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http://www.votetoimpeach.org/


Articles of Impeachment

of

President George W. Bush

Vice President Richard B. Cheney

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld

and

Attorney General John David Ashcroft


The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States,     shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason,     Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors. --Article II, Section 4 of     The Constitution of the United States of America

Acts which require the impeachment of President George W. Bush, Vice President   Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld; and Attorney General   John David Ashcroft include:

1)      Ordering and directing a proclaimed "pre-emptive", or "first   strike" war of aggression against Afghanistan causing thousands of deaths   indiscriminately, a major proportion non combatants, leaving millions homeless   and hungry and installing a government of their choice in Kabul.

2) Authorizing daily intrusions into the airspace of Iraq by U.S. military   aircraft in violation of the sovereignty of Iraq and aerial attacks on facilities   and persons, on the soil of Iraq, killing hundreds of people indiscriminately,   initially falsely claiming self defense though over a period of eleven years   not a single U.S. aircraft has been struck or damaged by gunfire from Iraq,   but later admitting the targeting of defense installations in Iraq, as war   preparations they ordered progressed.

3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilians   facilities and locations where civilian casualties are unavoidable.

4)      Threatening Iraq with proclaimed "pre-emptive", or "first   strike" attack and a war of aggression by overwhelming force and military   superiority including specific threats to use nuclear weapons while engaged   in a massive military build-up in nations and waters surrounding Iraq.

5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently proclaiming   an intention to change its government by force while preparing to assault Iraq   in a war of aggression.

6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions,   kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and   physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements   concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating   within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere,   the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth   Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration   of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

7) Authorizing, directing and condoning bribery and coercion of governments   and individuals to cause them to act in violation of their duty and the law,   including to maintain and tighten enforcement of economic sanctions against   Iraq which continue to increase the death rate of infants, children and elderly   persons; to attack and kill designated groups, or persons; to permit use of   land, facilities, territorial waters, or air space for U.S. attacks on Iraq;   to vote, abstain in a vote, or publicly proclaim support for a U.S. or U.N.   attack on Iraq; to defect from Iraq, or to falsely accuse it of weapons concealment   to break down opposition to a U.S. war of aggression; and to reject ratification   of the Treaty creating an International Criminal Court, or reject its jurisdiction   over the United States.

8) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the   conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government   personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information;   concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning   acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction   in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S.   wars of aggression and first strike attacks by the U.S.

9) Violations and subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America   in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and   war crimes in "pre emptive" wars, first strike attacks and threats   of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and other nations by assuming powers   of an imperial executive who is not accountable to law and usurping powers   of the Congress, the Judiciary and the people of the United States to prevent   interferences with the unlawful executive exercise of military power and economic   coercion against the international community.

10) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international   law in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity   and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq   and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its   nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting, violations   and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which   international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise   of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.

Ramsey Clark
Former Attorney General of the United States of America
January 15, 2003