nevada plan that would triple logging MARCH 11, 2004 EPA inspector general says agency's rosy drinking-water assessments used false data MARCH 12, 2004 Forest Service relents: no snowmobiles in grizzly habitat in Montana's Flathead National Forest MARCH 15, 2004 Court rules BLM illegally opened Montana area to off-road vehicles MARCH 16, 2004 EPA approves plan to inject toxic waste underground in Michigan wells MARCH 19, 2004 FDA warnings on mercury in tuna not strong enough, scientists charge MARCH 24, 2004 NRDC sues Bush administration for withholding records on perchlorate in drinking water MARCH 25, 2004 BLM suspends plans for energy development at Dinosaur National Monument, Colo. and Utah MARCH 26, 2004 Delay in phaseout of dangerous methyl bromide pesticide negotiated by United States MARCH 30, 2004 Federal court orders Bush administration to release forest-planning documents MARCH 31, 2004 Federal judge orders Energy Department to release more Cheney energy-task-force records MARCH 31, 2004 EPA prosecution of environmental crimes even weaker under new administrator APRIL 1, 2004 Bush administration worked behind scenes to weaken European Union chemical safety rules APRIL 1, 2004 Mining whistleblower accuses Bush administration of cover-up in huge coal-sludge spill APRIL 2, 2004 Bush administration sells 155 acres in Colorado to Phelps Dodge Corporation for $875 APRIL 6, 2004 EPA weakens safety rules for rat poison at industry's behest APRIL 7, 2004 White House downplays effects of mercury from coal-fired power plants APRIL 8, 2004 Interior secretary allows aerial hunting of Alaska wolves to continue APRIL 9, 2004 Interior Department blocks release of data on oil drilling to Environmental Working Group APRIL 11, 2004 Bush administration budget asks for $35 million cut in lead-poisoning prevention APRIL 13, 2004 Administration spending more on nuclear weapons research than in Cold War, report says APRIL 15, 2004 Fish and Wildlife Service rejects protection for Yellowstone trumpeter swans APRIL 19, 2004 39 state attorneys general urge denial of Pentagon's request for environmental exemptions APRIL 20, 2004 Yellowstone Park employees advised to wear hearing protection from snowmobile noise APRIL 22, 2004 National Council of Churches strongly criticizes Bush's air-pollution policies APRIL 28, 2004 USDA weakens organic-food standards, allowing hormones, feed raised with pesticides APRIL 28, 2004 Interior Department limits designations of critical habitat for endangered species APRIL 29, 2004 Report shows that more than half of all Americans live in areas with hazardous levels of smog MAY 3, 2004 Power companies have raised $6.6 million for Bush, Republicans, report says MAY 12, 2004 Scientists say Yucca Mountain nuclear facility could leak far sooner than Energy Department claims MAY 21, 2004 Whistle-blowing federal biologist quits over politicized decision-making MAY 21, 2004 EPA officials with timber ties weaken toxic formaldehyde standards for plywood industry MAY 26, 2004 USDA backs down, keeps organic-food standards (see APRIL 28, 2004) MAY 27, 2004 U.S. Army retracts order to cut some environmental-protection practices MAY 28, 2004 Army Corps lets sewers, ditches "mitigate" loss of streams to mountaintop-removal mining MAY 28, 2004 A dozen major national parks hit by cutbacks to visitor services and staffing JUNE 1, 2004 Federal court rejects EPA's proposed snowmobile standards JUNE 1, 2004 Administration delays greater protection for marbled murrelet to benefit timber industry JUNE 2, 2004 Exemption of military from migratory-bird-protection rules proposed by administration JUNE 2, 2004 New EPA rules allow more fine-particle pollution from 1,000 industrial plants JUNE 3, 2004 Bush's 2005 budget zeroes out funding for research on abrupt climate change JUNE 7, 2004 Bush wins ruling to allow Mexican trucks into U.S. without meeting clean-air standards JUNE 8, 2004 Reduction in Snake and Columbia River water releases, harming Northwest salmon, announced JUNE 15, 2004 Administration's pro-oil, pro-nuke energy proposal stalled in Congress JUNE 24, 2004 Supreme Court ruling allows Cheney to keep energy-task-force secrets until after election JULY 8, 2004 Bush team pushes one of biggest timber sales in U.S. history under guise of fire protection JULY 12, 2004 Administration proposes forcing states to pay 2.5 times more for public transit than for roads JULY 12, 2004 Administration to eliminate Clinton-era roadless rule, ending protections for 58.5 million acres JULY 16, 2004 Fish and Wildlife Service to end protection for eastern wolves and abandon reintroduction plans JULY 16, 2004 Bush refuses to release $34 million for international family planning appropriated by Congress NOVEMBER 2, 2004 ELECTION DAY http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200409/bush_record_print.asp I love this one. APRIL 1, 2002 Deadline passes for administration to set first new fuel-economy standards since 1996 |
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9293
ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH Washington, Jun 10 - Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio In the United States House of Representatives Monday, June 9th, 2008 A Resolution INDEX Article I Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq. Article II Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the Attacks of September 11, 2001, With Misrepresentation of Iraq as a Security Threat as Part of Fraudulent Justification for a War of Aggression. Article III Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction, to Manufacture a False Case for War. Article IV Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Posed an Imminent Threat to the United States. Article V Illegally Misspending Funds to Secretly Begin a War of Aggression. Article VI Invading Iraq in Violation of the Requirements of H. J. Res114. Article VII Invading Iraq Absent a Declaration of War. Article VIII Invading Iraq, A Sovereign Nation, in Violation of the UN Charter. Article IX Failing to Provide Troops With Body Armor and Vehicle Armor. Article X Falsifying Accounts of US Troop Deaths and Injuries for Political Purposes. Article XI Establishment of Permanent U.S. Military Bases in Iraq. Article XII Initiating a War Against Iraq for Control of That Nation's Natural Resources. Article XIIII Creating a Secret Task Force to Develop Energy and Military Policies With Respect to Iraq and Other Countries. Article XIV Misprision of a Felony, Misuse and Exposure of Classified Information And Obstruction of Justice in the Matter of Valerie Plame Wilson, Clandestine Agent of the Central Intelligence Agency. Article XV Providing Immunity from Prosecution for Criminal Contractors in Iraq. Article XVI Reckless Misspending and Waste of U.S. Tax Dollars in Connection With Iraq and US Contractors. Article XVII Illegal Detention: Detaining Indefinitely And Without Charge Persons Both U.S. Citizens and Foreign Captives. Article XVIII Torture: Secretly Authorizing, and Encouraging the Use of Torture Against Captives in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Other Places, as a Matter of Official Policy. Article XIX Rendition: Kidnapping People and Taking Them Against Their Will to "Black Sites" Located in Other Nations, Including Nations Known to Practice Torture. Article XX Imprisoning Children. Article XXI Misleading Congress and the American People About Threats from Iran, and Supporting Terrorist Organizations Within Iran, With the Goal of Overthrowing the Iranian Government. Article XXII Creating Secret Laws. Article XXIII Violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Article XXIV Spying on American Citizens, Without a Court-Ordered Warrant, in Violation of the Law and the Fourth Amendment. Article XXV Directing Telecommunications Companies to Create an Illegal and Unconstitutional Database of the Private Telephone Numbers and Emails of American Citizens. Article XXVI Announcing the Intent to Violate Laws with Signing Statements. Article XXVII Failing to Comply with Congressional Subpoenas and Instructing Former Employees Not to Comply. Article XXVIII Tampering with Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice. Article XXIX Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Article XXX Misleading Congress and the American People in an Attempt to Destroy Medicare. Article XXXI Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil Emergency. Article XXXII Misleading Congress and the American People, Systematically Undermining Efforts to Address Global Climate Change. Article XXXIII Repeatedly Ignored and Failed to Respond to High Level Intelligence Warnings of Planned Terrorist Attacks in the US, Prior to 911. Article XXXIV Obstruction of the Investigation into the Attacks of September 11, 2001. Article XXXV Endangering the Health of 911 First Responders. ____________ ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT FOR PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH Resolved, that President George W. Bush be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate: Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against President George W. Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors. In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has committed the following abuses of power. _____________ ARTICLE I CREATING A SECRET PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN TO MANUFACTURE A FALSE CASE FOR WAR AGAINST IRAQ In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed," has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice President, illegally spent public dollars on a secret propaganda program to manufacture a false cause for war against Iraq. The Department of Defense (DOD) has engaged in a years-long secret domestic propaganda campaign to promote the invasion and occupation of Iraq. This secret program was defended by the White House Press Secretary following its exposure. This program follows the pattern of crimes detailed in Article I, II, IV and VIII. The mission of this program placed it within the field controlled by the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), a White House task force formed in August 2002 to market an invasion of Iraq to the American people. The group included Karl Rove, I. Lewis Libby, Condoleezza Rice, Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin, Stephen Hadley, Nicholas E. Calio, and James R. Wilkinson. The WHIG produced white papers detailing so-called intelligence of Iraq’s nuclear threat that later proved to be false. This supposed intelligence included the claim that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger as well as the claim that the high strength aluminum tubes Iraq purchased from China were to be used for the sole purpose of building centrifuges to enrich uranium. Unlike the National Intelligence Estimate of 2002, the WHIG's white papers provided "gripping images and stories" and used "literary license" with intelligence. The WHIG's white papers were written at the same time and by the same people as speeches and talking points prepared for President Bush and some of his top officials. The WHIG also organized a media blitz in which, between September 7-8, 2002, President Bush and his top advisers appeared on numerous interviews and all provided similarly gripping images about the possibility of nuclear attack by Iraq. The timing was no coincidence, as Andrew Card explained in an interview regarding waiting until after Labor Day to try to sell the American people on military action against Iraq, "From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August." September 7-8, 2002: NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Vice President Cheney accused Saddam of moving aggressively to develop nuclear weapons over the past 14 months to add to his stockpile of chemical and biological arms. CNN: Then-National Security Adviser Rice said, regarding the likelihood of Iraq obtaining a nuclear weapon, "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." CBS: President Bush declared that Saddam was "six months away from developing a weapon," and cited satellite photos of construction in Iraq where weapons inspectors once visited as evidence that Saddam was trying to develop nuclear arms. The Pentagon military analyst propaganda program was revealed in an April 20, 2002, New York Times article. The program illegally involved "covert attempts to mold opinion through the undisclosed use of third parties.” Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld recruited 75 retired military officers and gave them talking points to deliver on Fox, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, and MSNBC, and according to the New York Times report, which has not been disputed by the Pentagon or the White House, "Participants were instructed not to quote their briefers directly or otherwise describe their contacts with the Pentagon." According to the Pentagon's own internal documents, the military analysts were considered "message force multipliers" or "surrogates" who would deliver administration "themes and messages" to millions of Americans "in the form of their own opinions.” In fact, they did deliver the themes and the messages but did not reveal that the Pentagon had provided them with their talking points. Robert S. Bevelacqua, a retired Green Beret and Fox News military analyst described this as follows: "It was them saying, 'We need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you.'" Congress has restricted annual appropriations bills since 1951 with this language: "No part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States not heretofore authorized by the Congress." A March 21, 2005, report by the Congressional Research Service states that "publicity or propaganda" is defined by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to mean either (1) self-aggrandizement by public officials, (2) purely partisan activity, or (3) "covert propaganda." These concerns about "covert propaganda" were also the basis for the GAO's standard for determining when government-funded video news releases are illegal: "The failure of an agency to identify itself as the source of a prepackaged news story misleads the viewing public by encouraging the viewing audience to believe that the broadcasting news organization developed the information. The prepackaged news stories are purposefully designed to be indistinguishable from news segments broadcast to the public. When the television viewing public does not know that the stories they watched on television news programs about the government were in fact prepared by the government, the stories are, in this sense, no longer purely factual -- the essential fact of attribution is missing." The White House's own Office of Legal Council stated in a memorandum written in 2005 following the controversy over the Armstrong Williams scandal: "Over the years, GAO has interpreted 'publicity or propaganda' restrictions to preclude use of appropriated funds for, among other things, so-called 'covert propaganda.' ... Consistent with that view, the OLC determined in 1988 that a statutory prohibition on using appropriated funds for 'publicity or propaganda' precluded