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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.
- 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 HJRes114.
- 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 XIII - 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
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Cynthia McKinney. Another who I can confidently label as "crazy as a loon".
I reiterate that impeachment isn't a tool for political "gotcha". It should be the last resort.
Checks & Balances should be utilized for the majority of differences of opinion.
Impeachment of the President was considered earlier, but squelched. Cynthia "I Don't Have My Official Pin, But Let Me In Anyhoo" McKinney tried in 2006, to introduce atricles of impeachment.
I'm sure there were others.
My concern is that, until the Democrats gained their slim majority, it was just an idea rumoured about (kind of like the Great Pumpkin) but there was little action with regard to it.
To those of you who speak to a weakness of will on the part of the Democratic Congress, I must say I agree. Rep. Kucinich's own version of the Kitchen Sink strategy may do nothing more than place a record of concerns into the Congressional record.
We'll see.
Great, great, great discussion, ya'll!
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Lalita L. Amos, CRC
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Rebecca's right. Why now? What's this administration got, six months left? By the time Congress might bestir themselves, another administration will be in place.
President Andrew Johnson and President Clinton should never have been impeached. President Nixon should have never been threatened with impeachment. People who live in glass houses should never throw rocks. All that wisdom won't even buy one a cup of coffee at the mini-mart.
In President Bush's case, Congress let him get away with whatever it is you don't like. For Congress to blame him now for their own political impotence and inability to perform their own jobs is simply ludicrous.
Besides, wouldn't it be more profitable to actually work on solutions instead of blame? Oh wait, that would take some political potency and job skills on Congress' part. Note to self. Don't hold breath.
Don't get me wrong. That cabal deserves to be hauled away in orange jump suits. But Nancy Pelosi has a point in that if the impeachment charges won't be successful then they shouldn't be pursued. As long as we have 50 enablers US Senators (including Leiberman) covering the collective behinds of those folks in the White House, it will go nowhere.
bob m
http://southshoreprogressive.blogspot.com/
I think what George W. Bush has done is exactly what impeachment should be used for. Impeaching a president for lying us into a war in which thousands of people, American and Iraqi, have died needlessly can hardly be considered using it as a “tool for political punishment.” What Bush did is criminal, and if we wouldn’t impeach a president for that, then I don’t know why we would ever impeach one.
My only complaint is that it wasn’t considered sooner. Now I just want his and Cheney’s lying, “Paper Tiger” asses out of the White House. They can go retire on some private island on the wealth they’ve no doubt accumulated the last six years from their war profiteering.
Lalita, this is why people think Dennis is as crazy as a loon. Most of these "Articles" are just about as stupid as I have ever heard as a basis for impeachment. Impeachment isn't supposed to be a tool for political punishment, at least last time I checked.
Tit for tat, my behind. It's that kind of behavior that has caused the last two impeachments (plus the threat of one, in between) to move forward. Kucinich just knows that doofy behavior like this isn't likely to bite him in the behind because no one in their right mind would ever let him win anything outside of Cleveland. Oh sure, they LOVE him up there. So what?!? Voters always seem to love their own Congressperson or Senator no matter what kind of twit, loon or criminal they are.
People who think this kind of claptrap is a really good idea should remember that similar arguments could be used against almost anybody for anything, if you use enough dollar words. Is that what you really want here? The initiation of a never ending cycle of impeachment proceedings "because they did it to us"?
Think the administration got away with anything alone? Congress and the SCOTUS would have to be considered complicit in anything that would be really wrong-doing. Might as well dump them all down in Gitmo or blast them off to the Moon, as well. In fact, that might not be a bad idea, except that we would have to begin the Presidential primaries up all over again, because all the candidates would be going to Gitmo.
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