>Subject: Re: i was seeking oranges to noisy Aziz, who's recollecting in
back
>of the tree's planet
>From: Hendrik Weimer hendrik@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: 4/21/04 1:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time
>Message-id: <1af0a006.8beb953e@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>Nader: Iraq an Unconstitutional, Illegal War
>
>Based on Five Falsehoods:
> CONGRESS SHOULD BEGIN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY OF BUSH AND CHENEY
>
>"All public policy should revolve around the principle that individuals
>are responsible for what they say and do." -- George W. Bush, 1994.
>
>Wa****ngton, DC:
> Building on his call for the impeachment of President
> Bush and Vice President Cheney, Independent Presidential candidate
Ralph
> Nader today is calling on Members of the House of Representatives to
> begin an impeachment inquiry to investigate two distinct impeachable
> offenses.
>
>An Impeachment Inquiry is the first step toward considering Articles of
>Impeachment. During an Impeachment Inquiry the House would investigate
>whether there are potential impeachable offenses.
>
>Impeachment Inquiry and the Process of Impeachment
>
> While the Constitution is clear in granting the impeachment power to
the
> House, it leaves the development of mechanisms for exercising the power
> to the House. As noted by the Association of the Bar of the City of New
> York in "The Law of Presidential Impeachment By the Committee on
Federal
> Legislation" (see: http://www.abcny.org/presimpt.htm):
>
> "A variety of methods have been employed to institute impeachment
> proceedings: Charges may be made orally on the floor by a Member of
the
> House; a Member may submit a written statement of charges; one or
more
> Members of the House may offer a resolution and place it in the
> legislative hopper; a presidential message to the House may initiate
> proceedings. The House has also received charges from a state
> legislature, from a territory, and from a grand jury. Finally, there
may
> be a re****t of a committee of the House which may submit facts or
> charges that will lead to impeachment. Under the rules governing the
> order of business in the House a direct proposition to impeach is a
> matter of highest privilege and supersedes other business. Similar
> privileged treatment is given to propositions relating to a pending
> impeachment."
>
> The purpose of the Impeachment Inquiry is to have a Committee develop a
> re****t for the House which then can be considered for the purpose of
> determining whether to proceed with impeachment proceedings. The House
> determines whether to impeach based on a majority vote. It is im****tant
> to remember that impeachment does not mean conviction - that is left to
> the Senate. Impeachment is the equivalent of an indictment, making
> formal charges, which the Senate then considers. Conviction requires
> two-thirds of the Members present in the Senate to vote for conviction.
>
>Two Potential Articles of Impeachment that Should be Part of an
Impeachment
>Inquiry
>
>The Impeachment Inquiry should focus on two areas involving President
>Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
>
>The unconstitutional war in Iraq.
>
> "The Inquiry should examine whether President Bush and Vice President
> Cheney have gone beyond the bounds of the Constitution, defied the rule
> of law, and if so, whether impeachment is the appropriate
constitutional
> punishment," said Nader. The United States Congress never voted for the
> Iraq war. Congress voted for a resolution in October 2002 which
> unlawfully transferred to the President the decision-making power of
> whether to launch a first-strike invasion of Iraq. The United States
> Constitution's War Powers Clause (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11)
vests
> the power of deciding whether to send the nation into war solely in the
> United States Congress. This can only be changed by a constitutional
> amendment.
>
> "Our founders had seen what could occur when the power to declare war
> was vested in one person, a King or a Queen, so they took clear steps
to
> ensure no one person could declare war for the United States. As James
> Madison wrote: "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be
> found, than in the clause which confides the question of war and peace
> to the legislature, and not to the executive department," noted Nader.
>
>Five Falsehoods that Led to the Iraq Quagmire:
>
> Making matters worse in this situation, the illegal first-strike
> invasion and occupation of Iraq was justified by five falsehoods. Nader
> calls for a second area for Impeachment Inquiry to examine: the "five
> falsehoods that led to war." In 1994 George W. Bush said: "All public
> policy should revolve around the principle that individuals are
> responsible for what they say and do." In 2000, he ran as the
> "responsibility " candidate. Manipulation or deliberate misuse of
> national security intelligence data, if proven, would be "a high crime"
> under the Constitution's impeachment clause. Article II, Section 4 of
> the Constitution provides: "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."
>
>WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
>
> The weapons have still not been found. Nader emphasized, "Until the
1991
> Gulf War, Saddam Hussein was our government's anti-communist ally in
the
> Middle East. We also used him to keep Iran at bay. In so doing, in the
> 1980s under Reagan and the first Bush, cor****ations were licensed by
the
> Department of Commerce to ex****t the materials for chemical and
> biological weapons that President George W. Bush and Vice President
Dick
> Cheney later accused him of having." Those weapons were destroyed after
> the Gulf War. President Bush's favorite chief weapons inspector, David
> Kay, after returning from Iraq and leading a large team of inspectors
> and spending nearly half a billion dollars told the president :We were
> wrong."
>
> See: David Kay testimony before Senate Armed Services
Committee,
> January 28, 2004.
>
>IRAQ TIES TO AL QAEDA:
>
> The White House made this claim even though the CIA and FBI repeatedly
> told the Administration that there was no tie between Saddam Hussein
and
> Al Qaeda. They were mortal enemies - one secular, the other
> fundamentalist.
>
>SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS A THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES:
>
> In fact, Saddam was a tottering dictator, with an antiquated, fractured
> army of low morale and with Kurdish enemies in Northern Iraq and ****ite
> adversaries in the South of Iraq. He did not even control the air space
> over most of Iraq.
>
>SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS A THREAT TO HIS NEIGHBORS:
>
> In fact, Iraq was surrounded by countries with far superior military
> forces. Turkey, Iran and Israel were all capable of obliterating any
> aggressive move by the Iraqi dictator.
>
>THE LIBERATION OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE:
>
> There are brutal dictators throughout the world, many sup****ted over
the
> years by Wa****ngton, whose people need "liberation " from their
leaders.
> This is not a persuasive argument since for Iraq, it's about oil. In
> fact, the occupation of Iraq by the United States is a magnet for
> increasing violence, anarchy and insurrection.
>
>Nader urges the Congress to investigate the illegal nature of the war,
>and how the five falsehoods became part of the Bush Administration's
>drum beat for war, in a formal Inquiry of Impeachment.
>
>--
>
>For further information, contact:
>
>Kevin Zeese
>1-202-265-4000
>
>Matt Ahearn
>ahearn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>1-201-314-9747
Even though it all makes sense to thinking people, there is no *** scandal
involved, just war and death. Not enough to impeach.
Leif Skyving
world's funniest man
http://www.funnyswede.com
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