undisclosed agency funding of advocacy by third-party groups. We stated that 'covert attempts to mold opinion through the undisclosed use of third parties' would run afoul of restrictions on using appropriated funds for 'propaganda.'" Asked about the Pentagon's propaganda program at White House press briefing in April 2008, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino defended it, not by arguing that it was legal but by suggesting that it "should" be: "Look, I didn't know look, I think that you guys should take a step back and look at this look, DOD has made a decision, they've decided to stop this program. But I would say that one of the things that we try to do in the administration is get information out to a variety of people so that everybody else can call them and ask their opinion about something. And I don't think that that should be against the law. And I think that it's absolutely appropriate to provide information to people who are seeking it and are going to be providing their opinions on it. It doesn't necessarily mean that all of those military analysts ever agreed with the administration. I think you can go back and look and think that a lot of their analysis was pretty tough on the administration. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't talk to people." In all of these actions and decisions, President George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office. ARTICLE II FALSELY, SYSTEMATICALLY, AND WITH CRIMINAL INTENT CONFLATING THE ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 WITH MISREPRESENTATION OF IRAQ AS AN IMMINENT SECURITY THREAT AS PART OF A FRAUDULENT JUSTIFICATION FOR A WAR OF AGGRESSION. In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed," has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice President, executed a calculated and wide-ranging strategy to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States into believing that there was and is a connection between Iraq and Saddam Hussein on the one hand, and the attacks of September 11, 2001 and al Qaeda, on the other hand, so as to falsely justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner that is damaging to the national security interests of the United States, as well as to fraudulently obtain and maintain congressional authorization and funding for the use of such military force against Iraq, thereby interfering with and obstructing Congress's lawful functions of overseeing foreign affairs and declaring war. The means used to implement this deception were and continue to be, first, allowing, authorizing and sanctioning the manipulation of intelligence analysis by those under his direction and control, including the Vice President and the Vice President's agents, and second, personally making, or causing, authorizing and allowing to be made through highly-placed subordinates, including the President's Chief of Staff, the White House Press Secretary and other White House spokespersons, the Secretaries of State and Defense, the National Security Advisor, and their deputies and spokespersons, false and fraudulent representations to the citizens of the United States and Congress regarding an alleged connection between Saddam Hussein and Iraq, on the one hand, and the September 11th attacks and al Qaeda, on the other hand, that were half-true, literally true but misleading, and/or made without a reasonable basis and with reckless indifference to their truth, as well as omitting to state facts necessary to present an accurate picture of the truth as follows: (A) On or about September 12, 2001, former terrorism advisor Richard Clarke personally informed the President that neither Saddam Hussein nor Iraq was responsible for the September 11th attacks. On September 18, Clarke submitted to the President's National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice a memo he had written in response to George W. Bush's specific request that stated: (1) the case for linking Hussein to the September 11th attacks was weak; (2) only anecdotal evidence linked Hussein to al Qaeda; (3) Osama Bin Laden resented the secularism of Saddam Hussein; and (4) there was no confirmed reporting of Saddam Hussein cooperating with Bin Laden on unconventional weapons. (B) Ten days after the September 11th attacks the President received a President's Daily Briefing which indicated that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the September 11th attacks and that there was "scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda." (C) In Defense Intelligence Terrorism Summary No. 044-02, issued in February 2002, the United States Defense Intelligence Agency cast significant doubt on the possibility of a Saddam Hussein- Al Qaeda conspiracy: "Saddam's regime is intensely secular and is wary of Islamic revolutionary movements. Moreover, Baghdad is unlikely to provide assistance to a group it cannot control." (D) The October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate gave a "Low Confidence" rating to the notion of whether "in desperation Saddam would share chemical or biological weapons with Al Qaeda.” The CIA never informed the President that there was an operational relationship between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein; on the contrary, its most "aggressive" analysis contained in Iraq and al-Qaeda-Interpreting a Murky Relationship" dated June 21, 2002 was that Iraq had had "sporadic, wary contacts with al Qaeda since the mid-1990s rather than a relationship with al Qaeda that has developed over time." (E) Notwithstanding his knowledge that neither Saddam Hussein nor Iraq was in any way connected to the September 11th attacks, the President allowed and authorized those acting under his direction and control, including Vice President Richard B. Cheney and Lewis Libby, who reported directly to both the President and the Vice President, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, among others, to pressure intelligence analysts to alter their assessments and to create special units outside of, and unknown to, the intelligence community in order to secretly obtain unreliable information, to manufacture intelligence or reinterpret raw data in ways that would further the Bush administration's goal of fraudulently establishing a relationship not only between Iraq and al Qaeda, but between Iraq and the attacks of September 11th. (F) Further, despite his full awareness that Iraq and Saddam Hussein had no relationship to the September 11th attacks, the President, and those acting under his direction and control have, since at least 2002 and continuing to the present, repeatedly issued public statements deliberately worded to mislead, words calculated in their implication to bring unrelated actors and circumstances into an artificially contrived reality thereby facilitating the systematic deception of Congress and the American people. Thus the public and some members of Congress came to believe, falsely, that there was a connection between Iraq and the attacks of 911. This was accomplished through well-publicized statements by the Bush Administration which contrived to continually tie Iraq and 911 in the same statements of grave concern without making an explicit charge: (1) “[If] Iraq regimes [sic] continues to defy us, and the world, we will move deliberately, yet decisively, to hold Iraq to account…It's a new world we're in. We used to think two oceans could separate us from an enemy. On that tragic day, September the 11th, 2001, we found out that's not the case. We found out this great land of liberty and of freedom and of justice is vulnerable. And