Monday, May 30, 2005

Impeach George W. Bush

In an open letter Constitutional lawyer John C. Bonifaz lays out the case against Bush.

With Republicans dominating Congress, no-one beleives articles of impeachment have a chance in hell, but for the record read Mr. Bonifaz' suggested language:

Whereas considerable evidence has emerged that George W. Bush, President of the United States, has engaged in a conspiracy to deceive and mislead the United States Congress and the American people as to the basis for taking the nation into war against Iraq, that George W. Bush, President of the United States, has manipulated intelligence so as to allege falsely a national security threat posed to the United States by Iraq, and that George W. Bush, President of the United States, has committed a felony by submitting a false report to the United States Congress on the reasons for launching a first-strike invasion of Iraq: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary is directed to investigate and report to the House of Representatives whether sufficient grounds exist to impeach George W. Bush, President of the United States. Upon completion of such investigation, that Committee shall report thereto, including, if the Committee so determines, articles of impeachment. [Emphasis mine]
Note that each allegation verges on common knowledge, and is far more reprehensible than the conduct of any recent president including Richard Nixon whose Watergate coverup sins were small potatos compared to the murder wrought in the name of national defense by this president.

I'm confounded as to which is worse, that the Congress will continue to shrug its constitutional duties, or that the media and the public will quietly accept such failure

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