[Nettime-bold] Pre-emptive

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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

source: http://www.votetoimpeach.org/articles_rc.htm
check also: 
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Ramares010403/ramares010403.html

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