therefore we must do everything we can -- everything we can -- to secure the homeland, to make us safe." Speech of President Bush in Iowa on September 16, 2002. (2) "With every step the Iraqi regime takes toward gaining and deploying the most terrible weapons, our own options to confront that regime will narrow. And if an emboldened regime were to supply these weapons to terrorist allies, then the attacks of September 11th would be a prelude to far greater horrors.” March 6, 2003, Statement of President Bush in National Press Conference. (3) "The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11, 2001 -- and still goes on. That terrible morning, 19 evil men -- the shock troops of a hateful ideology -- gave America and the civilized world a glimpse of their ambitions. They imagined, in the words of one terrorist, that September the 11th would be the 'beginning of the end of America.' By seeking to turn our cities into killing fields, terrorists and their allies believed that they could destroy this nation's resolve, and force our retreat from the world. They have failed." May 1, 2003, Speech of President Bush on U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. (4) "Now we're in a new and unprecedented war against violent Islamic extremists. This is an ideological conflict we face against murderers and killers who try to impose their will. These are the people that attacked us on September the 11th and killed nearly 3,000 people. The stakes are high, and once again, we have had to change our strategic thinking. The major battleground in this war is Iraq.” June 28, 2007, Speech of President Bush at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. (G) Notwithstanding his knowledge that there was no credible evidence of a working relationship between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda and that the intelligence community had specifically assessed that there was no such operational relationship, the President, both personally and through his subordinates and agents, has repeatedly falsely represented, both explicitly and implicitly, and through the misleading use of selectively-chosen facts, to the citizens of the United States and to the Congress that there was and is such an ongoing operational relationship, to wit: (1) "We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade. Some al Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. These include one very senior al Qaeda leader who received medical treatment in Baghdad this year, and who has been associated with planning for chemical and biological attacks. We've learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases." September 28, 2002, Weekly Radio Address of President Bush to the Nation. (2) "[W]e we need to think about Saddam Hussein using al Qaeda to do his dirty work, to not leave fingerprints behind." October 14, 2002, Remarks by President Bush in Michigan. (3) "We know he's got ties with al Qaeda.” November 1, 2002, Speech of President Bush in New Hampshire. (4) "Evidence from intelligence sources, secret communications, and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al Qaeda. Secretly, and without fingerprints, he could provide one of his hidden weapons to terrorists, or help them develop their own.” January 28, 2003, President Bush's State of the Union Address. (5) "[W]hat I want to bring to your attention today is the potentially much more sinister nexus between Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network, a nexus that combines classic terrorist organizations and modern methods of murder. Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network…” February 5, 2003, Speech of Former Secretary of State Colin Powell to the United Nations. (6) "The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11, 2001 — and still goes on. . . . [T]he liberation of Iraq . . . removed an ally of al Qaeda.” May 1, 2003, Speech of President Bush on U.S. S. Abraham Lincoln. (H) The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence “Report on Whether Public Statements Regarding Iraq By U.S. Government Officials Were Substantiated By Intelligence Information,” which was released on June 5, 2008, concluded that: (1) "Statements and implications by the President and Secretary of State suggesting that Iraq and al-Qa'ida had a partnership, or that Iraq had provided al-Qa'ida with weapons training, were not substantiated by the intelligence." (2) "The Intelligence Community did not confirm that Muhammad Atta met an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague in 2001 as the Vice President repeatedly claimed." Through his participation and instance in the breathtaking scope of this deception, the President has used the highest office of trust to wage of campaign of deception of such sophistication as to deliberately subvert the national security interests of the United States. His dishonesty set the stage for the loss of more than 4000 United States service members; injuries to tens of thousands of soldiers, the loss of more than 1,000,000 innocent Iraqi citizens since the United States invasion; the loss of approximately $527 billion in war costs which has increased our Federal debt and the ultimate expenditure of three to five trillion dollars for all costs covering the war; the loss of military readiness within the United States Armed Services due to overextension, the lack of training and lack of equipment; the loss of United States credibility in world affairs; and the decades of likely blowback created by the invasion of Iraq. In all of these actions and decisions, President George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office. ARTICLE III MISLEADING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO BELIEVE IRAQ POSSESSED WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, SO AS TO MANUFACTURE A FALSE CASE FOR WAR In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed," has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice President, executed instead a calculated and wide-ranging strategy to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States into believing that the nation of Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction in order to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests, thereby interfering with and obstructing Congress's lawful functions of overseeing foreign affairs and declaring war. The means used to implement this deception were and continue to be personally making, or causing, authorizing and allowing to be made through highly-placed subordinates, including the President's Chief of Staff, the White House Press Secretary and other White House spokespersons, the Secretaries of State and Defense, the National Security Advisor, and their deputies and spokespersons, false and fraudulent representations to the citizens of the United States and Congress regarding Iraq's alleged possession of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons that were half-true, literally true but misleading, and/or made without a reasonable basis and with reckless indifference to their truth, as well as omitting to state facts necessary to present an accurate picture of the truth as follows: (A) Long before the March 19, 2003 invasion of Iraq, a wealth of intelligence informed the President and those under his direction and control that Iraq's stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons had been destroyed well before 1998 and that there was little, if any, credible intelligence that showed otherwise. As reported in the Washington Post in March of 2003, in 1995, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law