A Patriot For Impeachment

"We're not leaving [Iraq], so long as I'm the president." -- George W. Bush, August 21, 2006

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -- Albert Einstein

George W. Bush is an admitted criminal, and must be impeached and removed from office.

  • The First Amendment forbids the Federal Government from giving money to religious organizations. Bush proudly did exactly that within a week of taking office.

  • The White House recommends Plan of Attack - a book that describes how Bush illegally diverted funds from fighting the Taliban in order to attack Iraq.

  • The Constitution defines treason as aiding America's enemies. Bush knowingly did so by giving $43 million to the Taliban in mid-2001.

  • Bush's lawyers (including Alberto Gonzales) blatantly proclaimed him above the law, stated that anyone they accuse of being a terrorist has no protection against torture, and declared that anyone that Bush labels an "enemy combatant" has no right to due process. (In other words, anyone Bush doesn't like can be locked up without charge and imprisoned, without proof, counsel, trial, judge or jury, forever.) These stand in direct violation of the War Crimes Act and the Anti-Torture Act -- and the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments. Bush later told ABC News that he had personally approved torture.

  • The Constitution demands that the President "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." One of Bush's first acts as President was to order the Environmental Protection Agency to stop enforcing laws preventing pollution. He has subsequently used over 1200 "signing statements" declaring his intention to ignore laws passed by Congress, including the McCain Amendment.

  • When the New York Times revealed that Bush had ordered the National Security Agency to wiretap Americans' phones without search warrants, Bush defended the practice -- claiming that seeking search warrants from the court established to protect our national security would damage national security. According to USA Today, Bush also instructed the NSA to spend our tax dollars building an enormous database of every phone call made in the country. These kinds of illegal wiretaps brought down the Nixon Administration in 1974, and are just as illegal today. The laws of our nation apply to the President as much as to the rest of us.

  • And these are only the crimes that Bush has publicly acknowledged.

    The impeachments of Nixon and Clinton proved that Presidents - even elected ones - are not above the law. Congress must hold President Bush and Vice President Cheney accountable for these actions. According to the Constitution, officials who commit crimes must be impeached and removed from office. Impeachment of Bush and Cheney is Congress' legal obligation.

    Senator Byrd made a compelling speech stating why Condoleeza Rice should not have been confirmed as Secretary of State - for as National Security Advisor, she misled Congress with her overblown rhetoric about Iraq's imaginary weapons. Lying to Congress is a felony, and someone who lied to Congress should never have been confirmed to run the State Department.

    In 2008, ABC News reported that Cheney and Rice had been key members of the Bush Administration committee that approved the use of torture against prisoners. In doing so, they violated the Eighth Amendment, the Geneva Conventions, the War Crimes Act, and the Anti-Torture Act. Secretary Rice is therefore as much a war criminal as are Bush and Cheney, and she must also be impeached and removed from office.

    Essays

    George W. Bush Versus the Bill of Rights
    "Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character." - Margaret Chase Smith
    This is my own argument against the Bush Presidency, based solely upon the Constitution. - C.C.

    George W. Bush Versus the Ten Commandments
    "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." - Thomas Jefferson on slavery

    George W. Bush Versus the Beatitudes
    "Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me." - Matthew 15:07
    "...Christ had a special place in his heart for the meek and the downtrodden. For the most publicly religious administration in memory... this one seems the least Christian." - Al Franken

    Letter to George W. Bush on the eve of the Iraq War | Letter to Senators on the eve of the Iraq War
    "We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." - William Faulkner

    Letter to the Republican Governors
    "Guard against the postures of pretended patriotism." - George Washington

    Letter to Senator John McCain on the Democratic Primaries
    "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." - John F. Kennedy

    Letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger on John Kerry
    "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt

    George W. Bush for Ex-President: Lies at the Republican National Convention
    Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four | The Last Word
    "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - George W. Bush

    Letter to Senator John McCain on the PATRIOT Act
    "We must preserve our commitment at home to the principles for which we fight abroad." - Sandra Day O'Connor

    Letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein on Flag-Burning
    "The basis of conservatism is a desire for less governmental interference, or less centralized authority." - Ronald Reagan

    George W. Bush Versus the Facts: Response to his 6/28/05 Speech
     "The administration would like the American public to believe that Saddam's intention to build a weapons program, regardless of actual weapons or the capability to produce weapons, justified invading Iraq." - Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV

    An Answer to Karl Rove
    "Society has the right to require of every public agent an account of his administration." - the Marquis de Lafayette

    Letter to Senator John McCain on Torture
    "In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete [the] Geneva [convention]'s strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners, and renders quaint some of its provisions." - Alberto Gonzales, 1/25/2002

    Letter to Congress on John Murtha
    "He who fights when he need not is either a fool or a knave." - Christopher Stasheff

    Letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein
    Although I reluctantly endorsed Ms. Feinstein for re-election, I have since come to believe that voting for her was a mistake. - C.C.

    Letter to Senator John McCain on the Failure of the McCain Amendment
    "America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle." - George H.W. Bush (Senior)

    Letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein on the FISA act
    "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Richard Jackson & Benjamin Franklin

    Letter to Senators: End the Iraq War
    "The responsibility of a great state is to serve and not to dominate the world." - Harry Truman

    Letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein on Wiretaps
    "The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." - John Adams

    Letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Investigation and Impeachment
    "Obedience of the law is demanded - not asked as a favor." - Theodore Roosevelt

    Letter to Senator Harry Reid on Withdrawal
    "No body or individual may exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from the nation." - the Marquis de Lafayette

    Letter to Congress on Withdrawal and Impeachment
    "Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be." - Gandhi

    Letter to Congress on Impeachment of Vice President Cheney
    "Even if I am a minority of one, truth is still the truth." - Gandhi

    Letter to Congress on Impeachment of Attorney General Gonzales
    "No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it." - Theodore Roosevelt

    Letter to Nancy Pelosi on War Appropriations
    "We are spending $8 billion a month in Iraq. That's $2 billion each week, $267 million each day, or $11 million each hour. For what we spend in three weeks, we could make needed improvements in order to properly secure our public transportation systems. For what we spend in five days, we could put radiation detectors in all of our ports. And for two days in Iraq, we could screen all air cargo." - Howard Dean

    Letter to Nancy Pelosi: Kucinich is Right, Impeach Cheney
    "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people." - Theodore Roosevelt

    Letter to Nancy Pelosi: Bush Will Not Change His Mind
    "This president is not going to negotiate about this... How clear could anything be? He will not negotiate. He will not compromise. He does not think he's capable of doing anything wrong. He has to be stopped." - John Edwards

    Correspondence with Congressman George Miller on Impeachment
    "I was so busy trying to keep my job that I forgot to do my job." -- Aaron Sorkin, The American President

    Correspondence with Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Impeachment
    "Our Lord said to love our enemies and forgive them; He did not say we should not fight them." - Christopher Stasheff

    Letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wiretaps Without Warrants
    "Reagan... believed that government out of control is the main threat to individual freedom in the modern world." - Peggy Noonan

    Letter to Senators on the Nomination of Michael Mukasey | Follow-Up Letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein
    "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." - Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI

    George W. Bush Versus American Values: Letter to Senator John McCain on MoveOn.org and Attorney General Mukasey
    "The free state offers what a police state denies: the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual." - William O. Douglas

    Yet Another Letter to Congress on Torture and Impeachment
    "No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political in stability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture." -- Article 2.1 of the International Convention Against Torture

    George W. Bush Must be Stopped
    "So this is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause." - George Lucas

    A little humor: The League of Reactionary Gentlemen
    "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana

    The League of Reactionary Gentlemen II: Neoconservative Empire
    "As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities." - Voltaire

    A little more humor: The Reckoning
    "Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips." - Gandhi

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