Hussein Kamel had informed U.S. and British intelligence officers that "all weapons—biological, chemical, missile, nuclear were destroyed.” In September 2002, the Defense Intelligence Agency issued a report that concluded: "A substantial amount of Iraq's chemical warfare agents, precursors, munitions and production equipment were destroyed between 1991 and 1998 as a result of Operation Desert Storm and UNSCOM actions… [T]here is no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons or whether Iraq has-or will-establish its chemical warfare agent production facilities.” Notwithstanding the absence of evidence proving that such stockpiles existed and in direct contradiction to substantial evidence that showed they did not exist, the President and his subordinates and agents made numerous false representations claiming with certainty that Iraq possessed chemical and biological weapons that it was developing to use to attack the United States, to wit: (1) "[T]he notion of a Saddam Hussein with his great oil wealth, with his inventory that he already has of biological and chemical weapons . . . is, I think, a frightening proposition for anybody who thinks about it." Statement of Vice President Cheney on CBS's Face the Nation, March 24, 2002. (2) "In defiance of the United Nations, Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons." Speech of President Bush, October 5, 2002. (3) "All the world has now seen the footage of an Iraqi Mirage aircraft with a fuel tank modified to spray biological agents over wide areas. Iraq has developed spray devices that could be used on unmanned aerial vehicles with ranges far beyond what is permitted by the Security Council. A UAV launched from a vessel off the American coast could reach hundreds of miles inland.” Statement by President Bush from the White House, February 6, 2003. (B) Despite overwhelming intelligence in the form of statements and reports filed by and on behalf of the CIA, the State Department and the IAEA, among others, which indicated that the claim was untrue, the President, and those under his direction and control, made numerous representations claiming and implying through misleading language that Iraq was attempting to purchase uranium from Niger in order to falsely buttress its argument that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear weapons program, including: (1) ""The regime has the scientists and facilities to build nuclear weapons, and is seeking the materials needed to do so." Statement of President Bush from White House, October 2, 2002. (2) "The [Iraqi] report also failed to deal with issues which have arisen since 1998, including: . . . attempts to acquire uranium and the means to enrich it." Letter from President Bush to Vice President Cheney and the Senate, January 20, 2003. (3) "The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." President Bush Delivers State of the Union Address, January 28, 2003. (C) Despite overwhelming evidence in the form of reports by nuclear weapons experts from the Energy, the Defense and State Departments, as well from outside and international agencies which assessed that aluminum tubes the Iraqis were purchasing were not suitable for nuclear centrifuge use and were, on the contrary, identical to ones used in rockets already being manufactured by the Iraqis, the President, and those under his direction and control, persisted in making numerous false and fraudulent representations implying and stating explicitly that the Iraqis were purchasing the tubes for use in a nuclear weapons program, to wit: (1) "We do know that there have been shipments going . . . into Iraq . . . of aluminum tubes that really are only suited to -- high-quality aluminum tools [sic] that are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs." Statement of then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, September 8, 2002. (2) "Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production.” President Bush's State of the Union Address, January 28, 2003. (3) "[H]e has made repeated covert attempts to acquire high-specification aluminum tubes from 11 different countries, even after inspections resumed. …By now, just about everyone has heard of these tubes and we all know that there are differences of opinion. There is controversy about what these tubes are for. Most US experts think they are intended to serve as rotors in centrifuges used to enrich uranium." Speech of Former Secretary of State Colin Powell to the United Nations, February 5, 2003. (D) The President, both personally and acting through those under his direction and control, suppressed material information, selectively declassified information for the improper purposes of retaliating against a whistleblower and presenting a misleading picture of the alleged threat from Iraq, facilitated the exposure of the identity of a covert CIA operative and thereafter not only failed to investigate the improper leaks of classified information from within his administration, but also failed to cooperate with an investigation into possible federal violations resulting from this activity and, finally, entirely undermined the prosecution by commuting the sentence of Lewis Libby citing false and insubstantial grounds, all in an effort to prevent Congress and the citizens of the United States from discovering the fraudulent nature of the President's claimed justifications for the invasion of Iraq. (E) The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence “Report on Whether Public Statements Regarding Iraq By U.S. Government Officials Were Substantiated By Intelligence Information,” which was released on June 5, 2008, concluded that: (1) "Statements by the President and Vice President prior to the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate regarding Iraq's chemical weapons production capability and activities did not reflect the intelligence community's uncertainties as to whether such production was ongoing." (2) "The Secretary of Defense's statement that the Iraqi government operated underground WMD facilities that were not vulnerable to conventional airstrikes because they were underground and deeply buried was not substantiated by available intelligence information." (3) Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Jay Rockefeller concluded: "In making the case for war, the Administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when in reality it was unsubstantiated, contradicted, or even non-existent. As a result, the American people were led to believe that the threat from Iraq was much greater than actually existed." The President has subverted the national security interests of the United States by setting the stage for the loss of more than 4000 United States service members and the injury to tens of thousands of US soldiers; the loss of more than 1,000,000 innocent Iraqi citizens since the United States invasion; the loss of approximately $500 billion in war costs which has increased our Federal debt with a long term financial cost of between three and five trillion dollars; the loss of military readiness within the United States Armed Services due to overextension, the lack of training and lack of equipment; the loss of United States credibility in world affairs; and the decades of likely blowback created by the invasion of Iraq. In all of these actions and decisions, President George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office. ARTICLE IV MISLEADING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO BELIEVE IRAQ POSED AN IMMINENT THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice President, executed a calculated and wide-ranging strategy to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States into believing that the nation of Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States in order to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests, thereby interfering with and obstructing Congress's lawful functions of overseeing foreign affairs and declaring war. The means used to implement this deception were and continue to be, first, allowing, authorizing and sanctioning the manipulation of intelligence analysis by those under his direction and control, including the Vice President and the Vice President's agents, and second, personally making, or causing, authorizing and allowing to be made through highly-placed subordinates, including the President's Chief of Staff, the White House Press Secretary and other White House spokespersons, the Secretaries of State and Defense, the National Security Advisor, and their deputies and spokespersons, false and fraudulent representations to the citizens of the United States and Congress regarding an alleged urgent threat posed by Iraq, statements that were half-true, literally true but misleading, and/or made without a reasonable basis and with reckless indifference to their truth, as well as omitting to state facts necessary to present an accurate picture of the truth as follows: (A) Notwithstanding the complete absence of intelligence analysis to support a claim that Iraq posed an imminent or urgent threat to the United States and the intelligence community's assessment that Iraq was in fact not likely to attack the United States unless it was itself attacked, President Bush, both personally and through his agents and subordinates, made, allowed and caused to be made repeated false representations to the citizens and Congress of the United States implying and explicitly stating that such a dire threat existed, including the following: (1) "States such as these [Iraq, Iran and North Korea] and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.” President Bush's State of the Union Address, January 29, 2002. (2) "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. He is amassing them to use against our friends our enemies and against us.” Speech of Vice President Cheney at VFW 103rd National Convention, August 26, 2002. (3) "The history, the logic, and the facts lead to one conclusion: Saddam Hussein's regime is a grave and gathering danger. To suggest otherwise is to hope against the evidence. To assume this regime's good faith is to bet the lives of millions and the peace of the world in a reckless gamble. And this is a risk we must not take." Address of President Bush to the United Nations General Assembly, September 12, 2002. (4) "[N]o terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people than the regime of Saddam Hussein and Iraq." Statement of Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to Congress, September 19, 2002. (5) "On its present course, the Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. . . . it has developed weapons of mass death." Statement of President Bush at White House, October 2, 2002. (6) "But the President also believes that this problem has to be dealt with, and if the United Nations won't deal with it, then the United States, with other likeminded nations, may have to deal with it. We would prefer not to go that route, but the danger is so great, with respect to Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction, and perhaps even terrorists getting hold of such weapons, that it is time for the international community to act, and if it doesn't act, the President is prepared to act with likeminded nations." Statement of Former Secretary of State Colin Powell in interview with Ellen Ratner of Talk Radio News, October 30, 2002. (7) "Today the world is also uniting to answer the unique and urgent threat posed by Iraq. A dictator who has used weapons of mass destruction on his own people must not be allowed to produce or possess those weapons. We will not permit Saddam Hussein to blackmail and/or terrorize nations which love freedom.” Speech by President Bush to Prague Atlantic Student Summit, November 20, 2002. (8) "But the risk of doing nothing, the risk of the security of this country being jeopardized at the hands of a madman with weapons of mass destruction far exceeds the risk of any action we may be forced to take." President Bush Meets with National Economic Council at White House, February 25, 2003. (B) In furtherance of his fraudulent effort to deceive Congress and the citizens of the United States into believing that Iraq and Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to the United States, the President allowed and authorized those acting under his direction and control, including Vice President Richard B. Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Lewis Libby, who reportedly directly to both the President and the Vice President, among others, to pressure intelligence analysts to tailor their assessments and to create special units outside of, and unknown to, the intelligence community in order to secretly obtain unreliable information, to manufacture intelligence, or to reinterpret raw data in ways that would support the Bush administration's plan to invade Iraq based on a false claim of urgency despite the lack of justification for such a preemptive action. (C) The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence “Report on Whether Public Statements Regarding Iraq By U.S. Government Officials Were Substantiated By Intelligence Information,” which was released on June 5, 2008, concluded that: (1) "Statements by the President and the Vice President indicating that Saddam Hussein was prepared to give weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups for attacks against the United States were contradicted by available intelligence information." Thus the President willfully and falsely misrepresented Iraq as an urgent threat requiring immediate action thereby subverting the national security interests of the United States by setting the stage for the loss of more than 4000 United States service members; the injuries to tens of thousands of US soldiers; the deaths of more than 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens since the United States invasion; the loss of approximately $527 billion in war costs which has increased our Federal debt and the ultimate costs of the war between three trillion and five trillion dollars; the loss of military readiness within the United States Armed Services due to overextension, the lack of training and lack of equipment; the loss of United States credibility in world affairs; and the decades of likely blowback created by the invasion of Iraq. In all of these actions and decisions, President George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office. ARTICLE V ILLEGALLY MISSPENDING FUNDS TO SECRETLY BEGIN A WAR OF AGGRESSION In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice President, illegally misspent funds to begin a war in secret prior to any Congressional authorization. The president used over $2 billion in the summer of 2002 to prepare for the invasion of Iraq. First reported in Bob Woodward's book, Plan of Attack, and later confirmed by the Congressional Research Service, Bush took money appropriated by Congress for Afghanistan and other programs and—with no Congressional notification -- used it to build airfields in Qatar and to make other preparations for the invasion of Iraq. This constituted a violation of Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution, as well as a violation of the War Powers Act of 1973. In all of these actions and decisions, President George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office. |
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ARTICLE VI
INVADING IRAQ IN VIOLATION OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF HJRes114. In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” exceeded his Constitutional authority to wage war by invading Iraq in 2003 without meeting the requirements of HJRes 114, the "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002" to wit: (1) HJRes 114 contains several 'Whereas' clauses consistent with statements being made by the White House at the time regarding the threat from Iraq as evidenced by the following: (A) HJRes 114 states "Whereas Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations;"; and (B) HJRes 114 states, "Whereas members of Al Qaeda, an organization bearing responsibility for attacks on the United States, its citizens, and interests, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, are known to be in Iraq;” (2) HJRes 114 states that the President must provide a determination, the truthfulness of which is implied, that military force is necessary in order to use the authorization, as evidenced by the following: (A) Section 3 of HJRes 114 states: "(b) PRESIDENTIAL DETERMINATION.-In connection with the exercise of the authority granted in subsection (a) to use force the President shall, prior to such exercise or as soon thereafter as may be feasible, but no later than 48 hours after exercising such authority, make available to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate his determination that— (1) reliance by the United States on further diplomatic or other peaceful means alone either (A) will not adequately protect the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq or (B) is not likely to lead to enforcement of all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq; and (2) acting pursuant to this joint resolution is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorist and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001." (3) On March 18, 2003, President George Bush sent a letter to Congress stating that he had made that determination as evidenced by the following: (A) March 18th, 2003 Letter to Congress stating: Consistent with section 3(b) of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243), and based on information available to me, including that in the enclosed document, I determine that: (1) reliance by the United States on further diplomatic and other peaceful means alone will neither (A) adequately protect the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq nor (B) likely lead to enforcement of all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq; and (2) acting pursuant to the Constitution and Public Law 107-243 is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. (4) President George Bush knew that these statements were false as evidenced by: (A) Information provided with Article I, II, III, IV and V. (B) A statement by President George Bush in an interview with Tony Blair on January 31st 2003: [WH] Reporter: "One question for you both. Do you believe that there is a link between Saddam Hussein, a direct link, and the men who attacked on September the 11th?" President Bush: "I can't make that claim" (C) An article on February 19th by Terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna states, "I could find no evidence of links between Iraq and Al Qaeda. The documentation and interviews indicated that Al Qaeda regarded Saddam, a secular leader, as an infidel." [International Herald Tribune] (D) According to a February 2nd, 2003 article in the New York Times: [NYT] At the Federal Bureau of Investigation, some investigators said they were baffled by the Bush administration's insistence on a solid link between Iraq and Osama bin Laden's network. "We've been looking at this hard for more than a year and you know what, we just don't think it's there," a government official said. (5) Section 3C of HJRes 114 states that "Nothing in this joint resolution supersedes any requirement of the War Powers Resolution." (6) The War Powers Resolution Section 9(d)(1) states: (d) Nothing in this joint resolution-- (1) is intended to alter the constitutional authority of the Congress or of the President, or the provision of existing treaties; or (7) The United Nations Charter was an existing treaty and, as shown in Article VIII, the invasion of Iraq violated that treaty (8) President George Bush knowingly failed to meet the requirements of HJRes 114 and violated the requirement of the War Powers Resolution and, thereby, invaded Iraq without the authority of Congress. In all of these actions and decisions, President George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office. ARTICLE VII INVADING IRAQ ABSENT A DECLARATION OF WAR In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” has launched a war against Iraq absent any congressional declaration of war or equivalent action. Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 (the War Powers Clause) makes clear that the United States Congress holds the exclusive power to decide whether or not to send the nation into war. "The Congress," the War Powers Clause states, "shall have power…To declare war…" The October 2002 congressional resolution on Iraq did not constitute a declaration of war or equivalent action. The resolution stated: "The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he deems necessary and appropriate in order to 1) defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq; and 2) enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq.” The resolution unlawfully sought to delegate to the President the decision of whether or not to initiate a war against Iraq, based on whether he deemed it "necessary and appropriate.” The Constitution does not allow Congress to delegate this exclusive power to the President, nor does it allow the President to seize this power. In March 2003, the President launched a war against Iraq without any constitutional authority. In all of these actions and decisions, President George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office. ARTICLE VIII INVADING IRAQ, A SOVEREIGN NATION, IN VIOLATION OF THE UN CHARTER AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” violated United States law by invading the sovereign country of Iraq in violation of the United Nations Charter to wit: (1) International Laws ratified by Congress are part of United States Law and must be followed as evidenced by the following: (A) Article VI of the United States Constitution, which states, "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land;" (2) The UN Charter, which entered into force following ratification by the United States in 1945, requires Security Council approval for the use of force except for self-defense against an armed attack as evidenced by the following: A) Chapter 1, Article 2 of the United Nations Charter states: "3.All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered. "4.All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations." (B) Chapter 7, Article 51 of the United Nations Charter states: "51. Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security." (3) There was no armed attack upon the United States by Iraq. (4) The Security Council did not vote to approve the use of force against Iraq as evidenced by: (A) A United Nation Press release which states that the United States had failed to convince the Security Council to approve the use of military force against Iraq. [UN] (5) President Bush directed the United States military to invade Iraq on March 19th, 2003 in violation of the UN Charter and, therefore, in violation of United States Law as evidenced by the following: (A) A letter from President Bush to Congress dated March 21st, 2003 stating, "I directed U.S. Armed Forces, operating with other coalition forces, to commence combat operations on March 19, 2003, against Iraq." [WH] (B) On September 16, 2004 Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the United Nations, speaking on the invasion, said, "I have indicated it was not in conformity with the UN charter. From our point of view, from the charter point of view, it was illegal." [BBC] (C) The consequence of the instant and direction of President George W. Bush, in ordering an attack upon Iraq, a sovereign nation is in direct violation of United States Code, Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 118, Section 2441, governing the offense of war crimes. (6). In the course of invading and occupying Iraq, the President, as Commander in Chief, has taken responsibility for the targeting of civilians, journalists, hospitals, and ambulances, use of antipersonnel weapons including cluster bombs in densely settled urban areas, the use of white phosphorous as a weapon, depleted uranium weapons, and the use of a new version of napalm found in Mark 77 firebombs. Under the direction of President George Bush the United States has engaged in collective punishment of Iraqi civilian populations, including but not limited to blocking roads, cutting electricity and water, destroying fuel stations, planting bombs in farm fields, demolishing houses, and plowing over orchards. (A) Under the principle of "command responsibility", i.e., that a de jure command can be civilian as well as military, and can apply to the policy command of heads of state, said command brings President George Bush within the reach of international criminal law under the Additional Protocol I of June 8, 1977 to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts, Article 86 (2). The United States is a state signatory to Additional Protocol I, on December 12, 1977. (B) Furthermore, Article 85 (3) of said Protocol I defines as a grave breach making a civilian population or individual civilians the object of attacks. This offense, together with the principle of command responsibility, places President George Bush's conduct under the reach of the same law and principles described as the basis for war crimes prosecution at Nuremburg, under Article 6 of the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunals: including crimes against peace, violations of the laws and customs of war and crimes against humanity, similarly codified in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Articles 5 through 8. (C) The Lancet Report has established massive civilian casualties in Iraq as a result of the United States' invasion and occupation of that country. (D) International laws governing wars of aggression are completely prohibited under the legal principle of jus cogens, whether or not a nation has signed or ratified a particular international agreement. In all of these actions and decisions, President George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office ARTICLE IX FAILING TO PROVIDE TROOPS WITH BODY ARMOR AND VEHICLE ARMOR In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice President, has been responsible for the deaths of members of the U.S. military and serious injury and trauma to other soldiers, by failing to provide available body armor and vehicle armor. While engaging in an invasion and occupation of choice, not fought in self-defense, and not launched in accordance with any timetable other than the President's choosing, President Bush sent U.S. troops into danger without providing them with armor. This shortcoming has been known for years, during which time, the President has chosen to allow soldiers and Marines to continue to face unnecessary risk to life and limb rather then providing them with armor. In all of these actions and decisions, President George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office. ARTICLE X FALSIFYING ACCOUNTS OF U.S. TROOP DEATHS AND INJURIES FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice President, promoted false propaganda stories about members of the United States military, including individuals both dead and injured. The White House and the Department of Defense (DOD) in 2004 promoted a false account of the death of Specialist Pat Tillman, reporting that he had died in a hostile exchange, delaying release of the information that he had died from friendly fire, shot in the forehead three times in a manner that led investigating doctors to believe he had been shot at close range. A 2005 report by Brig. Gen. Gary M. Jones reported that in the days immediately following Specialist Tillman's death, U.S. Army investigators were aware that Specialist Tillman was killed by friendly fire, shot three times to the head, and that senior Army commanders, including Gen. John Abizaid, knew of this fact within days of the shooting but nevertheless approved the awarding of the Silver Star, Purple Heart, and a posthumous promotion. On April 24, 2007, Spc. Bryan O'Neal, the last soldier to see Specialist Pat Tillman alive, testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that he was warned by superiors not to divulge information that a fellow soldier killed Specialist Tillman, especially to the Tillman family. The White House refused to provide requested documents to the committee, citing "executive branch confidentiality interests." The White House and DOD in 2003 promoted a false account of the injury of Jessica Dawn Lynch, reporting that she had been captured in a hostile exchange and had been dramatically rescued. On April 2, 2003, the DOD released a video of the rescue and claimed that Lynch had stab and bullet wounds, and that she had been slapped about on her hospital bed and interrogated. Iraqi doctors and nurses later interviewed, including Dr. Harith Al-Houssona, a doctor in the Nasirya hospital, described Lynch's injuries as "a broken arm, a broken thigh, and a dislocated ankle.” According to Al-Houssona, there was no sign of gunshot or stab wounds, and Lynch's injuries were consistent with those that would be suffered in a car accident. Al-Houssona's claims were later confirmed in a U.S. Army report leaked on July 10, 2003. Lynch denied that she fought or was wounded fighting, telling Diane Sawyer that the Pentagon "used me to symbolize all this stuff. It's wrong. I don't know why they filmed [my rescue] or why they say these things.... I did not shoot, not a round, nothing. I went down praying to my knees. And that's the last I remember." She reported excellent treatment in Iraq, and that one person in the hospital even sang to her to help her feel at home. On April 24, 2007 Lynch testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: "[Right after my capture], tales of great heroism were being told. My parent's home in Wirt County was under siege of the media all repeating the story of the little girl Rambo from the hills who went down fighting. It was not true.... I am still confused as to why they chose to lie." The White House had heavily promoted the false story of Lynch's rescue, including in a speech by President Bush on April 28, 2003. After the fiction was exposed, the president awarded Lynch the Bronze Star. In all of these actions and decisions, President George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office. |
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